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Lessons old Cabernet can teach
My San Francisco wine tasting group met again yesterday, in our usual haunt at Pier 19, just north of the Bay Bridge, and with a fine view of the span arching so gracefully to Yerba Buena Island. The theme was old Cabernet; beyond that, our host, Gary Cowan, of Fine Wines International, told us nothing. As this was an extraordinarily educational tasting for me, I thought I'd share the results here.
There were 9 wines. I knew instantly that #1 was very old. From the pale color and, even more, the maderized smell and taste, I guessed it to be 1960s Napa Valley. In fact, it was 1973 Castlerock Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine was a forerunner of today's Yates Family/Napa Redwoods Estate, and the grapes came from Mount Veeder. I scored it 92 points "for historical interest…a ghostly remnant from another era." (Words in quotes are from my notes during the tasting. Prices are retail, as determined by Gary.)
My ranking: 5. Group ranking: 7 ($N/A)
#2: Another old Cabernet that I found "dried out, bitter, dead." Most of the group agreed with me, but one of us loved it. It was 1970 Chateau Montrose (which Parker called "unquestionably a 40-50 year wine"). Well, it is nearing 40. I gave it 86 points, out of respect for its "curiosity" value.
My ranking: 7. Group ranking: 9 ($250)
#3: Yet another old Cabernet, but "still with some sweetness…charming." Maderized, yes, but "buttery-sugary. Marzipan." It was Freemark Abbey 1974 Bosche. I gave it 93 points, despite some still-hard, bitter tannins.
My ranking: 4. Group ranking: 6. ($150)
#4. This was my last place wine, and the most polemical of any our group ever tasted. It earned 3 firsts, 3 ninths, 1 eighth and 1 fourth. I couldn't get past the burnt rubber smell. It was 1990 Ridge Montebello, a wine I had not tasted previously, although I had given the 1991 95 points. It is very difficult to explain how and why a group divides down the middle on such a wine. I gave it 70 points, "undrinkable."
My ranking: 9. Group ranking: 4. ($225)
#5. I didn't care for this wine, either, mainly because it was dominated by a curiously deadening aroma of mold. Others perceived the same. It wasn't TCA. It was also hard and tannic. It was the 1984 Joseph Phelps Eisele, from the vineyard in Calistoga, and I gave it only 83 points.
My ranking: 8. Group ranking: 8. ($195)
#6. I called this "solid, old-style Cabernet" and judged it to be from the 1980s. "Bone dry, tannic, with old-style blackberry, currant and cedar flavors." It was quite a good wine, with some life ahead, and I gave it 91 points. It was Heitz's 1985 Martha's Vineyard.
My ranking: 6. Group ranking: 5. ($250-$325)
#7. With this wine we entered a much younger era. The tannins were entirely different from the previous wines: softer, rounder, more refined. The wine was 1992 La Jota "Anniversary" Cabernet, and I gave it 94 points for its "dense, powerful, concentrated" structure. I was reminded that by the early 1990s the era of tannin management (bladder presses, riper fruit, canopy management) already was underway. It was a beautiful wine with still a good future.
My ranking: 3. Group ranking: 1. ($195)
#8. This wine seemed older than #7, although Gary usually arranges the wines from oldest to youngest. It was paler, and certainly more brittle and lighter in body. Yet I loved its elegance, its almost tea-like delicacy, and the floral-sandalwood and cherry flavors. It was 1990 Cos d'Estournal, a beautiful old Bordeaux. "Enjoyable and complex." I scored it 93 points.
My ranking: 2. Group ranking: 3. ($255)
#9. This was my highest-ranking wine, but by the end of the tasting, I probably would have scored it a little lower. It was the 1991 Beringer Chabot Vineyard Cabernet, and I initially gave it 94 points for its sheer, Napa-esque muscularity. The primary fruit was just beginning to evolve to more mature bottle notes. A great Cabernet that seemed far younger than 18 years. This led to a discussion about allowing wines to air before you rate them. For example, the #1 wine — the 1973 Castlerock — continued to gain in aromatic complexity after 2 hours in the glass; I would have scored it higher had I tasted it later. Some of our group argued for future wines, especially older ones, to be put in glass at least 2 hours before we taste them, to let them breathe. This isn't a bad idea.
My ranking: 1. Group ranking: 2. ($225)
Gary followed the tasting by treating us to an astonishing white wine: von Othegraven 2008 Altenberg Riesling Kabinett Erste Lage, from the Saar. It was a near-perfect Riesling, off-dry and minerally, with a tang of citrus, tangerine, flowers and honey. And what acidity! The alcohol was 8.5%. Gary plans to retail this beauty for $28. A steal.
I'll be going down to Monterey this Friday for the Great Wine Escape Weekend, which Wine Enthusiast co-sponsors; Saturday night is our big Wine Enthusiast Signature Winemaker Dinner. This year it's 5 courses, each prepared by a chef from a different venue (PlumpJack, the Intercontinental Monterey, the Food Network, the Carneros Inn and the Intercontinental's pastry chef). There will be 2 wines with each course, i.e. 10 wines in all, which means I'm going to have to set limits; otherwise, I'll be slurring my M.C. words by night's end! It's happened before…
Is it usually the case the youngest wines do best in these sorts of tastings? The consensus top 4 were all 1990 or younger. Or perhaps it's a matter of timing. The young wines had a chance to open. But maybe also the tasters' palates had a chance to 'warm up' as well.
What does 'Maderized' mean? Is it a good/bad thing? I'm a relative newby to wine, much less classic wines. Very informative article by the way. Keep up the fun and great writing.
Madeira/madera = wood (barrel) in a couple of languages (portugues and castellano…). It got me confused too. I thought maderized meant oaky. Oh the humanity.
At the end of this post you write:
"Some of our group argued for future wines, especially older ones, to be put in glass at least 2 hours before we taste them, to let them breathe. This isn't a bad idea."
I always thought that older wines deteriorated faster after opening. Conversely, I've also had luck decanting younger wines (let's say within the past five years) to help make them more approachable.
Am I missing the boat or is there just no hard and fast rule to follow in such occasions?
That 91 Chabot was a monster in its youth…probably the best cabernet I've ever had from that vineyard. It's still unsed in good portion in Beringer's PR lineup and for the old timers here, they probably remember when Beringer's PR was the Lemon-Chabot vineyard cabs.
I've seen a bit of bottle variation with the 85 Martha's. Sounds like a fun set of wines.
I would be very leery of giving old wines hours of breathing time. Some may improve; many will simply dry up and die long before the two hours are up. Old wines should be tasted immediately and assessed based on what you find – if they seem to have a lot of life left in them, then nurse them along slowly.
Steve, I assume that the Cos was a ringer. Did you guess it? Did anyone guess it? Was there any discussion of the fact that these old CA wines had moderate (eg sensible) alcohol levels and were not subjected to the raisinification and jammification and absurd leafpulling, berry-dropping rituals that lead to 17% alcohol wines today? And amazingly they managed to live long and fruitful lives! Just sayin'…
Thanks Steve,
At the next opportunity I'll give it a try. I was never one to pass up a learning opportunity.
What were these wines' provenances?
It seems odd in terms of being "correct" (vs just bad winemaking) that the wines that traveled a short distance fell to the transatlantic Cos. Is there a Bordeaux (comme Bermuda) triangle?
Is cellaring not what it's cracked up to be?
Would we be right in saying that California Bordeaux blends are just different from French Bordeaux blends? End of conversation…?
Should we sell our old California wines?
If given the offer, would you prefer an old Ca or old Bordeaux (lets say 30 years plus)?
Looks like a great tasting! Thanks so much for the notes.
I would side with giving them air. So many older bottles have initial off aromas when opened only to show themselves as beautiful mature wines after an hour or so. Sadly people all to often write off the wine just after they pop the cork. The wine has been sleeping for 20+ years give it a few minutes to open up!
>>Frank, I think in older wines there's always a lot of bottle variation. Like that old saying goes, "There are no great wines, only great bottles."
Oh yeah, 1985 was 24 years ago….time for me to put away the Duran Duran LPs. 🙂
I think Parker's old Aussie predictions might be a little unlikely too. Just try some of those Clarendon Hills Grenache wines that he proclaimed would live for 20+ years. Most of them cracked up after 5 or 6 years.
The wild swings of #4 would seem to argue against arriving at an average or a summing score, putting it fourth. While it had high appeal to some it was dissed by an equal number. Three last place votes out of eight tasters would seem to indicate that it should be shoved further down the list. But I understand what happens when you add up the scores. Perhaps some weighting is in order. I wonder how a group methodology can reflect this problem, so that coming in last among more than 1/3 of the tasters would have a kind of veto power, placing it at the end.
