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Software Configuration Pollution: Is the invisible smog covering your Data center too?
By Hari Srinivasan-Oracle on Sep 19, 2014
Patching has always been one of the many joys (or dreads) of Oracle DBAs. The effort compounds as the Database sprawl grows and the architecture complexity increases. Additionally, there is an increasing pressure to patch the systems with minimal or zero downtime.
EM12c's Database patch automation functionality provides an end-to-end management starting with proactive patch recommendations (like quarterly PSUs and CPUs), complete pre-flight checker to ensure predictable patching during maintenance window and automation for patching the comprehensive list of products under the Oracle Database family. ( EM12c Patch Automation overview)
Starting 126.96.36.199 (EM12c R4), the support is enhanced to be more tighter, can be done in 'Out of Place' mode, and has new supplemental features to manage the process along with its additional tasks.
In this post we will take a closer look of the data guard stand by patching feature and then dive into a use case, you could try out in your environment.
Today, I stumbled over a competitor blog, conspicuous by its factual incorrectness on Enterprise Manager Snap Clone. However, I must compliment the author of the blog, because inadvertently, he has
raised a point that we have been highlighting all along. The author, with reference to Dataguard and storage technologies, argues against the cobbling of technologies together and adding another technology stack to the mix
without any automated management.
Precisely the point! In the wide realm of technologies, there are
necessities and there are accessories aka nice-to-haves. The necessities are
technologies that are needed anyway, such as a high fidelity, high performance storage from a
reputed vendor or a good DR solution for a mission critical database environment.
Similarly, for any Oracle DBA worth his/her salt, Enterprise Manager 12c is a
necessity, a part of the daily life. The Enterprise Manager agent, keeping vigil on every host, is therefore not an overhead, but the representative (the "agent" in true sense) of the DBA. Deep diagnostics, performance management, large scale configuration
management, patching and compliance management make Enterprise Manager the
darling of any Oracle DBA. All surveys suggest that any DBA spends considerable
amount of time in Enterprise Manager for performing things beyond just data cloning, so why invest in an accessory for the cloning
of Oracle test databases and unnecessarily proliferate the number of point
tools (and possibly several instances of them) that you need to manage and maintain, not to ignore the past history that cites that very few such point tools solved customers' CAPEX and OPEX problems over the long run. It is like using spreadsheet for expenses and ERP for all other financial tasks.This is not to suggest that these point tools do not have
good, innovative features. Over my tenure in the industry, I have come across
several such tools with nice features, but often the hidden costs outweigh the
benefits. Our position in this aspect has been consistent, whether it is on a competitor's tool or our own.
Few years back, we integrated My Oracle Support into Enterprise Manager with
the same consistent goal that Enterprise Manager will serve as the single pane
of glass for the Oracle ecosystem. Same has been our position on any product that we acquire.
Snap Clone's support for Dataguard and native storage stems from popular customer
demand to leverage technologies they already invested in, and not create standalone
islands of automation. Moreover, several customers have voiced in favor of the
performance and scalability advantages that they would get by leveraging the
native storage APIs. How else would you support one of the world's largest banks, a Snap Clone customer, who
performs 60,000 (sixty thousand) data refreshes per year! In any case, that
should not imply that we bind ourselves to any of those technologies. We do
support cloning on various storage systems based on ZFS filesystem. Similarly,
the Test Master refresh can be achieved with one among RMAN, Dataguard, Golden Gate or
storage replication and optionally orchestrated with EM Job System.
Enterprise Manager 12c has taken a great step in delivering features via plugins that can be revisioned independent of the framework. An unwanted side effect is that the awareness often lags what is actually supported in the latest version of the product. For example, the filesystem support was introduced last Fall. And of course Enterprise Manager 12c Snap Clone supports RAC. My esteemed colleague and DBA par excellence, in her blog has highlighted some of these to dispel some of the prevalent awareness issues. Snap Clone's usage among the E-Business Suite and Developer community does not need any special accreditation. It is heavily used by the world's largest E-Business Suite Developer community-the Oracle E-Business Suite Engineering organization itself! It is true that Snap Clone does not support restoration to any arbitrary point in time, but then our customers and prospects have not voiced a need for it. In reality, most customers want to perform intermediate data transformation such as masking and subsetting as they clone from production to test, and Enterprise Manager 12c already boasts of sophisticated data masking technologies, again via the same interface. It also includes testing features like Real Application Testing (RAT) that can complement and follow the test database creation. Future releases of Enterprise Manager will support a tighter integration among these features.
Snap Clone is delivered as a part of the Database as a Service feature set that has been pioneering, industry-leading and getting adopted at a great pace.
Little wonder that we have already received a copious amount of Openworld paper
submissions on the topic. In this emerging trend of DBaaS adoption, we find no reason to fragment the tasks such as fresh database
creation, pluggable database provisioning and cloning across silo'ed point tools (not to mention broader PaaS capabilities which may be needed for complete application testing). Each
use case could be different but needs a single service delivery platform. EM12c is that platform for Oracle. Period. So, think twice before 'adding another
technology to the mix'. You do not need to.
High Level Steps:
The animation below captures the steps in the wizard. For step by step process and to understand the support matrix check this documentation link.
Explore the functionality!!
In the next blog, will talk about automating rolling Upgrades of Databases in Physical Standby Data Guard environment using Transient Logical Standby.
Earlier this month at the Oracle Open World 2012, we celebrated the first anniversary of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c . Early adopters of Oracle Enterprise manager 12c have benefited from its federated self-service access to complete application stacks, automated provisioning, elastic scalability, metering, and charge-back capabilities.
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One of the more significant new features in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c is the ability to install Ops Center on Oracle Solaris 11, and to deploy and manage systems running Solaris 11. The Solaris 11 capabilities are in addition to the analogous features for Solaris 10 and Linux, which can all be handled from the same Ops Center infrastructure.
When the Ops Center Enterprise Controller (EC) is installed on a system running Solaris 11, the EC can create a Solaris 11 Software Update Library containing Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) content that is synchronized with the main Oracle repository at pkg.oracle.com. The Ops Center managed Solaris 11 repository becomes the package (pkg) publisher for downstream Solaris 11 deployments and updates on all Solaris 11 systems being managed by Ops Center.
Ops Center provides the ability to define Solaris 11 OS and Software Profiles comprised of Oracle Solaris 11 packages, user-supplied custom packages, scripts, and other files. Such Software Profiles profiles can then be used to install and update software on systems already running Solaris 11 in a structured and consistent way. Ops Center not only caches the main Oracle Solaris IPS repository, but more importantly it gives admins the ability to define their own preferred collection of packages so that systems can easily be kept in sync with each other, running a well-defined, life-cycle-managed Standard Operating Environment (SOE), instead of just whatever the latest content is at pkg.oracle.com.
Ops Center 12c also adds Solaris 11 features for bare-metal OS Provisioning, based on the Solaris 11 Auto Install (AI) facility. Ops Center configures the Solaris 11 AI in a way that shields admins from needing to write custom AI manifests or custom "first boot" packages. Solaris 11 deployments using Ops Center follow similar profile-based patterns as for Solaris 10 or Linux, all of which can all be deployed from the same Ops Center infrastructure running on Solaris 11. The gory details of all these different times of bare-metal OS Provisioning are handled automatically for the user so that he or she does not need to put time and resources into manually creating and maintaining infrastructure for deploying different OS's natively -- Solaris 11 with AI, Solaris 10 JumpStart with JET, or Linux with Kickstart or AutoYast. All of those OS's are handled by Ops Center under the covers, based on whatever network boot capability the OS requires (PXE/DHCP, WANBOOT, or AI), and all from the same Ops Center infrastructure running on Solaris 11.
