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Natalie Walker and her family enjoy five-star Michelin dining in picturesque surroundings at this Scottish Baronial style mansion
Tensions were high before we arrived at picturesque and peaceful Isle of Eriska Hotel.
We were told our two-and-a-half year-old was not permitted to dine with us at the Michelin restaurant we were excited to try out. Rules are rules, so we decided we would all eat early – but feared a soulless and empty dining room experience.
We crossed the rickety bridge which separates the 300-acre private island from the Scottish mainland in plenty of time to make our 5pm dinner date.
Driving up to the hotel you feel like a specially-invited guest at this well-hidden, five star Scottish Baronial style mansion.
After our scenic drive north west from Edinburgh, we were keen to explore a wee bit of the beautiful 300-acre island.
We had a quick bite to eat at the more informal, but still classy, Deck Restaurant. It has incredible views of Loch Creran and a nine hole golf course (which sadly had three water logged holes due unseasonably wet weather). The minute Aberdeen Angus steak and caramelised onion sandwich and battered fish finger sandwich we wolfed down were tasty and fresh.
Despite the drizzle – and wearing wellies the hotel has lined up for guests at its plush entrance – we headed out to explore the island. The pebbled beaches were fun to walk over and in the distance we saw seals on a tiny island.
We weaved our way back through the flowered areas and the hotel's kitchen garden with an array of fruit, veggies and herbs. We wondered which of the delights we would see later on our plates.
And talk about lucky – when we arrived at the hotel, the staff told us our wee one was already such a hit with staff and guests she would be welcome to dine in the restaurant later – fully booked with guests from around the world all gathered for a top dining experience. No pressure then!
This gave us some time to use the swimming pool, steam room, sauna and jacuzzi – all modern and spotlessly clean – then to relax in our palatial ground floor room, Skye. Overlooking the front lawn and croquet lawn we felt like royalty as we enjoyed a couple of pre-dinner drinks while the wee one put her dollies in and out of the various seats and sofas. We had pre-drinks in the hotel bar, which is homely and well stocked. We were served nibbles of home made blue cheese dip and breadstick to munch while we perused the menu. Wow.
Diners can indulge their tastebuds with a five or seven course Taste of Eriska menu or a three course menu (with three options for each). We were told the latter had larger portions so my partner suggested we try that. We were not disappointed.
The Isle of Mull scallop served with sticky pig cheek and leek was sweet and lovely, and my turnip salad – basically the veggie three ways: salt baked, pickled and carpaccio – was utterly wonderful. Tasty, tangy and pretty, I was stunned the humble neep could taste so different depending how it was served.
Next up, we devoured loin of Highland venison with girolles and onion and a pan roast turbot which was cooked to perfection but a tad too salty for me with its beurre blanc and pancetta pieces.
I am not a lover of desserts, cheese is my thing. But I was blown away by my deconstructed peach and rosemary crumble with vanilla and almond crumb. I may have only had about six small spoonfuls in total – but each was a total joy.
The chocolate delice my partner honoured, served with brambles from the garden, caramel sauce and pistachio crumb lasted just three mouthfuls and was just as well appreciated. The portions are small and beautifully presented and, surprisingly, really rather filling. And to top it off, our daughter behaved impeccably. With the right balance of smiles, please and thank yous and funny chat she wowed her crowd – our fellow diners and waiters. Phew.
The next evening's offerings were equally as tasty, fresh and, with some taste combos, mind boggling and intoxicating. My summer tomato salad with elderflower jelly and sheep's cheese was so fresh I could smell the outdoors on my plate. My next course of wild sea trout with watercress, Ersika potato (which was just like a crisp, but a lovely one) and crushed smoked eel salad was lovely. My partner's Rib of Veal came as rare as he likes and he enjoyed a new taste sensation with alliums (aka ornamental onions) from the garden just yards from our table.
Best course of all for me was my coffee parfait and mild ice cream. It was like eating a Flat White, a sweet, soft, deliciously decadent and addictive one at that.
We arrived just weeks after South African Conor Toomey took up the role of Head Chef.
Having previously worked as Michael Wignalls' Sous Chef at the Latymer Restaurant – which held two Michelin Stars – and as Head Chef at Storrs Hall in Windermere and Amberley Castle in Sussex, where he achieved 3 AA Rosettes, he obviously knows his stuff. Conor said foraging and using the kitchen gardens and greenhouses to create seasonal dishes will "play a big part of what we do". It showed.
We will have to go some way to eat the quality and freshness of food we enjoyed at Eriska.
The staff were great too, never in your face but always there if you needed them – perfect.
Rooms cost from £387 per night. Dinner is £60 for a three-course dinner £75 for a five-course and £90 for a deluxe seven-course. Wine pairing is £42. It is available to non residents. There are seasonal package deals avaialble throughtout the year. Contact: www.eriska-hotel.co.uk or 01631 720371.


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The subject matter is hardly a popular one. One thing I love about Burning Man is that it provides a big blank canvas for people to make any statement they want. How widely accepted or marketable it might be is not a concern, at least with the non-funded stuff. If you aren't into something, it's easy enough to find something else amusing to do with your time.moshe! wrote:All political "art" at Burning Man makes me want to vomit.
preaching to the choir anyone?
I'd love to see something destroyed by thermite, hear the arguments about your theory, and likely still not believe any of it. Just like some will never believe it was just a bunch of guys flying airplanes into big buildings.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with diabetes who ate a diet consistent with general health guidelines and high in fruit, vegetables, fiber and unsaturated fat were less likely to develop kidney disease than unhealthy eaters, in a new study.
Researchers also found that eating normal amounts of salt and protein was not tied to a higher risk of kidney disease or death - despite doctors traditionally recommending people with diabetes go easy on those nutrients.
"Most of the recommendations we give are opinion-based, I think," Dr. Rainer Oberbauer, who worked on the study at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, said.
"Since there are no randomized trials on the other parameters that they usually recommend such as salt restriction, fruits, vegetables and so on, doctors recommend what's kind of logical and intuitive without any real data."
Among people with diabetes, high amounts of sugar in the blood can lead to kidney damage over time. So can high blood pressure, which often accompanies diabetes.
For the new report, Oberbauer and his colleagues followed about 6,200 people aged 55 and older with diabetes and no advanced kidney problems. Those people were part of a larger multi-country study on diabetes and vascular disease funded by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.