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You got it. Until the nineties, normal harvest Brix in Napa was 23 or 23.5, with "unripe" tannins and decently moderate pH. It took a few years in bottle to become nice. Old-timers figured a Napa Cab was at its peak at eight to twelve years. The wines were longer lived, especially if bottled with adequate SO2. This modern BS about hang time is because of Parker. Period. If you want sweet high alcohol wines, drink port. This business is in the worst shape in recorded history. Terroir- how can you taste terroir through RS, too much oak, added tannins, added acid, added enzymes, added yeast polysaccharides, and either 15% alcohol or de-alc treatment? (Nothing personal, Clark- we can have that discussion later, and you will win it, no doubt.) Also, even very high end wineries commonly acidify the beejeezus out of their high-pH overripe raisined fruit so it can survive a year in barrel without rottting, then chemically de-acidify it before bottling, so it feels "lush". This business is total BS. Most modern wine is a joke. Worse, it's a manufactured commodity parading as an artisanal artifact of social distinction. If wineries had to post the ingredients and processing on their labels you'd see how bogus it all is. Most winemakers thesedays are a bunch of sheep led around the money-pasture by the marketing goat, and believing everything they read in the wine-additives catalogs. Mark
That's right. Which is why I include a link to the spread sheet of my group's scores. Putting aside the wines being scrutininzed, I'm always looking for those current releases that enjoy broad appeal. I assume there was real consensus on the first three; you certainly were in sync with the group. As a consumer, particularly at higher price points, I would stay away from wines that a large minority of a tasting panel found deficient.
Thank you for this article. I always love to read notes on older wines. We as a consuming society rarely keep these thing around that long. 10 years OK, but past that is a rareity and I take notice when given the opportunity to either taste these wines or read about them. I am surprised that there were no Sonoma wines in the line up, was this due to availability?.
Also, as an observation, 1973 to 1992 is, in my opinion, too wide a range to compare older wines apples to apples. The 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's each represent generational differences in clonal selection, vineyard managment, and wine making approach especially in California where manipulation was more a part of the wine making scene in the 70's and much less by the 90's and I think you saw this in the Ridge Cabernet versus the La Jota. Still it was a great read and maybe next time your group might focus on a single decade for comparison sake. just a thought.
Quick follow – up… I wrote Ridge versus La Jota; Meant Castlerock versus la jota. my bad.
Appreciate this article. I'd love to find or set up a similar event/club in the DC metro area. I've been picking up the occasional older bottle from Acker's online auctions, and have been pleasantly surprised by a number of them, including an '82 Moulin-a-Vent. I bought 2 bottles for about $8. The first was a bit rowdy, but the second bottle was pristine and delicious.
I had a wonderful 1978 Duckhorn Napa Cabernet (their inagural vintage?) over the weekend and it was great. The best elderly Cali Cab I've ever had, and I've had a few going back to the early 60's.
The question about which will age longer, CA or Bordeaux, is trickier than just quoting Jim Laube (a perfectly good guy, by the way, and no denigration meant).
We have ample evidence that the CA Cabs of the 1970s outlasted their Bordeaux counterparts. In most redos of the Paris tasting, including two done in NY by Mark Golodetz, the CA wines were significantly better thirty years later. He related that his tasters were mainly Francophiles and they picked out Gemello 1970 as Latour as they gave ti 14 of 15 first place votes.
However, there is not a CA vintage in the 1980s that is outliving the Bordeaux 1982s. There are CA wines that will live as long but not a vintage as a whole.
In the 1990s, we begin to get into the ripe era of CA wines, and we are all guessing that they may not hold up. But, we do not have a lot of evidence at this point. I thought the 1990s were lovely, and they were, but they were like the 1974s from Napa–deep, tasty and forward, and destined to last fifteen to twenty years, not thirty plus the way the 1968s and 1970s have done. 1994 may be 1990 all over again, but 1995 is a sturdier year, and despite the scorn heaped on the 1998s in some quarters, there are many elegant wines from that vintage that are holding up better than the more heralded 1997s.
Still, when I have done verticals of Spottswoode and Shafer Hillside Select in recent years, I have seen nothing in those wines that suggests early senility. Indeed, it is just the opposite. Those wines are holding up across the vintages and will live long past twenty years.
So, the question then needs to be asked. How much longer than twenty years does a wine need to live before we can admit that it has aged well? The standard ought not be how well something else has aged. It really does not matter if great Bordeaux lives for forty years and great CA Cab lives for thirty-two–or vice versa. At that point, it becomes, in my humble opinion, a fool's argument.
Oh, meant to mention that I published a tasting of 1968 CA Cabs a year ago and found many of them more interesting than mere curiosities. Yet, very few of them were made with modern techniques.
Great tasting notes.
Re: the 1990 Monte Bello, for what it's worth, this is one of my all time favorite Monte Bellos, and I have never tasted burnt rubber on it, but I have heard from people at the winery that 1990 displayed some bottle variation which may (but may not) account for some in your group loving it, others not so much.
I recently had the 1970 Montrose, thought it was pretty good, not past its prime as you found it, perhaps bottle variation? I still have 6 of them, and live in the area…maybe next time your at Pier 19, you can stop into DVW and we can pop the cork!!!
I just reread your article because I am still thinking about your comments re the longevity of CA wines. As I read your notes, Heitz Martha's 1985, at 24 years old still has a bit of time left and that 1991 and 1991 CA Cabs were young, tight and structured.
So, the point comes up in my wee brain once again. How long do CA wines need to age before people admit that they age longer than we deserve?" Any wine that is still nascent at 18 years at eighteen years has earned the right to be called a long-aging wine.
I would say the proof is right there in your tasting. Well-made CA Cabs last far beyond 20 years in very good shape.
"Most winemakers these days are a bunch of sheep led around the money-pasture by the marketing goat, and believing everything they read in the wine-additives catalogs." mb
"My experience has been that goats are smarter than sheep, but more destructive." jev
I think the last tasting I did with you down at the pier was some old chardonnay, and that led to quite a few surprises!
I wanted to chime in and let you know that Tom kindly brought home the remainder of the Montibello and it was quite a different story at 8pm! Silky, balanced and no old tires in site! The continuous adventure is exploring a wine's various stages, both in it's journey in the bottle and once opened!
I have my own ideas about the significance of aged wine (especially when tasted/evaluated against younger wine). Having grown up on CA Cab, and many more "current" releases than older, I wonder, sometimes, what the big deal is with the 30-40 year old versions. For every older wine that shows interesting evolution of flavors and aromas, there is another that has lost all fruit, structure, and oomph.
Maybe Steve and Charlie can tell me what I'm missing.
Is a wine inherently "of higher quality" if it can age? I was at a tasting a couple of years back with a group of guys who were predominantly of my father's generation. They oohed and aahed the older CA cabs. Those wines were intellectually, but not gustatorily, interesting, for the most part.
It seems to be an accepted "fact" that wines that can age (20-30) are of greater quality than a 10-15 year specimen, but like most things in WineWorld, the basis for this seems to be simply handed-down "wisdom" of the 'red wine with meat' variety.
Steven, I often wonder the same thing. I haven't had a lot of older wines. But I have two conclusions at this point. One, they certainly have aromas that one cannot find in young wines. Two, they vary widely.
Given the random nature of older wines, I'm more inclined to drink younger. I prefer freshness of fruit generally, and certain styles of wine can be very complex without developing bottle aromas. I'm certainly attempting some aging 'experiments' but my goal is really to let tannins and acids integrate, with perhaps some bottle aromas developing.
Seeing if a wine will last longer than it takes to become pleasurable to drink strikes me as a form of gambling. I also wonder how well wines of lesser pedigree could age. Everyone drinks the mid-level Bdx up, then saves Margaux and Petrus for 30 years. It becomes a straw man argument in some sense since a 'lesser' wine clearly ages worse if it's been drunk. Insufficient/excessive age can also be used as an excuse for a 'great' wine that just didn't perform well.
Maybe I'm too pragmatic. You age as long as is necessary. If a Cab takes 5 years or 10 years, then fine. A rosé probably only needs to overcome bottle shock for a few months. On the flip side, I don't like wine being manipulated to drink younger. Nature determines the wine's nature, humans must figure out how long it takes to reach maturity.
I agree on the aromatic component of aged wines. They can be very interesting…I prop myself up on the point I made about them being intellectually interesting but not so much from a gustatory standpoint.
I prefer drinking something on the upward curve instead of the downward one.
If you had come to dinner on Friday night after my visit with you at the winery, you would have tasted the following with the folowing results.
Patenina Rioja 1952–In unbelievably beautiful shape. Yes, now toothless as to tannin but rich, deep, sweet, concentrated and layered flavors and perfectly mated to the grilled duck breast and wild mushroom risotto. And amazingly, Rob had brought this wine with him from Boston.