Specific to Solaris 11 OS Provisioning (via AI), Ops Center provides its own "first-boot" package+scripts to customize the Solaris 11 deployment, and in particular this approach automatically installs the Ops Center agent. With the Ops Center Agent in place right from the start, it is easy to handle post-install steps using the Ops Center features for handling Solaris 11 OS and Software Profiles containing additional packages, scripts, and content from the Solaris 11 Software Library, described above.
Tying bare-metal Solaris 11 deployment and post-install customization together is a key way that Ops Center simplifies the overall life-cycle management for Solaris 11 (in addition to Solaris 10 and Linux). For example, a top-level plan based on "Configure and Install Logical Domains" can create numerous Logical Domains into an Oracle VM Server for SPARC "Server Pool" and provision Solaris 11 into each LDom Guest based on a powerful multi-step "Install Server" plan. Such a plan can cover the end-to-end steps for installing and updating the OS, running scripts and adjusting monitoring parameters, etc.
Here is an example of the kinds of activities that can be performed in conjunction an OS Deployment, or separately, depending on the need:
NOTE: In the above example, the last step "Create Guests" can be used to create one or more Solaris Containers within the LDom Guest, rounding out the end-to-end deployment all the way from LDom Guest to Solaris 11 Global Zone to multiple Solaris Containers, if so desired.
One of the nicest aspect of deploying and managing Solaris 11 using Ops Center Plans and Profiles is that the same content can be applied as updates to existing Solaris 11 systems, aligned to the same content as chained off a bare-metal OS Provisioning. It is up to the user which steps they want to include in a deployment plan -- whether they are updating Software Profiles on systems deployed 6 months ago to match the latest standard, or they are deploying new systems based on that same standard, Ops Center provides the means to insure that the outcome is consistent.
Here is an example of the kinds of activities that can be performed on an existing Solaris 11 OS -- either ad hoc, or immediately after a Solaris 11 OS Provisioning step, so that whether the life-cycle started with a new system, or the intent is to update a system deployed six months ago, the outcome can be the same:
In short, Ops Center running on Solaris 11 can manage Solaris 10 and Linux systems, all from a common infrastructure, and all based on a simplified, consistent, profile- and plan-based way to do the OS and Software deployments and updates. The net effect is an easy to use way to managing the life-cycle of heterogeneous systems, in a very consistent way through automation and re-use.
Please let us know what you think? Until next time...
Leon Shaner | Senior IT/Product Architect
Systems Management | Ops Center Engineering @ Oracle
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(BlackDoctor.org) — When you're getting older there are a few things you can fake. You can cover your gray hair with dye, you can whiten your teeth, and you can even camouflage your wrinkles with makeup. But your eyesight is a whole other story.
One of the truest signs of aging is discovering that you need to hold menus and newspapers at arm's length in order to read them. This usually means that presbyopia has set in, a condition in which the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus, making it difficult to see objects up close. This type of farsightedness is associated with aging and gets worse before reaching a plateau. The focusing power of the eye depends on the elasticity of the lens. This elasticity is gradually lost as people age. The result is a slow decrease in the ability of the eye to focus on nearby objects.
People usually notice the condition around age 45, when they realize that they need to hold reading materials farther away in order to focus on them. Presbyopia is a natural part of the aging process and affects practically everyone.
Blurred close vision that leaves eyes tired and strained is an early hint of presbyopia's arrival. After reading or doing other detail work, you may find it hard to see distant objects clearly; the problem may be more pronounced after reading in poor light, or in the evening when you are tired. The condition occurs regardless of whether you are nearsighted, farsighted or astigmatic. However, presbyopia often affects farsighted people at a younger age than those who are myopic (nearsighted). If you're nearsighted, you may be able to overcome presbyopia when it first develops simply by taking off your glasses to read. Eventually, however, as your presbyopia worsens and the lens of your eye becomes stiffer, you may need corrective lenses or other measures to cope with this common condition.
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Corrective lenses. The most common remedy for presbyopia is optical correction, a.k.a. reading glasses. If you already wear corrective lenses, you might consider bifocals, trifocals or progressive lenses, which combine several levels of adjustment to correct both distance and close-up vision problems.
Some people use two pairs of glasses—one for distance and one for close work. Many drugstores and supermarkets carry magnifying reading glasses that may help. Consult your ophthalmologist about an appropriate strength before purchasing a pair, and never buy reading glasses in lieu of having an eye examination.
You can also get prescription contact lenses that correct the vision in one eye for reading and the other for distance—a technique called monovision. Multifocal contact lenses (combining several levels of adjustment, as found in reading glasses) are also available. Whichever type of lens you choose, you may need frequent changes in prescription, because presbyopia often becomes progressively worse until about ages 60 to 65, when it stabilizes.

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New Jersey taxpayers shelled out $1 million dollars to fund an internal review of the now infamous Bridgegate scandal. The review, conducted by Randy Mastro, an attorney hand-picked by Chris Christie, released its report Thursday. It said that the governor was absolutely innocent and knew nothing about the lane closings until he read it in the paper.
The review concluded the lanes were closed by incredibly stupid members of the governor's staff. It laid the blame squarely on deputy chief-of-staff, Bridget Kelly, and Christie's appointee to the Port Authority, David Wildstein.
The thing most interesting about this obviously pre-determined finding was that it implies that the whole thing was the result of Bridgett Kelly's emotional state after she got dumped. It states she had been in a romantic relationship with Christie's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, and she was an emotional wreck after he dumped her. The report referred to the relationship or the dumping ten times. The attorney conducting the investigation, Randy Mastro, brought that point up several times in his news conference.
Both Kelly and Stepien, through their attorneys, have released statements blasting the report's assertions. Kelly called the attack on her "sexist." Others including the NY Times have asked what that had to do with anything.
The report reached its conclusion without interviewing any of the key figures in the scandal including the jilted Bridgett Kelly, her so-called lover, or co-conspirator David Wildstein. The attorney did not interview other key players either like Port Authority Chairman, David Sampson, who resigned suddenly the day after the report was released.
Christie's attorney must have learned how to conduct an investigation in the Soviet Union. It makes one wonder if this is how former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie conducted investigations before he issued indictments.
Many questions remain unanswered. For a million dollars, one would expect that Randy Mastro would have determined some motive for the lane closures. Even if Ms. Kelly was emotionally distraught, how would closing the lanes punish the guy who allegedly dumped her? She has never publicly blamed him for the closures. Why would David Wildstein go along with this scheme if it were just the act of a scorned woman who had no authority to issue such an order on her own? Why would Wildstein not ask the governor about it when they talked on the first day of the lane closure? Or did he? The governor can't recall, but Wildstein can.
If Mastro did not interview the key players who were implicated in e-mails including Kelly, Wildstein, Stepien, Baroni, or Sampson because they refused to cooperate, then how could his conclusion be so definitive? Mastro should have issued a disclaimer saying that since the people who had direct knowledge in the closing and the cover-up were never talked to, he is not able to issue any conclusive finding. And, why did David Sampson suddenly resign?
Furthermore, Mastro provided no evidence to support his charge about the Kelly-Stepien affair, Kelly's emotional state, or her motive. In fact, despite nearly 1,500 footnotes in the report, he did not release the transcript of his interviews with Christie or other people on whose testimony he based his conclusion.
