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Valletta on Malta is European Capital of Culture 2018 – time for its former red light district to stage a comeback: The legendary pubs of Strait Street are coming back to life.
As the sun rose over Valletta, the wild dogs would return to their kennel, dragging themselves down to the pier and climbing into Victor Caruana's boat to be taken to the other side of the harbor. Back to where the Royal Navy frigates were anchored – to where they had no beer, no girls and no jazz, just the hard life of a seaman. On the way back, the fists would start to fly; that's how it usually was, at least. Someone would say something stupid, crack a mean joke – it didn't take much to set the drunken seamen flying at each other's throats. That would send the boat rocking, and it would pitch and finally capsize – and one by one, every man Jack of them would tumble into the waters of the Grand Harbour. "Letting the wild dog off the chain," was what seamen once called going ashore in Valletta, the capital of the Mediterranean island of Malta. It was where Strait Street beckoned, the most famous red light district between Suez and Gibraltar, at least for British and U.S. Navy personnel.
Victor Caruana – gray stubble beard, fleshy cheeks, proud belly – was one of the men who used to chauffeur the navy seamen to adventure, and end up landing in the soup with them when a brawl broke out in his harbor taxi. That doesn't happen anymore. Now, 70-year-old Caruana takes visitors on tours of the Grand Harbour in his iuzzu, as the Maltese call their wooden rowboats. And he talks about the days when Valletta was "Europe's biggest seamen's tavern." "The sailors were my best customers, I couldn't hold it against them," he says with a grin, recalling the officers' faces and curses as they fished him and their shipmates out of the water for the umpteenth time. Even then, back in the late 1960s, Caruana knew this was the stuff of good anecdotes.
Strait Street is a legend now. In the years following World War II, there were around 100 cabaret clubs, jazz bars and low dives on "the Gut," as the sailors called this Mediterranean equivalent of Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn red light district, "gut" being seamen's slang for a sea strait. But Strait Street was far more than a red light district, it was a place, far removed from the haunts of the middle class, where art also thrived. Like Pigalle in Paris and Soho in London, bohemians, adventurers and free spirits gathered here. As a young seaman in the 1950s, author Thomas Pynchon also frequented the Gut and later described it in his novel V. To many ultra-Catholic Maltese, Strait Street was not a source of inspiration but a disgrace, the epitome of moral bankruptcy. Drag shows, seedy bars, red light joints – none of which sat easy with Malta's conservative ideals.
When the British Royal Navy abandoned its base in Valletta in 1979 and withdrew some 1000 seamen, the narrow party mile was left deserted. At some point, even the last remaining bar closed, but Strait Street did not fall into oblivion, it lived on in legend and anecdote. It was even the subject of a TV series ("Strada Stretta") that cultivated the nostalgia of its past.
Now the street is finally dusting itself down and awakening from a slumber that has lasted almost 40 years. Five years ago, Valletta was awarded the title European City of Culture 2018 alongside Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, and it has been cleaning up its act ever since – and also that of Strait Street. A cultural initiative has been set up to preserve the memory of its past: The Gut is on its way back – or at least a sanitized version of it.
The man charged with preserving the history of Strait Street is Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, 62. Once Malta's ambassador in Moscow, he is now an art professor at the University of Malta. As artistic director of the Strada Stretta cultural initiative, he is responsible for the street's new image. Dressed in jeans and a faded T-shirt, cheerful, unpretentious Bonaci is busy organizing concerts, musicals and exhibitions for the Capital of Culture 2018 celebrations. Bonaci was raised on Strait Street, and school friends never came to see him because their parents would tell them to keep their eyes closed when they walked by the street. For Bonaci, the crazy goings-on there were just a part of daily life. Many members of his extended family were artists, as was his father, who played saxophone in a jazz band. To the U.S. seamen, the music sounded like home, like the optimism of a new era. Music helped to heal the war wounds in people's heads, brought Italians, Brits and Americans together.
Strait Street is like a private booth in a bar: narrow, discreet, and intimate
His latest job fulfills a lifelong dream for him, says Bonaci. Of course, he says it right where it's all happening, on the street of his childhood, a street like a private booth in a bar: narrow, discreet and intimate. On the facades, the signs of long-gone bars and clubs are fading like old tattoos: Cambridge Bar, White Star, The Old Vic Cabaret. But on this Saturday evening, the street is not deserted. Outside the Yard 32, young locals are sitting at the bar, ice cubes clinking in their gin and tonics. Gentlemen in suits and ladies in evening dresses flock to the Palazzo Preca, a restaurant in the courtyard of a lovely old villa, while American tourists pull trolley bags over the cobblestones. "Not so long ago, Valletta was dead by six in the evening, says Clint Debono, 42, co-owner of the Tico-Tico Bar. It was the last bar to close after the Royal Navy left and the first to reopen, four years ago. Debono pulls a Cisk lager, the iconic beer the sailors always drank. It's 11 o'clock at night and there's not an empty table in the place.
