The quest continues for good value-priced Pinot Noir. This wine is probably the best example yet that I have found of a value-priced Pinot that comes through with high grades fro quality. It is a lovely wine, no doubt about it. A lighter style though, so those of you looking for that value bottle of brawny Pinot, this is not the wine for you.
2004 Henri Prudhon et Fils Bourgogne Les Charmeaux, $16.
Translucent deep red rose color. Highly perfumed, some tree bark and leaves, a hint of minty herb after a half hour open, also a hint of aspartame. The nose is the star here, although the high toned dried cranberry and fresh sour cherry palate is very nice too. There is a lingering dried rose petal finish that is really nice. This is a good stand alone wine, although it's much better with food - there is good acidity. At under $20 I would grab a few bottles if I saw them, and drink them this year.
I'm lucky because my father in-law likes wine and keeps some good bottles in the house. That means that no matter what else is happening during a visit, there will always be at least that one thing to look forward to - some interesting wine in the evening. Oh yeah, and San Diego is very beautiful, incredible flowers and other vegetation everywhere (even if they have to drain billions of gallons of water from elsewhere to irrigate, but that's another issue).
Overall feeling on San Diego at this point: love visiting, even starting to appreciate the odd quirks, like blond surfer dudes munching bagels with smoked salmon spread at Einstein's bagels in the middle of some mall, gray gloomy weather in April, May, and June, face lifts and other body-"improvement" surgery as the norm. I was impressed with the two wine stores I went into. Good selection and decent prices, although a bit higher on some French wines than on the east coast. One store called Meritage had magnums of 1997 Latour and other prized Bordeaux just sitting out in bins like it was Yellowtail. $500 bottles of wine in the bins! They would have been under lock and key in a NYC wine store. The city just seemed safe like that, more civilized. Clean too - no trash on the roads, but that might be because no one actually walks on the roads.
1996 Cristom Pinot Noir Mt Jefferson Cuvee, Willamette Valley - Funky, rotting aromas at first, but blew off to reveal mellow red and black berries, leathery earth. smooth texture, well integrated tannins - almost melted away, prominent earthy underbrush with some red fruit too. None of the primary fatty fruit remaining. Really good wine, and extra impressive to me because '96 was nothing special as a vintage, and this cuvee is not one of Cristom's top wines. A nice example of an Oregon Pinot improving with age, gaining complexity.
2001 Hafner Reserve Chardonnay, Alexander Valley - Great nose of vanilla and tropical fruit, pineapple, citrus too. Full bodied, oaky, but well balanced wine with bright fruit, floral, and buttery oak flavors. Very nice, particularly with dinner. 13.4% alcohol - not too bad. Not a style of wine that excites me but this was a strong example of this style and I can see the appeal.
2002 Michel Colin-Deleger Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes - Such a pronouncedly different style from the Hafner. Much more tense, lighter in the mouth, better balance, not as showy. lighter yellow with a bit of a greenish hue, compared to the bright lemon yellow of the Hafner 01. nose is pure rainwater, still quite reserved. same with the palate, but there are flavors of stone fruit, citrus, and mineral. this needs time to ope up - the last glass over an hour later was really kickin.
NV Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Brut - uh uh, not the style of Champs that I like. Thick and without finesse, no mineral quality, very toasty and heavy.
1997 Hafner Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley - So have you figured it out? Father in-law digs the Hafner. This one was dark purple, with a medium body. Not so impressive overall, as the nose and the palate just don't have all that much to exhibit. Was this an off year in the Alexander valley? Some cassis on the nose, hints of herbs. Unfocused palate of dark fruit and herbs.
Next visit I plan on helping the Father in-law translate his writing pad full of scratches and notes to Cellar Tracker.
Not sure how this "Tag" thing started, but bloggers have been tagging each other, requiring them to answer in five parts the question - why do you blog? Then to tag further bloggers.
2) And both Jack and Joanne wrote back to me, offering words of encouragement regarding work and life. Joanne said " I hope you find what you love." Well, I'm still looking professionally, and maybe I will get there soon, but I figured 'I love wine, and there aren't many blogs out there devoted to my favorite wines, so why shouldn't I blog?' So I created one. But it sat for weeks without an entry. Who was I to blog about wine? Did I really have that sort of chutzpah, that type of hubris, to assume that what I would write about wine would actually be of any interest to anyone?
3) Then I realized that actually, it is irrelevant to me whether or not anyone wants to read the blog. I mean sure, it's nice to have a soapbox to stand on, but for me, that's really not the point. For me it boils down to this - I love wine, drinking it with my wife and friends, visiting wine regions, tasting everything I can get my hands on. And I approach it the same way I have approached other passions from my past, like chess or poker - I remember everything and I am willing to study, I am interested in the theories of the game, the ground rules, the various strategies and positions. Within them, I enjoy experimenting. Blogging for me became an experiment. Why are there no "pedestrian" blogs writing about Burgundy? Not everyone is A Burghound, nor does everyone have the cellar depth to hang with Bill Nanson at Burgundy Report. What about those of us who can throw a little $ around, but need some guidance? Same for Oregon Pinot, and for the Loire Valley. I decided that I would write the blog that I wanted to read.
4) And then I got my first ever comment, on my third ever post, about a tasting of some New York Wines. The commenter was none other then Lenn of Lenndevours, one of the blogs that I was already regularly reading. Lenn offered to show me around the North Fork of Long Island, something that I have not yet taken him up on, but definitely will, and this offer based on the camaraderie he felt after reading one blog entry? How did he even find that post? Anyway, Lenn's comment really encouraged me to keep writing, and hammered home the idea that I don't have to be a professional to do this, that I can do it for the pure pleasure of drinking and sharing thoughts about wine and food, and the pleasure of reading your thoughts.
5) And that is where it is - blogging is a community of people sharing thoughts about something that is meaningful to them. I don't have a myspace or a facebook or a friendster page. I better brush up on that stuff though before my daughter turns 10, but that's another project. I can't play poker anymore because I have too many responsibilities to put a grand down on the table and fight it out until 3 in the morning. Chess has been with me since I was a little kid, but it's sort of isolating in the study it requires and in the solo nature of the game. A few years ago I had to give it up as I couldn't participate without seeing positions when I shut my eyes to sleep. Now I sometimes think of wine and food pairings and the like when I close my eyes, and I accept that I am a bit obsessive by nature, but at least now I am obsessing about something social, sharing thoughts and reading about other people's experiences. A healthier diversion than many others until I can find my place in the professional world.
The quest continues - to identify and share high quality value-priced Pinot. I will admit that I have a serious soft spot for Domaine Jean et Gilles Lafouge, as BrooklynLady and I had such a wonderful visit during our Burgundy trip last November. Soft spot or no, they make very good wine, sometimes excellent wine, and always at reasonable prices.
We agreed previously that $25 would be the cutoff for value-priced Pinot, and that is tough my friends, tough. There just isn't that much out there to recommend at that price point. Well, if you can find it (and if you live in the NYC area, go to Chambers Street Wines - they have it), the 2004 Domaine Jean et Gilles Lafouge Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru Les Duresses is a very good wine and it clocks in at exactly $25. I bet it's less out of NYC too, so those of you who do not suffer the weight of NYC pricing - knock yourselves out.
Auxey-Duresses is a village in the Cote de Beaune, a neighbor of Meursault, Monthelie, and Saint Aubin. There are only a few 1er Cru vineyards in Auxey-Duresses, Les Duresses and Bas du Duresses are the two at the southern most part of the appellation. A lot of people think Auxey-Duresses is under rated as a Burgundy village, that it is too much in the shadow of the big three (Meursault, Puligny and Chassagne). I am not expert enough to weigh in on that one, but I can say that I have tasted several examples of white and red wines from the village and I like them in general. As always, the producer is more important than the classification of the wine (Bourgogne, 1er Cru, etc). And Lafouge is one of my favorites. The 2005 Lafouge wines are hitting retail now, or very soon, so it might be a good time to grab whatever is left of the 2004 bottles. The new wines might not be as inexpensive - you know, slap a "2005" on the bottle and everyone seems to go nuts.
2004 Domaine Jean et Gilles Lafouge Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru Les Duresses, $25.
Crystal clear ruby, very pretty color. High toned aromas of cranberry and sour cherry, some earth. A little cedar on the palate at first, but that dissipates quickly. Flavors of cranberry and sweet red berries, some pine, and a nice acidity, kind of like apple skins. A light-medium bodied wine, this is not in any way muscle-bound, and not an elegant and velvet wine either. It is somewhat in between, and this is probably representative of Auxey-Duresses terroir. That's why the wines don't command the same respect as do those from Pommard or Volnay, two higher profile (for reds) Cote de Beaune appellations. In an unspectacular vintage like 2004, the wines can seem hollow in the mid palate. This wine never felt hollow - Lafouge is too skilled for that, but it doesn't have the substance of Lafouge's 2004 Pommards, for example. It is a very good Pinot in the lighter style, and at $25, it is certainly worth the money. Make sure to enjoy it with food though, the flavors come alive and the acidity works better while eating.
BrooklynLady and I have never been big on the restaurant scene. Yeah, we enjoy a good meal out as much as anyone, but we are often frustrated by "good" restaurants that charge an arm and a leg for nothing special food. Some of our favorite places include little Pho joints, a BBQ joint that I hope remains hidden in the obscurity of Greenwood Heights, an amazing ramen counter, and other such places. Now with a baby it's hard to go out to dinner and when we are able to get a babysitter on a Friday or Saturday night, I'm not sure that going out to dinner is best way to spend our time (or our $). But what about during the week when the 'rents come by to see their grand daughter? Isn't there an hour or so to slip out to a local spot? You know, there is less pressure cause it's a Tuesday night. So what are the best places for us to have our all-of-the-sudden neighborhood dinner out on a weeknight?
Our most recent attempt to answer that question found us at Flatbush Farm at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Flatbush. The decor is lovely - dark wood and white walls, kind lighting, high ceilings. Seems like they haven't changed anything - they must have appreciated the excellent design work unertaken by Saint Marks Bistro, the previous occupants. We had no reservation on warm Thursday night and we had our choice of tables at 7:30 - a good thing and a bad thing, depending on how you look at it.
Service: Certainly pleasant, but they rushed us even though the place was half empty. Good servers should recognize when people want to take their time, and should not return every two minutes to see if we're ready to order. And don't fill the wine glasses, and stop asking if we're finished with those plates. Leave us alone, for goodness sakes!
Food: The menu says that all meats are "organic farm fresh without hormones or antibiotics." It also says that local produce and dairy is used as often as possible. These are definitely good things. The menu doesn't take any risks, but offers a nice variety. Vegetarian? You have a couple of nice choices. Meat, fish, fowl - all there. Specials on that warm Thursday evening included a spring pea soup and a duck confit.
We started with a "Frisee and crispy shitake salad with blue cheese." I enjoyed this salad very much, although it was not as advertised. The mushrooms were not crispy - just normal, tasty soft mushrooms (all 2 of them). And there was enough blue cheese crumble to make dip for Buffalo Wings. I liked this dish in a "bar-food-salad-that's-bad-for-you, actually" way. BrooklynLady - not impressed.
BrooklynLady ordered the French Dip sandwich. We were both in complete yum-land on this thing. Super tender brisket (I think), sliced medium-thick and piled on a good quality piece of baguette, topped with carmelized onions and what they said was Gruyere cheese. I kind of doubt it was Gruyere, but it doesn't matter because the sandwich was delicious. Perfect for a rainy night, great anytime. And the accompanying fries were also top notch, the salad fine too.
I went with the duck breast served on French lentils with some kind of citrus sauce. This dish was also very impressive. The duck was done by some one with skill - the skin perfectly crisped and salted, the breast meat pink, savory, and tender. And the green lentils, the baby carrots, turnips, and other vegetables in that light citrus sauce, not buttery or salty...? YUM. I would return to the restaurant just to eat this dish.