Heitz 1962 Pinot Noir–I took this wine out because I had always been unwilling to open it. It was a special gift from Barney Rhodes back when I started CGCW, and he gave it to me because at that point, I had very little experience with older CA wines since they really did not exist and I had not yet started collecting rarities. I expected thin and dead. Instead, we got complex flavors of old, dried flowers, aged but intact fruit and the kind of richness that only comes when wine ages well.
Mount Eden 1973 Pinot Noir and Joe Swan 1981 Pinot Noir–As if to prove the point made so many times already in this discussion, both of these wines had gone so far past their prime that they were curiosities at best. Some folks liked them. I was not very happy with them.
But, please note. These wines were 36 and 27 years old and they were Pinot Noir, not Cabernet or Syrah.
So, among the old wines, the two oldest were experiences that cannot be duplicated with young wines, and the other two, no spring chickens, were not very good.
My attitude is that one takes the risk of aging some wine to old age because of the possibilities. It was probably a lot easier when the wines that went into my cellar in the early 70s at the time my collecting began cost $5-15.
And, perhaps because I have been at this for four decades, I feel like I have something to prove to you and Steve Heimoff. We will have to do a tasting of my 1970 CA Cabs next year on their 40th birthday. I predict that you will discover some wines, not all, that are magical in their aromas and flavors. And all they cost me were a few bucks and some electricity.
Necropheliatrics? interesting notes and comments. The polarized comments were intersting. The generally 'old school' wines usually will suffer when compared to more recently 'crafted' offerings. I often wonder at which juncture my (our your) palate gets tricked. Meanwhile: no doubt the older wines suffered from not being able to air-out. (To err is human; to breathe is da wine.)
Hard to believe the Ridge didn't show better: A usually and universally stunning wine. Ditto the Montrose. Perhaps palates were warped out by the lineup.
Meanwhile, that 85 Heitz Martha's was a bit 'controversial' : so much so that Joe was seriously alarmed. The 'wet cardboard' character, noted not long after release, seems to linger: and diminish as the wine opens up over time::: Side by each, it is often prevalent, and could be considered 'flawed,' while some might consider it nuanced. I am suprised that it wasn't noticed. —- perhaps it's 'gone away' ?????? I haven't tried it in a while.
Maybe we are better off tasting one bottle at a time: with food and good company: enjoying each wine for what they are, rather than our natural instincts to pick the one we like best, hence letting nuance become flaws.
Necroenophiles ? Birthday celebrations this year with a 1945 Chateau Rouget – a Bordeaux beauty with surprising fruit and soft wood tannins. 1968 Heitz Martha's VY was a dissappointment – brown and thin with no eucalyptus/ mint left and barely any fruit. However, a 1942 Georges Latour BV Cab was amazingly youthful… so bottle variation may be a key component.
I would never let an older wine breathe for 2 hours in the glass – you might miss the life it still holds to share with you.
A young wine often needs macro-areation to tame it into drinkability if it is not already off balance in the high alcohol school of RP wannabees.
I'll have to open the Ridge Montebello now…just to see where mine stands.
Thank you Steve, for the tasting notes.
I hope I don't agree with you…(-;

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thomthom wrote:Whaat wrote:... For example, OnEntityChanged, what constitutes a 'change'?
Yea - I spent some time on this because I was setting attributes - which seems to be a change. Not sure if I want that to trigger. At least not most of the times. attributes are like meta data.
maybe onChange for geometric changes, and onAttribChange(dict, key, oldVal, newVal) for the attribute meta data?
Do changes to an Attribute currently fire onEntityChanged events?
What about adding or deleting an attribute from a Dictionary?
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A judge has sentenced a former top executive in the empire of disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford to three years in prison for her role in helping the once jet-setting businessman bilk investors out of more than $7 billion.
Former Stanford Financial chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt was sentenced Thursday in Houston federal court.
In June, Pendergest-Holt pleaded guilty as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors to one count of obstruction of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proceeding in exchange for the three-year prison sentence.
(Read more: The Allen Stanford Scandal)
Her guilty plea came after Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison following his conviction on fraud-related charges for orchestrating one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.
Two other Stanford executives are set for trial later this month.


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International Cartographic Conference, 2011 Paris
Experimental workshop "Art & Cartography"
Exploring visible and invisible borders in Paris – a dialogic walk with cartographers and artists
Monday, july 4th, 5pm – 10pm
Meeting point: Palais de Congrès, Porte Maillot (exact meeting point will be announced soon)
During an experimental journey through the nearby neighbourhoods of Paris, cartographers from various countries and Paris based artists (for example: dancers, actors, textile designers, architects, painters etc.) will solve together a creative task and hence enjoy a hopefully intense exchange of ideas along the way. Both fields – the arts and cartography – will contribute to a sharpining of different reception modes while walking and driving through Paris' urban space.
Mixed groups of cartographers and artists will be send out to places and areas where invisible and visible borders, limits, ruptures of the Paris topography can be witnessed (inspired by Eric Hazan's wonderful book "The Invention of Paris. A History told in footsteps", 2002).
For that purpose three different parcours will be prepared and a folder with quotations, hints and maps along with some tools and devices for the documentation process will be provided.
Around 8pm the groups are supposed to gather in LA RUCHE (a co-working space at 84, Quai de Jemmapes: http://www.la-ruche.net). There, a series of largely plotted maps of the given areas is prepared, so that the sketches, notes, photos, objects can be arranged and labelled in the sense of a collage.
Some food and wine will be offered. A professional photographer accompanies the activities of this experimental workshop and will provide the participants with a selection of pictures afterwards. The participants of the workshop will get a list of contact details in case they wish to stay in touch with each other for further meetings.
Number of participants is limited: Please register via: firstname.lastname@example.com
The map displayed above is the Nouveau Plan de Paris divisé en 20 Arrondissements (1860, drawn by Charles Smith). Each arrondissement is carefully hand tinted in a different pastel colour. A subsequent owner drew in lines indicating the placement of the new, wider boulevards (planned by Baron Haussmann). The map reflects Haussmann's power and determination as he remodelled Paris from a medieval city to a modern one (copy of University of Illinois, Chicago).


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Matt Groening
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Matt Groening (pronounced "Grey-ning") is a cartoonist, screenwriter and producer most famous for being the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama (the latter together with David X. Cohen).
Early career (1977 - 1985)
Groening got his start writing a comic strip called Life in Hell in 1977. In 1980, the strip was picked up by The Los Angeles Reader, where Matt worked delivering papers and doing minor editing. In 1982, the editor gave Matt his own column, supposedly rock and roll themed, but rarely actually about rock and roll. In an attempt to add more music news to the column, Matt often wrote reviews of bands he made up, only to apologize the next week, admitting the lie. Although each time, he swore he'd never do it again, he usually did. Finally, he was asked to write a humour column instead.
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In 1985, James L. Brooks contacted Matt about adapting Life in Hell for television, creating "bumpers" for The Tracey Ullman Show. Matt has stated that while he was waiting in Brooks' office, he realized that he didn't want to sign over the rights to his characters, and thus created a family called the Simpsons in mere fifteen minutes.
The Simpsons premiered on Tracey Ullman in 1987, and became popular enough to create its own spin-off series in 1989. The Simpsons has survived much longer than Tracey Ullman and has become the longest running prime-time entertainment series ever in the United States. He now serves as the Creative Consultant on the show.
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After researching science-fiction for a few years, Matt got together with Simpsons writer David S. Cohen to develop Futurama, a sci-fi sitcom set in the 31st century. The show was a mild success, but ratings were poor. This is usually attributed to Fox's poor scheduling of the program when it was shown on the channel. While Futurama was never officially cancelled, Fox decided not to buy the fifth season and the program fell apart soon after.
Because of strong DVD sales, and consistent ratings for reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, Comedy Central announced on 22 June, 2006 that they would order four new direct-to-DVD Futurama films, to air on Comedy Central in sixteen 22-minute episodes at the beginning of 2008 as Season 5. After the success of viewership and DVD sales, Comedy Central announced that Futurama was to return with a second run in 2010.
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- He is also in a rock band, called the Rock Bottom Remainders. Members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Stephen King, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, and Greg Iles.
- Matt is left-handed, as are many of the characters he designs.
- He and David X. Cohen were show runners for the entire series.
- Matt is on almost every DVD episode commentary. In the commentary for "A Leela of Her Own", he gets a phone call in the intro and doesn't return.
- In the Futurama universe, he appears as his own head in a jar multiple times. He has a speaking role in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" as the creator of Futurella.
- He is a self-proclaimed fan of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He uses the middle initial J. for many of his characters, as a tribute to Rocky and Bullwinkle producer Jay Ward.
