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Those of us who read articles about wine probably believe that wine sells on the basis of its quality. A few wine lovers believe that price is at least as important. (I strongly reject any direct correlation between price and quality myself, believing there is an army of overpriced expensive wines and a noble cohort of underpriced gems.)
But my trip to China in March reminded me just how significant branding can be, even in the hugely fragmented wine market, which is blissfully unlike, say, that for beer, spirits or sodas, dominated as they are by a handful of big names and huge marketing budgets.
In China, the name Lafite has the most extraordinary and unexpected resonance. Such resonance that Carruades de Lafite, the Bordeaux first growth's second wine and often a thin little thing, can command a higher price than super-second Chateau Cos d'Estournel. And the owners of Lafite's range of basic Bordeaux generic wines called Legende sell for quite extraordinary prices in China simply because they have the magic word Lafite on the label. I saw the basic 2005 Bordeaux, with the name Lafite tucked snugly under the Lafite Rothschilds' famous five arrows symbol, listed at 950 RMB (about $135) a bottle on the wine list at the super-trendy Made in China restaurant in the Grand Hyatt, Beijing. It's worth pointing out that on exactly the same wine list the counterpart from the other Rothschild clan, the Mouton lot, was just 350 RMB. What explains the disparity between these wines that were put together from near-identical ingredients bought on Bordeaux's bulk wine market?
While in China I resolved to get to the bottom of this conundrum. Why should one first growth tower over the others - Mouton Rothschild, Margaux, the highly performing Latour and Haut-Brion - in this particular market?
I suppose we have to begin by acknowledging that China is an intensely image-conscious market. For the Chinese, wine purchases, in restaurants or for gifts, are all about status and "face" on the part of the purchaser. So China is presumably perfectly placed as a target for any sophisticated branding operation. If you go in to China and tell the Chinese that your product is the best effectively enough, those 1.3 billion potential consumers are presumably yours.
Except that my inquiries did not manage to elicit anything so cold-blooded. I went to China via Hong Kong so began by inquiring there why Lafite enjoyed this reclame. Those I asked were all a bit vague. The best explanation I could get was from the first Asian to pass the notoriously difficult Master of Wine exams, Jeannie Cho Lee, herself Korean born and American educated. Her best explanation was that Lafite is somehow easier to pronounce in Mandarin than the names of the other first growths. But since she is not a native Mandarin speaker, I felt her testimony was not rock solid.
Once I got to China I asked everyone I could think of. Marcus Ford, the inventive manager of Shanghai's pioneering M on the Bund restaurant, also thought it might have something to do with pronunciation but wasn't sure - even though he has been buying, serving and selling fine wine in China for many years. He did point out to me that Lafite had been awfully clever at capitalizing on its fame in China and that the Legende range of overpriced (my word, not his) appellations-series wines is known colloquially as "Little Lafite." Genius! They should have called it that in the first place.
In China the market is dominated by three main distributors, who are at one another's throats. The biggest and best established is ASC, run by a father-son team, both of whom are called Don St. Pierre. I sat next to Don Sr. at a charity dinner and pursued him relentlessly for his explanation as to why his great rival Summergate's Lafite was so much more popular than his own Bordeaux first growths - Chateaus Latour, Margaux and Haut-Brion - which was rather impolite, I now realize. He raised his shoulders and eyebrows, clasped his hands and admitted he hadn't a clue. Though as a Westerner selling wine to the Chinese for possibly longer than anyone else, he did point out how helpful the 1855 classification was to the Chinese. Not generally being fluent English speakers, few of them have yet come to grips with the tyranny of scores and ratings, but there is great respect (an important quality in China) for the longevity of the 1855 classification of Bordeaux. With its mere five divisions it is easy to understand, and since Chateau Lafite was historically the very first of the first growths to appear on the list, much of that glamour, he admitted somewhat reluctantly, seems to have stuck.
I then tracked down Ian Ford, the American head of Summergate of Shanghai, the blessed importers of a few hundred cases of Chateau Lafite, an impressive lake of Carruades and an ocean of Little Lafite every year. So how come, I asked, does Lafite stand head and shoulders above its peers in the biggest potential wine market in the world?
"I don't know," he said disarmingly. "It's a branding exercise but I certainly don't take the credit for it. It's not because of the taste."
I would certainly agree. I almost certainly love the taste of Lafite more than the average Chinese. Its very dry, almost austere, racy, elegant style must be particularly difficult for newcomers to wine, and torture to drink with most of the food served in China - whether it be the sweet, sour, spicy foods of the various Chinese provinces, or the rich, truffle and foie gras-laden cuisine of the fancy hotels and restaurants at which most bottles of Lafite must be opened by China's mushrooming millionaire class.
"But," he continued, "they were in at the beginning. Lafite president Christophe Salin's first trip here was in 1992. The word Lafite translates phonetically especially well," - so there's one thing that he agrees with archrivals ASC on - "and the Lafite Rothschilds have been very attentive to the Chinese market. Baron Eric de Rothschild's son is studying Mandarin. They also have a very good Chinese Web site."
So there you have it folks. To develop a new market, get there first, have an easy name - and don't forget the Web site.
Jancis Robinson is a London wine journalist. Visit her Web site at jancisrobinson.com and e-mail comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
This article appeared on page F - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
PARIS: France is set to cede its spot as the world's largest wine producer to Spain unless it unshackles from centuries-old traditions, according to the country's independent wine producers.
Under the current trend France will fall behind Spain in 2015 as wine production drops to 43.9 million hectoliters (1.16 billion gallons) from the 2000-2004 annual average of 52.8 million hectoliters (1.39 billion), according to a study by Credoc, a research group, for the Vignerons Independants winemakers association.
The expected drop follows decades of decline due to falling consumption at home and France's failure to adapt to new consumption habits and to new competitors.
Innovative wines from places such as the United States, South America, Australia and New Zealand, are bidding to dominate emerging markets, and the Credoc study shows France's traditional competitor, Spain, is adapting where it has failed.
But Eric Rosaz, director of France's independent wine producers association, vowed to prevent France losing its crown.
"I am convinced that France has the arms to fight and keep her place as leader, but for this we need to get away from weight of history, the weight of our culture, and enter a new dynamic," he told The Associated Press.
Rosaz says French producers have been making progress to make their wine more accessible and hold off New World winemakers — although more needs to be done. Screw tops, boxed wines, colorful easy-to-understand labels and sophisticated marketing — innovations pioneered by countries like Australia and South Africa — have been making inroads.
"We have the best 'terroir,' we have the best wine, and we have the best image of wine in the world, but we have problems at the company level and in terms of dynamism."
Independent producers should band together to promote their wines abroad and gain better access to supermarkets and other outlets, and also reduce costs, the survey said.
Wine makers also need to adapt to the tastes of new types of consumer — women, young people and people overseas — paying attention to flavors, packaging, and marketing, it said.
In 2015, the U.S. will be the world's largest wine consumer with 33 million (871 million gallons) hectoliters, ahead of France's 26 million (686 million gallons) and Italy's 23 million (607 million gallons), according to the study. Britain is moving up the chart with an expected consumption of 13.5 million hectoliters (356 million gallons) in 2015.
But France is failing to adapt to American and British taste-buds, the study also showed.
Last year, France's wine and spirit industry exported nearly $15 billion (€9.4 billion) worth abroad, a record and an increase of nearly 7 percent year-on-year, according to the French Federation of Wine and Spirits Exporters.