We did not eat dessert, which did not bother our server because the place was almost full with more folks coming in at about 9:30 when we left. Overall - promising food, worth another try. The bar menu, and the bar itself (next door but connected by an interior passage near the restrooms) are probably an excellent value. I might have to check them out next.
Wine/Drinks: A nice wine list with reasonably priced bottles from all over the place. Not thrown together by a disinterested corporate partner, some one cares about the wine list. Languedoc, Loire Valley, and other "less famous" wine regions dominate. You can get a good bottle of wine here for a decent price. The glasses are not as good of a value at a minimum of $9 or $10, but they are interesting - you can get a glass of Wolffer Chardonnay here. That's right. local Long Island Chard by the glass on Flatbush Avenue. Makes sense, right? We went with the brand new 2006 Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur-Champigny. I LOVED the 2005, and I'm still experimenting, but I think I'm a big fan in general of Roches Neuves. This wine was $34, tough to stomach if you know that you can buy it for $15 in a store once it's released, but that's normal for a restaurant. This wine was excellent. Not as plush and extracted as the 2005, but dark and aromatic, fruity and herbal, excellent with food.
Miscellaneous: Hipsters with thick wooden framed glasses on dates, a man with his older father and his young son, a decidely diverse clientele, ethnically speaking, anyway...I liked the vibe in this place. One bit of nastiness - the bathrooms are tucked discreetly in a passageway between the restaurant and it's neighbor, the bar. The one I visited sported a small but rather nasty bit of evidence of recent use. You have to check the bathrooms once an hour if you're gonna charge real $ for dinner.
Value: Not great. One salad appetizer (no truffles, no rare heirloom anything), two entrees, one of which was an overgrown sandwich, and a $34 bottle of wine...$91. Not a rip off at all, but certainly not a great value.
Come again: I will try eating at the bar before I return to the restaurant. This place might be best for a great burger, tempura onion rings, that kind of thing.
Did You See That (Part 2)?
Here are a couple of posts from the past month or so that really stand out for me. Take a peek and see if you read them already, if not - worth your perusal.
Rusty Gaffney, the Prince of Pinot, writes and publishes a whole newsletter every week! His newsletter is called Pinot File and it is completely and endearingly devoted to Pinot Noir. Pinot from all over the world is discussed and reviewed, but California seems to appear more often than anything else. In the March 27th issue of PinotFile the Prince offers a report on a recent Australian Pinot Noir festival that includes tasting notes on the Domaine Romanee Conti's Grand Cru offerings from the 2004 vintage. Fun to read because I, with all due respect, have no faith whatsoever in "professional" reviews of DRC wines - too many thousands of dollars at stake for objectivity. But the Prince has no financial stake in this at all. He is just absolutely passionate about Pinot.
What really intrigued me about this issue is the Oregon tasting (page6). St Innocent makes an appearance, as does Shea, Soter, Domaine Serene, Sineann, and the cultish Sine Qua Non. Interesting to see how his tasting group scored the wines. I don't think this is a blind tasting, but I'm not sure. Prince? Are you out there? Was this a blind tasting?
If you have been reading this blog with any regularity you know that I'm a fan of the Wine Doctor. Not a blog, as you cannot post comments, but an amazing online resource. Before deciding whether or not to buy Loire wine, for example, I often check to see if Chris has posted anything about the producer. I have learned about many wines that I now love via this site. Doc is focusing more on Bordeaux this year, but the site is easy to navigate and well archived, so if Bordeaux isn't your thing, you should still check it out.
The Doc recently posted notes from a mammoth Champagne tasting. The notes are in two parts: first the non-vintage (NV) wines, then the vintage bubbly. Mostly large houses, not the grower stuff that I've been slowly tasting, but it's good to read about Perrier Jouet too, right? What impresses me most about this review is the attention to detail, the patience and stamina for tasting the goes into this. There are many bubblies reviewed here along with notes that really make me feel that I could choose NV champagne wisely. See what you think.
2002 Sylvan Cathiard Vosne Romanee, $25 (secondary market). This was a Deetrane purchase at auction on Wine Commune. Too early to open it, and we knew it, but why not taste a bottle when you get a case at auction? This wine was deep ruby colored, a reserved and tight nose that showed a lot of iron, some underbrush. After a half hour open the fruit makes an appearance, lovely red berries and dark fruit too, but then recedes again, replaced by pine and leaves. This wine is chock full or potential, which is why I bought three of them from Deetrane (tertiary market?!?) to lay down in the cellar for a while.
2003 Sineann Pinot Noir Phelps Creek, $40. What a pleasant surprise this wine was! An Oregon Pinot from cult producer Peter Rosback, but not from the Willamette Valley. This is from Hood River County. I sometimes find Sineann's wines to be too big, to overdo it a little. From a tough hot vintage, this wine is a perfect candidate for overdoing it, but it was great. Pretty garnet color with rich sweet smells of blue fruit and earth. After a half hour open, the aromas really blossomed: distinct mushroom and lavender aromas followed the dark berry fruit. The palate did not live up to the nose in complexity, but was certainly sweet and sappy, with a pleasant earthy finish. I wish I had more of this wine.
2004 Adelsheim Pinot Noir Bryan Creek Vineyard, $48. You know, I'm starting to wonder about Adelsheim. I have been seriously disappointed with their single vineyard wines from the 2004 vintage. Did they change wine makers? Change something else? I will have to call and ask, because the style certainly changed. This wine was clunky and heavy, and not because it's too young. You can sense when a wine is just tight and disjointed, but might unwind nicely. That is not this wine. Too much alcohol heat, too little fruit, nothing really here that comes close to meriting the $48.
2005 Belle Pente Willamette Valley Pinot Gris, $17. Pinot Gris is now the number one white wine coming out of Oregon. There is a lot of great Gris out there and a lot of mediocre wine. This grape, known as Pinot Grigio in Italy, can create crisp and light (and in my opinion, insipid) wine, or as in Alsace, richer more floral, more nuanced wine. Most Oregon Pinot Gris producers veer toward the Alsace style and there are some fantastic wines at really good prices. This is not one of them. Austere to the point of boredom. Sure, the wine has nice citrus notes and it is clean tasting, but there is not enough going on to keep me interested, even as a stand alone sipper.
2005 Domaine de Belliviere Jasnieres Les Rosiers, $28. Away from the more famous Loire villages of Vouvray, Chinon, and Sancerre, there lies the Loir river, the masculine counterpart to the Loire. White grape is still the eloquent and majestic Chenin Blanc, appellations are called Coteaux de Loir and Jasnieres. This producer is the one making waves with wines from these appellations, and there is good reason for this. There are four white cuvees each year, an incredible and fascinating rose made from the forgotten grape Pinot D'Aunis, and a red wine that I have never tasted. The most expensive clocks in at under $30, and all of the wines are wonderful with food, clean, well balanced, and expressive. This wine is no exception. Deep gold in color with an interesting nose, new to me I must say, of soy sauce and ginger, with some honey and roses, although that might have been the power of suggestion, as 'Les Rosiers' is the name of the wine, and there are rose bushes bookending the vines. A sweet nectary palate, a big wine, but lots of underlying tension - the wine feels alive on the tongue. It's not going to get any more interesting than this, folks.
2005 Mark Angeli Anjou La Lune, $26. I first read about this producer on the Wine Doctor's site, and then again on Dressner's site. Even just a quick read and you gotta admit - sounds interesting, right? So I finally grabbed a few bottles and popped one the other night with some roast cod. I am in love with this wine - LOVE, I tell ya. So pure, such a lovely nose of white fruit and flowers with a touch of honey. And the palate is a study in tension: acidity, minerals, sweet fruit, delicate floral flavors, all happening at once. There is a full mouth feel, like a dessert wine. And you can tell that this wine has plenty of growing to do in the bottle. If you have the opportunity, you really should spend the $26 (?!?) on a bottle of this wine. I will certainly be buying more myself.
2001 Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva, price unknown. Deetrane opened this the other night, and he bought it retail, not from some shadowy crook. How do you like that? I enjoy Rioja in general, as long as I can taste wine and not only new American oak. This wine started off pretty woody, but a little time in the glass brought out plenty of juicy black cherries and a bit of meatiness to go along with the vanilla scented oak. Very enjoyable indeed, and would be better with food, I imagine.
1999 Simi Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley, $45. I enjoyed this tremendously. Lush and dark, very aromatic with cassis and spices, dark fruit too. Smooth round tannins. Took a while to open up, but very nice. This is 93% Cab and 7% Petit Verdot. Really fun to drink this with a flank steak, so unusual in our household. BrooklynLady really liked it too.
2001 Hafner Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley, $32. Brooklynlady's dad turned us on to this wine. It's his house red, essentially. Not available in stores, you have to order it from the winery or at restaurants. After tasting it at pop-in-law's house a few years ago, I ordered a half case and have been slowly making my way through it. This, the third bottle, was the best so far. I probably should have let them all age a little bit. We cracked this at Mike's house at a recent holiday dinner and everyone, including seasoned California Cab fiends, was really impressed. I thought it was very good - creamy dark cassis and plums, very round and smooth.
I bet all of you read Eric Asimov's column on Wednesday where he talks about learning about wine at home by having your local wine salesperson pick out a case, taste through it, etc. There are as of this moment, 96 comments on the companion piece in his blog. That's pretty intense. I guess people had a strong reaction to reading about Lyle's and Joy's cases. Probably because they would have arranged their cases differently.
So for all of you who want to poke your toe in the waters of the Loire, here is my case. Not a case from all over the world like Lyle's and Joy's, but Brooklynguy's case of Loire wine, a case that I believe will make anyone who likes wine a Loire lover. All of the wines I included are available as current releases, although production is not as large as in many other wine regions. That means you should go get yours now if you're interested in tasting. Most are from 2005, a wonderful vintage. I tried to include a variety of appellations and styles.
My case clocks in at almost $300, so it's not cheap at all. I don't imagine that any one will actually buy the entire case though. Pick what sounds interesting to you, if you don't feel like shelling out 300 clams for a case of wine you've never before tried.
One thing I should mention - I did not include red grapes other than Cabernet Franc - no Pinot Noir from Menetou Salon or Sancerre, no Gamay from Anjou...I did that because I think they are interesting, but not unless you develop a taste for Loire wine first. And I think these wines are a great way to develop a taste for Loire wine, if you are among the unlucky ones who have not yet done so.
2005 Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Sevre et Maine, $10 (so far, my case is the same as Lyle's). Muscadet is inexpensive, but complex in the hands of a solid producer. Marc Ollivier is a wonderful producer. Best from Sevre et Maine and when aged sur lie (on the lees). Citrus, brine, wonderful with seafood - famous pairing with Oysters.
2005 Thomas-Labaille Sancerre les Monts Damnees, $21 (Our cases diverge here). Sancerre, the darling of wine bars everywhere a few years ago, is made from Sauvignon Blanc. Grassy and floral, fresh fruit, quite different from its white Bordeaux cousin. Clean and pure, usually sees little or no oak. Classic pairing with goat cheese. High end Sancerre can run you $40 a bottle, but great bottles can be had, like this one, for $20 or so.
2005 Chidaine Montlouis sur Loire Clos Habert, $26. Montlouis is across the river from the more well known Vouvray, with whom it shares two important characteristics: 1) the wines are all white and made from Chenin Blanc, and 2) there is a lot of plonk floating around that gives these appellations a bad name. Sad, because the good stuff is enchanting and reasonably priced, a steal when you consider the silly prices of white Burgundy, for example. Chidaine is the real deal, and this cuvee is only slightly off-dry. Crystalline in its purity, great melon and stone fruit, very mineral. This drinks beautifully now with a half hour of air time, and it will age really well.
2005 Domaine du Closel Savennieres La Jalousie, $20. Savennieres is a half hour or 45 minutes by car west of Vouvray. Also the site of tremendous sweet wines such as Chaume, Quarts de Chaume, and Coteaux de Layon, Savennieres is famous for intense, dry, mineral wines. Not as big as Vouvray, but probably more consistent, with several world class producers. This is Closel's approachable young drinking wine from 2005, a classic vintage. You will be hooked on this stuff if your try it.
