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Eli Roth's Hostel movies are notoriously violent and gory. They're supposed to have inaugurated a new, updated version of horror cinema — torture porn, which is supposedly more explicit, more stomach-churning, and more sadistic than anything that came before.
So I was…not exactly startled, but maybe mildly disappointed/pleased to discover that the new boss is the same as the old boss. The Hostel films aren't exponentially worse than any other horror film I've seen. They're just basic slashers, with medieval torture devices as killing gimmicks. Effectively graphic, sure, but not moreso than Freddy's macabre dreamscape liquefying, or even really than Jason's trusty weapons, blunt or edged.
That's not to say that Hostel has no new tricks up its bloody apron. On the contrary. Slashers are generally built around an axis of violence/revenge. You have some horrible all-powerful Thing, which systematically tortures and murders in an apotheosis of satisfying sadism. And then, in the second half, the poles are switched, hunter becomes hunted, and that big bad Thing is remorselessly brutalized. That's why it makes sense to think of rape/revenge films as slashers; it's the same basic dynamic, just with rape instead of murder (and/or, alternately, slashers can be seen as rape/revenge films with the murder substituting — often not especially subtly — for rape.)
As the rape/revenge comparison makes clear, slashers often get their energy from gender animosity. Everybody in slashers is being punished for something, but one of the most common acts which elicits punishment is sexual activity. This goes for guys too, but, of course, the audience and the male gaze being what they are, there's generally a lot more interest in seeing the girl's bare all…and then to have them punished either hypocritically for provoking desire, or more straightforwardly for not satisfying it. And after the punishing, you switch in the final half and identify with the female/victimized punished, who now gets to dismember the killer/rapist, so the audience can both revel in her sadistic accomplishment and enjoy the masochistic thrill of castration.
Gender isn't the only lever that works here; slashers often instead (or also) use class animosity to power their fantasies of alternating sadism/masochism. So in The Hills Have Eyes, we watch the deformed feral reprobates battle the city folk. And, of course, the city folk get punished for being city folk, and the reprobates get punished for being reprobates, and the studio audience gets to hate/love both and revel in their pain/brutality.
Eli Roth is I'm sure perfectly aware of all these dynamics (I'd bet he's read Carol Clover Men, Women, and Chainsaw just like I have.) And in Hostel, he very cleverly tweaks them. Rather than fitting the murder/revenge onto the primary binary man/woman, or rich/poor, he changes it up,and fits it onto the division American/foreigner — or perhaps more accurately, Westerner/Easterner. The movie insightfully realizes that the most loathsome, vile, and worthless people on the planet are American frat boys on tour…and it gleefully sets out to torture them to death. But it also and simultaneously taps into the all-American nightmare of the decadent Europe/East with its forbidden pleasures and unspeakable corruption. In short, Hostel is like a Henry James novel with severed fingers, screaming, and nudity.
The nudity and the sex is quite important, not just for its prurient value, but thematically. As I said, slashers usually revel in the animosities of gender…but they usually do it by making the women the victims (first…and then later the victimizer.) Roth, though, shuffles the roles. It's the American backpackers (and their Scandinavian friend) who are presented first as sexual aggressors. For them, Europe — and especially that Hostel in Slovakia — is a pornutopia — a place to pull out their money and their balls and go to town (or, alternately, in the case of sensitive guy Josh, a place to whine on a shoulder about his lost love, and then pull out money, balls, etc.) The Westerners' casual sense of entitlement — their belief that, yeah, Europe is basically a hole to stick their bits in — is both their downfall and what makes them deserve their downfall. Probably the best scene in the film is when backpacker Paxton (Jay Hernandez) staggers away from the eviscerated Josh to confront Natalya (Barbara Nedeljakova), one of those available girls, who, he now realizes, had set them up to begin with. "You bitch!" he screams at her, to which she responds, with great gusto, "I get a lot of money for you, and that makes you MY bitch."
That's the slasher in a nutshell; I'm your bitch, then you're mine. The Americans rule the world and use their money to turn everyone into meat in their entertainment abattoir — but that makes them basically as dumb as their stupid trimmed foreskins, and this one woman, at least, has reversed both the entertainment and the abattoir on behalf of the whole damn world. Now, at last, for exorbitant prices, the shady middlemen will arrange for you to fuck those Americans up, down, and sideways, just as they've always, through those middlemen, done to you.
But inevitably those corrupt Europeans can't get let off that easy. Paxton manages to escape, aided (more symbolically than diegetically) by the cross-cultural juju imparted by his knowledge of German. And it's there, unfortunately, that the movie starts to be too clever for its own good — or maybe Roth's cleverness just failed him. Either way, Roth's set-up is so elaborate — what with the entire village involved in the conspiracy and wealthy out-of-towners coming in from all over Europe to get a literal piece of the other — that by the time we get to the end of the thing, it's hard to figure out where the revenge fits in. Thus the director has to put his hand, and then a couple of feet on the scales of justice to make everything work out. And so, while fleeing, Paxton just so happens to see Natasha and her deceitful friend wander out in front of his car so he can run them over. Then, a little later, he coincidentally ends up in the same train as the creepy Dutch businessman who murdered his friend.