But the good overall export performance masks a broader crisis. While Champagne and fine Bordeaux find overseas markets, lower-quality wines and lesser-known wine regions have struggled against competitors from New World countries, such as Australia and Chile.
Chronic overproduction has also hurt, forcing European producers who can't sell their wine at decent prices to distill billions of bottles of perfectly drinkable wine into pure alcohol for use in disinfectants, cleaning products or gasoline additives.
The European Union agreed in December on a massive overhaul of the industry, including tearing up swaths of vineyards, doing away with overly intricate labeling and reaching out to consumers around the world instead of relying on age-old reputations.
The Associated Press
Resveratrol, the chemical compound found in red wine and an increasing target of medical research, can limit obesity by preventing the development of fat cells, according to a study presented Monday at the Endocrine Society's 90th-annual meeting in San Francisco. A team of scientists from the University of Ulm, located in southwest Germany, report that resveratrol shows potential as a fat-fighting supplement, by both preventing weight gain and stopping some of the health problems caused by obesity.
The findings echo previous research where resveratrol supplements helped keep obese mice healthy.
"Resveratrol has anti-obesity properties by exerting its effects directly on the fat cells," said Pamela Fischer-Posovszky, a pediatric endocrinology research fellow at the university's diabetes and obesity unit. "Resveratrol might help to prevent development of obesity or might be suited to treating obesity."
During their research, Fischer-Posovszky and her team isolated human stem-cell lines, called preadipocytes. These fibrous tissues eventually mature into adipocytes, which store energy and insulate the body in the form of fat.
The scientists exposed the preadipocytes to various doses of resveratrol and observed that the chemical hindered the maturation of the cells into adipocytes. The resveratrol also reduced the cells' production of certain proteins linked to the development of obesity-related disorders, such as type 2 diabetes and clogged arteries. Furthermore, the resveratrol stimulated the production of a metabolism-regulating protein, called adiponectin, which decreases the risk of heart attack. People who are obese are typically adiponectin deficient.
The dosage of resveratrol used in the study is equivalent to consuming several bottles of wine, suggesting that supplements would be more effective than wine consumption in fighting fat. And the effects of the resveratol were dose-dependent, meaning the more resveratrol used, the better the results.
Fischer-Posovszky is pleased with the results but warns that "you have to keep in mind that there might be adverse effects," she said. "So far, there are no reliable studies on resveratrol in humans."
Jacob Gaffney
Firm will expand reverse osmosis/alcohol adjustment services
Napa, Calif. American Winesecrets of Napa acquired the reverse osmosis-based technologies and alcohol-adjustment services of Sebastopol, Calif-based Vinovation Inc.
Winesecrets, which acquired the mobile filtration division of Vinovation in January, will acquire the assets and assume and expand operation at the Sebastopol facility and throughout California and most of North America, says Eric Dahlberg, founder and president of Winesecrets. The transition began this week, and some of Vinovation's employees will join Winesecrets.
American Winesecrets initially provided STARS, a mobile filtration operations service that removes tartrates electronically rather than by cold stabilization, which requires high levels of energy.
Acquiring Vinovation's mobile service allowed Winesecrets to offer taint removal as well. Winesecrets has since developed a fleet of trucks, trailers and trained wine technicians to deliver the tartrate and taint removal services to wineries across the United States and Canada.
With the acquisition of Vinovation's reverse osmosis-based technologies and alcohol adjustment services, Winesecrets will offer more filtration services, including reduction of volatile acidity, alcohol adjustment, Brettanomyces taint removal via reverse osmosis, tartaric stabilization and pH reduction using STARS, cross-flow filtration and ultra-filtration.
During the last few years, Winesecrets has added the technology to remove smoky flavors from wines affected by forest fires. "They can make your wine smell like an ashtray," Dahlberg says. The company first offered the service in Ontario, where extensive fires affected vineyards in 2003.
Unlike the other filtration services, alcohol adjustment involves distillation, so it can only be done at a facility with a distilled spirits permit (DSP), including the plant in Sebastopol. Winesecrets also offers alcohol adjustment as a mobile service in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Canada. It has sites in Sebastopol and Napa, Calif., Dundee, Ore., Penticton, British Columbia, and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
Though not often discussed by winemakers, the filtration technologies are widely used. "Almost everyone who is anyone in the wine business has used Vinovation's services," Dahlberg says. He says that between his existing business and the new services, 300 to 400 companies now use Winesecrets' capabilities.
Dahlberg says he plans to bring the technology to Napa next year, augmenting the facility in Sonoma County's Sebastopol.
Clark and Brian Smith, owners of Vinovation, will continue to hold the U.S. and international patents on their reverse-osmosis method for reduction of volatile acidity and alcohol adjustment. They plan to continue their research and development, as well as legal efforts to protect the technologies.
Clark Smith told Wines & Vines, "We like to develop the technology, then turn it over to someone who can focus on it. This is another baby we've kicked out."
Smith expects to expand his varied Winesmith consulting operations and continue to make a small amount of wine. Among his activities are matching wine with music, effluent-free wine production and neutraceuticals made from wine.
Winesecrets Acquires Vinovation Operations
Firm will expand reverse osmosis/alcohol adjustment services
by Paul Franson
Hart Davis Hart to Auction Monumental Single-Owner Wine Collection Valued at $6.9-$10.2 Million Featuring Over 700 Cases First Growth Bordeaux and 1000 Bottles From Domaine de la Romanee-Conti on September 19th & 20th in Chicago
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., one of the world's leading fine wine retailers and auction houses, will hold a monumental single-owner sale on September 19th and 20th at Tru restaurant in Chicago. The Fox Cellar is comprised of over 1700 lots and is poised to electrify the wine collecting world with its encyclopedic offering of full-case lots, most purchased by the current owner as futures or on release and still nestled in their original wooden cases. The firm anticipates that wine collectors around the world will clamor to own a piece of this historic cellar.
Foremost among the group are 166 lots of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild worth an estimated $1,067,400 - $1,589,900 including 7 cases of the 1982 and 21 cases of the 1996 vintages (all in their original wooden cases). Also staggering is a 100 lot offering of Chateau Petrus worth an estimated $980,000 - $1.5 million; more than 1,000 bottles from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, and well over a thousand bottles each of Chateaux Latour, Margaux, Mouton-Rothschild and Haut-Brion. Other featured offerings include large selections of Italian wines from Angelo Gaja along with Super Tuscans, Guigal's Single-Vineyard Cote Roties, and top California producers.
Collectors and restaurateurs will descend on Chicago to raise their paddles in the auction room and compete with bidders on the phone, online bidders utilizing Hart Davis Hart's proprietary online real-time bidding portal, http://www.hdhlive.com, and others who submit their bids before the sale using HDH's intuitive online absentee bidding system. The live auction will take place at Chicago's award-winning restaurant Tru, beginning promptly at 9:00 a.m. (CDT) on Friday, September 19th, 2008 and Saturday, September 20th, 2008. Tru is located at 676 N. St. Clair Street in Chicago. Attendance is open to the public and free of charge. Reservations for lunch at Tru during the auction ($75) should be made by calling Hart Davis Hart at 312.482.9996 or by emailing Maria Elgass, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Dinner at Charlie Trotter's
On Thursday, September 18th Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. will host a 20 vintage Chateau Lafite-Rothschild wine dinner at Chicago's famous Charlie Trotter's. For centuries, the mention of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild has conjured evocative images of grandeur and decadence, having been so favored in the Court of Versailles that it was widely hailed as "the King's Wine." To launch the remarkable auction weekend, we have chosen 20 celebrated vintages reflective of the Fox Cellar, spanning the past four decades of the estate, including such luminary vintages as 1982, 1986, 1996, 2000, and 2003. Chef Trotter will create an exciting five-course dinner to complement the wines. Seating is very limited. For more information please contact Marc Smoler at 312-482-9766 or email@example.com.