Participants filled out questionnaires about how often they ate a range of foods. The researchers plotted those responses on a healthy eating scale of 0 (lowest quality) to 90 (highest quality).
People in the study had an average diet score of 24.6, with a range of 9.8 to 66.2.
Over the next five and a half years, about 32 percent of study participants developed kidney disease and eight percent died.
Oberbauer and his colleagues found that participants who scored in the top one-third for overall diet were 26 percent less likely to be diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and 39 percent less likely to die during the study period than those in the bottom one-third.
That was after taking into account their age, gender and how long each person had had diabetes.
Moderate drinking - about five alcoholic drinks per week - was tied to a lower risk of chronic kidney disease, as was eating more animal protein.
Sodium, measured from a urine sample, was not linked to a person's chance of developing new or worsening kidney disease except at very high or low levels.
The results don't prove that eating a healthier diet can ward off kidney problems.
But, the researchers wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine, "If the associations identified would be causal, then for each 1,000 individuals with type 2 diabetes and vascular disease adhering to a healthy diet, 131 would be expected to experience incidence or progression of (chronic kidney disease) within the next 5 years compared with 151 individuals on an unhealthy diet."
Dr. Holly Kramer, who studies nutrition and kidney disease at Loyola University Chicago, said the study had a number of limitations - including that sodium was measured in the urine at a single time point, rather than over one or more days, and that the researchers didn't have data on the total amount of calories people ate each day.
However, she said the findings are consistent with past studies showing that fruit and leafy green vegetables, in particular, are beneficial.
"You really need to look at all of the results together and summarize what is consistently found … and use that to determine nutritional guidelines," Kramer, who co-wrote an editorial published with the new study, told Reuters Health.
That research "consistently shows that if you eat fresh fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, that that is helpful," she said. "And eating more of the American-style (diet), which is red meat, fat, sugar, is not beneficial and increases the risk of kidney disease."
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Newtown shooter dreamed of being Marine
NEWTOWN -- Adam Lanza aspired to be a Marine -- one of "the few, the proud."
Failing that, he planned to join another branch of military service.
That is what he told his mother, Nancy Lanza, his biggest cheerleader, and that is what she relayed to one of her closest friends, Ellen Adriani, of Newtown.
At first, Nancy Lanza supported her youngest son's dream. She liked the idea that the military would give him purpose, a career path and structure to his life. But the more she thought about it, the more she saw a downside.
"It became overwhelmingly clear to her that it (military service) wasn't right for him," Adriani said. "She squashed" any notion of Adam joining the Marines or any branch of the armed services by reminding him "that he didn't like to be touched," said Adriani, and that if he were injured, "doctors and medics would have to handle him to treat him."
Lanza, 20, harbored a dream of joining the military after he stopped taking college-level courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, said a local merchant who knew the Lanzas. Adam Lanza first made his military aspirations known when he was 17, about the time his older brother, Ryan, was attending Quinnipiac University.
The Adam Lanza who went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last Friday was outfitted for war. Only his targets were civilian, not military. He was clad in body armor, black clothing and wielding a Bushmaster and Sig Sauer rifles, both equivalents of a military M-16. He was also armed with a 9mm Glock originally used by the Austrian military and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Lanza was a familiar face at area shooting ranges in recent years, federal agents said, but not in the past six months. Nevertheless, he had ample opportunity to hone his skills firing off as many virtual rounds as he wanted in the comfort of his own home.
It was pretty clear he was an avid gamer from the trove of gory video and Internet gaming material investigators seized.
Peter Wlasuk, a Newtown plumber who claims he worked at the Lanzas' home, informed The Sun of London that Lanza would play soldier in violent video games such as "Call of Duty" for hours in a windowless, bunker-like basement.
"They had one poster of every piece of military equipment the U.S. ever made," Wlasuk told the British newspaper.
All three weapons Lanza stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School with were lawfully owned and registered to his mother, who grew up on a New Hampshire farm where she learned early how to shoot and handle guns.
Adriani visited Lanza's girlhood home last October, when the two of them attended a retirement party for Lanza's brother, James Champion, a police officer.
"She was a real farm girl," Adriani said, and had a respect for firearms. "She was one of the most responsible people I know. She kept them locked up. She was safety-conscious in every aspect of her life. If you got into her BMW and didn't buckle up, as soon as the car started making that ding-ding-ding sound, she'd stop driving and wouldn't start until you were safely buckled in."
Adriani met Nancy Lanza several years ago at the My Place restaurant in Newtown, where a number of their mutual friends hang out. The two shared a passion for gardening and good food.
All of what Adriani knows of Adam Lanza, she concedes, she learned from his mother, whom police said he shot first before going to the school to kill 20 children and six women before turning the gun on himself.
"Nancy was proud of both of her sons," Adriani said. "They were the world to her. Adam had been doing some computer work for someone I know. He was incredibily bright. And Nancy was looking into some schools for him and the possibility of moving, too."
As he progressed through the school system he did well academically, but socially he was an outcast. When anyone passed him in the hallway between classes, fellow classmates say, he would press himself against the wall, shunning even inadvertant physical contact.
Whether Adam Lanza was depressed about giving up his military dream and resuming his education, Adriani said she has no idea.
In the past year or so, Nancy Lanza had started traveling more, leaving him home alone more often, Adriani said. And Adam Lanza had started taking on more responsibility at home, grocery shopping, venturing out alone, too.
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Tips for Project Risk Management Success
The advantages of risk management are vast, yet for a lot of projects it is really an area still generally overlooked. By making use of easy and consistent risk management techniques you can minimise the outcome of potential threats in addition to leverage potential possibilities. This not just ensures meeting the agreed scope, cost and time but additionally increases the all around health and efficiency from the project operation, team people and wider stakeholders. This short article returns towards the basics around the key rules of managing risk, to make sure work are consistently delivered with full success.
Tip #1 – Implement a good identification process
Sounds simple right. However you may still find many projects today which are managed with simply no formal risk identification incorporated. There are others that think they're using risk management appropriately but aren't using the correct strategies to identify risks. The identification process is determined by the work, the organisation and the organization culture involved. So it is advisable to consider individuals areas when figuring out the very best approach. This may be as easy as educating they on which a danger really is and asking periodically to examine the landscape for brand new risks. Or large projects the PMO could be leveraged to make sure risk identification is incorporated within the drumbeat.
