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Hi I am from Sydney Australia. The game is currently out of stock everywhere. Is it being reprinted? Will it be better for me to order directly from you guys?
The Viticulture Essential Edition (STM105) is the official (and most robust) version of Viticulture. It contains 154 cards at the 44x67mm size and 78 cards at the 63x88mm size (24 of which are for solo play). The latest printing doesn't have the red seal on the cover.
You can play Viticulture Essential online via Tabletop Simulator or Tabletopia.
About Viticulture
You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you've inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy.
Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There's competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest.
Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany.
Here are full details about the Essential Edition: the official, primary, and best version of Viticulture.
Viticulture Expansions
Tuscany Essential Edition Moor Visitors Visit From The Rhine Valley
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224 Comments on "Viticulture"
Hi! Can I ask a question? In this card: The taster – Discard a wine and get 4 lire. If it is the most valuable wine (without a tie) in all wineries, earn 2 victory points. What is more valuable a red wine of value 9 or a rosé wine of value 8? Thank you very much!
Will Viticulture get a neoprene mat? For Tuscany of course.😊
Hello Jamey,
I received the field and automa cards today, but was missing the mamma and papa cards. Will there be a separate package coming, or should I send another request? Thanks again!
Hi Jamey! I am Joel from Portugal and i just bought the base game of viticulture. I am a bit of a collector when it comes to board games that i love and viticulture (and scythe) is one of them. But, since we lost a bit of content from the old version of tuscany compared to the ee, i am trying to get, at least, the arboriculture and formaggio expansion. I also know that we will have another viticulture expansion for 2021. So, my problem is, is that new expansion related at all with that content that i just mencioned? Because if it is i will try to save the money and wait for the expansion! :)
Thank you so much for your games, those two are just wonderful!
How do I order replacement cards for my Just opened box of Viticulture? My loving child just spilt my beer all over the entire stack of cards I was getting ready to sleeve? 😥
Hello there, I'm new to boardgames and had some trouble choosing the right game to start with, and just wanted to say that I'm really happy with my choice, even tho I have only played solo, and i'm thinking about getting the expansions. And wanted to ask if scythe is a good choice for mainly playing solo? Congrats and stay safe from covid.
Love from Portugal.
We are new at worker placement games. Questions: 1) Do we have to move our workers at each turn, on can they stay on the same place and repeat the action from turn to turn? 2) How does that work if we place more than one worker during a season? Apologies ahead of time for these simple questions but we read the instructions multiple times and could not figure that out.
Hey, I played this for the first time with my wife and sister-in-law this past weekend, and they enjoyed it a lot! EXCEPT they both complained that they had trouble reading the cards. I know some of that (recognizing the symbols for example) will come with experience but it seems to me that a set of larger cards would be greatly appreciated by folks with older eyes and other vision issues. Any chance of offering "full-size" decks of the small cards as an add-on? I'd be happy to pay extra and don't care if they don't fit on the board – they would be very much appreciated!
Bought all expansions — I see the cards does not have marking on them, indicating which one is base, Tuscany, Moor and Rhine. How am I suppose t know which is which? Looks like I am going to have make a list of cards name so I know which one came from. Unless you guys made that list?
hi SteoneMaier team! is it possible to share in PDF file the cards from Tuscany EE expansion? i have the base game in Brazilian Portuguese and my expansion is in english, but my game group doesn't speak english (my parents in law for eemple) they love the game. But can't enjoy the expansion wiht them.
So, i would like to have it to make paste up with the same art of the cards to make a paste up in PT_BR to easily play with them :)
thank all for this and others incredible games that you made and i love.
Since this game has "Essential Edition" printed on the box, does that mean I don't need to get that Essential Upgrade Pack?
Sorry if this question is here and I just didn't see it…If we have Viticulture Essential, Tuscany Essential and Visit from The Rhine Valley do we need Moor Visitors too?
Hey guys,
I would really like to get the Arboriculture & Formaggio prints but the site does not offer shipping in Canada. Is there another alternative for me to get them?
I had this game ALL WRONG! This game climbed my list so far over the last few weeks. I had a horrible experience with this game about 3 years ago. let's just say I spent 3 hours with 2 other people trying to play/learn this game from a person that shouldn't have been tasked with teaching the game. From that experience I had no desire to play this game again. A few months back I noticed the Essential Edition was put out that fixed a couple problems that I was aware of along with a solo mode for a reasonable price, so I picked it up, and boy am I glad I did. After playing through the solo mode a few times and getting the hang of the game. I decided to give this game a whirl with my wife and daughter. All they want to do is play this game now. We have played 10+ times with the 3 of us in the last couple of weeks and still every game feels and ends differently with all of us realizing different ways to win. If you ever had any doubts about this game, I can't recommend it enough to give the Essential Edition a second look. The replay ability is rare in other worker placement games of this weight. The game feels well balanced and there are different paths to victory, Once everyone in your group understands how to play; Viticulture is a surprisingly quick game to play given the amount of decisions that are left to you to make. Every other (what I would call) medium weight worker placement game that I could compare Viticulture to starts to feel the same after the 3rd or 4th play, however, the experience I get from Viticulture is at a level of it's own! Thank you Jamey & everyone with Stonemaier Games for #1 creating this game and #2 putting out the Essential Edition!
Side note If you want to teach this game. I was determined not to ruin it for my family so I did it like this and it worked well. First, play solo a few times if you have never played (no joke takes 15 minutes by the 3rd time you play). I took 10 minutes to explain the game by going through each season and talking about each of the cards,rules,and structures as I got to them. I told them upfront, don't get hung up on any one thing. We then played 3 practice years (pretty much no move was a wrong move) not allowing anyone to get more workers or purchase a cottage (which would make the practice rounds longer). Then reset the game and start it up. To be fair, Explaining the game and the practice rounds combined took just over 30 minutes, but I can tell you from experience, the outcome was much better than stumbling through an elongated 2-3 hour game that somebody at the table doesn't understand until 3/4 of the way through when it's to late.
How do I obtain visitor card during the game?
Just bought a copy of viticulture essential edition and when I opened it noticed the board was damaged. Any way ri get a new board for ot?
Hi… by any chance, are the color codes available for Viti's 6 colors?
Two quick questions:
When playing with Arboriculture, does playing Mama Grande also make the workers unhappy?
When playing with an Apprentice and Mama Grande, can Mama Grande be played as a bonus when the Apprentice is played?
Thanks in advance.
Are there plans to include Visit from the Rhine Valley expansion in Tabletop simulator Viticulture DLC? I have hard copy of it and it's shame that I cannot play it over TTS.
I've seen that there is community additions in workshop for scraped Tuscany modules, and Visits from the Rhine Valley could be easily added in same way. It is only two deck of cards that would make many people happy in this 'interesting' times.
Hi! Are there any plans to make the two expansions Arboriculture & Formaggio available in a non-print-and-play format? What I have read of these two sound like they would be fun additions to the game. Seems a shame that they are not being printed and sold…
I finally got Viticulture to the table with 3 other players and the Tuscany Essential Edition. It was great and I loved having the 4 seasons board to take actions on, the orange structure deck, and the mama's and papa's workers. Those were fantastic updates to the original game!
One question we ran into and I was not able to find a rulebook ruling…on the buy/sell and field action in the Summer we could not figure out how much to buy or sell a field for. I think there are some cards to place over a sold field but I do not have those as far as I can tell. I looked on forums and struggled to find a clear ruling. Am I missing something in the Tuscany Rules or perhaps an expansion piece I need?
I came here to ask about the difference between the many editions of the game, which your link above took care of. Sweet, thanks.
Hi Jamey and all, Thank you for this great masterpiece. Thoroughly enjoy V:EE. and now I would like to explore more with T:EE. I have found a T:EE listing in Amazon AU.. but I ma not sure if it is legit. This is the link: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B00NY8ANP2/ref=pe_6989162_368369262_em_1p_2_ti would you please check if it is a legit copy of T:EE? Many thanks
Is the Aboriculture Expansion included in this chart?
Hi, it shows out of stock on Amazon. Is that just temporary? Thank you.
Had a quick question, I have viticulture 2.0 and Tuscany Essential Edition + the two expansions in order to have everything all proper. Do I need the stickers? Also the I don't need the viticulture upgrade box because it is included in the Tuscany Essential Edition? I'm just a bit confused and any clarification would be great.
Is it possible to get a replacement piece? I got this game for my husband and before our first game his friends kid managed to grab and lose one of the pieces! I'm so bummed cause we love the game and it's my favorite color. Not essential but still a bummer.