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Please feel free to edit this article to add missing information and complete it.
This is a list of all voice actors who have appeared in the English dub of the Pokémon anime.
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Irish Eye on Hollywood
FROM AILES TO POWER Academy Award winner Russell Crowe was most recently seen on the Showtime political drama The Loudest Voice, about TV kingmaker Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News. Now, instead of a character who enrages American Democrats, Crowe is headed home to play an Irishman who enrages Australian authorities. Crowe is slatedRead more..


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Have Clint and Dina Eastwood Separated?
Clint and Dina Eastwood have allegedly separated after nearly 17 years of marriage, Us Weekly reports.
Dina confirmed the split to the magazine and said that she and the prolific actor-director have been living apart. However, when contacted about the separation, Clint's manager told Us Weekly, "I know nothing about that."
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The couple wed in 1996 and have one 16-year-old daughter together, Morgan. Dina, Morgan and Clint's daughter with actress Frances Fisher, 20-year-old Francesa, all starred on the short-lived E! reality series Mrs. Eastwood & Company.
The four-time Oscar winner has six other children from previous relationships, including a daughter, Alison, and a son, Kyle, from his first marriage to Maggie Johnson. The couple was married from 1953 to 1984.
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In response to questions received since the Stormwater Fee legislation was passed by the City Council, below is an FAQ one-sheet from the Department of Public Works website.
The Department of Public Works is now in the process of drawing up the precise regulations. When that is completed (later this summer), there will be an on-line application process for requesting credits. When that timeline becomes available, the JT will pass it on to you.
Stormwater fee billing does not begin until October.


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Isaiah Thomas got the start Friday night and scored 11 points with 4 assists, a steal and three 3-pointers in 29 minutes. The move to start him actually makes logical sense, which is strange since we're talking about the Sacremende Kings here. Well, my league sources tell me Sacramento's New Year's resolution is to stop pissing off NBA fans so much. So there you have it. Can Thomas help lead the 2013 Kings back the relevancy? He's been relegated to the bench for Aaron Brooks (10 pts, 3 ast in 19 minutes) for much of the first few months, but yes, Thomas finally started again Friday night. The stats were less than impressive last night but IT2 has the talent to be successful in this league. We've seen him go off scoring in bunches before (he scored 26 points in just 13 minutes versus the Thunder a few weeks ago), there's no reason not to think he can do it again. Sure, this is the Kings and sure, there's still a good chance both Aaron Brooks and Thomas will see equal time at point going forward, but Isaiah's owned in just under half of yahoo leagues and as long as he's starting the little Zeke is worth a speculative add based on the potential upside alone. It's a new year! #kings2013champsorbust
Here's what else happened in fantasy basketball Friday night (New Year's Edition!):
Tony Parker – 31 pts, 5 reb, 10 ast, 9-10 FTM. Sacre bleu, monsieur! Parker is having a career type year, and shows no signs of slowing down. According to the stat geeks, Parker is the only player in the league right now averaging at least 18 pts, 7 ast, 3 rebs while still maintaining the percentages he has. Ooh la la! If you can trade Parker for a top 10 player, now's the time to do it, but don't sell yourself short either. He is a hot little potato right now.
Danilo Gallinari – 39 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast, 7 3pm. Well, cock-a-doodle-doo. That will wake you up in the morning. The 39 points were a career high, too!
Andre Iguodala – 20 pts, 8 reb, 4 ast, 4 3pm, 2 stl. He's no Danilo Gallinari, but he is really good at everything else.
Kenneth Faried – 11 pts, 19 rebs. Oh my god, they killed, Kenny! No, wait, that's wrong, looks like Kenny killed them. On the glass. To the tune of 19 rebounds–you bastard! (I know this joke is 10 years old, but I figure the Denver fans could appreciate it).
Dirk Nowitzki – 5 pts, 1 reb, 2-10 FG. Just rust. No need to panic. This is all going according to plan. Mwahaha…
Kyle Lowry – 17 pts, 8 ast, 3 reb, 2 blk, 1 stl. Returns from injury to show Toronto basketball fans why they still have a team. He is good at basketball. Buy if you can while the price is still low.
Amir Johnson – 12 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast, 3 blk in 38 minutes. Under 20% owned, he's just waiting for you to scoop him up. And with the Andrea Bargnani trade rumors all but a certainty, looks like Amir's minutes are here to stay.
Greivis Vasquez – 20 pts, 9 reb, 14 ast. Just missed the triple-double. Did I mentioned I like Greivis Vasquez? Because I do.
Anthony Davis – 25 pts, 9 reb, 3 blk. In case you were wondering UPS, that's what Brow can do for you.
Brook Lopez – 26 pts, 11 reb, 2 ast, 3 blk, 8-8 FTM. Well, hello there, Bropez. Where have those rebounds been all my life?
Will Bynum – 25 pts, 2 reb, 10 ast, 3 3pm. Second straight game with over 25 points and 4 assists, WilBy is available almost everywhere and could be worth a look as a spot start while Rodney Stuckey is out. He's as inconsistent as them come so get him while he's hot!
Andre Drummond – 10 pts, 10 reb, 2 stl. The Little Drummond Boy aka Andrum put up another double-double, this time as the Pistons took out the Mighty Heat. Based on upside alone he should be owned everywhere by now, and he probably is.
Charlie Villanueva – 18 pts, 6 reb, in 26 minutes. Third straight game with over 15 points and 6+ rebounds. Another player worth riding while he's hot, he can give you some treys to, but he's playing over his head right now so expect a dip.
Josh Smith – 7 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast, 5 blk before leaving with a strained hip. J-Smoove said he'd be ready for Saturday's game so owners can breathe easy.
Jeff Teague – 27 pts, 8 ast, 2 reb, 2 stl, 3 3pm. 18.7 points and 9 assists over the past three games, Teague is running this league right now.
Kyrie Irving – 28 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast, 4 3pm, 4 stl, 1 blk. Ah yes, that's why you drafted him. This kid's gonna be a star! Ha-cha-cha!
Tyler Zeller – 12 pts, 7 reb, 1 blk in 37 minutes. Still another week until Anderson Varejao returns, and Zeller is taking full advantage of the minutes he"s getting. Maybe you should, too?
JJ Redick – 23 pts, 4 ast, 4 reb, 5 3pm, 2 stl. Took a dip in scoring lately, but still producing across all other categories. Redick remains a "player you own but don't really want to." Not sure why, but he's always on my "should I drop him for him" list no matter how good he's playing. Sorry, J.J., you da man, you don't excite me much is all.
Nene – 23 pts, 11 reb, 4 ast in 29 minutes. I've been telling you to buy low for weeks now, and then Nene goes and has a big game like this and ruins everything.
Emeka Okafor – 2 pts, 11 reb, 3 blk. Averaging double digit rebounds and 3.0 blks over the past 3 games, Emeka is worth a look if you needs boards and blocks and you hate yourself.
Jordan Crawford – 27 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast, 3 3pm. I mean, someone has to score for Washington. Why not the guy named Jordan?
Sebastian Telfair – 19 pts, 6 ast in 41 minutes. The 19 points were a season high for 'Bassy. Could be a nice spot start this weekend while Goran Dragic is out. Clearly, Coach Gentry is comfortable with giving Telfair plenty of minutes, and if he continues to play well he could see increased time in a bench role.
George Hill – 22 pts, 2 rebs, 2 ast, 2 stl. Yaaawn. The sad part is this was like his best game of the season.
Lance Stephenson – 10 pts, 9 reb, 5 ast, 3 stl in 37 minutes. Gerald Green returned to score 8 points but it didn't matter. Lance's scoring numbers don't make you jump up and down, but he contributes to all categories so he's worth a look.
Demarcus Cousins – 15 pts, 10 reb, 5 ast, 3 stl, 1 blk. Oh no he didn't. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Sigh. Luckily, Cousins finally returned from the suspension only to learn that a trade is possibly shipping him off. If you can find a owner who's fed up with his shennanigans, now might be the time to buy. The dude is obviously a stud in waiting. Waiting for you, maybe?
Tyson Chandler – 21 pts, 18 reb. The Knicks did their darnedest to take out the ferocious Kings but despite big performances from Chandler, Jason Kidd (16 pts, 6 reb, 7 ast), and J.R. Smith (28 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast), Carmelo Anthony and Ray Felton were sorely missed.
Jarrett Jack – 16 pts, 6 ast, 4 reb. Philly got Jack'd up! Few are playing as well as this guy right now, he's averaging 20 pts, 3.0 rebs, 6.7 ast, 2.3 3pm, and 1.3 stl over the past 7 days. Yup.