About Hart Davis Hart Wine Co.
Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is both a dynamic retailer and an internationally prominent wine auction house, occupying a unique position in the rare wine market. We offer collectors and restaurateurs a broad range of options for buying and selling wines, providing unrivaled expertise and personalized service.
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If you think Canada = Icewine, you'd be right.
If you think of Canada for world-class sparkling wines, you'd be right again. Really.
ot since New Zealand hijacked the Sauvignon Blanc grape has one country so successfully dominated the international market with a wine style. That's what Canada has managed to accomplish in a mere decade or so with Icewine.
Eiswein is a German invention that dates back to the late eighteen century when a freak drop in temperature froze the Late Harvest grapes in Franconia before they could be picked. Today true vine-frozen Icewine (Eiswein) is made in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia and Switzerland; but it is Canada that has co-opted Icewine and made it its own.
Icewine comprises a good 80 per cent of Canadian wine exports. It was originally made from Vidal or Riesling, but today you can get it in virtually every variety that's planted. You want Semillon Icewine? Pillitteri has it. Chenin Blanc? Inniskillin Okanagan. Shiraz? Konzelmann. Meritage? Royal de Maria.
But you cannot sustain an industry in the long term on a single wine, especially one that has its major market in the Far East. China will soon be making Icewine in its own vineyards. And when that happens, they'll be undercutting the price mightily for the rest of the world.
A Sparkling Alternative to Ice
I have always believed that Canada should be a major producer of sparkling wines.
In many vintages growers cannot get optimum ripeness to produce balanced table wines; but the grapes for sparkling wines are picked with lower sugars and higher acids than table wines.
Even in poor years Canadian growers can achieve the requisite sugar and acid levels for sparkling wines. So why don't we play to our strengths? The sparkling wine category is growing internationally - the Champenois can't keep up with demand and are not only planting new vineyards but are looking north to Sussex and Kent in England to buy vineyard land.
Peter GambleThe move to sparkling is already beginning to happen in Nova Scotia. A key player is French winemaker Rafael Brisbois, whose resumé includes making Champagne for Piper Hiedsieck, starting up the Omar Khayyam sparkling house in India, consulting to Iron Horse and Piper Sonoma in California and Blue Mountain in BC. Brisebois is now working with Benjamin Bridge Vineyards, a new winery in Nova Scotia's Gaspereau Valley. Ontario's Peter Gamble, who is also consulting on the project, believes that Nova Scotia could soon be making sparkling wine in the classic Champenois style. "You're getting minerality as opposed to fruit here. It has tremendous potential. We're planning to leave (our) wine six or seven years on the lees. The objective is to make something on the level of Grande Marque champagne. We haven't even disgorged the 2002 Brut Reserve. We're still tasting off the lees."
Planted in Benjamin Bridge's 27-acre vineyard are the grapes the Champenois use - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, each on three or four different root stocks and three or four different clones. Brisbois and Gamble have also done sparkling wine experiments using Vidal and L'Acadie Blanc (a variety unique to Nova Scotia). The wines I tasted from 2002 and 2004 are stunning and could stand up proudly in a blind tasting of Champagnes.
Bruce EwartBruce Ewart, former winemaker at BC's Hawthorne Mountain and Summerhill, now has his own totally organic winery, L'Acadie Vineyards, located five minutes outside of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. True to the name, Bruce makes bottle-fermented sparkling wine from this winter-hardy varietal.
Perhaps Nova Scotia will ultimately rival and surpass Ontario and British Columbia whose winemakers are doing a great job with sparklers made by the Champagne method. If you haven't tried Henry of Pelham Cuvée Catharine (both white and rosé), Château des Charmes Brut, 13th Street Blanc de Noir or Hillebrand Trius Brut from Ontario, you're in for a treat.
The Speck brothers at Henry of Pelham made their first bubbly in 1992. "We spent some years perfecting the art and the vineyards," recalls Paul Speck, "and produced Cuvée Catharine Brut and Brut Rosé in 1999. It was released in 2002 after 30 plus months in the bottle."
Paul SpeckHenry of Pelham currently produces around 50,000 bottles of both sparklers. "Our belief in sparkling grew from the viticulture fact that Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are two strengths for Niagara. Both are very consistent from year to year for table wines. They winter well and can be relied on to produce great wines every year. Despite what many people think, I believe Chardonnay is our best white.
"Since we pick sparkling wines slightly immature, they not only make sense for the region but most importantly make sense for the wines. Great acidity with lots of ripeness. We also can thin vineyards that then make our Reserve Chardonnay and Reserve Pinot Noir and Speck Family Reserve wines."
Out in western Canada, the best sparklers you'll find are Sumac Ridge Steller's Jay Brut, Hawthorne Mountain See Ya Later Ranch Brut, Cipes Brut from Summerhill, Venturi-Schulze Brut Naturelle and Blue Mountain Brut, Rosé and Blanc de Blancs Brut.
Steller's Jay, named for BC's official bird, was originally made from Riesling as an experiment in 1984. What was released five years later was the current blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc. Today, Sumac Ridge has 250,000 bottles ageing in its cellars at any one time.
Ian MavetyWhen Ian Mavety started Blue Mountain Vineyard and Cellars in 1991, he began by making sparkling wine as well as table wine. "The basic rationale was the climate and its ability to maintain good levels of natural acid, fundamental to sparkling wine production," says Mavety. "The fall back position was if we weren't successful, be it quality or marketability, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir could be used to produce table wine. Our sales have doubled in the last five years and production has increased in step. We think the interest in BC sparkling wine is a result of consumer awareness, promoted by wine-by-the-glass programs and price versus other still white wines. It's a bargain."
There's no question that given the variability of Canada's wine growing regions, sparkling wine is the way to go. And given the rising price of Champagne, a $30 price tag certainly looks like a bargain.
Tony Aspler
Pink wine is in vogue among French youth as a festive drink
Rosé, long dismissed by purists as uncultured plonk, has overtaken white wine in volume of sales in France, buoyed by a fashion for pink.
While much of France's wine growers battle lower consumption and persistent overproduction, pink wine - which comes into its own in the summer heat - is enjoying la vie en rose as never before.
It is estimated that more than one in five bottles of wine sold in France is a rosé, with the gains coming from falling red sales. A hot summer could push the amount of rosé drunk to more than half of all bottles consumed this year.
Pink wine is in vogue among French youth as a light-hearted, festive drink to be enjoyed with scant regard for labels, vintages, grape varietals and origin.
A study conducted this year found that red wine is favoured by richer, older French men, while rosé is drunk by both sexes, young and old from different social groups. Red is drunk mainly during meals, while rosé is also popular as an aperitif or in soirees.
Last month, angry growers of red wines in the southwestern Languedoc Roussillon region rioted against rival low-cost wine. But in the searing July heat of Provence - France's main rosé-producing region and which began making it 2,600 years ago – growers like Alain Combard are in the pink.
Surveying the vineyards surrounding his domain of Saint André de Figuière, Mr Combard, 64, raised a glass of chilled, dry home-grown rosé. In the dazzling light, the salmon-coloured liquid synonymous with Provence exuded a subtle perfume of grapefruit and lychee.
