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WASHINGTON — It began before the inauguration, a persistent hiss emerging from feminists and organizations that keep track of what women are due. In no time, the hiss grew into a deafening buzz that nearly drowned out other big noises in this city.
It all boiled down to one nagging question: Where are the women?
President Barack Obama's all-male, all-white nominations for the top jobs in his second-term cabinet had advocates for women in an uproar.
Was it unreasonable to expect that women would cash in after their overwhelming support for Mr. Obama in his bid for re-election? Would women get the short end of the deal, yet again? Would they be consigned to second- and third-tier jobs, as happened to members of other blocs that supported Mr. Obama, like blacks and Hispanics, whose influence and visibility in high-profile jobs hardly match their voting muscle?
"President Obama has even managed to take a step backwards from his first term," Rosa Brooks, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said in a column in Foreign Policy.
"For defense secretary, he inexplicably selected former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel over Michèle Flournoy, the universally respected former under secretary of defense for policy," wrote Ms. Brooks, who once served as a counselor to Ms. Flournoy in the Defense Department.
"President Obama missed a historic opportunity to be the president who appoints the first female secretary of defense," she added, echoing other supporters of Ms. Flournoy's who had hoped she would be the new female leader in an Obama cabinet that no longer includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The president "is not really a feminist," Ms. Brooks said in an interview last week. "What I mean by that is that although he clearly believes in the importance of formal equality, he doesn't seem to have much instinctive feel for the more subtle structural barriers to women's advancement, or to place a very high priority on gender issues."
Mr. Obama, she said, had "surrounded himself by mostly male advisers and has shown no particular interest in focusing on making the White House a more friendly workplace for women." She continued, "He's a thousand times stronger on women's issues than Republican candidates were, but I wish it was something he 'got' a little bit more."
The president, perhaps stung by criticism from women who were a pillar of his re-election, has defended his diversity record by citing his appointment of two women to the U.S. Supreme Court in his first term and suggesting that he might have some surprise female appointments in store. He bolstered his argument in his Inaugural Address, addressing in unprecedented fashion the rights of women, gays and blacks.
Four days later came a groundbreaking victory for feminists. On Jan. 24, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced the end of the military's official ban on women in combat, opening thousands of frontline roles and other jobs.
The announcement shifted the conversation from "where are the women?" to praise for a forward-leaning U.S. administration. It grabbed the news media's attention and muffled the complaints about a lack of women in top jobs in the Obama administration.
Ms. Brooks, who is writing a book on the changing role of the military, said she thought the process might indeed have seen an acceleration.
"It's just speculation," she said, "but I wonder if the criticism aimed at Obama over the dearth of women in senior national security positions influenced the timing of the Pentagon's announcement. The president was clearly bothered by the criticism, and may have felt that the Pentagon announcement would help defray it a bit."
Whether politically motivated or not, it was a breakthrough that overturned a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricted women from artillery, armor, infantry and similar military roles (though women have, in fact, occasionally found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan).
None of this will come to pass quickly. The U.S. military services must now draw up plans for allowing women to apply for combat positions and will have until January 2016 to explain why some positions should remain closed to women.
Ms. Brooks, who once served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense for policy, said that allowing women in combat does "eliminate formal barriers." But, she added, that does not guarantee that more women will want to join the U.S. services. She cited structural factors that could be barriers to women's advancement, like rigid personnel requirements and a system that forces people, in combat or not, to relocate frequently. "It can be punitive," she said.
Not everyone is happy with the recent changes, of course. Critics of the decision point to the issue of women's fitness for combat. They often say that women do not have sufficient upper-body strength, that they are emotional and subject to monthly hormonal cycles, and that the U.S. military would have to lower its standards if it were to allow women in combat.
The new rule is "changing the paradigm from exclusiveness to inclusiveness," General Dempsey said Sunday on the NBC program "Meet the Press," adding that standards would not be lowered.
One thing seems certain. "This means that now it is possible for a woman to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," said Laura A. Liswood, a co-founder and secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders. "It's a sea change."


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After Yale began the season with a 28-point win at Lehigh, Bulldogs coach Tony Reno, his curiosity heightened, gathered his team and asked its opinion about what went on.
Keep in mind it was a game in which Yale scored eight touchdowns, four by land, four by air, scoring the most points (56) it had in any game since 2003 when it rolled up 62 against Towson.
The easy answer would have been very satisfied. But that's not what Reno heard and it made him happy. He would grade the game as a C, the offensive output offsetting the occasional defensive breakdown and 10 penalties.
Then came Saturday, the home opener at Yale Bowl against Cornell. How would the Bulldogs respond after a week of reaffirmation?
Much the same, it seemed. But it turned out well again.
Led by freshman halfback Zane Dudek's 173 yards and one touchdown and Deshawn Salter's 143 yards and three touchdowns, the last for 82 yards in the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs used a big second half to pull away from the Big Red 49-24 at Yale Bowl.
"There are going to be ups and downs in every game, but I was very proud of our culture today," Reno said. "I'm proud of how the chemistry on this team has really come along. You can really tell what a football team is made of when it's not playing well. … It's hard to come back when you are not playing your best. To me, that's the mark of a good team."
Just like last week, Yale's defense did allow big plays along with registering six sacks. There was a 90-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter by halfback Harold Coles, the second longest scoring run in program history. And with 8:23 to play, quarterback Dalton Banks hit James Hubbard for a 57-yard score. Yale was also called for 14 more penalties for 124 yards.
