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Tags: 2022 Lincoln Navigator, 2022 Navigator, full-size SUV, lincoln navigator
2022 Lincoln Navigator: Hands-free driving added, 5 other things to know
Jill Ciminillo August 18, 2021
The Lincoln Navigator took the full-size SUV segment by storm when it was redesigned for the 2018 model year. It won all the awards and set the bar for all the refreshed SUVs that followed. Now, four years later, and it has reached the point in its lifecycle where it's time for a refresh. So, on the 2022 Navigator, you'll see an updated grille, a new sequential lighting effect for the rear taillights and larger display screens as well as some nice technology additions.
Here are the six most important things to know about the 2022 Lincoln Navigator.
Go hands-free
The biggest update, other than the refreshed styling, is the addition of hands-free, highway only driving capability. Called ActiveGlide, this system will operate similarly to Super Cruise, which we've seen on General Motors vehicles.
Once engaged, the driver can take hands off the wheel and foot off the pedals as the vehicle will control speed and steering through the combination of adaptive cruise control and lane centering technology. This system can be activated in what Lincoln is calling "Blue Zones," which constitutes more than 130k miles of prequalified highways across North America – so not just the U.S.
Don't mistake this for eyes-off-the-road driving, though. There is currently no fully autonomous vehicle on the road, and this system requires you to keep your eyes on the road – and it'll make sure you do so via an infrared camara pointed at your eyes.
Same powertrain, less HP
In a weird quirk of fate, the 2022 Navigator keeps the same engine, but rather than adding horsepower, it actually loses 10 horsepower. So, you're looking at a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 engine that delivers 440 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque.
During a Q-and-A session, Lincoln execs basically said the loss of horsepower is unnoticeable, and the difference isn't perceived at all. So, we're not sure why they did this, but apparently, you won't be able to tell.
The 2022 Navigator gets a whole host of nice tech updates, the first of which involves the rear-seat entertainment. The system comes with dual 10.1-inch screens and wireless Bluetooth headphones, and rear-seat passengers will have the ability to watch individual programs.
This new Lincoln Play system gets a special Fire TV system, which will allow passengers to watch Prime Video, play games and listen to music. The system also has multiple inputs including HDMI, USB-C and SD.
Yes, that means you can bring your Xbox on a road trip.
Other tech features of note include wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, Sync 4, Amazon Alexa and a whole host of standard safety features.
Second-row sanctuary
This is the back seat I wish I had access to when I was a kid. In addition to a multitude of rear-seat entertainment options, the seats themselves are place any rear passenger would want to spend some quality time.
In addition to their own HVAC controls, rear-seat passengers will get the royal treatment with heated-and-cooled seat as well as seat massagers.
2 new Black Label themes
For 2022, Navigator drops the Destination theme from its Black Label portfolio, but it keeps Chalet and Yacht Club while adding Central Park and Invitation.
While the Central Park theme looks attractive with its dark wood accents and black leather, I'm most intrigued by the Central Park theme, which reflects a more urban design. The coolest thing about this theme: The dark walnut wood on the dash is actually lasered to reflect the park's pathways.
But Black Label is more than just a theme – it's an experience that includes premium maintenance, complimentary detailing, any-time carwashes and special membership privileges.
Road Preview is standard
In Chicago I play a game I like to call "dodge the potholes." This is a year-round venture that you hope saves the tires and wheels on your car – not to mention your teeth. I'm not always successful, and it would be really nice to have a way to ease the blow if avoidance isn't possible.
The 2022 Navigator does that.
Adaptive Suspension with Road Preview is standard. What that means is the vehicle has a series of 12 sensors that monitors body movements as well as the road ahead. A forward-facing camera reads the road 500 times a second and will automatically prompt adjustments to diffuse jarring motions. We need this in Chicago stat!
The bottom line on the 2022 Navigator
In our humble opinion, Lincoln makes one of the best full-size luxury SUVs with plush seats, excellent tech-forward features and an incredibly quiet cabin. We loved it when we first saw it as a concept car, we loved it more when we drove it – and if the pattern holds, this refresh will bring more love.
We don't have any pricing information at this time, but we still have a lot of time between now and when we'll see the 2022 Navigator hit showrooms early next fall. So, stay tuned for more details – including price – coming in a couple months.
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Nashville recap: If I Could Do It All Again
Luke and Deacon find some common ground in the Beverly and Avery gets back in the dating game — all while Vita deals with the fallout from the missing money
By Kyle Fowle
Mark Levine/ABC
There's a lot of business in "If I Could Do It All Again," and by business I mean actual business. Crazy, I know. It seems as though everyone in Nashville is gearing up for some sort of business venture. Luke is correcting his tour mistakes, Scarlett and Gunnar are prepping for their album release, Layla is in the studio and getting ready for a PR tour, and Deacon is working to make the Beverly the place to be in Nashville. Of course, all these business moves don't go down exactly as planned.
First up, Deacon thinks he's got a great plan to really put the Beverly on the map. Now that he knows Riff is going on tour with Luke, he thinks the old country legend might need a warmup show. So, he books him into the Beverly for one night, taking over Frankie's spot. That doesn't sit well with Frankie, especially because he's still pissed off about Vita, but he's accepting things for now. Or, Deacon isn't giving him many options.
Meanwhile, Gunnar and Scarlett have a meeting at Highway 65 to listen to their album. Gunnar is stupidly nervous about it — and Will is charmingly comforting about the whole thing — but things go perfectly. The label loves the album. There is one thing that seems to be an issue, though: The label wants to use one of Scarlett's songs as the single. Gunnar seems to be okay with it, but Scarlett is worried is doesn't represent them as a duo.
Speaking of duos, Avery gets himself back into the dating game! And it's complicated! And Layla might love him! Avery has a lot going on, is what I'm saying. But anyway, after an adorable meet-cute at the park with another single parent, Avery is invited over for dinner. It's super cute, and Avery deserves good things, so I'm happy with this development.
Of course, Nashville couldn't go long without dealing with this whole Vita situation. She shows up for her meeting with Rayna, and Rayna has no choice but to ask her about the money. Vita insists that she didn't take the money, and that's enough for both Rayna and Deacon. Then, Vita plays a stunning song and gets Rayna fully on her side.
Vita isn't the only one auditioning in a sense, though. A label named Three Dollar Vinyl, whose artists are all gay, contacts Will. He takes the meeting, but he's admittedly hesitant about the label. That hesitancy is given more fuel when it's clear that the label manager hasn't really heard his music but guarantees Will's music will sell like crazy with their demographic. Still, Will can't imagine pigeonholing himself like that, and when he runs into a barista who put out her own album independently, Will starts to think that might be the best route.
I have to say, though: WHAT MUSICIAN DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT INDEPENDENTLY RELEASING MUSIC IN THIS DAY AND AGE?
I'm glad I got that out. Okay, back to business.
NEXT: Nothing but Riff raff
Just as Luke thinks he has his tour back on track, things get ugly real quick. It turns out that even a country legend gets a little rusty, so when Riff takes the rehearsal stage and completely bombs, he lashes out at Luke's band and then at Luke. Riff says nobody knows how to play his music and that Luke's kids don't even like him. It's a childish tantrum, one that only the men on this show know how to pull off. It's beautiful.
In fact, a lot of people start having meltdowns about halfway through this episode. Colt, who's suddenly back in town, gets angry at Maddie for focusing on music too much. Then he tells her she should do something more meaningful with her life, that music is so fake. Sure, he's a bit mad about Maddie's song detailing their sexy time, but hey, there's no need to be such an asshole. Then again, he's Luke Wheeler's kid, so it's par for the course.
Then Frankie gets all heated and confronts Vita when she shows up for her Deacon-approved shift. In a bit of a surprise, though, she admits to taking the money. As she tells Rayna later, she needed it to get her sister out of some serious trouble with some bad people, and she intended to pay it all back. It's not enough to redeem her in the eyes of Deacon or Rayna though, and they essentially cut her loose.
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Meanwhile, Avery's date goes better than expected, but he completely fumbles the second one, spending too much time talking about Juliette. It shows him that he's not ready to date yet and he accepts it, which is quite the relief to Layla, who's basically losing her mind through this whole episode. How else could you explain the horrible sweater she was wearing in the studio at the end of the episode?