2005 Foreau Vouvray Demi-Sec Clos Naudin, $33. Many producers say that demi-sec (off dry) is the best expression of Chenin Blanc. I don't know, I love sec (dry) Vouvray too. In fact, the sec version of this wine is just incredible too. This wine is a study in tension - fresh vibrant fruit and acidity, sweet flowers and honey, all pulling on each other, vying for prominence, but compromising beautifully. If you were to buy only one white from this case, buy this one.
2004 Francois Cazin Cour-Cheverny Cuvee Renaissance, $17. Made from the obscure Romorontin grape in a tiny appellation created in order to showcase this grape. Cour-Cheverny whites are a great value in dry white wine, bracing and fresh with great melon and citrus fruit. The grapes used for this wine, though, are allowed to ripen longer and the wine is sweeter, demi-sec at least in my opinion. Delicious as an aperitif, with cheese, or with lighter desserts like pound cake or almond cookies. Will rival far more expensive Riesling if aged properly. And $17 - c'mon.
2005 Domaine des Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny, $15. Thierry Germain's "entry-level" wine. Dark, fragrant, delicious. You can sip this one alone, or enjoy it with food as rich as beef stew. You will want a case of this lying around the house, trust me.
2002 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses, $17. Raffault's top cuvee from one of the big gun vineyards of Chinon. Lighter and more elegant than the Roches Neuves, more funk and earth. This one requires your attention and a plate of roast lamb with herbs. This wine can improve with age for at least a decade too, although I challenge you not to just drink it up.
2002 Catherine et Pierre Breton Bourgueil Les Perrieres, $26. The Bretons are quite famous now, and properly so. They make many wines, some for drinking young, some for cellaring, like this one from the great Perrieres vineyard in Bourgueil. You can drink it now, and you'll find rich dark plums and some red fruit too, an intense nose that also includes some earth and some herbs, plenty of iron and minerals. You will see that the structure will allow for cellaring though. Shouldn't your case have a bottle or two for aging?
2002 Clos Rougeard Les Poyeaux, $55. That's right - $55, for a bottle of red wine from the Loire Valley. Do you have to spend that much to get a great bottle of red? Absolutely not. But if you did spend that much on one bottle, this is the one. Burgundian in its elegance, in the complex intertwining of fruit, floral, and earth characteristics. You will love this if you open it, decant, and drink now. But if you can wait 5 or more years, you will thank yourself.
Dessert wines cost a lot, so don't get upset here. Many more resources per usable grape are required. The Loire is the most under-appreciated source for sweet wines, in my opinion. Wines of comparable quality in Bordeaux can cost more than double the price. These wines have an incredible play between sweet honeyed floral fruit and vibrant acidity. They are thick but not heavy. Here is one that you will find on the shelves now.
2003 Huet Vouvray Le Haut Lieu Moelleux 1er Trie, $55. Moelleux (mellow) is the word to look for on Vouvray bottles to know that they are dessert wines. The grapes for this one are picked by hand in individual passes through the Haut Lieu vineyard, selecting only the grapes that are properly ripe, and that are affected with the noble rot. This is the first pass (1er Trie), grapes of the highest quality. 2003 was not so great in general in the Loire, but the sweet wines fared well and don't require as much time to show interesting secondary aroma and flavor characteristics.You can drink this now, this honey-gold nectar, and you will love it. But again, if you give it a few more years in the cellar you will be well rewarded.
So that's it, my Loire case for the uninitiated. Enjoy!
The folks over at the Wine Cask Blog are hosting this month's edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, the online tasting event created by Lenn at Lenndevours. The theme this month is regular versus reserve, or is reserve worth the difference? An interesting theme, and one that provides us with a great excuse to open more than one bottle of wine at once on a regular old Tuesday night!
I hunted around a bit, trying to find the sister wine to one I already had, or instead looking for a pair of wines from the same vintage, one labeled reserve. In the end I settled on an experiment that interested me from the Loire Valley - Bernard Baudry's 2004 wines.
Bernard Baudry and his son Mattieu produce four red wines a year, sometimes a fifth and a sixth, depending on the vintage. Les Granges is the "entry level" wine, meant for drinking young. It comes from young vines and gravelly soil and costs about $14. I have enjoyed this wine very much in recent years, although the 2005, supposedly a great year in the Loire Valley, is not yet drinking well in my opinion.
Cuvee Domaine is a serious step up for only a few bucks, about $15. Made from 30-35 year old vines on gravel and clay soil, this wine has more depth, and the structure to improve for several years. The 2002 was just excellent, and the last time I tasted the 2003 I was really impressed. I have one bottle left and I'm trying to hold onto it for a little while.
Les Grezeaux is made from 40-60 year old vines, the oldest of the estate, in gravelly soil with clay and limestone. This wine is often aged in wood, supporting its ability to age for some time and adding tannic structure. This wine is a real step up in price at about $25.
La Croix Boissee is the top cuvee of the Domaine, made from 25-30 year old vines that are kept to low yields in chalk and clay soils. This wine can improve for many years in the cellar. I tasted a few older vintages when I visited the Domaine and a 10 year old wine tasted young and fresh. This wine costs about $30, sometimes more depending on the vintage.
It's too early to pop either the 04 Croix Boissee, so I decided to see how the 2004 Cuvee Domaine (CD) would fare against the 2004 Les Grezeaux (LG), although to be fair, it's probably too soon for this wine also. A 75% step up in price - what would that translate to?
CD is less extracted, a more transparent ruby color. It is immediately vegetal on the nose, unpleasantly so. Smells like a fresh green pepper covered in soil. LG is very mineral on the nose, lots of iron and pencil lead. Neither are expressing any fruit aromas, sadly. Both seem tightly wound and maybe a little green. Hopefully some time in the decanter will help.
So Deetrane and I bagged them and decanted for over an hour, trying for unbiased notes later on with dinner. Didn't matter in the end, as neither wine improved very much. What happened here? BrooklynLady and I usually love Baudry's wines, but these have little if any fruit character, the tannins are rustic and green, and the palate is dominated by vegetables and varying degrees of mineral.
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I have a bad habit with Champagne. I rarely buy it because it's expensive and because I don't really know much about it. But sometimes, for a special occasion I buy a bottle and stick it in the fridge - Champs can handle the cold of the fridge longer than still wine. My problem, though, is that I usually find an excuse to open the bottle before the special occasion comes. Since having a baby though, I find that the reverse is true - I cannot seem to open the bottles on the special occasion as planned.
I wanted a nice bottle to drink with BrooklynLady when we came home from the hospital with BrooklynBabygirl. Any reasonable person might have told me that we would not feel like, nor would we have time to open Champagne with a 3 day old baby. Amy at Prospect Wine Shop recommended the NV Lallement Brut Grand Cru, $40 ($36 at Chambers Street) to me. The bottle sat in the fridge for almost 2 weeks until the in-laws came to town. Special occasion? Yes. The one I had in mind? No. The Champagne? Truly delicious - I would have to say it's my favorite Champagne, although the sample size is admittedly rather small.
Honeysuckle and other floral aromas, some chalk too. Vivid fruit palate, green apple, citrus, with a mineral chalk finish. This Champagne is mostly Pinot Noir - 80% I believe. And it's just delicious. I would definitely recommend it as a special bottle. I have not yet tried the Reserve bottle, but that is definitely in my future.
I bought a bottle of rose Champagne for Valentines day and hid it in the vegetable crisper in the fridge. BrooklynBabygirl was just a couple weeks old then and things were not so easy on the home front.Valentine's day was, to be diplomatic, not celebrated with the typical glee in our house this year. So it was a nondescript Thursday night later in February, a cold night if I remember correctly, and BrooklynLady and I were hanging out while baby slept, and were reminded that we do, in fact, adore each other. So out with the Champs!
NV Chartogne Taillet Brut Rose, $45 (Prospect Wines).
We hosted a dinner party the other night, our first since the baby was born. Lots of fun - great company, the food was mostly successful, and I had fun vacillating back and forth on the wine pairings. Adam came with a lovely bottle of Champagne, and this helped me avoid my bad habit, as I was not able to open it while cooking, or to forget it in the fridge. He walked in, we popped it, that was it. And at about $25, the best value of the three to be sure.
NV Georges Gardet Cuvee Saint Flavy, about $25.
Fine bead, thick mousse. Floral aromas, some citrus too. Prominent minerals on the palate, very dry. A lingering floral finish. A very lovely bubbly that I couldn't stop sipping, although I was doing my best to go slow, considering we had about 6 bottles of wine to get through over the course of the evening. I would definitely buy this Champs - best $25 bottle I've tasted.
We happened to open a bottle of Prosecco next to the Gardet Champagne that night, and I will tell you that there was an entire world of difference between these wines. The Prosecco was clean and pleasant, but utterly simple next to the Champs. The balance of mineral, floral, and fruit, all in that elegant bubbly package...I could really get used to this. And that would be another bad habit entirely.
I am so psyched that the fish people are back at the Grand Army Plaza farmer's market. Their fish is always delicious, the freshest and must flavorful I can get. When I bought fish at the regular store in February, one of their vacation months, it really hammered home what I already knew - fresh fish, preferably locally caught, is the best. So when to my delight they were at the market on Saturday morning I grabbed some bay scallops, some flounder, and a fish head for stock - free with any purchase, and actually the whole fish minus the fillets (See seafood purchased at market and used in this soup, right).
I think flounder is an under appreciated fish, probably because of its use in yukky fried fish sandwiches and other fast food. When fresh, flounder is really great, and very versatile. One of my favorite summer brunches is fried flounder, dredged in a mixture of corn meal, a little flour, salt and pepper, and my secret ingredient - pan-toasted whole spices like cumin and coriander, maybe a little crushed dried red chili. The recipe I want to share here though is more of a cool weather dish, perfect for warming the body and the soul. It is so yummy, and it's healthy too.
Seafood Soup with Fregole, is what I call it. Imagine a light broth, invitingly pink/orange in color, smelling of the sea. Chunks of fish, maybe some scallops and clams too floating in there. A hunk of good bread too, a glass of white wine or a light chill-able red like a young Chinon or a Cru Beaujolais...well imagine no further (see soup, left). This is surprisingly easy and exceptionally delicious if made with your own stock. It combines fresh seafood and broth with a tomato and dried chili base, and adds some toasted pasta. This dish is probably Sardinian, or southern Italian at least. And making fish stock is the hardest part of this dish. With boxed or canned stock it is still great, but there is no substitute for the real thing, in my opinion.
dried red chili flakes - a half teaspoon is warming but mild, increase to taste, but for decency's sake, stop at one and a half teaspoons - you want to taste the other ingredients, don't you?!?
Seafood: I used flounder for the fish chunks, and scallops. Use clams, mussels, whatever you want. No oily fish though, stick to white-fleshed fish.
Don't be intimidated by making fish stock. If you like to cook, you should try this. Unlike meat and poultry stock, fish stock takes 30 minutes of simmering, an hour total including cleaning the fish. And it is soooooo good. Click here for the recipe I use, from an earlier post.
Boil a large pot of water and cook the fregole for 7-10 minutes depending on the texture you want. I go about 7 minutes here because they will also simmer in the soup. Drain and reserve the fregole. Finely mince the garlic and the shallots, cook in olive oil over medium heat. You are sweating these vegetables (getting them to release their moisture), not browning them (see sweating vegetables, left).
Add the chili flakes, cook and stir for a few minutes more. Add the tomato paste and stir well, cooking the paste and coating the vegetables with the paste. Peel and coarsely chop the carrot, add it and cook for another minute. I use the carrot purely for the crunchy texture, although it does add a bit of sweetness. You can leave it out, or substitute another crunchy and mildly flavored vegetable.
Add the warm fish stock, lower the heat to medium-low, and bring gently to a boil (simmering soup right before fish is added, left). After only 30 seconds boiling, lower heat again so that the soup is just simmering, and add the fish and clams if you are using clams. If you are making the soup in advance, stop before the fish is added - you want to do that right before you serve the soup, same with the fregole I guess. The fish will cook quickly, 2 minutes tops. Add scallops and simmer for about 30 seconds. Add cooked fregole and stir. Ladle soup into bowls and top with finely chopped flat leaf parsley stems (beautiful smell, crunchy texture).
I hope you try and enjoy this soup before the cold weather disappears.