In a really satisfying (or bleak, same difference) revenge narrative, like "I Spit on My Graves" or "Straw Dogs," or "Death Proof", or even "Friday the 13th IV", the violence/reverse violence is remorseless pendulum; the axe goes forward, the axe goes back, as sure as the world turning round its bloody sun. With Hostel, though, you can see the implement of destruction fall to the wayside, so that the director has to go pick it up, paint some gore on there, and hand it back to the befuddled protagonist. You never really believe that Paxton is a cold killer; he hasn't found his inner resources, and/or lost his soul. He just happened to be the guy picked to be standing at the end, and the guy standing at the end has to take revenge. The plot and the genre conventions just never quite manage to reconcile themselves to each other.
Part of the problem, perhaps, is that the dynamics of globalization can be fit only uncomfortably on the slasher binaries. Men/women, upper class/lower class — those are old, old hatreds, graceful in their cthonic simplicity. Capitalism, though, is multipolar and diffuse. It isn't here or there, but everywhere; there is no one bad guy, like Jason or Freddy, but a technology of pleasure which distributes sadism and desire to everyone and no one. Roth takes great pains to allow Paxton to kill the individuals who tormented him and his friends, but the supposed catharsis dissipates into clumsy anti-climax. The sexy girls may have suckered Paxton; the Dutch businessman may have murdered his friend, but the real enemy isn't either sexy girls or businessman. The real enemy is the system that uses money to transform people into things — a system of such overwhelming power, with its tendrils in so many aspects of society (the hostel, the village, the police…the world?) that there's never even a question of confronting it. The capitalism in Hostel corrodes it's belief in its own rape/revenge empowerment fantasy — and without that faith in its genre, the end of the film comes across more adrift than driven.
Which is, perhaps, why Roth made an almost unheard of choice for an exploitation sequel, and substantially changed his formula. Oh, sure, the Hostel is still there, and the basic set up — the Slovakia setting, the torture, etc. etc., is all in place, and the victims are still three backpackers. In this case, though, the backpackers are women — which instantly rearranges many of the tensions of the last film. The three protagonists here are going to enjoy a spa, not to screw native girls. From an early scene where they're menaced by creepy assholes on the way to Slovakia, they're always presented as vulnerable and endangered, not as exploiters.
Moreover, Hostel II is at least as interested in the logistics of its torture auction, and in the torture-purchasers, as it is in the victims. Stuart and Todd, who buy the chance to torture our heroines, are a lot like the vacuous American fratboys in the first film — only these guys are far enough along in their careers that they can purchase more expensive meat.
By spending so much time showing us the mechanics of doom, Hostel II cheerfully chucks most of its suspense; we know what's going to happen already, after all. The first film began as a callow road comedy and slid slowly towards horror; the second, though, teeters on farce from beginning to end. If the emblematic moment in the first movie is the scene where Natasha reveals to Paxton whose bitch is whose, the quintessential scene in the second film probably occurs when poor awkward Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) is strung up naked in the air over a bath ringed with candles. The hulking Eastern European guards go about with a bored efficiency positioning Lorna just right, lighting all those wicks, and then, with businesslike nonchalance, exiting stage right. Shortly thereafter, a woman comes in, strips naked, lies in the bath, and begins chopping at Lorna with a scythe so that she can bathe in her blood. The combination of banality and hyperbolic decadence isn't even especially suspenseful; instead, it comes across more as a knowing, gleeful snicker. You want tits and torture brought directly to the comfort of your boring home? No problem; just wait a second while we hit the lights, put everything in place, and then saunter off camera….
Most of the torture scenes are like that; more Three Stooges than Hannibal Lecter. While menacing his victim, Todd accidentally unplugs his chain saw…then on a second try slips and accidentally cuts her face in half before he meant to, leading him to give up on the project altogether (since he refuses to finish the kill, violating his contract, the guards shrug and turn the dogs on him.)
Even the climactic Final Girl escape is a deliberate anti-climax. She triumphs not through smarts or strength (though she does exhibit both of those) but rather through sheer force of capital. Beth (Lauren German) is, as it turns out, really, really rich, and she simply extricates herself by dumping a ton of money in the lap of Sasha (Milan Kažko), the businessman in charge. In this case, the phallus of potency and power isn't a gun or a knife; it's cash, as Beth demonstrates decisively when, just before striding out of her cell, she snips off her tormenters balls — prompting all the scruffy guards to flinch as one.
That's a pretty entertaining finish, and perhaps the film should have just ended there. Once again, though, Roth has to choose between being true to his capitalist vision and fulfilling his slasher tropes…and he chooses the second. Beth gets inducted into the evil fellowship of lucre, up to and including having to get the secret sign of the bloodhound tattooed on her butt. She's an initate…and the first thing she does with her newfound status is to go out into the town and kills with her own hands willowy two-faced Axelle (Vera Jordanova) — the frenemy who tricked her into coming to the hostel in the first place.