Yes, those animals spotted hopping all around Trenton, New Jersey appear to be Kangaroos.
Chris Christie has to be the most arrogant and narcissistic politician since Nixon. He really thinks the public is so stupid they will not see through this amateurish white-wash. It remains to be seen, however, if he can sell this box of garbage to the billionaires in Las Vegas this weekend, gathered to anoint their choice for the next president who they plan to buy the office for.
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As a kid, I thought AIDS was just a joke. I know now that it's not funny.
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Well, here she is! Isobel Maria Sullivan, born on November 21st 2012 at 13:47 and weighing 8lbs 8oz arrived a little earlier than expected last week. Last Monday I posted what I thought would be our last pregnancy diary update until Baby 12's scheduled delivery on the Thursday. I mentioned that I had […]
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Earlier this week someone emailed me about Laura Ingraham flooding one of her boyfriend's house. The emailer told me to investigate, but I couldn't find anything to substantiate, although it does seem consistent with Laura Ingraham's behavior towards men.
I was doing some research today and I found something interesting. The Rittenhouse Review wrote about "the garden house incident." Apparently Laura Ingraham was lusting after a married postal worker around the time her and David Brock were friends. When Ingraham realized she could not have the married man to herself, she allegedly flooded the man's garden house.
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Meaning Of Letters before Case Numbers
Started by southercaliinquirer , Apr 15 2011 11:31 PM
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what is the meaning and also the difference between the letters CCN, CN, and also SCN.
Obviously, it depends on the state(s) and locality(ies) where the case(s) are pending.
Obviously one is more serious than the other
That's not the least bit obvious to me (simply based on the prefixes "CCN," "CN," and "SCN").
Does it have anything to do with being sentenced to state prison, over county jail?
The case number is assigned when charges are filed, so it's not going to change depending on the sentence.


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Lino Brocka, "Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang" (1974) / "Insiang" (1976).
Can I get an awful confession out of the way – namely, that I've never been the greatest fan of Lino Brocka? That I find his films, as socially incisive and powerful as they are – and admittedly I've seen only a little more than a handful – to be, at times, painfully predictable and tendentious, with all the subtlety of a bullhorn? (Like Oggs Cruz, I like Ishmael Bernal more – perhaps a lot more.)
And yet. Brocka is responsible for some of the most indelible, haunting images of Philippine cinema, as well as forming the backbone for its second Golden Age. The way his political commitment informs his films has influenced most every serious Filipino filmmaker during and after him, including current favorites of the festival circuit like Lav Diaz and Brillante Mendoza. But I find that Brocka's generosity of spirit is at times matched by an equally parsimonious trust in the viewing audience to parse things out for themselves without heavy-handed symbolism to guide the way.
Take, for instance, his grittily eloquent classic from 1975, Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Neon) – a powerful film, with brilliant acting on the part of Bembol Roco in his acting debut as a wide-eyed naïf from the provinces.* But despite Brocka's fidelity to social realism, innocence and corruption are so starkly delineated, and there is little moral ambiguity or depth in his characters, even in their names. (I haven't seen it since 1991 – and I'll get to see it again today at the mini Brocka retrospective at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival – so my memory is a little hazy, but you might want to brace yourself for how stunningly Sinophobic it is. Okay, that part's from Edgardo Reyes' novel, but still…)
One of Brocka's other acknowledged masterpieces, Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (You Have Been Weighed but Found Wanting) from 1974, arguably inaugurates that same simplistic template of moral clarity. (The "official" English translation — "Weighed but Found Wanting" — loses a bit of that stentorian polysyllabic weight in the title. "Ka" means "you", and so the English title also lacks the accusatory force of the Tagalog original.) While Tinimbang is painted across a wide cinematic canvas, a cross-section of the people of a small provincial city, we observe many of the events through the eyes of Christopher de Leon, in, um, his acting debut as a wide-eyed naïf from the provinces. Though not quite so naïve: Junior may be burgis, and therefore already tainted by his class background, but by his hesitations (and not necessarily actions) we know he has a good heart.
The film is also about the love, or something like it, between Kuala the village madwoman and Berto the wise leper, and their life in a hut by the side of a cemetery. Did I mention they have a dog named Lupa, which means "soil", or "earth"? Even by Italian neorealist standards, this hamfistedness probably wouldn't have flown; it's tempting to see Tinimbang as a parable, but everything else is so transparently laid out for the viewer. Yes, we got it the first time.
The madwoman and the leper are, of course, the only purely decent human beings in the entire town. The town bullies and drunkards – of which there is no shortage in the film — routinely humiliate both. While the town in general represents society's indifference to these outcasts, villainy itself is shrilly personified by Junior's bickering parents; we know this because their house is perfectly hideous, for one, and the father is played by Eddie Garcia — as always, perfectly cast as the flamboyant, womanizing villain — but they're ultimately caricatures with little depth.
More interesting is Brocka's depiction of a Catholic women's association and their infernal sewing circle – ostensibly representing a space safe from the brutal world of men (more on this later), but one no less free from bloodletting, through the symbolic violence of gossip and the women's unilateral exercise of a stifling morality. (They actually provide some of the few scenes in the film that aren't quite grim and humorless: there's a sequence where the Crimson Christian Ladies pose to have their photographs taken with the deceased, and, later, a montage that features close-ups of badly-capped teeth. It's crude, but it works.)
Brocka masterfully creates these distinctions between women and men throughout, particularly in a series of small, precisely choreographed scenes during a wake, focusing on the division of male and female spaces and the labor associated with them (food preparation on one side, smoking and drinking in the other, a poster of Ferdinand Marcos smiling benevolently from the wall, as if to give his silent approval). There are even parallel scenes of public urination; it's crude, but it works. (Note to American audiences potentially puzzled by this: the English word "jingle" is Philippine slang for the act of peeing – thus the seemingly incongruous group singing of "Jingle Bells" in a crucial scene in the film.)
Brocka's protagonists are not necessarily innocents – when Berto first interacts with Kuala there's a genuinely queasy undercurrent to the scene – but they are sanctified and redeemed by their subsequent abasement. And one can see this constant narrative of suffering that seems to run through much of Philippine dramatic cinema, sourced straight from Jose Rizal's "Noli Me Tangere" via his unforgettable madwoman character Sisa. (Those of you familiar with Rey Ileto's "Pasyon and Revolution" may be tempted to trace the narrative's genealogy further.)
Indeed, if it isn't at all clear to the audience yet how they're supposed to think, there's a sermon twenty minutes in that just about sums up the entire movie, just in case ("Judge not, lest ye be judged.") "The heart cannot be seen with the eye," says Berto, as he instructs Junior "not to judge what is different". Disney movies don't even spell out their lessons like this. In Brocka's defense, one might argue that it's the cinematic equivalent of writing in ALL CAPS amid the din and terror of Martial Law, that his didacticism was a way of heightening the contradictions. Whether you want to read any Marxist-style tactics into this is up to you.
The title of the film is from the Book of Daniel – "Mene mene, tekel upharsin," the Aramaic words written on the palace wall of King Belshazzar of Babylon. It's an accusation from the hand of God – that your kingdom's days are numbered – but it functions as Brocka's cinematic condemnation as well: of the film's audience, of the townspeople assembled at the inexorable tragedy of the conclusion, with Kuala rendered saintly and transcendent by her suffering. Teacher, mayor, housewife, policeman, doctor, drunkard, student – they're all here, indicted by the moving finger. Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang is great art, yes, but it's also art that needlessly beseeches, and that, in the end, perhaps diminishes its greatness.
