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About the Authors
Geneive Abdo is director of the Iran Program at The Century Foundation, a Washington and New York-based think tank. Her research focuses on contemporary Iran and political Islam. She is the creator and editor of www.insideIRAN.org and was liaison officer for the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations. Among her three books is, "Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran." She is a former USIP grantee.
Michael Adler is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on sabbatical from Agence France-Presse news agency. From 2002-2007, he covered the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. He also did reporting in Tehran, Geneva, Brussels, Berlin, New York, Tripoli and elsewhere on the Iran's nuclear issue. He is a former USIP grantee working on a study of diplomacy, the Iranian nuclear issue and the IAEA.
Ali Alfoneh is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is currently writing a book on civil-military relations in Iran. One of his most recent pieces is "The Revolutionary Guards' Looting of Iran's Economy."
Shaul Bakhash is the Clarence Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of "The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution" (1990).His articles on Iran have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He is a former Woodrow Wilson Center scholar.
Henri J. Barkey is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He formerly served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff. His most recent publication is "Turkey's Moment of Inflection" in Survival (June-July 2010). He is a former Woodrow Wilson Center scholar and a former USIP grantee.
Mehrzad Boroujerdi is associate professor of political science and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University. He is the author of "Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani" (2010). As a USIP grantee, he is engaged in a study of political elite in post-revolutionary Iran and co-manages the Iran Data Portal at http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/.
Rachel Brandenburg is a Middle East program specialist at USIP and coordinator of the USIP Senior Working Group on Middle East Peace. She has travelled extensively in the Middle East, including to Iran. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Israel, and a State Department Critical Language Scholar in Jordan.
Daniel Brumberg is a senior advisor to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at USIP, where he also served as acting director of USIP's Muslim World Initiative. An associate professor of government at Georgetown University and co-director of its Democracy and Governance Program, he is also author of many articles and books on Islam and politics, including "Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran" (2001).
Shahram Chubin is a Geneva-based specialist on Iranian politics and a non-resident senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His latest book is, "Iran's Nuclear Ambitions" (2006). He is a former Woodrow Wilson Center scholar and received a USIP grant for a study of conflict and cooperation in the Persian Gulf.
Patrick Clawson is deputy director of research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he directs the Iran Security Initiative. He is the co-author of, "Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos," and is a former USIP grantee.
Juan Cole is professor of history at the University of Michigan and runs the Informed Comment weblog. He has authored many books on the Middle East. His latest is "Engaging the Muslim World" (2010).
Michael Connell is a member of the research staff at the Center for Naval Analyses, where he is director of the Iranian Studies Program. He has authored several studies that focus on political, military, and security issues related to Iran and the other Persian Gulf countries. He is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.
Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is a national security analyst for ABC News. He is a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. At CSIS, Cordesman is director of the Gulf Net Assessment Project, the Gulf in Transition study, and principle investigator of the Homeland Defense Project. He also directed the Middle East Net Assessment Project.
Suzanne DiMaggio is director of policy studies at the Asia Society, where she leads the Iran Initiative. From 2002-2007, she directed a U.S.-Iran track II dialogue, while she was vice president of Global Policy Programs at the United Nations Association-USA. She received a USIP grant for U.S.-Iran dialogue.
Michael Eisenstadt is senior fellow and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs, he is also a former Middle East Foreign Area Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Michael Elleman is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the principle author of the IISS Strategic Dossier, "Iran's Ballistic Missile Capabilities: a net assessment." He spent 18 months at the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission as a missile expert for weapons inspection missions in Iraq. Before the United Nations, he spent two decades as a scientist at Lockheed Martin's Research and Development Laboratory.
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is the author of, "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" (2009), and her articles appear in essay collections, books, journals and national and international press, including blogs. A former journalist in Iran, she also taught Persian at Oxford University and Princeton University.
Farideh Farhi is affiliate graduate faculty and lecturer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She writes extensively about Iranian domestic politics and nuclear policy. Her publications include, "Constitutionalism and Parliamentary Struggle for Relevance and Independence in Post-Khomeini Iran." Farhi is a Woodrow Wilson Center scholar and received a USIP grant to study evolving political discourse in Iran.
Hadi Ghaemi, a physicist, is an Iran analyst and human rights expert. He is the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. He formerly worked for Human Rights Watch, where he focused on the repression of civil society in Iran and the plight of migrant workers in Dubai.
Jubin Goodarzi is a professor in the International Relations Program at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland. He is author of "Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East," (2009) and numerous articles on the international relations of the Middle East. He has worked in the past for a number of U.S. and British research institutes and the United Nations.
Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the National Security Council during the George H.W. Bush administration and headed the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the George W. Bush administration. Haass is the author or editor of eleven books on American foreign policy, including, "War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars" (2009).
Stephen J. Hadley was national security adviser for the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009. He previously served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy during the George H.W. Bush administration. He was counsel to the Tower Commission in 1987, as it investigated U.S. arms sales to Iran, and served on the National Security Council under President Ford from 1974 to 1977. He is senior adviser on international affairs at USIP.
Kevan Harris is a sociologist and Associate Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
Steven Heydemann is vice-president of USIP's Grant and Fellowship Program, and a specialist on the comparative politics and political economy of the Middle East. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous other publications on the Middle East, focusing on authoritarian governance, state formation and state-market relations.
Emile Hokayem is the senior fellow for regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in Bahrain. Previously, he was the political editor of The National, the Abu Dhabi-based English-language newspaper. A native of Lebanon, he is a specialist in security affairs in the Levant and the Gulf.
Mark N. Katz is professor of government and politics at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Middle East Policy Council in Washington in the fall of 2010. He has written numerous articles on Russian-Iranian relations, including, "Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era," Middle East Policy (2010). He is a former Woodrow Wilson Center scholar and received a USIP grant for a study of Islamic revolutions
Geoffrey Kemp is director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center. During the Reagan administration's first term, he was special assistant to the president for national security affairs, and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council Staff. His most recent book is, "The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East" (2010). He is a former USIP grantee.
Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, studied Shiite theology in the Qom seminary of Iran. He is the author of "Last Marja, Sistani and the End of Traditional Religious Authority in Shiism," and"Apocalyptic Politics: On the Rationality of Iranian Policy."His forthcoming book is, "The Political Biography of Ali Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran."