That's how slashers are supposed to resolve — with an eye for an eye. But in this context it just seems kind of dumb. I mean, why bother? Beth doesn't become powerful by killing Axelle; she's already — and even from the beginning — more powerful than anyone in the film. She can, as one of her friends says, buy the entire town, hostel and all. It wasn't that, like most Final Girls, she was first weak and then found something within her that could be strong. On the contrary, though we didn't know it, she always was the biggest one in the room tougher than Jason, more all-powerful than Freddy.
This isn't, then, about Beth learning to be strong. Nor is it about Beth fighting off her killer and thereby becoming a killer herself. On the contrary, the issue is not her soul but her bank account. Personal, individual revenge in this context seems quaint. After all, if she wanted to, Beth could have just paid Sasha to take Axelle into the dungeon, and watched as some random penny-ante punter cut her to pieces. Hell, she could have paid the guards to do the same to Sasha; why not? She's got the money.
Roth seems determined to ignore this insight. Like that weird Dutch businessman in the first film who eats salad with his trembling hands because he wants to feel "that connection with something that died for you," Roth is wedded to that old-fashioned Old Testament slasher morality, where you take a life for a life, person to person. But sympathetic as he is to genre tradition, Roth's films end up being about newer gods — gods that are only more fearsome because they never get their hands dirty.


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Sutcliffe" World Wide Web: FreeBurma@xxxxxxxxx Volunteering: Dr. Christina Fink c/o burmanet@xxxxxxxxxxx [Feel free to suggest more areas of coverage] ---------------------------------------------------------- ===== item ===== BURMA'S ENTRY INTO ASEAN: A NEAR REALITY? 10 AUGUST 1995, The Nation The Burmese military junta surprisingly announced its desire to become an Asean observer. Yindee Lertcharoenchok looks at this crucial stage of Burma at a political crossroads. With Burma's accession to the 1976 Treaty of Amity and Cooperation last month, Asean members are jubilant that their founding father's dream of seeing a 10- member Southeast Asian grouping is finally materializing before the turn of the century. Asean members belive that the five year time frame is a reasonable possibil ity as Vietnam has just become a full member, with Laos and Cambodia expected to head in the same direction as both have been granted observer status. It has been the dream of our founding fathers that there will eventually be an Asean 10. I would like to see it happen by the turn of the century. There are still five years to work on this. It is possible, said Malaysian Foreign Ministry Permanent Secretary Ahmad Kamil Jaafar in Kuala Lumpur on the eve of the annual Asean Ministerial Meeting in Brunei last month. In early July, the Burmese junta instructed its ambassador to Indonesia to inform the Asean Secretariat Office in Jakarta of its wish to become an observer at Asean. At the same time, Burmese Foreign Minister U Ohn Gyaw informed his counter part, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah of Brunei, who chaired the Asean meeting, of Rangoon's decision to accede to the Asean treaty. By tradition, this automatically gives a treaty partner an observer status in Asean. With no prior hint, Asean countries were caught off guard by the sudden decision of the ruling Burmese State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc). They were even more surprised to hear about the Slorc's unconditional release on July 10 of its arch enemy and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who had spent nearly six years under house arrest. Upon arrival in Brunei on July 27, U Ohn Gyaw presented to Prince Bolkiah Slorc's instrument of accession to the Bali Treaty. However, Asean members decided to stand by their previous decision to have Ohn Gyaw attend the Asean forum as guest of the host country. During the Asean meeting in July last year, he also represented his country as guest of Thailand. In principle, Asean foreign ministers agreed that Burma would officially enjoy observer status at their annual gathering next year in Indonesia. Slorc's abrupt but deliberate move to associate itself with Asean is not without hidden motives when one takes into account its refusal to join Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand when they founded the grouping in 1967. Since Burma's independence in 1948 after 62 years of British colonial rule, successive governments_ parliamentary and military_ have strictly adhered to neutrality in foreign policy partly due to its strategic geopolitical location as a country that borders two Asian giants, China and India. They also adopted the concept of five principles of peaceful coexistence proclaimed at the Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia in April, 1955 where Burma was one of the key participants. The Bandung Declaration, which has served as the basic principle of Burma's foreign relations with countries across the globe, calls for mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equally and mutual benefits, and peaceful coexistence. When the Revolutionary Council of Gen Ne Win seized power on March 2, 1962, it announced Burma's adherence to a policy of positive neutrality, guaranteeing the continuity of existing cordial relations with all countries. Burma's neutrality was well recognized, especially at the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. During that rough and tough period, the country avoided suspicion from both the Communist world and the free world by refusing to align itself with either camps and keeping itself apart from regional associations, including Asean, which it considered as a staunchly anti- communist, pro-Western apparatus and lackey of American imperialism in the region. In Sept 1979, Burma withdrew from the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam), citing the violations of the Movement's basic principles, including the emergence of some active factions within the organization, the use of force by some members for the settlement of disputes and interference in the internal affairs of others. Only after the Cold War over did Burma seek to restore its Nam membership. Senior Thai government officials and some Asean diplomats share the view that Burma would not rush to become a full member of Asean and that the status of observer would sufficiently serve, at least for the time being, its internal and external interests, politically and economically. Unlike Vietnam and the two other Indochinese countries, Burma's integration into the Southeast Asian club would be a cautious gradual process. As an observer, Burma