Tip #2 – Stay positive
Risk management includes identifying and managing both negative risks and positive ones, yet most projects typically appear to concentrate only around the negative ones. Ensure to include obvious reminders and pointers in your risk management tactic to consider positive risks. A deliverable being delivered well timely date could be a good factor, but additionally might have unforeseen impacts on other locations or leave the work operating inefficiently. However this type of positive risk can really assistance to balance the outcome of negative risks in other locations.
Tip #3 – Prioritise for efficiency
All risks aren't equal and there's always limitations around just how much resource does apply to mitigate them. As a result it is important to classify risks when it comes to 'probability' or how likely the danger would be to occur and 'impact' level when the risk materialises into a problem. In so doing allows the work manager and all sorts of team people to simply see which risks are priority to pay attention to. Utilization of a danger register template is an extremely effective means of doing this. Most organisations might have a typical template with this or maybe not many of them are available online.
Tip #4 – Apply correct possession
It's frequently common for individuals inside the project organisation to visualize the project manager owns all risks however this is totally false. Risks can impact wide regions of the broader stakeholder group which is typical that sources using the relevant understanding or skills on the bottom tend to be better placed to get who owns the danger and to handle the right minimization actions.
Tip #5 – Communicate and track to closure
With correct identification, classification and owner allocation in position we have to be cautious as project managers that this isn't regarded as the ultimate step while risk management. At this time it is important the risks are properly conveyed. First of all towards the owner allotted to manage the minimization actions and next towards the wider stakeholder group affected so that they understand the risk and potential impact for their particular areas. It's also then necessary that the potential risks are regularly monitored and tracked right through to closure regarding progress on minimization actions and potentially changes towards the impact / probability classifications as individuals actions arrived at fruition.
By using the above mentioned tips, project managers is going to be in a position to stay in a situation of control with regards to the treating of risks for his or her projects and eventually this can ensure a seem reason for effective delivery of the work
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Rihanna Sued by Former Bodyguard
Rihanna is no stranger to legal drama, since celebrities (and their fortunes) are often the target of lawsuits by those who were once members of their inner circles. This time she is being strongarmed, legally speaking, by her former bodyguard.
He is suing the oft-topless singer for defamation.
Fresh off settling a suit with her former accountant, in which she claimed that his shady practices nearly bankrupted her, RiRi is now facing a lawsuit launched by Geoffrey Keating, her former head of security while on tour from October 2012 through July 2013.
TMZ reports Keating filed his suit in Ireland (April 28) and was granted the motion to also serve RiRi with a U.S. suit.
So what did RiRi allegedly do wrong? According to Keating, she made what he dubs "nauseatingly offensive" and false statements about him in an email, which was sent to both Keating and his partner last July. He also accuses her of making offensive statements about him during a phone call to his sister.
These remarks were so bad that he believes that they tarnished his reputation and thus damaged his business.
What the heck could RiRi have said? That will likely come out sooner or later, unless they settle and seal the terms and have some sort of gag order. We shall see.
Keating's lawyer told TMZ that "We're taking this battle very seriously. We are satisfied that the Irish Courts will see justice at the end of the day."
Again, Rihanna has seen her fair share of lawsuits, from ones she launched, like the one against Topshop for using her likeness without permission, or the ones tossed her way, accusing her of plagiarizing their work.


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[lastfm]Rascal Flatts[/lastfm] loves America. And, according to the outpouring of Tweets and Facebook updates during tonight's Live on Letterman concert webcast, America loves Rascal Flatts. The country rockers took the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater for an almost hour-long epic set debuting songs from their newest album and revisiting all time classic hits. Watch the show, check out the set list and take our poll now.
The super group opened with their classic "Fast Cars And Freedom." The fans went wild when they segued into "Why Wait." The online and in-house crowd leapt to their feet when they started their newest hit "Play." Spurred on by the crowd's enthusiasm, Gary LeVox and his crew roared into "What Hurts The Most."
As the audience caught a much needed breather, Jay DeMarcus explained the recording process and shared the new direction the band was taking. On their latest album, Nothing Like This, they aim to get "funky." Jay and the boys then unveiled the soulful single "They Try." As they finished up the soon-to-be hit, a newly engaged couple shouted their love for the band. In honor of their big day, the group played "I Won't Let Go." The lovebirds slow danced as a hush fell over the crowd. A chat room member said it best:
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|Fred Willard Calvin Moore (1908-1997)
Fred was the first born of Willard Calvin and Blanche (Purdy) Moore. His parents were pretty well-to-do, so I have a lot of photos of him and his younger brother Jack, but this is one of my favorites. I love all the little details like his outfit, his feet (posed?), the little table he is leaning on, the flourish of the studio signature and, most of all, his little face.
Fred claimed that his mother wanted a girl so desperately that she dressed him in girl's clothes for the first few years of his life. However, in this photo, I think he looks very much like a boy in every way.
I am guessing he is about 3 1/2 here, which would make it the latter half of 1911.
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From Rodney King to Burma: An Interview with Witness's Sam Gregory (Part One)/
I came back from the USC DIY Media Event with a whole range of new contacts. One hallmark of this outstanding conference was that it brought together people from very different social networks -- people who are working in parallel across different communities to explore the potentials of participatory culture. I've already featured through this blog an extensive interview with independent filmmaker and critic Alex Juhasz exploring her efforts to teach through and about Youtube. Today, I want to showcase another participant in the USC event -- human rights activist Sam Gregory. Gregory's comments about the strengths and limitations of Youtube as a site for media activism were eye-opening to me and I hope you will find them equally illuminating. In the interview which follows, Gregory describes the evolution in the thinking of his organization, Witness, from the aftermath of the Rodney King video, to the recent use of Youtube as a platform for the Burmese democracy movement. Drawing a phrase from Jamais Cascio, Gregory speaks here about the "participatory panopticon," the potentials of a world where citizens can use light weight portable cameras, including those built into their cellphones, and video distribution platforms to alert the world about human rights violations in their country. The past decade plus of DIY activism has taught veterans to be skeptical about some of the more utopian claims of the previous generation, even as they are learning to be more effective at exploiting every available opportunity to capture and distribute harsh realities that much of the world doesn't want to watch.
