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Every starting quarterback knows he must train his successor, or risk hurting the team. It's a tenet of any organized activity with hopes of continuity, but it's a principle many in ranching seemingly fail to grasp.
Dave Baker, Iowa State University (ISU) farm transition specialist with the Beginning Farmer Center (BFC), points out six farm-succession challenges every beginning rancher should consider, and every established operator should keep in mind.
- Ineffective entry strategies.
"I just want to raise my family on the farm," is a phrase Baker hears all too often as he works with beginning ranchers. "It's a very good lifestyle for family, but so many people don't consider the business side of what it takes to get into farming," Baker says. If it's only a lifestyle people are seeking, he suggests getting a small acreage outside of town and keeping the job in town.
"There's more to running a farm business than just raising your family on an acreage," Baker emphasizes. "You have to know how to run a business."
Ten years ago, Kevin Ochsner, 40, and his wife Julie made the decision to raise their young family closer to production agriculture. The decision between enjoying a rural "lifestyle" and building a business weighed heavily on the couple.
The lifestyle choice would have left the Ochsners with or 15-20 cows producing 4-H projects for the kids; whereas, a business venture meant a larger cowherd and a reasonable secondary income. They chose the latter, and today have a 125-head herd near Kersey, CO, raising three children - Caitlyn, 11; Ashlyn, 8; and Collin, 5. Their business model includes a local branded beef business and selling breeding stock both private treaty and through a satellite arrangement with Wulf Limousin.
"Both Julie and I have a deep passion for production agriculture that extends beyond the lifestyle of living in the country. It includes our passion for the kind of people you meet in agriculture and our desire to build a business together," Kevin says.
- Inability to acquire initial capital investment.
Tallying up the starting costs of ranching isn't for the faint of heart. The key is to start small. "You start out small and build your business, just like anything else. Be patient," Baker stresses. Don't think it's possible to buy land, $200,000 worth of machinery and a herd of cattle all within a year or two.
Instead, he suggests thinking in terms of long-term relationships. "How about buying out a stock cowherd over five years where you could buy a fifth of the herd a year for five years?" Baker suggests.
For machinery, start with basic, immediate-need equipment, or consider custom farming. It's tough to get into a bidding war for land when equity is a concern - cash-renting land and working with landowners and small acreages is another possibility.
Kim Cullen, a 34-year-old rancher from Wheatland, WY, has the "build slowly" mindset. Her custom artificial insemination business began in 2000 servicing 1,500 head/year, and now accommodates more than 5,000 head; she has grown her cowherd, too, without owning land.
"Good ranch land around here is disappearing; it's going for outrageous prices that you can't pay for with livestock," Cullen says.
Early on she'd snatch up land someone else had passed over either due to fencing, pasture quality or water issues because she was willing to mend fences and get creative. Her herd has grown to 85 cows, and she's built a reputation caring for land where overgrazing is a common problem. Her advice for folks with land leases is to be respectful, pay on time and not be afraid to go the extra mile to make arrangements work.
While Baker sees the initial capital investment as an issue, it's not a major obstacle. He cites loan programs through the Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Farm Credit Services, in addition to Beginning Farmer Loans. Baker also points out that banks in rural areas value young families and are eager to support them.
- Identify viable farm entry enterprises.
"This is where we promote niche-market farming," Baker says, pointing out that natural products, locally grown foods, farmer's markets, grass-fed beef and small dairy herds are viable entry options.
Matt Perrier, 34, Eureka, KS, sees urban sprawl as an opportunity to capitalize. Though it adds regulatory pressures and drives up land prices, Perrier believes what "city folks are truly seeking is some connection with the country." While he's not ready to start an ag-tourism business, he is ready to capitalize on the opportunity to educate consumers about the benefits of beef and its production.
"If these folks continue to seek that romantic, western lifestyle, we can use this as an advantage," Perrier says. "Many of them don't simply want a slab of red meat, they want a story and a 'feeling' to go along with it."
Beginning ranchers need to look no further than the Internet to help them generate farm-entry options. "You can get hundreds of ideas on how to get involved in agriculture," Baker says.
- Obtain appropriate financial, managerial and production skills.
Baker works with a large number of beginning ranchers he deems "U-turn farmers." They've graduated high school, gone to college and worked for a company or corporation that's not tied closely to agriculture. After 10-15 years, they yearn to be back on the farm.
This is a similar situation that John Carter, 28, from Taft, TN, faced. Though he obtained a degree in agriculture from Tennessee Tech University, Carter worked two years as a pharmacy trainer before returning to ag as manager of Hickory Hill Farms. He doesn't regret his off-farm experience.
As farm manager, Carter has been able to flex some of his managerial muscle in terms of rotational grazing, planned breeding seasons and embryo transfer technology. "Instead of calving now from July 1 to June 30, we actually have set calving dates, synchronize cows to breed and all that good stuff," Carter says.