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Child homelessness surges by 80% under Conservative-led government, figures show
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Child homelessness has surged by 80 per cent since the Conservatives came into government in 2010, with a new household now found to be homeless every five minutes, official figures show.
Newly published data reveals 124,490 minors were housed in temporary accommodation in England at the end of 2018, marking an increase of 55,440 since the same period in 2010 and a rise of 33 per cent in the last four years.
Campaigners warned that families were being "pushed to the hard edge of the housing crisis" by "crippling private rents, frozen benefits and endless waiting lists" for social homes that "don't exist".
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It comes amid mounting concern that cuts to housing benefit and reduced funding for homelessness services, as well as a lack of affordable homes and regulation in the private rented sector, are pushing more children into destitution.
The figures show that the number of households in temporary accommodation stood at 83,700 in December 2018, marking a 74 per cent rise since 2010. Around three-quarters of these families include children.
More than one in five (21 per cent) households found to be homeless or threatened with homelessness lost their last settled home due to the ending of a private rented tenancy.
The government figures also show that within this group, there has been a considerable surge in families with children living in B&Bs, with the number increasing from 660 to 2,420 – a 267 per cent rise – between 2010 and 2018.
The number of young people who have been in B&Bs for more than six weeks is up by 440 per cent in the same period, from 150 to 810.
Shadow housing minister Alex Cunningham said the "shameful" rise in homeless children stuck in temporary accommodation would be the "legacy of this failed Conservative government".
"Rising homelessness is a crisis of the Tories' own making as we've seen investment in the number of low-cost homes to buy and rent tumble," he added. "Add to that cuts in housing benefit, reduced funding for homelessness services and a private rental sector lacking any real protections and we know why so many are being let down."
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Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: "It's impossible to ignore the frightening levels of homelessness in England right now. Hundreds of thousands of people are desperate for help, from those sleeping on the street to families trapped in emergency B&Bs.
"More people are being pushed to the hard edge of the housing crisis by crippling private rents, frozen benefits, and endless waiting lists for social homes that don't exist. It's clear this is a national emergency that won't go away on its own – real change must happen now.
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1/10 Sleeping rough up 165% from 2010
The total number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2018 was 4,677, up 2,909 people or 165% from the 2010 total of 1,768
2/10 London rough sleepers up 13%
The number of people sleeping rough increased by 146 or 13% in London since 2017
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3/10 London accounted for 27% of people sleeping rough in England
London accounted for 27% of the total number of people sleeping rough in England. This is up from 24% of the England total in 2017
4/10 64% of rough sleeps UK nationals
64% were UK nationals, compared to 71% in 2017
5/10 14% of rough sleepers are women
14% of the people recorded sleeping rough were women, the same as in 2017
6% were aged 25 years or under, compared to 8% in 2017
7/10 Thousands of families staying in temporary housing
Almost 79,000 families were staying in temporary housing in the last three months of 2017 because they didn't have a permanent home, compared with 48,010 in the same period eight years before
8/10 Reduction in families living in temporary housing before Coalition government
There had been a significant reduction in families living in such conditions before the Coalition government came into power, with the number having fallen by 52 per cent between 2004 and 2010 under the Labour government
9/10 Families staying in temporary has risen since
But the figure has crept up in each of the past seven years, from 69,140 in the last quarter of 2015, to 75,740 in the same period in 2016 and 78,930 at the end of last year
10/10 Nearly 58,000 families accepted as homeless (2018)
Nearly 58,000 families have been accepted as homeless by their local council in the past year (as of March 2018), equating to an increase of 8 per cent over the last five years
"The bottom line is that you can't solve homelessness without building homes people can actually afford to live in. So, if housing really is the government's top domestic issue, it needs to get serious about a new generation of social homes – 3.1 million to be exact. And, in the meantime, increase housing benefit so that it at least covers the basic cost of private rent."
The Local Government Association said the increasing use of temporary accommodation was "not only financially unsustainable" for councils but "hugely disruptive" for families placed in such accommodation.
"Many councils are struggling to cope with rising homelessness and to find suitable accommodation for those in need," said a spokesperson.
"With homelessness services facing a funding gap of more than £100m in 2019/20 and £421m by 2024/25, the government needs to use its upcoming spending review to sustainably fund homelessness prevention."
James Brokenshire, the communities secretary, said: "Everyone deserves a safe and secure place to live, and we are committed to reducing all forms of homelessness.
"Today's figures show encouraging signs that the Homelessness Reduction Act is making a real difference in providing vulnerable people with the support they need, and at an earlier stage.
"But we know there is more to do, which is why we're investing £1.2bn to tackle homelessness, including £100m for rough sleeping, as well as empowering councils to build more council homes to ensure everyone has a safe and secure home to call their own."
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The world's leading introduction to networking—fully updated for tomorrow's key technologies.
Computer Networks, Fourth Edition is the ideal introduction to today's networks—and tomorrow's. This classic best seller has been thoroughly updated to reflect the newest and most important networking technologies with a special emphasis on wireless networking, including 802.11, Bluetooth, broadband wireless, ad hoc networks, i-mode, and WAP. But fixed networks have not been ignored either with coverage of ADSL, gigabit Ethernet, peer-to-peer networks, NAT, and MPLS. And there is lots of new material on applications, including over 60 pages on the Web, plus Internet radio, voice over IP, and video on demand.Finally, the coverage of network security has been revised and expanded to fill an entire chapter.