Sales from his domain, which produces 700,000 bottles annually, have increased by 10 per cent this year.
"We are extraordinary lucky as the world has truly discovered rosé. We have the wind in our sails," he said, to the sound of screeching cicadas.
"Before, rosé was just a summer wine to be drunk at barbecues. Today, it has acquired its letters of nobility, and can hold its own with red and white," said Mr Combard.
"A good rosé, for me, is above all very floral, with a hint of orange or grapefruit and must be as light as lace."
Producers in the Anjou in the Loire – France's other main rosé area - are enjoying a similar boom, amid signs that the pink craze is spilling over into Britain and the US. Given its success, the two top traditional red and white wine-growing regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy no longer blush at the prospect of rosé.
Bordeaux is reviving its production of clairet, a darker pink wine, while Burgundy now produces 2 million bottles of rose (NB acute accent on e) per year. In a sign of the times, Burgundy last month sent a delegation to a conference in Provence at the world's only rosé research centre, which Mr Combard runs.
The centre looks into every aspect of the rosé, from how to produce the right shade of pale pink to ways to cut rising alcohol levels in wine believed to be caused by global warming. Although it has white-wine qualities, rosé is made from red grapes.
It long suffered from being seen as little more than a by-product of red wine, being made from juice siphoned or 'bled' from the top of a vat of fermenting red grapes as a way of improving the red's intensity.
But Mr Combard, like many in Provence, uses a technique focusing solely on rosé called direct pressing. Red grape-skin, pips and pulp are lightly pressed and left to macerate for up to eight hours before extracting the rose-tinted liquid.
"I apply just the same techniques for making white wine to rosé, except that I use red grapes," said Mr Cambord, who spent 22 years making Chablis before coming to Provence.
Rosé, however, cannot be kept for long periods due to the lack of tannins, as the grape juice is only briefly in contact with skins and seeds. As he prepares to leave the daily running of his domain to his children, Mr Cambord insists the current rosé boom is here to stay.
Quality had improved considerably in the past decade. Doses of headache-inducing sulphur have been cut fourfold, while fermenting vats are now cooled to prevent grapes overheating, which used to produce heavy, coarse wine.
Exports to the US are booming, but UK sales of French rosé are still low compared to sweet New World "blush".
Mr Cambord believes that Britain is now ready to branch out from what he calls cheaper "drink" to pricier "real wine". Although still low, sales of Provence rosé in Britain were up 40 per cent in the first three months of this year.
"It goes perfectly with spicy food," he said. "Try it with curry."
'We are convinced that screw tops are perfect for fine wines that need to age, as they protect them better than cork from oxidation'
The familiar sound of corks popping may soon be consigned to history as French wines start dropping the traditional cork for the New World screw top, whose use is rocketing worldwide.
While New World wines have adopted the screw top for years - with up to 90 per cent of New Zealand wines and 60 per cent of Australian bottles using them – giving up the time-honoured cork has met with much stiffer resistance in France beyond the cheaper end of the market.
But according to one wine expert, two of the world's top names - Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy, whose bottles can sell for tens of thousands of pounds, and Bordeaux's legendary Chateau Margaux – are now looking into screw tops.
Romanée-Conti would not comment on the sensitive issue, with tops still viewed as heresy by many purists. But the director general of Chateau Margaux, Paul Pontallier, confirmed that the Bordeaux domaine was trying them out.
Henry Samuel
Paris, France
Click Wine Group is launching High Note, an Argentinean Malbec from the Uco Valley in Mendoza. The wine was created by Peter Click, CEO of Click Wine Group, with the idea that Malbec will be the next "sought-after varietal," according to the company. High Note is available nationwide for the suggested retail price of $12.99.
Dollar sales of Argentinean wine in the U.S. grew 28% in 2007, while Malbec dollar sales were up 87% in the 52 weeks ending May 3, 2008, according to Nielsen.
Recall that Winebow, a New Jersey-based importer, recently bought Click Wine Group for an undisclosed price earlier this summer. Founder Peter Click will remain as president of Click Wine Group and will also become executive vice president of Winebow.
Wine & Spirits Daily
Laboratory tests have shown that a chemical found in the skin of grapes could halt the development of most cases of the disease.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, and almost 45,000 cases are diagnosed in the UK every year.
Now scientists have found that a chemical called resveratrol, which is also found in blueberries, bilberries, cranberries and peanuts, can suppress the creation of tumour cells.
The chemical works by blocking the way that oestrogen combines with DNA in a woman's bodies to create the cancer.
Researchers found that even low levels of resveratrol, the equivalent to that found in a typical glass of red wine, was enough to create the effect.
"We believe that this could stop the whole progression that leads to breast cancer down the road," said Eleanor Rogan, from the University of Nebraska Medical Centre, who led the study.
The scientists now plan to test the findings, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, in larger human trials.
Resveratrol has previously been linked to anti-aging properties.
The chemical is just one of a number of so called "healthy chemicals" found in red wine, called polyphenols.
Kate Devlin
Several of France's top winemakers are considering screw caps for their wines, according to an article in The Telegraph. The article cites a wine expert that claims two of the world's top names, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy and Bordeaux's Chateau Margaux, are looking into screw caps.
Romanée-Conti would not comment on the issue, but the director general of Chateau Margaux confirmed the domaine was trying out screw caps although it was too early to say if they would use them.
Burgundy's Jean-Claude Boisset is already using screw caps on top wines, including a Chambertin grand cru 2005 that sells for almost £100 a bottle.
"We're not staying that corks are bad, it's just that screw tops are better," said Gregory Patriat, in charge of bottling at Boisset, to The Telegraph.
Plastic corks are also a possibility, but growers say they can only be used on bottles not meant to age past three years.
The number of wines using screw tops has grown from 300 million in 2003 to 2.5 billion in 2008. Famed wine critic Robert Parker also predicts that wines with corks will be in the minority by 2015.
Wine & Spirits Daily
The Italian government has created a certification process for Brunello producers exporting to the United States, which has effectively ended the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's (TTB) embargo to ban all Brunello. The threats were made after the Italian government was unable to guarantee that exported Brunello was made with 100% Sangiovese grapes.
Since November 2007, the Italian police have been investigating whether Montalcino producers are using grapes other than Sangiovese in their Brunellos, in violation of DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) rules. Although investigations continue in Italy, Brunello producers that pass an inspection are clear to export to the United States, reports Wine Spectator.
The Florence office of the ICQ (Central Inspectorate for the Control of Quality of Agri-food) is now responsible for authenticating Brunello wines with lab tests. Successful producers should receive a certificate within 15 days allowing them to export to the U.S. The TTB confirmed the certification process satisfies the agency's requirement.
Wine & Spirits Daily
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I installed ZCS NE 6.0.15 on a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system (6.0.15, because our environment is still that old ). This particular system is supposed to be LDAP replication system ("slave"); hostname zcs-xx6.