Hey Jamey! Any word on iOS? Hope you're well!
I just got the print and play for Arboriculture and I can't tell from the rules how to sell apples, what you get for them or how they benefit you. Thanks
I just noticed on a Meeple Source kickstarter that there is a second set of special worker cards available. They said specifically that these are available through Stonemaier Games. Are these cards available through this website or was this some kind of limited promotion? Thanks
Hello everyone!
First of all a bit of context. I'm playing campaign mode with a friend. The modality we play is the agressive variant (normal difficulty) on the Tuscany board with the 3 expansions (special workers, structures and influence map). So far we have exceeded the first 3 levels. The next level of the campaign says we have to start with – 5 points. Since we are playing the aggressive variant we have to get those 5 points during the first year to not lose the game (automa starts at -1 point in the first year). After thinking for a while we have found a way to get it. The way is the following:
We have to wake up in row 6 to get 1 point.
We do not place workers
We put a worker in the trade box to get a point in exchange for money or cards (What we should have of Papas or Mamas cards).
We put the next worker in the flip box to sell a piece of land and get a point.
We put the big worker in the same box to buy a piece of land and get a point and use the bonus grape to get an extra point.
With this we get 5 points but for this it is necessary that no automa worker is placed in any of these two positions during the summer, but this happens in 11 of the 24 automa cards.
So here are the questions.
Are we missunderstanding something ?
Are this level compatible with the agressive variant?
Thanks in advance!!
Hello Jose
The campaign in Viticulture: Essential Edition is not intended to be played with the aggressive variant. The issue you point out is one of the reasons for this.
On a related note, the campaign is made for Viti EE and is not intended to be played with Tuscany.
If you want scenarios like those in the campaign to play with Tuscany, I've made two that you can find here:
– Morten
Thanks for the answer!
I forgot to mention that both viticulture and Tuscany are EE. I should suppose that the answer will be the same right?
Yup. The campaign is intended only for Viti EE, not for Tuscany (EE or original) – nor for Viti 1st and 2nd edition.
Hi there, quick question. I bought Viticulture thru Amazon because it seemed Stonemeier games were selling it. I paid for it so it would just be shipped when ready. It says pending because not available but I don't see anything on this site to say when it's available. A friend of mine said they looked also and it appears that you can buy it now on this site. So my question is. Is it available to buy? Should I cancel my Amazon order since they don't have it? I've checked the newsletter and saw nothing at all that I could find about it. I know when O originally went to purchased it on this site it said sold out. I'm so confused
Hello there,
We are from the UK and are looking to purchase a copy of Viticulture (essential edition) but to no avail. Would more copies of the game be released soon?
Best wishes
Thank you
We Have had several arguments in the game that we cannot resolve and it's hanging over our heads. Can you help with these 2 issues?
1. When we are to take blue/ yellow visitors cards between spring and fall, do we take them whoever grabs them 1st or is there an orderly way to do it.? Whoever is 1st player takes the 1st card, then 2nd player 2nd card etc.
2. If you have the yoke purchased, and you've already placed the little worker there, can you also place your big worker there?
Are there plans for an EE Big Box? Would love to purchase both the base EE with the Tuscany.
I need a little help, as well, figuring out what exactly I have and what I need to round out my copy of Viticulture.
I definitely have Viticulture Essential and with credit earned at my FLGS auction, I purchased the Moor Visitors expansion. Do I only need Tuscany Essential and the Visit from the Rhine Valley to max level up my copy for maximum VC enjoyment? I just wasn't sure if there is something duplicated along the lines of what I have and intend on picking up.
…and thanks for making such great games that my, not as prone to game with me, wife even enjoys playing (
I love your realistic resource tokens- I use them in most of my games… but I am wondering if you're ever going to come out with an upgrade pack for Viticulture? It would be buildings instead of resources, but that would be so cool…. and your tokens are the BEST!
Can you please help me identify which version of Viticulture I own, and how to update it to the current version? It is not the Essentials Edition, it DOES have the Grande worker, but does NOT have the sell a field mechanic the rules, nor the cards for fields nor for Mamas/Papas. Is there a way to update the game rather than buy a new one? I heard something about an out of print update pack from my local game store. Was thinking to buy Tuscany but that is only available in Essentials now, without mamas/papas etc.
Hey Jamey,
would you like to talk about the new Visitors for Viticulture, what's new from the Rhine?
Is there a visible feature to differentiate the new one from the standard and first expansion visitors?
Can I reset the game easily back to the original state?
Hello! First of all thanks for a great game!
There´s only one issue which "bugs" me a little; it´s about picking up the grape cards; Is there a way to make this process a little less "luck influenced"? I appreciate theme in boardgames and this game has tons of it, but, in real life, if I wanted to plant grapes, I would know exactly what type of grape. In BBG there is a suggestion to separate red and white cards so at least you can choose. Can that be done without messing around with the game?
I´m totally OK with the visitors being random, you never really know who´s visiting so I thing that´s perfect the way it is.
With regards to the orders cards, could it be possible to have say 3 cards out in the open so one can actually choose an order? Once a card is taken, another card is put in its place. The aim is once again to enhance theme…
You're welcome. Last one, which is also minor and similar to the structure mentioned above.
Viticulture Automa.
"At the beginning of each season where you are to place workers, first draw 1 Automa card from the deck. Then place either 0, 1, 2, or 3 Automa workers on action spaces on the board in the current season as indicated on the Automa card. "
Suggested fix:
"When you are to place workers draw 1 Automa card from the deck. This show's where to place Automa workers. Place Automa workers on the board at the indicated action spaces, but only for the current season. This may result in 0 to 3 Automa workers being placed."
Yes it is mentioned in Summer and Winter, but the first time we played I forgot and flicked back to the worker placement section for a reference when placing our first worker and it was not there. I though we were not alone as I seen it asked in the frequently asked question (How many workers can I place during my turn?). Maybe that was just a filler question. Anyway, another guideline in "The Elements of Style" is putting the important information, or the purpose, of the sentence at the start unless you are going for a drama. The following failed on this:
"All information on a player's vineyard mat as well as available workers, amount of lira, and number and type of cards is public informaiton and cannot be concealed."
After "All information" you are making the reader wait to find out what the purpose of this sentence is until "type of cards". I suggest the follow t fix this, or should I say To fix this I sugget the following:
"The following information is public information and cannot be concealed: a player's vineyard mat as well as available workers, amount of lira, and number and type of cards."
Typo on that last rule :) It should say
# In a 3-6 player game more spaces are available for each action. You may place a worker on any unoccupied action space, even if you placed a worker on that action zone during a previous turn.
I just got Viticulture Essentials the other day. It's our favorite game now. In hindsight the rules are perfect but the WORDING of one the Worker Placement rules in Viticulture Essentials caused a big problem for my wife and I before our first play. If you are ever going to make another run I made a suggestion below. Before that I'd like to say that Viticulture feels wonderful to play. I rate it as a 9.5, but I rated as 10 on BGG as it wont allow a 9.5, so it's my first 10 rated game on BGG. It is very different to most games we have played, it has so many mini-achievement moments per round/year. The mechanics matched with the theme also really draws you so much that you can sometimes forget about the reputation points, and just be happy planting, crushing, and making wine. Of course I do pull myself back and get those points big points by filling orders, the first game was 14-25 to me, second 11-26 to me, and on my third game I played against the automa on hard mode with the aggressive variant and won with 23 points. I am going pack my backs and move my family to Italy as I obviously have a calling for winemaking, but first I have to find a Mama and Papa to help with the initial funding.
The wording that cause a problem was:
"A player may place multiple workers on the same action in subsequent turns if there are open action spaces."