Despite all the tantrums, things mostly work out fine for everyone. Riff gets his act together and, with the help of Luke's band, puts on a solid show at the Beverly with a ton of press in attendance. Avery and Layla get back in the studio after all the messy relationship stuff, and Scarlett and Gunnar solve their songwriting problem by deciding to put both their names on all the songs, sharing the credits equally. Again, that's not a new concept in music, you guys!! Does nobody here know anything about making a record?
Things aren't all rainbows and roses, though. Colt, after getting dumped by Maddie (you go, girl!), stares longingly at a poster for the U.S. Army in the episode's funniest shot of the night. Then, after seeing Deacon get all the credit for turning the Beverly around, while also basking in the limelight on the stage, Frankie storms off and sneaks a drink. Not good.
There's potentially something much worse brewing, though. Rayna decides to head back to the hotel parking lot to meet with Vita to see if she can do anything to help get her on her feet. When she gets there, though, the parking lot is taped off by the police, along with Vita's car, and everything inside it, is destroyed. According to the officer, there was "an altercation," but that's all we know for now.
So, stay tuned for when Nashville turns into a crime procedural next week.
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Nashville recap: There's a whole lot of tears, love and Connie Britton in the last ever episode
By Ruth Kinane
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Nashville recap: Juliette tries to get her life back on track back
Nashville recap: Deacon gets an unwelcome visitor from his past
Nashville recap: Juliette tries to escape from the crazy cult
Nashville recap: Daphne becomes Nashville's next big star
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Nashville recap: Will (kinda) tries to face his heart problems
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Nashville recap: 'Beneath Still Waters'
Nashville recap: 'Where the Night Goes'
Nashville recap: 'That's My Story'
Nashville recap: 'Jump Then Fall'
Nashville recap: 'Second Chances'
Nashville premiere recap: 'New Strings'
Nashville finale recap: 'Reasons to Quit'
Nashville recap: 'Farther On'
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Legendary music icon Rayna Jaymes struggles to maintain her place in the spotlight while dealing with the ambitious rising pop vixen Juliette Barnes.
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A Taste of Two Cities in Peru
Pack a big appetite and head south to Peru where chefs are surprising even the most adventurous eaters
BY By Tommie Ethington
Restaurants, especially those with five stars to their name, tend to keep rodents out of their kitchens. But at La Barra, a trendy tapas style eatery in Peru's capital city of Lima, they're part of the draw.
I teeter on a white leather stool, peering across the bar and into the bustling kitchen, where chefs in denim aprons use tweezers to place herbs—fresh from the garden outside—atop colorful courses. The early afternoon light streams in through the glass atrium and stylish businesswomen chat over salads in the corner.
It could have been a neighborhood favorite in Brooklyn or San Francisco if not for the fact that, on more than one occasion, my curiosity prompted me to ask the sous chef what unusual ingredients he had under his knife.
When the dish arrived, the rodent was artfully disguised. The menu indicated fried cassava, rocoto hoy sin, tomatoes, radishes, avocado, coriander and criolla sauce all contributed to the zest. I took the first bite and found that the guinea pig—or "cuy," as it's called in Peru—tasted a lot like pork.
A Cultural Feast
Paris, New York and Bangkok top the list when it comes to world-class culinary destinations, but innovative chefs in Peru are now putting two cities—Lima and Cusco—on the map. For their part, Peruvians pay homage to their culinary roots and provide fusion experiences that are as rich in flavor as they are in history.
Lima, the bustling modern-day capital, is home to two of the country's most famous eateries: Central and Astrid y Gastón. Named to the World's 50 Best Restaurants list by a panel of over 900 judges, Central (at No. 4) and Astrid y Gastón (at No. 14) are both hot spots that boast on-site gardens, chic dining rooms, hours-long, multi-course meals and even longer waiting lists.
If you're short on time (or funds), opt for La Barra, housed in the same colonial-style mansion as Chef Gastón Acurio's signature restaurant. The menu changes every 45 days, but popular dishes—like the quinoa sliders or confit guinea pig—are mainstays. Make a reservation in advance and ask for a tour of the kitchens.
Closer to the coast and in the bustling Miraflores district, two lesser known, but equally notable restaurants highlight distinct Peruvian ecosystems. Punto Azul puts a modern spin on ceviche, the country's national dish and a 2,000-year-old tradition, by drawing inspiration from Japanese sashimi. The fish at the two-story cevichería appear in thin slices, topped with everything from pesto to passion fruit. The piqueo punto azul offers an array of flavors, while the ceviche juice, or "tiger's milk," is also popular.
A four-minute walk to the south, Ámaz could easily be mistaken for another high-rise in the concrete jungle. But inside, Chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino's swanky restaurant transports diners 700 miles away to the expansive rainforest region that covers nearly 60 percent of the country. Booths are made to look like thatched huts and light fixtures resembling palm leaves hang in clusters near wooden animals native to the Amazon. Saving the restaurant from kitsch is its menu of intriguing dishes, such as palm-sized Amazonian snails served in their shells with a spicy chorizo sausage sauce and topped with tapioca pearls, fried mash banana and crispy bacon rinds.
A meal in Lima, or really any Peruvian dining experience, would not be complete without toasting with a pisco sour, the country's cocktail of choice, which is made with a green grape brandy. Its origin has long been debated, but Schiaffino, a Lima native, doesn't concern himself with the issue. Instead, he's spent the last decade building a cocktail program that brings unexpected twists to the classic beverage. The mixologists at his restaurant craft a pisco sour balanced not with the usual lime juice, but instead with juice from araza, a tart tropical fruit. It's enough to make you want to say "Salud!"
Farm-to-Table Fare
If you really want to get to know a country, spend some time at the local market.
Wandering the stalls of Cusco's mercado, I marvel at the different varieties of corn—amazed by their colors and eager to try the dark purple, nearly black maize that serves as the main ingredient for a sweet Peruvian beverage known as chicha morada. I stroll past a booth overflowing with flowers, listening to the chatter between shop owners. At the end of the aisle, a woman in traditional dress with long braids lays out freshly made goat cheese.
Whereas Lima pushes the envelope with new culinary combinations, Cusco is content to perfect Peruvian comfort foods like alpaca steaks, chicken wings and lomo saltado—a beef stir-fry dish with hints of Chinese influences.
Deep in the heart of the Andes Mountains, the city was once the vibrant center of the Inca Empire and today is a gateway to Machu Picchu. Cobblestone streets and colonial architecture serve as a stomping ground for food vendors and hole-in-the-wall lunch counters.
Located just blocks from the main plaza, Café Morena has all the makings of a hip dining establishment, minus the formality—hiking boots caked in dirt are an acceptable wardrobe choice. Colorful wall-sized murals, hanging planters and a subway-tiled bar greet guests upon arrival.
The relatively small restaurant excels at turning popular street foods into delicacies, delivered on stone slabs or wooden cutting boards and accompanied by edible flowers. The papa rellena—golden fried yellow potato croquettes stuffed with beef—features just one of the nearly 3,000 varieties of potatoes native to Peru. And for dessert? Try the picarones, doughnuts made from spiced sweet potatoes and pumpkin dough, drizzled with honey caramel syrup.
The ChocoMuseo is devoted to one of Peru's biggest exports: coco. A short, self-guided tour teaches visitors about the cacoa plant and chocolate production in South America, while a two-hour workshop lets chocolate lovers get their hands dirty making flavored truffles. The museum also has a small café with balcony seating where guests can sip on cacao tea, or dip tropical fruits into chocolate fondue while enjoying views of the city.
Before nightfall, I head back to the open air market to pick up packages of quinoa, chia seeds and pink sea salt—for a fraction of what it costs in the U.S.—to bring home a taste of Peru.
When You Go
Fly Multiple airlines provide service to Lima, but AeroMexico offers some of the best prices and flight times from San Antonio.
Stay Hotel B, a boutique hotel in the heart of Lima's bohemian arts district, offers a luxurious and comfortable home base. Don't miss the afternoon tea service complete with a smorgasbord of mini-desserts. hotelb.pe
Do When you need a break from eating, visit the Museo Larco, which features an expansive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics and beautifully landscaped grounds. museolarco.org
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package org.fiolino.common.time;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.temporal.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
import java.util.function.LongUnaryOperator;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * Creates a {@link TemporalAdjuster} that sets a given {@link Temporal} to next next defined cron date.
 *