Ranchers trained in specialized non-ag production often need to be retrained into modern farming practices, Baker points out. That includes the economic realities that seed corn has swollen from $30-$40/bag to $250/bag, and fertilizer has jumped from $10-$15/acre to $350/acre.
He estimates that about a quarter of candidates he works with at BFC are highly trained and capable of taking over a farm.
"Slowly, you're going to be able to take over the operation. Remember, the operator's been doing it for 40 years, and quite often learned from the school of hard knocks," Baker says. Attending workshops and conferences, in addition to spending a few years working on a ranch, can be beneficial.
- Effective risk-management tools.
In many cases, newbies need to learn what risk management tools are available, and how to use them. Baker recommends understanding crop insurance plans, the Chicago Board of Trade and how to use these tools to mitigate risk.
For financial risks, the government provides beginning operators specialized loan programs, lowered interested rates, minimal down payment plans and longer term repayment schedules. ISU's Ag Decision Maker website (www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm) is another tool Baker recommends.
One of the tools Grace City, ND rancher Jason Topp, 22, finds valuable as a budding cattle producer is understanding the difference between data and information. "Information is when you take those raw numbers and turn them into meaningful criteria for culling cows, finding your low producers and things like that," Topp says.
At his family's cow-calf operation, they've amassed birth weight, weaning weight and cowherd data, but never took the time to analyze it.
"My goal is to transform all this data into meaningful information to make this a viable operation that stands on its own two feet," Topp says.
- Lack of supplemental employment opportunities.
"This is important if young people are going to start out on a smaller scale," Baker says, noting there aren't many jobs to pick from in small, rural communities.
But working both on and off the farm can be positive, says Craig Moss, 25, from Hull, IA. He jokes that when he's not working as a part-time beef specialist with Land O'Lakes (LOL), he spends every other waking minute as an employee at his family's diversified livestock feedlot.
Moss enjoys the combination of positions because "one benefits me in the other." Feeding cattle with his dad helps Moss understand the fears and pressures of his customers. Conversely, he's able to bounce ideas off other cattlemen through his position with LOL.
For married couples, Baker tells them to "consider what income your spouse can bring" because there's an income potential of $25,000-$30,000. Many a farm spouse contributes income from a job or career in a nearby community. But in saying that, Baker is hopeful that both husband and wife can be involved in the farming operation.
Advice for the older generation
Dave Baker, Iowa State University farm transition specialist with the Beginning Farmer Center, points to three areas current farm operators struggle with in assisting ranching's next generation.
Difficulty transitioning the farm to the next generation.
Lack of communication is the initial problem. "Many times the older generation hasn't identified somebody to take over the farm; they just act like they're never going to die," Baker says.
Motivation is the stumbling block. As the older generation ages, the body gets creakier and stamina lags. Yet, they often must be motivated to scale back, find someone to take over the operation and plan the process.
For the older generation, the willingness to turn over assets to the next generation is difficult. "They've done it themselves, their way, for so many years that's its really tough for them to give the go ahead and let the new generation make mistakes," Baker says. "So we encourage the older generation to be mentors to the next generation."
Lack of qualified help in formulating exit strategies.
"How many times do farmers share their thoughts on transitioning with their banker, accountant or CPA?" Baker asks. Research shows only 20-30% of farmers and ranchers discuss transitioning; of that, 1-2% discuss it with professionals who deal with estate planners or bankers.
"We need to convince the other stakeholders in farming to encourage farm families to talk about this more and plan it out," Baker says. He notes there's no lack of qualified help, just a lack of willingness to discuss it with others.
Unwillingness to transfer ownership of assets.
"If you want to leave a legacy, if you want to leave a stable farm operation, you must start to turn it over before you die. That takes planning," Baker says. Starting the process at the age of 75 doesn't allow five to 10 years to plan this process, which is the period of time Baker prefers to see a transfer to a beginning rancher take place.
Wait too long and health may become a concern. "If you're under pressure to transition because of health reasons, it's a poor time to think clearly and discuss things rationally. You're in a rush."
Over the next decade, trillions of dollars in agricultural assets are likely to change hands as Baby Boomers transition into retirement. "We need to start working on this now," Baker says.


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Today is International Raw Food Day! With raw food cafes and restaurants popping up everywhere, it is safe to say that this emerging trend is taking off. Raw foodies claim that a raw food diet can increase energy levels with the promise of long-lasting health. Naturally I have become curious about this seemingly new phenomenon that promises to change your life and did a little research.
What is a Raw Food Diet?
A raw food diet will consists of primarily 75% raw food. This includes lots of vegetables, fruit, seaweed, nuts, seeds as well as sprouted foods such as legumes, seeds and grains (seen in Antioxidant Army). It can even occasionally contain raw milk, eggs, fish or even meat depending on if one is following a vegan, vegetarian or omnivorous raw diet.
Is a Raw Food Diet Better For Your Health?