We read the 2000+ word (maybe more) of the rule book and everything seemed understandable but when we went to place the first worker, we thought better double check just in case. The Worker Placement section doesn't say anything about just placing 1 worker, but it does say you may place multiple in some confusing way. (I did re-read the book after our game and it does mention 1 worker in other sections but not the worker placement text). Eventually we solved it but it delay things by about 20 minutes, we still didn't understand that line, we solved it by ignoring it. Then half way through the game I got the meaning of that line. It mean's with a 3+ player game there are extra (open) action spaces. We were reading the rules with a 2 player mindset and there was no indication on that rule that is a variant rule based on player count. Plus if you are reading the text first time, the Worker Placement are before the part that explains scaling the game. And when you read 2000+ words the first time without playing you only get a gist, all the words don't get stored in long term memory. I made the decision when starting the game that placing multiple workers would destroy the balance, so we went with placing 1 worker (as I found out later is the case) and the game was great. When I re-read the book after our first play it all went to long term memory and in others parts of the rule book (not he worker placement rules) it does say place 1 worker. But that "place multiple workers" was so jarring it made us think maybe this is a unique mechanic of Viticulture, as in you can place multiple workers. The subsequent turns and open action spaces made that sentence SEEM like a contradicting puzzle. Can 1 player have subsequent turns so they can place multiple workers, and then the next player have subsequent turns. I could not get over that it says you can place multiple workers, and if you go first placing multiple workers there will always be open spaces. I know now it refers to a 3+ player game now, and maybe this rule is why your FAQ for Viticulture has "How many workers can I place during my turn?", because that is not in the Worker Placement section, that is excluded and replaced with "place multiple workers".
Many writers including Stephen King recommend "The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White", which is only 85 pages and it says to omit needless words and make sentences short if you can. Sometimes you need to turn 1 sentence into 2 or more to make it clearer. Clarity tops 1 sentence it says. You're writing on the blog and 99% of the rules in Viticulture are easy to understand, and you do a fantastic job on that and that confusing sentences does make perfect sense on hindsight after playing the game. But if you want to eliminate this confusion on the most important part and make it easier for people new to Viticulture to get it first time I would suggest changing that sentence to the following 2 sentences/rules:
# Place 1 worker per turn on any available action space, or pass until the next season.
# In a 3-6 player game more spaces are available for each action. You may place a worker on an available space even if you placed one on that action in a previous round.
This was a major one, I did find only 2 other minor ones in the rule book. If you'd like me to take the time to write about them let me know and I will. If you don't that is also fine as it will save me time. I am happy to help as you help so many with your articles.
Hi Jamey,
With all the Tuscany cards, I have kind of lost track of which visitor cards I should/shouldn't use. Is there a definitive list? Can I/should I try to map to what is in the Essential Edition?
Also, is there a list of cards that can/should be pulled out for solo play (some cards are obviously for playing with other people).
Finally, do you folks sell the misprint stickers?
Thanks — love your games.
I love this game but don't always have someone to play with. Any word on an app for iPad? I thought I saw it was in the making/being planned for so I became an ambassador to hopefully test it. Now I don't see that anymore.
french version of viticulture EE and tuscany EE
Hi Hi, a week ago I put a diamond ring inside the bowl full of wine tokens; and when my girlfriend asked for her first token I took the bowl, got down on one knee and proposed! She said "Yes!" (btw); then pretended to grab for a wine token instead of the ring, lol.
Thanks so much for bringing such a fun game into our lives; we both love board games and I couldn't have chosen a better game to propose with :)
Jamey, I wanted to thank you and your staff for the outstanding customer service your team provided. I was so excited for Viticulture Essential Edition to arrive that when I found pieces missing I was disappointed. But! After submitting a ticket to replace the pieces, and 8 patient days, I am happy to report I now have a complete inventory. Thank you again!
Regarding Tabletop simulator DLC. Can we expect a Tuscany expansion to be available soon?
Are there likely to be any more expansions? Can't play this game enough! It is so good and thematically rich (although I do drink trappist beer instead of wine while playing)
Phil: Probably not, though I'm open to the possibility. Have you played with the Tuscany expansion and Moor visitors?
Yes I have the collectors edition V&T, Moor visitors and the extra worker cards and love this game so much. Also play with the dystopian cards every time. We have a lot of games but since we got the game 2 years ago we hardly play any other games as this is so much more enjoyable than any other game out there (that we've tried). Would so love it if there was more coming – I'd be first in the queue to buy it! We've even tried 2 play with both arboriculture and formaggio to make it feel like we have another expansion!
It seems that the card sizes on this page (https://stonemaiergames.com/games/viticulture/) do not match the card sizes on this page (https://stonemaiergames.com/games/viticulture/essential-edition/) which is quite confusing.
Jamey, is there any place to get replacement worker meeples? It looks like I lost one of the orange workers (my favorite color!) and I'd like to replace it so we can play with 6 players. Still love this game after 2 years of playing it; one of my all-time favorites!
Question! I like to get EVERYTHING but I am seeing that there will be overlap if I get the Essentials Edition and Tuscany, meaning duplicates of expansions. I am willing to do that if the Tuscany Lite will not split the difference. My question is, will the Tuscany Lite, combined with Essential Edition, give you all the components as if you purchased the 2nd Edition and Tuscany? Will some modules be missing if done this way? If so, I will just buy the Essential Edition and Tuscany now. Thank you for taking the time to answer questions!
Hi, just opened the Essential Edition box, watched a couple of solo videos – one has three cards outlining difficulty of the Automa player – these cards are not in my box.
Noticed US and now Canadian pre-orders are available. Any word on if there will Australian based pre-orders?
Can I use the Tuscany expansion with this Essentials version of Viticulture?
Which company will be publishing in german?
Hi Jamey
Great Game!
Any news about the planned german version? Release Window? Publisher?
Thx for a quick update.
You guys should make this game playable on Steam! Would be great for when I travel and take my laptop with me.
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Is there a lot of text-based understanding going on in the game or does it function with a low grasp of english? Considering this as a present for my mum and step-dad, the latter of whom speaks english well and could translate in a pinch.
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Thank you. I spent some time blowing up photos on boardgamegeek trying to find the location, but did not look on the faq. Duh. Oh, there's my corkscrew.
I just received Tuscany. I already had the First Edition Viticulture. Where, exactly, are the update stickers supposed to go on the original Viticulture? And by where, I mean on which board (I presume the crush pads) and where on that board?
I really enjoyed the original Viticulture and am looking forward to playing Tuscany. Now where did I put my corkscrew?
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Hi Jamey, I've just received my copy of Tuscany + Viticulture since i am an early backer…and components are really amazing!! The table of Tuscany is the best I have ever played with and cards are really refined..especially Mamas and Papas ones…Really a great job! Now i can't wait to play it with my wife :-). Greetings from Italy!
Hi. I received the game from a pre-order on your website a while back and it's quickly becoming a favorite to play with other couples! I was wondering if you knew were we could get different colored glass stones for the red/blush/sparking wines. The ones I can find from the game, craftstores and on-line are all a bit big. Does where you got your smaller clear stones carry that size in different colors? I can't wait for the Tuscany expansion to come out too!
Is their a chance to get this game complete in a german version? I ask you because i know that "Euphoria" now is in a complete german version available, so i hope that the same will happen with viticulture and tuscany.
Thats a good explanation why I should play with the Grande worker :) Thats why you design games and I just play them :)
Hai Jamey, another comment from me :)
Played my third 2 player game, this time without the Grande worker. I know that in the 1st edition there wasnt a grande worker. I read/ watched some reviews and some of them mentioned that they found the game to tight or something (for example rahdos runthrough of the 1st edition). So I was curious if that was the case.
I must say, I really liked it. I find that the game becomes more tactical, especially the first player spot. You really want to take the first spot because you want youre plan to work that round. With the Grande worker I could always take a lower spot because I had the Grande as a backup plan. Without the Grande for example I bought the Yoke earlier in the game so I could always harvest.
Maybe you should include in the rules that for a more expert game the players could use the rule to play without the Grande worker?
But im no expert, you designed the game :) What do you think?
Played a 2 player game two times. Really really like it, and the friend I played it with liked it also. Scoring was so close both times, with just 1 vp difference. I Like how you can score vp not only with filling wine orders but also with buildings and the specials cards. Sometimes you are a bit unlucky with low vine cards but then you get a real good visitor card and score some vp quickly :)
The second time we played we went for more workers in the beginning, but we noticed thats not always helpfull because the available spots are so tight and if youre blocked from a spot that you really need (and the grande worker is already used) then you got no use for those extra workers.
Now its time to play it with more players, looking forward to that. Now i am extra curious for the Tuscany expansion :)
Hey Jamey, the measurements are what you said. Its just smaller than my other game boxes, i like it :)
Hey Jamey, just received the 2nd edition! What a neat box, so small :) Just ordered it last week from your site and delivery from fed-ex was quick.
Cant wait to play it.
Thank you for such a quick respond. Just a quick extra question. Is it smart to buy the expansion pack with the nromal game. Or should I wait and first and get to know Viticulture itself, and then buy the expansion(as I am sure that I will like this game)?
Is the second edition any better then the first one? Do I need the second one or the first one? Or both? and does it takes extra money if you live in europe.