 * You can parse cron formats analogue to the Unix cron format:
 *

 * min(0-59) hour(0-23) dayOfMonth(1-31) month(1-12 or JAN,FEB,...) dayOfWeek(0-7 or MON,TUE,...)
 *

 * In this case, the next date will be set to the beginning of the defined minute.
 *

 * You can also specify a leading value for the seconds(0-59); in this case, you have to specify six elements.
 * Then the next date will be set to the beginning of the defined second.
 *

 * You can also specify only the last three elements and get an adjuster only for dates; in this case, the fields for
 * hour, minute and second remain untouched, so the next returned date will not necessarily be at the beginning of a day
 * when the Temporal object is time based.
 *

 * For each element, you have the following options:
 *

 */
public final class Cron implements Serializable, TemporalAdjuster {
    private static final List<String> MONTHS = Arrays.asList(null, "jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "jun", "jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "nov", "dec");
    private static final List<String> WEEK_DAYS = Arrays.asList("sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat");

    private static final int IDX_DAY_OF_WEEK = 1;
    private static final int IDX_MONTH = 2;
    private static final int IDX_DAY_OF_MONTH = 3;
    private static final int IDX_HOUR = 4;
    private static final int IDX_MINUTE = 5;
    private static final int IDX_SECOND = 6;

    public static final String WILDCARD_SYMBOL = "*";
    public static final String RANDOM_SYMBOL = "?";

    private final TemporalAdjuster adjuster;

    public static Cron forDateTime(String cronDef) {
        int comment = cronDef.indexOf('#');
        if (comment >= 0) cronDef = cronDef.substring(0, comment);
        comment = cronDef.indexOf("//");
        if (comment >= 0) cronDef = cronDef.substring(0, comment);

        return forDateTime(cronDef.split("\\s+"));
    }

    public static Cron forDateTime(String... units) {
        if (units.length < 3 || units.length == 4 || units.length > 6) {
            throw new IllegalCronFormatException("Wrong number of arguments: " + units.length);
        }

        return new Cron(units);
    }

    private Cron(String[] units) {
        adjuster = createFrom(units);
    }

    @Override
    public Temporal adjustInto(Temporal temporal) {
        return adjuster.adjustInto(temporal);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        return obj == this ||
                obj != null && obj.getClass().equals(getClass()) && adjuster.equals(((Cron) obj).adjuster);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return adjuster.hashCode() * 31;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        LocalDateTime nextRun = (LocalDateTime) adjustInto(LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.systemDefault()));
        return "Cron; next match at " + nextRun;
    }

    /**
     * When an adjuster implements this marker interface, then the field's range unit value will always be increased
     * by one, while it's normally only increased when the adjuster's new value is smaller than the existing one.
     */
    public interface Jumper {}

    /**
     * When an adjuster implements this marker interface, then it will be ignored completely if multiple adjusters
     * for the same {@link TemporalUnit} exists.
     * Otherwise, these adjusters will be joined so that the next following value of both is taken.
     */
    public interface Ignorable {}

    @FunctionalInterface
    public interface Adjuster extends Serializable {
        long adjust(long currentValue, ValueRange range);

        default Adjuster join(Adjuster second) {
            if (second instanceof Ignorable) return this;
            if (this instanceof Ignorable) return second;
            return (v, r) -> {
                long v1 = adjust(v, r);
                long v2 = second.adjust(v, r);
                return v1 >= v ? (v2 >= v ? Math.min(v1, v2) : v1) : (v2 >= v ? v2 : Math.min(v1, v2));
            };
        }

        static Adjuster staticValue(long value) {
            if (value >= 0) {
                return (v, r) -> Math.max(r.getMinimum(), Math.min(r.getMaximum(), value));
            } else {
                return (v, r) -> r.getMaximum() + value + 1;
            }
        }

        static Adjuster oneOf(long... discreteValues) {
            int n = discreteValues.length;
            switch (n) {
                case 0:
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Missing values");
                case 1:
                    return staticValue(discreteValues[0]);
                default:
                    long[] values = Arrays.copyOf(discreteValues, n);
                    Arrays.sort(values);
                    if (values[0] < 0) {
                        // These need to be handled in their own
                        Adjuster a = staticValue(values[0]);
                        long[] remainders = new long[--n];
                        System.arraycopy(discreteValues, 1, remainders, 0, n);
                        return a.join(oneOf(remainders));
                    }
                    return (v, r) -> {
                        int idx = Arrays.binarySearch(values, v);
                        if (idx >= 0) return v;
                        idx = (idx * -1) - 1;
                        if (idx == values.length) return values[0];
                        return Math.max(r.getMinimum(), Math.min(r.getMaximum(), values[idx]));
                    };
            }
        }

        static Adjuster range(long min, long max) {
            if (min == max) return staticValue(min);
            if (min < max) {
                return (v, r) -> v < min || v > max ? min : v;
            }
            // Inverse range
            return (v, r) -> v >= min || v <= max ? v : (min > r.getMaximum() ? r.getMinimum() : min);
        }

        static Adjuster multipleOf(long value) {
            if (value <= 1) throw new IllegalArgumentException(value + " must be 2 or greater");
            return (v, r) -> {
                long m = v % value;
                return m == 0 ? v : v + value - m;
            };
        }

        static Adjuster wildcard() {
            return (Ignorable & Adjuster) (v, r) -> v;
        }

        static Adjuster random() {
            return (Jumper & Adjuster) (v, r) -> ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(r.getMinimum() + 1, r.getMaximum() + 1) * -1;
        }

        static Adjuster parse(String input, String... constants) {
            return Cron.parse(input, LongUnaryOperator.identity(), Arrays.asList(constants));
        }
    }

    private static Adjuster parse(String input, LongUnaryOperator op, List<String> constants) {
        if (WILDCARD_SYMBOL.equals(input)) return Adjuster.wildcard();
        if (RANDOM_SYMBOL.equals(input)) return Adjuster.random();

        String[] items = input.split("\\s*,\\s*");
        long[] single = null;
        Adjuster adjuster = null;
        for (String i : items) {
            if (i.startsWith("/") || i.startsWith("*/")) {
                i = i.substring(i.charAt(0) == '*' ? 2 : 1);
                Adjuster a = Adjuster.multipleOf(getLong(i, constants));
                adjuster = adjuster == null ? a : adjuster.join(a);
                continue;
            }
            int rangeSplit = i.indexOf("..", 1);
            int splitLength = 2;
            if (rangeSplit < 0) {
                rangeSplit = i.indexOf('-', 1);
                splitLength = 1;
            }
            if (rangeSplit > 0) {
                long min = getLong(i.substring(0, rangeSplit).trim(), constants);
                long max = getLong(i.substring(rangeSplit + splitLength).trim(), constants);
                Adjuster a = Adjuster.range(min, max);
                adjuster = adjuster == null ? a : adjuster.join(a);
                continue;
            }

            // Now only individual numbers are allowed
            long n = getLong(i, constants);
            n = op.applyAsLong(n);
            single = single == null ? new long[1] : Arrays.copyOf(single, single.length + 1);
            single[single.length - 1] = n;
        }

        if (single == null) return adjuster;
        Adjuster a = Adjuster.oneOf(single);
        return adjuster == null ? a : adjuster.join(a);
    }

    private static final Pattern INTEGER = Pattern.compile("-?\\d+");

    private static long getLong(String input, List<String> constants) {
        int idx = constants.indexOf(input.toLowerCase());
        if (idx >= 0) return idx;
        if (INTEGER.matcher(input).matches()) {
            try {
                return Long.parseLong(input);
            } catch (NumberFormatException ex) {
                throw new IllegalCronFormatException(input + " seems to be a number but is not");
            }
        }

        throw new IllegalCronFormatException("Number expected instead of " + input);
    }

    private static TemporalAdjuster createFrom(String[] units) {
        int n=units.length;
        TemporalAdjuster month = createFrom(t -> t, ChronoField.MONTH_OF_YEAR, units[n-IDX_MONTH], LongUnaryOperator.identity(), MONTHS);
        TemporalAdjuster weekday = createFrom(month, ChronoField.DAY_OF_WEEK, units[n-IDX_DAY_OF_WEEK], x -> x == 7 ? 0 : x, WEEK_DAYS);
        TemporalAdjuster monthday = createFrom(month, ChronoField.DAY_OF_MONTH, units[n-IDX_DAY_OF_MONTH]);
        TemporalAdjuster day;
        if (weekday == month) {
            day = monthday;
        } else if (monthday == month) {
            day = weekday;
        } else {
            day = new AlternativeAdjuster(weekday, monthday);
        }
        if (n == 3) {
            return new StartingUnit(day, ChronoUnit.DAYS, ChronoUnit.MONTHS, ChronoUnit.YEARS);
        }

        TemporalAdjuster a = createFrom(day, ChronoField.HOUR_OF_DAY, units[n-IDX_HOUR]);
        a = createFrom(a, ChronoField.MINUTE_OF_HOUR, units[n-IDX_MINUTE]);
        if (n == 5) {
            // No second field
            a = new StartingUnit(a, ChronoUnit.MINUTES, ChronoUnit.HOURS, ChronoUnit.DAYS, ChronoUnit.MONTHS, ChronoUnit.YEARS);
            a = new Initializer(ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE, a);
        } else {
            // Seconds given
            a = createFrom(a, ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE, units[n-IDX_SECOND]);
            a = new StartingUnit(a, ChronoUnit.SECONDS, ChronoUnit.MINUTES, ChronoUnit.HOURS, ChronoUnit.DAYS, ChronoUnit.MONTHS, ChronoUnit.YEARS);
        }

        a = new Initializer(ChronoField.MILLI_OF_SECOND, a);
        return new Initializer(ChronoField.NANO_OF_SECOND, a);
    }

    private static TemporalAdjuster createFrom(TemporalAdjuster parent, TemporalField field, String unit) {
        return createFrom(parent, field, unit, LongUnaryOperator.identity(), Collections.emptyList());
    }

    private static TemporalAdjuster createFrom(TemporalAdjuster parent, TemporalField field, String unit, LongUnaryOperator op, List<String> constants) {
        Adjuster a = Cron.parse(unit, op, constants);
        return a instanceof Ignorable ? parent : new AdjustingUnit(field, parent, a);
    }

    public static final class Builder {
        private class Entry implements Comparable<Entry> {
            final TemporalField field;
            final Adjuster adjuster;
            final int index;

