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Around Sep 2012 I was hired at Michaels as a Seasonal Associate, note it was my first job so I was way to excited to work.1st At the start I never got trained properly I just shadowed other employees as they checked out.
With unanswered questions and not knowing how to proceed from a situation I would ask my Manager for help but I was given the worst attitude as if I was ignorant the managers are rude and quiet frankly should not be working in retail if that's the kind of attitude they give to their customers. 2nd They were hiring more employees which resulted in me only working a maximum of 7.5 hrs a week to 3 hrs yet they say they cut hours because we didn't make sales.. Right. 3rd in Dec 2012 I finished working my 3hr week and was going to pick up my check on a Friday (usually get sent on a Thursday) I was curious as to what my schedule was going to be for the next week so I go in bright and early to see if the schedules were out becaus my online account was for some reason not working.
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I feel I was wrongfully terminated and working at this Michaels location was the worst thing I have ever done, going into employment I understood that I was only temporary but the hiring manager said employment there would be permanent if they "like" me.Interesting.....bddf705
Anonymous Apr 08 Highland Park, Texas
That is how they operate, in Texas too. Very rude and management hires and fires like changing a baby's diaper. They have no structure and hire you at low wages, give you no hours and expect you to sacrifice for them and they provide no hop for advancement or opportunity for it. Very hostile environment.0 0 Reply
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Read what she said instead of you assuming you know. You must work for Michael A/C as a person who comments on reviews to make your image look good. Well the internet is filled with complaints from employees blasting the stores all over the US!1 0 Reply
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That's a terrible way to get fired! but I think this is for pissed consumers not employees.0 0 Reply
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And it is for whoever are you the administrator? I think not.0 0 Reply
Jen May 13, 2013
I am a Michaels employee and i workd there for 7 months now. i was seasonal help too... i was there since septemeber of 2012 after the season was over they decided to keep me. as time went on they also said that they are cutting hours too, because of not enough sales now we have a new district mang. and ever since then we had to ask for emails or our hours got cut i honestly asked alot of people but after a while everyone has it or they use there smart phone for the discounts and now i am to the point where my boss is not giving me hours at all this is the seconed week without hours and ontop of all that the employees are not as friendly as they should be!1 0 Reply
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You have no proof of being "wrongfully terminated" ... you said yourself you were hired as seasonal help and knew that it was only temporary. Just because someone told you the position COULD be permanent does not mean that it WILL be. It doesn't even necessarily mean they didn't "like" you, but rather they may not have had the need for you (meaning they had all the employees they needed). As a seasonal employee, once the store has no need for you then you are no longer employed.0 1 Reply
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You *** are all missing the point here. She obviously knows she was seasonal, she said so herself. But having a manager say to you, "Oh, thats weird that your account isn't working, but hey sign this your job is done!" is a little rude. I have watched some of my seasonal employees just have their hours fade, until they are finally not scheduled and expected to take the hint without a verbal warning. It is so messed up.1 0 Reply
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Food Freedom is essential for all of us no matter what kind of food we eat!
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Head to Houston to Find Answers to What Ails You
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I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of
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Glarsynost lives on a planet whose shape is that of a perfect
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make to ensure that she will see every part of the planet?
A visualisation problem in which you search for vectors which sum
to zero from a jumble of arrows. Will your eyes be quicker than
A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those
cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is
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This is a simple version of an ancient game played all over the world. It is also called Mancala. What tactics will increase your chances of winning?
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
Discover a way to sum square numbers by building cuboids from small
cubes. Can you picture how the sequence will grow?
Two boats travel up and down a lake. Can you picture where they
will cross if you know how fast each boat is travelling?
A cheap and simple toy with lots of mathematics. Can you interpret
the images that are produced? Can you predict the pattern that will
be produced using different wheels?
In a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses, how many winning lines can you make?
A square of area 3 square units cannot be drawn on a 2D grid so that each of its vertices have integer coordinates, but can it be drawn on a 3D grid? Investigate squares that can be drawn.
A and C are the opposite vertices of a square ABCD, and have
coordinates (a,b) and (c,d), respectively. What are the coordinates
of the vertices B and D? What is the area of the square?
Two angles ABC and PQR are floating in a box so that AB//PQ and BC//QR. Prove that the two angles are equal.
Bilbo goes on an adventure, before arriving back home. Using the
information given about his journey, can you work out where Bilbo
Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The
frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a
jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions
of. . . .
Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex (corner) and
allowing it to hang freely. Now imagine you are lowering it into
water until it is exactly half submerged. What shape does the
surface. . . .
Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.
A rectangular field has two posts with a ring on top of each post.
There are two quarrelsome goats and plenty of ropes which you can
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A 10x10x10 cube is made from 27 2x2 cubes with corridors between
them. Find the shortest route from one corner to the opposite
The whole set of tiles is used to make a square. This has a green and blue border. There are no green or blue tiles anywhere in the square except on this border. How many tiles are there in the set?
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
Find all the ways to cut out a 'net' of six squares that can be
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A spider is sitting in the middle of one of the smallest walls in a
room and a fly is resting beside the window. What is the shortest
distance the spider would have to crawl to catch the fly?
We're excited about this new program for drawing beautiful mathematical designs. Can you work out how we made our first few pictures and, even better, share your most elegant solutions with us?
What is the shape of wrapping paper that you would need to completely wrap this model?
Find the ratio of the outer shaded area to the inner area for a six
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This article outlines the underlying axioms of spherical geometry giving a simple proof that the sum of the angles of a triangle on the surface of a unit sphere is equal to pi plus the area of the. . . .
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
A ribbon runs around a box so that it makes a complete loop with two parallel pieces of ribbon on the top. How long will the ribbon be?
Can you recreate these designs? What are the basic units? What
movement is required between each unit? Some elegant use of
procedures will help - variables not essential.
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a
and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two
edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
A Hamiltonian circuit is a continuous path in a graph that passes through each of the vertices exactly once and returns to the start.
How many Hamiltonian circuits can you find in these graphs?
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red
counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the
other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
A half-cube is cut into two pieces by a plane through the long diagonal and at right angles to it. Can you draw a net of these pieces? Are they identical?
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?
A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you
devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when
you are given just one of its sides?
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an
opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and
Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now
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when it is your turn to ring?
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Can you mark 4 points on a flat surface so that there are only two
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Show that among the interior angles of a convex polygon there
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See if you can anticipate successive 'generations' of the two
animals shown here.
The triangle OMN has vertices on the axes with whole number co-ordinates. How many points with whole number coordinates are there on the hypotenuse MN?
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make
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A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point
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hes the sexiest mutha foooka around ...hes amazin in bed too muhahahaha
he could whip cream with his tongue ...
he could whip cream with his tongue ...
hes mine ....all mine
ayon kay his master.... ika-25 ng Nobyembre, 2004
An amazing guy that I will always love. I wish you could have seen how much you deserve. Keep trying...I hope you find whatever will bring you happiness.
Jase - "you my friend, I will defend, and if we change well I love you anyways"
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Esther Zuckerman Today was I Want Media's vaguely titled panel "The Future of Media: 2011," part of the ongoing Internet Week. While most of the discussion was same old, same old (Times digital subscriptions, Gawker redesign, Daily Beast-Newsweek merger), there was a mostly energetic group o ... More >>
After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>
The most persevering story of the week, judging by the tabloid covers at least, was that of ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused last Sunday of attempting to rape a hotel maid near Times Square. Since, members of the press have descended on downtown Manhattan like locusts, but ... More >>
A New York Times veteran of nearly two decades, Bob Herbert is leaving the Op-Ed page, the paper announced in a memo on Friday. Saturday will be his last column. Herbert's resignation comes in the wake of Frank Rich's departure for New York magazine after nearly three-decades in various roles ... More >>
Two of the missing NYT journalistsOn Friday, the New York Times was told that four of its reporters being held by government forces in Libya would be freed. Meanwhile, bombing commenced from allied forces and Gaddafi's troops struck back against their own people in the embattled African natio ... More >>
It's a sad, scary day in journalism, as it too often is, with the New York Times announcing that four of their own are missing in Libya, where government forces continue to clash with demonstrators. This after last week, when four BBC journalists were detained by Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi's ... More >>
On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Observer, now under the editorship of founding Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers, published a juicy feature about Scientology by current Gawker editor and investigative journalist John Cook. Atop the article is a purposefully placed Observer editor's note in it ... More >>
Finke?Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper The Daily got its first attention for exclusive content (save a semi-viral James Franco graphic) this morning when it published a picture purported to be of Nikki Finke, the infamous Hollywood blogger and recluse behind Deadline.com, who refuses to be pho ... More >>
Founding Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers will replace Kyle Pope as editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, the paper announced today on their website. Pope, formerly of Portfolio, took over in November 2009 after interim editor Tom McGeveran quit. McGeveran replaced longtime Observer editor ... More >>
Details on Jared Lee Loughner and what occurred (and what may have occurred) prior to his shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others, killing six, in a Tucson Safeway supermarket last Saturday continue to unfold. The questions everyone wants answers to, ... More >>
Who among New York City's media set has never read a single MediaBistro mailer or blog? Nobody. Which is strange, because it's not like they break crazy news or anything! But it is a clearing house for two things: (1) Everything That Happens in Media, Especially in New York City and (2) Good Tale ... More >>
Well, last night, The New Yorker dropped their long-anticipated (at least by us) profile of Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton. We did the quotability run-down, but: how're the reactions? And what did Denton himself think?
Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.
Last week, a war of words broke out between two fairly notable New York media presences. It was started after an editor was fired last week, the news of which we broke here. And we thought we'd try to end it here, too, by speaking with both about the spat.
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LA ROMANA, DR -- Though most of the box seats were empty in Francisco A. Micheli stadium, home of the La Romana Toros/Azucareros, nearly all fans in attendance had traveled the two hours from Santo Domingo to see Licey, the Dominican equivalent of the Yankees. They had packed the cheap seats down the left and right side, $1 compared to the $10 box seats.
Dressed in striking royal blue uniforms with classic baseball script, there's no doubt, even from an outsider's standpoint, which hat bears the most tradition. Licey rolled to town with an assortment of recognizable talent, including former Phillie Jose Offerman, Indians infielder Ronnie Belliard, Braves pitcher Jorge Sosa, Dodger reliever Yhency Brazoban and catcher Carlos Ruiz, who will be in camp this spring with the Phillies. On the other side, the Toros fielded Scranton veteran Jim Rushford, along with Red Sox prospect Andy Marte.
There were no programs and no names on back of uniforms, so one had to guess who was who. From his short, squat stature and lighter skin, Ruiz was easy to spot. It had been a nice surprise that Licey was in town; I was holding out hope of seeing Ruiz in action. I knew he was having a great winter with Licey, batting .315. An announcement from the Spanish-speaking public address announcer, the volume amped twice as high as it would be in the United States, confirmed that it was, in fact, Ruiz.
Licey fans to the left, Toros fans to the right, our section was occupied by twenty indifferent but steadily-drinking college students, my wife and several other faculty from Philadelphia University. This was the destination I was looking forward to most during my 10-day stay in the Dominican. My wife was there to teach an exchange program. I was there to relax and watch baseball.
What started as an exercise in cultural observation quickly turned into one of the best pure baseball games I've ever witnessed live, and the students came alive. The game unfolded as a pitcher's dual through the first few innings. A tall, powerful Dominican had cruised through the early going for the Toros. Only later, after checking the box score the following day, did it occur to me that it was Orioles right-hander Daniel Cabrera. For the Tigers, a white, bean-shaped submarine pitcher, who would later be revealed as Royals minor-leaguer Danny Tamayo, held the Toros off balance through the first few frames.
Both pitchers melted down in the sixth. After striking out six, Cabrera lost control, walking four and allowing two earned after six innings. Tamayo, a flyball pitcher all the way, was eventually burned, touched for a homer by Anderson Hernandez and a run-scoring play that featured the best home-plate collision I've ever seen.
Through it all, I studied Ruiz. Visiting the mound, taking signals from the dugout, he was striking in his management of the game. I had to say hello. I had to let him know I was there.
Strapping the camera around my neck and turning my hat backwards, I sliced toward the Licey dugout and hung my head inside. I looked like an American reporter. I got the attention of the first player I saw. It was Offerman, perhaps the most recognized player on Licey.
"Carlos Ruiz," I said. "I'm from Philadelphia."
Curiously, Offerman turned, summoning him from the bench. "Carlos!"
He emerged. It occurred to me that moment how small the world was, how I could be standing there, face-to-face, with this player I studied and cheered for. Here we were, a chance meeting in La Romana.
"I'm from Reading. I'm from Philadelphia," I said. He nodded and stood. With nothing more to say, I snapped his picture.
I wanted to say more, "Screw Sal Fasano," is what I was thinking. Instead, I said "I want to see you in Philadelphia this season." He nodded, turned and he was gone.
Perhaps it was a jinx. Ruiz had a terrible game with the stick, going 0-4 and getting picked off first base. But the rest of the game was a joy. The difference between the American game and the Dominican game couldn't have been more apparent, on the field and off. In the stands, there was dancing, machismo and joy. On the field, it was no different. Replacing the graceless Tamayo was a pitcher named Chavez. His style most resembled the merengue, the national dance of the Dominican. His flair was all hips and a snap-dragon release that caused his entire body to twist. Wild as hell, but entertaining.