Damian Lillard – 11 pts, 4 ast, 2 reb (4-17) FG. Lillard has certainly hit a slump as of late, maybe its an Omen? But I though he was the Omen? Now I'm confused.
Steve Nash – 6 pts, 10 ast. Yeah, I think its safe to say the Lakers are happy he's back. Welcome back, old friend.
Pau Gasol – 15 pts, 9 reb, 5 ast, 3 blk. Can you believe a few weeks ago owners were asking me if they should drop him? Oh, fantasy bball, you fickle beast. One of these days, Crash, BAM, PAU! To the moon!
Chandler Parsons – 24 pts, 8 reb, 5 ast, 2 3pm. Just when we thought he was losing steam, he pulls us right back in. Sure, Pars scoring has taken a dip but he's still averaging 6.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, 2.1 3pm, and 1.3 spg. Fantasy pro tip!* that will help your fantasy team.
Toney Douglas – 14 pts, 4 reb, 2 ast, 4 3pm in 28 minutes. Toney's minutes and points will be inconsistent but he's a decent source of 3's if you are desperate for the long ball.
Danny Green – 17 pts, 5 reb, 5 3pm. Like Toney with an "e", Danny with a no "e" had the 3-ball working for him last night and is averaging almost 5 three's a game over the past 7 days.
James Harden – 33 pts, 5 reb, 7 ast. As always save the best for last, and yeah, James Harden is the best. (Except for Lebron, KD, Kobe, etc. all of whom you are welcome to name in the comments. But re: facial hair, awesomeness he's for sure no. 1.)
Jeremy Lin – 21 pts, 4 reb, 8 ast. More like Auld Lin Syne, right? Are we still doing that? lol Let all time in New York be forgot and never, ever be brought up again.
Join us next Saturday for another Friday recap, as fantasy basketball continues next week, all week long!


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Brewery BoomtownsJanuary 1, 2013 - Brian Yaeger
There are over 2,100 breweries in the U.S., according to the Brewers Association, an uptick of more than 350 in the last year alone. Apparently, more than half as many are in the works, as the association reports that nearly 1,300 are in the planning stages. Thirty-four hundred breweries and brewpubs? Where are we going... View Article


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A Review & Commentary on the Documentary 'The Naked Room'/El Cuarto Desnudo (México, 2013)
Throughout this process I've realized that the most important job that exists is that of being a parent. As I go understanding the fabric of our society, I can see directly how the lack of parenting skills or even the inability to know what these are or should be reflects back to our society, shaping each one of us into the individuals that at the same time, create the nature of the 'world-system' as is, because when we talk about 'the world' it's not really the Earth, the living beings other than humans that are the problem – the whole and sole problem is who we have become as human beings and how we have shaped, modified and distorted reality through and by our mind as a consequence of lacking any efficient education and parental guidance while we are brought up in this world, which in turn affects every other part of our reality as well.
So in essence, we've lacked the skills to support ourselves as the units of our society to grow strong, healthy, stable and with clear directives in our lives and as a result, this society is the mirror of the lack and/or misguidance of parenting skills.
El cuarto desnudo/The naked room from AMBULANTE on Vimeo.
"The naked room" shows a whole world without leaving a single space: the examination room in a children's hospital in Mexico City. Listening to the children, their parents and the doctors during consultations allows us to have a more profound and complex view of our social reality and of human nature.
I watched the documentary 'The Naked Room/ El Cuarto Desnudo' some weeks ago, here's part of a synopsis I found about it:
"The Naked Room exposes the complex and hard situations that are the consequence of something as simple as a kid wishing for a more loving brother. Also, the behavior of people with a mental disorder, a condition that always affects the loved ones (sometimes even physically). Ibáñez has not created a documentary to be enjoyed by everybody per se, I mean, we're dealing with a brutal theme in a very direct way, with no pauses; it's a constant display of human sadness and mental problems.
It can be easily described as a depressing film, after all it's a natural view to the life of several persons, and some of their closest relatives, whose hopelessness has lead (some of them) to go as far as attempting to take their own lives. In a way, The Naked Room is here to explain the "why" behind suicide or self-harming, specifically when the problem happens to a kid or a teenager. What's great about Ibáñez's film is the fact that she is not trying to explain anything by interviewing doctors and relatives or using information from other sources. The doc is simply crafted: it's entirely based on footage obtained from a series of meetings between psychiatrics and patients.
Ibáñez knew that showing those conversations was enough for a thought-provoking piece. All she had to do was place the camera at the right spot and then working inside the editing room. And the camerawork is really interesting and precise; firstly, it only follows the patients, hence some scenes are just fascinating: observing the facial expressions of the children while their respective relative is talking with the doctor brings a unique feeling, as the conversations deal with nothing childish, indeed.
For about half an hour we don't see the same patient more than once, so The Naked Room engages you. The audience will want to know what's behind, for instance, a problematic kid whose father has threatened to abandon him in the streets. There are many patients involved, so when each one of them appears again, you might be a bit confused, not remembering who is who; that could have been a flaw related to the structure, but the confusion is always temporal.
And, ultimately, the diversity only helps the documentary to be thematically richer. It can be seen as an exploration of teenagers, with such themes exposed as insecurity and social rejection, but that's just one of its layers. The Naked Room is, simply, one of the strongest Mexican films of the year (my personal favorite from the Morelia documentary selection), even when it's simply crafted, like I said, and very short (less than 70 minutes)."
Read more: http://twitchfilm.com/2013/10/morelia-2013-review-the-naked-room-el-cuarto-desnudo-a-powerful-display-of-sadness-and-insanity.html#ixzz2wu4eXQg1
The constant identification of parental patterns being transmitted onto children, the lack of creating supportive familial relationships and living environment, the lack of money to have proper nutrition, healthcare, education themselves, the fact that some parents didn't want their children in the first place, the fact that they resort to hitting them for not complying to do what they asked them to do, the physical and verbal abuse between parents, the divorces and separations that affect a child's ability to learn and interact with others properly, the lack of sexual orientation support, the threats used as a way to establish discipline that are depicted as part of the reasons why the kids in this documentary develop mental instability, can all be traced back to the parents and the unfortunate lack of skills, information and education on how to deal with their own lives, their marriage/relationships and in turn how to be a mother or a father.
In turn, parents have only learned to react to seeing the problem that their children develop as something born out of the blue, which is the position of becoming a victim to their children's mental instability in the form of worry and preoccupation due to not knowing 'what is going on with their children?' without realizing that their role is inevitably implied within what their children are experiencing as well. However, can we talk about it solely being 'their fault'?
Understanding Who We Are as The Mind
Parents were educated in turn by their own parents and consequently the same has happened to those parents as well, which means that the parent-child relationship is the essential relationship that has shaped (ruined) the way that we develop ourselves as human beings. You might react and say 'not me' and I could as well, but the fact is that even if one can consider oneself having 'good parents' or 'supportive parents' the moment that there's no principle of support to understand the mind, the feelings, the emotions, the 'who am I' as the mind and assist with the integration of physical living words that we can live as a decision, a self-directive process that one directs oneself to express as a Living Principle, one is already missing out the most important aspects of our relationship to ourselves, others and in turn the 'who we are' and will become as we come of age in this world – instead, we've been brought up with mechanisms that use fear, control, violence, abuse, threats in order to establish some sense of discipline and direction, as well as happiness, rewards, 'love' and the illusion thereof as ways to create the 'good' and 'bad' definitions that we've limited ourselves by, going all the time attempting to be 'happy' and/or dreaming of reaching an eternal happiness without even understanding how that is also a mindjob essentially. We've only learned to 'cope with reality' by reacting to the environment, to another's words, to take things personal, to seek revenge, to be spiteful and that is of course already a massive fault in parental skills.
Not to blame 'them' though…
The reality is that we've never ever had such skills, because we had not ever before understood who we are as the mind, how it is that we are separated from our physical body through and by the mind which is a Mind Consciousness System, a design, a programmed patterned system that generates thoughts, feelings, emotions and through this our behavior, personality, fears, reactions, beliefs, etc. that we have adopted and believed is 'who we are.' In this documentary we can see this reality as spectators of a glimpse of how far one can experience one's emotions and feelings to the extent of wanting to die just because there is no proper medical support, assessment or understanding of what the mind is, what our emotions is, how the patterns that we've acquired from parents are imbued from the moment of conception, and at birth we are directly influenced by every single word that parents speak, every single move, every single experience that parents have within themselves while being with the child – and this I am almost certain only an excruciating minority of parents have taken into consideration.
it is so damn clear in this documentary how the fact that we have taken our minds personally and others' reactions personally, while being unable to understand Why such patterns of aggression, violence, harm, hatred exist and are coming from 'those' that should have 'cared'/'educated us' to be able to live in this world the best way possible, which is what creates the traumatic experiences within children that evolve to become 'mental illnesses' because of our inability as parents to stand as living principles for them, to become all of us in society a living example of how to live, interact and direct oneself in this world. This has been our 'missing link' in the relationship between parents and children, but also in our society as a whole.