Generally, the closer you get to following a raw food diet, the less processed you food will be (and less preservative and additive ridden). It will also be lower in saturated fat, cholesterol, white flour and white sugar. There is also the benefit of eliminating damaging by-products of high temperature cooking. Instead, your diet will consist of foods packed full of vitamins, antioxidants, phytochemicals, fibre and enzymes.
Research continues into raw vegan diets as effective therapy for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and peer-reviewed research is also available on rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. With a large percentage of the western world being overweight and obese, a raw food diet could help to eliminate most of the worst offending foods contributing to this.
What Are The Risks of Following A Raw Food Diet?
It is still important to ensure certain nutrient requirements are met such as protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12 and iodine. Studies have shown that adequate protein levels can be achieved when following a raw food (vegan) diet, but careful planning is necessary. See my post on Getting Enough Calcium on a Dairy Free Diet for more information on this important mineral. Pregnant women should be especially careful especially if they choose to consume a raw food diet; raw milk, meat or seafood should be avoided.
The Fundamentals Behind a Raw Food Diet.
Raw foodists claim that cooking destroys food enzymes which are important for health and digestion. Health professionals will argue that the impact of food enzymes is relatively small compared to those released in our body when food is consumed (in our mouth, stomach, small intestines). Our lower stomachs are naturally very acidic, largely denaturing any food enzymes; this may not include probiotics which is a topic to be covered in subsequent posts.
Why Should I Consider a Raw Food Diet?
Remember, you don't need to eat 100% raw to enjoy the advantages of eating a whole foods, plant-based diet that is rich in raw foods. For some populations, trying to ensure that 50% of each meal is raw would offer tremendous health benefits. This can be as easy as the addition of a salad to each meal. Eating 50% raw also makes it easier for those trying to follow a raw food diet to survive the winter months – you can have your winter warming soup AND a nice raw coleslaw on the side.
Raw food diets also teach us to get calcium for other sources like green leafy vegetables. Also to recognise sprouted legumes as a great source of protein, antioxidants and phytochemicals. And to create desserts based on fruits and nuts rather than butter and refined flour.
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Please consider food miles. Eating for the benefits of a raw diet doesn't mean you should be enjoying out of season, or tropical fruit and vegetable all year round. Being prepared and organised is the key. Preserving, canning, fermenting are all ways to enjoy raw foods all year round. Think twice about where that fresh coconut has come from, or those goji berries… Eating locally on a raw food diet creates another challenge, but the benefits are endless!
I thought I would celebrate International Raw Food Day with these delicious Spicy Nori Sticks created at the local Bliss Café. As much skepticism as there is surrounding a raw food diet I enjoy the basis of it and aim to have as many raw snacks, meals, days as possible. These nori sticks will definitely blow your mind, some may even say they taste like a mock pepperoni stick. I'd recommend them as a delicious, spicy and healthy snack option for any occasion!
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Recipe for Spicy Nori Stix
Makes 16-20 sticks
Recipe by Bliss Café, Victoria
Prep Time: 40 minutes
Time To Finish: ~36 hours
Equipment needed: Food processor and Food Dehydrator*
Ingredients for Spicy Nori Stix
2 1/2 cups sunflower seeds
2 cups of carrots, chopped
1 1/2 cups brazil nuts
1/2 cup miso
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 tbsp. fresh ginger, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 tbsp. dried chili flakes
1 tbsp. turmeric
8-10 sheets of raw nori
*If you don't have a food dehydrator I would try and do them in an oven. You would have to keep your eye on them but they are worth the wait!
Method for Spicy Nori Stix
Soak sunflower seeds and brazil nuts for 2-4 hours. Drain.
Place all ingredients for filling (everything except nori) into the food processor and process until smooth. I had to do two batches in mine and then mixed them together in a large bowl.
Use a pair of scissors and cut the nori sheets in half parallel to the lines scribed on the sheets. Place the cut nori sheet on a work surface with the rough side facing up and the long edge facing you.
Spoon 4 tbsp. of the mixture onto the half sheet. Smooth mixture into a solid line along the length of the sheet, 1-2 inches wide.
Roll up the nori stick starting with the edge closest to you that has the pate on it. With an inch or so of nori sheet left, stick it together by wetting one end with a little water and the roll should stay closed. Repeat.
Place the freshly rolled nori stix on a dehydrator tray with seam side down. Dehydrate nori stix at 115 degree Fahrenheit for 24-36 hours.
Place in a container and store at room temperature.
Nutrition Information for Spicy Nori Stix
Per 1 out of 20 servings
Calories 122
Fat 10.4g
Saturated Fat 1.9g
Sodium 263mg
Potassium 168mg
Carbohydrate 5.7g
Fibre 2.0g
Sugar 1.5g
Protein 3.7g
Calcium 30mg
Iron 0.8mg
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Last season, the La Cañada High baseball suffered a five-game losing streak in league play with key players Tai Walton and Connor Buchanan sitting on the bench due to injuries. This season, the Spartans are at full health and making life miserable for their Rio Hondo League opponents.