Debono regularly receives visits from men with hard, battered faces. Two beers in and they're pulling up their sleeves to show the bar staff their wrinkled tattoos: anchors, ships, flags, mermaids. Then they lay their yellowing photos on the bar and start harking back to the old days. Stories go something like this: "Here, the guy on the left. A big mouth who used to lay into us Brits. First we drank him under the table, then we dragged him off to a tattooist. He was so drunk he didn't even notice the Union Jack being tattooed onto his American belly… And here, that's Sparrow the barmaid. We called her Sparrow because no one could hold onto her. She would flutter through the bar from one guy to the next. She was a celebrity. When we heard she'd died, our ships lowered their flags to half-mast." How much is yarn, how much truth? Who knows? Then the veterans drain a couple more glasses and shuffle away. No trouble from the wild dogs these days.
The newly opened Tico-Tico and other bars are just the start of Strait Street's reincarnation; a Japanese izakaya is set to open this winter along with a club and a craft beer bar. The man directing Strait Street's makeover is Chris Briffa, Valletta's top architect. Briffa, 43 – black hair, horn-rim glasses, casual look – has his studio just four streets away from the Tico-Tico. He plans to transform the balconies along Strait Street into stages for musicians and actors, to turn the street into an auditorium, passersby into spectators. His favorite detail is the only public convenience on Strait Street. Few architects are proud to build WCs, but Briffa raves about the red neon lights, plush drapes, mirrors and even the small platform – this is practically a concept rest room, an artwork celebrating the spirit of the red light district.
We'll be busy for some years," says Briffa, and he doesn't just mean himself. Richard England, a veteran Maltese architect is turning an old abattoir into a complex for start-ups and creatives, while star architect Renzo Piano has built an outdoor theater in the ruins of Valletta's opera house, and his parliament building resembling a bunker with office windows and embrasures, which opened two years ago, has been hailed as the city's new landmark. As Briffa explains, "Valletta's old town will change dramatically in the coming years." It will become more cultivated, more elegant, which the Gut never was and never wanted to be.
Back at the harbor, Victor Caruana charges passengers from the cruise ship eight euros each for a 30-minute tour of the Grand Harbour, past Fort St Elmo's honey-colored walls and across to the Three Cities promenade. Everyone snaps the dome of the Carmelite Church above the city's roofs. The days of the wild dogs may finally be over. But when the sun sets, Caruana and the old seamen can still hear their chains rattle.
What's on in Malta
The annual Malta Book Festival takes place this year November 8 through 12.
The Valletta Baroque Festival (January 13–27, 2018) hosts concerts at various venues.
Colorful carnival parades fill Malta's streets between February 9 and 13, 2018.
The city celebrates its harbor with the Valletta Pageant of the Seas on June 7, 2018.
The young, contemporary Blitz gallery is where the island's arts scene meets.
Book an apartment in a refurbished palazzo and relax right on Strait Street.
Lufthansa flies several times daily from Frankfurt (FRA) and four times weekly from Munich (MUC) to Malta (MLA). To calculate your miles, go to meilenrechner.de


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Minutes Friday April 6, 2007
Attendees: Chuck Craig Senate President, Eric Niewoehner CIOS, Tony Martin Career Education, David Noon Social Sciences, Yuliya Ivanova BPADM, Jill Dumesnil Natural Sciences, Cathy Connor President-elect, Virgil Fredenberg Education, Elise Tomlinson/Jennifer Brown for Lynn Shepherd Library, Lisa Hoferkamp Juneau at Large, Joe Liddle Stika at Large
Ex Officio, Provost Robbie Stell
Absent: Tim Ewest Ketchikan at Large, Jeremy Kane Humanities
This meeting is our first held on video conference this year although Joe Liddle needed Sitka Tandburg for taping UAF Fisheries seminar and no one was present in the televised room in Ketchikan. The system worked well thanks to UAS Cody Bennet!
1. Call to order( 3:05 pm)
2. Approval of minutes of last meeting (March) ATTACHMENT 2.1 JD moved/passed no opposition
3. Approval of today's agenda/VF moved/approved no amendments
4. Assembly member's comments/see specific items
6. Chair's comments/report (3:15 pm)
A) At all UA levels for governance from the Board of Regents to Faculty Alliance to all UA Faculty Senates and campus committees there is an intensive focus on –UA Student Success. Specifically: Why are UA students leaving and why are UA enrollment numbers down. Visit by invited faculty, Vince Tinto, Univ. Syracuse, N.Y. helped to focus efforts and refine questions and assessments. Task Force (TF), established by Chancellor Pugh at UAS, (includes 14 people, 3 subgroups chaired by Joe Nelson, Dick Dent, Chuck Craig) are looking at student groups within their demographics:18 yrs olds, 25 yr olds, dorm-dwellers. TF is addressing questions like: How can UA students be encouraged to stay within UA system? Tinto at Faculty Alliance meetings floated the idea of assessing "Student Intent" by polling students online about what specific courses, certificates, or degrees they intend to attain from UA at the time they register for courses. This would enable system-wide assessment of UA institutional success in meeting these student goals.
B) Faculty Alliance: UA-wide…Electronic Activity Report is being activated. It is unknown whether or not UAS Arts and Sciences will be a pilot group to test this during the 2007-2008 academic year.
C) Ongoing discussion about faculty intellectual property rights especially for distance education. Discussion is now being linked with and union negotiations
D) UA staff sabbaticals have been approved to allow for leaves of absence to take courses, training, improve skill sets, etc.
