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LIVE! From #WBC2014, it's the Wine Bloggers Conference
It starts today. Although I'm not one of those FWCs (famous wine critics) anymore, the WBC people nonetheless invited me down to do a series of panels on wine writing, apparently because I'm still a wine writer! There are actually two related panels: One on the art of wine writing itself, and in the second, each of us panelists has been assigned to read 13 essays pre-submitted by WBC attendees, in order to critique them. I haven't read my quota yet—will tomorrow (today, as you read this). Don't know what to expect; heard from another panelist the submissions are pretty dreadful; hoping for the best.
I'm also moderating a panel sponsored by my employer, Jackson Family Wines, on "How the pros taste." On that one, my co-panelists are Joe Roberts AKA 1WineDude and Patrick Comiskey, senior correspondent for Wine & Spirits Magazine. I've known Patrick for many years, mainly because he's always at the same San Francisco tastings I am. I met Joe through this blogging gig, and I always thought, from the very beginning, that he was talented and weird enough to make it (yes, you have to be weird to be a successful wine writer). We're going to explain to the audience how we taste. The particular wine I'm using is the Cambria 2012 Clone 4 Pinot Noir, an interesting wine that, in my opinion, shows off the qualities of Santa Maria Valley very nicely, and also illustrates the earthy, mushroomy quality of that clone, also called the Pommard clone, which so many people find "Burgundian."
Well, you did ask. We'll also be doing a blind tasting of a mystery wine.
My own feelings toward blind tasting are well known to readers of this blog over the years. At the magazine, I tasted single blind: I knew the general scope of the lineup (e.g. Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon) but not the individual wines. I believe in single-blind tasting. I want some context to the wines. It helps me frame, in my mind, what to expect. Also, because I'm tasting in flights of similar wines, single-blind tasting is a great way to compare and contrast the wines, which is how the scores are arrived at.
But there are many ways to taste. I don't believe in wine writing for its own sake. I believe in getting paid to write about wine, because getting paid makes you a better writer. But each job is different, and mandates a different approach to tasting as well as writing. MWs like to taste double-blind; they don't know where they're going to end up working, so they have to have a wide knowledge of all the wines in the world, and double-blind tasting is a good way to get that. Many of them will end up working the floor of a fine dining establishment that may offer everything from Mount Etna to South Africa to Greece to Napa Valley, so the MW has to have her pulse on everything.
Other wine careerists will gravitate to different jobs. My own brought me to be a specialist in the wines of California. I've tasted 100,000-plus California wines over the last quarter-century and not that many wines from elsewhere. I try to get to international trade tastings as often as possible, but every employed wine person has to recognize his or her limitations. I wish I were stronger on international wines, but it is what it is. Parker probably wishes he was stronger on the wines of Italy; Laube probably wishes he was stronger on the Loire. You can't be all things to all people because there's only 24 hours in the day. Such is life.
So like I said, I believe in getting paid to write about wine, and not every job entails a worldwide knowledge of wine. My first panel at the Bloggers Conference, after all, is about wine writing, not tasting. Not all of these bloggers are going to end up working the floor of a restaurant. MWs may be able to double-blind identify a Ribera del Duero, but they may suck when it comes to writing, and writing, to me, is the essence of wine communication, especially if you're reaching out to a wide audience, and especially if you're trying to do the kind of writing I'm trying to do, which is great writing, memorable writing, writing that people like to read, not just now but for generations. That was my driving ambition with A Wine Journey along the Russian River. Sorry to sound self-serving, but I want that book to be read 100 years from now, not just make Eric Asimov's next Christmas list and then disappear forever. So that's what I mean when I say how you taste depends on your job. My job is to be a great wine writer (and a credible California taster), not the guy in the room who gets the gold medal for Best Identifier.
Still, I acknowledge that the times are different from when I started. Today, anyone and everyone in the wine biz seems to need some kind of diploma so they can put some letters after their last name. There's a clamor for a certain kind of academic expertise that's a product of our current career-driven environment. My friend Ron Washam, the Hosemaster of Wine, is famous (infamous?) for signing himself H.M.W., a conscious act of parody (but not sarcasm: Ron, as do I, recognizes the tremendous amount of work that goes into acquiring an M.S. or an M.W.). But he likes to poke fun at what he perceives as the snobbery that sometimes goes along with those titles. And I pretty much agree with The Hosemaster.