            Entry(TemporalField field, Adjuster adjuster, int index) {
                this.field = field;
                this.adjuster = adjuster;
                this.index = index;
            }

            @Override
            public int compareTo(Entry o) {
                if (field instanceof Comparable && o.field instanceof Comparable) {
                    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                    int ret = ((Comparable<TemporalField>) field).compareTo(o.field);
                    return ret;
                }
                return o.index - index;
            }
        }

        private final List<Entry> entries = new ArrayList<>();

        public Builder and(TemporalField field, Adjuster adjuster) {
            Entry e = new Entry(field, adjuster, entries.size());
            entries.add(e);
            return this;
        }

        private Entry[] findSuccessors(Entry entry) {
            TemporalUnit rangeUnit = entry.field.getRangeUnit();
            return entries.stream().filter(e -> rangeUnit.equals(e.field.getBaseUnit())).toArray(Entry[]::new);
        }

        private Entry[] findPossibleStartNodes() {
            return entries.stream().filter(e -> entries.stream().noneMatch(e2 -> e.field.getBaseUnit().equals(e2.field.getRangeUnit()))).toArray(Entry[]::new);
        }

        /**
         * Returns the elements with the smallest units coming first
         */
        private List<Entry[]> sortedEntries() {
            List<Entry[]> sortedEntries = new ArrayList<>();
            Entry[] possibleStartNodes = findPossibleStartNodes();
            Arrays.sort(possibleStartNodes);
            int startLength = possibleStartNodes.length;
            Entry[][] startGroups = new Entry[startLength][];
            int g = 0;
            outer:
            for (Entry start : possibleStartNodes) {
                TemporalUnit base = start.field.getBaseUnit();
                for (int i=0; i<g; i++) {
                    Entry[] group = startGroups[i];
                    if (group[0].field.getBaseUnit().equals(base)) {
                        int l = group.length;
                        group = Arrays.copyOf(group, l + 1);
                        group[l] = start;
                        startGroups[i] = group;
                        continue outer;
                    }
                }
                startGroups[g++] = new Entry[] { start };
            }
            if (g < startLength) {
                startGroups = Arrays.copyOf(startGroups, g);
            }
            for (Entry[] startGroup : startGroups) {
                addEntries(sortedEntries, startGroup);
            }

            return sortedEntries;
        }

        private void addEntries(List<Entry[]> sortedEntries, Entry[] start) {
            sortedEntries.add(start);
            for (Entry s : start) {
                Entry[] successors = findSuccessors(s);
                if (successors.length == 0) return;
                Arrays.sort(successors);
                sortedEntries.add(successors);
                addEntries(sortedEntries, successors);
            }
        }

        public TemporalAdjuster withResetted(TemporalField... resettedFields) {
            List<Entry[]> sortedEntries = sortedEntries();
            TemporalAdjuster a = t -> t;
            for (int index=sortedEntries.size() - 1; index >= 0; index--) {
                Entry[] arr = sortedEntries.get(index);
                int l = arr.length;
                if (l == 1) {
                    a = new AdjustingUnit(arr[0].field, a, arr[0].adjuster);
                } else {
                    TemporalAdjuster[] adjusters = new TemporalAdjuster[l];
                    for (int i = 0; i < l; i++) {
                        adjusters[i] = new AdjustingUnit(arr[i].field, a, arr[i].adjuster);
                    }
                    a = new AlternativeAdjuster(adjusters);
                }
            }

            TemporalUnit[] units = sortedEntries.stream().map(e -> e[0].field.getBaseUnit()).distinct().toArray(TemporalUnit[]::new);
            a = new StartingUnit(a, units);
            for (TemporalField f : resettedFields) {
                entries.stream().filter(e -> f.equals(e.field)).findAny().ifPresent(e -> {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot reset " + f + " because it's already set in " + e);
                });
                a = new Initializer(f, a);
            }

            return a;
        }
    }

    private static abstract class StackedUnit implements TemporalAdjuster, Serializable {

        private final TemporalAdjuster next;

        StackedUnit(TemporalAdjuster next) {
            this.next = next;
        }

        @Override
        public final Temporal adjustInto(Temporal temporal) {
            Temporal t = adjustThis(temporal);
            return next.adjustInto(t);
        }

        abstract Temporal adjustThis(Temporal temporal);

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            if (this == o) return true;
            if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
            StackedUnit that = (StackedUnit) o;
            return next.equals(that.next);
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return next.hashCode() * 31;
        }
    }

    private static abstract class CalendarUnit extends StackedUnit {

        private final TemporalField field;

        CalendarUnit(TemporalField field, TemporalAdjuster next) {
            super(next);
            this.field = field;
        }

        @Override
        Temporal adjustThis(Temporal t) {
            if (t.isSupported(field)) {
                return adjustInto(field, t);
            }
            return t;
        }

        abstract Temporal adjustInto(TemporalField field, Temporal temporal);

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            if (this == o) return true;
            if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
            if (!super.equals(o)) return false;
            CalendarUnit that = (CalendarUnit) o;
            return field.equals(that.field);
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return super.hashCode() + field.hashCode();
        }
    }

    private static final class Initializer extends CalendarUnit {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -2195127869900604874L;

        Initializer(TemporalField field, TemporalAdjuster next) {
            super(field, next);
        }

        @Override
        public Temporal adjustInto(TemporalField field, Temporal temporal) {
            return temporal.with(field, 0);
        }
    }

    private static final class StartingUnit extends StackedUnit {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -1823173113615531961L;

        private final TemporalUnit[] units;

        StartingUnit(TemporalAdjuster next, TemporalUnit... units) {
            super(next);
            this.units = units;
        }

        @Override
        Temporal adjustThis(Temporal temporal) {
            for (TemporalUnit u : units) {
                if (temporal.isSupported(u)) {
                    return temporal.plus(1, u);
                }
            }
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(temporal + " does not support any of my units: " + Arrays.toString(units));
        }
    }

    private static final class AlternativeAdjuster implements TemporalAdjuster, Serializable {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -4567999393131106473L;

        private final TemporalAdjuster[] adjusters;

        AlternativeAdjuster(TemporalAdjuster... adjusters) {
            assert adjusters.length >= 2;
            this.adjusters = adjusters;
        }

        @Override
        public Temporal adjustInto(Temporal temporal) {
            Temporal t1 = adjusters[0].adjustInto(temporal);
            for (int i=1; i < adjusters.length; i++) {
                Temporal t2 = adjusters[i].adjustInto(temporal);
                @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                Comparable<Temporal> comparable = (Comparable<Temporal>) t2; // Must be comparable according to Temporal's Java doc
                if (comparable.compareTo(t1) <= 0) {
                    t1 = t2;
                }
            }

            return t1;
        }
    }

    private static class AdjustingUnit extends CalendarUnit {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = -5486360270949135638L;

        private final Adjuster adjuster;

        AdjustingUnit(TemporalField field, TemporalAdjuster next, Adjuster adjuster) {
            super(field, next);
            this.adjuster = adjuster;
        }

        @Override
        public Temporal adjustInto(TemporalField field, Temporal temporal) {
            long actual = temporal.getLong(field);
            Temporal t = temporal;
            long check;
            if (adjuster instanceof Jumper) {
                t = addOne(field, t);
                check = adjuster.adjust(actual, t.range(field));
            } else {
                check = adjuster.adjust(actual, t.range(field));
                if (actual > check) {
                    t = addOne(field, t);
                }
            }
            return t.with(field, check);
        }

        private Temporal addOne(TemporalField field, Temporal temporal) {
            TemporalUnit rangeUnit = field.getRangeUnit();
            if (temporal.isSupported(rangeUnit)) {
                return temporal.plus(1, rangeUnit);
            }
            return temporal;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            if (this == o) return true;
            if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
            if (!super.equals(o)) return false;
            AdjustingUnit that = (AdjustingUnit) o;
            return adjuster.equals(that.adjuster);
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return super.hashCode() * 31 + adjuster.hashCode();
        }
    }
}

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Husbands wanted for 36 Chinese millionaire single ladies!!!
A Chinese cupid has launched a nationwide manhunt on behalf of 36 female millionaires who have made fortunes from their country's breathtaking economic boom but have failed to find love.
Johnny Du, the CEO of online dating start-up 51Taonan.com (IWantAMan.com), kicked-off his quest last month and aims to find suitable husbands for some of the most eligible women in modern China.
The women include real estate magnates and manufacturing tycoons from Sichuan province who have been unable to find Mr Right despite, or perhaps because of, their ballooning bank-balances.
"I believe this is the first time [there has been such a scheme] only tailored for wealthy women," Mr Du told The Daily Telegraph this week during a visit to Shanghai, one of the cities he is tapping for potential husbands. Full story...
Shanghai hosts China's first "Marriage and Love Expo" for lonely hearts...
Marriage agencies in China promise "free virgin replacements"
Abducted Vietnamese women sold as brides in China...
Love and sex in Beijing!! Wow!
More Chinese men going for black wives?
Welcome to the Roma "bride market" in Bulgaria...
China tries to "discourage" women targeting rich husbands...