Symbolic of the entire experience, it was artful, foreign and beautiful. The fans had been nonstop to the very last moment, when Brazoban notched the save for Licey in the 11th, securing the 6-5 win.


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From what I know today is Tisha b´Av, the saddest day of the year in Israel. Hopefully it´s a day of peace but I doubt it.The updates go all the way back to July 8. Spain your scum. I hope muslims overrun you.
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This week in Cheap Laughs, we have square deals, pizza steals, slammed meals, and copped feels. Here's our rundown of the best in independently produced New York comedy this week.
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
Fans of Danzig have learned difficult lessons in the past, like never film Danzig on stage and to never punch Danzig in the face, but the best lessons are learned when Danzig talks about his beliefs. As much as Danzig is presumed to spread negativity, he also provides useful insight. We think Danzig ... More >>
I have an embarrassing tendency to bait people into conversations where I just talk about cool things I am doing. Surprise, right? While it likely stems from being bored with hearing of the mundane achievements of others (babies, crappy jobs, cars), there is a part of me that figures it must stem fr ... More >>
Yesterday, Bob Dylan's website released a bonkers interactive music video to "Like a Rolling Stone." Its media player, concocted by a company called Interlude, lets you experience a few minutes of flipping through a satellite TV hookup on which everyone is lip-synching to the 48-year-old classic. A ... More >>
Back in the late '80s, Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Anzalone) had no idea his eponymously named band was going to be his most enduring musical project. Longevity was probably the furthest thing from his mind. "Rick [Rubin, founder of Def American] was looking for bands that were not the conventional r ... More >>
When My Morning Jacket play live, they tend to come off as an elemental force. They play three hours, paradoxically leaving you wanting more and leaving you absolutely spent. MMJ gives everything live, but also requires a lot of you, pulling you through blissed-out calms into twisting, peaking jams ... More >>
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Corporate rock still sucks
Benjamin LozovskyDanzig Legacy New York Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday, October 29 Better than: Bobbing for dismembered limbs in a tank of formaldehyde. On a dreary, slushy Halloween weekend mess, Glenn Danzig, the diabolical mesh-loving doom crooner and heavy metal pioneer, celebrated his ... More >>
Don't call it a comeback, because, for better or worse, the guy never went anywhere
This week in the print copy of the Village Voice, which can be found at a red newsbox near you: Peter Gerstenzang talks to the performers at Thursday night's celebration of Joey Ramone's birthday; Michael Tedder talks to Our Band Could Be Your Life author Michael Azerrad, whose history of the ... More >>
This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>
Good morning, Komrades! In case you didn't hear, health care legislation passed last night, and for all of our new readers who're getting to know your new socialist regime a little better, let me introduce you to the Village Voice, wherein by "Village" we mean "America" and by "Voice" we mean ... More >>
Could be Michale Graves, could be Jerry Only, could be the janitor—whoever's singing Friday night, it won't be Glenn Danzig. Now a supergroup that's at times more super (Dez Cadenza, Marky Ramone) than others (Myke Hideous, Graves), the Misfits probably should only be allowed to reprise thei ... More >>
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Make A Difference – Share A Meal and Help End Child Hunger in America
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Party Supplies, DIY Craft Ideas and Tutorials, Party Recipes
I'm taking a small break from talking about parties and crafts today to talk about something very important and dear
My baby boy turned eight years old today… and honestly… I'm struggling with it a bit. Eight is a big
Hi friends. So my oldest turned nine this week. Nine years old. That's not really that old is it?! They
Hey ladies! Okay, I'm giddy. I'm heading to this year's I Heart Faces Photography Conference for Women! Woo Hoo! It's
Dusk Blue is a Pantone color for Spring and not only did it inspire my Monday morning hue… it also inspired Vern
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When I was a kid there was no DVD (no VHS until I was about 9…) and there was no TIVO
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This collage of images taken with my iPhone and edited in Camera+, PicFix and PicFrame We've been busy this summer with
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Please join us as The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins honors today's cancer survivors on Sunday, June 7, 2009
WHEN: June 7, 2009
WHERE: The Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building
401 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21231
This celebration, full of inspiration will be held for fellow survivors and their family memberes and friends in celebrating life.