If I have one lesson to teach to the #WBC2014 participants, whether they're in the writing breakout or the tasting breakout, it's this: Be yourself. Learn your chops, yes; memorize the rainfall patterns in Beaujolais in 2009, if you want to, and be able to explain how all that acidity got into Pommard, if you have to: but ultimately, that won't differentiate you from the pack—and the pack is growing bigger every day.
Here's what you have to do to make a living these days: develop your own sense of style. The 21st century likes individuality. Develop your own way to describe wine. Be confident: you don't have to slavishly adhere to anyone's rules. You'd be amazed at the group-think mentality of the M.W. and M.S. communities., which gets boring even to them, believe me because I know what I'm talking about. Don't be afraid to march to the beat of a different drummer. Extremely technical wine knowledge used to be the province of wine brokers only; it still is, but this time it's brokers with many different sub-specialties. On the other hand are the poets, interpreters, chroniclers, historians, enthusiasts, balladeers, amateurs (in the Latin sense), dancers and diarists of wine; they know something above and beyond wine's technical details . Who do we read, twenty, forty, sixty years after they wrote? The poets and romancers, not the lab technicians. I hope today's bloggers never lose sight of that essential truth.
Happy July Fourth!
I'm in Kauai for Jackson Family Wine's annual sales meeting. But I'll be posting next week. Aloha!
On the benefits of estate bottling
At a meeting yesterday at Jackson Family Wines, several people made the point that wines that are estate bottled—that is, where the grape source is controlled 100% by the vintner, either by owning the vineyards or by longterm contracts—are preferable for wine quality to grapes that the winemaker has to scramble for each year, or that are not farmed to his or her exact specifications.
This got me thinking back to my days as a critic, and the wines I reviewed that I gave high scores to, yet were not made from grapes that could properly be called "estate." So, as usual per Heimoff's Axiom, not every rule in wine is iron-clad; there are exceptions to each, and in some cases, notable ones.
But I would have to say that, in general, having the precision control that estate bottled wines have is a huge plus. It's not only a matter of where and how the grapes are grown; in order to quality for "estate bottled," according to Wine Spectator, "the winery listed on the label owns or controls 100 percent of the grapes that went into the bottle, and the wine was crushed, fermented, finished, aged and bottled all in the same place, and that place has to be located in the same viticultural area that's stated on the label."
That's a high bar to clear. If you think about it, each of those specifications might in itself be of minor importance, but when you add them all up and take them together, they make it far more likely that the resulting wine will be of high quality. Having that precision control over farming is certainly the most important of the "estate bottled" requirements, but to have the entire winemaking process "in the same place," usually the winery or a facility located very nearby, removes the risky transportation elements that can drag down wine quality. You want to move grapes, must, fermented wine or bottled wine as little as possible; wine is living food, and doesn't like being manhandled.
By the same token, a winery that has the means (intellectual and financial) to estate-bottle its wines is far more likely than one that doesn't to invest in the highest winemaking talent available. Why go through all the trouble to estate-bottle your wine, only to have a mediocre vintner dumb it down?
These are all reasons why estate bottled wine almost always costs more than wine that isn't estate bottled. The costs of production are higher.
I believe all of Jackson Family's high-end wines are estate bottled; they include Mt. Brave, Stonestreet, Matanzas Creek, Verité, Freemark Abbey, Edmeades, Hartford, La Jota, Lokoya, Cardinale and Byron, in addition to many others. What a great portfolio. It's one of the reasons why I took this job. Jackson Family Wines, IMHO, has the greatest portfolio of wines in the world, at almost any price point except the bottom feeders—a realm Jess had no interest in entering. If you know of another family-owned company that can make that claim, let me know.