"We have a lot of areas to clean up," said Reno, whose team is 2-0, 1-0 in the Ivy League. "There is a lot of room to grow."
But its high-powered offense, which gained 465 yards with 342 rushing yards, saved the day.
"How good we can be, only time will tell," Reno said.
After struggling at times in the first half, Yale's offense took flight on its first drive of the third quarter. Leading by only 14-10, the Bulldogs watched Dudek run for 47 yards to the Big Red 3. On the next play, Salter broke through a massive hole to score from the 3 with 11:50 to play in the quarter.
After Cornell (0-2, 0-1) missed a field goal, Dudek again set things up with a 29-yard gain to the Cornell 4. Three plays later, Salter ended an 80-yard drive with a 1-yard score with 1:18 to play in the third. It was 28-10.
And then after a muffed fake punt attempt late in the third quarter, quarterback Kurt Rawlings (10 of 17, 123 yards) hit senior tight end Jaeden Graham for a 4-yard score on the first play of the fourth.
Meanwhile, Reno's concern about penalties came to the forefront immediately on Cornell's first drive. Three Yale penalties for 25 yards helped sustain a drive that ended with a 21-yard field goal by Zach Mays with 10:11 remaining in the first quarter.
Yale's first three drives ended with minus yardage, an interception and on downs. Finally, Yale's defense provided a break and points. A pass from Dalton Banks (26 of 45, 272 yards) deflected off the hands of a Big Red receiver to defensive back senior Hayden Carlson.
Once in control, Carlson headed to the near sideline, picking up blocks as he went. He finally dove into the corner of the end zone for the score on a 19-yard return that put the Bulldogs ahead 7-3 with a 1:45 remaining in the quarter.
"Even when the defensive line wasn't able to get to the quarterback, the second and third levels [of the defense] did well to recover," Yale captain Spencer Rymiszewski said.
But here's an idea how lopsided the first quarter was. With Banks completing 12 of 17 passes for 109 yards, the Big Red outgained Yale 145 to 22.
Yale's offensive problems continued into the second quarter.
Rawlings completed a pass to Christopher Williams-Lopez for 17 yards to the Yale 29. But the ball squirted out of Williams-Lopez's hands and was recovered by Cornell's Justin Solomon, who returned it 15 yards to the Yale 14.
On second-and-10 from the 14, Banks dropped the ball into the hands of Chris Walker in the end zone despite great coverage from Carlson.
On their final drive of the half, Rawlings completed consecutive passes for 49 yards to sophomore Reed Klubnik to the Cornell 14. And then on first down from there, Rawlings rambled into the end zone with 37 seconds to play in the half to give Yale a 14-10 lead.

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The key to all this is the "system."
Whether it lies within the software or resides within the surrounding environment, a person's productivity will be directly proportional to the total system with which he or she interfaces. As a result, the studio design needs to be seen as a complete system providing a total environmental solution.
The following things to think about when designing a studio represent individual aspects of this total process or system. All of these will need to be integrated into that final environmental solution. It's a lot to think about at once. But the ultimate goal is to create an efficient and sonically accurate system from all the parts.
1. Assess Your Real Needs: Take a long, hard look at your production techniques and your desired end results to determine what you actually need in terms of facility requirements. Ask yourself, "What is my 'system' of production and how can the facilities be an efficient part of that system? What acoustical space will I actually need for "live" recording?
2. Develop a Concept Model: Once you know the kind of facility you need, sketch the layout of the rooms, visualizing the ergonomic characteristics such as equipment access and traffic patterns. Pay attention to sight lines for visual communication with the talent (if any). And, most importantly, create room geometries that make acoustical sense and contribute to the overall acoustical system, instead of creating spaces that require added surface treatments to fix problems afterward. This may require that you spend some time studying room modes, ratios and the effects of reflective parallel surfaces.
3. Design An Acoustical System: The perceived need for an acoustical system design has waned in some circles with the advent of lower-cost recording/production technologies that fit into increasingly smaller spaces. Unfortunately, "smaller spaces" do not bode well in the physically constant world of architectural acoustics. So it's essential to design an acoustical system from the start rather than to apply fixes later. This can be a rather daunting task for the studio owner to tackle because of the sheer number of variables. The reverb times of each space should be predictable and calculated to be even across all bandwidths. The character or diffuse nature of the reverb and early reflections should be engineered into the system for each space and tuned to that space's desired function.
4. Design An Isolation System: More aptly called "noise control," isolation systems offer means of controlling sound intrusion from outside-to-inside and inside-to-outside the facility, as well as noise intrusion from mechanical systems (HVAC) and equipment-cooling fans. Noise Criteria (NC) specifications should be determined for each space and systems should be designed to meet these specifications. Digital technology has given us the capability to record with greatly increased dynamic range, but it requires the application of stringent noise-floor specifications in order to take advantage of it. Isolation systems are notorious for being the most expensive part of the studio design because of their robust construction requirements. Isolation is only achieved by a complete system of integrated components with any one omission causing the rest of the system to become ineffectual.
5. Select A Monitor System: Selecting a monitor system beforehand and designing an environmental solution around that monitoring source results in the ability to create a control room whose output translates accurately to the outside world. Determining the type of monitors and their configuration (2, 2.1, 5.1, and so on) and predicting the anticipated monitoring levels allows you to determine the control-room geometry along with the acoustical and isolation systems design requirements.