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Locke Burger is a one of a kind food truck in Limerick, IE, inasmuch as it's not a truck at all. It's actually an enchanting 1959 Citroen HY Van, repurposed as a food truck to bring you Ireland's best beef burger.
By the looks of it, they've succeeded and then some. That's because Locke Burger is committed to using only the highest quality ingredients, including organic, 30-day dry aged and locally sourced beef in each and every patty. The result? Only the tastiest burger around, elevated to gourmet status in the use of artisanal ingredients to tantalize your tastebuds. So what are you still reading this for? Find Locke Burger in Limerick, or have 'em out to grill it all at your next backyard shindig. Whatever kind of event you have in mind, you can't go wrong with the beefiest burgers in town.


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Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court
Sex offender persuaded schoolgirls to send him naked pictures
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard it marked the 13th time Michael Horn had breached a prevention order
Sentinel Reporter
Convicted sex offender Michael Horn is back behind bars after he contacted teenage girls on the internet and persuaded them to send him naked pictures of themselves.
The 25-year-old pervert was made the subject of a 10-year sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) in 2012 for sexually assaulting a schoolgirl.
But he breached the order for the 12th and 13th time by contacting 14-year-old girls online and by having contact with another registered sex offender. The offences happened just weeks after he was handed a three-year community order for chatting with a 15-year-old schoolgirl online.
Woman, 39, charged with arson following house fire
Now Horn has been jailed for 16 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court .
Prosecutor Paul Spratt said: "He accepts he has breached two aspects of the order. He has communicated with a known registered sex offender. And he has used his computer to access internet sites where young girls are present and he has persuaded them to send partial or fully naked images of themselves to him.
Sex offender Michael Horn pictured in 2012
"The defendant was with a registered sex offender on two occasions when they both visited the Vodafone store in Newcastle . The defendant had bought a dongle to enable his computer to access the internet and visited the store on two occasions to top it up.
"He admits he has sought and received images of a sexual nature of 14-year-old girls."
Horn, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching a SOPO.
Drink-driver, 37, drove his car into this pond
Hamish Noble, mitigating, said the defendant bought the dongle the day after he was released from prison. He said: "Initially, it was just to access the internet, as an innocent user of the internet.
"But due to feelings of loneliness, he accepts that four to five days later he started to access those sites which he should not have been doing, and having conversations with young females."
Mr Noble said the defendant accepts going to the shop with the other sex offender. "He has very little interaction with other adults. He has low self-esteem," he added.
Jailing Horn, Judge David Fletcher said: "You were given a three-year community order by me on October 5. It is a real pity these matters reflect breaches of your order very quickly after that community order was imposed by me.
Newcastle teenager charged with murder after man stabbed in flat
"The escalating number of breaches, and the frequency they are occurring, is causing me a great deal of concern. There is a perceived and a real danger by this ongoing behaviour by you.
"If these sorts of breaches continue to happen, all that will happen to you is the sentences will get longer and longer."
The judge revoked the community order and Horn was placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.


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Lowball Watch — Texas
February 25, 2019 / Uncategorized / by Gideon
Businesswire.com (Feb.25, 209) reports that a jury in Houston rejected the state DOT's $3.2 million valuation for a partial taking of a 4-acre parcel of land for a highway, leaving a 9-acre remainder in the owner's hands. The jury followed closely the owner's appraisal and awarded $12.2 Million. The award was roughly four times the state's evidence.
See Eminent Domain Lawsuit Results in $12.2 Million Jury Award to Property Owner, Reports Deal Sikes, Feb. 25, 2018 at https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190225005849/en/Eminent-Domain-Lawsuit-Results-12.2-Million-Jury
Lowball Watch — Louisiana
The New Orleans Advocate of February 22, 2019 reports an end to the nine-year legal battle between St. Bernard Parish and the privately owned Violet Dock port facility. The Parish offered $14 million, but after a fight over the right to take (which the Parish won) and two trials, the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed an award of $34 million (an addition of $16 million. The owners will also be entitled to interest and attorneys' fees — stand by for those. https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_2b102fb8-36c5-11e9-8925-531fb534fa36.html
See Ramon Antonio Vargas, St. Bernard Parish Can Keep Seized Riverside Facility, But at More Than Twice the Cost, New Orleans Advocate, Feb. 22, 2019.
[Editor's note: In Louisiana, "parish" means "county."]
Bye-Bye California Choo-Choo
February 13, 2019 / High-Speed Railroad / by Gideon
The LA Times brings us the news that our newly elected governor Gavin Newsom has put the kibosh on his predecessor's pet project, the ambitious 200 mph "bullet train" that would eventually run between San Diego and the San Francisco Bay area. The currently abuilding rail segment between Bakersfield and Merced is to be completed, but that will be it. At least for now. The Times cites "the project's persistent cost overruns, mismanagement and delays" as factors that make the high speed train line unviable. It "will have to be reassessed." Phil Willow and Taryn Luna, Gov. Gavin Newsom Pledges to Scale Back High-Speed Rail and Twin-Tunnels Projects in State of the State Speech, LA Times, Feb. 12, 2018.
Over the years, we have been critical of the efforts to build this "bullet" train because after its announcement, and after snookering the voters into approving what turned out to be a grossly inadequate bond issue, the project became mired in local politics over route selection — politicians wanted their locales to be served by the new train, while lots of their constituents did not, citing noise and safety concerns.
Also, along with this announcement stopping the "bullet train" fiasco, the new governor let it be known that he would scale down another one of his predecessor's grandiose project — twin tunnels under the Sacramento delta, that would carry water from the wet part of northern California to the parched south. Only one tunnel is now to be built instead of two.
For additional commentary on cancellation of the LA to Bay Area misbegotten "bullet train" see the article by Joel Kotkin and co-author, appearing in the City Journal go to
https://www.city-journal.org/high-speed-rail-projects?utm_source=City+Journal+Update&utm_campaign=726b9b76c1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_13_11_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6c08930f2b-726b9b76c1-109498985
Follow up. Coming on the heels of the semi-demise of California's "bullet train" comes the news that the feds who have been feeding this fiscal disaster, want their money back. The are cancelling some $929 million in federal grants, and are about to demand that California repay the $2.5 billion that the feds have already forked over. Californians don't like the idea of this claw-back. Looks like the makings of another intergovernmental donnybrook that is bound to wind up in the courts. Stay tuned.