The First Seven Years of Your Life
At Desteni it's been explained how the time-frame of development from ages 0-7 is crucial in our development because that's where the 'programming' process of the mind takes place, activating all the pre-existent patterns coming from parents, integrating new ones from the child's interaction with their immediate environment – which are most of the times, parents or any other 'parental figure' –
"The inheritance and transference of the survival skills from both your parents takes place when the entire mind consciousness system develops within you within the mother's womb together with your physical development. The copying and duplication of the survival skills from both your parents takes place through your observations, interactions and participations with your parents' as the parent/child relationship develops during your childhood years (from two to three years up to the age of thirteen years)."
Veno – Structural Resonance – Part 2 – Phase 5
This means that the direct effect of our words, thoughts, behavior and emotional or feeling participation is imprinted onto children from such early stage of their lives, with them being like a virgin cd that one is about to literally 'burn' with information that they will simply then replay, adjust and 'upgrade' throughout their entire lives. That is the magnitude and importance of the responsibility we have toward every individual that is born into this world: the world we have for them at their arrival will become the program, the structure, the patterns they'll accept as 'how things are' with the possibility of only changing them once that they've walked their own lives, their consequences and decide for themselves to change what they have learned up to that point, which is the process of Self-Honesty and Self Responsibility that we are walking here at Desteni.
So, while watching the documentary El Cuarto Desnudo I could understand for example what has been explained in the Spite series of interviews at Eqafe in relation to Self-Harm. Some of the kids in the documentary attempting to commit suicide, cut/punch/harm as a response to the disbelief they had of having their parents attacking them, insulting them, not giving them all the necessary attention, hitting them, abusing them in various ways as well as managing them with 'fear' which in result, in a helpless attitude of 'I just don't know what to do with her/him anymore, doctor!' which to a young child it doesn't make sense that your parent, your 'guide' is becoming your own worst enemy or an inept person to take proper care of you and as such, even if they say 'they care for you' or they 'love you' they are still not being supportive at all in the situation… doesn't make sense isn't it?
And no, it won't make sense. And this is the point we've missed all along and that can actually support, assist parental relationships to entirely change because what hasn't been understood is how the Mind operates, how the mechanisms of creation of energy as emotions, thoughts, feelings is what has become the directive principle, the sole 'director' of ourselves to the extent that we comply to such mind/thoughts/feelings/emotions absolutely ignoring our physical bodies, the living flesh that we are and that we should never ever harm in order to 'relieve' some sort of emotional or feeling experience which comes from a constant struggle and inner conflict to 'cope' with what's going on up there in the mind, because the children look perfectly 'healthy' at a physical level, but in the mind they are certainly completely possessed and this is a clear testimony for us to see what the mind does to the physical body and why it is so important to take responsibility for our minds, our bodies and completely take both into consideration before continuing inflicting any harm or abuse upon oneself, only acting upon what we 'feel' or experience as thoughts, emotions in the mind.
In the documentary, almost every child would cut/harm themselves, and I'm talking about Children here – which becomes a form of self-spite: anger toward oneself so that it becomes a way to spite the parents, which doesn't make sense to spite oneself in an attempt to get another's attention or 'get back at' someone when one is being 'attacked' by another, as that will then in turn become the attack and abuse onto oneself, the very same attack that one can be complaining about is coming from parents. However because children are not taught how to deal with the emotions they have at a mind level, the only way to 'cope' with this inner turmoil which becomes self-hate is to resort to self-destruction. Do 'they' really want to do it? No, it's who they are as the mind that want to harm themselves, just because the amount of energy continued to be thought of and used up by the individual is too extensive for the child to stop and get back to physical reality to understand how one is abusing one's own body and in essence doing onto themselves what they were complaining that others were doing onto them at first – and this is how the 'chain' of self-abuse is continued.
Learning from the Parents
With friction and conflict stemming from their family/environment situation, children learn to 'cope' with the constant conflictive and problematic situations with their own emotions generated as a reaction to things they see in their environment, things they are unfortunately done onto, and not having any way to stand up or stop participating in these automated reactions in the mind. And these can obviously be of a wide variety of factors, such as lack of money/education that turns into a poor household where parents have to work to make a living for the entire day – being left with other family members that might turn abusive, that might not properly care after them – sometimes the parents/relatives resorting to alcohol/drugs to cope with stress, to mitigate hunger, to mitigate family abuse, being depressed, being in the verge of financial bankruptcy…. there's also marriage disruption, physical and verbal abuse between parents, abuse from parents to child which turns into children then hitting the parents/spiting the parents, desperation from parents for not knowing what to do with them and so children see themselves as being 'a problem' a 'drag' to the parents to the extent that they reason it's best to die/commit suicide than continue living – and this may come from parents expressing them that 'they don't know what to do with them any longer' or how 'they wished they had never been born' which once again, to a child and even if you the reader never got told this, placing ourselves in the shoes of children being told this, it is mostly obvious that there will be a reaction of feeling worthless, not desired, not loved, inferior and this remains as permanent rejection throughout their lives unless they encounter support while growing up to not take such words personally, but understand how they come from parental distress, desperation, not knowing 'what to do' with their own lives and in turn not knowing what to do with their children.
There might emerge a desire to blame parents for that – but blame once again would lead us to miss out the point here. Blaming, holding grudge, being constantly mad, angry, frustrated at parents or even hating them is only the outflow of not getting a supportive, comforting and adequate parental support for the parents themselves to begin with while they were in the position of being the children. And one would say, yes, it makes sense to be angry for not getting that – but, this is where I implore you to consider the 'greater context' which is how I assisted myself to – within and after the documentary ended – be able to clearly see where the surges of blame or anger toward parents were coming from and immediately understand how it is necessary to see the 'greater context' to take all points into consideration to understand such parental and children relationships throughout our entire history.
The key here is understanding a very, very important point: All can be Self-Forgiven and Must be Self-Forgiven in order to stop holding on to the grudges created from children to parents and vice-versa if we truly want to change the world.
No 'parent' knows How to be a Parent.
No person is born knowing How to be a parent, a self supportive and adequate one, how to become an example for your child to 'look up to' because No Human Being has EVER been such Living Example for oneself or for others – yet. Sure there have been great personalities in the world that were 'great men and women,' but even that one can notice that people in politics or social change in the world such as Mandela for example, when his daughters were interviewed they were proud of him for the principles he stood for, but as a parent they had no further comment other than really not knowing 'him' as such, because he had not really been around with them….. point to ponder.
So, the problem is in fact not that we haven't learned 'how to be a parent' but how to be a Living Human Being. We have only been mind-robots driven by thoughts, feelings, emotions, not knowing 'how' to cope with them, how to direct them because we entirely accepted 'who we are' as our mind and so, what happens is that the moment that we Identify ourselves with the mind as 'Who we are' entirely without any possibility of change, that's where we dissociate ourselves from our ability to be self-directive which means, realizing that everything that we've become is the byproduct of generation after generation of human beings that have not known how to direct/deal with one's thoughts, feelings and emotions – in essence with one's mind – but only learned from certain religious and moral dogmas and 'authorities' that became only ways to control people through fear, or control through the illusion of 'love' which is another point I have had previously discussed.
What does being a Living Human Being mean?
The self that we all have and can become the moment that we start living and applying the realization that one has to honor, support, care, develop and nurture oneself to become an example of what it is to act, do and speak what is best for oneself and everyone else as equals. Becoming the Living Word, the Living Example for oneself and others to follow as the norm, the way, the law of our being in which we can trust ourselves and each other to realize that no matter what: I honor, consider, support and care for myself , I stand as my own support and as such, stand as support for and toward everything/everyone else as myself, as life, as equals. This is the standard, this is how we can genuinely 'change the world.'
So because we have failed to live this way with and for ourselves, the consequence is and has been that all our relationships have failed to be fruitful and bloom into a world that we can all be genuinely 'happy' to live in. With understanding this premise of the 'legacy' we have in terms of the 'human nature' as the mind, the generation after generation passing of 'the sins of the fathers' it then becomes much easier to understand why a human being that has taken the role of being a parent has failed to become a living example for his/her children, because the consideration of being a Living Human Being has never existed – yet we do have all the potential of each one of us becoming such living example of being the human beings that we all know we can be and become – and this is where our responsibility resides: to ensure that we can be the example of how the so-called 'human nature' is able to be self-forgiven, stopped, self corrected and changed.