Ellen Laipson is president and CEO of the Stimson Center. In her 25-year government career, she worked on Iran and other Middle East issues on the National Security Council, the National Intelligence Council, and at the Congressional Research Service. Her last position in government was vice chairman of the NIC from 1997 to 2002. She is on President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board and is a former USIP grantee.
John Limbert is a former deputy assistant secretary for Iran in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is the distinguished professor of international affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy. With funding from USIP, he is the author of, "Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History" (2009). He was among the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days.
Suzanne Maloney is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of, "Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World," (2008) and a forthcoming book on Iran's political economy since the revolution. She has previously worked for the U.S. government and in the private sector, and currently serves as an external advisor to the U.S. Department of State on long-range issues related to Iran.
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, where he is also a co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution. His last book is, "The Myth of the Great Satan" (2010). His biography of the shah is scheduled to be published in 2011.
Mohsen Milani is chairman of the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. He has served as a research fellow at Harvard University, Oxford University's St. Antony's College and the Foscari University in Venice, Italy. Milani authored, "The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic" (1994).
Fareed Mohamedi is a partner at PFC Energy, a Washington-based consultancy specializing in the oil and gas industry. He manages PFC Energy's oil market analysis and country risk practice.
Afshin Molavi is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He has worked as a Dubai-based correspondent for Reuters news agency, a Riyadh-based correspondent for The Arab News of Saudi Arabia, and a Tehran-based correspondent for The Washington Post. He is the author of the "Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom" (2005).
Alireza Nader is an international policy analyst at the RAND Corp. His research has focused on Iran's political dynamics, elite decision-making, and Iranian foreign policy. His current research focuses on the 2009 Iranian presidential election and the role of the supreme leader in Iran.
Tara Nesvaderani is a research assistant at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Semira N. Nikou works for the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U. S. Institute of Peace. She lived in and still travels to Iran. She was in Iran for the 2009 election and aftermath.
John S. Park is a senior research associate and director of Northeast Asia projects at USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. He is also co-director of the USIP Financial Sanctions Study Group.
Kenneth M. Pollack is director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of a half dozen books on the Middle East including "The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America," and "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran."
Walter Posch is a senior research fellow working on Iranian domestic, foreign and security policy at the German International and Foreign Policy Institute in Berlin. He previously worked at the European Union's Institute for Security Studies in Paris and at the National Defense Academy in Vienna. His most recent paper on the opposition movement in Iran is entitled: "A Last Chance for Iran's Reformists? The 'Green Struggle' Reconsidered."
Kourosh Rahimkhani is an independent scholar specializing in Iranian affairs. He worked as a journalist for a number of reformist newspapers in Iran before moving to the United States.
Bruce O. Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He served in the CIA for almost 30 years and has advised four presidents on Iran. He published "If Israel Attacks" in The National Interest in September 2010 about the consequences of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. He is also author of "In Search of al Qaeda" (2009).
Karim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He spent four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, based in Washington and Tehran. He is a regular contributor to BBC TV and radio, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour as well as publications such as the Economist, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Policy.
Steven Simon is adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, adjunct professor of security studies at Georgetown University, and senior advisor at Good Harbor Consulting, LLC. He is coauthor of "The Sixth Crisis: America, Israel, Iran and the Rumors of War "(2010). He served at the State Department, the National Security Council, the RAND Corp. and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Jason Starr is a former research assistant at USIP. He is currently a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. Any views expressed herein are the author's own and not necessarily those of the Department of State or the U.S. government.
Dov S. Zakheim is vice chairman of the Foreign policy Research Institute and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer (2001-2004). He has published numerous articles on Middle Eastern security issues.


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Times used to be you could get a soda for a nickel and fill up your car for a dollar. Time was you could steal a dead man's pension and his widow and there wasn't nothing they could do about it. Those were the good old days, when folks couldn't go online and check if it was illegal or not.


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Though, in this case, I don't know who's shaming who. This is really bizarre.
Though, in this case, I don't know who's shaming who. This is really bizarre.
It happened gradually—and until the U.S. figures out how to treat the problem, it will only get worse.
It's 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at the establishment. Congress and the White House seem incapable of working together on anything, even when their interests align. With lawmaking at a standstill, the president's use of executive orders and regulatory discretion has reached a level that Congress views as dictatorial—not that Congress can do anything about it, except file lawsuits that the divided Supreme Court, its three vacancies unfilled, has been unable to resolve.
On Capitol Hill, Speaker Paul Ryan resigned after proving unable to pass a budget, or much else. The House burned through two more speakers and one "acting" speaker, a job invented following four speakerless months. The Senate, meanwhile, is tied in knots by wannabe presidents and aspiring talk-show hosts, who use the chamber as a social-media platform to build their brands by obstructing—well, everything. The Defense Department is among hundreds of agencies that have not been reauthorized, the government has shut down three times, and, yes, it finally happened: The United States briefly defaulted on the national debt, precipitating a market collapse and an economic downturn. No one wanted that outcome, but no one was able to prevent it.
Learning how to bond with my daughter, who found comfort in the familiarity of being alone, has come through understanding reactive attachment disorder.
My hands hover over the computer keyboard. They are trembling. I hold down the shift key and type the words with intention, saying each letter aloud: "R-e-a-c-t-i-v-e A-t-t-a-c-h-m-e-n-t D-i-s-o-r-d-e-r." The words "reactive attachment disorder" are memory beads I gather into a pile and attempt to string along on a necklace.
I think back to when Judith, my neighbor who is a psychiatrist, offhandedly threw out the term the first time she met Julia. We were talking about babies who start their lives in orphanages, and she mentioned the disorder. She wasn't suggesting that my daughter Julia showed any signs, but she'd said it was a well-known problem with children who'd been adopted from Romanian orphanages in the '80s and '90s. I remember nodding my head and thinking, Shut up, Judith. We got Julia young. It shouldn't be an issue.
Unexpected discoveries in the quest to cure an extraordinary skeletal condition show how medically relevant rare diseases can be.
When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Doctors fitted her with toe braces and sent her home. Two months later, a bulbous swelling appeared on the back of Peeper's head. Her parents didn't know why: she hadn't hit her head on the side of her crib; she didn't have an infected scratch. After a few days, the swelling vanished as quickly as it had arrived.
When Peeper's mother noticed that the baby couldn't open her mouth as wide as her sisters and brothers, she took her to the first of various doctors, seeking an explanation for her seemingly random assortment of symptoms. Peeper was 4 when the Mayo Clinic confirmed a diagnosis: she had a disorder known as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).