Sam Gregory, Program Director, is a video producer, trainer, and human rights advocate. In 2005 he was the lead editor on Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press), and in 2007 he lead the development of the curriculum for WITNESS' first ever Video Advocacy Institute. Videos he has produced have been screened at the US Congress,the UK Houses of Parliament, the United Nations and at film festivals worldwide. In 2004 he was a jury member for the IDFA Amnesty International/Doen Award. He was a Kennedy Memorial Scholar at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where his Master's in Public Policy focused on
international development and media. He has worked as a television researcher/producer in both the UK and USA, and for development organizations in Nepal and Vietnam, and holds a BA from Oxford University in History and Spanish. He is on the Board of the US Campaign for Burma, and the Tactical Technology Collective. He speaks fluent Spanish, conversational French and basic Nepali.
Can you tell us something about the thinking which led to the creation of WITNESS? How has your organization's vision shifted over time in response to shifts in the nature of participatory culture?
In the late 1980's, our founder, Peter Gabriel had been participating in the Amnesty Human Rights Now Tour, travelling the world and meeting human rights activists at each concert stop. And in many cases, it struck him that their stories were not being heard, and that new tools like the consumer video-camera could perhaps change that. Fast-forward a couple of years, and the Rodney King incident brought the possibilities home. From the window of his apartment George Holliday filmed a sequence of graphic human rights violations that generated massive media attention. That provided the impetus for the creation of WITNESS - founded in the assumption that if you could place cameras in the hands of the people who chose to be "in the wrong place at the right time", i.e. human rights advocates and activists around the world living and working with communities affected by violations, then you would enable a new way to mobilize action for real change.
For the first decade of our work we wrestled with how best to operationalize this idea. In the early 1990's we were focused on the technology. We distributed hundreds of cameras to human rights groups around the world, assuming that they would be able to gather footage that could get on television or be used as evidence -two polar extremes of usage, one very specialized and targeted at a judicial fact-finder or jury, the other playing to a vast, undifferentiated court of public opinion.
In those first years we learnt that without technical training, you could shoot raw video but you could not create the finished narratives that matter in most advocacy contexts outside of providing raw footage to the news media. We evolved to a strategy of working intensely with a select group of 10-12 'core partners' - human rights groups on the ground who approach us to collaborate in helping them integrate video into their campaigns; as well as doing extensive trainings, producing online training materials like our Guide to Video Advocacy and writing books like 'Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism' to promote effective ideas in our community. And most recently we embarked on a new project, the Hub, which is the most DIY part of our work - a participatory media site where individuals and organizations can safely upload footage of abuses and finished advocacy videos, share it, learn how to deploy it in their campaigns, and present clear context and links to more information, groups working to address the issues, and actions that viewers and supporters can take.
Over the past fifteen years, a number of factors came to characterize the WITNESS approach. We focus on the empowered voices of those who are closer or closest to rights violations - including victims, survivors, community members and engaged advocates on behalf of affected communities. And until recently we've generally sought to use "smart narrowcasting" rather than "broadcasting" to reach key audiences. So for example, the video 'Bound by Promises' was framed for and used in screenings to government officials and legislators in Brazil to push them to prioritize concrete programs to reduce rural slave labor. Our work has also always blurred the line between amateurs and professionals in terms of using video -we are training human rights workers, and now concerned citizens, to use video as an everyday facet of their work, rather than to turn them into documentary film-makers.
We've seen a progressive expansion of the participatory possibilities of video: first, increased access to cameras, the increased access to editing capacity, then the dramatic growth of online video-sharing for distribution. And in the past three years we see the possibilities for increased collaboration in editing and production, for online distribution, and for more immediate and widespread filming - all facilitated by a digitally-literate youth, by mobile technology with still image and video capability and by new online tools.
What role does do it yourself video play in heightening public awareness of human rights issues around the world?
I would identify three spheres of usage of DIY video in raising awareness of human rights issues around the world: advocacy videos, witness documentation and perpetrator video. All three are facilitated by ubiquitous technology for documentation (via video-cameras, digital still cameras with video functionality, and cell-phone cameras), by increasing digital literacy, and by increased opportunities for sharing, remixing and re-circulating.
To date most of our focus has been on advocacy video and on working to find the spaces where bringing the visual story into the virtual or real room can make a difference. Here we're trying to change the vernacular language of human rights advocacy, to make a space for the voices from outside, and to push a new way of communicating around rights abuses.
Frequently we've promoted an approach that's all about smart narrow-casting, speaking to a particular audience at a particular time, and seeking a distinct change in policy, behavior or practice. Videos are always part of a continuum of action -- and a strategy -- rather than stand-alone. Here we're working in the middle ground between the extremes of undifferentiated mass media attention and direct evidence in the courts. This could include showing video to an international or regional tribunal (we've been involved in a precedent-setting case to present video before the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, on land rights in Kenya), it could involve bringing to the voices of victims and the visual evidence of abuses in Burma into a Congressional briefing or a meeting of Security Council representatives, and it can involve engaging communities themselves to take action on a rights issues, for example by showing a video on voluntary recruitment of child soldiers in villages across eastern Congo. Videos always provide a 'space for action' by the audience, encouraging them to participate in solving the problem.
The scope of this use of video is increasing by the day, alongside more traditional human rights documentaries. We can see it on the Hub, where many of the videos uploaded are produced by NGOs, both at a national and an international level - for example, Video Volunteers' 'Stop the Privatization of Water, films by Amazon Watch, and 'Drying up Palestine.
The two modes that we're seeing now in increasing prevalence are witness documentation and perpetrator footage. Both are circulating increasingly in online video sharing contexts, and in the blogosphere. It's partly in response to the radically increased possibilities for participation in creating human rights video online that we've created our Hub project. In some senses with both witness documentation and perpetrator footage you're revisiting a Rodney King moment - only this time, there is a potential global audience of both activists and publics who can have access to the footage, and there are distribution options to get it to them, and knowledge about how to frame action around them. It's an exciting moment as people experiment with what can work with this radically expanded access to production and distribution.
Our founder, Peter Gabriel talks sometimes about "little brothers" and "little sisters" watching Big Brother, and this world of the 'participatory panopticon' as Jamais Cascio calls it - is one filled with emancipatory potential as long as we can make sure that the footage that circulates helps facilitate voice and change, rather than enable repression.