E) Under discussion is evolving thought on "guaranteed tuition" which has switched to revenue neutral "predictable tuition" (4-5 year prediction of cost increases upfront for prospective students and families)
7. Faculty Senate Elections 2007-2008
Senate Chair-Elect nominations (accepted/declined)-
Virgil Fredenberg/accept/ Education/, Eric Niewoehner/decline/CIOS/ Tony Martin/decline/Career Ed/ Lynn Shepherd/decline/Library/ David Noon/decline/Social Sciences,/ Anselm Staack/accept/BAPDM, Jill Dumesnil/accept/Natural Science.
President elect Candidates: Fredenberg/Staack/Dumesnil
At-Large election results
Matt Heavner Natural Sciences elected 2007-2008 Juneau
Sitka at Large /Ketchikan at Large TBA
5. Provost's comments (3:40 pm).ATTACHMENT 5.1 (Posting of all syllabi on UASOnline) By Fall 2007, a special section will be provided by IT on UAS Online Course web pages for uploading all UAS course syllabi. This will make it easier for UAS course assessment process and evaluation of courses using syllabuses. Presently faculty upload their syllabi to a number of locations…generally the UAS online page area has been the Resources section. Also uploaded syllabuses may be found at faculty websites.
Faculty Handbook revisions are underway, standards for Service will be voted on at the next FS meeting.8. The Ad Hoc Curriculum Clarification Committee suggested changes to the faculty handbook; Lynn Shepherd/Elise Tomlinsen for Lynn (3:30-3:40 pm) ATTACHMENT 8.1 ATTACHMENT 8.2
Motion 1 Approve new language (8.1) curriculum committee submission & procedures, form revisions VF /Seconded
Friendly amendment 1: change "Policy Change form" to "Changes to Academic Requirements" that crosses faculty (Discipline) lines.. Chuck pointed out that policy is not being changed here and it is not in the purview of the Curriculum Committee to change Policy.
Friendly amendment 2 Minor=small, major=substantive
We treated today's overview as a first reading. We will reconsider this motion next time when Lynn can be here to present finalized version.
Incomplete Matrix which was attached , was not discussed today.(RS comment) Registrar Barbara Hegel is thinking about transferring Curriculum Committee changes and forms to an Access software database to track changes for curriculum issues…digital curriculum change info can be archived more easily than binders. Hopes for timing of this new system are for the end of summer 2007. ET commented that based on her efforts in this area it would be challenging to complete in that time period.
9. First Annual Faculty Excellence Awards; Cathy Connor
Purpose: To recognize UAS faculty excellence in the three areas of endeavor….. Teaching, Service, and Research.
Eligible faculty: All full time faculty (tenure track and regular) on any of the UAS campuses (J,K,S)
No part-time faculty will be eligible.
Application Procedure: application forms will be posted on the UAS faculty senate webpage. Faculty Senate will annually set the deadline date. For this first run the deadline date for application and support letter submission will be April 27, 2007. Submissions must be made to Faculty Senators from each department. Faculty Senators will forward their submissions to President elect (Connor in 2007).
Selection Procedure: A FS subcommittee of 2-3 volunteer senators will forward meet, assess applicants and forward their desired candidates to Provost Stell and Chancellor Pugh for final selection of the 3 awardees.
Selection criteria
Faculty Senate Awards ad hoc subcommittee will select from submissions by faculty Senators from all Departments. Selection criteria will be guidelines for research/teaching/service developed for the UAS faculty handbook used by Faculty Evaluation committees and common sense.
Awarding Procedure
Faculty Awards will be announced at the Fall 2007 faculty convocation for 2006-2007 awardees and thereafter at each spring commencement (beginning with 2007-2008 awardees during May 2008 commencement). Awards will be $1,000 and an E BIZ airline ticket for each of the 3 faculty awardees thanks to the generosity of Provost Stell.
10. Report from Service Committee with their suggested changes to the faculty handbook; Jill Dumesnil
University Service Matrix-First Reading…. Description and Matrix review in faculty department groups…give Jill feedback.
Jill's feedback to date (You need more examples in matrix vs. you have too many examples in matrix).
Jill will bring back for final reading at the next meeting.
11. Update on the Faculty Development Seminar 2006-2007 by Jennifer Brown.
In general the organizers have received good feed back from participants. Jennifer proposes that for next year the seminar continues as a
One semester only course. Organizer(s) would deploy the topics deemed most useful by past participants.
Second semester have new faculty mentored ,,,,,,,by experienced faculty (service for mentoring faculty). Cathy DeLorenzo would like to facilitate seminar and help organize 6-7 expected 2007-2008 new faculty with spring senior faculty mentors. Connor suggested establishing mentoring in the fall when most needed and continuing entire first year.
Jennifer will not be an organizer by will be available to serve in an advisory role.
Presently new faculty attendance is not required. Expectations between new faculty and their Department Chairs should be well understood, Attendance should be required and linked to workload service.
Jill recommended 2 organizers who represented the opposite teaching style spectrums of distance-delivered versus face to face classroom teaching to identify and implement a variety of seminar presenters for the wide array of faculty roles required at UAS.
Meeting adjourned at ~5:00 pm.
Minutes by C. Connor

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday that he favors gay marriage, the latest of several lawmakers to change positions on the issue now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Casey said he made the shift after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil rights questions involved and letters from Pennsylvania families.
"If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in the way?" Casey said. "At a time when many Americans lament a lack of commitment in our society between married men and women, why would we want less commitment and fewer strong marriages?"