The Spartans established control of the league race with a 4-1 victory over visiting Temple City on Thursday.
La Cañada (11-2, 5-0) extended its winning streak to seven games since dropping a 5-0 decision to Oaks Christian on Feb. 19.
"I want to say that is the right mix of younger guys that have come on board to help the older guys that don't have nagging injuries," La Cañada coach Matt Whisenant said. "Last year we couldn't put Tai on defense because he had a bad arm. Connor had a bad back, so we couldn't put him in the lineup whatsoever. It's a nice balance of guys this season."
The Spartans received another top-effort from Ryan Graves. The senior has quickly become of the most consistent pitchers in the area. He threw six innings against the Rams ((8-7, 3-2), surrendering one run on six hits and striking out four to improve his record to 2-0 in three starts.
Connor Buchanan relieved Graves in the seventh and earned the save.
"I'm building on each start, each inning. I kind of got a little sloppy late in the game," Graves said. "I got a little tired late, but in the early part of the game I felt that I had really good command of my three pitches along with good focus."
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Chapter 4: Dreaming of a Permanent Job: The Transitions of Temporary Workers in Italy and Spain
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Virginia Hernanz, Federica Origo, Manuela Samek Lodovici and Luis Toharia 4.1 INTRODUCTION Recent decades have witnessed a significant increase in the flexibility of most European labour markets. In this context, external flexibility has mainly been exercised through the use of temporary or fixed-term1 employment contracts (OECD, 1999). In 2003, almost 13 per cent of all employees in the EU was employed in flexible contracts, ranging from 6 per cent in the UK to more than 30 per cent in Spain, with the figure for Italy being just below 10 per cent (European Commission, 2004). Public support for temporary employment schemes has been driven by their potential for increasing employability and lowering the risk of long-term unemployment. Temporary work should in fact help the unemployed to regain employment and preserve or improve their human capital through work experience, thus reducing the number and duration of unemployment spells that individuals experience while enhancing their probability of finding better (permanent) jobs. Empirical evidence also seems to suggest that employers may use temporary contracts as a way to select and screen future permanent employees (Storrie, 2002; Houseman and Osawa, 2003). However, it has been argued that the positive effects of temporary employment systems may be offset by costs related to the poor quality of temporary jobs and the limited career opportunities of temporary workers. As far as temporary jobs are characterised by lower wages and impaired working conditions, they signal the consequences of dual labour markets arising from the expansion of temporary work (Lindbeck...
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"If I could get my hands on Sarkozy, I'd kill him." I had asked Mamadou, a wiry young man wearing gray camouflage pants and a tank top, what he thought of France's former minister of the interior, who is also the right's standard-bearer in this spring's presidential elections. "I'd kill him," he continued and then paused as if savoring the thought. "Then I'd go to prison. And when I got out, I'd be a hero."
We were in Les Bosquets, one of the impoverished housing projects that are scattered across the banlieues, the heavily immigrant working-class suburbs that surround Paris. I asked Mamadou's friend Ahmad if he felt the same way. He said he would not go that far. "I wouldn't kill him, no," he said. "But I hate him. We all hate him."
A lot of this was bravado, of course, friends showing off for friends in the disaffected, hyperaggressive macho style that now predominates among France's disenfranchised suburban young. As a group, their unemployment rate stands at around 40 percent. Seen from the Paris familiar to most foreigners or, for that matter, to most native Parisians, Les Bosquets seems like another country. And yet it takes only about an hour to get there from the Place de la Concorde. Paris is ringed by hard-up towns like Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, each with its own version — some far better, very few much worse — of Les Bosquets. These cités, as the housing projects are known, suffer from much more than being simply ugly or neglected. Nor is their poverty what sets them apart; there is poverty in Paris itself, after all, and in the French countryside as well. Still less is it their immigrant character: the great French cities, like all major European cities these days, are filled with new immigrants, the majority of them Muslims. (A third of the Muslims in Europe now live in France.) And yet there is something particularly soulless and depressing about these suburbs. An increasing number of those who live in the cités have the sense that they are unwelcome in a France whose treatment of them, whether hostile or indifferent, utterly contradicts the claim the country makes for itself: that in France everyone is treated equally and that the Republic neither makes nor will accept any distinction between citizens on the basis of race, class or ethnic background.