I've resisted the temptation to boost or promote or praise the company that employs me for the last 3-1/2 months, since I took this job, and I'm not going to do it a lot. But I'm going to do it sometimes, including today, because it really has to be said: Too many people (so I'm learning) feel or think that all the brands under Jackson Family Wines' roof are somehow or other Kendall-Jackson. That just isn't true; in fact, it's a perversion of the facts. While K-J accounts for the majority of bottles sold by the company (and, I suspect, the majority of profits), it's simply one brand among many. Jess Jackson and Barbara Banke didn't have to assemble this world-class portfolio (which includes high-end brands on four continents). They could well have been content to be "mere" billionaires off K-J. But Jess Jackson wanted to prove to himself, and to the world, that he could make wines to stand beside anything else, anywhere, in quality. He has done that—and estate bottling is a large part of the reason–but the story hasn't adequately been conveyed. That's part of the reason JFW hired me. I'm going to be telling that story, to sommeliers and other "gatekeepers," and not just telling it, but proving it, by pouring them these wines to taste and see for themselves how great they are.
Alright, got that off my chest. Now, have a great weekend!
Why do women drink more wine than men?
I met yet another young (mid-20s) guy yesterday who told me he's so into beer that he's brewing it at home, while his girlfriend is a wine lover who's always trying to up his level of knowledge about vino.
What is it anyway about this gender divide that separates the [beer] men from the [wine] women, anyway? I've always wondered about this. My friend and I went to a sports bar last night that was packed with kids in their twenties and I swear all the ladies were drinking wine and cocktails while all the guys were swilling suds.
I guess we could go through the usual litany that beer is "masculine" while fancy martinis and wine are "feminine." Certainly the big beer producers capitalize on this perception with their advertising, which is geared to guys who like to crush empty beer cans against their foreheads, and to the women who love them.
A recent study, from Nielsen, says that women comprise 55% of wine drinkers in America. But things may be changing: "in the last decade, men have become avid wine drinkers while drinking less beer." The wine industry has done a pretty good job chipping away at perceptions that it's an elite, slightly effeminate beverage, but there's still a long way to go.
In an hour or so, I'm heading off to Jackson Family HQ in Santa Rosa for a couple of days for meetings. Today will be pretty busy, but I'll try to post something for tomorrow morning (Friday). Have a great day!
Come to Anderson Valley–but make sure you have a place to stay!
I'm up here in the beautiful Anderson Valley, which more than 30 wineries call home. To those familiar with trafficky Highway 29 in Napa Valley, or even the much less densely clogged roads of the Russian River Valley, Anderson Valley's Highway 128 will seem blissfully free of cars. You can drive from Boonville past Philo out to Navarro, in the Deep End, with no one on your tail. But empty as the valley is, it's not empty enough for some people.
That, at least, is what a longtime vintner-friend told me yeserday. I had related to him how, when I arrived in the valley on Monday evening, I couldn't find the key to the Edmeades guesthouse, and for a while, I feared I'd have to find someplace else to spend the night. Not exactly the most pleasant prospect in Anderson Valley, where accommodations are scarcer than encryption in the cloud, which is to say: pretty scarce. The lady at the local market directed me to enquire at the Philo Inn; alas, there was no room there, nor at the Boonville Hotel, which pretty much represents everyplace there is to spend the night. The guy at the Philo Inn told me I had two choices: to head back to Ukiah (Not! Under! Any! Circumstances!) or to drive another 40 minutes out to the resorts on the coast. And even then, I'd need a dog-friendly place. I was feeling pretty glum at that point.
Fortune fortunately came to my assistance; the long-sought key was found, and I am now safely ensconced in the beautiful Edmeades guest house. But as I explained to my vintner-friend, it made me wonder if there wasn't an opportunity for someone to add to the valley's existing lodging stock, perhaps by building a charming little B&B. After all, it wasn't just I who was looking for someplace to stay that Monday night; two leathered-up guys on motorcycles, who by their accents sounded like they were from Germany, maybe Holland, also were desperate. Doesn't that sound like Anderson Valley could use more places to stay?
My vintner-friend laughed. "The locals would never allow it," he smiled.
"Not even for a little seven-room inn?"
"Nope." It seems like the Anderson Valleyites like the lonely remoteness of their slice of heaven, and are determined to keep it that way.