6. Design The Mechanical Systems: There's nothing worse than a studio with insufficient cooling and ventilation. If these mechanical systems are not designed into the studio from the start, it will be studio owners' worst nightmare for both themselves and their future clients.
A studio is not a typical environment from an air-conditioning standpoint because of sealed rooms with high BTU outputs that may require cooling even during winter months. A system must be designed that 1) meets the demand for fresh-air cooling year round, and 2) meets the noise criteria requirements by the use of silencers and/or baffled ducting. The studio designer does everyone a big favor by bringing a mechanical engineer experienced in this type of design into the project from the start.
7. Consider Future Expansion: The studio designer should always keep a eye toward the facility's future expansion, especially when choosing a site location. The use of modular, movable isolation and modular, acoustical systems may be a very desirable solution for an owner who sees his facility moving to greener pastures at some point, or who does not want to invest heavily in leasehold improvements.
8. Be Realistic About What You Can Afford: A good studio facility design takes into considerations the real needs required to produce the desired product. However, financial constraints may require that an owner builds his facility in phases. This necessitates the drafting of a plan that prioritizes phased building according to productivity and profitability.
9. Hire an Experienced Contractor: When asked, a lot of contractors will tell you they have experience building studios and isolation systems. But beware! They are NOT experienced simply because they once put up drywall in the men's room at the now-defunct Hit Factory. In all fairness though, contractors may try to help their clients by suggesting cost-saving materials and/or building techniques during construction. However, what starts as good intentions usually turns into disaster because the changed materials may not possess the acoustical properties specified for the system design and any changed designs may short circuit the isolation system's decoupling properties. Remember that any one point of compromise can render the entire system ineffectual. Given all this potential for compromised end results, the studio designer should give a good hard look at the feasibility of using the prefabricated modular isolation systems that are available as an alternative to conventional construction.
10. And, Most of All, Hire an Experienced Designer or Acoustical Consultant: Like many of us, new studio owners have to wear a lot of hats. But the truth is that multi-tasking truly makes you stupid, especially when experience is the prime prerequisite for putting on certain hats. You can read all you want and be the smartest man in the universe, but, ultimately, the person who has actually sat in the chair the longest and who possesses the proper skill-set to translate experience into working models is going to have the advantage. That experience is invaluable, especially at the conceptual stage of the design. This doesn't mean you have to hire a turnkey design/build firm. Many people don't have the means to do this. It simply means that a little quality help or corroboration at the beginning of the process can make all the difference.


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While I love making cards for seasonal purposes to sell in my shop – Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas – I feel a little pressure to make sure that my shop is well-stocked with these types of cards, but then I don't feel as though I always have time to make the FUN cards. I really enjoy making birthday, just because, love, congrats, anniversary, and hi/hello types of cards. I made a goal to also keep other types of cards like "in sympathy", thinking about you, some religious cards, new baby, etc… in my shop as well.
With so many different holidays approaching and the requests for especially Christmas card SETS, I don't feel like I can take the time to make these other cards I enjoy. LOL…Does that make sense or does it sound just totally silly? Don't get me wrong – I do enjoy making the seasonal items also, but at the same time, I feel as though it somehow takes me away from making the ones I enjoy. The result? I don't really make any because when I sit down to create, I feel this struggle – to create for business or pleasure. How messed up am I?? LOL!!
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May 23, 2010
The City Commission must re-examine its role in how the city is governed. Being overly deferential to staff is no more a virtue than meddling micro-management. Both create a climate for trouble, and in the case described below, trouble that can cost the taxpayer dearly and make life miserable for city staff.
The deal involved a "performance contract" with Johnson Controls (JCI) to build a city-wide WiFi network. The Interim City Attorney and the Director of the City's IT Department both told the City Commission that the JCI contract guaranteed that WiFi would save the City $23 million over 15 years. They said JCI would provide a "shortfall check" to the City in any year the savings were not achieved.
In April 2008, the City borrowed money from Bank of America (BOA) to pay for the network. The repayment terms were structured to match the savings the city was "guaranteed" to receive each year under its WiFi contract with JCI. The City would repay BOA $22.9 million ($16 million principal, $6.5 million interest) from the $23 million in supposed savings that WiFi would provide. In fact, the city misrepresented its ability to repay the loan. The JCI contract does NOT assure the City $23 million in savings. A close reading of the contract documents shows that $18 million of the "savings" are simply "deemed" to occur whether or not they actually do. Furthermore, it appears the city may not be receiving much of a "savings" at all since we are required to engage in five separate WiFi operational/maintenance contracts, the cost of which has not been included in the city's calculations to date. Unsurprisingly, now we're in trouble. The WiFi network, which was supposed to be fully operational by November 2009, still does not work and to date the City has saved no money from the project. In addition, the City Attorney has now clarified that there is no $23 million shortfall guarantee in the JCI contract. (JCI does guarantee savings of about $5 million over 15 years and if these are not achieved, there will be a shortfall check. But $5 million is not nearly enough to cover the debt to BOA.)
The City's obligation to BOA requires us to repay $1.4 million this year, with no WiFi savings to offset this amount. Will the City Commission raise taxes to cover the missing revenue? What programs and services will the City Manager cut to make up this loss? And what about next year? and subsequent years, all the way through 2024 when the final payment will be due?
The Balance Sheet editors have met with the Director of IT, the City Manager, and the City Attorney, first calling attention to the problems, then urging that steps be taken to address what went wrong, assign responsibility, and revise procedures so that nothing like this occurs in the future.