would be able to enjoy distant relations with Asean, which has yet to set a new post-Cold War policy direction and principles, while earning global acceptance, recognition and legitimacy from the grouping's growing international prominence. Slorc knows that Asean is a good steeping stone into the global arena and that it can easily pass the test with full regional recognition. The Burmese regime is confident that, as an observer, its self-interests would not be hurt and Asean can always be relied upon to stand up to deflect and challenge Western pressure and criticism of Slorc's poor human rights records and refusal to initiate democratic reforms. The benefits also include the invitation to attend separate annual meetings of Asean foreign and economic ministers and , more importantly, the two-year-old Asean Regional Forum (ARF) where Asean and its dialogue partners from the world's developed economies hold talks on political, security and defence matters in Asia and the Pacific. Several ARF members, particularly the West, have identifies Burma and the Spratly islands as the two potential hot spots in Southeast Asia. They have also commissioned studies to seek preventive measures against a possible violent scenario.. Slorc has clearly timed and used the release of Suu Kyi and its appropriate association with Asean to neutralize international outrage and backlash. The stunning release of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was not only a domestic agenda but a global requirement and Slorc maximized its effects to its utmost benefit. While Burma realizes its inevitable integration into Asean, Slorc has absolutely no desire or proven sincerity, at least for now, to be a full member of Asean. Although Vietnam's entry last month meant the official ending of ideological hostilities in the grouping, Burma has always pursued a more global outlook and prefers to associate itself with the United Nations or the Non-Aligned Movement where its interests and presence are best served and recognized. Asean diplomats believe that while Burma would have less difficulty than the three Indochinese status, it would study and watch Vietnam's integration in Asean closely. Unlike Cambodia and Laos, Burma has not publicly announced or committed itself to becoming an Asean member, they noted. Slorc is fully aware that before becoming an Asean member, it would be required to fulfill certain criteria and obligations, although exceptions are possible like in the case of Vietnam requesting a three-year grace period before it fully joins the Asean Free Trade Area. Among other requirements, Burma has to carry out internal administrative, structural and even policy reforms and preparations to cope with intensive Asean political and economic activities - around 200 meeting yearly, huge expenses and an annual US$ million membership contribution. It also has to conform to numerous Asean rulers and regulations as well as the grouping's principles and stance towards various international issues which Burma, with its global neutrality image, could find itself reluctant to commit to. Although Asean countries have tried to assure Rangoon that membership into Asean will not be gauged on the basis of the political situation there, Slorc knows that unless it improves its human rights records and implements further political reforms, its efforts to normalize relations with the world community, and come into association with Asean, will not be without criticism. Suu Kyi's release was warmly welcomed internationally, but the move does not translate into any political reform in Burma. Slorc has not projected a softened or reconciliation stance towards the pro-democracy movement or ethnic guerilla forces. before Burma is fully welcomed with open arms as a member, Asean has to make sure that Slorc accomplishes the other fundamental international requirements stated in successive annual UN resolutions. This includes the release of all political detainees, respects of human rights, freedom of access to political prisoners by the International Committee for the Red Cross, and progress towards dialogue and national reconciliation with the country's pro-democracy and ethnic movements. (TN) ===== item ===== MAE SAI TRADERS CRYING FOUL AS BORDER PASS ABRUPTLY SHUT 10 August 1995, THE NATION THE Burmese junta on Tuesday ordered the abrupt closure of five temporary border checkpoints between Tachilek and Thailand's Mae Sai district, and threatened a six-month jail term for anyone caught illegally crossing into Thailand. Thai merchants and the Mae Sai Chamber of Fem Traders said the closure will badly affect the town's already poor economy. It relies on border trade and local tourism. Chamber president Pichai Kongsricharoen said he did not know why the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council had closed the checkpoints, which were opened last month by Chiang Rai officials to facilitate and tourism. He said Slorc had threatened to jail people who illegally crossed the border for six months without bail or visitation rights. The closure was made without warning. Pichi said Mae Sai's whole economy was damaged when Slorc closed the official Tachilek-Mae Sai crossing early this year, after a dawn raid on Tachilek by opium warlord Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army. (TN) ====item==== SUU KYI AGREES TO SEND MASSAGE TO BEIJING MEET 10 August 1995, THE NATION BURMESE dissident Aung San Suu Kyi will send a videotape address to the non- governmental forum on women in Beijing this month, the chairwoman for the conference said yesterday. Aung San Suu Kyi agreed to record a message for the conference, which beings on Aug 30, after having turned down an invitation to attend the forum, which precedes the UN world women's conference, Supatra Masdit told reporters in Bangkok. The Burmese dissident was invited to attend the meeting by the UN organizers, but declined, saying she was not yet prepared to travel outside Burma. Suu Kyi would talk about her political struggle and describe her experience up to her release from almost six years of house arrest on July 10, said Supatra, a Thai MP. We want her to talk about her inspirations, her belief in talking a political role for the world's women, she said. She will also tell of her experiences, which will benefit women who wish to take a political role- especially for dissident movements fighting undemo cratic forces, Supatra said. Burma has announced that it will send an official delegation to the Beijing forum. (TN)


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LACONIA — Mike Baron of Baron's Billiards and the Cafe Deja Vu Pub Mania Team are teaming up for the 7th Annual Robbie Mills Memorial 8 Ball Tournament which will be held Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Funky Monkey in downtown Laconia.