And who am I, or anyone, to challenge them? It's their place to live, and I would think that many of them headed up here in the first place in order to escape the evils of traffic, noise, pollution, crime and all the other ills that accompany dense population centers.
Does remaining pristine impact the quality of the local wine? I think to some extent it does, and for the better. Local winemakers here, less subject to the demands and whims of the tourist trade, are able to focus on their land, their vines and their personal visions. Of course, just because Anderson Valley isn't swamped with tourists doesn't put it off the grid (although many people here do live off that proverbial matrix). With the Internet and social media, they're very much tuned into the outside world, and lots of them sell a goodly proportion of their wines to club members, whom I guess you could call virtual tourists.
Still, there's something unspoiled and rustic about the wineries in Anderson Valley. As Ben Salazar, the young winemaker for Edmeades, told me, most of the growers are local guys who are true farmers, depending on their crops to pay the mortgage and put their kids through school. "It's like a glimpse into the past of how Napa and Sonoma used to be," said Ben, who previously made wine in both of those appellations.
Anderson Valley is a great place to visit if you're a wine tourist, but you do have to keep in mind the lack of amenities, including a place to stay. You definitely do not want to arrive here at the end of a long day, only to find yourself homeless. If you're looking for wine country, and great wine, without the hassles, you can do no better than this beautiful, isolated place of Mendocino County. But plan ahead.
A little more information about my new job
I haven't written much about my new job because it's been important for me to keep steveheimoff.com a place independent of whatever job I have, whether it was the guy who wrote wine reviews for Wine Enthusiast or my new position at Jackson Family Wines.
The reason it's important for me to preserve and protect this space as a sort of safe house is because I have (or think I have) a compact with my readers. That compact is terribly important to me. It's almost a marriage—I mean, that's how seriously I take it.
The thing to understand is how hard I've had to fight to maintain this blog's independence. My former employer strongly encouraged me to end it—why, I never could understand. Obviously, I refused. After that experience, I am tremendously grateful to Jackson Family Wines for being supportive of the blog's continuation.
My official title is director of wine communications and education. As such—and things are still evolving—my work is mainly confined to three areas: writing (they call it "content" creation), giving advice on various matters of my expertise to colleagues within the company, and working with outside gatekeepers in the ongoing work of tasting Jackson Family Wines.
This latter task is driven largely by the fact that there is a body of opinion among some people that Kendall-Jackson is a single wine company and that all of the company's other brands must somehow be associated with K-J. That perception—real or imagined—is, of course, nonsense. Mentioning only some of the California wineries, it is clear, or should be to anyone who pays attention to these things, that Champ de Réves, Edmeades, Stonestreet, Verité, Hartford Court, Cambria, Atalon, Cardinale, Freemark Abbey, Mt. Brave, Lokoya, Byron and Matanzas Creek, etc. (I could go on) are wineries of the highest caliber; in my years as California editor of Wine Enthusiast I gave many high scores to their wines, including several 100 point scores (and I had the reputation of being stingy with perfect scores). I personally long ago formed the opinion, which was based on fact, that Jackson Family Wines was a large company, with brands at virtually every price point, and moreover, those brands met or exceeded in quality their competitors—and often at a lower price. This gave me great respect for the company.
So when I began to hear, from various others in this company, of an outside attitude that K-J somehow impugns the other brands in the portfolio, it was rather shocking. I wonder how anyone working in this business could fail to make the distinction between price tiers. After all, one doesn't hear of a gatekeeper's revolt against Mouton Rothschild because its parent company also produces Mouton Cadet, which is said to sell around 1 million cases annually, making it very much a commodity wine. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Besides, I have never heard anyone offer any reasonable argument to dispute the concept that a large wine company can walk and chew gum at the same time: that is, produce fairly-priced wine in large quantities for the everyday wine drinker, and simultaneously make ultrapremium wine, based on estate-grown grapes from the finest coastal appellations, and vinified by some of the top winemakers in California.