The June 23 vote represents a huge popular rebellion against a future in which British people feel increasingly crowded within—and even crowded out of—their own country.
I said goodnight to a gloomy party of Leave-minded Londoners a few minutes after midnight. The paper ballots were still being counted by hand. Only the British overseas territory of Gibraltar had reported final results. Yet the assumption of a Remain victory filled the room—and depressed my hosts. One important journalist had received a detailed briefing earlier that evening of the results of the government's exit polling: 57 percent for Remain.
The polling industry will be one victim of the Brexit vote. A few days before the vote, I met with a pollster who had departed from the cheap and dirty methods of his peers to perform a much more costly survey for a major financial firm. His results showed a comfortable margin for Remain. Ten days later, anyone who heeded his expensive advice suffered the biggest percentage losses since the 2008 financial crisis.
The International Monetary Fund's Christine Lagarde asks leaders to proceed in "the most efficient, predictable way."
The Brexit decision was "heartbreaking for those of us who are truly Europeans," said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on Sunday evening. And she offered a plea for global leaders, asking them to restore certainty to an uncertain situation.
Markets usually get things right—but they got the result of the Brexit vote very, very wrong. Its failure to predict the Brexit produced a sudden plunge in the pound that was "violent, brutal, immediate, massive," she said, it also showed the fundamental resilience of the system. "There was no panic, despite the fact that markets had not anticipated that vote … and the central bankers did the job that they were prepared to do just in case," she insisted, flooding the markets with liquidity.
"I think at some point you need to provoke people. Science is meant to make people uncomfortable."
"I think at some point you need to provoke people. Science is meant to make people uncomfortable."
Shedding pounds is usually a losing battle—research suggests it's better to just focus on building a healthy lifestyle.
"My own history of yo-yo dieting started when I was 15 and lasted about three decades," said Sandra Aamodt, a neuroscientist and the author of Why Diets Make Us Fat, on Saturday at Spotlight Health, a conference co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic. "I lost the same 15 pounds pretty much every year during that same period, and gained it back regular as clockwork."
This is a classic tale—the diet that doesn't take, the weight loss that comes right back. The most recent, extreme, highly publicized case was that of the study done on contestants from the reality show The Biggest Loser, most of whom, six years after losing 100 to 200 pounds, had gained most of it back, and had significantly slowed metabolisms.
The results of the referendum are, in theory, not legally binding.
Lest we think the Euroskepticism displayed this week by British voters is new, let me present a scene from the BBC's Yes, Minister, a comedy about the U.K. civil service's relationship with a minister. The series ran from 1980 to '84 (and, yes, it was funny), at a time when the European Union was a mere glint in its founders' eyes.
The Europe being referred to in the scene is the European Economic Community (EEC), an eventually 12-member bloc established in the mid-1950s, to bring about greater economic integration among its members.
In many ways, the seeds of the U.K.'s Thursday referendum on its membership in the European Union were sown soon after the country joined the now-defunct EEC in 1973. Then, as now, the ruling Conservative Party and opposition Labour, along with the rest of the country, were deeply divided over the issue. In the run-up to the general election the following year, Labour promised in its manifesto to put the U.K.'s EEC membership to a public referendum. Labour eventually came to power and Parliament passed the Referendum Act in 1975, fulfilling that campaign promise. The vote was held on June 5, 1975, and the result was what the political establishment had hoped for: an overwhelming 67 percent of voters supported the country's EEC membership.
How the Brexit vote activated some of the most politically destabilizing forces threatening the U.K.
Among the uncertainties unleashed by the Brexit referendum, which early Friday morning heralded the United Kingdom's coming breakup with the European Union, was what happens to the "union" of the United Kingdom itself. Ahead of the vote, marquee campaign themes included, on the "leave" side, the question of the U.K.'s sovereignty within the European Union—specifically its ability to control migration—and, on the "remain" side, the economic benefits of belonging to the world's largest trading bloc, as well as the potentially catastrophic consequences of withdrawing from it. Many of the key arguments on either side concerned the contours of the U.K.-EU relationship, and quite sensibly so. "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" was, after all, the precise question people were voting on.
The city is riding high after the NBA final. But with the GOP convention looming, residents are bracing for disappointment.
Cleveland's in a weird mood.
My son and I attended the Indians game on Father's Day, the afternoon before game seven of the NBA Finals—which, in retrospect, now seems like it should be blockbustered simply as The Afternoon Before—when the Cavaliers would take on the Golden State Warriors and bring the city its first major-league sports championship in 52 years.
I am 52 years old. I've lived in Northeast Ohio all my life. I know what Cleveland feels like. And it's not this.
In the ballpark that day, 25,269 of us sat watching a pitcher's duel, and the place was palpably subdued. The announcer and digitized big-screen signage made no acknowledgement of the city's excitement over the Cavaliers. There were no chants of "Let's Go Cavs," no special seventh-inning-stretch cheer for the Indians' basketball brothers, who play next door in the Quicken Loans Arena, which in a few weeks will host the Republican National Convention.
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The news that I expected from the moment Maurice Cheeks was fired as head coach has arrived. Joe Dumars is reportedly out as GM of the Detroit Pistons. Of course, he is being given the chance to "resign," as opposed to getting fired, but the principle is the same. Dumars' tenure is over. A new era begins.
It will be the first time that the Pistons don't have Dumars as a key piece for a while. He retired as a Piston after a Hall of Fame career (a dubious one, but still) in 1999, and then became team president in 2000. The early days were good. It must be remembered that this team had a ton of success under Dumars. They won a title. They went to another NBA Finals. They went to the Eastern Conference Finals a million times. Then, things started to slip, and Dumars did not adjust.
It almost felt like things started to pass him by, and he didn't seem to adjust well to new situations. He signed so many bad free agent deals. Tons of them. He hired coach after coach after coach, including getting rid of a really good one in Rick Carlisle. People will also point out the Darko Milicic selection, but the guy definitely drafted well. I mean, he got Andre Drummond, Greg Monroe, and others later in the draft. Still, things fell apart, and Dumars had to go.
The Pistons have a chance to rebuild. They already have some pieces in place. Tom Gores and company need to hire a bright mind with an analytical bend. Just ask Darryl Morey who he has as a right hand man currently. They'll probably be up to the task.
Joe Dumars' tenure as team president was, shall we say, complicated, but that time has past. The post-Dumars era begins in earnest.