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Crazy?
#024: Spider-Man – Saved by a real Super Hero
By	Stephen Semple / November 24, 2021 January 20, 2022
https://media.blubrry.com/empirebuilders/p/content.blubrry.com/empirebuilders/Empire-Builders-024-Spiderman-AdNoBullRVSaxon.mp3
The birth of Spider-Man. When Stan Lee was asked to create a new super hero he needed to get creative to avoid the cutting room floor. A new kind of hero and a tricky way to get his idea past the editor.
Dave Young:
Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector and storyteller. I'm Stephen's sidekick and business partner, Dave young. Before we get into today's episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well it's us, but we're highlighting ads we've written and produced for our clients, so here's one of those.
[No Bull Ad]
Spider-Man, Spider-Man. I don't know the words, Steve.
Stephen Semple:
My neighborhood Spider-Man, can he swing all on a string? Right?
I didn't know that. For some reason, I know the words to 2,000 pop songs that I never intended to remember, but I don't remember that one. I just remember da, da, da, Spider-Man. So, all right, how are you going to relate Spider-Man to a business lesson?
There's a great business lesson in Spider-Man. We got to go back to the start of Spider-Man. So we have to go back to early 1962. And Stan Lee is the editor at Marvel Comics in New York City. And at this time, Marvel is owned by Martin Goodman and his company is Goodman Publications. Goodman Publications owns Marvel, Stan Lee is working there as an editor. And at this point, Marvel is way smaller than DC. DC Comics is the monster and Marvel is this little tiny comic book manufacturer at that point. And Stan Lee just got off of working with Jack Kirby and Jack Kirby, for anybody who's into comics, Jack Kirby's one of the amazing illustrators in comic books. And they had just come off this big success creating the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four was a brand new idea inside comics and was really innovative and they just had this big success.
Stan Lee had an idea for a new superhero and the idea was Spider-Man. But what was going to make it unusual is, at the time all superheroes were big and strong and muscular and all this other stuff, and what he was going to do was make Spider-Man a teenager, including all the usual teenager, pimply face, angst, scared of girls problems. And there were-
98 pound weakling, normal guy.
Yeah. He was going to make him a real teenager with all the teenager angst and all the teenager problems, and there were no teenager superheroes at the time, none. They were all these big, muscular, adults. And so he took it to the publisher, Martin Goodman, and here's what Martin Goodman had to say to him, "Worst idea I've ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders. So you can't aunt call a superhero Spider-Man. Second, teenagers can only be sidekicks and you want them to have personal problems?" According to Stan Lee, this is what Martin Goodman said to Stan Lee, "Stan, don't you know what a superhero is? They don't have personal problems."
Oh man, what a wet mop that guy was.
But Lee couldn't get the idea out of his mind, so he decided to get Kirby to draw it. So he laid out the idea to Kirby and he asked him to draw it. And then when Kirby brought it to him, what Kirby drew was basically what looked like a young Superman and Stan Lee was like, "No. I want a scrawny, pimple-faced teenager." He wanted the person to look like a teenager, like how he felt when he was growing up, all the anxieties in the feeling of being an outsider and what Kirby drew was something that looked like all the other superheroes. Basically, even Kirby resisted Stan Lee, and he said, "Stan, that's not a superhero. That's how you draw a sidekick, not a superhero."
But Stan Lee still really believed it could work. But the other problem is Kirby said, "Look, I don't want to draw this because I know it's not going to go anywhere. The boss doesn't like it. I don't want to spend all my time on something that's not going anywhere. Why don't you give it to Steve Ditko? He's one of the new drawers and he's really good. Ditko is great." So Lee takes it to Ditko and Ditko does some drawings. And Lee really believed that this was going to be bigger than Superman and bigger than Batman, but how was he going to get it out there into the world? And this, David, is where the Spider-Man lesson lives.
Because at the time they were about to kill a comic series called Amazing Fantasy. They were literally sending the last issue to the press to be made. And when you're sending the last issue, no one really cares what you're putting into it, because it's the last damn issue. He decided to put Spider-Man into Amazing Fantasy and you can see a cover in our show notes of the Spider-Man cover, which is an Amazing Fantasy cover basically saying, "Introducing Spider-Man."
And here's what happened. So it was Amazing Fantasy number 15, it was released in the summer in 1962. This was a comic they were ending and it became the highest selling comic in the Marvel line.
And we've got a link in the show notes to YouTube at empirebuildersprogram.com. You can go to the podcast and go to Spider-Man and you can actually listen to Stan Lee say this when the sales figures came in, here's how Stan Lee described it. Martin Goodman comes running into Stan's office and he says…
Stay tuned. We're going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this.
[Empire Builders Ad]
Let's pick up our story of where we left off and trust me, you haven't missed a thing.
Martin Goodman comes running into Stan's office and he says, "Stan, Stan, do you remember that character we both love so much? Spider-Man? Let's do him as a series." And Stan swears this is true. Stan Lee swears this is exactly how Martin Goodman put it to him. And it goes on to become the number one superhero in the roster. In March of 1963, it becomes a solo series. Spider-Man goes on to become a cultural icon. In 1965, Esquire poll of college campuses found they ranked Spider-Man and fellow Marvel hero Hulk as popular as Bob Dylan as their favorite revolution area icon.
I love that. I love it.
You know the thing that those superheroes have that the others didn't like Superman and Batman, you want to be Batman, well, all you have to be is the orphan of a billionaire. You want to be Superman, be born on a different planet. You want to be Spider-Man, get bit by a spider in a lab. You can be anybody. Get bit by a spider. You want to be Hulk, have some weird science thing happen to you and now of a sudden you're Hulk. And I just don't know Hulk's origin story, so the Marvel people are going to beat me up for this.
Social media is going to lash back.
The Marvel fans. Yeah. The Marvel fans.
Yeah. But the connection with Spiderman is, he was the first one that was real. He had money problems. He had girlfriend problems. He felt like an outsider and this is why we connected with him. But where Stan Lee's brilliance was in all of this was he found a great way in which to introduce Spider-Man to the world. Instead of saying no to it, he found an experiment. He put it in this comic that was ending anyway, so it was very low risk. This is not much different than even the origin of The Wizard of Oz, when Roy decided to start The Wizard of Oz, what did he do? He found the first partner was fricking Australia. If it didn't work in Australia and it blew up, no one would ever hear about it. And then the second partner was Canada. Let's try out Canada. Okay, Canada worked, then it's, "All right. I'm going to do this in my backyard."
It's more. Let's get some more people. Yeah. It was a great lesson. And to come up with an idea and to stick with it enough. I think a lot of us give up on our ideas a little too soon, right? We hear somebody like Goodman bash it a little bit and say, "Well, that can't be. That's not right," and we just go, "oh, well, I guess I must be wrong." And I think you need to stick with it just a little longer sometimes.
Finding an experiment also lets people be more comfortable with the risks.
Yeah. So you attach your idea to an experiment, move it forward that way, and when the experiment works, you can take it mainstream.
Yes. Absolutely. So the brilliance in Stan Lee was a couple of things, he didn't give up on the idea and then he found a place where he could run it as an experiment and then it turns out the experiment blew the doors off and Spider-Man ended up becoming one of the most valuable products inside the Marvel universe.
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Vinchio Vaglio: the Nest of Barbera
Posted on May 19, 2021 by VinoeStile	Leave a comment
The story of the Vinchio and Vaglio winery is a love story where the inhabitants of these two villages transformed a difficult and poor, inarable land with slopes so steep that some local sayings proved true: "S'ot dròca la colassion, it la treuvi pì!" (if you drop your breakfast, you won't find it again!) or "S'ot dròca ël bertin, ot toca curije drera fin ant la val" (if your hat blows off in the wind, you'll need to run down to the end of the valley to get it"). The name results from both Vinchio and Vaglio Serra villages where 19 vine growers used to live and founded the cooperative in 1959. The winery is located in Piedmont, Monferrato, core zone of UNESCO World Heritage Patrimony, right at the foot of the Alps. This area with its steep slopes and overhanging vineyards at the edge of the woods has been tended and "tamed" to dramatic effort, where every single drop of the "Ruby of Vinchio" (Barbera wine) equates to thousands of drops (and certainly not an exaggeration!) of farmers' sweat. However, the vineyards have never failed to reward their hard work. These vine rows, in fact, repay the industrious farmers with grapes of rare and exceptional quality. Nowadays the cooperative represents 192 family vine growers who take daily care of 450 hectares mostly planted in Barbera grapes (60% of our production) and all other indigenous grapes from Piedmont such as Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Ruché, Albarossa, Grignolino, Arneis, Cortese, Moscato and Brachetto. The territory is characterized by a distinctive terroir of calcareous soils and sandy soils in Vinchio and mostly clay soils in Vaglio Serra what makes the Barbera of Vinchio Vaglio unique for the structure (white soils), elegance (sandy soils) and aromas (clay soils). The sun usually shines all day on these hills, there is seldom hoarfrost or fog and no shadow. Great wines grow on these hills.
Monterosola, award-winning wines from ancient land
Posted on April 4, 2021 by brusselsdiplomatic	Leave a comment
Situated on a plateau at 430 meters altitude, above two ancient, wooded valleys with far-reaching views to the coast. Monterosola "hill of poppies" is one of Tuscany's finest contemporary wineries.
Resting on a hillside overlooking the medieval city of Volterra, the Monterosola estate combines traditional winemaking techniques with state-of-the art technology. Just 50km from the coastal region of Bolgheri and 30km from the world-famous hills of Chianti, Monterosola sits amidst some of the best wine growing locations in the world.