What this case brings to light is mismanagement, pure and simple. We don't make this charge lightly but there is no other reasonable conclusion. City staff has misrepresented contract terms, covered up the mistakes, maintained silence, and tried to reassure the public and the City Commission that everything will be fine.
From the outset, two things were going on. IT and Budget staff were dazzling the City Commission with promises that this WiFi project would make the City of Hollywood "a regional provider with 'best in class' municipal services." And at the same time, staff recommended and the City Commission approved a contract that shifts the financial risk to a shocking extent from JCI to the City.
- Who is responsible for the approval of a contract such as this that is so unfavorable to the City?
- Who is responsible for creating such a climate at city hall that IT, and Budget, and Finance, and the City Manager's and the City Attorney's offices can all recommend such a fiasco?
- Who is responsible for creating a climate at city hall where staff at all levels remain silent year after year about problems of this magnitude?
No one is accountable. The situation is intolerable. The City Commission has been looking the other way.
Plea to City Commission
You, our elected officials, must re-examine your own role in how the city is governed. We are told that WiFi will be on the City Commission agenda on June 2. What steps will you take to clean up this mess and install accountability at city hall? What steps will you take to get this WiFi project to produce the required savings? What steps will you take to ensure that the information presented to you on June 2 is accurate and complete?
As we said at the outset, extreme deference to staff is no more a virtue than meddling micro-management. With the 2008 city election, it appears the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other.


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WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps' new heavy lift helicopter was officially approved for production this month, but reports indicate the overall acquisition cost has also increased by 7 percent.
The decision to move forward with production of the CH-53K King Stallion — called Milestone C in acquisition speak — was signed off on April 4 by an unnamed senior official currently performing the duties of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics after performing a review of the program, according to a Marine Corps news release.
Weeks later, Bloomberg News reported that the Milestone C approval memo contained an Easter egg: a cost increase that brings the total value of the program from $29 billion to $32 billion. According to the memo obtained by Bloomberg, unit costs have also expanded to about $139 million per helicopter from just over $131 million.
A spokeswoman for Naval Air Systems Command, which oversees Marine Corps aircraft acquisitions, declined to comment on the report, which was based on information designated for "official use only."
The publication of the memo could reignite congressional scrutiny of the program, which had already recently come under fire due to rumor of cost growth. In March, Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass., said the unit costs had ballooned from $87.1 million to $122 million per helicopter — a figure even bigger than current estimates of the Air Force's F-35 model — leaving Marine Corps officials scrambling to put the cost of the helicopter in context.
Service officials maintained that the unit costs of the aircraft have not increased, but that the first few test articles are more expensive because of expenses occurred with standing up the production line and refining manufacturing processes. Once the program moves into full rate production, those costs should come down sharply, Marine Col. Henry Vanderborght, program manager for Marine Corps and Navy heavy lift helicopters, said at the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space symposium.
The Pentagon typically does not include research and development when estimating unit costs, but Vanderborght acknowledged that, with both procurement and R&D factored in, the unit cost would average out to about $131 million per aircraft, although that price could be driven down by foreign sales.
Sikorsky Aircraft, now owned by Lockheed Martin, is set to deliver the first four CH-53Ks in 2018. The new cargo helicopters are designed to lift three times as much as its predecessor and have a cabin that is 12 inches wider, while also incurring lower operating costs, according to Sikorsky.
"The team has worked really hard to ensure we could get here, to Milestone C, and to begin low-rate initial production," Lt. Gen. Jon "Dog" Davis, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant for aviation, stated in a news release earlier this month. "I'm very proud of all of them, and I'm looking forward to getting the most powerful heavy-lift helicopter ever designed into the hands of our Marines."
The service plans to buy 200 CH-53K to replace the CH-53E Super Stallion, and over the course of the program will transition eight active duty squadrons, one training squadron, and one reserve squadron from the E-model to the King Stallion. Two low rate initial production aircraft are under long lead procurement for parts and materials and will deliver in 2021, according to the Marine Corps.
Marine Corps Times reporter Jeff Schogol contributed to this report.


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tumblr (1) went down a few daze ago + i (like others i can imagine) sat refreshing my browser windoze wwwaiting + hoping for the return of this platform for conversational cultural exchange. while sum understand tumblr to have lost a hold over New Media Art imaginations, i am still excited by tumblr communities, specific accounts/streams + their artistic potentialities/realities (even or mayhaps mostly when these are not even positioned as artistic theorypractices)
This is the first time I've posted in a while, but I think we're in significant times. Assange and the whole Wikileaks phenomenon is so important that it needs a little theory.
having successfully solved our problems with too many connections to the audio-visual streams (by switching to a provider that specialises in streaming), and dealt with the difficulties of streaming audio from two locations to a single interface (good lapel mics plus careful use of the mute button), i was still prepared for the inevitable unexpected tech problem in the week before our premiere performance of make-shift.
I'm only one person and I'm working as hard as I can. So what am I doing wrong, or what did I miss? When the Austrian government – like the governments of so many other formerly enlightened social welfare states – recently announced a staggeringly long list of radical budget cuts, one of the "responsible" politicians superciliously remarked that we have all just been "spoiled" by the social welfare state for too long and will have to get used to standing on our own feet now.


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OK, so I was wrong last time. The Jets don't stink. They're better than advertised. They try really hard. They have some excellent young players, particularly on defense. But this is a revenge game. The Dolphins were humiliated in New York. They were embarrassed. And as much as we would like to think that's not a critical factor, these are human beings, after all. Miami can't afford to lose this game. They won't.