Please check this out for a script log of running install.sh: Attachment 5583
After having installed it, I found two issues, making it impossible to start LDAP:
Why is that? Why are ldap_url and ldap_master_url set to the SAME value? zcs-ds1 is our current LDAP master. On another slave called zcs-ds2 that we have (with RHEL5 64bit), it's not like that (but it's an ancient system and I don't know if we manually fixed that since way back then).Code:
(zcs-xx6 <local>) 0 % sudo /opt/zimbra/bin/ldap
ldap_url and ldap_master_url cannot be the same on an ldap replica
zimbra@zcs-xx6:~$ zmlocalconfig ldap_url ldap_master_url
ldap_url = ldap://zcs-ds1.COMPANY.ch:389
ldap_master_url = ldap://zcs-ds1.COMPANY.ch:389
Even after having changed that, I found that sudo /opt/zimbra/bin/ldap start would not actually start LDAP. This actually does that:
Comparing that to how it starts on our current zcs-ds2 slave, I find that it actually invokes this:Code:
(zcs-xx6 <config>) 0 % sudo /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapd -l LOCAL0 -4 -u zimbra -h 'ldap://zcs-xx6.COMPANY.ch:389 ldapi:///' -F /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/config -d 1
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daemon: listen(ldap://zcs-xx6.COMPANY.ch:389, 5) failed errno=98 (Address already in use)
slapd shutdown: initiated
====> bdb_cache_release_all
slapd destroy: freeing system resources.
slapd stopped.
Difference: -h 'ldap:/// ldapi vs. -h 'ldap://zcs-xx6.COMPANY.ch:389 ldapi .Code:
sudo /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapd -l LOCAL0 -4 -u zimbra -h 'ldap:/// ldapi:///' -F /opt/zimbra/data/ldap/config
That is so, because of this:
zimbra@zcs-xx6:~$ zmlocalconfig ldap_bind_url
ldap_bind_url =
After having manually set ldap_bind_url on the new server, I can start LDAP just fine.Code:
[zimbra@zcs-ds2 ~]$ zmlocalconfig ldap_bind_url
ldap_bind_url = ldap:///
Now I wonder - why is it, that I had to do those changes? Is that really supposed to happen like that? Or did I do something wrong during the installation?
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Congratulations to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian! The two are officially engaged! Kanye West cares about style and he definitely went all out when proposing to Kim Kardashian. Before popping the question at San Francisco's AT&T Park, which he rented out for the occasion, he asked future mother-in-law Kris Jenner for for her daughter's hand in marriage. He then got down on one knee and proposed to Kim with a gorgeous 15-carat diamond ring by celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz. On the field's jumbo screen, flashed the sign, "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" A 50-piece orchestra played several songs, including one of his own songs, "Knock You Down." There were even fireworks and Roman candles that exploded into the night sky, setting quite the mood for one heck of a birthday present for Kim Kardashian. That's right he did it on her 33
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That's Mrs. Brandon Blackstock to you! That's right! Bye Bye Kelly Clarkson! She finally said "I Do" and got married to her fiancé Brandon Blackstock on Saturday at Blackberry Farms in Tennessee. First, a relative of an employee at the venue confirmed the news on Twitter, writing: "Kelly Clarkson got married at Blackberry Farm today… My sister is the chef at Blackberry Farms… CRAZY!" A spokesperson for Blackberry Farms said they "have nothing to say" about the wedding but Kelly Clarkson took to Twitter to and tweeted: "I'm officially Mrs. Blackstock," along with three gorgeous pictures from the wedding. "We got married yesterday at Blackberry Farms in TN, the most beautiful place ever!" Kelly Clarkson wore a Temperly London wedding gown for her special day. And get this, Kelly Clarkson is currently getting her pilot's license and actually flew the couple in for the ceremony. It was a secret and intimate ceremony, just like they wanted.
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Lea Michele was spotted at LAX on Sunday after spending the weekend with a few friends in San Francisco wearing one accessory that stood out among the rest: a diamond ring worn on her ring finger. WOAH! There was speculation to Corey Monteith may have proposed to her before he passed away, but my sources are telling me that the ring ISN'T an engagement ring. So the question is, why is she wearing a ring on her ring finger? Also, she was spotted wearing a healing crystal around her neck! Hopefully she's doing whatever she needs to do to move on. Poor girl!
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Is Robert Pattinson a womanizer? It sure looks that way! The former Twilight actor has reportedly been ordered to STOP his messing around and partying before his career crashes and burns. My sources are telling me that Robert Pattinson's team felt he needed a wake up call and that NOW is the time to get extremely serious about his career! Hey, it's not his fault that women find him irresistible right? Robert Pattinson's team wants him to land a SERIOUS movie, to pull him out of the cheesy, Twilight territory. Gotta not bring the cheese!
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We've plan to create a direct integration of Alfresco into zimbra. I've already tested the alfresco zimlet but found that its very buggy and not production ready for several reasons. I would rater build a solution which replaces the datastore in zimbra with a "redirector" to alfresco.
Is there any documentation about the document store implementation in zimbra and how to extend it to external storage such as alfresco? Or can I get some help in implementing this? The solution will be released under the GPL.
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1 cup precooked quinoa, chilled
2 cups precooked brown rice, chilled
2 cups chopped fresh salad greens (baby lettuce spring mix)
1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 1/2 cups carrots, grated or chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup red onion, chopped
4-8 roma tomatoes, chopped
1 avocado, diced (optional, may serve on the side)
3 cups of cut up cold chicken (leftovers, a rotisserie chicken)
Additional lemon juice and seasonings, to taste
Dressing 1 (Heidi): Light, fluffy, literally as though you unrolled your burrito!
juice of 2 freshly squeezed lemons
1/4 cup vegetable broth
2 teaspoons ground flaxseed
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chipotle chili powder, or to taste (this amount makes for mildly 'hot' end result)
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste (optional)
Dressing 2 (Terri): Creamy, with a slightly sweet compliment to the 'kick'.
juice of 2 freshly squeezed lemons or limes
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
scant 1/4 cup olive oil
1-2 Tblsp. honey
2 teaspoons ground flaxseed
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chipotle chili powder, or to taste (this amount makes for mildly 'hot' end result)
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For either dressing, whisk or shake all dressing ingredients together until blended.
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Disc Brake How-ToWritten by on January 1, 1999 Installing Stillen Cross-Drilled Front Rotors For Dakotas
We made an interesting discovery with the brakes on our 1997 Dakota. When the pad material on the front pads gets thin, it has a tendency to come flying off, leaving a now-bare steel backing plate to grind into the rotors. In our case, it happened two separate times, both on the expressway, and by the time we got home, the lathe-action had rendered our rotors junk.
Always looking to make the best of an unfortunate situation, we took this as an opportunity to upgrade the front discs on our Dakota. Stillen Brake Pros offers cross-drilled front Sport Rotors and high-performance Metal Matrix pads that fit our needs nicely. Cross drilled rotors offer superior stopping power due to the increased air surface created by the cross drilling, which increases the rotors' ability to dissipate heat and cool more effectively. Of course, the rotors also give a racy appearance to the truck that looks great through open wheels, so that swayed us, too.
Stillen's front Sport Rotor kits are available for Rams, Dakotas, and Durangos, and are a direct replacement for the existing components. For those who want more, Stillen also offers a Big Brake Kit employing 4- or 6-piston calipers and massive 13.7-inch cross-drilled rotors. We firmly believe that every dollar spent to go fast should be matched with a dollar spent to make the vehicle stop.
While the front disc swap on a Dakota will only take an hour or two, we spent some extra time and detailed the rotors and brake pads with POR-15, because we hate rust. You also need to know that on Dakotas, the calipers are held in place with a No. 45 Torx head bolt, so you'll need to purchase a Torx socket to fit--don't try using an Allen wrench, because you'll strip out the head. The Stillen components go right in place of the factory pieces, so there are no surprises--simply remove and replace.