Monterosola has its own complex microclimate which provides vines with the optimum growing conditions. Here, a regular breeze promotes the natural health and energy of the vines, which, in turn, produce the very best grapes.
With 25 hectares of vineyards producing both white and red wines, the estate also has olive groves, woodlands, gardens, lakes and pastures.
A destination winery
The estate has been producing excellent wines since 2003 yet it entered an exciting era in 2013 when the land was purchased by the Thomaeus family who recognised the true potential of the terroir. In 2015 the family embarked on an impressive project, to design and build a grand-scale cantina with purpose-built facilities for wine tastings and events.
At Monterosola the wine production methods are supervised by Alberto Antonini who has previously worked with some of Italy's most prestigious cantinas including Antinori and Frescobaldi.
MASTIO
A beautiful rich ruby in colour with elements of ripe fruits on the nose with a hint of red cherry, strawberries almonds and green herbs. A well-balanced combination of elegance and intensity on the palate with soft tannins and a generous aftertaste.
Deep garnet colour with flavours of rich cherries, dried herbs, sweet oak, spices, black tea and toasted almonds. Both intense and complex on the palate it is powerful yet refined with a lengthy finish. Crescendo has great aging potential.
CASSERO
A sophisticated single variety Vermentino, straw yellow coloured with youthful green highlights. Enjoys an elegant and consistent aroma with hints of white flowers, grapefruit, pear, white peach and a pleasing minerality. Fresh and well balanced on the palate with a lingering light finish.
PRIMO PASSO
A warm light golden colour. Intense and elegant aromas come to the fore, ripe apricot, peach, citrus zest and minerality evolve into a hint of sweet spice. A generous, silky and balanced wine with an authentic personality. Remarkable aftertaste.
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Etna: Pure excitement
Posted on March 2, 2021 by brusselsdiplomatic	Leave a comment
While the spectacular eruption transfixes the world, Passopisciaro remembers its first vintage 20 years ago
The last two weeks put the spotlight on the world's most active volcano: Etna.
The pyrotechnics included erupting fountains of lava that surged to 1,000 metres above the upper crater and incandescent flows that held the world media spellbound.
In this unique, always-restless environment, continuously providing intense excitement, grow some of Italy's most prized vineyards. Passopisciaro, Etna's iconic wine estate on its north slope, has for 20 years served as a benchmark for the area's wine production. For it was here, exactly two decades ago, that the first harvest of the all-Nerello Mascalese Passorosso (than called Passopisciaro) arrived in the cellar and launched the local winemaking renaissance—thanks to Andrea Franchetti, the visionary who firmly believed in the quality of this volcanic earth and promoted the concept of Contrade wines, cru wines whose world-class quality he clearly foresaw.
Today, Passopisciaro produces five red Contrada wines: Rampante, Chiappemacine, Porcaria, Guardiola, and Sciaranuova, all ready to be released with the new 2019 vintage in June, while Passorosso, whose 2019 is scheduled for September, is a blend of all five, the quintessence of Franchetti's style and a subtly-woven tapestry of these vineyards lying at up to 1,000 metres. The Chardonnay-based whites are Passobianco and the knife-edged Contrada PC, introduced two years ago, grown in a small sand-rich parcel at the highest part of the estate.
The Estate. Passopisciaro practices a precision viticulture obsessively respectful of nature, relying on 26 hectares of vineyards distributed over the north flank of Etna; most are planted to Nerello Mascalese, often un-grafted vines 80-100 years old, but there are Petit Verdot, Cesanese di Affile, and Chardonnay as well. In addition to Passorosso, Passobianco and the contrada crus, Passopisciaro's portfolio boasts the prestigious Franchetti cuvée, composed of Petit Verdot and Cesanese d'Affile.
Andrea Franchetti also owns Tenuta di Trinoro, in Sarteano in Tuscany's magnificent Val d'Orcia, famous for its legendary Bordeaux blend named after the estate.
THE MASSETO WINERY UNVEILED
Posted on April 19, 2019 by brusselsdiplomatic	Leave a comment
An architectural masterpiece quarried from the blue clay
Carved deep into the ancient blue clay that underpins the vineyard, the Masseto winery is a physical and symbolic tribute to the Estate's history and rapid evolution from intuition about the hidden potential of a vineyard site, to internationally acclaimed wine.
'The Winery is a tribute to the past, present and future of Masseto. It celebrates the incredible story of a wine that was never meant to exist,' said Masseto CEO, Giovanni Geddes da Filicaja. 'Years of planning and effort have been dedicated to building the right home for Masseto. One that consolidates three decades of experience, where every aspect has been designed to meet the winemaking team's highly detailed requirements.'
Technical facilities in the subterranean building, reminiscent of a sacred temple, have been stripped back to low-impact basics. 'Nothing is missing, and there is no more than necessary,' said Masseto Estate Director, Axel Heinz. He stressed that winemaking at Masseto, which balances austerity, modernity and tradition, will remain unchanged. 'Our wine making is about reducing the process, reducing intervention, with a 'less is more' philosophy.'
Designed by architects Hikaru Mori and Maurizio Zito of the ZitoMori Studio, the building represents and reinforces Masseto's discreet but powerful identity. Above ground, only the low lines of the grape reception area and the restored Masseto House emerge from the hill.
Built to incorporate a gravity flow winemaking process, and benefiting from the blue clay's natural insulation, the structure is symbiotic with the hills and vineyard that surround it. The architects called their underground design concept, The Quarry. 'To represent the effort required to produce the wine made here, we created a series of spaces – not by construction, but by extraction from the hill's monolithic mass. The diverse internal volumes, heights and levels are reminiscent of a gold mine as it follows seams of precious metal to the core,' said Japanese-born architect Hikaru Mori.
Cast-in-place concrete was used for the winery's architectural framework. Inside, clean lines of glass and steel predominate, balanced by rows of oak barrels. Textured and scored surfaces throughout are a reminder of the extractive construction process, while openings in the walls frame vertical profiles of the vineyard's inimitable blue clay terroir.
At the very heart of the structure lies the Estate's wine vault, Masseto Caveau. Bottles of every vintage since 1986 are preserved here, in perfect cellaring conditions, each suspended in its own stainless-steel mesh cradle. There could be no better physical manifestation of the Estate's history.
The 2018 vintage is the first to be vinified in the Winery, by recently appointed cellar master, Eleonora Marconi.
Masseto, located on the Tuscan coast close to the small village of Bolgheri, is a wine that was never meant to exist. The potential of the slope where the vineyard now sits was finally seen in the 1980's, when, against all odds, advice and local tradition, the first vines were planted. Intuition paid off. The blue clay, cooling coastal breezes and abundant refracted light from the Tyrrhenian Sea all contribute to Masseto's intriguing combination of power, elegance and complexity. Masseto has received international acclaim since its birth in 1986. The Estate is controlled by the Frescobaldi Family Group.
The Maremma yields a jewel called Le Pupille
Posted on February 15, 2019 by brusselsdiplomatic	Leave a comment
Elisabetta Geppetti's trail-blazing idea of producing a great Syrah in Tuscany's coastal Maremma area began to take shape as early as the year 2000, when she planted two vineyards to that noble variety at Fattoria Le Pupille. Years of quality selection in the vineyards followed, then vinifications from 2012 on, all of which amply confirmed that the path she had chosen was correct. The final fruit was Le Pupille, a wine that embodied a yet-unexplored aspect of the Maremma's winemaking potential and expressed at the same time the elegance and fascination of two women intimately linked to each other. Elisabetta Geppetti has been joined, since 2011, by her daughter Clara Gentili, who displays the very same level of passion and, it would seem, far-sightedness as her mother.
A four-handed accomplishment_Le Pupille was also the result of innovative winemaking practices. "My mother and I decided, together with winemaking consultant Luca D'Attoma," explains Clara, "to vinify each of the two vineyards differently, the grapes from one in large oak tonneaux, the others in large terracotta jars hand-made in Tuscany."
"It was all quite an emotional project," added Elizabeth, "and one that our entire family embraced, since, as we love to tell, we all personally destemmed the grapes by hand after the harvest." And that 2015 harvest yielded wonderful fruit in the two vineyards that unite to produce Le Pupille.
The Vigna del Palo and fermentation in tonneaux_Planted in 2000, this 1.5-hectare vineyard faces east, which allows the grapes to benefit from the less-intense morning light and to avoid the impact of the hotter hours of the day. Thanks to a rather light leaf-thinning during the 2015 season, cluster development was gradual and consistent, and at harvest-time, in the last week of August, the grapes were sweet and aroma-rich, with fairly refined tannins. A 25-day fermentation followed, in open-topped 500-litre oak tonneaux, with careful punch-downs twice a day to maximise aroma extraction, then the wine macerated on the skins an additional 25 days.
The Vigna di Pian di Fiora and fermentation in jars_This small vineyard, barely half a hectare, was planted in 2002. Its particularly cool, dry climate was further accentuated in 2015 by breezes along the valley floor, and the result was a pronounced florality and dense tannins in the grapes. Fermentation in 500-litre terracotta jars preserved varietal fidelity and heightened the grapes' floral notes. Fermentation began spontaneously, but it was carefully controlled, and the subsequent maceration continued for some eight months, until May 2016, when the wine was finally drawn off and racked at low temperature.
The final blend of the separately-fermented lots matured in new 300-litre French oak barrels for some 10 months, was bottled in March 2017, then received a further 22 months' bottle-ageing.
The result of this refined process is a Le Pupille of pronounced crispness and elegance, with an intriguing stylistic link to its trans-Alpine cousin. Its complex bouquet boasts wild black berryfruit, spice, and a subtle toastiness. Le Pupille 2015 was produced in a limited edition of 3,000 750ml bottles.