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Serge Hochar, who navigated Chateau Musar, his family's winery in Lebanon, through 15 years of civil war as Musar became one of the most admired wine producers in the world, died on Wednesday in Acapulco, Mexico. He was 75.
He had been vacationing with his family and died while swimming in the ocean, said Catherine Miles, a vice president of Broadbent Selections, Musar's American importer. No cause was announced.
Mr. Hochar (pronounced HO-shar) oversaw production for Musar, but he was more than a winemaker. He was also an entrepreneur who crisscrossed six continents promoting his idiosyncratic, long-lived wines as well as the ancient wine culture of Lebanon, which had been moribund when his father, Gaston, founded Musar in 1930.
Musar's success helped build the modern Lebanese wine industry. When the civil war ended in 1990, just five wineries were operating in Lebanon. By 2014 there were almost 50, Mr. Hochar said in an interview last spring.
Beyond producing and selling wine, Mr. Hochar, elegant and charismatic, was also something of a sage. His aphoristic, mischievous, almost paradoxical insights on wine, food and life, delivered in any of five languages, turned conventional wisdom on its head and won him a devoted following in the wine trade.
"I know nothing about wine," he told an audience at a wine dinner in New York in 2012, the sort of event where pronouncements are dispensed with an air of easy confidence and certainty. "I know how to make wine, but I know nothing about wine, and each day I discover that I know less."
At that same dinner, held to spotlight older vintages of Musar, he reversed the customary order of service, providing the red wines with a meat course before the white wines with poultry.
"Once you taste the wines, you'll understand why my white is my biggest red," he explained.
The Musar wines, both red and white, were extraordinary, though decidedly not to everybody's taste. The red resembled Bordeaux in spirit, though it departed from the model in significant ways. It was made not only of cabernet sauvignon, the major grape of red Bordeaux, but also of cinsault and carignan, grapes from the South of France.
As a result, the wine could age and evolve for decades, like a good Bordeaux, but it was spicy and rich with a distinctive funkiness that many critics labeled a flaw but devotees embraced as soulful.
The whites were, if possible, even more singular. Made from the ancient, indigenous Lebanese grapes obaideh and merwah, they were bigger and richer than the reds, with a complex, slightly honeyed flavor that seemed simultaneously sweet and dry. Opaque and impenetrable in their youth, they blossomed at 20 years or more of age.
The Musar wines inspired a younger generation of natural winemakers, in part because of Mr. Hochar's hands-off method of production; they have proudly embraced characteristics like volatile acidity, or V.A. — deemed faults by critics who preferred squeaky clean wines.
"Wine is such a complex thing, and V.A. is part of wine," Mr. Hochar said. "If you have none, it's a flaw. It's part of fermentation. It's a question of balance. Life is harmony."
Serge Gaston Hochar was born on Nov. 20, 1939, in Beirut, Lebanon, to a family of ancient French lineage that had arrived in Lebanon during the Crusades. His father, Gaston Hochar, studied grape-growing and winemaking in Bordeaux and in 1930 planted his first grapes in the Bekaa Valley, an eastern region near the Syrian border.
Lebanon at the time was a largely Christian country under French control, and the French army was a major early customer for Musar's wine. One young French officer, Ronald Barton, of the acclaimed Bordeaux estates Langoa-Barton and Léoville-Barton, was stationed in Lebanon and proved highly influential to Musar.
As a young man, Serge Hochar studied engineering and then winemaking with the renowned enologist Émile Peynaud at the University of Bordeaux. Years later, he said, he told Mr. Peynaud, "I make wine totally the opposite of the way you taught me."
In 1959, he persuaded his father to step aside so that he could take over the winemaking duties at Musar. Soon after, his brother, Ronald (who was named after Mr. Barton), took charge of the commercial aspects of the winery. Back then, Musar sold most of its wines in Lebanon, but this began to change when civil war broke out in 1975, effectively destroying the domestic market for wine. By the time the war ended, the market for Musar's wines was almost entirely international, built largely through Mr. Hochar's efforts.
Despite shells falling in vineyards and Israeli tanks appearing at the winery, where the wine cellar doubled as a bomb shelter, Musar missed only one vintage during the war, in 1976, when electricity was out and roads were impassable, Mr. Hochar said. As the Musar wines began to show up outside Lebanon, the rest of the world took notice. In 1979, Michael Broadbent, a leading British wine critic and auctioneer, tasted Musar at a wine fair in England and pronounced the '67 Musar a great find. In 1984, Decanter magazine, an influential British wine publication, named Mr. Hochar its first "Man of the Year," citing his dedication to producing fine wines despite the war.
"Wine is above politics," Mr. Hochar said in 2012. "Wine is tolerance."
In recent years, Mr. Hochar ceded the day-to-day details of running the winery to his sons, Gaston and Marc, and to his nephew, Ronald Hochar's son Ralph. They and his brother survive him, as do Mr. Hochar's wife, Tania; a daughter, Karin; three sisters and seven grandchildren.
Even as he stepped back, Mr. Hochar maintained a relentless travel schedule. May 2012, a typical month, began with a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France. After returning to Beirut, he then departed to London for a wine fair before setting off for Hong Kong, South Korea and China. After returning again to Lebanon on May 16, he then visited Turkey, Paris, Lebanon again, then Brazil, all in an effort to explain Lebanese wine and Musar.