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Dude I don't care what NON of y'all say, CUDDER IS BACK. Not to say that the Cleveland MC ever left, but when he changed his style from his own unique spin on hip-hop to a more alternative sound fans everywhere were plenty critical. The Man on the Moon has given us some fresh songs in recent months with the likes of Just What I Am, King Wizard, and Immortal. Tonight Kid Cudi has blessed us with more from his upcoming album, Indicud, with the release of Girls featuring Too $hort.
First of all, I would like to acknowledge how well Too $hort meshes into the typical out-of-the-box Cudi style of this track. The man is 46 but goddamnit he's in this business for the long haul, as he proves through his energetic delivery. I had never heard of either rapper discuss collaborating prior to this track, but that's the beauty of albums-the unexpected features happen. Cudder definitely called Too $hort out of the bullpen from left field for a classic closure from a veteran of the game.
Unfortunately I've read the comments under the post of this song from various websites and quite frankly have read a bunch of bullpiss. It's just rigoddamndiculous. Sure, Cudi isn't Pac lyrically and he's certainly an outlier from your typical style within the genre. But I would consider punching an ignorant fool square in the tant with claims that Cudi isn't a creative artist to the purest form. First came the mixtapes that blew people's faces off. Then came the Man on the Moon album's, the first of which was the playlist to my senior year of high school as well as one of the first pieces of contemporary work at that time that spoke true relatable messages to myself. WZRD wasn't a fan favorite, but yet another respectable project from Cudi in which he pushed the limits of creativity and genre
Here we are, just a few weeks away from the next chapter in Kid Cudi's music career. I can't wait, I've loved what he's given us so far and I think Indicud is going to slap everyone, fans and pesky critics, in the face. April 23rd-save the date you filthy animals. Get Your Earz Wet.


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Tori Spelling is trying to challenge the ongoing divorce rumors by showing the public she has a happy family. On Saturday, she used her official Twitter account to share information about her son's birthday. She put together a large party for Finn and made sure that guests saw her relationship with Dean McDermott was still strong.
Finn's second birthday party was another occasion for Spelling and McDermott to confront the rumors. The couple did its best to show there was no split, and Spelling and McDermott were photographed while kissing at one point. They were surrounded by friends and family who did not question their relationship.
During the party, Finn enjoyed visits from SpongeBob SquarePants and Barney who entertained the young guests. Spelling's mother, Candy, also came to the party and brought several bags of gifts with her. McDermott was later seen carrying a large pile of birthday gifts from multiple guests. The big cake was too much for Finn and the others to finish, so one of the guests was seen holding a half-eaten chocolate cake in the shape of a red and white truck.
The party was at a friend's house, and it is not clear why Spelling and McDermott did not use their own home for the bash. In addition, Spelling's skinny body has been criticized with some fans wondering if there is still stress in the relationship causing her to lose weight. There have also been suggestions of eating disorders that were started by McDermott's cheating.
The couple previously attended the Malibu Kiwanis Chili Cook-Off Carnival with their children. The carnival and fair featured several bands, and a chili contest with multiple entries. Spelling and McDermott have been taking their kids to various events during the summer and joining friends at parties. They have also been doing crafts at home with the kids.
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Even with expensive cell phones and social media, many today find themselves cut off from experiencing fulfilling relationships. They may have eight hundred friends on Facebook, but they do not have anyone that is physically apart of their lives. No one to go out to eat with, go to the movies, or just come over and share an intimate conversation. They are trapped in a world of loneliness and isolation, and they do not know how they got there or how they are going to get out. The answer that they are looking for is found in the way that they think. Their own mindset is the problem. The way that they perceive themselves and the world around them has become a destructive force in their lives.
Many have been hurt in past relationships. Some have experienced pain at the hands of a physically or emotionally abusive parent, an abusive romance, a friend, or a stranger. The pain they experienced caused a wound that was deep and cut them to their core. Upon picking themselves up they made a choice, a choice that would impact their lives in a devastating way. They decided that they would never allow anyone to ever hurt them again. Now I am not talking about making the healthy choice to never allow themselves to be abused again. What I am referring to is a choice that was made out of pain that they would never allow anyone to hurt them in any way emotionally on any kind of level, great or small.
Even in healthy relationships with people that love us there is, at times, pain involved. Someone will make an insensitive comment. There will be times that expectations will not be met. There is even the occasional time were someone is let down. Accepting each other with all our flaws and working through the painful times, allows us to truly enjoy those around us. Deciding to never allow someone to hurt you is deciding to have no relationships in life.
Anyone that is going to come out of loneliness and isolations successfully must make the choice that they will allow themselves to experience a small amount of emotional pain, at times, so that they can experience the joys and triumphs of having meaningful relationships in their lives. Relationships where they can receive the love that they have longed for and give the kind of love that will bring meaning to their lives.


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Paulina Garcia's Gloria is a character you usually see on the periphery of movies. She's a 50-something divorced mother of two trying to keep a foothold in the lives of her adult son and daughter, but instead of seeing her from their youthful perspective we see them from hers.
Sebastian Lelio's fine film doesn't show the children hearing - and ignoring - mum's call, it watches her leave a message, afterwards pondering the hurt of casual silence from your own offspring. This Chilean drama is a reminder that no one is a simple outline. Gloria is gainfully employed and lives comfortably alone, but she pursues, sometimes painfully, companionship and sexual satisfaction.
At the Santiago senior's disco she frequents, where beauty and age are judged quickly and cruelly to the menacing throb of I Feel Love, hope and desperation are barely divided. When the ageing Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez) tells Gloria that, ''I'm constantly thinking about you'', she's both excited and wary.
The film, which unfolds via a naturalistic handheld aesthetic, doesn't limit Gloria, and she's never merely the wise, forgiving mother, or any other cinematic cliche. The movie is particularly alert to the way grown children cast a shadow over their parents' lives.
Rodolfo, separated for a year, is still the first port of call for ''the girls'', despite his daughters being aged 27 and 31, and his relationship with Gloria has to define itself outside the vast shadows cast by their previous marriages.
Chilean cinema has distinguished itself internationally over the past few years, with Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero and No, which explore the South American's nation's volatile political history, and the Roman Polanski-like dislocation of Sebastian Silva's Magic Magic. Lelio adds to the country's profile, evoking an emotionally rich portrait of his titular character. Equal credit belongs to Paulina Garcia, who uses the awkward glasses that divide Gloria's face to sometimes obscure her feelings, while at other moments the depth and intensity of the character's reactions are almost overwhelming.