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Archidiecezja Nassau (łac.: Archidioecesis Nassaviensis, ang.: Archdiocese of Nassau) – katolicka archidiecezja karaibska położona w północnej części tego amerykańskiego terytorium. Obejmuje swoim zasięgiem: Bahamy. Siedziba arcybiskupa znajduje się w katedrze św. Franciszka Ksawerego w Nassau.

Historia
Początki archidiecezji Nassau związane są z kolonizacją Bahamów przez Anglików. Terytorium to wchodziło od XIX w. w skład diecezji, a następnie archidiecezji nowojorskiej. 21 marca 1929 r. decyzją papieża Piusa XI Bahamy zostały z niej wyodrębnione jako samodzielna prefektura apostolska, która została przekształcona w 1941 r. w wikariat apostolski.

5 lipca 1960 r. wikariat apostolski Bahamów został przekształcony przez papieża Jana XXIII w pełnoprawną diecezję, podległą bezpośrednio Stolicy Apostolskiej. 22 czerwca 1999 r. papież Jan Paweł II podniósł ją do rangi archidiecezji i metropolii.

Biskupi

 Ordynariusz: abp Patrick Pinder

Główne świątynie
 Katedra św. Franciszka Ksawerego w Nassau

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Oficjalna strona archidiecezji
 Opis archidiecezji na Gcatholic
 Opis archidiecezji na "Catholic-Hierarchy"

Kościół katolicki na Bahamach
Religia w Nassau (Bahamy)

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Going Away Shoes
By Jill McCorkle
"[A] remarkable collection . . . Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find." —People
The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkle's world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into—and then get out of—life's inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects eleven brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight.
In honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, or glass slippers, all of the women in these stories march to a place of new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but they don't waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And they're funny, even when they are sad.
These stories are the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how—and why—to pair pain with laughter.
Jill McCorkle
Review quotes
"McCorkle is an expert at engineering catharsis through good salty rants, but the best thing about these stories is the sense of romance and wonder in long-overdue journeys of self-discovery." --New York Times Book Review
"[A] remarkable collection . . . Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find." --People
"There are writers who seem to write it like it is--the quietness of their characters is not exaggerated, nor is their drama. They could live down the street or in the next apartment. Jayne Anne Phillips, Antonia Nelson--these are writers whose characters have no special aura, no golden ticket. Jill McCorkle's characters are like this." --Los Angeles Times
"McCorkle's latest book gives us 11 reasons to smile . . . 11 cheerfully furious stories about women who have come to a screeching halt in their pursuit of happiness . . . The joy of reading and rereading each of these marvelous stories is to discover the truths encoded into each step of every hard-won journey--and to find ourselves along the way." --Atlanta Journal Constitution
"The stories are small tributes to tenacity and spirit and choice--even when that choice is simply to keep putting one foot in front of the other." --Miami Herald
"McCorkle is an expert at engineering catharsis through good salty rants, but the best thing about these stories is the sense of romance and wonder in long-overdue journeys of self-discovery."
"The joy of reading and rereading each of these marvelous sto- ries is to discover the truths encoded into each step of every hard-won journey—and to find ourselves along the way."
"Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find."
"Bold and addictive, Going Away Shoes is a find."
"The joy of reading and rereading each of these marvelous stories is to discover the truths encoded into each step of every hard-won journey—and to find ourselves along the way."
"These gems are written by a master craftswoman. Each story deserves savoring, as melancholy and humor work beautifully together in this artful collection."