"To understand Lebanon is not easy," he said. "The dimension of taste in Lebanon is different than anywhere else. Not better, but different. Better has no meaning."


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Jaroslav Veis (b 1946) is a journalist, translator from English and writer. Educated at Charles University, Prague (grad. 1971), Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (class 1994).
In 1970s and 1980s he wrote on science mostly for youth magazines, edited fiction at Publishing house Mladá fronta, Prague and was freelancing. In 1990 he joined daily newspaper Lidové noviny, as columnist and editor (managing editor 1991, editor in chief 1992). Columnist in Týden weekly, Právo daily, BBC Czech Service and Czech Public Radio, at present he regularly writes opinion and op-ed for Lidové noviny
From 1997 to 2012 he was advisor to the Speaker of Czech Senate Hon. Petr Pithart
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"Pandořina skříňka" (Pandora's Box, Prague, 1979), SF stories
"Moře času" (The Sea of Time, Prague, 1986), stories
"Den na Kallistó" (A Day at Kallisto, Prague, 1989) SF stories
"Čím drží svět pohromadě" (How the World Holds Together, Prague, 1990), essays on science, co-author and editor
"Týden po týdnu" (Week by Week, Prague 1997), collected columns, with Jiří Hanák and Michal Růžička
"Evropou obchází strašidlo" (A Spectre Is Haunting Europe), stories, Prague 2009
"Obrázky z československých dějin 1918-1945" (Pictorial History of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1945), with Jiří Černý, Prague 2011.
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A temporary processing center is being built in Tornillo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to help with an influx of Central American migrants attempting to come to the United States, officials said Thursday. Victor Calzada / El Paso Times
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More: El Paso man wanted on child sexual assault warrant arrested at the Bridge of the Americas
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Beverly Jeppson and Yvonne Jones, co-3rd Vice Presidents of Ways and Means, guided our club through another successful fundraiser/tea.
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Members assembled many gift baskets for our raffle. There were food themed baskets, gardening supplies and plants, china settings, a large selection of chocolates, and other themes to entice everyone to participate in our raffle sale.
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|Beverly Jeppson's table is lovely with a turquiose tablecloth and whimsical centerpiece. The deep red color of the floral design work well with the bold table coverings.
|Caroline Russom's table centerpiece is crafted from the California native plants in her garden. She gave a party favor of a potted native plant to each of her guests.
|Eleonor de Carteret used a delicate English china set and coordinated the centerpiece with the colors in the table covering and dishes.
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|Madelyn Jameson and Sally Bagley co-hosted this lovely Halloween table with a black table cloth to showcase the white "spider web" place mats. The dishes in white and orange colors and their centerpiece of bold sunflowers completed their table top beautifully.
|Mary Fischbach used a ceramic Cheshire Cat for her Mad Hatter table setting. The bold colors of red and black on the cat were repeated in several places. This table top was another fun and whimsical Mad Hatter theme.
|Renee Rockower-Wade and Nancy Zippler set a more formal table top. A whimsical note was introduced in their centerpiece. The red flowers have "google eyes" to amuse the viewer.
|Carole Kyle and Pat Tjosas used a pretty white and hydrangea tablecloth as the basis for their table top. The center piece was constructed with small pots of herbs surrounding a candle. Tiny "nosegays" of herbs were placed on each cup and saucer. Their hostess gifts for each guest was an organic herbal teabag in a pyramid shaped package.
|Marcia Gaj used a fall theme for her table top. A deep gold table cloth was topped with gold chargers and white china. The whimsical touch was an old typewriter with the Alice in Wonderland story about the Mad Hatter Tea Party.
|Yvonne Jones created a Mad Hatter Tea Party table top. Note the stuffed Cheshire cat on the right sitting on her little side table. The glass wine glasses had blackand white striped straws for fun. The black and black and white polka dot table cloths were bold Halloween touches and softened with the colorful napkins, pink in the dishes and touches of pink on the elaborate centerpiece of candles in the candlestick.
|Janet Geis set up her table as a head table to accommodate more guests who wished to attend. It was a very elaborate table top with colorful drapes and flowers tucked here and there and on the floor in the front of the table.
|After shopping in the boutique, plant sale and bake sale areas, bidding in our silent auction and placing their raffle tickets our guests were hungary and ready to enjoy a tasty tea luncheon. We had scones with lemon curd, jam and cream, tea sandwiches and an assortment of desserts.
|After our luncheon we were enchanted with the entertainment of a magician who is the son-in-law of a member. Here he is pushing a needle through a balloon without popping it.
|Our Raffle ticket chairpersons, Bernadette de Young and Mary Ratner called out the numbers following our entertainment. Guests and members loved getting their prizes. Our Silent Auction chairman, Rosemary Ecker announced the winners of the Silent Auction and our Fall Fundraiser/Tea Chairmen, Beverly Jeppson and Yvonne Jones called the numbers for the door prizes. Everyone had a good time and we thank all businesses who gave us donations and our members who worked so hard to make this another success.


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The Osprey I is a 28' Chris Craft 281 Catalina. LOA: 28'. Beam: 10.9. Displacement: 7000. Draft: 2.5. Bridge Clearance: 9. A very stable and fully-equipped vessel.
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OPI Oh So Glam is a sheer white with gold iridescence. It's super pretty, but it takes quite some coats in order to build it up to semi-opaqueness. It's not a crazy white, it's super subtle, great for office wear.