You've written that the project was initially shaped by assumptions about the "transparency" of the video medium. Explain. What happens to human rights video as we become more self conscious about the properties of the medium and the ways that it can be manipulated?
Our starting point was what the scholar Meg McLagan has succinctly termed a moment of "1990s technophilia and (with a) model of change based on the transparency of media". So it was very technology-focused and grounded in a perhaps naïve belief in the indexicality of the image - a firm conviction that 'seeing is believing' and that seeing would create action, in the same way that the Rodney King had seemingly inspired mass outrage and in the same way that at first.
Our initial assumptions about audience and how footage would be perceived and used, were not correct. In those days before widespread online video sharing, the modes to access broad publics were ineffective. We focused on video in judicial processes, and sharing video with the mass media - both of which are premised on the 'evidentiary' value of human rights footage. Yet both news media and evidentiary settings were challenging to access. The Rodney King experience was anomalous. Although George Holliday's footage permeated the mass media and was used in the subsequent state and federal trials, the overwhelming majority of human rights video cannot and does not reach those venues. And if it does, as many marginalized groups have experienced in their media advocacy, it is often presented in ways that are contradictory to the desires and intentions of the communities affected by the rights violations. The reasons for this - of course -- vary. But the result is the same. In some countries it may be that media is government, or corporate-controlled, or won't screen graphic imagery -- or is only interested in screening graphic imagery. And in many cases news media focuses on episodic framing that emphasize individual actions, victims and perpetrators, and is less interested in structural violence, systemic challenges or the ongoing problems that characterize many of the most pernicious abuses, and especially violations of economic, social and cultural rights. So, for example, a group I work with in Papua, Indonesia documents the systematic, ongoing and pervasive exclusion of indigenous Papuans in an economy dominated by migrants from other parts of Indonesia, and in a justice system that moves rarely against the powerful. In seeking widespread media attention they will face the triple barrier of government censorship, popular neglect and an issue that is not easily reduced to blow of a security force baton.
Similarly, trying to use the video as evidence frequently does not work. The rules of evidence are hard to navigate. And even if the evidence is admitted, we need only see how the Rodney King footage was flipped around and manipulated both to prove that the Los Angeles Police Department officers were following the training they had been provided to deal with a resisting suspect, and to demonstrate the grotesque abuse of power evident in the fifty-six strikes delivered on Rodney King.
So what this boiled down for us - alongside some re-thinking on audience --- was the need for framing and narrative to create effective advocacy videos. This framing can come both within the video and in the way it is presented within a campaign. Rather than relying on the 'visual evidence' in and of itself, you have to place this in a rhetorical framework that explains it, and offers ways to act. Seeing may be believing, but it may also lead to pessimism, and compassion fatigue in the absence of opportunities to act. We're not promoting a journalistic model of studious neutrality - our experience is that marginalized voices are excluded enough, without the need to balance their voices in a one-for-one ratio to the voices of authority or perpetrators. So most advocacy videos do have a point-of-view and an outcome in mind, but the best do this with clear respect for the facts of the situation.
You've argued that some of the most effective videos for dramatizing human rights issues have come not from activists but from the oppressive regimes themselves. Can you cite a few examples? Why were these videos produced in the first place? What new significance has been ascribed to them as they move into new contexts?
The futurist Jamais Casco has suggested that the 'Rodney King' moment of the digital camera era may hav e been the Abu Ghraib photos, and I would argue that the analogue for cell-phones was the footage of Saddam Hussein's execution. Yet both sets of images were filmed by perpetrators or by insiders, not by concerned citizens, advocates or observers. More broadly we can see a proliferation of images, particularly of torture by police, security force and military personnel.
One of the most viewed videos on the Hub is a redacted version of footage shot by Egyptian police in which they humiliate a Cairo bus driver by slapping him repeatedly. These and other more graphic videos that include the sodomization of another driver were filmed by the police themselves. They were then used to humiliate the victims - including by sending the images to other drivers-- and to intimidate other people by demonstrating what would happen if they didn't follow police orders. They share many similarities with the psychology of happy-slapping: adding for the victim the humiliation of the act of filming, as well as the humiliation of the probability of preservation, and allowing the perpetrator to relish the memory, and share it with their friends. Similar cases have galvanized debate in Greece, Malaysia (the notorious Squat-gate incident) and a number of other countries. And of course, footage is also shot increasingly by government to document and apprehend protestors and dissidents - here in the US, there has been the contentious suit around the NYPD and activists filming at the Republican National Convention in 2004, while most recently we can see official cameramen in the footage of protests from Burma and Tibet (for example, at 00:32 in this clip).
What happens is that these videos then circulate beyond the circles for which they were intended - and are re-ascribed new meanings. For example in Egypt, bloggers and journalists lead by Wael Abbas and Hossam el-Hamalawy circulated leaked cell-phone videos to challenge repeated denials of accountability for police brutality and torture by the government. By circulating the videos, and connecting online to both a local and international audience, they were able to generate media attention, and force an official response. Although the government initially tried to discredit the activists, it was very hard to deny the truth of the images, and for the first time, there was an investigation into the conduct of police officers in two of the leaked videos leading to a prosecution.
One issue that does arise is around the re-victimization of individuals featured in the footage. They are often doubly humiliated in the first instance - by what happens to them in custody, and by the act of filming, and then they are further exposed as the footage achieves widespread circulation. We've tried to address this in our own practice - for example, by respecting the victim's wishes in the Squatgate case and not re-posting the video on the Hub pilot project, but I think the most important thing we can do institutionally is to support the growth of norms in the online video community that are respectful of individuals' dignity and rights (the Transmission community has been leading on this concept)
Human rights videos, you've claimed, need to be thought of as "transnational stories." What are the implications of that statement? What factors insure that the video will achieve its desired effect as it encounters alternative audiences?