If I have any gripe at all with the upper tier of the industry—not the wines themselves, but the critics and somms who concern themselves with those wines—it's that they so often give the impression that the everyday consumer doesn't matter—that everyday-priced wines, the kind you find in a supermarket, are somehow illegitimate when compared to the little garagiste labels. This, too, is nonsense, and patently unfair. At Wine Enthusiast, I developed an affection for the everyday segment of the market (and the magazine reflected that affection). It always made me happy to give a Best Buy to an under-$15 wine, because I appreciated, having come from that part of the population that can't afford expensive wine, that some wine companies take seriously the notion of making inexpensive quality wine, and I also knew how technically difficult that can be on a consistent basis, across vintages. That is one reason why Kendall-Jackson so often got my nod.
So what is it about some gatekeepers that makes them unable to appreciate the qualities of an ultrapremium wine made by the same company that produces an everyday wine? I have to confess that this is an aspect of my job I take most seriously, as I have great respect for "the truth," and truth, after all, ought to live at the heart of every conversation about wine. Does the wine taste good? Is it clean and well-made? Does it drink well with food? Does it have the interest and complexity to satisfy over the course of a meal? These are the criteria by which sommeliers and gatekeepers should judge wines—not some hocus-pocus about scarcity or romance or garages.
I mean not to impugn any gatekeepers. I was one myself, so I know how hard these people work, and how honest they feel in their own hearts regarding the wines they recommend. I simply look forward to sitting down with them, as best I can, and asking them to put aside whatever stereotypes they may harbor, and perceive reality as it actually is: the wine inside the glass.


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Apple's massive 'iPad 3' air freight deal with DHL shaking up shipping ratesIn another sign that Apple plans to make its third-generation iPad available for purchase very soon after it is announced this week, AppleInsider has been told that shipping company DHL is prepared to handle massive shipments from Apple.
One person who contacted AppleInsider said that changes to the price of air cargo through DHL have signaled a major planned Apple shipment from China to the U.S. Evidence of this can be seen in a "big change" in shipping costs, as Apple has taken up freight capacity on flights from the Far East to America.
The massive importation of goods is said to be taking up valuable space on the courier's international flights, which has driven shipping rates up this week considerably.
The information was corroborated on Monday by MacRumors, who also spoke with sources in the shipping industry. They indicated that shipping rates rose as much as 20 percent in one week as Apple has taken up available capacity at "premium rates."
Given the millions of iPads that Apple will undoubtedly have available at launch, it's likely that DHL is just one of the couriers Apple will use to ship its new iPad. When the first iPad debuted in 2010, Apple utilized UPS for Saturday deliveries, even though UPS does not offer standard delivery on weekends.
Indications first arose more than a week ago that Apple's assembly partner, Foxconn, was already gearing up to ship Apple's third-generation iPad to the U.S. for an impending product launch. One shipping manifest that surfaced on a Chinese microblogging site showed major international charter flights originating from Chengdu International Airport carrying "Apple's latest products."
All of Apple's rumored shipping activity suggests that the company is gearing up for a near-immediate launch of its third-generation iPad. The so-called "iPad 3" is expected to be unveiled at a media event this Wednesday in San Francisco.
Last year Apple announced the iPad 2 on March 2, and the device became publicly available in the U.S. just over a week later on March 11. If Apple were to follow the same release pattern this year, the next iPad could go on sale on Friday, March 16.
But there have been some indications that Apple could debut its next iPad even faster after this year's official unveiling. One report from last month suggested the "iPad 3" would go on sale in Germany on March 23, a full week earlier than the international launch would be if Apple followed last year's launch schedule.
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Chris Christie phoned Barack Obama to congratulate him on his re-election . . . but loser Mitt Romney only got an email
Chris Christie, the bombastic New Jersey governor who has been under fire from conservatives for his effusive praise of Barack Obama after Hurricane Sandy telephoned the president after his election win but only sent an email to Mitt Romney, it was revealed today.
He told reporters at a press conference on Thursday that he had talked to Obama. 'We didn't have a political strategy discussion,' he said. 'I said, "Congratulations on your win last night, Mr. President", he said, "Thank you".'
Asked about whether he had spoken to Romney, he said: 'No. We exchanged emails last night. We haven't spoken on the phone yet.'