OPI Rising Star is a gorgeous copper. It's almost an EXACT dupe of Revlon's Limited Edition Copper Gleam. The only difference is Rising Star has sparse gold glitter in it, which you can see really well in this picture.
Revlon Jelly is the strangest color. This picture makes it look like a hot pink, which it is. But it's also a crazy hot red. And maybe even orange. It's a mix of all three. It definitely a warm hot pink, either way. My mom got this from a work meeting, so I got it for "free." I haven't put this on my nails yet, I'm waiting for summer, but when I'll do I'll still post it as a review sample.
Revlon Vintage is–in the bottle– one of my favorite colors. The perfect red-violet cranberry, burgundy, type color. On the nail it's slightly darker than the bottle color. I didn't like it on nail as much as I did in the bottle. I still love its name, and all Revlon colors are FANTASTIC for Konad.
Sally Hansen Cafe Au Lait was added to my collection while I was in search of the perfect nude, "mannequin hands," color. This is super close, but my skin tone underneath it makes it look just the slightest bit peachy, as you can see here. It's super close to my match.
Sephora Dragee is a super sheer pink, it's french manicure pink. It's nothing special. Just a little wash of color.
Sinful Colors Why Not is a super light blue. Not robin egg blue, like OPI's What's With The Cattitude. This is BLUE. It's aqua. It's gorgeous. This picture is true to color. It's crazy opaque too. One of my favorite polishes ever. It's so BOLD. Love. Love. Love. I'm going to do a polish change to this one tonight.
Ulta Professional Angel Baby is an opaque white creme. It's just a white I decided to pick up. I already have Sinful Colors Snow Me White, which is identical in pure white-ness. However, Snow Me White applies WAY better than Ultas white. That, and Angel Baby like, never, ever dries. I had so many dings, dents and fingerprints, that I never photographed it. Go buy Sinful Color Snow Me White, it's better, and cheaper!
Ulta Professional Femme Fatale is a dark plum shimmer. It's pretty, great pigmentation, completely opaque in two coats, applied well. looks super pretty under white crackle.
Ulta Lotsa Luxe is a gold metallic. It's a pale gold. I wore this in my OPI Black Crackle NOTD, two posts ago. It looks FANTASTIC under Black Shatter, and it was beautiful. However, on its own, on me, it's completely unflattering, old, and gross. However, if someone with a darker skin tone or hell, even a tan, were to wear this, it would pop and look phenomenal. I'm way too pale for this color. It makes everything worse. I will keep it and love it for Konading and crackle polishes.
Wet N Wild Hannah Pinktana is from their super cute, amazing collection where everything is named after a TV show. I own Teal Of Fortune (Blue and gold glitter), Ebony Hates Chris (black creme), Gray's Anatomy (silver, purple, grey, green, and blue duochrome), Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire, and Hannah Pinktana. This is a gorgeous purple base — not pink as the name suggests — with packed glitter with holographic prisms thrown in there too. It's truly gorgeous, but I haven't had the honor of wearing it yet. I hope I can assume it'll be just as amazing as Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire, which applied amazing for such a dense glitter. Removal is a pain of course, but it's all totally worth it.
Zoya Carrie Ann is a medium red shimmer. It's pretty, it's my first Zoya, but I really don't like reds. BUT THEY WERE ON CLEARANCE. Application is great, completely opaque in two coats.
Zoya Kristi is a medium red creme, it's basically the color of a tomato. It's pretty, but as I stated above, I'm not a red lover. Application is great, opaque in it's tomatoey goodness in just two coats, nice and glossy.
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PSI Awards in depth – Security Industry Product of the Year
A new category was added to the awards campaign this year to recognise the product from across all of the categories that got the most votes from installers, end-users and consultants – the winner was Galaxy Flex+ from Honeywell
It was a huge moment for Honeywell Galaxy Flex+ to be honoured at the PSI Premier Awards recently, winning the Security Industry Product of the Year.
"To be recognised by installers, end users and consultants from across the industry makes us hugely proud of the product we have created," Said Jon Prout, Regional Sales Leader. "When we first started designing an integrated intruder and access control solution we wanted a product that would be loved by our customers and provide immense benefit. So we started with a trusted solution, one that had already proven itself within the tough environment of the security industry, and sought to make it even better.
"Taking the basis of both the original Galaxy Flex and the Galaxy Dimension we worked on highlighting and enhancing its strengths while taking customer feedback to improve the product further. The first priority was creating a robust solution that was capable of both Security Grade 2 and 3 featuring multi-path communications, including GSM/GPRS with heartbeat monitoring for a reliable connection with an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC). This allows our customers to use the Galaxy Flex+ solution in a range of environment from small businesses to medium sized enterprise looking after high-value assets; from banks and jewellers to pharmacies and petrol stations.
"In addition to creating a robust solution, we wanted a product that reflected the continuous threat levels," explained John. "Galaxy Flex+ takes advantage of available communications infrastructures enables continuous round-the-clock supervision with monitoring from a single, central location easing the burden on business managers and owners.
"We also wanted a product that was easier for installers to install and users to operate. With its modular design and automated programming profile, we were able to produce a solution that can be installed in any building with minimal disruption. The single panel and universal platform enabled automatic programming capabilities, reducing the time required for installation, training and maintenance, providing benefit for both the installer and the end-user.
"All of this needed to be at a price point that was cost-effective for our customers. By creating a solution that can be scaled thanks to its modular nature and had significantly reduced maintenance costs, we were able to offer a compelling solution that the industry has really taken to.