Much human rights activism is still about speaking to distant audiences, often to generate a 'boomerang' effect in your home country. In these cases you are telling transnational stories that must speak to an audience inevitably less grounded than you in the everyday realities of the oppression. So, the footage in the video produced by our partners working undercover in Burma 'Shoot on Sight' must speak to activists not only within Asia, but to government officials, decision-makers and solidarity supporters in North America and Europe. Most human rights situations are embedded in contexts of structural complexity, long histories of repression and reaction and many actors with different agenda. As activists and concerned citizens create human rights advocacy videos they face a dilemma. They want to resist a globalization of local images stripped of their meaning, by keeping intact local voices in local contexts, and in a way that is faithful both to the direct visible violence of a situation as well as the underlying structural causes. But at the same time as you move testimony and images between different advocacy and media arenas it often 'helps' to strip out some of the markers of specificity. From experience, I know that with many audiences too much analysis of the particularity and nuance of a testimonial story may undermine it as an advocacy call.
You are balancing the ethical demands to be true to the people who speak out, a recognition of the real complexities and the desire to make viewers genuine ethical witnesses, against the need to convince, shame or horrify a distant audience with a medium whose power often lies in directness both visually and in narrative. You also have to make tough choices in balancing the visceral power and problems of raw visual evidence (for example, of graphic violence) with the use of testimony.
Now as human rights video circulate increasingly unmoored from its original location - i.e. embedded, shared, remixed - it becomes key to place context and ways to act within the video and imagery itself rather than outside it since no sooner has your video been forwarded from YouTube, the Hub or elsewhere it becomes de-coupled from options to act unless those are built into the video itself, and unless your message comes through loud and clear.


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Just how controversial is Rihanna's new album? That depends on how worked up you get about rhyme schemes like this: "Your love is infectious / Let's make out in this Lexus." She might've stirred up headlines by inviting her ex Chris Brown—the same guy who, you might remember, physically assaulted her three years ago—to sing that pick-up line on "Nobody's Business," which borrows its title (and its '80s R&B sound) from Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel." But it doesn't sound like she has forgiven him just yet. "Your love hit me to the core," she moans on the woozy reggae track "No Love Allowed." "I was fine until you knocked me to the floor."
Clearly, Rihanna's in a more somber mood on Unapologetic. Even the dance songs feel dark: she has traded the upbeat Eurodisco romps of last year's Talk That Talk for screwed vocals ("Phresh Out the Runway") and dubstep-warped bangers ("Jump," which nods to Ginuwine's equestrian-love classic "Pony"). And she's experimenting with more ballads, tapping into her Thom Yorke side by the piano (the SNL-approved ballad "Stay," which features Mikky Ekko) and working through some tortured, ripped-from-my-diary confessions ("Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary"). "You took the best years of my life," she sings on the latter song, "But what's love without tragedy?"
Is she talking about Brown? Maybe. But it doesn't really matter. The most shocking thing here is how vulnerable she sounds. B+
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Benning: 'Tough choices' ahead as civilians may face furloughs
With the U.S. government moving quickly toward automatic budget cuts that kick in this Friday, Fort Benning held a town hall meeting for its civilian workers on Monday, while other federal agencies pondered the impact on their operations.
"There's no final decision. These are just possible effects," said Fort Benning public affairs specialist Ric Rosado, explaining that the media wasn't invited to the town hall session at McGinnis-Wickham Hall, the headquarters for the Maneuver Center of Excellence.
Post Public Affairs Officer Gary Jones did issue a statement on the gathering of U.S. Department of Defense workers, who face the possibility of 22 furlough days through the rest of this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
"During this time of defense budget uncertainty, fiscal reality means we will have to make tough choices across the installation as we determine how best to continue to provide world-class training for our soldiers," said the statement, pointing out that Fort Benning will continue to provide top-notch training and a great quality of life for soldiers and their families.
There are about 4,100 federally funded civilian employees working on the infantry and armor post. About 1,200 handle daily operations as part of the Installation Management Command, while 1,015 connected to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command offer instruction to troops. There are about 1,885 workers combined at various other units and agencies, including the post's hospital and the U.S. Army Markmanship Unit.
The civilian workers are represented by the American Federation of Government Employees, with everyone considered part of the bargaining unit, but only about 900 of them dues-paying members.
"Everybody's worried, because they don't know. There's so much conflicting information going around, nobody can get it straight," said Bill Lawton, a retired soldier and civil servant who is a vice president with the federation's office on post.
"I'm sure that it's going to work out to the better," he said of the budget impasse referred to as sequestration. "I don't think it's going to be tough as everybody thinks."
Still, other federal agencies are going about making plans should the automatic cuts kick in. About $85 billion would need to be cut from the U.S. budget this year alone should no alternative materialize in Washington, D.C.
"We're in the planning process right now," said Frank O'Gara, public affairs officer with the Department of Defense Education Activity. "We've submitted our plans and proposals to the defense department, and we can't really comment on those until those plans are approved for how we're going to deal with the impact."
O'Gara said the department that oversees military schools should learn by March 15 what parts of its contingency plans will be accepted, rejected or changed. There are six DoD elementary schools and a middle school at Fort Benning.
Those using Columbus Airport, meanwhile, should not see much of an impact, said airport director Mark Oropeza. The Federal Aviation Administration has air traffic controllers at the facility, but there is no word yet on how or if furloughs will be mandated or if the tower itself might be closed.
Columbus Airport has been identified as one of about 100 airports nationwide and eight in Georgia that have low enough activity that the towers at them might not be needed, Oropeza said. The threshold is about 150,000 takeoffs and landings annually, with Columbus having only about 30,000 each year.
Either way, the local airport would not shut down, the director said. Delta Air Lines and American Airlines both would continue to provide flights into and out of the city using their jet instruments and visually scanning the airfield after landing to avoid other aircraft while taxiing to and from the terminal.
"They'd still fly in," Oropeza said of the prospect of having no traffic control towers, which it does without overnight as it is. "We would just be classified as an uncontrolled airport. We're that way anyway 12 hours a day, from 9 in the evening until 9 in the morning."
There are roughly 65,000 passenger boardings and 65,000 arrivals each year at Columbus Airport.
If the furloughs do kick in and continue through the end of the fiscal year, federal civilian workers would lose about 20 percent of their pay. Soldiers are exempt from the cuts.
The National Federation of Federal Employees is bracing for the worst, said spokesman Cory Bythrow, who has little confidence that Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill will reach an agreement before the budget tumbles into the fiscal crevasse.
"We are, of course, pushing for a deal to be done before," he said. "These cuts will be devastating for folks. To have 22 furlough days over the remainder of the year for 700,000 DoD employees, that's a 20 percent pay cut ... We're not talking trimming around the edges. That's real money for folks.