Much gusto, me llamo Bradley-ahhhhh...if you can finish that lyric, we can be friends.
Bradley Nowell had passed before I even became a fan of Sublime. Not that I didn't like them before, but I was only 11 in 1996 and really didn't have much of my own opinion on music. None the less, Sublime has been one of my favorite bands for a number of years. It's too bad that the mastermind behind such great songs like 'What I Got', 'Badfish', and a number of others wasn't around to enjoy the success of Sublime.
Today marks the 15th Anniversary of Bradley's Death.
Anniversary is kind of a weird word to use around death since it has a positive connotation in most peoples minds, but I'm not sure what other verbiage to use with it. I guess you could look at it this way...on the anniversary of a great musicians death, we should celebrate. Not the fact that they are dead, but celebrate by remembering all the songs and artistic value that they left behind.
...and in celebration of Bradley Nowell and Sublime, crank the speakers to 11 and chill out with some of my favorite Sublime tracks.
Original Sublime Bassist Eric Wilson and Drummer Bud Gaugh are keeping the legend of Sublime going. Now known as Sublime with Rome, due to legalities with Bradley Nowell's Estate, the band has a new album coming out this July and just recently released the first single called 'Panic'.


The new material possesses both liquid and solid properties.
Touch a spider's web, and it's sticky. Pull a thread of a spider's web, and it will stretch to forty times its length and return to its original structure, unaffected, when released. The web's ability to remain taut, yet flexible and sticky, stems from its dual solid and liquid properties, which have earned it the name "capture silk".
A team of scientists together from the University of Oxford and France's Université Pierre et Marie Curie, have, inspired by the spider's web's, created something they've christened a "liquid wire". This wire, like a spider's web, will be able to stretch far and recoil with no noticeable sagging.
The duality of properties comes about because capture silk is actually a hybrid material, meaning that it is comprised of two different composite materials. Hybrid materials are by nature stronger than both their composite materials. A spider's web is made of a core filament upon which a droplet of glue is suspended. The glue acts as both a trap for flies and the basis for the recoil.
When released, the filament spools and packs within the glue droplet until the tension of the thread reforms. The strands hold straight rather than sag, also preventing the glue droplets from sticking together. The capture silk is thus solid-like in extension and liquid-like in compression and has ten times the strength of natural or synthetic rubber.
The liquid wire could be used in industries from manufacturing to telecommunications, but for now, it's impressive that scientists have unravelled the secret to one of nature's most fascinating materials.


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PIKES FALLS
At the gym today...
"I don't like testing my one rep max. It makes me nervous."
Coach: [exasperated look] "You're a performer."
"True. And so I get enough of that shit."
But then, I kept thinking about it, and my response was just one of 7am-roll-out-of-bed crankiness*. It wasn't really true, because it's actually a completely different issue.
When I'm playing the flute (ahem: when I'm playing music), performing isn't a problem. It's fun. But, that's because I'm confident in my abilities on the flute. I don't have to be the best, but in almost all cases, I know what I'm doing, and I know what I'm going to sound like. I'm consistent, and I feel like I'm expressing myself. Really, the only time I'm insufferably nervous is when I'm unprepared. (Not that that ever happens, of course.)
But with weight lifting, I never know what the hell is going to happen. Sometimes it feels natural, and almost easy... and then other times the stark reality of my klutzdom smacks me in the face over and over again.
So, when testing a one rep max, I get nervous. I don't like to fail. (Who does, right?) So, I avoid it. I can tell myself that it doesn't matter and to just get a grip, but somehow, that doesn't work. It makes it worse, actually. And that makes sense; consciously or subconsciously, no one likes to think that something they're doing doesn't matter. I don't think that way of thinking really ever takes pressure off of a situation. It's the defeatist way around a problem, and leads to a comical and uncomfortable version of nihilism.
If a flute student came to me saying something similar [If I had a nickel for every time I heard... "I can't play at the flute recital this semester. I don't like to play in front of other people."...], I'd tell them to be more self-aware. I'd tell them to figure out exactly what it feels like when things sound good, because that's what needs to be recalled when things don't sound good. It won't be the same problem each time, of course, but the more tools you have in your toolbox, the more issues you'll be able to solve in the moment - when in a practice room, at a lesson, or on stage,... and that's actually one of the most fun and interesting things about music and performing.
And so of course, the advice would be similar when lifting weights, but the question I'm left with is this: Do I care enough about lifting to put that type of energy and self-reflection into it? I'm not sure. Not everything has to be done to 1000%; the most extreme version of yourself is not necessarily the best version.
I could easily continue to go to the gym and slowly get stronger (or plateau) and stay in healthy shape... and shouldn't that be enough? I'm never going to be a remarkable athlete, so why bother with all the semi-crazed intensity?
I suppose as I write this I'm realizing something else: I enjoy pushing myself. I can be mediocre in the grand scheme, but I want to feel like I'm gaining something as I'm doing it. I want to learn (about myself, sure, but also about so many other things...), and right now weight lifting is fun, challenging, and empowering. It doesn't have to last forever, but right now I love it.
So, there we go. Nothing solved; I'll still get nervous sometimes at the gym, and to some extent I'll probably still avoid one rep maxes. But, at least now I kind of know what's going on... and self-reflection is the first step toward solving a problem, right?
*You know you need more sleep when the entirely well-meaning coach says "Head through the window at the top of the thruster," and your internal reaction is "It's not a fucking window."


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Sigave es uno de los tres reinos oficiales del territorio francés de Wallis y Futuna. Está situado en la parte occidental de la isla de Futuna.

Tiene una población de 4.700 habitantes, y en él se encuentra el aeropuerto de Pointe Vele, el único de la isla.

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Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany
Friday 23 October on BBC FOUR
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A new documentary examines how a radical generation of "Krautrockers" rebuilt a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Overlooked in their own country, these bands were grouped under the unsympathetic heading of Krautrock by an inquisitive British music press, when Dad's Army and war jokes were the lingua franca of the times. Nearly all of the bands objected to the term, apart from when it helped to shift records.
Today, Krautrock is one of the coolest influences any band aiming at credibility can drop.
Devotees include The Fall, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead and Kasabian.
In 1968, the world was in the grip of a youthful revolution, and nowhere were the stakes higher than in Germany. Despite a post-war economic boom, the youth of the country felt that nothing had changed for a generation growing up in the aftermath of war. Power was still in the hands of an older generation and Germany's once magnificent artistic culture lay trashed and looted, much of it sullied by Nazi associations. For young people in cities like Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Munich, it was time for something new.
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country. The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of
electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large.
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Albert Wiedmann (* 13. April 1901 in Magdeburg; † 19. September 1970 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Dermatologe.

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Albert Wiedmann zog als Kind mit seiner Familie von Magdeburg nach St. Pölten, wo sein Vater 1914 die Leitung der Maschinenfabrik Voith übernahm. Er besuchte Schulen in St. Pölten und studierte an der Universität Wien Naturwissenschaften und Medizin. Nach der Promotion 1928 war er als Hilfsarzt, später als Assistent an der II. Hautklinik tätig und habilitierte sich 1936 für Dermatologie. Im selben Jahr wurde er Primarius am Rainerspital.

Mit Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1939 diente Wiedmann zunächst beim Militär und leitete danach ein Lazarett im Rainerspital, wobei er Kontakte zu einer Widerstandsgruppe in der Heeresstreife Wien knüpfte. Er wurde verraten und im Dezember 1944 von der Gestapo verhaftet. Im März 1945 verurteilte ihn der Volksgerichtshof wegen Hochverrat und "Zersetzung der Wehrmacht" zum Tode. Zur Vollstreckung des Urteils kam es jedoch nicht, da Wiedmann mit Diphtherie in ein Lazarett verlegt wurde und bald darauf das NS-Regime endete.

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war Wiedmann wesentlich am Wiederaufbau der II. Hautklinik beteiligt und wurde deren Vorstand. Im November 1945 wurde er zum Titularprofessor, 1947 zum außerordentlichen Professor ernannt. Ab 1950 war er ordentlicher Professor für Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Er forschte unter anderem zur Penicillin-Monotherapie der Syphilis, zum varikösen Symptomenkomplex und zu allergologischen und immundermatologischen Fragen.

Wiedmann engagierte sich außerdem bei der Wiedereröffnung der 1938 aufgelösten Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien, deren 1. Sekretär er von 1945 bis 1955 war. In den Jahren 1955/1956, 1961, 1963, 1967 sowie 1970 war er Präsident der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Dermatologie und Venerologie.

1970 starb Wiedmann kurz vor seiner Emeritierung an einer Herzerkrankung. Er wurde in einem ehrenhalber gewidmeten Grab im evangelischen Friedhof des Wiener Zentralfriedhofs beigesetzt.

Wiedmann war seit 1941 mit der Opernsängerin Anny Konetzni verheiratet. Er hatte eine Tochter und zwei Söhne.

Ehrungen
1964 wurde er zum Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina gewählt.