The openness extends to the sex scenes, which are passionate and scrupulously honest about the participant's bodies (once Rodolfo removes his girdle). Lelio allows the mood to build through Gloria's travails with Rodolfo, particularly at a long and increasingly fractious birthday dinner for her son that's attended by her former husband, and for each person who sees Gloria as someone else's mother or co-worker, she's quietly determined to be the centre of her own imperfect world.


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First Visit to the Ford Youth World
August 7, 2011
Disappointment was the first part of the journey, but it's getting better now.
By Justine Moore
Like many youth showing on the AQHA circuit, my dream is to compete at the Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show. This year, I qualified in horsemanship, showmanship, and hunt seat equitation with my gelding, Causin the Commotion.
Though I had qualified before, I had never felt ready to compete at such a high level. Thanks to the invaluable advice of my trainer Kristy McCann, I was finally prepared, but my horse was not – several weeks before the show started, I received the devastating news that he was injured and would have to have several months of stall rest.
My worst nightmare came true, and the only silver lining to this situation is the fact that I will hopefully return next year with my horse for my world show debut. This year, though, I decided to come to spectate and support my teammates who are competing for Oregon.
As someone who has never been to a show of this size before, I have been overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of everything – from the size of the venue to the stall decorations (many of which look like they could have been crafted by professional architects) to the number of exhibitors competing in each class.
The huge class sizes and high quality of exhibitors make for fierce competition, but upon arriving at the fairgrounds, I was surprised by the sense of team spirit and the supportive atmosphere. It is not uncommon to see competitors sitting in the stands to cheer for their teammates or taking a break from showing to participate in a fun activity such as the scrapbook competition or Justin Boot decorating contest.
I am looking forward to spending the rest of the week in Oklahoma City and continuing to watch the amazing Ford Youth World competition. Yesterday, I was able to watch the horsemanship preliminaries, which lasted almost the entire day with 169 exhibitors in the class.
Even as a spectator, I experienced the range of emotions that usually accompany a horse show, such as the nerve-wracking feeling when a friend is about to compete and the shocking disappointment when an exhibitor is laying out a perfect pattern and forgets one element.
Though there were several heart-breaking moments when exhibitors clearly let their nerves get to them, I was extremely impressed by the well-tuned horse and rider teams that made it to the finals after multiple increasingly competitive cuts.
Ford Youth World veterans and new teams alike, they were able to get their nerves under control and battle the excruciating heat to focus on their ultimate goal – being named an AQHYA world champion. They successfully completed challenging maneuvers such as two full consecutive haunch turns in opposite directions, a large extended lope circle with a comeback and a lead change, and working without stirrups on the rail.
I am excited to see these exhibitors continue to show off the results of their hard work and practice in the finals Tuesday morning, but until then I will enjoy watching numerous other events such as trail, reining, showmanship, and western pleasure.
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There are only two ways to be safe on "Survivor: Cagayan," according to the video preview (left of this column) of tonight's episode: You must either have an Immunity Idol or you must win the Immunity Challenge. Following last week's stellar, shocking and jaw-dropping Tribal Council, Kass may need to make sure she has one or the other if she's going to make it any further in the game.
Yes Kass ultimately flipped on her tribemates to vote out Sarah, who had thought she was firmly in the middle of two alliances of five. Kass did not seem to care all that much for Sarah, who insisted on giving her opinions and trying to lead the group's vote. But in doing so, Kass will now have to deal with the fall-out of flipping on her long-time Brains allies, Spencer and Tasha. Now in the majority, Tony and LJ's group doesn't necessarily need Kass anymore anyways, so it will be interesting to see where Kass fits in moving forward. Conversely, Kass might have just made herself a sure-fire pick as someone that everybody would like to take with them to the Final Three, knowing that she doesn't stand much of a chance of winning over a sure-to-be-bitter jury.
Although we will definitely (hopefully) get some insight tonight as to Kass's decision, the episode's main theme will be surrounding this mysterious new "Super Idol," a hidden Immunity Idol that has yet-to-be-announced special powers. Here is the synopsis directly from CBS:
Episode 8 – "Mad Treasure Hunt" - THE ENTIRE TRIBE EMBARKS ON THE CRAZIEST IDOL HUNT IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME, ON "SURVIVOR," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. The entire tribe embarks on the craziest idol hunt in the history of the game. Also, one castaway showcases their ninja-like skills to sabotage another, on SURVIVOR, Wednesday, April 9 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Analysis. Part of the fallout from last week will also involve both Tony and LJ playing their Immunity Idols on each other. At this point in the game heading into tonight, there are zero hidden Immunity Idols in possession, making the discovery of the "Super Idol" all the more intriguing. What will it do? How will it change the game? Who will find it? Will we have to wait past tonight's episode in order to find any of this out?
Tony playing his Idol on LJ may have been a smart strategic move in the moment, but there is not much of an intelligent defense of why LJ would have played his Idol on Tony. Looking back, neither needed to play their Idols, but at least Tony had reason to believe that LJ was being targeted. LJ's move to play his Idol was not only a poor move for his own game, but Tony was not the target at that point at the Tribal Council and in playing the Idol, LJ and Tony now appear to be an obviously loyal duo. If you are Jefra or some of the other Beauties, you would have to wonder about LJ, who successfully hid knowledge of his Idol for several days. The fact that LJ and Tony would do this for one another might work against them in the eyes of the others.
As mentioned, Kass could become the easy target for all tonight. Clearly Spencer, Morgan and Tasha will not want her in the game any longer and the majority tribe could peg her as an easy vote...even without her they maintain the numbers. If Kass is not the target, Tony and LJ may next target Jeremiah, who may be perceived as the "strongest" of the minority alliance still remaining.
Immunity has never been more important thus far. It will definitely be interesting to see how this new Idol effects the game, and if its special powers go over well with fans of the show. It would be a shame to have some lame "Medallion of Power"-esque twist get introduced in the middle of what has been a very entertaining and unpredictable season.
We'll go through all of tonight's events with my full episode recap and analysis up around midnight!
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11:00: Park Christian vs. Belgrade-Brooten Elrosa (Seed 1)
1:00: Fond du Lac Ojibwe (Seed 5) vs. Canby (Seed 4)
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5:00: Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City vs. Rushford-Peterson (Seed 3)
Examining the Field: Since the four class system began for basketball in 1997, this is one of the most diverse brackets in state tournament history. In the first game, there's the top seeded Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars going for their second state title against the Park Christian Falcons. The Moorhead based school is making its first trip down I-94 to Minneapolis and hopes to pull off an upset against one of the top scoring teams in Minnesota.