"We would like to thank those who voted across the industry and Professional Security Installer for honouring the Galaxy Flex+ with the prestigious accolade of Security Industry Product of the Year."


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The Migration and Development Brief (April 2019) by the World Bank provides updates on global trends in migration and remittances and validates the projections made in the previous Brief in December 2018. The report highlights developments related to migration-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for which the World Bank is a custodian: increasing the volume of remittances as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), reducing remittance costs, and reducing recruitment costs for migrant workers. It also presents recent developments on the Global Compact on Migration (GCM), reports Trend citing to news.tj
In 2019, annual remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are likely to reach $550 billion, according to the report. That would make remittance flows larger than foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA) flows to LMICs. In 2018, remittance flows to LMICs reached $529 billion, an increase of 9.6 percent over 2017. Remittance flows grew in all six regions, particularly in South Asia (12.3 percent) and Europe and Central Asia (11.2 percent). Growth was reportedly driven by a stronger economy and employment situation in the United States and a rebound in outward flows from some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the Russian Federation.
The report says the global average cost of sending remittances remained at about 7 percent in the first quarter of 2019, roughly the same level as in recent quarters.
In 2018, in current U.S. dollar terms, the top five remittance recipient countries were India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and Egypt. As a share of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2018, the top five recipients were smaller economies: Tonga, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Haiti, and Nepal.
The report says that after posting 22 percent growth in 2017, remittances to Europe and Central Asia (ECA) grew by an estimated 11.2 percent to $59 billion in 2018. Continued growth in economic activity increased outbound remittances from Poland, Russia, Spain, and the United States—major sources for remittances for the region. Smaller remittance-dependent countries in the region, such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, have particularly benefited from the sustained rebound of economic activity in Russia, the primary destination of low-skilled migrants from these countries.
As a share of GDP, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are still leading the ECA countries, at about 35.1 percent and 32.2 percent, as remittances remained by far the biggest source of foreign currency earnings for these countries.
The report notes that 2.3 billion U.S. dollars were remitted to Tajikistan last year and the country's GDP in 2018 stood at more than 7.3 billion U.S. dollars.
Meanwhile, according to data provided by Russia's central bank, private persons sent more than 2.5 billion U.S. dollars from Russian to Tajikistan through money transfer systems, which was equal to 37 percent of Tajikistan's GDP. Russia remains the main destination country for Tajik labor migrants.
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How Contact Centre Services Work: 3 Ways To Happier Customers
Fix These Customer Contact Centre Turn-Offs
Working for and managing customer service centres is tough work. Contact centre employees who answer inbound calls don't have the advantage of seeing body language to gauge a customer's mood, health, or other visual clues. They rarely have control over wait times and the menu options customers are often required to navigate before they can speak to a human. It's up to managers to talk to customer service reps on the front lines to find out where problems arise and find solutions.
Here are some recent findings on the most common complaints about customer service centres. Many can be resolved with changes in contact centre management practices and agent empowerment.
Most Customers Say Their Calls Are Not ResolvedIn 2013, Virginia-based Customer Care Measurement & Consulting and the WP Carey School of Management at Arizona State University, reported on findings from a repeat of a 1976 study to see how customer service has changed over the years. They found that, on the whole, customer service hasn't improved much in terms of customer satisfaction and in many ways, there is more anger than ever. This is a serious matter, since today's customers will not stay loyal to a brand unless they are satisfied with how their problem is fixed.
Most tellingly, 56% of respondents to the study, which was conducted between 2011 and 2013, said their problems weren't solved during their first encounter with customer service. Just 21% reported that the problem was resolved during the first call, and 60% called three or more times. Between 2011 and 2013, the number of respondents who said they got absolutely no resolution from call centres increased from 47% to 56%.
This applies to contact centre employees because in spite of the availability of websites and Facebook and Twitter accounts set up for customer service purposes, Americans still prefer to call in their complaints by a margin of 11:1. The problem is that while there are more call centre technologies, companies are "doing all the right things the wrong way."
Here are what customers say are the main problems:
- Automated response menus are too complicated to navigate.
- Agents aren't empowered to fix the problem.
- Phones are understaffed.
Agents are Seen as Insensitive to Customer ProblemsCustomers also disliked the way agents spoke to them, and resented what was and wasn't said.
- Just 35% felt they were treated with dignity.
- Only 21% weren't assured that the problem would not happen again.
- Only 23% received an explanation about why the problem occurred, and just 32% received an apology for the inconvenience.
- 33% were thanked for their business.
- 32% disliked the scripted approach agents used to speak with them. Instead of using a script, try using these best practice phrases.
Make Hold Time Less PainfulPeople who call customer service do not want to be forced to listen to elevator music, says US News & World Report. They also dislike being on hold for more than five minutes.
Well-designed and properly integrated call centre management tools can minimize hold times through queue optimization techniques that include automated call distribution and priority routing and skills-based routing. Because these require input from customers, options must be clear and not too numerous. Management should consult a service that can analyze past inbound calls and create a solution to manage inbound calls to ease the tension on callers and agents alike.
Consider getting rid of standard hold music. There are companies that create more interesting compositions for hold. Better yet, combine music with messages, advises Denwa Communications, a business phone systems provider in England. Providing information about other products and services is another avenue to reach customers. If upselling isn't relevant, mention the business website address or Twitter feed to break up the music.
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