Brocka's flawed masterpiece Insiang (1976) is no less cutting in its political critique, but that isn't the main thrust of this film that in my opinion is closer to noir potboiler than Sirkian melodrama; instead, it's folded into the narrative in more interesting and subtle ways. It does take place in the slums of Manila, yes, and the first gratuitous image the audience sees is that of a pig strung upside down and gutted, followed by overly familiar shots of grinding urban poverty: half-naked children, people scavenging through trash, and so on.
Brocka loops the sound of squealing pigs for maximum deafening effect in the abattoir credit sequence – a too-obvious metaphor, yes, but not one beaten to death; unlike Tinimbang, the film moves on quickly to the grubby drama at hand. Indeed, one signal difference from the earlier films mentioned is that our protagonists aren't inherently virtuous because of their poverty; they scheme, they seduce, they envy. They're all too human.
The institutions that Brocka singles out for condemnation in Tinimbang and Maynila are merely gestured at here. A church and a factory appear discreetly in the far background, but their emissaries are absent. These institutions' presences are merely registered; they loom silent and uncaring over the teeming hell below and its denizens. In contrast to the rural widescreen panorama of Tinimbang, Insiang is almost like a chamber piece, a melodrama distilled to its essence, compressed and tightened in much the same way economic privations bear down brutally on the family at the center of the film, the way poverty squeezes and constrains.
One might argue this sense of compression and narrowness is reflected in the mise-en-scene (did I use that right?) itself. There's a scene early in the movie when Tonia explodes in fury at the dining table; the framing had always seemed off to me (it's practically a medium shot, with Mona Lisa confined in a quadrant), until I realized that Brocka was trying to cram all the members of the freeloading extended family into the shot. One doesn't see much camera movement either in the street and alley scenes, which I thought at first was due to financial constraints, until I realized that the exteriors were just as cramped as the squalid interiors they were filming in.
I don't really want to go into the plot too much – during a recent second viewing I realized I had forgotten a sudden turnabout in the third act by the excellent Hilda Koronel, who plays our title heroine – and so I'll refrain from posting a synopsis. Suffice it to say that the events that unfold are awfully sordid, but one can almost imagine Brocka grinning to himself at the twists of the narrative. (Or perhaps not – it's hard to tell exactly where Brocka's sympathies lie here, and besides, it's out of scope for this blog entry.) In any case, it's not all somber and cheerless; there's some business with bath water, for instance, that's surely meant to be a bit of an uncomfortable running joke.
The acting is of uniformly high caliber, partly because the roles, from the screenplay by Mario O'Hara and Lamberto Antonio, are far more complex than Tinimbang, for instance. (O'Hara, who played Berto the leper, also wrote the story and screenplay for Tinimbang, and is one of the canonical Filipino directors in his own right.) Koronel is good as always, but really, those cheekbones of hers simply don't look like they belong in this movie. Ruel Vernal is simply fantastic as the villain: smooth rascal one moment, thuggish brute in another.
But Insiang should perhaps be best remembered for Mona Lisa's corrosive performance as a short-tempered harridan who "inappropriately" revels in her sexuality. I've re-watched the movie from start to finish pretending that Tonia was the star and wronged heroine of the film, and honestly, it works. Even the torrent of invective coming from a woman like her – an abandoned mother, forced to feed a starving passel of extended relatives, simply looking for solace wherever it can be found – seems justifiable. She's almost sympathetic.
Insiang may ostensibly be about its female characters, but it's also a relentlessly scathing portrait of Filipino masculinity at its ugliest, with women seen as male chattel. In one scene, we see Insiang in the street as she carries her ironed laundry between a group of children playing on one side and the young men gambling on the other. The point is clear: both possess the same amount (or lack) of maturity, except that the men have no excuse.
Well – they do, kind of: "I'm only a man," the men in Brocka's films seem to say over and over, as a pathetic plea. They can't help themselves, both literally and metaphorically, and it might be key to understanding Brocka's view on gender relations. Or something.
The women don't fare particularly well, either; as in Tinimbang, sharp tongues are used to discipline and ostracize each other. With only her words and a hot clothes iron for defense, Insiang finally confronts her mother with the truth. Seared into my brain, it's the scene I remember most from the movie trailer while it played on TV when I was a child, and I was surprised to discover later that its violence was primarily emotional. And I was similarly surprised, in an even later re-watching, to discover how the scene, as powerful and emotionally bruising as it was, is played out in a cringingly stereotypical "female" manner. There are "strong" women in this film, all right, but only the blinkered would call this a film about female empowerment.
Insiang isn't without its missteps, to be sure, and when they're bad they can be horrid: the cello and flute swell in the background every single time the camera zooms in on Insiang, and fights proceed along the choreographed over-the-top Pinoy way, with the usual screaming and slapping and tossing of various kitchen implements. But there are small, smart touches, like the way housewives chatting in front of a sari-sari store are filmed through iron bars, making them look imprisoned, or the meticulous way Brocka consistently foregrounds triangular relationships, framing scenes of two people in conversation, with an isolated third peering in from one side. It's compelling work, to be sure, but I wish, as I seem to do every time I see a Brocka film, that he had exercised a little more subtlety.
*Not to be confused with Allan Paule in Macho Dancer (1988), who plays a wide-eyed naïf from the provinces – there's no mistaking the fact that Brocka, a native of Sorsogon, identifies with his protagonists – but the aesthetics are texturally opposite: one's about grime, and the other's about soap. Lots and lots of soap.
I've always enjoyed Bernal's films much more than Brocka's. I liked Maynila and Insiang, but I loved Manila by Night and Himala. I've found myself disliking Brocka for some of the same reasons I don't really dig Brillante Mendoza's work (with the exception of Serbis); they both seem to be shoving their ideas down your throat to the point where everything in their films seems to lose a little bit of life. However, unlike Mendoza, who seems to be exploiting the Philippines every opportunity he gets under the banner of social issues, I do recognize the great importance Brocka has had to the country (it seems, as formulaic and predictable as his films may have been, they're something that the Philippines needed at the time, and I respect that). If it wasn't for Brocka and others from that generation, I don't know if we'd have people like Lav Diaz doing what they do, and the world needs films like Ebolusyon.
On a side note, I'm disappointed I'll be missing the Brocka retrospective. I've never seen any of his films on a big screen and was looking forward to the festival for that very reason. Have fun.
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This is a yummy and nutritious review! Comparative, with social and political conditioning, a sufficient talk on its aesthetics, definitely AUTEURIST in stand point, you write well. Kudos, my friend! This is the Brocka that I always consider a masterpiece.
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Agreed. I have heard from couple alumni that lee's arm is not close to making the throws. I would guess that he will be given light workouts and yet prime to roll by Big 12 conference. Until then, it may be like JT Tiller at the helm in Lincoln.
So I don't further derail a thread and i'm sure that most won't care, but i've heard the same rumors about Lee's recovery. That said, Bo this afternoon said that Lee is 100% and ready to go. I'm sure the truth lies somewere in between.
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Step into the world of Isa Genzken at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and realize it is also your world. Exhibited now through Aug. 3, 2014 in "Isa Genzken: Retrospective," the full range of sculptures, paintings, photographs, films and collages by the famed German artist repeatedly reflect a Chicago dominated by skyscrapers, a New York affected by 911 and two countries, Germany and the United States, driven by politics, corporations and consumerism.