The second game should be interesting as fifth seeded Fond du Lac Ojibwe takes on the fourth seeded Canby Lancers. Fond du Lac's nickname could be challenging for state tournament PA announcers and KSTC-TV's play-by-play voice Dave Lee. They are the Ogichidaag. It's also one of the smallest schools to play in a state tournament with an enrollment of 34. As for Canby, they are best known for their wrestling program that has won eight state titles and in the tournament for the first time since 1951. Can the first Ojibwe school to play in a state tournament prove they are one of the state's top teams. The game won't be televised so take the afternoon off and head down to The Barn. You'll be impressed.
Next up is a battle of red and white as the Red Lake Warriors take on the second seeded Maranatha Christian Academy Mustangs. The Warriors are the second Native American team in this year's Class A field and have a tough task in the Mustangs, who are anchored by juniors Jeremiah Hanson, Cameron Monson and Jake Meyen. Could this be the year for a rising private school program in MCA?
The final quarterfinal game features another first timer, The Atwater-Cosmos Grove City Falcons against the third seeded Rushford-Peterson Trojans. The Trojans return for the third straight year under veteran head coach Tom Vix and have a school record 29 wins. Tom's son Alex is one of R-P's top players. It looks like they could break the 30 win mark.


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Kangaroos cast off Demons
North Melbourne easily accounted for a subpar Melbourne on Sunday, trouncing the Demons with a 41 point victory.PT0M0S 620 349
Goals: North Melbourne: A Mullett 2 L Greenwood 2 L Thomas 2 A Black A Swallow B Brown B Cunnington B Harvey D Petrie J Ziebell R Nahas S Atley. Melbourne: B Vince 3 C Dawes 3 A Riley C Pedersen J Frawley R Bail.
Best North Melbourne: Greenwood, Dal Santo, Thompson, Petrie, Harvey, Ziebell, Cunnington. Melbourne: Vince, McDonald, N Jones, Dawes, Watts, Dunn, Tyson.
Injuries: North Melbourne: A Swallow (knee) R Nahas (shoulder). Melbourne: J Watts (back).
Umpires: Brett Rosebury, Jordan Bannister, Craig Fleer.
Official Crowd: 26,615 at MCG.
In a game that spanned two hours it was just 10 minutes of play that was the critical difference. The difference in the contest, in the score and in the class.
It was not the only difference, but when North ramped up the pressure for 10 minutes in the third term and booted five unanswered goals the momentum uprooted Melbourne's doggedness and put an end to the contest.
Let me through: Todd Goldstein evades an attempted tackle by Demon Lynden Dunn. Photo: Getty Images
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For a half the Demons, primarily through efficiency in front of goal in booting six straight goals, remained in touch just 14 points down.
When Chris Dawes booted a goal straight after the main break to narrow the margin to just seven points and arouse the idea in the Melbourne players that having kept themselves in the contest now was the chance to capitalise and steal North's thunder, instead it was North who claimed the game's most important moment.
It began with Jack Ziebel – steadily improving in his ability to spend his rest time as a difficult half-forward – who squeezed through a quick chance. Shaun Atley found a loose ball two minutes later, Lindsay Thomas converted a set shot from Aaron Mullett's intercept and the Roos were bounding.
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North Melbourne scored a 41–point win over Melbourne at the MCG. The second half saw the Kangaroos kick six consecutive goals, resulting in an easy win. Final Score, 15.17 (107) to 10.6 (66) Photo: Getty Images
Nathan Jones' clumsy fumble at half-back opened a door for Andrew Swallow to goal. Then Aaron Black seized on a poor Melbourne kick in to slide a goal from a tight angle.
On debut, Ben Brown bounded out on a lead and gripped a tidy mark, and enjoyed his goal. That put North out to 44 points and the match was largely complete at that point.
Brown proved himself as a robust but raw competitor who helped create a contest forward in a strong attack on the ball and relief in the ruck.
Of minor satisfaction for Melbourne was that again when the game opened out it was able to avoid the sort of blowout that would have happened in previous years. Only once has it happened this year, the round two West Coast obliteration, and it might have again but two goals in the last term with North goaling just once ensured the Roos did not inflict the sort of punishment that causes angst.
The Demons might have had one more goal in the last term but an interminably long score review denied North a goal despite the video evidence not appearing to show a clear reason whey the goal was refused.
North's pressure helped conjure its goals. Ten of its 14 goals were from Melbourne turnovers which were a consequence of North hustling. That 10-minute period helped avoid the consequences of the messiness of some of North's early attack.
Robin Nahas booted the first goal of the match but then missed two howlers the second of which he was plainly trying to offer as a gift goal to first-gamer Brown but he almost missed his foot with the chip pass from 25 metres out and a certain goal was missed. Nahas continued to be a vibrant presence in the second term until he cracked his right shoulder in a tackle and had to be substituted out.
He is likely to now miss some football.
So too might Jordie McKenzie, who clipped Lindsay Thomas on the jaw with an elbow in a collision. The match review panel will assess whether it was accidental or silly.
North captain Andrew Swallow spent the last quarter on the bench having his knee assessed after he twisted it in a tackle.
Having suffered a late start to the season from injury it was a worrying sight.
Bernie Vince was tremendous and despite being on the losing side was the stand out player on the day. Inexplicably North didn't work a tight tag on him as he collected touches. Vince had 14 touches and two goals to quarter time, 25 touches, four inside 50s and three goals to the half. Ryan Bastinac moved onto him for the second half and dulled Vince's influence for a period but the Demon still won that match up.
Jack Watts was creative and intelligent in his movement across half-forward for Melbourne forcing the North defenders to be spread and creating options for his forwards.


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At the end of last week, according to Strollerderby, a federal appeals court ordered a new law requiring all Texas abortion providers to perform ultrasounds and play fetal heartbeat sounds to pregnant women seeking abortions.
The law became immediately enforceable. So much for the standard 22-day waiting period.
While the law mandates that the ultrasound images be shown to abortion patients along with a detailed description of what they are looking at, preferably while listening to a soothing soundtrack of their baby's heartbeat, women are not required to accept this "service." They must, however, listen to the detailed verbal description of the exam unless they are otherwise "exonerated" due to rape, incest or fetal abnormality.