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this game looks fun. great idea for a game. would love to see this as an online game too, but i do love in-person games.
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Oops. Check the second line of text on this page. It refers to a different game! Hoping to buy Vit when I'm reemployed.


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Jennifer Aniston's Living Proof Advertisement
Jennifer Aniston on Why "Hair Is a Big Deal"
Between being named the new face of Aveeno, becoming co-owner of Living Proof, and also having time for a day job, acting, Jennifer Aniston is one busy woman. As her ad campaign for Living Proof starts to make its debut (shown above) in the March issues of magazines at newsagents now, Jennifer gets candid about the importance of a good hair day.
"For me and a lot of girls, hair is a big deal," she told WWD. "There are a lot of greater trials of the world, but ask any girl — it's one of those boxes you check off. If that means having a better hair day, that goes a long way." Considering Jennifer's hair has been a hot topic since her Rachel days on Friends, partnering with a brand devoted to good hair makes a lot of sense. Keep reading . . .
"When I'm into something, I love sharing it with other people," she said. "I'd be talking about this even if I wasn't involved, because for me and a lot of girls, [hair] is a big deal." This was the exact reason she also got her long-time stylist and friend Chris McMillan on board with Living Proof, too. He styled her hair for the shoot and is now also the brand's official celebrity stylist.
But what made her such a believer? "With some products you can put it in your hair for a week and it will look fantastic," she said. "And then it starts shooting you in the foot. Or your hair looks greasy the next day from silicone or something you don't even know is in there. This still performed over a three-month period on a movie set, where your hair gets a lot of wear and tear."
As for her acting career, Jennifer is currently filming a project in Greenwich, CT, which she referred to as a '70s prequel to the movie Jackie Brown. And she's also signed on for a new movie, She's Funny That Way, with Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Cybill Shepherd. While she has plenty of acting projects for now, Jennifer hopes to make waves as a director, too. "Absolutely, that is 100 percent in my future," she said.


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Dexcom just wrote that they are sending me a new starter kit (which includes receiver and transmitter) as my old one is a year old and is not covered by warranty. My question is, what do you friends do with the old one when you get the new. My present one is in perfect working order.
I don't order a new one until the old one stops working. They usually last 18 months.
Keep the old one as a spare in case of breakage and while awaiting a new component.
Dexcom said warranty stops at 1 year. The new one came yesterday. I do not intend to start using it as nothing is wrong with what i have at present. I bet there are millions of diabetics who need this piece of equipment but who cant afford/get it. Here am i with 3 boxes of the consumable and a new starter kit.
I just got a new one this week, my old Dexcom was 3 or 4 years old! I'd suggest you look for a place to donate the old one. Alternatively hang on to it because you'll have a backup charger cable for work.
I'd hoped this model would have some changes, the only one was the software went from 7.0.8 to. 7.0.9. I look forward to the new Dexcom model whenever that arrives.
I just spent over $1500 for a new Dexcom after my old one quit working. I wish for that $1500 Dexcom would have made some significant changes like allowing people to take Tylenol without frying the sensors. My old Dexcom was almost 2 years old.
I was offered a new unit about 1 month ago and I declined.. Here's why.
- My original Unit was sent to me March 2011 and was replaced under warranty in December 2011. When the Pumps-It rep called me to tell me to get a new one I first asked what is different about the new one. "Nothing" I then said that my unit was replaced under warranty in December, shouldn't that unit be under warranty for 1 year? Answer " No the warranty id only for the original unit for 1 year!"
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard! They just want to keep taking advantage of those of us who have either the $ to pay for these units or the Insurance that will pay for these units and replace them unnecessarily.
With all do respect to those who have more than one unit, why in the world would you need it? Once your unit goes out your insurance will pick up another one.. This overselling and taking advantage of good insurance plans only supports the outrageous cost associated to having these units. Thus those that have lesser insurance plans will continue not to cover these devices based upon the exuberant costs.
Lastly (before I hop off my soap box) I nailed Pumps it about charging over Dexicom's listed MSRP to my insurance company for the sensors. Again trying to maximize their profits at the cost of my insurance.
These devices are great IMO and I'm fortunate enough to have a good insurance and the means to pay for these types of items. That said, there are others likely in more need of such a device than I am so lets help those less fortunate out. Doesn't mean you have to give them yours, but reducing the costs associated to such care will ultimately make it more pallatable for lesser levels of Health insurance to start approving it.
I travel a lot. I always have 2 as well as 2 PDM's for my Omnipod. I started this when we went abroad for vacation.
Thanks for taking time out to write your thought. My situation is somewhat similar to yours; I got a replacement around Sept 2011 and now i have a new unit. I now know better and will refuse a new one when they come pandering next year. Thank you.


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Whenever I read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, I can't help wondering how that last sentence would have ended, had Jefferson not been such a passionate gourmet.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Enjoy the Fourth of July weekend, and all that you pursue.
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openct_selinuxSection: openct SELinux Policy documentation (8)
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NAMEopenct_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the openct processes
SELinux Linux secures openct (Service for handling smart card readers) processes via flexible mandatory access control.
FILE CONTEXTSSELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type.
You can see the context of a file using the -Z option to lsP Policy governs the access confined processes have to these files. SELinux openct policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their openct processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following file types are defined for openct:
- Set files with the openct_exec_t type, if you want to transition an executable to the openct_t domain.
- Paths:
/usr/sbin/ifdhandler, /usr/sbin/openct-control
- Set files with the openct_var_run_t type, if you want to store the openct files under the /run directory.
Note: File context can be temporarily modified with the chcon command. If you want to permanently change the file context you need to use the semanage fcontext command. This will modify the SELinux labeling database. You will need to use restorecon to apply the labels.
PROCESS TYPESSELinux defines process types (domains) for each process running on the system
You can see the context of a process using the -Z option to psP Policy governs the access confined processes have to files. SELinux openct policy is very flexible allowing users to setup their openct processes in as secure a method as possible.
The following process types are defined for openct:
Note: semanage permissive -a PROCESS_TYPE can be used to make a process type permissive. Permissive process types are not denied access by SELinux. AVC messages will still be generated.
COMMANDSsemanage fcontext can also be used to manipulate default file context mappings.
semanage permissive can also be used to manipulate whether or not a process type is permissive.
semanage module can also be used to enable/disable/install/remove policy modules.
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.
AUTHORThis manual page was autogenerated by genman.py.
SEE ALSOselinux(8), openct(8), semanage(8), restorecon(8), chcon(1)
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After Google released its unified policy changes, many who do not want advertisers to know everything about their habits are seeking ways to keep pesky advertisers from targeting them with ads. Here are a few ways to keep your online experience free from the annoyance of targeted ads.
Tor is a great way to hide your browsing from anyone who is looking. Tor protects you from network surveillance and anyone trying to jump in on your online privacy. People use it to protect their personal privacy, business activities, relationships, and to keep people from watching which sites they view. An alternative is joining Privacy Choice.
VPN's are great to keep your online business private. Whether you are checking your bank account, or participating in an online protest, your ISPs can't track where you're going or what you're doing. They hide your IP address and provide a strong layer of identity protection, making it harder for people to follow you. Combine this with creating an alternate online identity, and you will be as safe as it gets. Using Tor in conjunction with BolehVPN improves security greatly, and is an excellent way of protecting your privacy.
Using extensions (such as ad-block) not only keeps ads off your browsing experience, but it can also keep advertisers from snooping in on you. Google has had a history of adding several of these to Chrome, but there is a relatively newer extension that is fundamentally different than the rest. Keep My Opt-Outs is just that: a way to opt out of user specific advertising. It sort of works like a "do not call list" for internet users, and hopes to work just as well. We'll have to wait and see how well it delivers, as companies are not required to adhere to any standard of ad-tracking yet. AVG also offers a "Do Not Track" feature as well.
Ghostery is an interesting and simple tool to let you know who is tracking you, and allowing you to block them in return. It sees invisible web-tags and bugs, and gives you a roll-call of the ad-networks. You can choose to block or ignore these, making it a more straightforward approach to the problem. It can't get simpler than this.