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Installing the Stillen Sport Rotor kit is strictly an R&R operation--remove and replace. The kit comes with the cross-drilled rotors and a set of their Metal Matrix high-performance brake pads.On the left is a detailed Stillen Sport Rotor for the 1991-96 Dakota, on the right is the front rotor for a 1997-and-later Dakota. With the redesign in 1997, the Dakota got a non-serviceable, one piece front hub assembly, facilitating a rotor that looks like a traditional rear rotor. The rotor on the left retains the factory spindle bearing races and seals, etc. for the 1996-and older Dakotas. For that kit, you'll have to supply new seals, and bearings if you need them.This is the back side of three different types of front brake pads that are available for Dakotas. The top left is the bonded Stillen Metal Matrix pad, the center is a riveted aftermarket pad, and the top right is a riveted aftermarket pad. Notice that the one on the right doesn't have the tabs on the back--when you go to the parts store, this is the one you usually get the first time, but you can't use it. You must have the clips on the back of the pads, and because the rivets that hold them on are mushroomed, you can't swap the clips from the old to the new pad. This wasn't an issue with Stillen's pads, but it's information worth knowing.We wanted to detail the rotors with POR-15 so the hats and edges wouldn't rust. We began by masking off the machined surface of the rotors with masking tape. A quick and easy way to trim the tape around the rotor is with a file--just apply enough pressure to cut through the tape around the outer edges.We ordered a POR-15 Starter Kit from Classic Restorations to paint the rotors and pad backings. The Starter Kit is an inexpensive way to go, and came with more than enough paint to cover our needs.Ever know anyone who dropped the vehicle on their legs while doing a brake job? We do. Since you have to put the wheel somewhere while working on the brakes anyway, stick it under the vehicle. That way, even if the verhicle does somehow fall off the jackstands, it won't land on you. Plus, it keeps the wheel out of your way in the garage.Each caliper is held in place by two socket head bolts. The bolts are a Number 45 Torx tip, and you must use a Torx bit to remove them. At the time, you may think an Allen wrench will work, but it won't and you'll end up stripping out the head of the bolt. Make the $6 investment and have the right tool for the job. In the background, you can see the damage done to our rotors. Once you lose the actual pad material from your brake pads, your rotors are toast because you're stopping your vehicle with a lathe. The front of the rotor is much thinner than the back, indicating the caliper wasn't sliding like it was supposed to, which accounts for the front pad wearing out before the back side pad. Check all four pads regularly.There isn't a lot of room, and a Torx tip screwdriver will be tight, so we recommend using a socket bit for better leverage. We got ours at Sears.
Then it's time to remove the toothed clips on the wheels studs that hold the rotor hat tight to the hub assembly. We pried them up far enough to get the jaws of a side dikes to them and cut them off.Once the rotor is removed, depress the caliper's piston back into the bore. There is a dedicated pad spreader available, but a large C-clamp and the old pad works well. We also found it interesting that the 1997 Dakota didn't have dust shields behind the rotors.Replace the old rotor with the Stillen piece, set the new Metal Matrix pads in place, and put the caliper back on. Make sure that the tabs are correctly in position before putting the wheel back on.Here's the finished installation. Bleed the brakes, and you're ready to go. We also lubed our calipers' slides to combat the uneven wear problem that wiped out the rotors in the first place. Detailing the rotors and pads with POR-15 will keep them rust-free and looking good for a long time, and is worth the extra work involved. The next time we have the front suspension apart, we'll detail the caliper and steering knuckle as well. Also, before anyone writes in to point it out, we had the vehicle supported by jackstands, as well as the floor jack that's visible. We weren't kidding about knowing a guy who dropped a car on his legs!


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He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator and DotNetNuke. He is a Director of the industry association The Linux Foundation, and has previously served as a Director of several other industry associations including Linux International (LI), Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), and the Free Standards Group (FSG). In 2005 he served as interim CEO of Medsphere. From September 2002 to December 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners where he helped lead Azure's investments in Zend and Medsphere. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now GeekNet, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002 and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. In 2000, Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs. In November 1999 he launched SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development community. Also at VA Linux, he acquired Andover.net, merging SourceForge.net, Linux.com, Slashdot, and other well-known Open Source Internet sites to form the Open Source Development Network (OSDN).
Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Mary Coleman
Mary is the Managing Director of Walden International. Before taking on that role, she was CEO of Rightworks, an e-procurement and trading exchange software firm, which was acquired by I2 Technologies. She joined Rightworks from Internet Capital Group, where she had been a Managing Director focusing on investments in enterprise software and Internet infrastructure, including companies such as Rightworks.
Prior to Internet Capital Group, Mary was the CEO of the Baan Company, a leading European ERP software firm. Mary attained this position after selling Aurum Software – a CRM software firm where she served as the CEO – to the Baan Company, after taking Aurum Software public on the NASDAQ.
Earlier in her career, Mary served as a vice president of marketing for a number of high technology firms. She studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Mark Leslie
Mark is a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship and sales organization. He is also the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company, and serves on the boards of two public companies, six private companies and three nonprofit organizations.
Mark was the founding chairman and CEO of VERITAS Software. During his tenure as CEO the company went from 12 employees to 6,000 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1.5 billion per year. In 2000 Veritas was the 10th largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.
From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and CEO of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. His prior experience included roles in sales management, sales executive, systems engineering, and OS programming.
Mark currently serves on the boards of Avaya Corporation (NYSE:AV) and Network Appliance (NSDAQ: NTAP) and a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Cassatt Software, db4objects, Model N Software, Panta Systems, PostX Corporation, and Scalix Corporation, and is on the boards of nonprofit organizations Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, and Leslie Family Foundation.
Mark received a bachelor of arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.
Antoine Munfa
Antoine Munfa is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where his current board responsibilities include Forefront Dermatology, Cervalis, Resolute Anesthesia and Pain Solutions, and Business Records Management. Prior board responsibilities include Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR). Antoine holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Brooke Seawell
Brooke joined NEA in 2005 as a Venture Partner, focusing on software and semiconductor investments. Brooke currently serves on the board of directors of Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), SiTime, SugarCRM, and Tableau Software. He also works closely with Tabula. He brings 25-plus years of experience in technology finance and operations.
Brooke was most recently a Venture Partner with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of NetDynamics, an application server software company, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998. From 1991 to 1997, Brooke was Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations and CFO of Synopsys, an electronic design automation software company, which he took public in 1992. During his tenure at Synopsys, revenue grew from $20 million to $500 million. From 1983 to 1991 Brooke served as Vice President, Finance and Production and CFO of Weitek, a fabless semiconductor company, which he took public in 1988. Previously, he co-founded and was CFO of Southwall Technologies, a complex thin film coatings company. In 1990, Brooke was recognized by Upside magazine as one of the top 15 high-tech CFOs.
He currently serves on the board of three public companies (NVIDIA, Informatica and Glu Mobile) and a variety of private companies. Brooke also serves on the Management Board of the Stanford Business School. He received his MBA and BA from Stanford University.
Josh Stein
Josh Stein is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where his current board responsibilities include Box.net, Eventful, Fynanz, GoodGuide, Polaris Wireless, Redfin, SugarCRM, and ViVOTech. He is also actively involved with the firm's investments in Glam Media, Opscode, Tremor Media, and Yammer. His previous investments include iList (acquired by IGN/News Corp) and Yardbarker (acquired by Fox Sports Interactive).