In November, as Casey successfully sought a second term, he said he favored same-sex civil unions but did not take a position on same-sex marriage. He previously voted to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military and to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"Elected public officials have an abiding obligation to refrain from demonizing and dividing people for partisan or political gain," Casey said. "Rather, Democrats and Republicans should come together and find areas of agreement to do what's best for the country, including lesbian and gay Americans."
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that could dramatically alter the legal landscape for gay marriage.
One of the cases involves the Defense of Marriage of Act, which prevents legally married gay couples from receiving federal benefits available to others. Casey said he now wants to repeal the law, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
The executive director of Equality Pennsylvania, a political advocacy group for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, said his members logged about 10,000 calls to Casey in recent weeks to urge him to make such an announcement.
"I hope what it means for where the state is going is that people are truly starting to use the issue of marriage to understand why marriage equality is important but also in general how we treat gay citizens in Pennsylvania," executive director Ted Martin said.
Casey's announcement, Martin said, gives elected officials "the ability to look at these issues and understand you can come to a conclusion after thinking about them."
The president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which opposes gay marriage, said Casey acted in response to pressure from special interests.
"There were many Pennsylvanians, Democrats and Republicans alike, who voted for Senator Casey because he respected many of the social conservative values of Pennsylvania - on the life issue as well as the marriage issue," president Michael Geer said. "I think many supporters of Senator Casey hoped for more from him and today are sadly disappointed."
Casey, a Roman Catholic from Scranton, opposes abortion rights except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger.
Several other Democratic senators who, like Casey, represent swing states, have recently made similar announcements.
Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, announced his support for gay marriage in states that choose to allow it, saying his stance began to change in 2011, when his college-age son told him he was gay.


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The Ghost Road Company's "The Bargain and The Butterfly" has recently concluded their performances at the Artworks Theatre in Hollywood. This play was inspired by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Artist of the Beautiful" and was conceived and directed by Katharine Noon.
This is a haunting drama about a young woman named Annie (Christel Joy Johnson), who is infatuated with inventing a "synthetic soul" for her twin brother, Owen (Brian Weir). Her brother has been in a coma since their birth but she is able to communicate with his spirit. Annie can also communicate with her mother's (Jen Kays) spirit as well who died bearing them in childbirth.
To accomplish the "synthetic soul" for her brother, Annie devises a blueprint and seeks the help of a local glassblower (Doug Sutherland) to execute the central piece required for her imperative project. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned when she finally confides in her new companion.
The play can be quite difficult to understand initially but as the story goes on the details of the characters eventually become spelled out to paint a clearer picture of the circumstances Annie and her father (Ronnie Clark) go through. The use of lights gives the play great character as there was often scenes in the complete dark and only lit with a single flashlight.
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"Showing of a bold color, this wine starts with cassis, black tea, black olive and black cherry cough syrup aromatics. The wine has a plush texture as milk chooclate, red bell pepper, mint and eucalyptus flavors are revealed. The long finish accentuates this downright delicious Cabernet bottling. Be sure to give this wine a two hour decant prior to enjoying." (Best 2017-2029)
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Established in 1893, Stags' Leap Winery is one of California's earliest wine estates. Winemaker Christophe Paubert practices traditional winemaking techniques creating wines of a more traditional old worlds style with elegance and finesse.
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"Baked plum, Asian spice, vanilla and menthol aromas carry the nose. The elegantly structured palate offers fleshy black cherry, licorice, mint and well-integrated French oak alongside fine-grained tannins that lend firm, polished support. A coffee note marks the finish."Kerin O'Keefe, WINE ENTHUSIAST, June 2016
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Red liquorice, gravy reduction flavours and black olive tapenade to the fore. And then, just so much more! Where to start? Compelling depth - weighty/voluminous/fleshy - structurally complete and even throughout. A radiant inner sheen, yet still assertive – a film encrusted with dusty, softened tannins that coat tongue. Great length.Wine Advocate 2016
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"…Flirting with perfection… this wine is magical. Inky purple/black, with a gorgeous nose of pen ink, cedar wood, vanillin, crème de cassis, and blacker fruits, there's some forest floor, full-bodied richness, and super-high extract and tannins. It is a massive wine, highly extracted, and built for long, long-term cellaring…"Robert Parker, Wine Advocate | 99 pts
"Subtle aromas and flavors of shaved chocolate, dried berry and spice. Medium body, silky tannins and savory fruit character."James Suckling
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Wild blackberry and a dark-fruited compote benevolently offer a generosity of fruit sweetness. An almost silky tarriness coupled with mouthwatering acidity create a texturally appealing and integrated mouthfeel. Voluptuous/Voluminous/Velvety.Wine Advocate 2016
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"Another amazingly youthful wine is the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon The Leap, meant for 25-30+ years of longevity. Opaque purple, with loads of blueberry, blackcurrant and black cherry fruit, some licorice, smoke and graphite, the wine has terrific intensity, a full-bodied mouthfeel and a long finish. Give it 4-5 years and drink it over the following 25."Robert Parker, THE WINE ADVOCATE, December 30, 2016