There is also a personal side exemplified by hanging rings that could be in a gym or above a hospital bed that are ominous and at the same time, hopeful, pull-up aids. A pair of sculpted heads that although near each other, don't seem to communicate.
They are among the many works done by Genzken from the 1970s to now. Spread across the MCA's fourth-floor special exhibit space starting on the right (south), the works follow Genzken's artistic exploration beginning with such 1970's experimental, single and small group installations as grey, cement block renderings of building and sound and video equipment. Lacquer-colored elongated wood sculptures horizontally-laid on the floor also mark this period.
In the 1990s, her architectural installations become open steel and resin windows. In the early 2000s, the elongated sculptures are now colorful vertical columns named for people.
Her view of the Bauhaus style is expressed in a late 1990s sculptures series, "F… the Bauhaus." Architecture continues to fascinate Genzken as structural and social commentary. Sleek, mirrored glass buildings that reflect become her "Social Façade" series in early 2000.
On the north side of the exhibit space is her more recent and chilling "Empire /Vampire" series influenced by 911 and the Iraqi invasion. It is followed by the nationalistic and consumer oriented "America Room" and the large, eerie, "Oil XI" installation of suitcases, owls and astronauts that seems to beg the question of who protects whom and what does the future hold.
Maybe her answer is the pseudo, people as actors 2013 series that fronts the exhibit.
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago with the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the Isa Genzken exhibit opened at MoMA and will move to Dallas in September.
Details: "Isa Genzken: Retrospective," now through Aug. 3, 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. For more information visit MCA Chicago or call 312-280-2660.


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College Hockey:Harvard women's coach Stone wins NCAA Silver Anniversary Award
Katey Stone, a 1989 graduate of New Hampshire and current coach of the 2014 U.S. women's Olympic team, is one of six individuals to earn the NCAA's 2014 Silver Anniversary Award.
The Silver Anniversary Award annually recognizes distinguished individuals on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their college athletics careers. The Honors Committee, comprised of representatives of NCAA member schools and nationally prominent former student-athletes, selects each year's recipients.
The other 2014 recipients are Troy Aikman, Rodney Peete, Earl Martin Phalen, George Pyne and Dara Torres. The NCAA will recognize the honorees at the Honors Celebration during the 2014 NCAA Convention in San Diego, Calif.
Stone has coached Harvard since the 1994-95 season and is the winningest coach in the history of Division I women's hockey. She took a one-year hiatus this year to coach in the Olympics.
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It's About Action, Explains the Paleo Treats Team
One of the most reviled men in one of the most reviled industries of recent times (Tim Spicer of Sandline International, progenitor of the modern security contractor company) said, "…your effectiveness comes totally from within your own efforts, and the excellence you obtain in whatever you do is directly proportionate to the effort you are prepared to put in." How could someone who believes that hard work delivers hard won success (and who has a very strong internal sense of right and wrong) be so criticized and abused that he literally wrote a book in explanation ("An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace, War, and The Sandline Affair")?
I'll not get into the politics or the details of the story (as fascinating as it may be), but I want to make this point: A common myth is that the pursuit of excellence carries with it a guarantee of positive recognition.
As can be seen in the example of Mr. Spicer, this is not always true. Rather, sometimes hard work in pursuit of a legitimate goal will get you a good kicking in the press. This breach between hard work and assured positive recognition drives home the fact that while positive attention and recognition is nice, it is not intrinsically linked to why we do what we do.
Sure, it's nice to put up the 1% for the Planet logo on our website, but the real work, the real effect, comes from the solidarity of each of us putting our money and efforts where our mouth is. That is why 1%FTP is so damn awesome.
We all have our own pet project (or set of projects), which range from protecting vernal pools to stopping dams to restoring a once clean river. Wherever you fit into the larger 1%FTP network is your own decision. If you're a part of this group, you support your project with more than "awareness", which is, as adventurer Robert Young Pelton said, "a disease of modern times." The basis of Pelton's idea is that the much hyped flow from awareness to understanding to action ends with most people at the awareness level, and they accept that. 1%FTPers don't.
To move beyond just being "aware" to the phases of understanding and action involves work. That work, that actual movement of physical energy from one entity to another, is what makes change, makes a difference, and ultimately is what 1%FTP stands for.
We at Paleo Treats think it's important to make and sell cookies and then donate part of the our sales to the San Diego River Park Foundation, a local nonprofit that works to engage the community with the river and protect it. Other businesses build bicycles or warm jackets or surfboards and contribute 1% of their sales somewhere else. However, at the end of the day we are united in our efforts to make a positive change in the world, recognized or not.
That change, that effort, that move beyond awareness without the bonds of needing positive recognition to affirm what we're doing, is the reason we're stoked to be part of 1% for the Planet.
So here's to hard work and change, whether light-shined or dark-hidden, in company with all you other 1%FTPers out there.
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Danny Meyer's Career Almost Ruined by Rogue Light Fixture
His best day ever involved braised short ribs and two bottles of Beaujolais with Julia Child, though.
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Nov. 20, 2013
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
The University of Alabama completed next season's football schedule on Wednesday with an agreement to play Southern Miss in Tuscaloosa on September 13, 2014. Alabama's schedule includes seven home games, four road games, and one neutral site game next season.
The Crimson Tide will open the 2014 season against West Virginia, which will take place in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game for the second straight year and fourth time overall. Alabama opened the 2008 and 2009 seasons in Atlanta with wins over Clemson and Virginia Tech, respectively. UA and Virginia Tech kicked off the season this year in the Georgia Dome on August 31. Home games in 2014 include Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss, Florida, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Western Carolina and Auburn. Road games are Ole Miss, Arkansas, Tennessee and LSU.
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Fisker Hybrid cars are coming to the GCC and Egypt through the UAE based Al-Futtaim group. They're opening the region's first Fisker dealership in Dubai's Festival City at the end of this year.
The Fisker is famous for its Karma car, the most luxurious electrical\gasoline hybrid car on the market.
The Karma is an expensive car. It starts in the States at around $100 thousand and goes up to $120 thousand, which I think is a high price to pay just to be slightly more environmentally friendly.
GCC gas prices are extremely cheap, so the Karma's features of being electrically charged and sun powered are not that attractive. Especially in a region where there's hardly anyone who cares about the environment to begin with. But if our young people think of it's a cool car to own and an awesome one to drive, then yeah, it could sell well in the GCC.


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Justin Bieber Visits Sick Fan Crystal Montgomery in Hospital (PHOTO)
Justin Bieber took some time out of his busy touring schedule to visit a sick fan in Canada on Monday.
The "Believe" singer met with 18-year-old Crystal Montgomery, who's suffering from bone cancer, at a hospital in Edmonton.
Bieber was made aware of Montgomery's wish to meet him through his fans on Twitter.
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As one of the most sought after DJs in the industry, DJ/Producer Joe Gauthreaux has a resume full of club appearances and main events that span the last 14 years – with the list growing each passing year. From events during Winter Party Festival to Atlantis Cruises to Black Party New York to San Diego Pride, his name is notorious for an amazing musical experience.
Gauthreaux debuted on the decks in 1996, quickly earning the respect of his peers after garnering resident status at New Orleans hot spot Oz. His all-encompassing sets soon caught the attention of out-of-towners, and it was only a matter of time before this DJ was being imported by clubs across the U.S., in addition to international venues throughout Canada and beyond. The incomparable versatility of his sound immediately endeared him to the circuit culture where he remains a top draw, spinning high profile events such as Black & Blue in Montreal, Winter Party in Miami, and the Saint-at-Large Black Party, just to name a few.