The president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Nancy Northrup, was not impressed with the high speed implementation of this new law. On the website, reproductiverights.org, the measure is referred to as an "intrusive and demeaning anti-choice law" and was criticized for not allowing opponents to react before it was given the green light.
I agree that this new law is demeaning.
The thought of an abortion doctor giving a pregnant woman a tutorial on what is happening inside her own body is unbearably patronizing in my opinion. To assume that a woman seeking an abortion is not already acutely aware of the fact that there is life inside of her. Whether or not she chooses to see it as life, potential life, human or zygote, she knows it's there. She feels the weight of responsibility it carries, the miracle, the burden,the life altering potential, all of it. To treat her as if she does not fully "understand," is to presume and to disrespect.
What really bugs me, though, is the way the man, father, sperm donor, whoever he is, is exempt from any and all of this forced, Gestation-101 tutoring. If this law is to be imposed on all pregnant women seeking abortions in Texas, should not the father of the child be forced to wear the scarlet letter as well?
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A reader asked me to cover how I successfully book my award travel and asked if I would write about it. So here it goes:
I first think of the circumstances of the individual taking the call. In most cases they are overworked, tired and have spent xxx # of hours working with people that try to book award travel once a year or maybe once in a lifetime. My first goal is to make this a better experience for the agent I'm speaking to. I need to show I have done my homework.
Secondly, I need to be aware that they are going to offer the easiest solution which may be "no availability" so they can move on to the next phone call that is blinking in front of their face. They are looking at all the calls on hold. I must show them that I expect more from them that the quick and easy solution.
My responsibility is to come into the conversation fully armed with options and information that they need to be successful in my request. And I must have my parameters clearly set out so we can explore all options. Examples are: flexibility in dates, splitting up your party into more than one flight, taking an overnight layover if it gets the job done, using alternate airports, being willing to pay for the higher redemption level award and using partner airlines.
My conversation may go something like this:
Hi Mary: I'm looking for award flights for two passengers from Hilton Head Island or Savannah to Germany and I do have some flexibility in dates, and arrival cities. Do you have time now to help me find two tickets?
She'll then come back with which dates and city do you want to travel. It is my responsibility to be as flexible as possible with the dates and cities by saying: My first preference is Munich from HHH on October 25th returning on the 31st. Let's check that first.
Her response may be: Sorry nothing available.
OK I can also use Savannah as a departure city and can you check from both departure cities for two days either side of my preferred dates. You have now greatly expanded your options.
If she comes back with: I can only get one seat from SAV on the 25th returning on the 1st of November, ask her to "hold it" as you have no problem splitting the travel into two separate awards.
You can then ask about nearby cities in Germany to get yourself to and make your way to the mutual destination. And you need the names of those cities you are willing to fly into where you can easily and cheaply get to Munich.
And if still no success then you'll need the partner route. Here is where the airline's alliance comes in. In the USA it is either Star Alliance for UA or US and soon Continental, Skyteam is Delta and Northwest and for now Continental, and the One World Alliance is American Airlines. If you are requesting a domestic award that is probably all you need to know the domestic partners.
Your conversation may go like this for domestic:
Thanks for checking Mary, now how about using one of US airways partners for part of the award. If I can get out of Savannah on US to Charlotte, can we connect there to a United flight through one of their hubs to my final destination. How about ORD? IAD? DEN? SFO? And I think it is your responsibility to provide the hubs for the agent. That way they are obligated to check that routing for you.
And the last trick I use particularly on international awards, is the overnight layover at an intermediate city. Say I'm going to Munich on UA and there is no availability from the Frankfort hub to Munich the day I am scheduled to fly. Ask them to overnight you in Frankfort and then get the early morning flight on to your final destination. The layover period can be up to 24 hours on international tickets without causing ticketing problems. And if you are doing an international award, you have many more options with all the airlines in the partnership alliance and all their separate hubs.
As you traverse this conversation, the agent will tell you if they have availability at a higher redemption level. With United it is saver award or standard award for US domestic. 25K or 50K. You decide what you are willing to spend. It is part of your initial parameters.
You also may find that there are seats in First Class on Saver awards, for less than coach seats with only standard award inventory available. If you are willing to spend 50K for coach, you certainly would spend 45K for business or first class. It is your responsibility to ask the redemption options available.
In my personal opinion, (which I get to express here, hooray), if you are requesting a domestic award for more than one person, I think it is very likely you will spend at least one half hour prompting the agent to check all the available options. If less than that time is spent, I'm not sure you have thoroughly checked all options. And, I have easily spent an hour online doing an international award request.
So there is my two cents worth. If you have other tips or tricks you would like to share, or have worked for you, write in and let me know. We'll post any other good ideas on future posts.