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AES San Francisco 2012
Paper Session P14
P14 - Spatial Audio Over Headphones
Sunday, October 28, 9:00 am — 11:30 am (Room 121)
David McGrath, Dolby Australia - McMahons Point, NSW, Australia
P14-1 Preferred Spatial Post-Processing of Popular Stereophonic Music for Headphone Reproduction—Ella Manor, The University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; William L. Martens, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; Densil A. Cabrera, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia
The spatial imagery experienced when listening to conventional stereophonic music via headphones is considerably different from that experienced in loudspeaker reproduction. While the difference might be reduced when stereophonic program material is spatially processed in order to simulate loudspeaker crosstalk for headphone reproduction, previous listening tests have shown that such processing typically produces results that are not preferred by listeners in comparisons with the original (unprocessed) version of a music program. In this study a double blind test was conducted in which listeners compared five versions of eight programs from a variety of music genres and gave both preference ratings and ensemble stage width (ESW) ratings. Out of four alternative postprocessing algorithms, the outputs that were most preferred resulted from a nearfield crosstalk simulation mimicking low-frequency interaural level differences typical for close-range sources.
Convention Paper 8779 (Purchase now)
P14-2 Interactive 3-D Audio: Enhancing Awareness of Details in Immersive Soundscapes?—Mikkel Schmidt, Technical University of Denmark - Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; Stephen Schwartz, SoundTales - Helsingør, Denmark; Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark - Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Spatial audio and the possibility of interacting with the audio environment is thought to increase listeners' attention to details in a soundscape. This work examines if interactive 3-D audio enhances listeners' ability to recall details in a soundscape. Nine different soundscapes were constructed and presented in either mono, stereo, 3-D, or interactive 3-D, and performance was evaluated by asking factual questions about details in the audio. Results show that spatial cues can increase attention to background sounds while reducing attention to narrated text, indicating that spatial audio can be constructed to guide listeners' attention.
Convention Paper 8780 (Purchase now)
P14-3 Simulating Autophony with Auralized Oral-Binaural Room Impulse Responses—Manuj Yadav, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; Luis Miranda, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; Densil A. Cabrera, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; William L. Martens, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia
This paper presents a method for simulating the sound that one hears from one's own voice in a room acoustic environment. Impulse responses from the mouth to the two ears of the same head are auralized within a computer-modeled room in ODEON; using higher-order ambisonics for modeling the directivity pattern of an anthropomorphic head and torso. These binaural room impulse responses, which can be measured for all possible head movements, are input into a mixed-reality room acoustic simulation system for talking-listeners. With the system, "presence" in a room environment different from the one in which one is physically present is created in real-time for voice related tasks.
Convention Paper 8781 (Purchase now)
P14-4 Head-Tracking Techniques for Virtual Acoustics Applications—Wolfgang Hess, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS - Erlangen, Germany
Synthesis of auditory virtual scenes often requires the use of a head-tracker. Virtual sound fields benefit from continuous adaptation to a listener's position while presented through headphones or loudspeakers. For this task position- and time-accurate, continuous robust capturing of the position of the listener's outer ears is necessary. Current head-tracker technologies allow solving this task by cheap and reliable electronic techniques. Environmental conditions have to be considered to find an optimal tracking solution for each surrounding and for each field of application. A categorization of head-tracking systems is presented. Inside-out describes tracking stationary sensors from inside a scene, whereas outside-in is the term for capturing from outside a scene. Marker-based and marker-less approaches are described and evaluated by means of commercially available products, e.g., the MS Kinect, and proprietary developed systems.
Convention Paper 8782 (Purchase now)
P14-5 Scalable Binaural Synthesis on Mobile Devices—Christian Sander, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, Germany; Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, Germany; Frank Wefers, RWTH Aachen University - Aachen, Germany; Dieter Leckschat, University of Applied Science Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, Germany
The binaural reproduction of sound sources through headphones in mobile applications is becoming a promising opportunity to create an immersive three-dimensional listening experience without the need for extensive equipment. Many ideas for outstanding applications in teleconferencing, multichannel rendering for headphones, gaming, or auditory interfaces implementing binaural audio have been proposed. However, the diversity of applications calls for scalability of quality and performance costs so as to use and share hardware resources economically. For this approach, scalable real-time binaural synthesis on mobile platforms was developed and implemented in a test application in order to evaluate what current mobile devices are capable of in terms of binaural technology, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In addition, the audio part of three application scenarios was simulated.
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Student strike against tuition hike #4
good synopsis of last night's student demonstration...
[url=http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/semantic-strike/10652]Fifteen thousand take to Montreal streets as Quebec government plays semantics, blocks negotiations[/url]
At the end of a day where 15,000 people took to the streets, a day that saw the provincial government play the worst kind of politics during negotiations with student representatives, you'd be hard pressed to get any of that from the night's headlines.
Also invisible from those opening lines are any mention of police actions. Actions which, if you were watching the live stream from CUTV, checking out clips on Youtube, or even following nearly any twitter feed (let alone if you were actually at the protest), did more to set off tensions than anything protesters did tonight.
The government is now refusing to meet with representatives of CLASSE in any way, including as part of the FEUQ/FECQ delegations. Presumably, they're settling in for the long haul.
CLASSE will organize a demo in Montréal every evening at 8:30 pm until at least May 4.
Last night I had RDI on parallel to the CUTV stream, and couldn't help but notice that RDI was pirating the CUTV feed throughout much of the night to get live updates. I really hope they're paying CUTV for the use of their footage, as CUTV made repeated financial appeals throughout the stream reminding people of how expensive live coverage like that is.
It looks like [url=http://mediatv.divertissement.sympatico.ca/2012/04/cutv.html]they didn't get advance permission, but contacted them today to offer to pay for the footage[/url]. TVA is still refusing to return their calls. There will not be a live stream tonight.
This evening's demonstration has already been declared "illegal" by the fascist pigs. This has become standard operating practice.
[url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Government+strategy+tatters/6527100/...'s strategy is in tatters[/url]
Chile to Raise Corporate Taxes as Students Reignite Protests
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera will raise corporate taxes to fund education as he looks to head off a repeat of last year's students protests that shuttered schools and led to weekly confrontations with police.
The government will increase the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 18.5 percent, while reducing income taxes and the stamp duty on loans, Pinera said in a televised address to the nation last night. The state will also cut fuel costs through a sliding tax rate and increase taxes on hard liquor. The measures will raise as much as $1 billion a year, Pinera said.
The government decided to overhaul the tax system after students led seven months of demonstrations last year to pressure authorities to increase spending on education. Protests resumed this week with at least 48,000 students marching through Santiago, the biggest demonstration in seven months, according to police estimates.....
Proposal for a Social Strike this May 1st and 15th
We've been discussing a social strike for some time now and it's high time that we translate words into actions. The fight against the tuition hike is not a question of nickels and dimes; it's a struggle that is calling for a radical transformation of society. A transformation that rejects the austerity politics of the current government. Health tax, tuition fee increases, increases in rents and electricity fees, restrictions on the right to strike, the pillage of natural resources, and failure to respect the rights of aboriginal peoples…
In the face of such social attacks, there is only one possible response: social strike!
A social strike is the simultaneous strike of all workers and all actors in a society, whether salaried or not. It's an opportunity not only to demonstrate general discontent with government policies, but also to attack directly the only thing that the government seems to hold dear: business as usual. Thus we urge all of civil society to join the student movement in days of mass general protests.
This call for a social strike is made in the broad spirit of protest against the neoliberal policies that are being imposed on us.
Many student associations, unions and social groups have already taken positions in this direction.
Yesterday, the students in the faculty of social sciences at UQAM (AFESH-UQAM) called for days of social strike and economic disruption this May 1st and 15th.
So we invite you to adopt a similar position and to begin meetings and negotiations with unions and community groups in your area to broaden this event and to maximize its impact.
At the end of this message we have included the wording of the proposal that the AFESH-UQAM
adopted and we ask you to adopt it in turn.
In solidarity,
Profs contre la hausse (Profs against the hike)
Enough is enough! Social strike!
Proposal for a Social Strike (by AFESH-UQAM)
Whereas the student strike movement has reached a historic magnitude and the obstinacy of the ruling political class is equally historic in its refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of student demands,
Whereas the student strike movement aspires in its struggle to a radical social transformation and as such goes beyond mere corporatist interests,
Whereas the hike in tuition fees represents only one aspect of a much large plan of austerity measures aimed at privatizing a growing number of social spheres and bearing in mind the related or connected issues of the health tax, the hike in electricity fees and the hike in cost of rents,
Noting the climate of anti-unionism aided by the relentlessness and mediocrity of many politicians and leaders, which is expressed through widespread lock-outs, restrictions on the right to strike and the tacit support of strike breakers,
Noting further that it is a matter of utmost urgency that we step up the strike movement in the face of government inaction and that the student movement has the potential to act as a catalyst for other social struggles, (your student association) calls for a social strike for May 1st and 15th of this year, so that these dates become days of general social strike and economic disruption;
Given that the organization of this social strike is a matter of emergency in order to ratchet up the pressure on the government, be it further resolved that (your student association) will without delay reach out to various provincial and regional unions and community groups;
Be it resolved that (your student association) call on its member associations to make contact with their regional unions and community groups;
Be it resolved that (your student association) promote the social strike to the wider public by whatever means available;
Be it resolved that (your student association) explain and popularize the idea of a social strike to its members and in its appeals to the public in general;
Be it resolved that the days of social strike be in solidarity with the striking workers at AVEOS and Rio Tinto and all other currently active social and union movements;
Be it resolved that (your student association) also bring all these demands to CLASSE.