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Friends in a storm: Christie, pictured here greeting Obama on a visit to Sandy-struck New Jersey, called the President to offer congratulations not 'discuss political strategy' he said
Christie, who is up for re-election in New Jersey next year and is a likely 2016 presidential candidate, is partly blamed by some senior Romney aides for the Republican nominee's defeat.
They believe that his outspoken commendations of Obama helped create an aura of bipartisan appeal that was invaluable.
Stuart Stevens, Romney's top strategist, has told Mail Online that Romney was 'winning this race by five or six points before Sandy' but 'came out of Sandy one or two behind'.
Part of Romney's post-Sandy drop was due to his being all but absent from the television screens for three to four days. But conservatives have been quick to condemn Christie, a one-time vice-presidential possibility for Romney, for what they regard as a deliberate undermining of the former Massachusetts governor.
Machinations: Christie had been accused of either being 'politically tone-deaf' or 'purposefully' helping Obama
Thanks Chris: Christie declined to appear at a campaign rally with Romney in the days before the election
When Christie was asked at the time by Fox News if Romney had any plans to visit New Jersey, he said: 'I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested. I've got a job to do here in New Jersey that's much bigger than presidential politics, and I could care less about any of that stuff.'
In an opinion article entitled 'Excommunicating Chris Christie', Brett Decker of the 'Washington Times' blasted Christie as a moderate on guns, climate change and social issues and as being either 'politically tone-deaf' or 'purposely' trying to help Obama.
'Mr Christie handed Mr Obama a big gift in the form of photo-ops, public hugs and gratuitously complimentary statements about the opposing party's standard bearer.'
On Wednesday, Christie appeared to be at pains to deny that he had been anything other than completely supportive of Romney.
'I wouldn't call what I did an embrace of Barack Obama,' he said at a Wednesday press conference. 'I know that's become the wording of it, but the fact of the matter is, you know, I'm a guy who tells the truth all the time.
'And if the president of the United States did something good, I was gonna say he did something good and give him credit for it.
VIDEO: Christie says "I did my job" campaigning for Romney:
Sandy bounce: Romney aides believe he lost the election in part to the effect of the superstorm halting the GOP candidate's momentum
'But it doesn't take away for a minute the fact that I was the first governor to endorse Mitt Romney, that I travelled literally tens of thousands of miles for him, raised tens of millions of dollars for him and worked harder, I think, than any other surrogate in America other than Paul Ryan, who became his running mate.'
According to the Huffington Post, Christie declined an invitation by Romney to an event in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, some three miles away across the Delaware river from Trenton, New Jersey's capital, in the final week of the campaign.
While this was seen by some as a snub, the political downside of Christie appearing at a political rally when many in New Jersey were still suffering extreme hardship after Sandy would have made any appearance unlikely.
Responding to the story, Christie lambasted the 'know-nothing, disgruntled Romney staffers' who had made the accusation.
He added that he had told Romney before Hurricane Sandy hit that he would probably not be available for the rest of the campaign.
'I said to him, "Listen, Mitt, if this storm hits the way I think it's going to, I'm off the campaign trail from here to Election Day",' he recalled.
'And he said to me, "Chris, of course. That's what you have to do. Do your job. Don't worry about me. I'll take care of things".
'So all this other noise, I think, is coming from know-nothing, disgruntled Romney staffers who, you know, don't like the fact that I said nice things about the president of the United States. Well, that's too bad for them.'
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Indian Land High School continued its annual Veterans Day tradition Tuesday, Nov. 11, by honoring Panhandle veterans with breakfast and a service ceremony hosted by the school's FFA, JROTC and attended by the entire student body.
"The veterans have served our country, so it's our turn to serve them," said ILHS FAA President Kace Faulkner. "We have pride in our community and we're proud of the (efforts) veterans have put into our community and our country."
When it comes to overall student performance at Clinton Elementary School, its principal, Rachel Ray, refuses to focus on the past.
When it comes to policing itself for ethical violations, the 170-member General Assembly hasn't shown much interest in recent years – if you go by the number of formal opinions produced by the chambers' ethics committees.