The tournament, which was started seven years ago by Baron as a benefit for the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region, will also benefit the WLNH Children's Auction this year.
Last year he got some help from Tony Felch and John Rich, who run the Tuesday night pool league in Laconia and who showed up and saw him running the event virtually single-handedly and decided to pitch in. They are members of the Deja Vu Pub Mania Team, which has been the top fundraising team in the WLNH Children's Auction for the last two years and collected over $20,000 in December.
''We thought that one super event would be more successful,'' says Baron, who says that last year there were 62 players in the tournament and that this year's goal is to have 100 players show up for the event.
The tournament gets underway with registration at 10 a.m. and those who pre-register before Saturday will receive a free commemorative T-shirt donated by Body Covers. Play gets underway at 11 a.m. and with a dozen pool tables available as many as 128 players can be accommodated.
''This has become a prestige tournament for players. Some come all the way up from the Seacoast and over from Maine and Vermont to take part. We raised $3,000 last year and are think that working together we can bring in a lot more to help the kids,'' said Baron.
He said that he has been putting on tournaments for the Boys and Girls Club ever since the organization was known as the Laconia Teen Center and and believes strongly that the Boys and Girls Club is needed to provide a safe haven ''for the kids who have been falling through the cracks. It really does take a whole village to raise a child.''
Baron says that he knows how important having a special place is, citing the example of his own father, who spent time in seven foster homes after losing his father when he was only two years old.
Brenda Ferland, owner of Deja Vu, says that she's pleased to have such a dedicated group of workers on her Pub Mania team and excited to be joining with Baron to help run the tournament.
Felch, the team captain, said he remembers Robbie Mills and saw him the day he was murdered for his bicycle near the Messer Street bridge.
''I couldn't believe that happened in Laconia,'' says Felch, who says that he greatly admires the way Wendy Mills has worked to honor her son's memory.
The event will feature cash prizes, raffles and a live auction which will include a season's Inner Circle Pass at Meadowbrook.
There will be lunch available courtesy of Sal's Pizza and Shaw's and Hannafords with trophies provided by Engraving Awards and Gifts.
For more info or to pre-register contact: Tony Felch 998-1418 or Boys & Girls Club 527-0198
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Getting ready for the 7th Annual Robbie Mills Memorial 8 Ball Tournament which will be held Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Funky Money in downtown Laconia are Mike Baron of Baron's Billiards, and Brenda Ferland, John Rich and Tony Felch of the Deja Vu Pub Mania Team. Proceeds from the event will go to the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region and WLNH Children's Auction. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)


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Forum in pursuit of Pinot excellence
Name: Marcel Giesen, Sherwyn Veldhuizen and Tony Scherer
By Mark Smith
The pursuit of excellence often goes unrewarded. It's one of life's ironies, Pinot Noir producers will tell you. This quirky red variety isn't called the heartbreak grape for nothing.
Even so, for many of those caught up in the pursuit of growing and making top quality Pinot Noir, the rewards have never been better. Recent years have seen a welcome increase in consumer awareness and appreciation of it in Australia. The industry, meanwhile, has responded accordingly, with the formation of Pinot Noir focus groups, and the establishment of high-profile events like the Mornington Peninsula's International Pinot Noir Celebration.
In Australia's smallest winegrowing State, things are also looking up. Tasmania's pursuit of Pinot excellence received something of a jump-start in 1999 with the establishment of a 30-member grower-based organisation, called the Tasmanian Pinot Noir Forum (TPNF). The group met in mid-February this year on the State's east coast for its eighth annual four-day program of winemaking and viticulture workshops.
Its agenda spanned issues from colour stability and grape tannin to terroir and the winegrower, alternative approaches to growing Pinot Noir, and sustainable grapegrowing. In the words of the forum's chairman, Tony Scherer, those formal presentations and its ready mix of social events, dinners and blind tastings were 'all designed to taste, talk and pontificate the mysteries of Pinot Noir'.
Top billing on the east coast was given to international guests Marcel Giesen (of Giesen Wines fame) and Sherwyn Veldhuizen. The New Zealand couple hale from the South Island's Canterbury region, often credited as the country's fourth largest winegrowing region, yet in reality an industry no larger than Tasmania's, accounting for barely 1000ha of vines, or 4% of New Zealand's total plantings.
Giesen and Veldhuizen are the owners and operators of the tiny, high profile Bell Hill Vineyard. The 10ha property is home base for a portfolio of Pinots that fetch well in excess of A$100 per bottle. The vineyard is located in an old limestone quarry in the Weka Pass sub-region of Canterbury an hour's drive north of Christchuch. It's currently planted to a meagre 1ha of vines. Yes, you read correctly: 1ha of vines.