Prior to joining DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation's largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief Strategy Officer for ViaFone (NYSE:SY), a DFJ portfolio company and a leading provider of wireless enterprise applications. Josh has previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects, and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.
Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital.
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Andrew Aitken
Andrew is the Founder and Managing Partner of Olliance Group, a business and strategy consulting firm whose mission is to help clients capitalize on the strategic, technological and financial benefits of open source software.
Andrew has over 12 years senior management experience building and leading national professional services companies. Most recently, Andrew was vice president of business development for eWork, the leading provider of online contingent workforce management solutions. Prior to eWork, Andrew was vice president of corporate strategy and marketing for ESG Consulting, a firm he helped build into a national provider of IT professional services.
Andrew has spoken at multiple industry conferences, is a member of the Open Source Software Institute's Board of Directors, and has personally helped companies such as Intel, Nokia, HP and others develop their open source strategies.
Matt Asay
Matt has been involved with open source for the past decade, and has been at the forefront of uncovering novel business models to monetize open source software. To this end, Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference as a place to aggregate the industry's luminaries to figure out promising open source business strategies; co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office and helped to kick-start the company's growing Linux business; served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, dedicated to finding and developing open source investment opportunities; and ran embedded Linux startup Lineo's network and communications business until its acquisition by Motorola in 2002. Asay speaks and publishes frequently on open source business strategy, and consults frequently for several open source startups and venture capital firms.
Matt holds a juris doctorate from Stanford, where he worked with Professor Larry Lessig on analyzing the GPL and other open source licenses. He also holds an MA from the University of Kent (United Kingdom) and a BA from Brigham Young University.


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One of the many reports that have come out in the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombing last week was the fact that bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev often visited Real-HipHop.com, even having an email address associated with the website.
While various media outlets have used the connection to infer that Hip Hop may have played a role in Tsarnaev's actions, T.I. dismisses that notion.
"Hip Hop narrates the activity and conditions of our culture," said Tip to TMZ. "It doesn't create them."
"Hip hop ain't never been about hurting innocent people," he continued, adding that the bombing "was a horrible tragedy and my prayers go out to the families involved."
Interestingly, TMZ had reported earlier in the week that Tsarnaev was "heavy into Hip Hop," drawing the very connection that upset T.I. in the first place.
Tamerlan's younger brother Dzhokhar, the other suspect in the bombings, was captured alive on Friday (April 19th).
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OTA Channel Guide Issues
Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:36 PM
WPXD-31 (ION) (not carried in HD by DirecTV) has been operating with the following subchannels from Chelsea, Michigan (fairly far from much of metro Detroit):
31.2/31.2 qubo (SD)
31.3/31.3 ION Life (SD)
Yesterday, WPXD began transmitting on real channel 50 from Southfield, putting a much stronger signal over all of metro Detroit on these subchannels:
50.2/31.2 qubo (SD)
50.3/31.3 ION Life (SD)
The Chelsea transmitter is still operating (perhaps as a fill-in transmitter), so we currently have two sets of these channels active.
Posted 01 February 2012 - 02:13 PM
Existing data is still there if the channel was up and in there system since July of 2011.
There is no need to request new channels as they simply CAN NOT ADD IT.
If you have the new HR34 5 tuner model you can SCAN for these channels, it will show in the guide, but you will not get guide data show what is on, but you can still watch the channel.
Currently there is NO scan option in the older HR2x Dual tuner models and there are not known plans to add it due to memory constraints.
For those with issues of getting different guide data for OTA when setting up.
You need to reset the data.
Step 1. Remove all OTA settings also known as reset
Step 2 Reboot box (REQUIRED)
Step 3 confirm there is NO OTA guide data if not repeat
Step 4 wait 5 mins for the queue to clear up
Step 5 Re run setup again
Posted 01 February 2012 - 02:52 PM
I also purchased a stand-alone Tivo. The special they were running (which may still be vailid) is $9.99/month if you only use an antenna for the source. Use keyword "ANTENNA" when creating your account. So the Tivo is in the living room and Media Extender in my bedroom for content that I can't (but should be able to) record on my DirecTV DVRs.
Posted 05 February 2012 - 07:57 PM
Why did I BUY the AM21 if it's not going to be fully supported?
Posted 06 February 2012 - 07:50 AM
So, it show me they CAN ADD if they want to.
Posted 09 March 2012 - 12:01 PM
Because my local FOX O&O outlet KTTV 11 creates an SD duplicate of its main HD telecast (11-1) on a secondary sub-channel 11-2, by actually broadcasting it from its owned station local KCOP 13 (MyN TV) so KTTV does not have to sacrifice any its bandwidth to do so.
This has resulted in a somewhat confused situation in the OTA channel guide, where both a sub-channel 11-2 and 13-2 appear in the guide with the same KTTV program information. However 13-2 I assume is spurious and thus formally received no picture (792 SFS error).
Now with the recent launch of "Bounce TV," it serendipitously appears on 13-2, but of course with the wrong program info since this sub-channel was never intended for it as its a spurious offshoot of the creation of sub-channel 11-2. Though it seems the AM21 has locked onto Bounce TV for it.
EDIT: The CG is now displaying programming correctly for Bounce TV on KCOP sub-channel 13-2, even though 13-2 wasn't purposely created for it.
Kudos to DIRECTV anyhow for the correction.
Now if I could only get them to add KTLA sub-channel 5-3, THIS TV.
Edited by HoTat2, 18 March 2012 - 08:27 PM.
Posted 11 June 2012 - 01:11 PM
WYDO-DT 14.2 has finally been fixed on the Directv ota guide. WYDO changed freq. after the digital transition from RFch 14 to RF ch 47. But Directv only updated 14.1 to 47.
But now Directv has update 14.2 as well, now we can get Bounce TV on 14.2
Posted 14 July 2012 - 05:46 PM
My Equipment: HR44-200 with AM21N and Samsung Smart 4K 3D UN60HU8550, HR24-500 with Samsung Smart 3D LED UN55ES8000, Slimline 3 SWM Dish
Posted 14 July 2012 - 10:40 PM
Posted 15 July 2012 - 05:57 AM
I've reported the problems to both DirecTV and Tribune Media Services.
First, WNBC stopped broadcasting Universal Sports over 4.4, but 4.4 continues to show up on the guide.
This next one is confusing.
Channel 55 (RF 47) in the New York DMA, WLNY was recently sold to CBS.
Before the sale, the previous owner had three translators in the the market - two of which have been listed on the local guide. These two translators both have used the same call sign, WLIG-LD. One of them was licensed to
Merrick, Long Island, NY and transmitted over 45.1 from the Trump World Tower building in midtown Manhattan.
The other translator also called WLIG-LD was licensed to Morristown, NJ - almost 40 miles from Manhattan, over Channel 17.1.
Both of those translators since their sale are now dark - off the air, they have been for months, yet they continue to be listed.
As an aside, DirecTV was so mixed up, in providing a listing and reception for Channel 17.1 it isn't and never was WLNY's signal, but in Manhattan, I continue to receive over 17.1, WEBR-CD, low power Korean/Religious station transmitting from the Empire State Building. Again, have reported this a number of times - nothing was done.
Here are 3 local OTA slots that DirecTV/Tribune continue to list - 2 of which are totally gone, and the other, 17.1 is providing the wrong programming.
This all brings me to that WCBS, in the past few months has added Channel 2.2, CBS New York+ and it's absent from the guide. With 3 slots available, surely you would think that 2.2 would be added - but "No."