Castello di Querceto 120 years history of wine
Entering Castello di Querceto, one's gaze is immediately caught by a late 18th-century photo of some François family's ancestors. The images are a bit time-scarred, but those piercing eyes, even 120 years on, leave no doubt about the reasons why this family, still today owners of this wine estate, has become one of the leading lights in Chianti Classico, driven by their desire to offer wine-lovers authentic expressions of classic Tuscan grape varieties.
Starting in the early 1900s, with their first all-Sangiovese vineyards, through 1924, when they and a select group of 32 other producers founded Consorzio del Vino Chianti Classico, and right up to the present moment, Castello di Querceto has always, through its wines, spoken to the world in an intensely family and personal fashion.
The interpretation of the cru vineyards and the identification of grape selections that best represent the estate have always been, since the 1970s, Alessandro François' objectives, and he has succeeded in winning recognition across the globe for Castello di Querceto as one of Chianti Classico's best-known producers. Today, in fact, 90% of its production is exported to over 50 countries, a marketing achievement of which Alessandro and Antonietta François are justly proud.
2017 ushers in Castello di Querceto's commemoration of its 120 years of winemaking, and it is celebrating that milestone by uncorking two of its iconic wines–both obviously monovarietal Sangioveses. The first, La Corte IGT Colli della Toscana Centrale, was the winery's first cru, and some early-1900s vintages of it are still lying in collectors' cellars. The second, Chianti Classico Gran Selezione DOCG Il Picchio, is the quintessential expression of the best vineyards in the south-eastern part of the estate.
"There will be no special commemorative label for either wine," states François; "the wines themselves are perfectly capable of recounting our history." And in fact, these two interpreters of the wine estate's philosophy prefer to reveal themselves directly in the glass: La Corte through its elegance, its fruit and subtle hint of balsam, Il Picchio with its structure and impressive length, heightened by herbaceous and floral notes and a touch of chocolate.
Raising a glass of Castello di Querceto is a full-immersion into the history of Chianti Classico.
Siddura, nine wines to tell an island
Siddura winery founded in 2008 from the fusion of the experience of a German industrialist and the profound knowledge of the territory and market of Massimo Ruggero, Siddura CEO.
Located in the little village of Luogosanto in Sardinia, it has in the "Terroir" the strong feature of the winery. The estate is immersed in a valley surrounded by granite, protected by the mighty winds of maestrale and caressed by the sea breeze.
The union of climatic factors and the specificity of the granite soil degradation give the wines a particular minerality. The cellar was born around its fulcrum: a fully-buried amphitheater building that exploits the geothermal potential of the site and boasts an innovative control system for the fermentation of individual tanks.
Here, the entire production chain, from grape to bottle, takes place, privileging spontaneous fermentations and using the most diverse types of containers from concrete tanks to barrels.
The estate stretches for two hundred acres and the grounds are a mixture of granite, sand and clay. They are loose soil, often arid, ideal for viticulture.
"Sardinia in purity" is the Siddura philosophy, which has made it possible to produce a line with eight high quality wines. The company's goal is to produce wines that identify with the terroir from which they come from. Production therefore provides limited harvests to ensure maximum quality, selective handmade harvest, micro-wine making and aging in the best oak barrels built in France.
In five years, Siddura wines have conquered over 450 medals in the most renowned national and international wine competitions.
To point out a revolutionary concept of Siddura; the innovative winemaking of white wines as if they were red, that is to create a long-lasting Vermentino that improves after a year of aging.
Siddura wines
1) SPÈRA Vermentino di Gallura DOCG in purity, about 13 °.
2) MAIA A Vermentino di Gallura coming from another squad of our vineyard, always in purity DOCG.
3) BERU Extreme processing, French vinification, small Chardonnay cut on Vermentino's mass.
4) ÈREMA red sardine grapes, vinified in long fermentation a Cannonau Doc.
5) BÀCCO Cagnulari in purity, historical grape of Sardinia recently rediscovered by the great international oenologists.
6) FOLA Cannonau in purity DOC.
7) TIROS It is the Sardinian super Tuscan, a base of Sangiovese and Cabernet sauvignon as the great wines of Tuscany.
8) NÙALI Moscato di Sardegna DOC Passito.
9) NUDO rose'
Venissa, the wine of Venice
Posted on August 22, 2017 by VinoeStile
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The Venissa Estate lies on Mazzorbo, one of the three islands of Native Venice, an archipelago of nature, colors, flavors, and art that also includes Burano and Torcello.
"While accompanying several customers on a trip to Torcello, I noticed an old grapevine in a private garden beside the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. I managed to persuade the owner to send me some of the grapes when they had matured. The crates arrived full of lovely, thick-skinned grapes with a brilliant golden color. It was the famous Dorona, also known as the golden grape, well-loved by the Venetians and served during the banquets of the Doges and then lost to history." – Gianluca Bisol. Venissa's story began by chance and resulted in an incredible discovery: some of the very last grapevines in Venice, the final trace of a winegrowing culture that was destroyed by the flood of 1966.
It is a winemaking story that goes back more than 2000 years to 1100, when vineyards could be found in Piazza San Marco but whose ultimate destiny was to be cut down to make space for the great Venetian palazzos that the world admires today. There were many islands in the Venetian Lagoon where wine was produced until fifty years ago, especially on the islands of Mazzorbo, Burano, and Torcello, otherwise known as Native Venice. The Dorona di Venezia is a native white-skinned variety that adapted well to the high waters and the particular conditions of this unique terroir, and Gianluca Bisol discovered 88 vine plants in 2002 in the gardens and remaining vineyards of Venice.
After the first microvinifications were carried out, Gianluca Bisol and his colleagues decided to replant the variety, which, in the lagoon, produces a nectar that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The ideal location turned out to be the island of Mazzorbo on the Scarpa Volo estate, which had been a walled vineyard and winery for centuries until the great flood of 1966. It is here that the Bisol family decided to replant 4000 vine plants of Dorona (less than 1 hectare) that produces just shy of 4000 bottles per year. Vinification is carried out by Desiderio Bisol and Roberto Cipresso, a renowned enologist with a passion for viticultural history. Cipresso calls for a long maceration on the skins, a practice once used by farmers, to obtain a white wine with the structure and longevity of a red. From the skins, the Venissa wine extracts the flavors and unique aromas typical of this inimitable terroir: notes of salt, honey, wormwood, and white peach.
Venissa has been a pioneer in bringing wine back to the lagoon, whose reputation is quickly spreading among international wine lovers as an ideal and unique place for viticulture. After Venissa came Rosso Venissa, a red wine produced from Merlot and Carmenere from a 50-year-old vineyard located on the island of Santa Cristina.
Both are wines that immediately drew the interest of wine connoisseurs. The first vintage of Rosso Venissa, the 2011 harvest, was awarded 93 points by the prestigious Italian Veronelli guide, while the 2010 vintage of Venissa was named one of the top 100 Italian wines by the highly respected Gatti Massobrio guide.
Gamvs MMXXII Dolcetto d'Alba Superiore
Posted on December 20, 2016 by VinoeStile
Passion for wine, an indissoluble passion for the Mossio family. Valerio and Remo, supported by Michele, their grandson, are personally committed to produce Dolcetto d'Alba, Bricco Caramelli and Piano delli Perdoni; Barbera, Nebbiolo and Langhe Rosso, the result of a happy union between Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto, "Gamvs", Dolcetto d'Alba Superiore (premium quality) and "Le Margherite", a passito (dessert) wine.
Mossio – the synonym of a hard working family, whose members on one hand have specific roles and on the other hand are committed towards the same goal: wine quality.
The Langa and Roero wine and food heritage, a knowledge conscious of the passing of time and seasons in autumn, is caused by the bouquet of wine and the flavor of the white truffle of Alba; in spring and summer the cooking innovates with appetizers made with vegetables, meat and the first courses are characterized by "tajarin" (home-made noodles) and "agnolotti del plin" (home-made stuffed pasta)…We don't leave out the Fassone meat, the cheeses and also the desserts with their unmistakable taste of "Tonda e Gentile" (round and gentle) hazelnut from the Langhe.
We tasted: Gamus MMXXIII Dolcetto d'Alba Superiore 2013
The name of this wine is due to the recovery of a white marble slab. The colour is deep ruby red with violet reflections. The nose is intense with hints of plum, blackberry and red fruits on a spicy background. In the mouth is enveloping, soft and full, with a sweet finish but not too much, well balanced with tannins typical of the grape dolcetto. Ideal for dishes with meat game, ham and seasoned cheese.
Barolo la Serra by Bosco Agostino wine estate
The Bosco Agostino farm is run as a family business with one goal: achieve grapes of the maximum quality to be transformed into a wine with personality rendering it special and unique.
The total vined surface area of the farm is currently at about 4 hectares divided between Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto. All vineyards are property of and found exclusively within the confines of the Comune of La Morra.
The company is dedicated to the production of the four wines most characteristic to the area: Barolo, Dolcetto d'Alba, Barbera d'Alba and Langhe Nebbiolo.
We tasted: Barolo la Serra 2011
A historical cru of La Morra. The vineyard faces southeast at an altitude of about 400 meters. The soil is tufaceous (limestone) and calcareous (clay/chalk). The esposition and soil composition endow this wine with both structure and tannins suitable for a long aging. During the aging the wine is held in barriques and tonneaux for about 6-7 months before transfer to botti.
The bouquet will definitly surprise you! It presents complex aromas of berry marmalade and brandied cherries, with detectable spicey notes. For the food pairing is perfect with red meat, arrosti, wild games and seasoned cheese.