"And that's going to mean real pain, not just at places like Fort Benning and some of the larger Army bases. This is going to reverberate all throughout the country, and all of these communities that rely on these bases for large numbers of jobs."


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Open for Display
The kitchen is the hub of activity in most homes. But this family also needed space for an accidental collection, serious art, and a bunch of koozies.
Retailers know how to reel us in. They don't hide their wares. They position them prettily on shelves and tables. But too often, we bring home our fav¬orite finds only to hide them behind cabinet doors. Former shop owner Mary Brooks Jamison shows us her Virginia kitchen where practicality pairs perfectly with presentation.
Wide Open Spaces
The thought of open shelves in a kitchen can send a chill down the spine of even the most organized homeowner. But here's the dish: The secret lies in the mix.
"It is easy to handle open display when you have enough closed space to hide the not-so-pretty items," Mary Brooks says. "The key is to know how much openness you can handle before it gets messy!"
And you don't have to be type A to get this A-plus look. "I would not call myself that organized, but I achieved the look I wanted and I haven't changed it since," says Mary Brooks. "That is a big difference from the retail world where I constantly had to rearrange things to appeal to customers."
Unexpected Collections
As part of any renovation project, take the time up front to evaluate what you want to store and what you'd like to display. It also helps to put some professionals on the case. Mary Brooks worked with designer Tyler Fonville McNeely and Scott Ukrop, president and CEO of Grace Street Home Additions.
Don't be afraid to make a wish list that matches the way you really live. "The team at Grace Street laughed at one of the drawings Tyler and I gave them that included a drawer for kitchen towels and koozies," Mary Brooks says.
The open cabinets flanking the cooktop and the glass cabinets were planned for Mary Brooks's white serving pieces, a combination of things from eBay and family. "I didn't realize I had a collection until it was time to pull it together for these shelves. It just kind of evolved," she says.
Try This at Home
We're not sure if plastic red-and-blue glasses were needed―okay, they weren't―but 3-D conceptual drawings by Grace Street helped Mary Brooks and her husband, Jay, decide against cabinets on every wall. To avoid making the room feel tight, they opted for simple ledges on one wall. Paintings rest on the ledges for both aesthetic and sentimental reasons.
"The still life [on the left] was painted by my mother's cousin, and I remember it in my kitchen growing up," Mary Brooks says. "The other painting was a gift from my sister. Both are very special to me. I love the final result!"


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Torchiador wrote:Thanks John , this year I'm finally proud of myself, the software worked very well. Vilde was very smart, I just made a supervisor work. Wee needed to make some pen and paper counts to take track of the play off stage where there were players that played 6 matches, other 3 matches and the 4 silver semi finals 2 matches. for that it was impossible to prepare something. but thanks to Vilde and the software we did it quite easily. We did that on the fly, before the big screen games.
About the score you said, it is confirmed what I wrote as I asked confirmation to Gianluca it was 3-2 the regular match and in extra time you scored 3-1 for a 6-3 final score
Did you create that software used counting the results? If so, well done Yes, Vilde did a great work putting in all these scores during these two days. I understand it must have been stressful when time was getting late and thus important to as quick as possible getting started with the last big games of this tournament. And, if Gianluca confirmed im sure it is all in order.


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2016.12.16 – Lumpy's Links
Lumpy's Links for 2016-12-16
Yeah, I have not done one of these since the start of the year. In the spirit of "better late than never", "nothing beats a failure except a try", and "try, try, try and try again", I am giving it another go.
I am finally starting to conquer my health issues; the pain in my back is now almost completely gone, I have almost all the feeling back in my left leg, daily doses of bromelain are keeping my arthritis and carpal tunnel in check, my blood pressure is almost normal and, while still not perfect, I am sleeping much better. It is amazing how much more energy one has when not in pain all the time. It is time to try and get back to this weekly project.
Additionally, I am going to change the format a bit. All too often I am ending up with more than one link per topic per week. While I shall still reference stuff I posted during the week, I am also going to use it to clean up my saved RSS folder. In other words, you will be getting extras.
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Through the years, I have been collecting any article, review and photograph of Deborah Kerr that I could find.
I have a collection of articles, film reviews and interviews that I thought I could share with other fans. The material I'll be posting was written by professionals of the media through a time span of more than fifty years. Asking for their permission to add these articles here is virtually impossible, however, I will remove any piece that offends the rightful owner instantly.
I also wish to state that I am not related in any way to Deborah Kerr nor am I making any profit on these articles. I aim only to share them as a way to celebrate the life and career of this brilliant lady.
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Like many, Kevin Correll of Woodinville's Barrage Cellars began making wine as a hobby before deciding to start a commercial winery. Affable, humorous, and self-deprecating, Correll says, "I still call it a hobby because I'm certainly not making any money!"
Correll made his first wine in a carboy in 1997. In 2002 he made his first barrel of wine while assisting at Wineglass Cellars. By 2005, he had launched Barrage Cellars.
The name Barrage Cellars is a tribute to the evolution of the winery. Correll started out making his wine in a barn. Outgrowing the barn, he moved to a garage. The winery's name is a combination of the two locations. When Correll outgrew the garage, he moved to Woodinville's Warehouse District in 2007.
Like many of Washington's winemakers, Correll works a day job to pay the bills. He instructs manufacturing at The Boeing Company where he has worked for over twenty years. This often means pulling double duty, working at the winery after hours. The evening before my visit, Correll was at the winery until 3am cleaning the crusher.
Though working a full time job and running a small winery means many long days and nights, Correll doesn't mind. Correll watched his father, who was a horse breeder in Arlington, Washington, become miserable after he retired and decided he didn't want the same thing to happen to him. "I want to be busy until the day I die," Correll says. "This is my retirement!"
In selecting vineyard sources, Correll said that two things were important to him. "First, I wanted to work with awesome vineyards. Two, I wanted to work with awesome people." Barrage Cellars sources grapes for his wines from Conner Lee, Marcoux, Boushey, Dineen, and Destiny Ridge vineyards.