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The Russian River Somewhere deep in the fog of this image, grapes are busy growing. This is the engine that makes the Pinot Noir of the Russian River Valley so wonderful. The river acts as a catheter, drawing the fog inland to cool the grapes and provide the large diurnal shifts in temperature necessary to grow world class Pinot and Chardonnay. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
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I go to a lot of wine tastings, and have come to really appreciate those that are done right. It may not be immediately apparent how easily a large public tasting can be screwed up, but all it takes is one small thing to make it a really miserable experience. For instance, a lack of spit buckets has turned more than one big tasting event into a nightmare. The spacing of the tables, the labeling of the stations, the number of wines available, the availability of water, the offering of food, the temperature of the building -- these can all... continue reading
As part of this weekend's International Pinot Noir Celebration, Jancis Robinson, Master of Ceremonies for the weekend, sat down in a (blessedly air conditioned) auditorium on the campus of Linfield College and spoke about her life and career in the world of wine to a group of interested (sweaty) attendees. Here's what she had to say, to the best of my transcription ability. "I'm so old and I have so much to say about my life in wine, there's a lot to talk about. I'll start with how I got into wine. I was raised in a village of 45... continue reading
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Under the towering trees and across the sprawling green lawns of Linfield College in the little town of McMinnville, Oregon, several hundred people are plowing through the International Pinot Noir Celebration at the kind of pace you would expect for 80 degree days filled with Pinot Noir and good company. My day began with breakfast on the lawn and a welcome by Master of Ceremonies Jancis Robinson. Jancis recounted her memories of past IPNC attendances, going back to the early years of the festival, which was pioneering in its singular focus on Pinot Noir. Perhaps the most interesting moment in... continue reading
I'm not sure why, but there has been a spate of interesting developments in the wine world in the past few weeks, all of which bear paying attention to by anyone interested in where the wine industry is going these days. I'm normally not one to simply rattle off lists news stories, but these are all so interesting that I can't pass up the opportunity to share them. We're Talking Mainstream The fact that Amazon.Com is getting in the wine business has been old news for a while, but two more giants of American retail just announced they were also... continue reading
For a town as food and wine rich as San Francisco is, the city has few large public celebrations of its qualities as a world-class culinary destination. Most food and wine events in San Francisco tend to be single-event, large public tastings, where attendees can wander around, sampling food or wine from an array of purveyors and producers. Such events are great, but they're not the best showcase for the breadth and depth of the talent and resources that San Francisco has in either the food or wine department. Enter the "SF Chefs. Food. Wine" event coming up in about... continue reading
The Sunlit Knoll We tend to think of Napa and Sonoma as two distinct and separate wine regions, yet there is a place where the two collide, high in the Mayacamas mountains. This image was made in the rolling hillsides where vineyards slide quickly from one appellation to the other as you cross ridges and valleys. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to... continue reading
A lot of wine books get published every year, and not many of them are very good, especially for wine lovers that would rather drink than read about wine. Even the well written ones fail to satisfy in one department -- they don't taste very good. Perhaps this is what the publisher Kraken Opus was thinking when they came up with the idea for their newest wine book: The Wine Opus. Either that or they have a sinister plot to give hernias to the world's richest wine lovers -- at least those that do their own lifting. Decanter magazine reports... continue reading
Given the chance, I highly recommend anyone to make the investment of time and money to watch a winery evolve from its very first vintage. It doesn't take much, just buying a bottle or two every year from a brand new winery that you think shows some promise, and then drinking them. Such observation is a wonderful study in personality. You get to see, or perhaps more accurately, taste, how a winemaker settles into a winery and its vineyards, and how he or she begins to express whatever it is that can be expressed through the wines. I've had the... continue reading
It's quite easy to be lulled into a false sense of reality in any number of ways in our lives. We extrapolate so much from our own experience that we tend to forget that most of us live in little bubbles, amidst an outside world that often bears little resemblance to ourselves. I very much appreciate, and in some cases seek out, opportunities to be reminded that the world of wine I live in is not the world of the average wine consumer. While I tend to buy most of my wine from the smaller, independent wine merchants that I... continue reading
I make it my habit to seek out and try a particular kind of wine that flies well under the radar of most wine lovers. Indeed, this kind of wine is all but unknown to most, yet some of my favorite wines in the world fall into this category -- a category that is not included in any book, classification, or encyclopedia of wines anywhere. These wines have something very special in common. Not the grapes used, nor the soils on which they are grown; not the country they come from, nor the climate in which they are grown. The... continue reading
Morning Dew It often comes as a surprise to most people that I happen to have a degree in fine art photography. I absolutely adore the medium, and this picture is a great example of why. We move through our daily existences that involve the processing of an incredible amount of visual data. We see beautiful details like this every few seconds of our waking lives. But only photography, with its ability to silently solidify our vision and force us to see again, can really harness this beauty for our appreciation. For as much as we see things like... continue reading
There are two types of people in the world, the joke goes: those who believe the world can be divided into two types of people and those who don't. Substitute wine for people and you might just as easily be charting those who firmly believe in the wall of tradition, history, and style that divides the so called Old World, from the New World. In principle, I object to a wine world so starkly divided, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't occasionally resort to the use of these labels and the generalizations they imply to make a... continue reading
It's difficult, but if I concentrate hard, I can remember a time when you couldn't order stuff on the Internet. Of course, that was only about 12 years ago, but I'm part of Generation X and we have short attention spans. I certainly take for granted the fact that most everything I would want to buy for myself is available online, and that includes the wine I drink. I have the dual privilege of living in the state of California, as well as being fully plugged into the Internet (if I could get an implant, I would). This means that... continue reading
All of us wine lovers inevitably discover, in the course of our explorations, our own secret wineries. These are the wines that we hold close to our chest, revealing them to those with whom we share only our choicest of morsels, which often include such things as parking spaces, hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and great movies and books. As I'm in the business of sharing great wine with readers all the time, I can't really afford to hold much back. But I'd be lying if I told you I had reviewed or written about all my most favorite wineries around the world.... continue reading
Happy Independence Day from the United States, where we're celebrating the historical casting off of the "chains" in which our "colonial rulers" bound us. As the fireworks burst and crackle unseen through the fog here in San Francisco and I catch up on my reading from around the blogosphere, I've been musing on whether the average wine drinker has anything to celebrate in the way of independence these days. The first and most dear form of independence for me as you might imagine is the freedom from dependence on the Powers That Be for information, opinion, and insight when it... continue reading
Highlights Vineyards become the most dramatic at the end of the day, when, like mountain ridges, they can be caught by the last light of the sun. I love this image, both for the way the light rakes across the rows of vines, but also for the subtle depth of the landscape in the haze beyond the foreground. The willingness to wait for moments like this separates the average photographer from pros like Andy. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the... continue reading
It took me a long time in my evolution as a wine lover to truly understand the amount of money and sweat and energy that goes into building a world class winery over decades, even centuries. Many wine lovers early in their education (and in their earning power) are often flummoxed by prices for wines that start to head north of $80 or $90 per bottle. Should they pursue their love of wine long enough to really learn (and see for themselves) what kind of work goes into some of the world's best vineyards, and to taste the wine that... continue reading
The wine world needs more people like Terry Theise, the man I call the Shakespeare of Terroir. It's so easy to get caught up in the stuffy, over-intellectualized world of wine geekery, where people endlessly debate the smallest aspects of winemaking or vintage ratings. All of us who spend enough time talking, thinking, and reading about wine get sucked into that world occasionally. But I find myself attracted to those who fall into that trap with the least regularity. As luck would have it, there are several simple cures for me readily at hand whenever I forget that wine is... continue reading
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Vinography Images: The Russian River Tasting Oregon Riesling...At the International Pinot Noir Celebration? Notes from the Al Fresco Tasting at IPNC 2009 Jancis Robinson Talks About Her Career in Wine at IPNC Vinography Images: Leaf and Grapes Oregon's International Pinot Noir Celebration: Day One Wine Signs of the Times SF Chefs. Food. Wine. Weekend: August 6-9, San Francisco Vinography Images: The Sunlit Knoll A Book for the Wine Lover That Hates to Read
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