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A full-bodied, rich palate with stone fruit flavours and a grapefruit note on the finish. Extended time on lees has provided a creamy, integrated mouthfeel that ensures the wine can be enjoyed by itself or paired with light, tasty dishes.Wine Spectator
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"Extremely complex aromas of currant, coffee, spearmint, Thai basil and sandalwood. Full body, firm and chewy tannins yet linear and exciting. Just a baby. Fantastic structure here. Better in 2020."James Suckling | 96 Pts
"Complex aromas of blackcurrants, tobacco and stones. Some oyster shell. Medium to full body, very fine tannins and a polished, refined, textured finish. A wine that harkens back to its traditions. Drink now."James Suckling | 94 Pts
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"Aromas of chocolate, blackberries and hints of oak follow through to a full body, lots of ripe fruit and a powerful finish. A chewy wine. A little old school but this is a wine that still shows interest. Drink in 2020."James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, May 2017
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"Aromas of blueberry and blackberry character. Hints of dark fruit, violets and stones. Full-bodied, powerful and dense with beautiful fruit concentration and silky tannins. Shows reserve and finesse with structure. Better in 2021."James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, May 2017
"Dusty and herbal, the wine is thick and sizably tannic, with dense black fruit, leather and coffee."The Wine Enthusiast | 91 pts
"This brown-hued Pinot Noir wine opens with a ripe bouquet of wild blackberry, red currant, Asian spices and black cherry. There is lovely weight and texture on the mid-palate, as the wine delivers black cherry, black raspberry liquor, wild mushroom and cigar box flavors that sit nicely alongside some great acidity. This is another solid new release from this great estate." (Best 2017-2027)International Wine Review, July 2017
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"Having a dense and brooding inky color, this wine opens with bright aromatics of violets, milk chocolate shavings, black tea and blackberry cobbler. The viscosity and texture and gorgeous. Black tea, blackberry jam, dark chocolate and black cherry flavors provide marvelous fruit weight. This is just an awesome bottling with a wonderful mineral streak." (Best 2017-2026)International Wine Review, July 2017
"Aromas of blueberries, chocolate and currants follow through to a full body, round and soft chewy tannins and a savory finish. Lovely now but better in 2019."James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, May 2017
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"Plenty of blackcurrants and stones with hints of pines on the nose. Medium to full body, ultra-fine tannins and a fine finish. Lovely balance and refinement to this. Better in 2020 but already beautiful. Excellent example of a balanced Napa cab."James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, May 2017
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Wynns say it's Australia's most important cabernet based on volume and value of each vintage. It's a model for the flavour and structure of cool grown cabernet with the ace in the hole cards of blackcurrant fruit, firm tannins and balanced oak. Drink By: 2039James Halliday, Wine Companion 2016
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"This gorgeous wine begins with a bright bouquet of banana, roasted pineapple and crème brulee accents. Pink Lady apple, marzipan, bananas foster and suggestions of white peach supply marvellous fruit flavors. This has a sumptuous texture and mouthfeel." (Best 2017-2024)International Wine Review, July 2017
"A huge, dense wine, the 2013 Cinq Cepages possesses tremendous richness and concentration. Inky blue and purplish fruit, crème de cassis, gravel, graphite and dark spices give the Cinq Cepages much of its flamboyant, extroverted personality. Readers should be prepared to cellar the 2013 for at least a few years."Antonio Galloni Vinous | 94 Pts
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The date of elections to replace Hugo Chavez is set, and the late president's hand-picked successor will be the official party candidate. But one big question remains: Who will be his opponent?
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles is set to announce his intentions late Sunday in what could be the most important decision of his political life. He faces a stark choice: run in the April 14 vote many believe he is sure to lose amid a frenzy of sympathy and mourning for the dead president, or stay on the sidelines and risk his leadership of the opposition.
Several opposition sources interviewed by The Associated Press refused to speculate ahead of the announcement, and political analysts were split.
"He will put himself forward," said Oswaldo Ramirez, a political consultant at ORC Consultores, which sometimes advises Capriles. "History is giving Capriles Radonski an important role."
Ramirez said the 40-year-old state governor would demand that the government extend the campaign period, which is not set to begin until April 2, and not abuse state resources to boost its chances during the vote.
"I don't think there is any doubt that the opposition will participate and that their candidate will be Capriles," agreed Luis Vicente Leon, the head of the polling firm Datanalisis. Leon said he saw the opposition as clear underdogs in the vote, but would not rule out an upset.
Others were not so sure what the opposition might do.
Some say a second defeat for Capriles just six months after he lost last year's presidential vote to Chavez could derail his political career. If he waits, a Chavista government led by Nicolas Maduro, the acting president, might prove inept and give him a better shot down the road.
On a personal Twitter page that bore all the rah-rah adornments of a campaign site, Capriles wrote Saturday afternoon: "I am analyzing the declaration of the (electoral commission setting the date) and in the next hours I will talk to the country about my decision." A spokesman said Capriles would make an announcement in the early evening.
Whoever the opposition runs, analysts predict the next five weeks will increase the nasty, heated rhetoric that began even before Chavez's death Tuesday after a nearly two-year fight with cancer.
Maduro, who was named Chavez's vice president after the October election, was sworn in as this oil-rich country's acting leader Friday night and has made clear he will be the ruling party candidate. He is expected to file election papers on Monday
Opposition critics have called Maduro's ascension unconstitutional, noting the charter designates the National Assembly president as acting leader if a president-elect cannot be sworn in.