12:30 - 1:30 PM -- Registration, information tables, refreshments and lite fare, Kids Korner activities
1:30 - 2:45 PM -- Welcome and opening remarks, Inspiring stories from cancer survivors
Featuring Keynote speaker, Roger Martin. Read Roger Martin's personal story in a feature story in the New York Times.
2:45 - 3:00 PM -- Recognition of survivors and closing remarks
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text: World View: Buddhist Violence Against Muslims in Burma/Myanmar Continues to Spread Print article Send a Tip by John J. Xenakis 2 Oct 2013 post a comment This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy Buddhist violence against Muslims in Burma/Myanmar continues to spread Venezuela's president Maduro backs Putin for Nobel Peace Price Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy Last week, activists from the "eco-terrorist" group Greenpeace attempted to scale a a Gazprom offshore oil platform in the Arctic Ocean, hoping that the big publicity stunt would embarrass the Russians. ( "25-Sep-13 World View -- Greenpeace tangles with the wrong country -- Russia") Russia arrested 30 Greenpeace activists, and towed their boat back to the port of Murmansk. All 30 are expected to be held at least until November 24, but on Wednesday, 14 of them were charged with piracy, which carries a possible sentence of 15 years. The rest are expected to be charged with piracy tomorrow. Greenpeace called the piracy charges "absurd." Moscow Times Buddhist violence against Muslims in Burma/Myanmar continues to spread Large mobs with hundreds of Buddhists attacked Muslims with knives and sticks in the coastal city of Thandwe in Burma/Myanmar on Tuesday evening, stabbing one 94-year-old Muslim woman to death, and burning down dozens of homes and a mosque. Muslim residents fled into the woods to escape the attacks. Tuesday's attack is the latest in a series of attacks by Buddhists of Muslims in Burma, killing hundreds of Muslims, and displacing hundreds of thousands from their homes, forcing them into refugee camps. The leader of the Buddhist anti-Muslim jihad is Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, who says that he's just trying to protect Burma from Muslims. He calls his movement the "969" movement, where 969 is a historic Buddhist sign, referring to the nine qualities of Buddha, the six qualities of Buddha's teaching, and nine qualities of the Buddhist community. 969 is supposed to promote peace and happiness, although Wirathu's 969 movement is a vehicle promoting violence. Burma's president Thein Sein has condemned the violence in general, but has refrained from criticizing Wirathu or the 969 movement. Then there's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is one of the world's Nobel Peace Prize winners, but who won't speak out against Burma's Buddhists smashing innocent Muslims. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics it's pretty obvious that a full-scale crisis civil war building between the Buddhists and the Muslims. (See "5-Apr-13 World View -- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht".) That's going to explode into a major bloodbath before too much longer. LA Times and CS Monitor and CNN (April) Venezuela's president Maduro backs Putin for Nobel Peace Price Russia's president Vladimir Putin has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, and so he may be joining the esteemed ranks of president Barack Obama and Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro is supporting Putin's nomination, saying: If anyone deserves the Nobel Peace Prize at this historic moment in time it is President Vladimir Putin, who helped stop a war that would have destroyed the lives of many who deserve to live in peace, like those of the Syrian people. Putin has been supplying heavy weapons to Syria's psychopathic president Bashar al-Assad, for use, along with chemical weapons, in genocidal slaughtering of masses of innocent Syrian civilians. Instead of Putin getting the Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps what would make the most sense of all is if al-Assad got the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on October 11. Moscow Times Permanent web link to this article Receive daily World View columns by e-mail


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Like the saying goes, if I had a nickel for every time I'd heard or read about a winery "sparing no expense" to get the "best possible fruit" to make the "best wine they could," I'd be a rich man. Winery owners and winemakers are like proud parents -- they see the best in their operations, and if they are aware of their flaws or shortcomings, when company is over, they put on their best face. After all, they're ultimately trying to sell wine.
As someone who has spent a lot of time visiting wineries, and hearing the owners and winemakers give these spiels about a dedication to quality, I have begun to tire of the same story I hear repeated over and over again. Yes, a certain amount of cynicism arises over time, because, frankly the wines themselves tell a story that is is sometimes at odds with the amount of money, and pride that winery owners bring to the table. If I had a nickel for every time some winery owner walked me through their custom, gravity-fed winery, and then proceeded to show me some wines that were average at best, I'd still be a rich man.
It is exceedingly rare for a winery to have the vision, the facility, the fruit, the winemaking, AND all the money it needs to make world-class wine. And it is even more rare for a winery to truly spare no expense to make the best wine possible.
While rare, such wineries do exist, and perhaps the best example I know of in this country is BOND Estates.