The elections have pitted Nicolas Sarkozy against two main challengers, the Socialist Party's Ségolène Royal and an upstart center-right candidate from the small Union for a Democratic France, or UDF, François Bayrou. Much of Sarkozy's political identity in the campaign comes from the mutually antagonistic relationship he has with young men like Mamadou and Ahmad. As interior minister, Sarkozy was responsible for confronting the unrest in the cités that in 2005 boiled over into full-scale riots, and in doing so he came to embody the hostility that many of the Français de souche — that is, French people whose ancestors have lived in France for centuries — now feel toward the Français issus de l'immigration, that is, French people whose parents or grandparents immigrated from the Maghreb or sub-Saharan Africa or the islands of the Indian Ocean. In Sarkozy's campaign speeches, he denies any affiliation with the country's anti-immigrant parties. But as the presidential campaign nears its conclusion (the first round of voting takes place next weekend), Sarkozy has seemed only to accentuate his hard-line stances on illegal immigration, on assimilation and on "security," which in France today refers mostly to the violence of the suburban young.
For many observers, both inside and outside the country, the future of France is at stake in this election. Sarkozy's supporters, who include a number of prominent intellectuals (unlike in almost every other rich country, their role continues to be significant in France), say he represents a clean break with the politics of the past half-century in France. For the novelist Marc Weitzmann, an enthusiastic "Sarkozyiste," French postwar politics was dominated first by an unholy alliance between Charles de Gaulle and the French Communist Party and then by the Socialist François Mitterrand and the Gaullist Jacques Chirac, who in a sense perpetuated this sclerotic political arrangement. For Weitzmann, Sarkozy provides an alternative to a system that has failed to produce social peace, failed to adapt to France's reduced role in the world and above all failed to reform its economy on either the Tony Blair model or the German Social Democratic model.Continue reading the main story
A decade ago, it would have been inconceivable to have found a Parisian intellectual like the writer Pascal Bruckner supporting a rightist candidate like Sarkozy. But as Bruckner put it to me recently, Sarkozy "wants to give a kick in the rear to our old, decrepit country, to put an end to the French feeling of self-hatred, to reinforce our self-esteem and the value of work. He wants to extricate us from our decadence and put an end to the so-called 'French exception,' which is nothing more than the narcissism of failure."
Philip Gordon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, largely agrees. Like Bruckner, he is persuaded of the novelty of Sarkozy in French politics. "He's a new type of character for the Fifth Republic," Gordon told me. Unlike most French politicians, Sarkozy did not graduate from one of France's so-called great schools; he attended the University of Paris. Notably, he is not himself a member of the Français de souche; his father, a public-relations executive, immigrated from Hungary in 1946. What's more, Gordon says, Sarkozy "is radically different in orientation from those within the Gaullist movement who have come before him, including Jacques Chirac." In economic policy, Sarkozy is neoliberal rather than statist, and in foreign affairs, he is Atlanticist rather than Europeanist and pro-Israel rather than pro-Palestinian.
His real break from the past, though, can be seen in the way he has made the interconnected issues of immigration, assimilation and national identity the centerpieces of his campaign. Traditionally, immigration has been a concern of only the French hard right, notably Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front. That changed after the unexpected result of the 2002 elections. The French electoral system involves two rounds of voting; the second round is a runoff between the two candidates who get the most votes in the first round. In the past, many French voters have expressed their support for minority parties in the first round in the belief that in the second the contest will revert to a familiar choice between France's two major parties: the Socialist Party and the Union for a Popular Movement, or UMP, the center-right inheritor of Gaullism. In the 2002 elections, however, that strategy helped Le Pen earn more votes than the Socialists in the first round, which gave him a place in the runoff against Chirac. The French left was forced to rally behind Chirac, but Le Pen still managed to get 17 percent of the vote, largely by playing the anti-immigrant card. It was an astonishing result and one that still traumatizes many French voters, who prefer to think of Le Pen's politics as far outside the mainstream and of limited appeal.
Roland Cayrol, the dean of French pollsters, told me that most French people, like voters everywhere, care more about bread-and-butter issues than questions of immigration and national identity. He added, however, that "those who are concerned with immigration, who form the base of support for Le Pen, are single-issue voters, and in a close election, their votes can determine the outcome."
The consensus among French political observers is that Sarkozy knows this and has tailored his campaign accordingly. His strategy in the first round appears to be to tack far enough to the right to attract a substantial number of Le Pen's supporters, while taking care not to alienate too many centrist voters. Maintaining this delicate balance requires prodigious oratorical gifts, and Sarkozy is a brilliant speaker, perhaps the best in France for a generation. And his job as interior minister has helped with this positioning as well; until last month, when he resigned in order to campaign full time, he used his post to signal his toughness and his tenacity. He carried out a policy of cracking down on illegal immigrants, up to and including sending police into schools to arrest, with a view toward deportation, young people enrolled in them. He has boasted that his policies prevented France from being subjected to the kinds of immigrant floods that Spain experienced after the Socialist government there legalized many illegal residents. In what has been received in France as a clear signal to Le Pen's constituency, Sarkozy has insisted that "there was an obvious link between 30 or 40 years of a policy of uncontrolled immigration and the social explosion in French cities." And as if to cap all this, in a recent speech he unveiled a plan for a new ministry to be called the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity. To many French people, the concept was a horrifying echo of the racism of the fascist Vichy regime during the Second World War. But, as he usually does, Sarkozy stood firm.