Angel Alvarez, a political science professor at the Central University of Venezuela, said Capriles is well aware that "the dice are loaded in favor of the government's candidate."
That means sitting out the race would make sense for Capriles, said David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based think tank the Washington Office on Latin America.
"If he says he doesn't want to run I could totally understand that," Smilde said. "He is likely going to lose and if he loses this election he's probably going to be done."
On the streets of Caracas on Sunday, opinion was as divided as always in a country that became dramatically more polarized during Chavez's 14-year rule.
"It's not fair," said Jose Mendez, a 54-year-old businessman of the choice the opposition leader faces. "(Maduro) has an advantage, because of everything they have done since Chavez's death, all the sentiment they've created ... But the guy has nothing. He can't hold a candle to Chavez."
But Ramon Romero said the opposition was just making excuses, and had no chance of victory in any case.
"Now their odds are even worse," said the 64-year-old waiter and staunch Chavez supporter. "They don't care about anyone, and we (the voters) have been lifted out of darkness."
There was no indication that the opposition would sit out the vote altogether. A boycott of 2005 legislative elections was widely seen as disastrous for the opposition. In possession of every single seat, Chavez's camp was able to extend its hold on government, including stacking the Supreme Court with loyalists.
If Capriles does stay out, analysts say, the opposition would be wise to run fresher faces such as Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledesma or Henry Falcone, governor of Lara state and one of just three opposition governors. That would give them the opportunity to clearly articulate a platform and vision without damaging its top star. Capriles garnered 44 percent of October's votes, which was the most anyone had won against Chavez since he took office.
"Really what this campaign would be about is allowing the opposition to put themselves in position for the future, to show that they have some ideas for the country," Smilde said.
Associated Press writers Frank Bajak, Paul Haven, Jorge Rueda and Vivian Sequera contributed to this report.


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HONOLULU — On March 22 and March 23, the Philosophy Students' Association and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will host the 2007 Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference: Comparative Philosophy for Today and Tomorrow. Events will be held at the Center for Korean Studies, and presentations are free and open to the public.
Since 1939, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has been the focus of the most significant recurring event in comparative philosophy: the East-West Philosophers' Conference. The 2007 Uehiro CrossCurrents Philosophy Conference aims to create a comparable forum for graduate students who are doing exciting work that may contribute to the field of comparative philosophy.
The inaugural CrossCurrents conference, held in 2003, included presentations by students from 15 universities in five countries. In March 2006, 15 presenters from five countries addressed the theme of "Navigating a Pluralistic World." This year, 19 graduate student presenters from 16 different academic institutions will share their research and participate in cross-cultural exchange over the two days of this conference.
Presenters have been organized into panels that cover themes ranging from self-cultivation, education and the nature of comparative philosophy to timely issues such as environmental ethics. The second day of the conference is devoted entirely to questions of ecology and the environment and will culminate in the keynote address given by Professor Mary Tiles, the chair of the Department of Philosophy. Her talk is titled "Why We Shouldn't Talk About ʻThe' Environment." In addition, the conference features opening remarks by Professor Ron Bontekoe, University of Hawaiʻi President David McClain and Professor Eliot Deutsch.
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- Torres looks likely to come to Anfield: Guardian (Sid Lowe!), BBC. I haven't been this excited about a transfer since the last record-breaking acquisition. I realize that may not be the best comparison, nor does it warm the heart in the slightest bit, but in my defense, Houllier had been trailing Cisse for over 2 years, and the expectations surrounding him were off the charts. I have no doubts that Torres will be a different case, but more on that later, I've already put the cart too far in front of the horse. This had better go through. PS: My birthday is in just under 2 weeks; Torres is signed before then would be a more than suitable present.
I'm undoubtedly not thrilled to lose Garcia in the process, as I still firmly believe that Liverpool missed his presence greatly last season, but he hasn't signed a new deal, he's 29, and it seems as if he wants a return to Spain with his last big contract. These things happen in the business of sport. I sincerely wish him all the best at Atletico, as it looks like this part of the deal will go through, Torres or not.
I guess the Benayoun speculation, even though it's gone somewhat quiet, is as a replacement for Garcia, but I still see them as slightly different players. Yes, they both can fill a number of midfield positions, and have the nous to break the deadlock in a tough, tactical game. However, Benayoun's not as much as a goal threat as Luis, and I haven't seen him in the 'super sub' role Luis has filled excellently, but Yossi is a better passer and is marginally more consistent.
- Speaking of Cisse, it looks as if he's finally been sold to Marseille. I'm not really bothered if it's less than half of the original £14m, which it probably will be. That always looked likely to be the fee. It's not another loan, he's off the wage bill, and it's an extra £6m or so that maybe wasn't factored into the transfer budget.
In retrospect, it's certainly a pity Djibril had the two leg breaks; had he not, we might have had a different outcome, but for my money, he was far too similar to Baros and not enough of a Benitez player. Head down, run as fast as possible, then blaze an awkward shot at goal. As we've seen, that works far better in Ligue 1 than the Premiership.
It is, however, worth noting that if a 22 year-old striker with his reputation came from the French league to the Premiership this summer, it'd be for a lot more than £14m.