Stylistically, Correll started out wanted to make a Bordeaux-style blend from Merlot, Cabernet, and Cabernet Franc. However, when he tried various blends of the wine, he found that he liked the varietal wines better. He has subsequently maintained this focus on varietal wines. "I don't blend grapes. I blend vineyards," Correll explains.
Though each of the Barrage Cellars wines are varietal bottlings, Correll likes to name his wines. The first year he was buying his Chardonnay fruit from Conner Lee Vineyard, he was driving by the Hanford Site. As Correll explained Hanford to his daughter, she inquired about whether the grapes they had just picked up were radioactive. 'Nuclear Blonde' became the Chardonnay's name. The 'Trifecta' Merlot is named for the three different vineyards the fruit is sourced from. The 'Double Barrel' Cabernet is named after the two different barrel types Correll uses for the wine. The 'Outcast' Cabernet Franc is named for this grape's lowly status among Bordeaux varietals. "I love Cabernet Franc," Correll says. "We're all outcasts at some point."
The only exception to Barrage Cellars' lineup of named wines is the 2009 Riesling, which is simply labeled by the varietal. Correll made this wine in an off-dry style, making the wine based on taste. "When I thought it was balanced, I stopped fermentation on it. I didn't look at the numbers."
So what might the Riesling's name be if Correll gave it one? "My girlfriend calls the Riesling 'Rent' because it pays the rent!" Correll says with a laugh.
Barrage Cellars makes approximately 2,700 cases annually.
Barrage Cellars 'Nuclear Blonde' Chardonnay Columbia Valley 2008 $24
Rating: +/* (Good/Excellent) Very pretty toasty aromas along with spice, lemon, and lees notes. Very clean and evenly polished on the palate with a creamy, full-bodied feel. Barrel Fermented, 12 months Sur Lees. 100% Malolactic fermentation. 14.5% alcohol. 270 cases produced.
Barrage Cellars Riesling Yakima Valley 2009 $18
Rating: + (Good) An aromatic wine with freshly cut golden delicious apples, oranges, and pears. On the sweeter side of off dry, the palate is full of apricot and tropical fruit flavors. Les Vignes de Marcoux (75%) and Dineen (25%) vineyards. Fermented and aged in stainless steel. 11.1% alcohol. 2% Residual Sugar. 230 cases produced.
Barrage Cellars Trifecta Merlot Columbia Valley 2007 $26
Rating: +/* (Good/Excellent) Alluring aromas of red currant, mint, and cranberries on a very varietal nose. The palate is tart and clean and full of fresh, ripe fruit flavors. A slightly bitter note toward the finish is all that holds this wine back. 100% Merlot. 50% Marcoux, 30% Destiny Ridge, 20% Conner Lee vineyards. Aged 18 months in French oak (50% new, 50% second fill). 14.9% alcohol. 248 cases produced.
Barrage Cellars Double Barrel Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley 2007 $35
Rating: +/* (Good/Excellent) Dark in color. A very pretty, very varietal nose with herbal notes, cranberries, cherry cola, and a whiff of licorice. On the taste, a big, dry, full wine with exquisite red fruit flavors and a solid backbone of tannins. Calls out for a steak. Red Willow, Sheridan, and Destiny vineyards. Aged 25 months in French oak (50% new, 50% second fill). 15.3% alcohol. 274 cases produced.
Barrage Cellars Outcast Cabernet Franc Yakima Valley 2007 $35
Rating: * (Excellent) An aromatic wine with abundant licorice, chocolate, and light herbal notes. Delicious, sinewy fruit flavors that wind and weave on an incredibly persistent palate. A big wine with a puckering, long lasting finish. 100% Cabernet Franc. Boushey Vineyard. Aged 21 months in French oak (50% new, 50% second fill). 15.1% alcohol. 121 cases produced. Sample provided by winery.
Barrage Cellars - Kevin Correll's 'retirement project'
Like many, Kevin Correll of Woodinville's Barrage Cellars began making wine as a hobby before deciding to start a commercial winery. Affable, humorous, and self-deprecating, Correll says, "I still call it a hobby because I'm certainly not making any money!"
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Chris Says:
Secret Weapon? I haven't been to Barrage but am on a mission to find as many Boushey Syrah's as are currently made and Barrage website lists an 07 Syrah from Boushey. Any info?
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Chris, I believe the Boushey Syrah was sold out. Would be worth contacting Kevin to find out though. Such a great vineyard site.
Rand Sealey Says:
Yes, the '07 Barrage from Boushey is sold out, though you might talk Kevin into selling you a bottle. Other Boushey Syrahs to look for in Woodinville would be the '08 Efeste "Jolie Bouche" (a word play on Boushey), '08 Sparkman "Darkness" and '08 Ross Andrew. All are fine renditions from Dick's vineyards.
Chris Says:
Thanks guys, I have the other 08's Rand mentioned, plus Bunnel, Maison Bleue, McCrea, and Betz (a couple from earlier years). I'll use this ammo to challenge Kevin to see if his wine stand up to the other guys making Boushey Syrah :) I'll shoot Kevin an e-mail and I'll gladly pay his price.
Anonymous Says:
The Secret Weapon is a wonderful wine...definitely looking forward to it's next release. Robert Ramsay Cellars also makes a great Boushey syrah.
Brad Boushey Says:
Great thread, just thought I could add,, each of these wines have a different style, all are very good, but each has a different personality. Guys & Rags like RP & WS have a difficult job of sorting these out. But over time I've grown to appreciate each as very unique.. Cheers! Brad Bouhey
Tom Biro Says:
I've gotta say, this is one of the few wineries right now where the whole lineup is something that I like and/or consider purchasing each time I've given them a swirl. Generally really impressed with Kevin and the team at Barrage, and look forward to what's coming next from them.
Scott Says:
Does Kevin have a website yet?
A Google search resolves it but going there says it is under construction
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Scott, doesn't look like they do, although the winery does have a Facebook page.
JulesJim Burrage Says:
We just had a lovely dinner at Preservation Kitchen and a bottle of the Barrage Cab Sauv. Delicious!! As a Burrage, we want to know where we can purchase more of what Barrage Cellars has to offer :)
JulesJim Burrage Says:
We just had a wonderful dinner at Preservation Kitchen and had a bottle of the Barrage Cab. Sauv. DELICIOUS!!!! Being the Burrage's... We'd sure like to know where we can purchase more of what Barrage Cellars has to offer :)


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