BLOG: Montreal Demonstration "Turned Violent" When Police Shot Explosives at Us
Front-Line Account of April 25th Montreal Student Demo
Montreal - I was at last night's demonstration in Montreal. What was most impressive was that 15,000 people showed up to a night demo, knowing that there was a certainty of brutal police repression, but they showed up anyway. It was without a doubt the most intense demonstration I've ever been to: but its been par for the course for people here in Montreal, and they keep showing up in the streets, day after day.....
The Doors Open
Charest, Beauchamp Offer Alternative to $1625 Hike
Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Education Minister Line Beauchamp announced a tweaked alternative to planned tuition fee increases at a press conference on April 27.
In an attempt to calm the waters of a province stricken by 11 weeks of non-stop student action, the Premier announced a set of alterations to its intended $1625 tuition increase over five years—stretching instead an increase of $1778 over seven years.
In addition to a slower tuition increase, the government is offering an extra $39 million to bursaries and loans, as well as making loan payments proportional to income....
..i disagree unionist that this is a terrible article. the journalist is reporting what is being said. he ends by saying this:
However, some students are already calling this latest attempt by the government an insult, and expressing that this negotiation will not be accepted by any group.
The Coalition Large d'ASSE (CLASSE) said on Twitter that these alternatives still do not respond adequately to the demands of students on strike.
Student groups have expressed that they need time to discuss these new measures, however several Facebook groups indicate plans for another night of protest.
Highly reputed Québec actor, author, and playwright [url=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Martin]Alexis Martin[/url] was attacked and arrested April 25, even though he wasn't participating in that evening's demo and never heard the police declaration that it was "illegal".
Although in no way resisting, he was struck in the arm and the abdomen while trying to explain to a riot cop that he wasn't part of the group. He was made to sit in the road for 45 minutes before being searched, handcuffed, and boarded onto a bus where he was made to wait for 2 hours, his hands cuffed behind his back. He was released in the early hours of the morning after being handed a $146 "contravention".
Alexis Martin said in his public statement [my translation]:
For the good of everyone, the government must negotiate the tuition fee hike with the students. That's my personal conviction. At the same time, the students don't need me to express their demands. They are doing so with great intelligence. [...] [My two hours in the bus] at least allowed me to discover, to my satisfaction, the calm, intelligence, and humour of these young men and women who show a profound understanding of the essence of democracy: Speaking out.
The story is detailed [url=http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/348680/le-comedie....
[deleted my criticism of the article - on further reflection, I agree with epaulo's take below]
This is a desperate government indeed. Every day, and every move they make, they hope to insert one more tiny crack of division and frustration and doubt in the students' ranks. The students will need all the moral and physical support we can muster to stay united and strong in the face of these attacks.
Seeing as Charest is a known fan of the mafia, perhaps this should be the student counteroffer: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmTp9up26w]Nothing.[/url]
Great job, Lex!
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/1221254309/ID=2227975595]Concordia student union representative Lex Gill responds to the Quebec government's offer[/url]
Great job, Lex!
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/1221254309/ID=2227975595]Concordia student union representative Lex Gill responds to the Quebec government's offer[/url]
I am really impressed with this young activist. She certainly is persuasive.
'Cop brutality fuels fire of student anger in Canada'
160 protests within just two months - and Canada's student uprising continues unabated. And, with new clashes on Thursday night, the standoff over tuition fee hikes is turning increasingly violent. Centering on the country's second largest city of Montreal, clashes resumed after talks collapsed between student leaders and authorities. Riot officers charged, maced and detained dozens of protesters, while the police chief publicly complained that his forces were worn out. The students are incensed over a tuition fees rise which the government says is necessary. But journalist Bernard Desgagne, says heavy-handed policing will only provoke the students further.
@CUTVnews - Montreal says "NO!", protest confront po..
Thousands of students have been marching in the streets of Montréal. At about 10:15 pm, as usual, the demo was declared "illegal" - there had been one arrest and apparently two windows broken. And some graffiti! Horrors! But the demo continued, and the riot squad was too chickenshit to launch a full-scale attack on such a huge group. Now there seems to have been a charge at the front of the demo (it's on Ste-Catherine St. near Place des Arts, on the way back to the Émilie-Gamelin square starting point), but I don't know more than that yet.
One thing is clear. The student movement has powerfully answered "NO!" to Charest's mockery and cynicism. It makes you proud.
Gov't is asking for trouble by refusing to negotiate with students
OTTAWA –"The Quebec government's refusal to negotiate in good faith is driving an overwhelmingly peaceful protest movement into a more desperate position," says Gaétan Ménard, Secretary-Treasurer of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
"The government's announcement this morning is an insult to Quebecers intelligence and is pure demagoguery, says Menard.
"Simply maintaining the fee increase amounts to closing the door on negotiations. This government is playing politics on the backs of students. Its arrogance and refusal to negotiate with the students is just asking for trouble."
"Education minister Line Beauchamp and premier Jean Charest must take responsibility for the deteriorating situation," adds Menard, who has joined the student protests and done a number of media interviews to
support the students' demands.
Ménard stresses that the union movement is there in a supportive role because the Charest government is clearly not hearing their message.
Via Dru Oja Jay
On April 25 workers at Pearson airport in Toronto wore red squares to show solidarity with the strike.
Fwd: 4/25 Photos
Quebec student fight gains international attention
MONTREAL — What began as a provincial policy spat over tuition hikes in Quebec has transformed, in just over a year, into a movement of broader student unrest now receiving some international attention.
In the last few days, Quebec's student protests have received coverage in French news outlets like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse, in Australia, in New Zealand, and in the U.S., including on CNN.
A New York Times blog suggested tuition fees and student debt could become a key theme in President Barack Obama's bid for re-election as the president tries to energize young voters. The "French-Canadian students" were cited as an example in the tuition debate, as part of an international outcry against the high price of education.
The annual tuition for a private university in the U.S. is over $30,000 a year, with collective student debt poised to reach $1 trillion -- which is even more than all the credit-card debt in that country. So why should Quebecers be complaining about a comparably measly $1,625-a-year hike?
Protesters say it's because they want their education system to move in the other direction -- away from the U.S. model and closer to a system like Sweden's, where post-secondary education is free.
The opposition has grown steadily, ever since the Quebec government announced its $325-a-year, five-year increases in the March 2011 budget. While the move would still leave Quebec with some of the lowest tuition rates in the country, protesters say they're fighting for principles......
The Quebec Student Movement Needs Our Union Solidarity And Money!
On April 25th my union local, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 3906, representing almost 3,000 academic workers at McMaster University, voted to give the student federation ASSE 10,000 dollars.
We did this for several reasons. We recognized that the months long student strike to stop the Charest governments' tuition hike was important, not just for students in Quebec but across the country. We also saw that the strike was taking on a new dimension. It was becoming more about the rejection of Charest's neoliberal policies than just about student concerns. The April 22nd march of 300,000 people was emblematic of this turn. We believed that the state was beginning to really try to repress the strike through violence. The strikers, unlike in some labour struggles, could not be forced back to school through a government order. We also noted that the main organization CLASSE – which includes ASSE – had a huge need for funds. The arrests, tickets and the general organizing costs of running a months long strike with over 170,000 people required huge resources.
After some debate we decided we could afford to give, what I believe is the single largest donation we have ever given. It should also be noted that CUPE 3902, representing academic workers at University of Toronto also gave 20,000 dollars. While the sum of money given is great, so to is the need. We did not give this money out of a sense of sympathy or charity, rather we gave this money in the spirit of solidarity and as part of a strategy to counter neoliberalism and austerity.