- In the meantime, Darren Bent's been ruled out, as he's finally signed with Tottenham. Since the fee's £16.5m (?!), that's a huge relief. West Ham is playing with Monopoly money, and Spurs were more than happy to follow their lead. Also, the British market is absolutely berserk. I had thought we'd seen the pinnacle of this with the Carrick, Walcott, and Bale, but Bent's fee blows those out of the water. I also highly doubt the majority of Spurs fans feel that a new striker was their top priority. Bent's a better player than he's being given credit for because of the outrageousness of the fee, but still. Defoe seems certain to be on his way out (and had better stay far, far away from Anfield), while I can't wait to see how Robbie Keane reacts to being part of a three-man partnership again.
- And finally, more Anfield youngsters: German striker Marvin Pourie, Swedish winger Alexander Kacaniklic, Spanish defender Mikel San Jose, and Bulgarian keeper Nikolay Mihaylov. Further continuation of Rafa's youth revamp.
As to Mihaylov, this is from the first article I saw about the transfer:
He was hailed early in his career as a dead cert future national team goalkeeper, where he would follow in the footsteps of his father Borislav and grandfather Bisser.
But his poor performances in the last season made him a figure of ridicule among Levski fans, who accused his father, now head of the Bulgarian Football Union, of nepotism.
His worst moment in a Levski shirt came in a Champions League game against Werder, when he failed to control a back-pass from a defender and turned the ball into his own net, then letting in two more goals in the space of five minutes.
He ended the season as Levski's third-string goalkeeper after falling out with manager Stanimir Stoilov over his flashy lifestyle and was reported to have signed a deal with Italian Serie A club Fiorentina.
Seeing as that's from a Bulgarian news source, I reckon they think exceptionally highly of him.


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Molly Shannon is headed to "Glee."
The former "Saturday Night Live" and "Kath & Kim" star is joining the FOX franchise as the arch enemy of McKinely High School cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Molly will play Brenda Castle, an aging astronomy teacher and badminton coach.
Her character will reportedly have trouble with booze, pills and notoriously hard-nosed cheerleading coach Sue.
Molly's first episode will premiere in May.
Since returning to television in the fall, Jane's character has grown in popularity not only among fans, but also in the acting community.
Just last month, Rosie O'Donnell expressed her interest in joining the series and engaging in a "torrid affair" with Sue.
Interestingly, Molly's own former on-screen love interest in "Kath & Kim" was played by Michael Hitchcock, who has starred with Jane in 2000's "Best In Show" and 2003's "A Mighty Wind."
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Amazon has been publicly outed for letting thieves shop with stolen credit card numbers.The retailer doesn't ask for the security code on a credit card when setting up a new account, reports U.K. journalist Benjamin Cohen in an investigative report.
A criminal can simply open a new Amazon account, enter a stolen credit card number, and start shopping, Cohen found.
The report was initially looking into how safe it was to use new finagled credit cards that support Near Field Communications contact-less payments. With NFC, you can wave the credit card near a special reader to pay.
It turns out that millions of Visa credit cards issued by Barclays in the U.K. can be read by Android phones equipped with NFC readers. Thieves can electronically snatch the info right out of someone's wallet or purse, Cohen discovered.
But that alone shouldn't let them go shopping. Online retailers are supposed to validate that a person is holding the card by asking for the credit card security code (CSC), a three digit number on the back of the card.
It turns out that Amazon doesn't always ask for that number. Someone can fire up a new Amazon account and make a purchase without it, Cohen confirmed.
Business Insider looked for ourselves. After registering a new account we started a purchase transaction. We saw that the screen that asked for the credit card did not have a spot for the CSC number.
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We did not have access to a stolen credit card so we didn't complete the transaction, but Cohen did. He wrote, "We were surprised that Amazon processed our transactions using a Barclays Visa that didn't belong to the person making the order. The name didn't match and neither did the billing address. But the transactions went through without a hitch for physical product orders and also electronic orders that were downloaded immediately," writes Cohen.
Granted, it's not that easy to find NFC credit cards that give up too much data. In the U.S. many NFC credit cards won't transmit information like the user's name, reports Computerworld.
But crooks don't need NFC to grab credit card info. Any time you hand your card to a waiter, hotel clerk, retail salesperson, that person has access to your credit card information and from there it can wind up into the wrong hands.
If the charges turn out to be fraudulent, Amazon is on the hook because it doesn't follow best practices, says the report.
We asked Amazon to comment on this story. We'll update it if we hear back.
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Saturday - high temperature 50 degrees, with steady rain. Sunday - High temperature 54 degrees, with steady rain. If you're looking for me this weekend. I'll be in bed. Resting after a busy, busy week here at the office - and hopefully sleeping off the last lingering remnants of my steady, lingering cold.
And if one is in the mood for a long afternoon of simple napping - there's nothing quite like a canopy bed. Just that luxurious feeling of safely. And comfort. And the proper amount of decadence.