Auszeichnungen
 1967 Wissenschaftspreis des Landes Niederösterreich

Literatur

Weblinks
 Evangelischer Friedhof Simmering: Kurzbiografie zu Albert Wiedmann

Einzelnachweise

Dermatologe
Hochschullehrer (Universität Wien)
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Mitglied der Leopoldina (20. Jahrhundert)
Absolvent der Universität Wien
Österreicher
Geboren 1901
Gestorben 1970
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This is a YA Red Fox is an innovative take on dystopian and utopian worlds, donated by the author! Read about it below!
Red Fox by Lara Fanning
Synopsis:
In the 1950's, a Siberian scientist began an experiment with one goal in mind - to breed a domesticated variation of the red fox. After ten generations of breeding the scientist had reduced the Adrenalin levels in the animal and created a tame creature named the Silver Fox.
Decades later, the Australian government use this knowledge to devise a shocking plan that will end humanity as the world knows it.
When Freya Walker and her family are ordered to attend a town meeting by the ruthless Biocentric government, Freya is certain something horrible will occur.
The people of her town are split into four groups of people: As, Bs, Cs and Ds. Freya is the only one placed into the mysterious Bs group and transported to a ring in the bush-land where she must survive a fortnight without food, water or weapons with her new companion and fellow Bs member, Whilliam Cliff.
As Freya and Whil begin to unravel the truth behind the Bs group, fighting for their freedom becomes a key part in overthrowing the Government and putting an end to their heinous plans for humanity.
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BLURB ABOUT the BOOK & AUTHOR!
 I am a 27-year-old Australian woman and began writing novels of all genres when I was just a girl. This manuscript, titled Red Fox, was the first novel I began writing with the sincere intent of sharing the book with the world upon its completion. I wrote Red Fox when I was twenty years old, and due to the passion I felt for the story-line, characters, and plot, the first draft was finished within four weeks of its beginning.
Red Fox follows the adolescent years of a girl named Freya Walker, who has grown up in a time period rife with natural disasters, poverty, and economic collapse brought upon by the fall of the natural world and government greed. Freya discovers that the Biocentrics have developed a plan to revert modern humans into a more naturalistic state through a selective breeding program. Developing such a plotline allowed me to explore a number of gripping and compelling themes, but Red Fox asks the question that many people, today, are asking:
"Where do we find balance between conserving the natural world and bettering mankind?"
The themes in Red Fox revolve around loyalty, courage, hope, empathy, acceptance, and bravery, while many of the lines between good and evil are blurred. The story is highly relevant in our modern society, as the struggles that Freya and her companions face reflect those that people all across the world are now facing.
The book contains subtle references to climate change and environmental degradation caused by humankind, however these are presented in a way that is open to interpretation. The novel is written in a manner that promotes personal reflection and thought.
Red Fox is the first novel of a three-part series. The two following novels are titled Red Fox, Silver Fox and Earth of Foxes. and the characters within the novel – both good and evil – are far more complex and relatable than other characters from similar titles. Due to the relevance of the issues within Red Fox, I would love to see the novel read by many more young people. Red Fox is driven by an adventurous and emotive writing style, and is thought-provoking while also being refreshing, fun, and easy to read.
My passion for writing, my love of the natural world, and my fondness of the kindness humans can display was poured into this novel. I would love to share that with other young people while inspiring them through the concepts and characters in Red Fox.
Author Biography:
Lara Fanning is a 27-year-old Australian author who writes fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy novels that are often set in either highly-modified modern or untouched wild settings. She attempts to present thought-provoking themes in a unique manner, often touching upon themes of environmental conservation, advancing technologies and sciences, and human spirit and strength. In her works, Lara Fanning attempts to provoke reader reflection through the use of fast-paced action and adventure scenes alongside complicated, multi-dimensional characters. Currently, her published works comprise three young adult novels that are part of a dystopian-adventure trilogy called the Red Fox series. A new stand-alone novel will be released in 2021.
Lara Fanning completed a Bachelor of Zoology in 2018, and a science honors degree in 2019, majoring in animal welfare science. In her university years, she focused her attention on environmental and animal welfare studies. Aside from writing, her passions include horse riding, animal training, hiking and swimming, drawing, and ice skating.
Lara Fanning's social media links:
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Murder in an Irish Pub (Irish Village Mystery #4) by Carlene O'Connor
Published March 1st 2019 by Kensington (first published February 26th 2019) | 304 pages
When competing card sharps stir up Siobhán O'Sullivan's quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman . . .
Naomi's Bistro, managed by the many siblings of the lively O'Sullivan brood, is the place to go for a cuppa tea in Kilbane. For a pint or a game of darts, it's the pub you want. But when Dublin card sharp Eamon Foley is found swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack's pub, it's time for the garda to take matters into their own hands. Macdara Flannery would lay odds it's a simple suicide, but Siobhán suspects foul play. With conflicting theories abounding, tensions are running high between Siobhán and Macdara. Soon it's up to Siobhán to call a killer's bluff, but if she doesn't play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game . . .
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 About Carlene O'Connor:
Carlene O'Connor comes from a long line of Irish storytellers. Her great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland to America during the Troubles, and the stories have been flowing ever since. Of all the places across the pond she's wandered, she fell most in love with a walled town in County Limerick and was inspired to create the town of Kilbane, County Cork. Carlene currently divides her time between New York and the Emerald Isle.
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Publisher: WaveCloud Corporation (May 1, 2017) | 34 pages
ISBN-10: 153560980X | ISBN-13: 978-1535609807
Rosa Martinez is seriously ill. She has the loving support of her mother and grandfather and a doctor who takes good care of her. But she also has a secret weapon. Rosa can summon five tigers to come to her aid when she's sailing or in big trouble. Her disease may think it has the upper hand for now, but wait until it encounters Gautama, Airk Vashti, Selena and Quan--the five fierce tiers of Rosa Martinez. Young readers will delight in their daring adventures and who knows: they may even be able to call forth guarding animals of their own when they need them.
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Larry the Lazy Blue Whale was his first published book, followed by Monty the Movie Star Moose, The Five Fierce Tigers of Rosa Martinez and the School of Animal Magic Adventure series: Maisha the Educated Elephant, Dolphins in Distress and The Salmon Who Wanted to Run..
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A proposed rezoning has passed the Scottsdale City Council, bringing in its wake higher density in north Scottsdale.
The City Council approved 5-2 the rezoning of a 68.6-acre site on the northeast corner of 118th Street and Ranch Gate Road with councilmembers Solange Whitehead and Kathy Littlefield dissenting.
The site will change from R1-130 Environmentally Sensitive Lands to 64.4 acres of R1-43 and 4.2 acres of open space environmentally sensitive lands. The end goal for owner John Christensen of Sonoran Peaks, LLC is a 42-lot single-family residential subdivision.
Under the previous R1-130 stipulations, the density allowed for 21 lots on the property. With the change, that maximum lot total jumps to 53, though the developer is asking for 42 lots.
Councilmember Guy Phillips — who said he did receive some late concerns from residents — compared the project to some other developments such as Troon and Greasewood Flats, wondering how those zonings got passed. In contrast, Mr. Phillips said he didn't think this project was as bad.
City staff did not specify what the traffic impact might be once the development comes to fruition. Scottsdale resident Betty Janik submitted a written comment to the Planning Commission, which recommended approval of the rezoning, asking the commissioners to consider potential traffic impacts to the area.
Ms. Littlefield said she wanted the item pulled off the consent agenda because she received several concerns regarding the project. Other than Ms. Janik's comment, there were no other public comments included with the item's packet.
Ms. Littlefield said she thinks the developers met the legal limit of public outreach, but noted several residents believed not enough outreach was done.
"They felt like they needed to have a word too because this was the entire area of the north that is once again being compacted down into smaller and smaller lots than was originally planned," she said.
Ms. Littlefield also said some complaints she received were about the parcel's proximity to the preserve and how higher density would affect it.
The site is surrounded with R1-130 designations with a mixture of developed and undeveloped residential properties to the north and west as well as Troon Canyon residential subdivision to the south. There is also Arizona State Land and the McDowell Sonoran Preserve to the east.
Zoning Attorney John Berry, who is representing the applicant, claimed the city's General Plan allows for up to a density of one home per acre though most of the surrounding area doesn't reach that threshold.
Mr. Berry said original plans had higher density but the applicant compromised.
The developer is planning on one point of access on 118th Street with a gated entry. There are also plans for half street improvement with trails for both 118th Street and Ranch Gate Road.
In total, the subdivision plans to have 26.5 acres of natural area open space, which city staff claim is 6 percent greater than the minimum. That NAOS is comprised of 15.9 acres of on-lot space and 10.6 acres of in-tract open space. This is in addition to the 4.2 acres set aside for open space.
There are also plans for 50-foot-wide desert scenic buffered roadway setbacks along both street frontages.