After some debate we decided we could afford to give, what I believe is the single largest donation we have ever given. It should also be noted that CUPE 3902, representing academic workers at University of Toronto also gave 20,000 dollars. While the sum of money given is great, so to is the need. We did not give this money out of a sense of sympathy or charity, rather we gave this money in the spirit of solidarity and as part of a strategy to counter neoliberalism and austerity.
The Quebec student strike is the current frontline in the battle against austerity. A victory by students against Charest's austerity would be a boon to the left in North America. It would a powerful lesson of solidarity and collective power. To rollback the cuts in Quebec is to get the ball rolling for the left in North America. A strategic allocation of funds to ASSE – the most active and solid of the three student federations – in the next two weeks could mean the difference between defeat and victory.
If you are a rank and file member or an elected official in a union please consider making a motion at your next local meeting to donate to ASSE to help ensure victory for the Quebec student strike. I know funding and supporting local struggles is important but if your local has any money to give please consider. The time is now.
[url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/March+anger+targets+Charest+offer/65... march anger targets Charest's offer[/url]
For the third night in a row, students took to the streets in downtown Montreal Friday, venting a fresh sense of betrayal and with no end in sight for the 11-week-old strike by 180,000 students across the province.
Police made 35 arrests. Of those, 24 were men, 11 were women and three were youth, according to the Montreal police.
Premier Jean Charest and Education Minister Line Beauchamp earlier on Friday made public the government's offer to the students, which includes $39 million more for bursaries, increased eligibility for student loans and phasing in the tuition hike over seven years rather than five.
But student leaders rejected the proposal, and titled the nightly demonstration's theme as "It's not an offer, it's an insult." Protesters expressed deep disappointment with the government which, until Wednesday had been in face-to-face talks with the three main student groups.
"I don't feel it was an honest offer," said Étienne De Sève, a 31-year-old Université du Québec à Montréal student, about the proposal, saying that it does not deal with the students' core demand - a freeze in tuition fees at 2012 levels.
Excerpt from a statement issued by CLASSE, the largest of the student coalitions or federations leading the strike movement:
Toward a social strike
It's a student strike, a people's struggle.
Hike in tuition fees is part of "the cultural revolution".
For several weeks now a student revolt has shaken the neoliberal consensus imposed for many years by the Quebec and Canadian governments. It was sparked by the announcement of a new, 75% increase in university tuition fees. Since its announcement in the 2010 Quebec budget, the media lackeys of the Liberal government have attempted to present this measure as inevitable. But behind this claimed inevitability we find an eminently political decision expressed in what the finance minister terms a "cultural revolution," and the international economic authorities refer to as an "austerity budget." Whatever the name given to it by governments, it clearly and definitively involves the dismantling of public services aimed at privatizing what remains of the commons.
The student movement has focused on the issue of tuition fees and the commoditization of the universities. However, it is not unaware that this measure is integrally linked to a larger project affecting elementary and secondary education, the healthcare sector and the unfettered development of natural resources. Our resistance to the Quebec government's neoliberal measures has to take into account all of these sectors, establishing a social link that enables us to speak of a community. The government is trying to compartmentalize our strike by saying its tuition hike is designed to get the students to pay their "fair share." However, the students have attempted from the outset of the strike to say that their policy goals went beyond the framework of a strict accounting and corporatist exercise with the government. Of course we want to see the government cancel this tuition fee increase, but at the same time we want to challenge the economic imperative that informs the policies of our governments.
If it is to do this, the student movement cannot remain alone, and must be joined by all of the forces that make up our society and make it live — whether it is the workers in healthcare, education and social services; the workers locked out by Rio Tinto and laid off by Aveos, victims of unfettered capitalism; the casual employees of the Couche-Tard convenience stores, denied the right of association; the women faced with Conservative threats to their rights; the elderly forced to work longer; or the Indigenous peoples seeing a new colonization that pillages the territory remaining to them.
[url=http://lifeonleft.blogspot.ca/2012/04/quebec-students-call-for-social-st... the whole statement[/url], as translated by Richard Fidler.
Breaking: Quebec Students Call for Saturday Protests
"Student groups reject concessions, call offer 'an insult' - begin nightly march in downtown Montreal.."
This is the kind of reaction the Liberal-NDP Ontario austerity budget should have been met with. Good to see there are still people who get it..."
Police Brutality Fuels Fire of Student Anger in Canada (and vid)
"Desgagne added that people were 'infuriated' by police brutality towards peaceful protesters, stressing that it would only' fuel public misconduct' and support for the student movement.."
There was a sit-in in front of the Palais de Justice (main courthouse) earlier today, and a demo in front of Tanguay prison in solidarity with all those arrested in recent weeks.
As announced by CLASSE, a march is being held every evening at 8:30 PM in Montréal. Another one is under way right now, following roughly the same route as last night. No reports of police violence yet. Here's a glimpse:
More news:
[url=http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/963727/le-gouvernement-charest-ajoute-l-... categorically rejects the Charest government offer[/url]
TACEQ is one of the four organizations that were briefly involved in the negotiations earlier this week.
Also - I love the slogan that has been picked up at demos since Charest made his disgusting "joke" last weeking about finding demonstrators a job as far north as possible (when they were demonstrating against his Plan Nord roll-out at the convention centre). Now it's his turn:
"Charest - dehors! On va te trouver une job dans le nord!"
Judy Rebick and Kai Nagata on Quebec student protest coverage
Clips from JournalismStrategies.ca panel "Where to from Here?" Thursday April 19, 2012. Judy Rebick (rabble.ca) and Kai Nagata (The Tyee) discuss Canadian Anglophone coverage of the ongoing student protests in Quebec.
To Quebec Students
Please come to Ontario and teach the locals how to protest weaponized provincial 'austerity' attacks!
in sol!
Quebec student strike makes international news, but "Charest just isn't listening"
Student groups, police agree vast majority of protesters are peaceful
MONTREAL - After 11 weeks of demonstrations, picket lines and other acts of civil disobedience, the debate over rising tuition fees has spread beyond Quebec and onto the international stage.
News of Quebec's rising tide of protests has made headlines on major cable networks like CNN, the BBC and Al-Jazeera and in newspapers across the world. But as students prepared to pour onto Montreal's streets for a fourth consecutive night on Saturday, some quipped that their message has yet to reach Premier Jean Charest's radar.
"I think we've seen that no matter how far reaching the movement is, Charest just isn't listening," said Martine Desjardins, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ). "After months of taking to the streets, it's encouraging and surprising to see the struggle catching on like this. It's been tiring for students to have to keep marching and striking but this gives us new hope moving forward."...
The GSU endorses the Quebec students' strike
April 26th, 2012
The GSU endorses the Quebec students' strike whose goals include preventing a massive 75% increase in fees over the next 5 years. A letter was sent on behalf of GSU council to Minister Beauchamp and Premier Charest urging them to have a dialogue with students and keep post-secondary education in Quebec the most accessible in Canada.
You can sign a petition here.
The Graduate Students' Union at the University of Toronto represents over 17,000 students studying in over 80 departments. For many years this union has advocated for increased student representation, funding, and provided services such as health insurance, confidential advice, and a voice for the graduate student body on the various committees of the University. This section describes how the Union is organized, what we do, and how you can become involved. The best way for your Union to represent you, is to have your voice heard.
Putting property damage and economic disruption in perspective
There seems to be a widespread belief that, in order to be legitimate, a protest must maintain civility at all times, abide by the rules, and even turn the other cheek when met with increasing hostility from the powers that be. In other words, the legitimacy of the cause is said to be determined by the way in which it is expressed. In the feminist blog spaces I frequent, we call this a tone argument: women are often told they must be less "shrill" to be heard, and people of colour are told they're too "angry." Whether the topic is an individual complaint or a 300,000-person movement, this argument only serves as a way of shutting down dialogue. If you truly believe someone is right, you don't call them a liar because of the tone they use. If you truly believe a cause is justified, you don't say things like "I used to oppose the tuition hikes, but now students' tactics have turned me against them."
Because the thing is, those rules about how to behave? They're created by the people who profit from the status quo. The people who benefit from women being silenced and people of colour being oppressed and universities being havens for the rich and ruling-class. You can't win with them: no protest will ever be peaceful enough, docile enough, non-threatening enough to suit their wishes. Expressions of anger against the status quo will always be called disruptive, even violent. Meanwhile, we live in a system that privileges the accumulation of capital over the value of human life, and oppresses us according to our gender, race, ability, age, or class in order to sustain that accumulation. This system enacts daily violence on both those who defy it and those who simply live within it. This violence may be physical – such as the police brutality, surveillance, and disproportionate arrests experienced by student protestors and also by communities of colour, queer communities, and others on a routine basis. Or it may be less tangible but equally destructive, such as the effects of being systematically excluded from higher education, higher-paying jobs, and the possibility of economic "success."