I should make clear that I don't think it is necessary to spare no expense to make truly great wine. While some things might improve in direct proportion to how much money you throw at them, wine is not one of them, as evidenced by all the nickels I might have earned in my past. I don't hold BOND up as an example of how someone can spend the most amount of money to make a wine. Rather what this winery represents to me is the possibility of what you can do when the money is spent the right way, for the right things, with the right standards, under the guidance of the right people. Call it the perfect marriage of philosophy and means.
BOND is owned by Bill Harlan, whose Harlan Estate is itself a pinnacle of Napa Valley -- one of the most sought after and expensive wines made in Napa. While the two projects are separate, their origins are intertwined. Harlan Estate began as a project in 1984, as Bill Harlan and winemaker Bob Levy began to work with their estate vineyards to prepare them to make the wine that Harlan planned to carry his name. In addition to the estate vineyards, he and Levy were working with around 60 other vineyards to find fruit that would match the quality of what they were able to produce in their estate vineyard. Harlan Estate was always to be modeled after the great chateaux of Bordeaux, which meant that they would make a single primary wine from the estate, perhaps along with a secondary label.
But in the course of working with these 60 vineyards, making wine from them, and narrowing them down to the ones that would be blended into the estate wine, Levy began to feel like a couple of the vineyards were distinctive enough to bottle on their own, as single vineyards, but that did not fit with the model of Harlan Estate, and Harlan nixed the idea. But, as he does with everything, Harlan wrote it down on his yellow legal pad, and thought long and hard about it, while Bob Levy persisted in making his case for these two vineyards, year after year.
And then, one day Harlan showed up at the winery with a stack of legal pads, each page of which is filled from top to bottom with his loopy handwriting in #2 Ticonderoga pencil and presented Levy with the 100 year plan for a winery called BOND estate, dedicated to making six, and only six, single vineyard wines of exceptional quality. And no, I'm not kidding about the 100 year plan. That's just the way Bill Harlan works.
Where Harlan Estate is the Bordeaux model, BOND estate is the Burgundy model. Using what general manager Paul Roberts calls "jewel box" vineyards, BOND is dedicated to producing wines that highlight ultra-specific places in Napa Valley.
But not just any place can be a BOND vineyard. They have to be the equivalent of grand cru, and you can't tell a grand cru vineyard even if you're standing in the middle of it. You have to taste it. And to do that, you have to make the best wine you can from it.
BOND began with 27 vineyard sites in 1997 including Levy's two favorites from the Harlan project. A wine was made from each of the 27, and kept separate. Lather, rinse, repeat. Every year. By 1999, only Levy's two favorites seemed worthy of carrying the name BOND, which Harlan chose for its description of the bond between man and the earth, between the winery and its growers, and the secondary meaning as a certificate for payment at a future date.
After four years of making dozens of different wines, only four vineyards seemed to have the distinct character and quality that Harlan and Levy were looking for, but still only one more merited joining the lineup of released wines in 2001. And that's the way it has gone for more than 12 years. Wines must get made for several years before they can be released as a BOND wine. Levy has made wine from one particular vineyard for 9 years and it has still never quite gotten to the point where it can become one of the six BOND wines. This despite being made as if it might be the best wine BOND has ever produced, just like the rest of its fellows that either go into the second label, Matriarch, or are sold off in bulk.
This mind-boggling, driven, meticulous, even obsessive approach to making the best wine possible is not confined to the cellar. The vineyards themselves are farmed and picked with a level of detail and attention that few can claim. There are 55 full time vineyard workers (shared with Harlan Estate) many of whom have been with the winery for more than a decade. These workers farm these small 8-10 acre vineyards organically, and by hand, especially given that some of the vineyards have slopes approaching 30 degrees.
When it comes time for harvest, only perfect clusters are removed from the vines. Then when they are brought to the truck, three specific guys, each with a pair of shears, pick up every single cluster and cut off anything that is not a perfect berry. The clusters then go to the winery where (keeping every vineyard separate) they are destemmed and the individual berries are again picked over before they drop, mostly whole, into the fermenters. By the time the fermentation starts, nearly half the harvested fruit has been removed from the mix.
Financially, this is a winery that makes no sense. From the cost of sorting away half the harvest, to making dozens of wines as if they will be released as $275 wines only to sell them off in bulk, to the $3 that each label costs (because it is made by a company that makes paper bill currency for many different countries and it contains watermarks, RFID tags, and other anti-counterfeit measures), there is not an ROI model that can justify the standards to which everything is done at BOND. Unless of course, what you are trying to get out of the effort is not a financial return, but a philosophical one.