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Troy E. Gruber Sr., 85, of Chambersburg died Feb. 5, 2013, after a battle with cancer. Born June 16, 1927, in Mount Joy, he was the son of the late Ida Jane Gruber. Later moving to Harrisburg, he graduated from William Penn H.S. in 1945. A veteran of the
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Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal, Two National Defense Medals, and Korean Service Medal (2 Stars). His naval career took him to several countries on a range of assignments through his numerous duty stations, to include Atlantic Fleet Mobile Photographic Group, Naval School of Photography, U.S.S. Leyte and U.S.S. Palau. His wide-range of assignments encompassed event from the shores of Korea, entombment of General Douglas MacArthur to flying with the Navy's aerial acrobatic team "Blue Angels". After his retirement from the U.S. Navy he continued his photographic profession with the Federal Government, first with Weapons Systems Test Center at Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center Maryland, where through aerial photography he documented the use and actions of airborne weaponry. Several years later, he joined the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs where he photographed everyday reservation life of the American Indian in several Western States and Pacific Northwest including Alaska where he documented Kim Agnew, daughter of the late Vice-President Spiro Agnew, visit to remote Native Alaskan villages. The images he created were used to produce multimedia presentations utilized in Congressional Hearings and Public information, before returning to Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center Maryland where he retired from Federal Service. He was committed to community service with civic organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America; Fleet Reserve Association,
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College Hockey:Clarkson Upsets No. 3 Cornell
POTSDAM, N.Y. — Sophomore David Leggio posted 23 saves and three different Golden Knights scored goals as Clarkson University snapped a three-game losing streak by knocking off ECACHL leader No. 3 Cornell University 3-1 before 2,571 fans at Cheel Arena on Friday night.
The Knights, who won for only the second time in their past nine games, improved their record to 14-13-2 overall and 7-9-1 in the ECACHL. Cornell, which saw its unbeaten streak end at six games (5-0-1), falls to 16-5-3 overall and to 11-4-2 in the league. Clarkson faces off against Colgate on Saturday, while the Big Red plays at St. Lawrence.
The Golden Knights made the most of their limited scoring opportunities in the first period and were strong in specialty teams play to take a 2-0 lead over the Big Red in the opening 20 minutes. Freshman defenseman Tyrell Mason opened the scoring at 3:54 on Clarkson's first shot of the game. Mason's shot from the point found its way through traffic in front for his first collegiate goal. Junior defenseman Michael Grenzy and freshman Shea Guthrie assisted.
The Knights made it 2-0 at 13:17 with a power-play tally from senior Jeff Genovy. With less than 30 seconds remaining in the Knights' only man-advantage opportunity of the opening stanza, Guthrie took a shot from the bottom of the right circle that deflected off the crossbar out to Genovy in the slot where he lifted in his eighth goal of the year. Grenzy picked up his second assist. Clarkson, which had only five shots in the period, killed off three Cornell power plays.
Leggio, who turned aside all eight shots he faced in the first period, made five more in the second frame, including two of his best on the night to keep Clarkson in front. With 8:52 remaining in the period, Leggio made a sprawling pad stop on the Big Red senior Cam Abbott and a glove save off of a hard wrist shot by junior Mark McCutheon, who came in on a two-on-one break with 8:02 left in the second.
Clarkson's leading scorer, sophomore center Nick Dodge, put the Green and Gold on top 3-0 at 4:06 of the third with a hard shot from the top of the right for his team-high 15th goal of the year. Sophomore David Cayer assisted.
The Big Red spoiled Leggio's shutout bid with junior Byron Bitz's fifth goal of the year at 13:42. Senior Matt Moulson assisted.
Cornell outshot Clarkson 24-20, but the Knights, who won for the first time in six games against the Big Red, enjoyed one of their best nights on specialty teams. Clarkson was 1-of-2 on the power play while shutting down the Big Red on all six of their man advantage chances.
Junior David McKee started in the Cornell goal and made three stops on five period shots by Clarkson. Senior Louis Chabot came on in relief through the final 40 minutes for the Big Red and made 14 saves while allowing one goal.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Two Washington football players - Keith Price and Bishop Sankey - were named to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, given annually to the college football player of the year by the Maxwell Football Club.
Price, a senior from Compton, Calif., enters his third season as the UW's starting quarterback with 5,953 career passing yards, the fourth-highest total in school history. Price has 54 career touchdown passes, just one shy of the school record (55, Cody Pickett). His 524 career completions rank third and his 831 attempts are fourth-most.
Sankey, a sophomore tailback from Spokane, Wash., rushed for 1,439 yards last season, his first as the UW starter. Those 1,439 yards were third-most in Husky history while his 16 rushing touchdowns were second-most.
The Maxwell Award, named in honor of Robert W. "Tiny" Maxwell, has been given to America's College Player of the Year since 1937. Maxwell's contributions to the game of football were extensive, including as a player, a sportswriter and an official.Semifinalists for the Maxwell Award will be announced Oct. 29, while the three finalists for will be unveiled Nov. 25. The winners of the 2013 Maxwell Award will be announced as part of the Home Depot College Football Awards Show held in Dec. 12th.


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GlobeMed at the University of Rochester partners with Kallpa Iquitos in Iquitos, Peru to support community-based health and education programs.
GlobeMed at the University of Rochester + Kallpa Iquitos
GlobeMed at the University of Rochester | Rochester, New York
Kallpa Iquitos | Iquitos, Peru
Key Fact
62% of 17-18 year olds have not completed secondary school education, the equivalent of a high school diploma/GRE.
"The power of collaboration, exchanging ideas, and continued communication cannot be underestimated. Truly understanding the passion and success behind a network full of partnership, both nationally and abroad, brought this to light."
– Shouling Zhang, University of Rochester '13
About the Partnership
Kallpa in Iquitos, Peru, is a national non-profit that was founded in 1991 with the intention to empower Peruvians to overcome societal challenges. Specifically, Kallpa works to implement unified and sustainable programs to improve the health and educational opportunities for the youth in Iquitos. Kallpa currently manages youth centers where they offer workshops to support youth that aspire to pursue higher education. The youth centers work closely with the people in each neighborhood to meet their specific needs through various projects and programs. A health center has been set up in the largest neighborhood, El Porvenir, and Kallpa is presently working to extend affordable health benefits to the each of the other six districts within Iquitos.
Through these community-based methods, Kallpa ultimately hopes to eliminate barriers to higher education and proper health benefits. Without an organized road system in Iquitos, the goal is to create these opportunities throughout each neighborhood so that they are viable options. One of the youth centers' favorite quotes is: "No necesitas ser grande para empezar, pero necesitas empezar para ser grande" (You do not need to be great to start, but you need to start to be great) and their futures are becoming even greater by partnering with GlobeMed at the University of Rochester.
A couple years ago, Kallpa developed a Sexual and Reproductive Differential Health Clinic in order to spread awareness of the importance of safe sex to the youth in Iquitos, Peru. This clinic provides a formal education on the risks associated with sex and allows the youth to make informed decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health. Kallpa soon expects to transfer the services of this clinic to the state to make this project fully sustainable.
Kallpa is also continuing their work on training members of the youth organizations to teach their students properly to excel in many aspects of life including leadership and healthy habits. Along with this training, Kallpa is still putting forth the initiative to promote youth micro-projects, which are ways that the youth can give back to their community by attempting to improve problems they have seen or experienced.