This understanding that I just shared here in written words is what I used to then see, realize and understand and self forgive the surges of any emotions that could have been accumulated while watching the documentary, and through this understanding rather seeing this documentary not only as presentation of the problems we have within children at a mental level – instead, it also becomes a motivation to see once again for myself that there is just SO much that is required to get done in relation to education in this world, so much to be understood about the mind, who we are as the mind and how we can in fact support each other to assist those children to change and solve their experiences… but most importantly the Parents of those and any other children to prevent 'The Naked Rooms' around the world where children attempt to get support from psychiatrists, while not even being aware of the root and cause of the problem: ourselves as individuals, as human beings that have never lived to the best of our potential – but have only 'coped' with reality through and as a mind system that generates constant friction and conflict as the experience of 'living.' And to grasp this there's quite a lot of understanding and information to self-educate oneself about this, which I will provide at the end of this blog.
Self Forgiving the Sins of the Parents
Once one understands how 'who we are' is the reflection of what we've always been since the beginning of ourselves as humanity, we can truly see that there is no other way out of our hatred, our anger, our despair, our grudges, our laments, our grief toward parents, children, relatives or authority figures other than applying the principle of Self Forgiveness. Without Self-Forgiveness it would be very difficult to come to a resolution about any form of abuse that one has experienced through one's life, whether from parents or anyone else. So I suggest to dissolve the word tag of 'parent' for a moment and just see ourselves as human beings, not being born knowing 'how to live' and 'how to be self-directive in our mind' and begin applying Self-Forgiveness for allowing ourselves to be driven by thoughts, emotions, feelings, reactions wherein as a child, one has no further idea as to what is being experienced within self – all the fear, the worry, the stress, the anger, the rage,the hate that is formed at home toward parents, siblings, teachers, schoolmates, all of it existing within self without proper direction other than medicines and 'cures' that don't take into consideration the source and core of the problem: the who we are and have accepted and allowed ourselves to be and become as the mind.
I've noticed that one of the most difficult things to do for children/people that have been abused by others – whether they are parents, siblings, relatives, schoolmates, etc. – is the ability to self-forgive, to absolutely take into consideration and understand why the other individual abuses, take into consideration their entire life, their entire upbringing, their social and economic background, their habits/addictions, their 'modus vivendi' and experiences and how they too also didn't know at the same time HOW to deal with their own minds, and how it is the same for all of us – not a single one left without a mark – of passing this unresolved understanding of who we are as human beings from generation after generation up to the point where our 'fuckups' are escalating to the extent that one can only look at 3 year olds – or even earlier than that now –to already see the patterns they mirror of the parents and the generations that have gone before us.
One could say: well how come they learn to manipulate, to spite, to be envious and selfish, to be depressive, to be sensitive, to be angry, to hit others to get what they want, to treat others as superior or inferior, to like and dislike, to be a stubborn… and yes, a child is the entire reflection of the parents and of humanity in its entirety for that matter that only develops the rest of the pre-installed programming through the interactions with parents and the environment. And because it is only now that we are understanding these mechanisms that exist within the mind in the physical and the vital importance that this mind and physical relationship has in our upbringing, it means that we still have a lot to do in this world in order to make each one of us aware of this process, how to direct it, how to support ourselves so that we can start establishing solutions and a new educational process where we can change the world by changing humanity, which means: changing the way that we educate ourselves as human beings, which implies at the same time that the relationship between parents and children is the one we have to focus on, as it will be the guideline and blueprint for all other relationships developed by the child throughout their/our entire lives.
This also thus ties in with the previous blog entry wherein I explained to the people that first didn't want to hear how it is about time that we STOP the patterns that we've continued from generation after generation in relation to the abuse of 'educating children' by hitting them, or teaching them to 'fight/attack back' upon abuse or become spiteful and vengeful… all of this MUST GO and Must be stopped by ourselves as the parents, the family members, the teachers, the siblings, the people around kids to become the examples of the way we can Always direct ourselves in a way that is best for everyone: self supportive, considerate, being able to communicate effectively, being the living words of the principles we want our children to embody as well and as such, children will learn by default – from their very first interactions in a world where we all act and live by principle of what is best for all and as such, by default, learn how to live by principles too.
It is only an excuse and negligence to say that the human can't change, that we can only resort to psychologists or psychiatrists – this is unacceptable. What we require is to apply a New understanding and vision of who we are as human beings in order to support every single being that comes into this world to adopt the new living ways that we can begin living within ourselves individually and in the 'without' as the way the world system operates. For that, investigate the Living Income Guaranteed to provide support for parents to have sufficient time to stay at home implementing the new education available for parents and for any other individual –regardless of being a parent or not – at the DIP Lite course for free.
It certainly won't be the same to bring a child to a self-supportive world where you have a guaranteed income/have your human rights being genuinely granted and assured with money provided to you from birth than a baby that is born in a condition of poverty in a third world country where not even a solid foundation of family or parents exist, because everyone is on a survival modality. It doesn't make sense anymore to continue allowing our children to grow up in front of the TV and computer screens or taken care by 'third parties,' and the reason why this is so is because everyone has to 'get a job to live' and there's no support given to parents to get time to educate their children. This should make it clear how it is all of us that are 'shooting our leg' by not providing to each other the right to life, so it's about time we understand that the new way of Living is to Support Ourselves and Support All Life Equally to become our fullest potential.
To learn how to stop being only a mind that perpetuates the patterns and sins of the fathers, research:
- Desteni
- Desteni Articles
- Destonians
- Desteni Lite Process
- Desteni I Process
- Desteni Forum
- Desteni Wiki
- Desteni Español
- Creation's Journey to Life
- Heaven's Journey To Life
- 7 Year Journey To Life Process
Parental Support:
Parenting: Perfecting the Human Race
Parenting Support at the Desteni Forum
Education for Parents: Facebook Group
Parenting and Educational Blogs:
Journey to a New Life – A Young Mother
A New Fathers Journey To Life
A Parent's Journey to Life
A Teacher's Journey to Life
Parental Abuse: Self Forgive the Mess & Correct the Future of the World
2012 Parental LOVE is Abuse
2012 Who will Educate the Future of the World? Parental Education at Desteni
2011 Parenting in an Equal World
Rebelling Feels GOOD but WHY?
Junk Food, Schooling and Parental Negligence
Self Harm at Age 5 – How to Support?
How to Stop Bullying?


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MySpace adware attack hits hard
Purity check
Online banner ads running on MySpace.com and web sites infected more than one million users with adware, according to net security firm iDefense.
The attack exploited a Windows Metafile (WMF) exploit, fixed by Microsoft in January, to infect vulnerable Windows machines with malware from PurityScan/ClickSpring family of adware. The malware surreptitiously tracks internet usage while bombarding infected users with pop-up ads.
The banner ad that played a staring role in the attack ostensibly advertised a site called deckoutyourdeck.com. In reality, machines were directed to Russian-language website in Turkey, which tracked the number of times adware programs were downloaded, the Washington Post reports.
Data on the site suggested that the adware had been installed on 1.07m PCs, a huge figure that equates to a big payday for the unknown perpetrators of the attack and plenty of pain for ordinary surfers. ®


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Toronto Real Estate Market Sales are up 45.6%! Average Prices Up 16.7% amid CoronaVirus (COVID-19) fears! CoronaVirus impacts on the Toronto's Real Estate Market, March 2020!
This is a thorough review about what's going on in Toronto's Real Estate Market! Here you read about the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) effect on Toronto's real estate Market and how the corona virus will impact the market and capital markets! This report, in addition, includes forecasts and Supporting Data to our Past Forecasts. And also how the Market Meltdown would impact real estate in Toronto.
Toronto Housing Market Overview Amid CoronaVirus fears:
March 2020 has started with a total of 7,256 resale transactions reported through TREB's MLS in Toronto's real estate market. That was a historic 45.6% increase in the number of sales compared to last year similar time in Toronto's real estate. On top of that the average home price in Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has been $910,290, which is OVER 16.7% price increase Year over Year in Toronto's housing market!
CoronaVirus (COVID-19) impact on Toronto's real estate Market:
Meanwhile CoronaVirus effect in the capital markets was heavy in February. Toronto Exchange Composite Index hit the highest 17,944 on February 20th, then dropped to a low 12,700 on March 12th, which is a HUGE 28% melt down in almost two weeks!!
On the other hand, the Toronto real estate market, was the strongest since 2017, amid all the COVID-19 pandemic panic. I, as a Toronto Real Estate Agent and investment analyst, have seen more investors entering the real estate market when the forecast of the stock market seems volatile to them. If you look at the REITS (Real Estate Investment Trusts) stocks, you'd see among the huge meltdown in all other sectors, the REITs are performing relatively better than other stocks ( less plunge we see in those stocks) . Especially residential REITs. The symbols that I recommend you to follow are : REI.UN ( RioCan REIT ) and CHP.UN ( Choice Properties REIT ) .