Today, BOND has five of its planned six vineyards, and is working with 4 more, one of which will eventually make the cut, and fill the last remaining space in the winery's circular six-zone cellar. These five wines are each remarkable, and while I do not have the pleasure of tasting each of them every year, I usually get to taste one or two, and they are frequently the best Cabernet Sauvignons I taste all year long.
I had the remarkable luck and privilege to attend a retrospective tasting of a number of BOND wines at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic in June. Lucky not only for the opportunity, but also because the wines were poured out of magnum bottles, of which a precious few dozen are produced of each wine every year.
These wines, made in quantities of several hundred cases apiece, are sold exclusively to mailing list customers, at a release price of $275. While in the past they have sold on the secondary market for higher prices, these days they are available for about that price or sometimes a slight discount.
2005 BOND Melbury, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in the glass, this wine has a gorgeous nose of tobacco, wet earth, and black cherry aromas. In the mouth it is silky smooth with wonderful balance and flavors of tobacco, wet dirt, cola, and a fantastic smokiness that lingers into the finish. One of the two original vineyard sites released in 1999, Melbury is a vineyard on the north side of Lake Hennessy and its fossil-ridden sedimentary soils are said to resemble St. Emilion. Score: around 9.5. Where to buy?
2004 BOND St. Eden, Napa Valley
Deep, inky garnet in color, this wine has a sweet nose of cola and floral notes under which a soft bed of pipe tobacco aromas rests. In the mouth it is incredibly silky, with flavors of chocolate covered dried cherries, cassis, and what I can only describe as blue velvet tannins that have an aromatic sweetness to them that is quite compelling. Perfectly balanced this wine achieves the rare dichotomy of power without heaviness, residual sugar, or excessive alcohol. Fantastic. St. Eden became a BOND site in 2001 after 8 years of being discarded. The vineyard is next door to Rudd and shares its volcanic hillside soil (that slid down onto the valley floor about 2 million years ago). Score: between 9.5 and 10. Where to buy?
2005 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in color, this wine has a lovely nose of cedar, cocoa powder, and stony, mineral aromas. In the mouth it is a monster of rocky, mineral, earthy qualities married with a core of cherry and cocoa powder. Incredible acids and powdery tannins wrap like taut sinews around this core of fruit that is welded to a wet, crushed stone quality that continues through a very long finish. Distinctive and outstanding, this wine will almost certainly be even better with 5-10 years of age. One of the two original vineyard sites for BOND, it sits south of the Harlan estate in Oakville, carved into the side of a hill. Only two inches of soil separate the vines from bedrock. Score: between 9.5 and 10. Where to buy?
2005 BOND Pluribus, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in the glass, this wine has a piney, herbal quality to its nose that I eventually find myself describing as arugula. In the mouth it is somewhat austere, with flavors of bright cherry fruit, crushed green herbs, granite, and slightly drying tannins that give the finish a black tea quality. From a rocky knoll on the side of Spring Mountain planted with vines for the first time in 1998, it is surrounded on all sides by a conifer forest. Pluribus became a BOND wine in 2003. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Where to buy?
2004 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in the glass, this wine smells of roasted figs and dried cherries, with hints of leather and herb aromas. In the mouth it is smooth and expansive with broad shouldered, huge tannins that are drying in quality. Flavors of leather, black cherry and licorice give the wine a slightly baked quality that suggests it is not aging with as much grace as it could. A nice dried fennel note emerges on the finish. Score: around 9. Where to buy?
2003 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in color, this wine smells wonderfully of both rich, blue, cassis and black cherry fruit, as well as rich mushroomy forest floor aromas. In the mouth it is mellow and elegant, with gorgeously satin texture and smooth tannins that wrap around a code of dried and ripe cherries sprinkled with a crushed stone minerality that s disarming. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Where to buy?
2002 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in the glass, this wine has a drop-dead nose of gorgeously sweet cherry and plum fruit aromas that immediate start the mouth watering. On the palate the wine has an otherworldly texture, matched only by the juicy brightness of its black cherry and sour cherry core. Swirling about this perfectly balanced center of fruit are dried herbs and orange oil flavors that also linger into one of the longest finishes I've tasted in recent memory, lasting several minutes. Incredibly vibrant and dynamic, this is a truly amazing wine. Score: around 10. Where to buy?