It is impossible to understand the French elections of 2007 without first taking the measure of what happened in November 2005, when riots convulsed the French suburbs and shocked the French public. They began in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, after two teenagers from one of the town's toughest cités were chased by the police into an electric-power substation and electrocuted, but before long they had spread across much of the country. For many voters, the trauma produced by the conflict — which the conservative writer and TV personality Alain Minc calls "the revolt of 2005" — has never been far from the surface, and last month, when a small riot broke out in the Gare du Nord, the principal terminus of the RER suburban rail network that links Paris with its northern suburbs, the issue once more assumed center stage.
An internal report commissioned by the French prime minister's office called the 2005 riots "unprecedented in their length, their geographic spread, their economic cost and their political impact, both nationally and internationally." The only proper comparison, the authors argued, was the rioting in Los Angeles in 1992 after the Rodney King verdict. But, they added, those riots did not spread outside greater Los Angeles and only lasted six days, whereas the French riots lasted almost three weeks.
Politically, the riots were a polarizing event. Many residents of the cités, even those who condemned the violence, insisted that given the conditions that existed there and the brutality and racism of the police, an explosion was inevitable. And even the political establishment in France, up to and including Sarkozy, concedes that racism in employment is endemic in the country. There are data that seem to demonstrate that if your name is Mohammed or Fatima, you have less than 50 percent of the chance of being hired than you do if your name is Jean or Marie. The French Republic may proclaim its commitment to equal opportunity, but few French people believe it to be genuine. Abderrahmane Dahmane, who is in charge of the Sarkozy campaign's relations with France's immigrant communities, told me that when a policeman stops an immigrant youth, the youth might say something like "I'm as French as you," and the policeman might agree, but they would both know it wasn't true. The radical young people I met, whether would-be rappers like Mamadou and Ahmad in Les Bosquets or young Islamists affiliated with the Tawhid Center in Lyon, made much the same point, although in far more bitter language and without Dahmane's belief that this reality could be changed — and that Sarkozy was the man to do it.
For the vast majority of the French electorate, watching the rioting on television or reading about it in the newspapers was both an alien and an alienating experience. It was alien because, for them, these suburbs were already a foreign land into which they almost never went (just as the residents of the cités rarely took the suburban rail links into the great cities like Paris, Lyon or Strasbourg). And it was alienating because the violence seemed both so savage and so self-destructive. Polling data showed that it was the older cohorts of French voters who were most affected, emotionally, by the riots. As the pollster Roland Cayrol put it to me, "these older voters are of the age where one is often governed by one's fears."
Their fears are anything but groundless. Violent crime and burglary are rising, though as yet guns are almost never used — nor were they, significantly, during the 2005 riots — and so the homicide rates are far, far lower than in American cities. There was, for example, only one death during the riots, compared with dozens in Los Angeles in 1992. But guns or no guns, there is a palpable air of menace when you take a ride after dark on certain parts of the superb Paris métro system or the anything-but-superb suburban RER network. To a New Yorker, it is reminiscent of the accumulated petty disorders of pre-Giuliani New York, with its squeegee men, hustlers, beggars and turnstile jumpers. And it seems hard to believe that anyone who has spent much time in the RER section of the Gare du Nord could have been surprised that things there turned violent so quickly last month. Whenever I passed through, it always seemed to me that both the suburban youths and the young policemen on duty were spoiling for a fight.
the outgoing president, share a political party, but they have had a bitter political rivalry for years. When Chirac first named Sarkozy to the interior post in 2002, many observers speculated that it was done in the hope that Sarkozy would fail there, or at least be marginalized. But the riots in 2005 instead had the effect of putting Sarkozy at the center of the national political dialogue. A few days after they began, as it was becoming clear that the situation was not likely to abate quickly, Sarkozy traveled to Argenteuil, a suburb very much like Clichy-sous-Bois. In France, the minister of the interior directly controls the national police force, so suppressing the rioting was Sarkozy's job. Everyone, including Sarkozy himself, knew that his political career was on the line.
Rare is the French politician who does not exude self-confidence — it is the national political style — but even by French standards Sarkozy has always seemed utterly confident both in his abilities and in his way with words. Thus, there was nothing surprising about Sarkozy's rushing to the scene of the rioting, surrounded by police, reporters and local residents. But what he said when he got there was the antithesis of what a government minister was expected to say. After making the predictable statement that he was determined to suppress the rioting by all means at his disposal and to crack down hard on those responsible, Sarkozy said the words that have defined him ever since in the minds of the young people of the suburbs and many others as well. His voice rising in anger, he declared that the rioters were nothing more than "racaille."