These represent an eclectic selection of Chardonnay, Riesling and Pinot Noir. They were added to the site in a number of staged plantings, beginning in 1997. And with vine densities of between 9,000 and 12,500 plants/ha, Bell Hill could perhaps be described as Burgundian in its size and scale.
But if you were to think its six distinct vineyard blocks and its broad mix of clones and rootstocks were simply another 'me-too' New World copy of a site in Nuits-St-Georges, or in Gevrey-Chambertin, or elsewhere in the Côte d'Or, then you'd surely be wrong, the couple said. They see Bell Hill as the real world manifestation of a limestone odyssey they first began in Europe over a decade ago.
'Why not plant in Marlborough or Martinborough,' Giesen asked his hosts rhetorically.
'Because we were looking for soils that would really make a difference. That put us on the limestone trail. Our view is that many of the great wines of the world come out of France. Over half its vineyards are planted on limestone. We think that loess, clay, river gravel and limestone provide many of the most important aspects that underpin the expression of the Pinot grape.
'We found what we were looking for in an old limestone quarry. It was pretty obvious to us that it would have what we were looking for, and that we wouldn't have to just make it up.'
'It's not so much a matter of us copying what's being done in Burgundy,' added Veldhuizen.
'What we've done is to acknowledge that this is the feature they respect most in their soils.'
The couple noted their venture had more than its share of viticultural challenges. The block they purchased was originally advertised as potential truffle country. Cynics have described it as chlorosis central. Both views can be readily supported by Bell Hill's highly alkaline soils (pH 7.2 - 7.5) and its degraded and weathered bedrock.
As if that wasn't enough, Giesen told forum members they'd also added limestone rock to two blocks to increase light reflection, and to explore the possibility of ripening their Pinot Noir at a slightly lower sugar level to avoid unbalanced and alcoholic wines.
'There are two schools of thought about growing Pinot Noir on limestone,' Giesen asserted.
'One says the most effective plants are those on their own roots. The other, of course, says that with more than 20% active lime in our soils we really need to plant on rootstocks to get the best plant response from the site.'
The full article can be found in the May/June issue of Australian Viticulture.
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CUSP needs volunteers with 4 wheel drive! Saturday 8/16/2014
Hello everyone,
For a couple years now restoration work in the Hayman burn area and within Trail Creek area has been underway. The Forest Service and partners re-routed foot trails and roads in the area to significantly decrease sedimentation into the water system.
Things are really coming together out in Trail Creek and we are seeing an increase in fish habitat and other wildlife. There are just a few things that need buttoning up. There were a few roads that were decommissioned and we are doing our last bit of raking and seeding on those roads, and also hauling slash (wooded material) over these sites - so that native vegetation can take hold and reduce any sediment that is still being transported into the water supply.
Our usual volunteers do not always have 4x4's and we love having the 4x4 community out. We are hoping that some of you may come out and volunteer with us to help finish some of these sites off of the new Forest Service Rd 366. We have posted this onto our volunteer website, but haven't had too many sign up because of the 4 wheel drive requirement.
Date: Saturday, August 16th
Meeting time: 9:30 am
Meeting location: Mt. Communities Fire Department (Corner of West Creek Rd. and Stump Rd.)
Workday: Finalizing decommissioned sites by raking and seeding and pulling wooded material over these areas.
Please come give us a hand. We would love to have you out!
If you would like to sign up and join us for our volunteer day, please go to:
1)Fill out a "new volunteer form" if you haven't volunteered with us before
2)Find the project in trail creek on Saturday, 08/16/2014 and fill out a booking
We hope to see some of you out there. Thank you for enjoying our public lands as much as we do!
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Players may also redirect the puck with any part of their bodies, subject to certain restrictions. Players can angle their feet so the puck can redirect into the net, but there can be no kicking motion. Players may not intentionally bat the puck into the net with their hands.
Hockey is an offside game, meaning that forward passes are allowed, unlike in rugby. Before the 1930s hockey was an onside game, meaning that only backward passes were allowed. The period of the onside game was the golden age of stick handling which was of prime importance in moving the game forward. With the arrival of offside rules, the forward pass transformed hockey into a truly team sport, where individual heroics diminished in importance relative to team play, which could now be coordinated over the entire surface of the ice as opposed to merely rearward players.
The five players other than the goaltender are typically divided into three forwards and two defencemen. The forward positions consist of a centre and two wingers a left wing and a right wing. Forwards often play together as units or lines, with the same three forwards always playing together. The defencemen usually stay together as a pair, but may change less frequently than the forwards. A substitution of an entire unit at once is called a line change. Teams typically employ alternate sets of forward lines and defensive pairings when shorthanded or on a power play. Substitutions are permitted at any time during the course of the game, although during a stoppage of play the home team is permitted the final change. When players are substituted during play, it is called changing on the fly. A new NHL rule added in the 2005 2006 season prevents a team from changing their line after they ice the puck.