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Forest Trail brochure and map
The brochure introduces the long-distance hiking route FOREST TRAIL, which passes ~ 1060 km through the forests of Latvia and Estonia, from Riga to Tallinn. In Latvia, FOREST TRAIL runs through the Gauja National Park, the Northern Gauja Forestlands and Veclaicene. In Estonia, FOREST TRAIL runs through the Haanja uplands, the Setomaa un Peipsimaa regions and further along the coast of Northern Estonia - to Tallinn. The route along the Estonian part includes the Lahemaa National Park and the coast of Northern Estonia, which is the land of the most impressive rocks, waterfalls and clints in the Baltic States. You will recognize FOREST TRAIL as Mežtaka in Latvia and as Metsa Matkarada in Estonia.
The FOREST TRAIL includes all the typical forest types and wildlife elements of the Baltic States - plants, beasts, fungi, etc.
The FOREST TRAIL is divided into 50 one or two-day hiking sections, each of which is ~ 20 km long. You can choose any section of the hike. The brochure includes a map of the hiking route.
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Craps is the casino's glamorous game; glorified in iconic Hollywood films such as James Bond classics, it's the game that everyone wants to play. But if you're a beginner, that first visit to a real live craps game can be extremely intimidating; there's calamitous noise, a wide range of bets, people adding and removing chips and then there's the wild player reactions. So it's not surprising that many new and inquisitive players turn on their heel and walk away. Even when it comes to internet craps, it's rare that a beginner feels well-enough equipped to play a game. But with some basic craps strategy help, you can begin to play like a pro – and with very little knowledge required. Like with anything else, learning the ropes takes times and effort; but with knowledge of just one bet (the Pass bet) you can get started. Then it's just a matter of learning the rest of the bets and some simple rules to start getting a real feel for the game.
When it comes to craps bets, some of these bets will resolve in one roll, while others may take several rolls of the dice before the outcome of the bet is decided. Some of the bets can even be removed from the board, if the player wishes. As you can imagine, trying to approach a craps game from a mathematical angle, using a basic craps strategy, is almost impossible because of the multiple roll bets; it's difficult to determine the house edge and so the expected outcomes are inconsistent. Therefore, as a beginner, the best route you can take if you want to apply some craps strategy to improve your edge, you need to simply memorize the different craps bets and some of the basic rules attached to each. To help you, we have summarized some of the basics below.
The type of roll about to be rolled determines which bets can be placed. If there is a black laminated marker on the table that says "off" then the next roll is a come out roll. This is important to know because you can only make certain bets during this initial roll – and it is the only time you should make a Pass bet.
The Pass is the most important bet in any craps game and it is the perfect starting point for a beginner. Once you know the Pass bet, you can start playing straight away. To make a Pass bet, place your chip on the pass line on a come out roll. If the come out roll lands a 7 or 11, then you win, at even money. If the come out roll shows a 2, 3, or 12, then you lose. If any other total number is rolled (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) that total is called "the point." When a point is achieved, the dealer flips the laminated marker to "on" and places it on the area of the table that shows that number (to act as a reminder for players). The shooter will then continue to roll the dice until either that same point or a seven is rolled. If a seven comes before the point, then you lose your pass bet. If the point is rolled first, then you win even money on your pass bet. Although this may seem complicated, if you study this bet, then you will understand the central element to the game. The additional craps strategy rules you learn can come over time. Note: do not make a Pass bet after a come out roll even though it is allowed; this is because it offers less value to you as a player.


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from __future__ import absolute_import
from proteus import *
from proteus.default_n import *
try:
    from .ls_consrv_rotation_2d_p import *
    from .rotation2D import *
except:
    from ls_consrv_rotation_2d_p import *
    from rotation2D import *

timeIntegrator = ForwardIntegrator
timeIntegration = NoIntegration
stepController = MCorr.Newton_controller#need a tricked up controller that can fix the VOF model's initial conditions

if cDegree_ls==0:
    if useHex:
        if pDegree_ls==1:
            femSpaces = {0:C0_AffineLinearOnCubeWithNodalBasis}
        elif pDegree_ls==2:
            femSpaces = {0:C0_AffineLagrangeOnCubeWithNodalBasis}
        elementQuadrature = CubeGaussQuadrature(nd,rotation_quad_order)
        elementBoundaryQuadrature = CubeGaussQuadrature(nd-1,rotation_quad_order)
    else:
        if pDegree_ls==1:
            femSpaces = {0:C0_AffineLinearOnSimplexWithNodalBasis}
        elif pDegree_ls==2:
            femSpaces = {0:C0_AffineQuadraticOnSimplexWithNodalBasis}
        elementQuadrature = SimplexGaussQuadrature(nd,rotation_quad_order)
        elementBoundaryQuadrature = SimplexGaussQuadrature(nd-1,rotation_quad_order)
    if parallel or LevelModelType in [MCorr.LevelModel]:#,MCorrElement.LevelModel]:
        numericalFluxType = DoNothing#Diffusion_IIPG_exterior
elif cDegree_ls==-1:
    if pDegree_ls==0:
        femSpaces = {0:DG_AffineP0_OnSimplexWithMonomialBasis}
    elif pDegree_ls==1:
        femSpaces = {0:DG_AffineP1_OnSimplexWithMonomialBasis}
    elif pDegree_ls==2:
        femSpaces = {0:DG_AffineP2_OnSimplexWithMonomialBasis}
    numericalFluxType = Advection_DiagonalUpwind_Diffusion_SIPG

# elementQuadrature = SimplexLobattoQuadrature(nd,1)

# elementBoundaryQuadrature = SimplexLobattoQuadrature(nd-1,1)

subgridError = None

massLumping = False

shockCapturing = None

multilevelNonlinearSolver  = NLNI

if correctionType == 'dg':
    levelNonlinearSolver = MCorr.ElementNewton
elif correctionType == 'dgp0':
    levelNonlinearSolver = MCorr.ElementConstantNewton
elif correctionType == 'global':
    levelNonlinearSolver = MCorr.GlobalConstantNewton
elif correctionType == 'none':
    levelNonlinearSolver = MCorr.DummyNewton
else:
    levelNonlinearSolver = Newton
    nonlinearSolverNorm = MCorr.conservationNorm
nonlinearSmoother = NLGaussSeidel

fullNewtonFlag = True

tolFac = 0.0

nl_atol_res = atolConservation
useEisenstatWalker = True

maxNonlinearIts = 100

matrix = SparseMatrix

if parallel:
    multilevelLinearSolver = KSP_petsc4py#PETSc
    levelLinearSolver = KSP_petsc4py#PETSc
    linear_solver_options_prefix = 'mcorr_'
    linearSolverConvergenceTest = 'r-true'
else:
    multilevelLinearSolver = LU

    levelLinearSolver = LU

conservativeFlux = {}
if checkMass:
    auxiliaryVariables = [AuxiliaryVariables.ConservationHistoryMC("rotation2d"+repr(lRefinement)+"p"+repr(pDegree_ls))]

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Finance and distribution companies, 108 Media and Aurora Media have teamed to back a trio of new film projects from South East Asia.
Red shot to prominence with "Neomanila" and "Birdshot," which was rewarded with the Asian Future prize at the Tokyo festival and was The Philippines' Oscar selection last year. The new film centers on a clairvoyant counsellor who investigates a murder in a Catholic school where the only witness is the ghost of a suicide victim.
Produced by Micah Tadena as a Singapore-Philippines co-venture, production credits go to ABS-CBN's Star Cinema and Media East Productions. Local stars, Bea Alonzo, Charo Santos-Concio and Jake Cuenca take the lead roles and are now shooting.
"Schirkoa" tells the story of an intellectually confused bag-head who works as a senator in the dystopian city of Schirkoa where the perceived perfection and sleaze turns him into a suicidal anomaly. However, he discovers an alternate bohemian society full of such anomalies. The film is written and directed by Ishan Shukla, based on his own short film which won the best in show prize at SIGGRAPGH Asia in late 2016.
108 Media now joins Aurora on "Mogwai," in which an expat American teenager in Hong Kong who inadvertently finds himself trapped on a rickety fishing boat with Wong, a cranky old local fisherman who's on his way to battle a sea monster in the middle of the South China Sea. The script which won a prize at the 2016 NAFF project market in Bucheon, Korea, is written by Spain's Alejandro Suarez Lozano and the U.K.'s Gary Young.
Aurora is a Singapore-based financier headed by Justin Deimen. Its investments include Los Angeles and Cebu-set sports drama "100 Yards," with Sean Patrick Flanery and Rebecca Lim being sold by 108 Media; the Hollywood feature "Stano," featuring Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara; Australian-Hollywood co-production "Storm Boy," with Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney; and festival favorite "The Song of Scorpions," starring Irrfan Khan and Golshifteh Farahani. 108 pitches itself as a content development and distribution company with offices in Toronto, Japan and Hong Kong. The two firms announced their agreement to partner on a slate of titles in December last year.


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Q: Problems with converting Java code to delphi I have a method that must return a generic interface. Have tried to make the method in delphi. But are unsure on how it should be written? Is there anyone who can help me?
Here's an example I've made in Java that works:
public < T  extends StandardDataProvider<?>> T GetDataProvider(String dataProviderName) {
    if (dataproviders == null)
        buildDataProviderMap();
    if (dataproviders.containsKey(dataProviderName)) {
        return (T) dataproviders.get(dataProviderName);
    } else
        return null;
}

Then tried to do the same in delphi .. But can not get it to work?
function TLocalDataProviderFactory. GetDataProvider(DataProviderName: string): IStandardDataProvider;  // Shows errors here?
begin
  if not Assigned(DataProvider) then
    BuildDataProviderMap;
  if DataProvider.ContainsKey(DataProviderName) then
  begin
    Result := DataProvider.Items[DataProviderName];
  end
  else
  begin
    Result:= nil;
  end;
end;

A: Delphi generic constraints do not support wildcards. So the closest you can manage involves two generic parameters. The function would look like this:
function GetDataProvider<S; T: IStandardDataProvider<S>>(...): T;

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