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DVF was beautiful as expected. Jennifer Lopez, Barry Diller are here and Andre Leon Talley of course #nyfw
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Twittering Fashion Week Spring 2009
September 6, 2008 in Fashion Week, live blogging, Mobile social networking, New York, New York Fashion Week, NYC Fashion Week, NYC Fashion Week Spring 2009, Spring 2009, Twitter, video, Web 2.0
Tags: blogging, fashion, live blogging, Mobile social networking, photographs, social media, Technology, tweets, Twitter, video, Web 2.0
The joy of tweeting is in full swing this season in Bryant Park and throughout all of Twitterville. Throngs of fashionistas are delivering instantaneous, online, up-to-the minute information on what's going on in the Bing Tent and at other Fashion venues in New York. And nothing, nothing escapes the attention of the beady-eyed twitterers . From long lines to get into certain shows to which model just tripped on the runway, from the fabulous gifts in goodie bags to who got standing room only in the tents, from being drenched by tropical storm Hanna to peeves and praise, information is coming in fast and furious! And exactly who is tweeting merrily away? We have stylists, editors, bloggers, and it girls. Here's a list of twitterers I've found :
Nside L.A.
Nside L. A bills itself as L.A.'s Lifestream, but note that their news comes from NY Mag's own fashion pages The Cut.
A beauty and fashion blog for stylish women of substance by Nichelle
A top celebrity makeup artist in LA & NY, her work has been seen on runways, celebrieis, top magazines and advertising campaigns. Elke is also works on clients on both coasts as a top Eyebrow Speciallist.
Yuli Ziv is the co-founder of http://MyItThings.com, blogger, fashion addict and entrepreneur.
Well done, twitterers! Keep us enthralled!
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Pumpkin Nut BreadFrom THE GRANDISON AT MANEY PARK
3 1/3 cups flour
Mix these six ingredients. Make a well in the mixture, then add:
2 cups pumpkin
Stir carefully, just enough to dampen all the dry ingredients. Pour into three pans, about 7 3/4" by 3 1/2" by 2 3/4". You may use 3 one pound coffee cans to bake the bread. Then you use the plastic lids on the coffee cans to freeze the bread.
Bake at 350 degrees for about one hour, until done.
This original recipe was found in a newspaper about 15 years ago. We were living at another home, and our kids were small and we carved pumpkins for Halloween. We had SO much pumpkin left over, we searched for every recipe that had pumpkin in it, and this was our favorite.


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Tandoori Chicken Salad
By á-174942
- 1/4 cup Sherry wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 2 tablespoons garam masala see * Note
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 4 large skinless boneless chicken breast halves (abt 2 lbs)
- 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce - (lightly packed)
- 4 cups mixed baby greens - (lightly packed)
- 1/2 red onion thinly sliced
- 4 fresh mint sprigs
- Mango Raita (see recipe)
- 4 lime wedges
Servings 4
Step 1
* Note: A spice mixture available at Indian markets and many supermarkets. To substitute, mix 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin with 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander, 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, 1 teaspoon ground cardamom, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
For Cumin Dressing: Whisk Sherry wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, ground cumin, and curry powder to blend in medium bowl. Add olive oil and whisk to blend. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring dressing to room temperature and rewhisk before using.)
For Salad: Whisk yogurt, garam masala, and lemon juice in large bowl to blend. Add chicken breasts; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to 1 day, turning occasionally.
Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Grill chicken until juices run clear when pierced in thickest part, about 10 minutes per side. Place romaine and baby greens in large salad bowl. Add dressing and toss to coat. Divide salad among 4 plates. Top each with sliced red onion, 1 fresh mint sprig, raita, and grilled chicken. Serve with lime wedges.
This recipe yields 4 servings.


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I've been reading some papers from the early 90s about a US Department of Defense software reuse initiative called the Defense Software Reuse System (DSRS). The most recent mention of it I could find was in a paper from 2000 - A Survey of Software Reuse Repositories
Defense Software Repository System (DSRS)
The DSRS is an automated repository for storing and retrieving Reusable Software Assets (RSAs) [14]. The DSRS software now manages inventories of reusable assets at seven software reuse support centers (SRSCs). The DSRS serves as a central collection point for quality RSAs, and facilitates software reuse by offering developers the opportunity to match their requirements with existing software products. DSRS accounts are available for Government employees and contractor personnel currently supporting Government projects...
...The DoD software community is trying to change its software engineering model from its current software cycle to a process-driven, domain-specific, architecture-based, repository-assisted way of constructing software [15]. In this changing environment, the DSRS has the highest potential to become the DoD standard reuse repository because it is the only existing deployed, operational repository with multiple interoperable locations across DoD. Seven DSRS locations support nearly 1,000 users and list nearly 9,000 reusable assets. The DISA DSRS alone lists 3,880 reusable assets and has 400 user accounts...
The far-term strategy of the DSRS is to support a virtual repository. These interconnected repositories will provide the ability to locate and share reusable components across domains and among the services. An effective and evolving DSRS is a central requirement to the success of the DoD software reuse initiative. Evolving DoD repository requirements demand that DISA continue to have an operational DSRS site to support testing in an actual repository operation and to support DoD users. The classification process for the DSRS is a basic technology for providing customer support [16]. This process is the first step in making reusable assets available for implementing the functional and technical migration strategies.
[14] DSRS - Defense Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
URL: http://ssed1.ims.disa.mil/srp/dsrspage.html
[15] STARS - Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
URL: http://www.stars.ballston.paramax.com/index.html
[16] D. E. Perry and S. S. Popovitch, "Inquire: Predicate-based use and reuse,''
in Proceedings of the 8th Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, pp. 144-151, September 1993.
Is DSRS dead, and were there any post-mortem reports on it? Are there other more-recent US government initiatives or reports on software reuse?