Real estate in GTA has been a safe long term investment for many. Speculators also have enjoyed the waves here and there, but one important thing to remember is that the buyers who drive the market are not all speculators. They are First buyers, Up sizers, or downsizers, who actually need a roof for living. Many of the buyers are actually end users, second comes the cash flow investors. Speculators are not a big part of the market here.
Is there a FOMO in real estate market?
As someone who works with buyers and sellers in Toronto's real estate market, I'd say that the FOMO has returned to the market, and much more buyers are competing on the properties more than a couple months ago. Numbers also support that, number of sales increased by 45.6% and the number of active listings dropped by 33.6%, which puts even more pressure on the standing inventory. That being said, amid CoronaVirus fear, I forecast even higher price increases in Toronto's housing market for the next month! That's in the opposite direction that the stock market moves currently!
What will happen to the markets if the CoronaVirus (COVID-19) gets under control:
If the CoronaVirus gets under control in Canada, i.e, they find a cure for it, or somehow control it, the confidence will get back to the stock market. If we look at the lessons learned from SARS, we'd realize that the CoronaVirus will be controlled at some point, that's when the markets, especially stock markets, would start rising again. In that case the money that flows to the stock sector would be a relief to the Real Estate Market. But again the FOMO might cause a minor bubble for the stocks as well. Which will eventually be corrected sooner or later after that.
But until that timeArticle Search, I think the real estate market in Toronto would be subject to higher price appreciation.


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Wal-Mart Workers Try the Nonunion Route
After numerous failed attempts to unionize Wal-Mart stores, the nation's main union for retail workers has decided to try a different approach: it has helped create a new, nonunion group of Wal-Mart employees that intends to press for better pay, benefits and most of all, more respect at work.
The group, Organization United for Respect at Walmart, or OUR Walmart for short, says it has quietly signed up thousands of members in recent months, and it is going public this week with a Web site, ourwalmart.org, and a Facebook page. Organizers say they have more than 50 members at some stores, and they hope to soon have tens of thousands of members. Wal-Mart has nearly 1.4 million workers nationwide.
Although the Web site of OUR Walmart depicts the organization as a grass-roots effort by Wal-Mart workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers has provided a sizable sum — the union will not say how much — to help the group get started. The union has also paid hundreds of its members to go door to door to urge Wal-Mart workers to join the group.
In addition, the organizers are receiving help from ASGK Public Strategies, a consulting firm long associated with David Axelrod, President Obama's top political strategist.
In recent weeks, OUR Walmart has organized gatherings of 10 to 80 workers in Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities, meeting inside churches, fast-food restaurants and employees' homes, where the workers chewed over how they would like to improve Wal-Mart. One big concern, they said, was low wages.
"I'm hoping that OUR Walmart will make a difference in the long run," said Margaret Van Ness, an overnight stocker at a Wal-Mart store in Lancaster, Calif., about 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Ms. Van Ness earns $11.40 an hour after four years of working there.
"The managers at our store and others are running over their associates as if they didn't exist," she said. "They treat them like cattle. They don't seem to care about respect for the individuals. We need to bring back respect."
Unlike a union, the group will not negotiate contracts on behalf of workers. But its members could benefit from federal labor laws that protect workers from retaliation for engaging in collective discussion and action.
Wal-Mart officials say that the new organization is essentially a stalking horse for eventual unionization, and they say the retail union is intent on pushing up Wal-Mart's wages and slowing its expansion to help protect the union's members at other retailers from competition.
"There's nothing new about the fact that labor unions want to unionize Wal-Mart," said David Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman. "This is an effort to attract media attention to further their political agenda."
The new group is the latest iteration of worker groups aimed at pressuring Wal-Mart. Earlier groups included Walmart Watch and Wake-Up Wal-Mart, both backed by unions, as well as the Wal-Mart Workers Association, a short-lived and foundation-backed group composed of Florida Wal-Mart employees.
Officials from the United Food and Commercial Workers are vowing that the new organization will be bigger and better than previous Wal-Mart groups.
"We've got Wal-Mart associates in large numbers coming to us and saying, 'We need a voice. This company is mistreating us. We want to stay here, but we need to be able to change the way we're being treated,' " said Dan Schlademan, director of Making Change at Wal-Mart, a division of the union. "The best thing the U.F.C.W. can be is a catalyst to help associates build an organization."
OUR Walmart does not go out of its way to disclose its ties to the union or to Mr. Axelrod's former firm, although officials at the union and the consulting firm say they disclose their roles if asked.
Wal-Mart employees say that store managers around the country have made clear at meetings that OUR Walmart has no affiliation with the company, the world's largest retailer.
Mr. Tovar, the Wal-Mart spokesman, said the company "provides associates with a work environment based on respect, dignity and future partnership in the business."
"The fact is our wages and benefits typically exceed those provided by the majority of our competition," Mr. Tovar added. "As a result, our associates have concluded time and again that they are better off with the pay, benefits package and opportunities for advancement provided by Wal-Mart and have chosen to reject unions."
Union officials say they hope OUR Walmart will embolden workers and someday pave the way for successful unionization drives at Wal-Mart.
"The mission of the U.F.C.W. is to raise standards for workers in the retail and grocery industry," said Jennifer Stapleton, assistant director of Making Change at Wal-Mart. "You cannot change the standards in the retail and grocery industry unless you also change Wal-Mart."
Mr. Schlademan said Wal-Mart employees should not have to wait until Wal-Mart someday recognizes the union through an organizing drive before they have a voice on the job.
Wal-Mart has aggressively battled organizing drives at its stores — it even closed a Canadian store after its workers voted to unionize. Mr. Schlademan acknowledged that it was hard to get a majority of workers at a particular Wal-Mart store to vote in support of a union.
Kent Wong, director of Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, said OUR Walmart was a smart approach for a union movement that is on the defensive. "Given the circumstances," he said, "unions need to explore creative ways of organizing that will provide some opportunity for workers to have a voice to improve wages and working conditions."
OUR Walmart has been inspired by a handful of groups that unions formed when they recognized it would be too difficult to unionize a company.
The foremost model is the Alliance at I.B.M., a group with several hundred dues-paying members and some 5,000 supporters that has backed several shareholder actions and has often spoken out to the news media on workplace safety issues and the outsourcing of high-tech jobs. The Alliance once mounted a protest that helped persuade I.B.M. to revise a pension overhaul that had hurt many older workers.
"It's very difficult to win a union election in the United States, especially at sophisticated companies like I.B.M. and Wal-Mart," said Lee Conrad, the Alliance's national coordinator. "But these groups show you can raise issues that help workers."
In recent months, the food and commercial workers union has paid most of the salary of several hundred members, on leave from their jobs, to knock on doors and otherwise reach out to Wal-Mart employees to urge them to join OUR Walmart. Those who join are being asked to pay dues of $5 a month. The new organization plans to draft recommendations to improve working conditions, and hopes to meet soon with Wal-Mart's top management.
"Someone has to stand up to say something," said Deondra Thomas, a shoe department employee at a Dallas Wal-Mart, who earns $8.90 an hour after three years there. "So many people have been quiet for so long. A lot of us think Wal-Mart is an awesome company, but as far as the employees, they treat us like dirt."


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Furry Film Night
December 13, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
If your child loves animals and movies, Furry Film Night is a must! What better way to end the week than with cuddle time with friendly adoptable dogs and cats, enjoying a great G-rated movie, making friends, and eating yummy pizza and snacks? This is a fun-filled night for children and an opportunity for parents to enjoy a night out by themselves. Please note, the start time of this ongoing program has been changed. New time 6:00-8:30 pm
Ages 6-12
What is included?
A tour to meet our friendly, adoptable pets, a G-rated film with a humane message, cheese pizza, popcorn and juice.
What should I bring to Furry Film Night?
Children should dress comfortably (pajamas are welcome!) and bring pillows and blankets to get cozy for movie time. Children are welcome to bring additional food to enjoy during the movie.
Furry Film Night is $15 per child. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required. REGISTRATION CLOSES THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT TO ALLOW STAFF A FINAL HEADCOUNT FOR PIZZA – DON'T WAIT TO REGISTER!
Cancellation & Refund Policy
If you need to cancel your child's registration for any youth program, please notify us as soon as possible so we can try to fill the opening. If the cancellation is received one week or more before the program date, we will provide a 75% refund. If the cancellation is received less than one week before the program date, a refund will not be guaranteed unless we are able to fill the opening in the program (in which case, a 75% refund would be given). If we decide to cancel a program due to lack of interest, we will provide those enrolled a full refund.