So glad that the new HR34 has the ability to scan for channels. even if many won't be seen on the guide, wish my HR24 and HR21 had this capability.
The DirecTV/Tribune Media Services system is terribly flawed and frustrating!
Posted 16 July 2012 - 09:24 AM
Would like to see Fox8-2 Antenna TV and Cleveland 19-2 Me TV added to DirecTV, great classic TV, any chance?
If you have the AM21 converter, you can receive ME TV 19.2, 43.2 Bounce TV, but not 8.2 Antenna TV. (Direct TV never bothered to add it to their database, same with THIS TV 55.3.)
You`ll also be able to pick up both 43.1 WUAB MY TV and 23.1 ION TV in HD NOT CARRIED by Direct TV, as well as all the local PBS substations and countless religious subchannels that are (for some reason) in Direct TV database.
Posted 16 July 2012 - 10:24 AM
In OKC KOCO 5-1 & 5-2 no longer appear in the channel list when setting up an AM21 using an HR2x DVR which uses Tribune guide data for setup.
The HR34 picks them up on the channel scan, and for that DVR programming data does appear in the guide.
-Steve- Subscriber since Sept 1998 My Complete Setup
SWM16 / HR44-500 (2TB & AM21) / HR34-700 (3TB & AM21) / HR24-500 (2TB eSATA) / C31 via WCCK / C41 x2 / C41W / H25-700
Posted 16 July 2012 - 10:43 AM
I have found, at least on my two receivers here in New York City, that it can take an average of 5 attempts to get the correct number of stations listed. The majority of downloads only gives me 25 stations when the number should be 59!
What an inept system!!!!
Posted 16 July 2012 - 11:53 AM
Posted 28 July 2012 - 01:17 PM
I just got a Winegard AP8275 preamp for my (southeast pointed) Channel Master CM4228HD installed yesterday. I can receive WPXD-DT1 much better now, but for some reason, WPXD-DT2 and WPXD-DT3 (which both show up on my EPG) won't come in at all. When I hook the coax directly into the TV though they both come in great. What gives?? I want to record He-Man and the Masters of the Universe from qubo night owl.
Edit: I also reset the OTA guide, same results as above.
What do the signal strengths say? Where exactly did install the amp in terms of distance from the antenna?
Posted 07 August 2012 - 09:02 PM
Can't find any DTS filings with the FCC. Only thing that I'm seeing is a different antenna than the one listed in the CP.
Doubtful that if there were a new transmitter location that the old one would still be hot.
Very strange!
Posted 08 August 2012 - 12:01 PM
I emailed D* a few hours ago. I doubt the CSR will do anything but send a canned response though. It'd be nice to be able to record He-Man, they run the exact same commercials over and over and over, in the same order and everything. I get enough of that on FS Detroit.
Canned response as expected:
Thank you for writing. I am sorry to hear that you were unable to access WPXD channel on your DIRECTV service. I understand that you were able to get it using your high powered outdoor antenna.
I know how important it is for you to watch programming that you desire.
Now that all stations have transitioned to digital broadcasts, the digital sub-channels may be in new locations. By following the steps below you can re-scan for the digital sub-channels:
- Press "MENU" button
- Select "Parental Fav's & Setup" and press "SELECT"
- Select "Sat. & Ant." Press "SELECT"
- Select "Antenna Setup" press "SELECT"
- Select "Scan for Channels" press "SELECT"
- Wait for scan to complete
Once the scan is complete the digital sub channels should appear in your on screen guide. You can periodically repeat these steps to check for new digital sub-channels.
We have developed advanced technology throughout the years making our state-of-the-art equipment, as well as the television reception on your highly reliable system.We assure you that we will continue to invest in the quality of your viewing experience by bringing you more new features on your receiver and more new programming.
Again, thank you for writing, Mr. CCK. We value your long time business with us.
Raem M. - 100542422
DIRECTV Customer Service
Samsung 50'' Plasma HDTV, HR22-100 w/ AM21, CM4228HD w/ WG AP8275, RS U75R w/ WG HDP 269, Apple TV
Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:10 PM
Now that all stations have transitioned to digital broadcasts, the digital sub-channels may be in new locations. By following the steps below you can re-scan for the digital sub-channels:
- Press "MENU" button
- Select "Parental Fav's & Setup" and press "SELECT"
- Select "Sat. & Ant." Press "SELECT"
- Select "Antenna Setup" press "SELECT"
- Select "Scan for Channels" press "SELECT"
- Wait for scan to complete
Once the scan is complete the digital sub channels should appear in your on screen guide. You can periodically repeat these steps to check for new digital sub-channels.
Raem M. - 100542422
DIRECTV Customer Service
What receiver model has the option "scan for channels"??
Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:58 PM
What receiver model has the option "scan for channels"??
H20-100 ... Scan for local channels with program data AND/PLUS the option of entering a primary & secondary zip code to retrieve program guide data for two over-the-air markets. It is definitely a feature that Directv should tout. Far better than the data available on DISH receivers.
The Advanced Program Guide surpasses any guide I've been able to find on the internet. I wish there was a way to access the same data on the internet perhaps via Directv.
Posted 10 August 2012 - 01:47 AM
Albany, Georgia (Network #513, Market #2) - Zip Code: 31768
- WSWG-DT3 (The CW - #44-3) - missing from guide data
- WSWG-DT2 (MyNetworkTV - #44-2) - missing logo
Columbus, Georgia (Network #558, Market #47) - Zip Code: 31909
- WLTZ-DT2 (The CW - #38-2) - missing logo
Tallahassee, Florida (Network #695, Market #184) - Zip Code: 32309
- WCTV-DT2 (MyNetworkTV - #6-2) - missing logo
- WTXL-DT3 (#27-3) - missing from guide data
- WTWC-DT3 (#40-3) - missing from guide data
- WTLH-DT2 (The CW - #49-2) - missing logo
- WTLH-DT3 (MeTV - #49-3) - missing from guide data
Edited by Alan Gordon, 17 August 2012 - 01:56 PM.
DirecTV SUBSCRIBER since 1996!
- respectfully requesting The CW (WSWG-DT3) in HD for
Albany, Georgia, DMA #150, Network #513, Market #2 -
Posted 10 August 2012 - 09:19 AM
H20-100 ... Scan for local channels with program data AND/PLUS the option of entering a primary & secondary zip code to retrieve program guide data for two over-the-air markets.
Anything besides the H20?
Posted 10 August 2012 - 09:22 AM
Posted 10 August 2012 - 09:27 AM
Posted 10 August 2012 - 09:58 AM
One of the drawbacks of the DIRECTV's "functionally identical" receiver recycling model is that they can't tout any feature that they don't all have. If you don't claim a feature, you can remove it at a later date with a lot better deniability.
It is definitely a feature that Directv should tout. Far better than the data available on DISH receivers.
With the WHDS installation model being the rule, DIRECTV really doesn't want to talk about what the H20 could do that WHDS capable models cannot.
Posted 10 August 2012 - 09:37 PM
I was just curious as to the response from DirecTV the poster got that reference doing an OTA scan. No receiver model was mentioned.
I have an HR22-100. I've reset/rescanned thrice now and still no WPXD-DT2 or WPXD-DT3, even though they come in great when I wire directly into the TV.
Samsung 50'' Plasma HDTV, HR22-100 w/ AM21, CM4228HD w/ WG AP8275, RS U75R w/ WG HDP 269, Apple TV


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