2001 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in color, this wine has a deep rich nose of pipe tobacco, forest floor, and according to my notes, chocolate covered figs. In the mouth it is dark, rich and intense, with voluminous tannins that provide a skeletal structure for a massive frame of black cherry muscle. Coiled around this deep dark core are rich flavors of spicy incense, cedar, and an aromatic sweetness that lingers through a powerful finish. Outstanding. Score: between 9.5 and 10. Where to buy?
2000 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Inky garnet in the glass and still looking quite youthful, this wine has a crystalline nose of bright cherry and plum fruit mixed with earthier tones of forest floor, cedar boughs and chocolate. In the mouth it is lighter in quality than more recent vintages, with more redcurrant and bing cherry fruit, mellow tannins and a phenomenal acid balance that makes it incredibly quaffable. Gorgeously textured and intense in flavor, it is quite mouthwatering and delicious. Score: between 9.5 and 10. Where to buy?
1999 BOND Vecina, Napa Valley
Dark garnet in color, looking no worse for wear after 10 years, this wine smells like a huge boulder of granite in the middle of a redwood forest after a rainstorm. In the mouth it is... elemental in its deep stony quality. With flavors of steel, iodine and crushed stones along with red berry fruit, this wine has evolved into a Bordeaux like creature that is arresting and delicious. Incredibly well integrated tannins and wonderful acidity carry a mineral-laden finish through several subtle minutes. Poured from one of only 35 magnums produced. Score: between 9.5 and 10. Where to buy?
Reading this actually makes me excited. I'm excited because this is proof that great commitment makes great wine possible. While everyone might not require a hundred year plan to achieve the same results, I do believe in many of the technical aspects applied here. And while some techniques mentioned require larger financial resources than most have (the ability to plant multiple vineyards and taste from them only to know which ones to cut from their production)--I consider it a case of, given the resources, why wouldn't anyone do the same for their production.
Maybe it's the spirit of competition, or something else I can't explain, but when I read about a winery like this performing as well as it does, it makes me want to perform better. It's certainly an energy and story which I will pass along to our team today--warning them we'd prefer to make you a richer man for the experience rather than from adding another nickel.
Great write-up, Alder. I used to order BOND and Harlan Estate every year. But with the downturn of the economy, it's hard to justify paying those $$, and the latest offer of BOND seemed to be even more pricey than before. But I must say - had the 02 Matriarch the other day - the lowlier of the line-up - and it was impressive (including acidity, which I find lacking in most Cali wines).
I can relate to the marketing hype we hear routinely the "spare no expense" line. When the wines do not fit the description, it is tempting to tell them they are wasting good money.
In the age of homogenization, this is what makes Bill Harlan stand out from the rest of the crowd. It helps that his legend allows him to access the best fruit but I don't know of many wineries who would sell off wines of this caliber to the bulk market. I would love to find out who was bottling the seconds since they are most likely better than many winery's firsts.
Great writeup.
I am so glad you wrote this. We've been receiving offers in the mail for Bond, and I really had no idea what it was all about. Next time I get one, I'll be sure to take a closer look.
Ditto what Roger said ("...would love to find out who was bottling the seconds..."). Thanks for the great article.
All I can think of is that this is more over the top California at work. At those prices, the wine better be damned good!
PS who is buying this stuff???
These prices do put the wines out of the reach of 99% of wine consumers, for sure, myself included. But they are tremendous wines and shouldn't be dismissed as "over the top" because of their price, and they are certainly not made in a confected "over the top" fashion.
The question of who is buying this stuff is a good one. I don't claim to have an answer other than that, generally, fewer people than before.
I got my first offer from BOND this year (not surprising), and ordered the '05 Matriarch. It is beyond good- outstanding. And, at $75, not a bad bargain. I'm a fan, albeit one who's sitting in the bleachers right now rather than on the third base line. Maybe next year? :-)
Great inside view of Bond. There website doesn't give much info. I have carried the wines on our list but have had a sip of only one. It was remarkable.
Now I can speak about them with a little more knowledge
People seem to always slight second wines, but my experience with Matriarch and Maiden have been positive and I think they give good bang for the buck. It's what I look forward to buying each year.
I was lucky enough to taste at Bond over the summer and was stunned at their attention to detail and lust for quality. The thing that really blew me away was a huge selection of differently sized vessels used for topping up as the "angels share" disappears from the barrel. When I inquired more about this, they said they needed so many and such variety because they top up the barrels with the same wine from the same row. When I'm making wine at home, sometimes I don't even top up with the same varietal. Truly, a class organization.
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