It should be obvious to everyone that smashing a window is hardly equivalent in severity to using riot shield or baton to beat a student and send them to the hospital unconscious or with a broken limb. But while students have been demonized for the former, police have regularly done the latter with impunity from the government and most media. However, beyond the distinction between property damage and physical harm, we must recognize that one is an act of resistance, which seeks to open up new spaces of possibility, while the other is an act of oppression reinforcing and upholding the unequal status quo. Moving beyond the idea of violence as an individual action allows us to focus on the systemic oppression perpetrated by policies such as the proposed tuition hikes, which would restrict education and opportunity only to those whose families are already in positions of privilege. By naming that oppression, we can recognize the necessity of actions that resist those policies – whether they are free teach-ins organized outside the oppressive framework of institutional education or physical attacks on the structures that uphold and promote an unequal society.
Student democracy in action (pictures of recent student general assemblies).
Young NDP MPS Left Sitting On Their Hands in Quebec Tuition Protests
In an interview on CPAC earlier this week, NDP leader Tom Mulcair stayed away from weighing in directly on the protest, saying it was up to the provincial government to discuss the choices its made on the cost of going to school. 'Let's hope there will be a settlement,' he said.
'Violence is not the way to do things,' he said..
Canada's youngest MP Pierre Luc Dusseault, did acknowledge that had things been different, it could have been him out on the streets in Quebec. The 19 year old said he believes in education being accessible but wouldn't comment on whaqt he thought about the cost of it in his home province...
'I'm not for the violence, but I'm for people who have the right to say what they want,' he said..."
Young NDP MPS Left Sitting On Their Hands in Quebec Tuition Protests
Yup, typical bureaucratic NDP attitude. An historic radicalization is taking place and masses of people are in the streets of Quebec demanding change, but the NDP wants nothing to do with them, and has nothing to say about the issues other than "Let's hope there will be a settlement".
Stop rocking the boat, people, and let us get on with the parliamentary dog & pony show! We abhor any kind of violence, unless it's being committed by NATO troops and aircraft or Israel. Oh, and don't forget to vote for us again next election!
Student Night March, April 28, 2012
Saturday's night march was slightly different from other night marches that took place this week in that the police did not break it up with tear gas, flash-bang grenades or pepper-spray. Near Place Des Arts the police public address truck ordered protestors to walk only in the direction of traffic and to turn onto Bleury Street, which they ignored. It seemed likely that the police would then declare the demonstration illegal as on previous days, but instead the riot squad merely walked beside the crowd for the entire duration of the protest. In the absence of police violence the march carried on for four hours, eventually terminating at Place Émilie-Gamelin, which was also its starting place, where demonstrators briefly occupied the intersection of St-Catherine Street and Berri. As the crowd was dispersing, some police officers tried unsuccessfully to instigate a confrontation by violently shoving certain people with their batons. My associate David Koch was also grabbed and pushed by a police officer without reason.
The march also encountered, what seemed to me, an unusual number of stag parties with people carrying blow-up dolls. I found the picture of the man holding one of the dolls and giving the crowd the middle finger to be an especially absurd image.
Quebec student group rejects Liberal proposal to end strike
MONTREAL — Quebec's most hard line student association has rejected the government's proposal to end the student strike in a unanimous vote at a weekend congress.
The Coalition large de l'association pour une solidarite syndicale etudiante (CLASSE), characterized as too radical by the Liberals who have refused to include the group in negotiations, debated the offer this weekend.
The outcome of that debate wasn't surprising considering the group's initial reaction on Friday was dismissive of the proposal, which, among other things, would spread the tuition increase over seven years instead of five.
There were reports that the CLASSE was also going to vote to replace its spokesman, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, at the weekend congress, but CLASSE officials flatly denied that and said there was no question of replacing him for the moment.
Nadeau-Dubois has taken a lot of heat for the association's stance on vandalism and violence. A Facebook page set up calling for his resignation has obtained more than 7,500 likes in just a few days.
Protesters have been holding daily protests lately, some resulting in arrests, including over 30 on Friday night, when acts of vandalism are committed.
Fearing more trouble in Montreal, where a recent riot resulted in over 80 arrests, the Quebec Liberal Party has moved next week's scheduled party general council meeting out of town.
In a statement issued Sunday morning, the party said "following recent demonstrations and after consultations with the Centre Mont Royal, the direction of the party has decided to move the event."
The Liberals will now meet in Victoriaville, which lies about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.
Students groups were planning to disrupt the demonstration in much the same way they disrupted the recent Plan Nord job fair a week ago.
In the wake of the news about the move to Victoriaville, the CLASSE tweeted that they intend to follow the Liberals to the new location.
The Liberal meeting takes place May 4-6.
[url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201204/28... piece (in French)[/url] about splits in the Liberal caucus - with Montréal-area members wanting Charest to make concessions, and members from the regions (especially Québec City) demanding a hard line against the "spoiled students".
And Education Minister Line Beauchamp wants [url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/04/30/002-conflit-etud... secret ballot[/url] so that each student can decide individually on the government offer, rather than a show of hands in general assemblies. She also rejects mediation for the time being, because she says the government has made moves while the students have made none.
I can't comment on this person without ruining a perfectly beautiful spring morning.
The CSN has called on its members to stage symbolic pickets outside their workplaces at lunchtime on May 1.
Appuyons les étudiants
La grève des étudiantes et des étudiants entre dans sa 12e semaine. Il s'agit du plus important conflit étudiant de l'histoire du Québec. En éducation, comme en santé, et dans bien d'autres secteurs de la société, le gouvernement cherche à faire porter de plus en plus la facture des services publics sur les utilisateurs de ceux-ci. Pour la CSN, l'éducation doit être une priorité nationale.
Le mardi 1er mai, si le conflit est toujours en cours, portons le carré rouge et démontrons notre appui aux étudiantes et aux étudiants en grève. Sur l'heure du dîner, organisons des piquetages symboliques à l'extérieur de nos lieux de travail.
Unions outside Que. help finance student protests
MONTREAL - As the largest group representing striking students rejected the government's latest offer, QMI Agency learned that the organization is receiving money from outside Quebec.
At least two Ontario branches of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) voted in April to give the Quebec student association, ASSE, a total of $30,000.
ASSE is the main group in the larger student federation called CLASSE, which represents roughly half of the 170,000 students on strike in Quebec.
CLASSE announced Sunday morning on Twitter that it unanimously rejected Quebec Premier Jean Charest's latest tuition offer, which he made on Friday.
Nancy MacBain, staff representative for CUPE local 3906, which represents teaching employees at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., confirmed to QMI Agency on Sunday that the local recently voted to give $10,000.
Wayne Dealy, chair of the CUPE union representing education workers at the University of Toronto, told QMI Agency that his local gave $20,000.
He said the money was given as a gesture of solidarity and that his union has a broad commitment to students across the country.
"We think we have a moral obligation to help," he said.
The student movement is also getting financial and moral support from unions inside Quebec.
Caroline Valiquett, from a union representing Quebec professional health workers, told QMI Agency that it gave "a financial contribution" to the student movement. However, she said she didn't know the exact amount.
Several large Quebec unions plan to come together with the three main student federations for May Day festivities in Montreal on May 1. Tens of thousands are expected to be in the streets.....
edit..fucking great video!!!
The latest strike video to go viral (in French).
Lipdub ROUGE
google translate:
Amir and Françoise promise free tuition
In the heart of the student strike, QS is committed to ensuring the university is free if elected.
Amir et Françoise promettent la gratuité scolaire
En plein coeur de la grève étudiante, Québec solidaire s'engage à garantir l'université gratuite s'il est porté au pouvoir.
NDPP wrote:
Young NDP MPS Left Sitting On Their Hands in Quebec Tuition Protests
Yup, typical bureaucratic NDP attitude.
I should add, the NDP would be hypocritical to support the Quebec student strikers because NDP governments in Manitoba and Nova Scotia, where tuition fees are much higher than in Quebec, are continuing to increase tuition fees. And supporting the student strike in Quebec would undermine those NDP governments who support higher tuition fees, as it is harder for them to get away with increasing tuition when there are jurisdictions like Quebec and Newfoundland where it is low.
Several thousand students are marching right now in Montréal, for the 7th consecutive nightly demo. Several hundred are also marching in Québec.