In French, the word "racaille" means "scum." It is hard to think of a word more likely to cause offense, not only among the youths themselves but among their parents and older relatives as well. Unlike the epithet that so many American black youths continue to use toward one another — so often to the despair of their elders — the young people of the cités rarely employ "racaille" to describe themselves or as a form of address. (When they do, it is in Verlan, the inverted slang of the suburbs in which words are said backward thus "racaille" becomes the ironic "caillera.") They believe that the term expresses the way most French people view them. From the perspective of the suburbs, Sarkozy's "racaille" was the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater.
For Pascal Bruckner, it was simply vintage Sarkozy. "That is his great fault," he told me. "There is this supercop side of him, this tendency toward conflict that prevents him from keeping his calm. He has so much energy in him that it is as if he is always about to explode. You know, his legs actually move when he speaks." For Bruckner, the racaille incident was one in which Sarkozy's emotions overcame his reason: "The problem is that he deeply despises his adversaries. That use of the word 'scum,' it dishonored his function."
Dahmane, Sarkozy's campaign liaison to immigrants, told me that he often feared Sarkozy's weakness as a politician was that he was not politic enough. Sarkozy was not ashamed of this fact, Dahmane said: "He once told me that he said in a loud voice what most people only whisper under their breath."
Bruckner and Dahmane were identifying precisely what troubles so many French people about the prospect of Sarkozy's becoming president. As Dominique Sopo, a Socialist Party member and Royal supporter who runs a civil rights advocacy group, explained to me: "No one sensible would claim that there weren't some rioters who could indeed justifiably be called racaille. But a responsible person neither indicts a whole community nor adds fuel to the fire in this way. Certainly not a minister. And certainly not someone who thinks himself ready to become president."
(Sarkozy's use of such extreme language was hardly unprecedented. In June 2005, in the suburb of La Courneuve, he said he would clean up the cités as if with a "KÀrcher," a high-pressure industrial cleaning machine. After Sarkozy's remarks, the KÀrcher corporation felt obliged to take out ads in major French newspapers saying that it in no way approved the sentiments behind the use of its name.)
As the unrest continued in the fall of 2005, the Molotov- and paving-stone-wielding rioters could be heard on television yelling about being treated as racaille. To this day, the wound of that remark festers. The rioting youths at the Gare du Nord last month chanted anti-Sarkozy slogans as they hurled bottles at the police. And it's not just the rioters: I can't remember a single political conversation in any of the cités I have visited in the last year, on any subject — jobs, discrimination, France herself — that wasn't prefaced by at least a few almost ritualistic denunciations of Sarkozy.
Sarkozy and his political advisers certainly know that he crossed a Rubicon with his remarks. Not once during the campaign has Sarkozy visited the cités. Eugène-Henri Moré, the Communist deputy mayor of La Courneuve, told me that the one time people in his suburb thought Sarkozy was going to come, there was an uproar and much threatening talk about what the response would be. Asked at a news conference when Sarkozy would visit a cité, one of his principal spokeswomen, Rachida Dati, a well-known magistrate who is herself the daughter of North African immigrants, dodged the question, speaking instead of her own frequent visits to such places and of Sarkozy's plans for economic and social revitalization. As François Bayrou, the UDF candidate, said sarcastically, Sarkozy must be the only interior minister in Europe for whom a portion of his own country is completely off limits.
Bayrou has made frequent visits to the suburbs, where young voters are increasingly drawn to him. Sarkozy seems unconcerned; given the public mood, he may have calculated that being despised in the suburbs will help him with the electorate as a whole more than it will hurt him. Such is the depth of mainstream French disquiet, in fact, that many figures in French politics who have traditionally viewed themselves as defenders of immigrants' rights and of the residents of the suburbs are bowing to the prevailing winds and taking a tougher stance toward the immigrant youth. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, once one of the most radical of the student leaders of May '68 in France and now an influential voice in European Socialist politics, recently declared in Le Monde that if he and his fellow Socialist Party members "do not speak clearly on the suburbs and on immigration, we leave an avenue open to Le Pen."
Ségolène Royal has had difficulty articulating a coherent response to the electorate's shift. She horrified many of her more left-leaning supporters during the campaign by calling for the military to be involved in training programs for delinquent youths and for "putting school and family back at the center of society" — a coded way of promising that if elected she would get tough with the immigrant youth of the suburbs. Royal has presented herself as the anti-Sarkozy, but in an effort not to cede the ground of patriotism to him, she recently said that she thought every French household should have a tricolor flag. The events of the Gare du Nord forced her onto the defensive once more.
Lhaj Breze, the head of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (a group that is often accused of being Islamist by the French right but whose grass-roots support even its enemies do not deny), says he understands the attraction that many young French Muslims feel for Bayrou. "He is a path to hope for them," Breze told me when we met in the group's modest offices in an industrial area of the Parisian suburb of La Courneuve.
"And Sarkozy?" I asked him.