The House and Senate Ethics committees issue written advisory opinions to their respective chambers to guide them when questions arise about state ethics laws.
There was much banter at the Lancaster County Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 10, about rezoning for newly added manufactured homes at Poovey Farm and a development agreement for TreeTops in the Van Wyck community.
Between now and the beginning of the New Year, deputies will be out in force working to keep local streets safe.
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Lancaster County School District and six of its schools earned outstanding results for student performance on this year's S.C. Department of Education's district and school report cards.
Other highlights from this year's state report cards include an increase in the district's graduation rate and passing marks for the most county schools.
It has been an honor and privilege to serve Lancaster County Council District 4 for the past eight years.
Thanks to you I will represent you for the next four years with honesty and integrity as I have done in the past.
My support for the Sheriff's Office, EMS and Emergency Management will not change. We must remain strong in these areas throughout Lancaster County to protect our families and our property.
INDIAN LAND – Crossroads Lutheran Church launched its Operation Christmas Child (OCC) effort Oct. 4 with guest speaker Irina Creek. She received a shoe box as a child in a Russian orphanage and now spreads the message of hope she received.
United Bible Way Church of Lancaster held its annual Fall Fellowship Family and Friends Day, on Sunday, Oct. 26.
In addition to the morning service and the decoration of 12 tables that were covered with delicious homemade foods, a Day of Remembrance for slain victims of Lancaster County, Soles for Departed Souls Memorial Walk and the observance of Breast Cancer Month by wearing pink T-shirts and presenting guests with pink ribbons were added to the annual activities.
The National Weather Service has lifted the tornado watch that was in effect until 6 p.m. for Lancaster County.
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If there is a favorite image in the movies by the Coen brothers, it's of crass, venal men behind desks, who possess power the heroes envy. Maybe that's because, like all filmmakers, the Coens have spent a lot of time on the carpet, pitching projects to executives. In "Blood Simple," the guy behind the desk was M. Emmet Walsh, as a scheming private detective. In "Raising Arizona," it was Trey Wilson's furniture czar. In "Miller's Crossing," it was Albert Finney, as a mob boss. In "Barton Fink," it is Michael Lerner, as the head of a Hollywood studio. All of these men are vulgar, smoke cigars, and view their supplicants with contempt.
To their desks come characters who want to make a deal with the devil. They know these men are evil, compromised and corrupt. But they want what they have - a lot of money. "Barton Fink," the latest Coen film (directed by Joel, produced by Ethan, written by both), tells the story of a man who would like to sell out to Hollywood, if only he had the talent. Barton Fink is a left-wing New York playwright, modeled on the Clifford Odets of "Waiting for Lefty," who writes one proletarian hand-wringer in the late 1930s and then is summoned to Hollywood, where Jack Lipnick (Lerner), the vulgarian in charge of Capitol Pictures, pays him piles of money and assigns him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery.
Fink, played with a likable, dim earnestness by John Turturro, checks into an eerie hotel that looks designed by Edward Hopper. There is apparently only one other tenant, the affable Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a traveling salesman who lives next door and says he could tell Fink a lot of interesting stories. But Fink, who claims to be the poet of the working man, is not interested in a real proletarian, and spends most of his time staring at his typewriter in despair. He has writer's block.
Lou Breeze (Jon Polito), the studio czar's right-hand man, tells Fink he should look up W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), another great American writer on the studio payroll. Mayhew is obviously modeled on William Faulkner, and Mahoney, with a moustache, is his uncanny double. Fink arrives breathlessly at the great man's feet, only to discover that he is a raving drunk and that his "secretary" (Judy Davis) has written most of his recent work. The three go on a picnic one day, and the scene builds into a wry comic vignette - some satire, some slapstick.
Like all of the Coen productions, "Barton Fink" has a deliberate visual style. The Hollywood of the late 1930s and early 1940s is seen here as a world of Art Deco and deep shadows, long hotel corridors and bottomless swimming pools. And there is a horror lurking underneath the affluent surface. Goodman, as the ordinary man in the next room, is revealed to have inhuman secrets, and the movie leads up to an apocalyptic vision of blood, flames and ruin, with Barton Fink unable to influence events with either his art or his strength.