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Online Tattoo Design for your next inkspiration.Monday, June 20th, 2011
Picking out your Next Tattoo Design
There are several places on line you can go and get Tattoo Designs. Some like The Worlds Biggest Tattoo Store offers a variety of Tattoo designs to look at and other such as Tattoo Shading The Black & Grey Wash Style Guide simply teach you about the techniques of shading a black and grey tattoo.
Why shop online for a tattoo design
With today's market there really is no reason to go to a tattoo parlor and flip through a cookie cutter style book with no originality in it. So you get a tattoo and days later find five other people sharing the same ink you thought would be one of a kind. Don't get me wrong you can use the books to get an Idea about what you like but if you know your style and you know the design you might want ask the Tattoo artist to come up with something, have your friends or yourself draw up a concept or just go to a place online like NEW!!!Tattoo Designs U.s – Unique Content to get something you really want and like.
There is no reason to run around town looking for a good artist when you can sit at home and come up with a design, however it is highly recommended to find a great Tattooist working at a shop that is up to all of your State codes. This can prevent you from getting something that looks totally different then what you wanted and then finding out late that the guy didn't use a new needle on you. With a fly by night tattoo in my basement guy you could end up getting more then just a tattoo. I always recommend going with a well knowing Trusted Tattooist that takes their time to get you what you want well keeping your safety in mind at all times.
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Hey folks.. Sorry for the lack of posting lately. Been a real ass kicker around the casa…
For you conspiracy folks:
I have not been "Sequestered" nor have I been "Droned" DHS didn't "Scoop me up" and I'm not being sent to "GITMO" yet.
I haven't lost "My Job" Jerry Brown hasn't "Searched my house" Chris Dorner "Isn't living under my house" The cops haven't "Got me surrounded" and I didn't run off to be with "Kim Kardashian" Obama didn't "send in the zombies" nor did I fall ill because of "Chemtrails" the "asteroid didn't wipe out my AO" And NO the mexicans in my hood didn't go all "Alamo up in here"
Just trying to put to rest all the conspiracy theories… I'll be back soon.


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WiPeer enables sharing files directly among computers, playing multi-player games, chatting, and collaboration over both Wi-Fi and home/office networks. These networks are not centralized on a single computer and do not need Internet access.
The only thing you need to enter the network is a username. Then you can start sharing files, chatting or even playing chess, reversi, connect four and checkers. Chat rooms may be public or private, as well as file sharing, which can be done individually or with more than one user simultaneously. Network users can have their own personal profiles including data such as name, location, language, age, sex, etc.


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I've loved this addon for the longest time and now i'm finding myself having to turn it off. I never get vehicle bars that allow me to press the keyboard to activate abilities on amber-shaper and when doing heroic nef this past weekend I didn't get the buttons to stack the buff and break mind control. I have the latest version of bartender and the only other UI mod I run is pitbull.
Can anyone help me get bartender working correctly, I don't want to go back to default bars.


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Your To Do list is a mile long and it feels like it takes you foreeeeeeever to pull together a newsletter or a blog post. Even though you told yourself that THIS quarter you were going to write those more consistently. Post regularly. Send on time.
The thing is, your plate is really full already. You're trying to do too much, and you're limiting your success because of it.
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I have 2 potential [new hires] as of today after 6 interviews! Thanks so much for all of the help! (Karen and I worked together in a 1:1 consultation to help her figure out how to hire a Virtual Assistant.)
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I believe that the creative business owners of the world are doing something really magical: they're putting their creativity and passion into products and services, and sharing that awesomeness with the world. It's a privilege for me to support you in doing that kind of magical work, and I hope we can schedule a call very soon.


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Confused about pages/ business pages
I am confused by this - I have a personal facebook account and I created a page for my company that is linked to my personal account: it does not have any likes since I just made it yesterday.
Anyways - this is a copy and paste from FB rules:
If I already have a user profile, can I create a business account?
Maintaining multiple accounts, regardless of the purpose, is a violation of Facebooks Terms of Use. If you already have a personal account, then we cannot allow you to create business accounts for any reason. You can manage all the Pages and Socials Ads that you create on your personal account.
So am I breaking the rules? Why must I be one or the other? Why cant I promote and socialize my business as well? Its very confusing or is this just me? Hopefully I am not breaking any rules here.....
I think I am reading this wrong, - is it OK to have a Page that is promoting a business?
Thanks for all replies
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Confused About Pages And Rules In Fb
Started by lister , May 12 2011 07:03 AM
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Posted 12 May 2011 - 07:03 AM
Posted 12 May 2011 - 07:19 AM
No you're doing it correctly. One account.
Posted 12 May 2011 - 08:15 AM
No you're doing it correctly. One account.
Thanks - good to know.
I was worried I was going to put all this work in to then be told it was going to be pulled!
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"She" was right. The picture thing did not go over well. I have not received any post pictures from the NOoodlists who entered into the NOoodle diet contest. If you recall back on January 1st when I first started my blog and this contest I asked everyone to send in pre-diet pictures of their backsides. We were going on the NOoodle diet together, yippie! We set out to improve our health and wellness for our new years resolution. We had 11 participants including me. I have asked several times via our face book to have those who entered the diet contest to send in their post- diet photos after March 31st, I have not gotten any, not one. boo hoo! I guess it is not the first diet contest or new years resolution to be a bust, right?