Extending past their current projects, Kallpa is starting to implement a new program called the Primary School Enrichment Program, which they are prototyping in the largest neighborhood in Iquitos, El Porvenir. This new project will be taught by alumni of the education system in order to support boys, girls, and adolescents that are struggling in mathematics and communication. Along with aiding children in these subjects, this program offers the opportunity for students to reinforce skills to improve their social life, environment, and health. This project not only aids the students, but also the alumni by allowing them to improve their learning and providing them an environment to implement their micro-projects.
GlobeMed at the University of Rochester hopes to raise $11,000 for Kallpa's educational and health related programs with the youth in Iquitos, Peru. These programs will, in time, provide the means for these children to reach their goals and accomplish their dreams. What if some of the world's greatest minds are trapped by a lack of opportunity?
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According to the leaked documents, Dell's Lightning boasts a 4.1-inch WVGA (800x480) OLED display, a 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, 1GB of Flash memory with 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of storage via microSD (presumably built-in).
It also has a full QWERTY keyboard, a five-megapixel autofocus camera (possibly with flash), 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, GPS, an accelerometer, a compass, FM radio, as well as support for Flash, Silverlight, and various popular audio and video formats.
The Dell Lightning is destined for AT&T and T-Mobile, and is expected to arrive in the fourth quarter of this year along with a volley of other Windows Phone 7 devices.


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Hello from the bottom of the samples pile. This is the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles of wine that have crossed my doorstep recently.
Let's begin this week with some continued impressive work from Thomas Fogarty winery. Winemaker Nathan Kandler has been doing some truly stellar work there, and these Pinots (and a Chardonnay) are showing extremely well in their youth.
I've got another Chardonnay in the pile worth looking at from Oregon, as well as a lovely white Rhone blend from Mendocino county courtesy of the reliable Sonoma producer, Anaba.
One of the most exciting wines this week was a brand new, never-before-released effort from one of my favorite wineries, Smith-Madrone. They've released a reserve Cabernet from one single section of their vineyards named Cook's Flat. It's an excellent wine and one that I believe will age beautifully. Unfortunately it is made in quite tiny quantities and probably needs to be purchased directly from the winery.
The irrepressible Randall Graham continues to prove that Syrah is not dead, thanks to his latest release of a lean, mineral Bien Nacido Syrah, which after several excellent vintages, has now become my favorite wine that he makes.
Finally, look for a nice Merlot from Livermore and a couple of other nice Cabernets from Napa below.
2007 Smith-Madrone "Cook's Flat Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignon, Spring Mountain District, Napa, California
Medium to dark garnet in color, this wine smells of espresso, cherry, and dark bitter chocolate with hints of dried herbs. In the mouth very plush tannins wrap around a core of cherry cola and tobacco flavors that are juicy with excellent acidity. Smooth, seamless and very well balanced, this wine is tasty now but will be exceptional in 10 years. 14.2% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $200.
2010 Anaba "Alder Springs Vineyard" White Rhone Blend, Mendocino, California
Light gold in color, this wine smells of honey, peach nectar, and pastry cream. In the mouth flavors of golden apples, quince, and vanilla crème brulee mix with a lively acidity and a very pretty mineral undertone. Nicely balanced and incredibly easy to drink (a tiny hint of sugar helps with this). A blend of 38% Roussanne, 33% Marsanne, and 32% Viognier. 13.8% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $38. click to buy.
2011 Thomas Fogarty "Razorback Vineyard" Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Light garnet in color, this wine smells of raspberry and raspberry leaf with a hint of bergamot. In the mouth, delicate flavors of raspberry and wet earth have an ethereal quality to them -- lifted and airy over the palate. Excellent acidity. Very faint tannins, and hints of wet leaves in the finish. 12.7% alcohol. Score: between 8.5 and 9. Cost: $65. click to buy.
2010 Thomas Fogarty "Albutom Vineyard" Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Light gold in the glass, this wine smells of pineapple and lemon curd. In the mouth, wonderfully dry flavors of lemon curd take on a slight tropical tone, as if flavors of pineapple are waiting in the wings, or merely being borne on the breeze. A beautiful chalky, mineral backbone sits beneath this fruit, with pretty acidity and good length. 11.9% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $56. click to buy.
2011 Thomas Fogarty "Rapley Trail Vineyard M Block" Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Medium garnet in color, this wine smells of raspberry bramble, mulberry, and a stemmy, woody, wet leaf quality that is quite charming. In the mouth, dark forest floor, mulberry and raspberry flavors have a wonderful mineral quality to them even as bright acidity brings in the tang of the raspberries as the wine passes across the palate. Dark and brooding, with some time needed in the bottle. Faint tannins have a harder edge to them. 13.3% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $80. click to buy.
2008 Ackerman Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California
Dark garnet in color, this wine smells of rich cherry, cedar, and a hint of graphite. In the mouth suede-like tannins with a muscular aspect surround flavors of cherry, cocoa powder, and hints of oak. Decent acidity and nice balance. 14.8% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $125. click to buy.
2010 Steven Kent Winery "Small Lot Offering - Ghielmetti Vineyard" Merlot, Livermore Valley, Calfornia
Medium garnet in the glass, this wine smells of rich plum and the sweetness of oak. In the mouth, bright plum and vanilla flavors have a nice juiciness to them thanks to excellent acidity. Faint tacky tannins hang at the edges of the mouth and let the fruit tell most of the story, with hints of cinnamon and cedar and oak hanging nicely in the background. 13.9% alcohol. Score: around 9. Cost: $50. click to buy.
2011 Stoller Reserve Chardonnay, Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Pale gold in color, this wine smells of honey, white flowers and just a hint of buttered sourdough. In the mouth, bright lemony citrus flavors mix with a hint of chamomile and pink grapefruit, along with oak and honey. Decent acidity, good length. 13% alcohol. Score: around 8.5. Cost: $35. click to buy.
2009 Purlieu Le Pich Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Napa, California
Medium to dark garnet in color, this wine smells of cherries and dark chocolate. In the mouth, quite smooth supple tannins wrap dustily around a core of bright cherry fruit tinged with dark chocolate. Good acidity keeps the fruit bright and juicy through a long finish. Quite pretty. 14.6% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $37. click to buy.
2009 Bonny Doon Vineyard Bien Nacido Vineyard Syrah, Santa Maria Valley, Central Coast, California
Dark garnet in color, this wine smells of wood smoke, blueberry skin, and black plum. In the mouth flavors of white pepper, black plum, blackberry and smoke swirl in a granitic matrix of muscular tannin that makes you feel like your mouth is petrifying a bit. Gorgeous and lean, with excellent acidity and wonderful floral overtones of violets in the finish, this is a very impressive wine. 13.3% alcohol Score: between 9 and 9.5. Cost: $50. click to buy.
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About Crew 709
About Crew 709
Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 14 years of age OR 13 years of age and have completed the eighth grade and under 21 years of age. Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.
A Venturing Crew is similar to a Boy Scout Troop, but we do not have ranks or merit badges. Instead, Venturing Crews focus on whatever suits them, such as high adventure activities, and goes and does what they want to do.
Venturing is youth led. What does that mean? We elect our own officers, plan our own meetings and activities, and do the things we want to do! Our adults act as advisors, mentoring us and helping us lead, plan events, transportation, purchasing, etc.
Crew 709 was chartered in October 2008 with about 10 youth and six adult advisors. Currently, Crew 709 is one of the leading Venturing Crews in the San Diego-Imperial Council!
Click here to see a video of some of our great activities!