The Coens mean this aspect of the film, I think, to be read as an emblem of the rise of Nazism. They paint Fink as an ineffectual and impotent left-wing intellectual, who sells out while telling himself he is doing the right thing, who thinks he understands the "common man" but does not understand that, for many common men, fascism had a seductive appeal. Fink tries to write a wrestling picture and sleeps with the great writer's mistress, while the Holocaust approaches and the nice guy in the next room turns out to be a monster.
It would be a mistake to insist too much on this aspect of the movie, however, since "Barton Fink" is above all a black comedy in the tradition of David Lynch, Luis Bunuel and the Coens themselves. Turturro is the right man for the role, making Fink a plodding, introspective, unsure intellectual whose lack of insight is matched only by his lack of talent. The movie is a little unfair to Odets, its inspiration (even if he did go to Hollywood in the late 1930s and write a boxing picture, "Golden Boy," which did not drip with political commitment). But it is even more unfair, hilariously, to Faulkner, whose works were not written by a "secretary," but who was by all accounts just as much of a boozer as the Mayhew character.
"Barton Fink" won this year's Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and an unprecedented two more prizes as well, for director and actor. Since Cannes juries traditionally limit themselves to one award per film, their ecstasy would seem to indicate "Barton Fink" is one of the greatest films ever made. It is not. But it's an assured piece of comic filmmaking, and perhaps a warning by the Coens to themselves about what can happen when brilliant young talents from the East make that trek out to the land of the guys behind the desks.
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Detection (Visualization) of Zones and Documentation of Chromatograms
After drying the developed plate, compound zones are detected on the layer by their natural color, natural fluorescence under
366-nm UV light, quenching of fluorescence under 254-nm UV light on an "F" layer containing a phosphor (termed a UV indicator),
or as colored, UV-absorbing, or fluorescent zones after reaction with an appropriate chemical reagent (postchromatographic
derivatization). Chromogenic and fluorogenic reagents are applied by spraying or dipping a layer or exposing it to reagent
vapors (for example, iodine). Chemical detection reagents can be nondestructive universal (iodine), destructive universal
(for example, charring with sulfuric acid), or selective (for example, ninhydrin for amino compounds). Most chemical derivatization
reactions require heating of the plate for completion. A forced air oven (with a solid glass or metal plate onto which the
TLC plate is placed for even heating) or a Camag plate heater can be used.
Effect directed analysis (EDA) is becoming more important in food, pharmaceutical, and phytochemical analyses. In EDA, there
is no attempt to analyze all compounds in a sample, but instead the focus is on just the relevant (for example, harmful or
bioactive) compounds detected by a bioassay coupled to TLC. These compounds can be the target analyte as well as unknown metabolites,
side products, process contaminants, adulteration products, and residues. Bioassays used with TLC include microbiological
assays (bioautography), bacterial assays (the Camag BioLuminizer bioluminescence detector utilizing Vibrio fischeri), and biochemical detections using enzymes, including immunoassays. TLC–EDA was reviewed by Morlock and Schwack (20).
Identification of Zones
Separated zones are initially identified based on the correspondence of R
f values and detection characteristics between sample and standard zones on the same plate, but must be independently confirmed
by other evidence, such as off-line and on-line coupling of TLC with various spectrometric methods. Scanning densitometers
have a spectral mode that allows measurement of UV–vis spectra of zones directly on the plate and comparison with standards.
In addition, peak purity can be examined by carrying out spectral studies at the peak start, middle, and end.
One of the most important and active areas of current research is hyphenation of TLC with MS for identification or structure
elucidation, which was reviewed by Morlock and Schwack (20,21). Many TLC–MS coupling approaches were covered in these reviews,
but the elution head-based technique is the most interesting because of the commercial availability since mid-2009 of the
Camag TLC–MS interface. Details of its use are available from Camag. The reviews by Morlock and Schwack also cover hyphenation
of TLC with UV–vis, fluorescence, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and surface-enhanced Raman spectrometry in various combinations
to characterize samples as completely as possible.
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