As you may know I started the NOoodle diet contest so that I would be accountable to myself and get my health and wellness back by eating clean and exercising daily. Did I accomplish my goals? Have made a difference in my health & wellness in the past three months?
I sure have! Today I eat a lot healthier than I have been eating in my past. I have not had any bread ( with the exception of one slice of pumpernickel) in three months. I have not had anything sweet made with gluten in 2014, yeah! Have I had some chocolate, yes, but it was dark chocolate (-:. I am feeling great & it is a constant work in progress, a lifestyle change.
Today I think about everything that goes into your month before it goes into my mouth. Where it's origin comes from? Is it organic or is it genetically modified? Is it grass fed? It is plant based? What is the carb/sugar-protien/fiber ratio of the foods I am eating?
I have learned a lot about nutrition over the last few months and I have cooked and eaten some really great foods so I am not missing my past a bit. More and More research and evidence everyday that we really are what we eat.
"It's your life, eat a NOoodle meal everyday, yum!" Chef Terri
I've read several blogs today that meinotn receiving a note from Santa. What a nice idea. My children never received a note from Santa, but they did get a phone call once.


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Alan Barrett wrote:
Another thing is that Solaris package names usually start with a few capital letters identifying the source of the package, e.g. SUNWfoo for packages from Sun, or SFWbar for packages from sunfreeware.com. I don't know what pkgsrc or gensolpkg should do here.
gensolpkg has a prefix built in to it at compile time. The default is TNF. Hmm, this means that all of our estimates of how many packages have names that are too long are wrong because we won't know how long the package builder's prefix is.
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On behalf of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation and Mines ParisTech, the organizing committee would like to thank all participants to the conference on "Debating Responsible Innovation in Finance", held yesterday, 30 November 2011, in Paris. Their contributions translated into an immensely productive and intense exchange. On the overall, the conference counted on more than a hundred participants: professionals from the financial services industry, journalists, elected representatives, members of regulatory bodies, students and researchers. An updated version of the finale program is available here. A more fine-grained report, with video excerpts of the discussions, will be made available here soon. What follows is just a very brief summary.
The conference started with a welcome address delivered by Benoît Legait, Director of Mines ParisTech. The initial round-table discussion was devoted the problem of "dangerous externalities": how to tackle negative unforeseen consequences of financial innovation, how to calibrate the introduction of new products and services in the markets, how to test them, how to account for their benefits and their dangers. Shyamala Gopinath, former Deputy Governor of the National Reserve of India, discussed the Indian regulatory experience. Sarai Criado, from the European Commission, directed attention towards critical cases such as ETFs (exchange-traded funds), hybrid complex MTNs (medium-term notes), sovereign CDS (credit default swaps) and liquidity swaps. Andrew Palmer, from the Economist, chaired a lively discussion with the participation of members of the audience.
The second round-table discussion tackled the specific case of high-frequency trading (HFT) and automated trading at large: the controversy on its benefits and on its contribution to liquidity, the dangers this practice can prompt in terms of feedback loops and unintended consequences, and the difficulties it poses in terms of regulatory assessment. The discussion was chaired by Irène Inchauspé, from Challenges magazine, and counted on the viewpoints of Yann Muzika, former practitioner in this area now at Magnet Investment Advisors, Charles-Albert Lehalle, a specialist of high-frequency trading at Crédit Agricole Chevreux, Oliver Burkart from ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority), Jean-Pierre Zigrand, economist at the London School of Economics, and Yuval Millo, a sociologist of finance, also from the London School of Economics.
Michael Power, Director of the Center for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, provided a series of commentaries on the morning sessions, with a focus on what financial innovation could learn from the governance and assessment of innovation in other areas, from technology to medicine.
The third round-table discussion, titled "responsible actors", shifted attention to the pressing issue of incentives: not only bonuses but incentives at large, and their capacity to foster responsibility and irresponsibility in financial, economic, regulatory and political behavior. The discussion was chaired by Delphine Liou from BFM Business TV and contributors to the debate were Pascal Canfin, Member of the European Parliament, Jean Pierre Mustier, Head of UniCredit Corporate and Investment Banking Division, Loïc Fery from Chenavari Investment Managers, Olivier Godechot, sociologist at the CNRS and Paris School of Economics, and Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a member of the Peterson Institute.
The fourth round-table discussion introduced the topic of "democratic innovations": the idea was to discuss measures that could strengthen a more participatory approach to financial innovation and oversight, with a deeper understanding of public scrutiny and collective responsibility in the face of risk and uncertainty. The discussion, chaired by Elsa Conesa from Les Echos, focused on the viewpoints of Michel Péretié, CEO of Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, and Valérie Rabault, Head of Market Prospective and Business Risk at BNP Paribas, with the participation of Stéphane Delacôte, Alexandre Pointier and Marc Lenglet, members of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation, in their capacity of former practitioners from the financial services industry.
Bruce Kogut, Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, offered a view on the afternoon discussion, with a focus on the present situation in the United States.
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