Crew 709 meets on the first and third Thursday of each month from 6:30PM to 8:00 PM or so.
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By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press
JACKSON — A study finds that more than 75 percent of non-white voters in Mississippi cast ballots against a measure requiring photo identification before someone may vote.
Initiative 27, a state constitutional amendment, passed in November with approval from 62 percent of nearly 870,000 voters.
But there was a wide split between black and white voters, according to an analysis released by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a Washington, D.C., group.
The committee's statistical analysis estimates that 82.6 percent of white voters were in favor of voter ID, while 75 percent of non-white voters were against it.
The finding could be significant as Mississippi seeks required federal approval to implement the measure. The U.S. Justice Department recently turned down South Carolina's voter ID law, ratcheting up attention on similar laws nationwide.


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We are what we eat…and put on our faces. With the potential side effects of the chemicals in makeup including things like cancer, reproductive and hormonal problems, birth defects or brain damage, the more educated we are as consumers the better.
The first step is learning which chemicals to avoid. Check out the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics or the Environmental Working Group for up to date information on new studies. EWG's Skin Deep database is also a great resource where you can enter the name of a product you use and search for both ingredients and associated health effects.
Labels that explicitly state, paraben-, phthalate- or PCB-free are a good place to start. For products that contain food ingredients like avocado, honey or cinnamon, search for the USDA-organic certified label. Know your organic terms before you go. "100% organic" means the ingredients must be (you guessed it!) 100% organic, while a product with "organic ingredients" must only
contain an organic ingredient here and there.
As with all advertising, watch phrasing carefully. Don't be fooled by the words "green" or "natural" which, in some products have as much validity as saying a drink has "natural flavors" when in fact chemicals outnumber them ten to one.
If you want to enhance your natural beauty naturally, break up with your normal routine. The beauty industry is making great strides toward delivering natural products. If you're having trouble finding what you need, reach out to your network, see what others are using and connect with other like-minded folks who are concerned with similar issues. And of course, the internet is a great resource for deals and information on natural hair care, makeup, personal and skin care products.
The chemicals that make cameos in our beauty regimens are scary, but there are plenty of great natural options if you're willing to do a little research.


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Have you ever wondered what goes on during a porn casting call? The fourth installment of director Michael Lucas' best-selling 'Auditions' series is exactly that: a front-row look at one of the most tantalizing and intriguing moments in any adult production. This latest installment includes one of the most anticipated and talked about scenes of the year: former Colt model Edu Boxer spreading his legs on camera for the first time in his career. "It's the hottest thing I have ever directed," said Michael Lucas about the scene featuring Boxer and his real-life boyfriend, Manu Maltes. "There is something so utterly captivating about the two, you can't keep your eyes off them," he said.
When we heard that Blu had moved to New Jersey from San Francisco, we knew we had to work with him again. After all, his audition with Michael (included on Auditions 4) was one of our favorite scenes of 2005. So we hooked Blu up for an Encounters scene with Danny Bitho, and once again he proved just how hot he is! A student by day, Blu enjoys fast cars, high fashion, and white and Latino guys in his free time.
You can usually find this dreamy Spanish cutie on the streets of New York or the dance floors of Ibiza. Luckily we caught him while he was in town and filmed him for a red hot audition!
Already a well-known model in the industry, Edu bottomed for the very first time on-screen for his boyfriend Manu Maltes in our award-winning Auditions 4. Not only did he spread his legs for the first time on camera, but the sexy duo also filmed their very first watersports scene for us, too! Edu, who loves the cinema and training dogs, returned for more scenes with his hot partner in Auditions 7: Barcelona, and the hit Spanish flick Barcelona Nights! The authentic passion between Edu and Manu is palpable for the screen, check out their scenes below!
Jack's a charming twink with a dance background and the limber body to prove it. Currently living the Bronx, he goes to school in Manhattan and loves everything from ballet to opera and even some two-steppin'!
Muscle-stud Manu made his porn debut in Auditions 4 with his sexy boyfriend, well-known top Edu Boxer. In their hot, award-winning scene, Manu topped Edu for Edu's very first on-camera bottoming experience, and the pair also filmed an extensive, sizzling watersports scene along with it (their industry first). The two currently live together in Spain.
Brooklyn-born Marcel hopped across the East River to audition for Michael Lucas. An independent contractor by trade, this sizzling hunk enjoys working out, and when asked what he loves about sex, his inviting reply was "everything." Yay!
What is there to say about Michael Lucas? A good place to start is the beginning: Lucas Entertainment founder and president Michael Lucas was born in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 1972. He was raised in Moscow and attended college there, graduating with a degree in law. In 1995, Michael Lucas moved to Germany, then to France, where he began modeling and appearing on several European television programs and covers of many European magazines. In 1998, Lucas opened his own production company, Lucas Entertainment, in New York City. Later that year, he made his directorial debut with the well-received Back in the Saddle. This first production sparked the Michael Lucas "renegade" vision that is indelibly New York. Additionally, basing his company in New York City, as opposed to the more traditional Los Angeles, enabled Lucas to showcase the diversity of types and ethnicities found nowhere else. MIchael Lucas started Lucas Distribution, Inc. in 2004 and LucasBlog.com in 2005. Both are pioneering ventures in the competitive realms of adult video distribution and online media, respectively. In the summer of 2005 he released GayVN's Best Picture of the year, a high-budget adult film remake of Dangerous Liaisons, featuring celebrity cameos from RuPaul, Boy George, Graham Norton, Bruce Vilanch, and Michael Musto. In 2006, filming began on his most buzzed about film ever, Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita. The production included a big-budget fashion show, a sextra-filled club orgy scene, a headline-making fountain scene with Vivid star Savanna Samson. On November 12, 2004, Michael Lucas was proudly sworn in as an American citizen.
Parker is already a huge star, but he graciously agreed to film an audition with Michael and it was scorching hot! In fact, when we were planning our final installments of Fire Island Cruising, we knew we had to include Parker. And not only was his flip-flop, poolside scene with Bruce Beckham one of the hottest scenes of the film, he also turned out to be a real sweetheart on the set.


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Lights and sirens, big red trucks and emergencies likely come to mind when you consider the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.
That is just part of our story.
JFRD is one of the largest fire and rescue departments in the nation. The 1,200 uniformed personnel who safeguard Jacksonville's residents and property are part of a 120-year tradition.
We are extensively trained as first responders, and we experience and overcome risk on a daily basis. But we are more than merely reactive. JFRD is a sophisticated organization that is pursuing excellence through training and education as well as community service.
Our leaders would love to share the story of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department with your organization.
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Yesterday I visited the Bundesgartenschau in Koblenz. Koblenz is a lovely city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, and Bundesgartenschau can be translated as National Garden Show. There are three venues across the town: one around a palace, the other around an ancient church, and the third inside a huge castle on top of a hill. There are big formal gardens and small designer gardens, and lots and lots of information – too much to take it in really, but hugely enjoyable nevertheless. Continue reading
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Seven years ago, I suggested to my mother I would take her on a trip to England to visit some of the famous gardens. With one thing and another, we never got round to it. Until recently, when my father reminded us of it (partly because he wants to go on a bird-watching trip to Southern Spain with my brother and had a slightly bad conscience towards my mother). I went to the travel agent's yesterday and came home with information about three different trips we might take. Each is a bus tour, and would take us to quite different parts of the country. I have already been to several of the places scheduled in each case, albeit not with the garden focus, and I definitely don't mind going back! Continue reading