Breze smiled wanly: "I'm afraid you won't find a single young French Muslim who will vote for him. No one is yet willing to forgive him. As far as they are concerned, what he said at the time of the riots — as well as his closeness to America's policy in the Middle East, which is very important to the Muslim community in France — makes him unacceptable to them."
Interestingly, Breze did not share this antipathy at all. "In many ways," he told me, "Sarkozy has been especially sensitive to the concerns of French Muslims. He did not initiate the project to create a representative Muslim institution in France that was long overdue. The Socialists did that. But the CFCM" — the Council of the French Muslim Community — "could not have come into being without Sarkozy having pushed for it when he became minister of the interior. I've spoken with him many times, and I always found him very forthright and very committed."
I asked Breze why, if this was the case, Sarkozy had taken such a hard line on French national identity, on the need for immigrants to adopt that identity, up to and including the proposed new ministry. Smiling more broadly this time, Breze said, "Well, you might say that there is Sarkozy I and Sarkozy II, and that after the election we'll have Sarkozy I back again." Breze even allowed that he might vote for Sarkozy himself.
Breze's contention is that Sarkozy's current hard line is only for electoral purposes, that he is in fact sympathetic to the aspirations of immigrant and native-born nonwhite communities. This thesis is controversial in France (and anathema to both the youth of the suburbs and those supporting either Bayrou or Royal), but it is by no means groundless. Some of Sarkozy's supporters point to his support for affirmative action in the workplace and in the educational system, which, they say, is the only way to change the dismal life chances young people now confront. And pious Muslims like Breze see in Sarkozy someone who is more sympathetic to religious concerns than the Socialists, for whom atheism remains a touchstone.
the weakness of France's traditional political arrangements, and they have fragmented long-settled party loyalties. The pollster Roland Cayrol told me that Royal's poll numbers went up whenever she diverged from party orthodoxy and went down whenever she reverted to it, and in fact she has been covertly opposed by rivals from within her own Socialist Party. Bayrou has presented himself to the electorate as the politician who is "beyond parties." In his speeches, he has called for people across the political divide to unite to work for what is best for France, not what is best for the Socialist Party or Sarkozy's UMP or even his own UDF (A cynic might observe that this last point is easy enough for him to make since the UDF normally gets about 6 percent of the vote.)
In the campaign's remaining days, the voters who oppose Sarkozy will mostly be trying to work out whether Royal or Bayrou has the better chance of defeating him in the runoff. Bayrou's hope is that Royal will turn off many of her natural constituents and that they will choose him instead. Socialists reply that voters will in the end abandon Bayrou as a kind of impractical fantasy and return to the fold. They point to the fact that the polls consistently show that Royal's support is hard while Bayrou's is soft. What is undeniable, and what even some members of the Bayrou and Royal campaign staffs will agree to off the record, is that the 2007 French presidential election is really a referendum on Nicolas Sarkozy.
When I accompanied Bayrou into the RER station in central Paris for one of his recent campaign swings through the suburbs, a number of people in the crowd, which included many girls with head scarves and young men in hooded sweatshirts and hip-hop regalia, shouted, "Save us from Sarkozy," as if Bayrou were a physician and the UMP candidate a dread disease. A lot of Sarkozy's opponents, and not only in the suburbs, think that he is precisely the "new type of character" who will heighten the French crisis, not resolve it: a man who will sow division in a country already bitterly divided and aggravate social, religious and racial tensions in a country already racked by them.
Sarkozy's supporters obviously reject these apocalyptic predictions of what their candidate will do should he become president. But they agree with supporters of Royal and Bayrou that Sarkozy has challenged the traditional right-left fault lines that have, to one degree or another, dominated French politics since the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Although Sarkozy is the most conservative candidate and a member of the incumbent party, supporters like Marc Weitzmann tend to view him as representing change and hope — and Royal and Bayrou as representing the status quo. For Sarkozy's opponents, he represents change too: precisely the wrong kind of change.Continue reading the main story


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The Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was among the most prolific and in his day most popular composers of the late eighteenth century, probably as popular as Haydn and known to more people than Mozart. Still, life is sometimes unfair, and time has a way of making up for things. Mozart may have died penniless, but today it's obviously his music, not Cimarosa's, that most people recognize and prefer. Meanwhile, with the possible exception of his opera Il matrimonio segeteo, the listening public have largely relegated Cimarosa to the ranks of near obscurity.
Fortunately, the folks at Naxos have been trying their best to keep Cimarosa's name alive with among other things a series of overture recordings, this being the fourth volume and this time with Michael Halasz and the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
The disc contains nine Cimarosa overtures for a total playing time of just over sixty-six minutes. Here's a rundown of the program:
I sdegni per amore
La finta frascatana
I tre amanti
Le donne rivali
I finti nobili
Il pittore parigino
L'amante combattuto dalle donne di punto, "La Biondolina"
Giunio Bruto
L'amor costante
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All of the overtures are colorful and spirited, but I couldn't help taking special pleasure from La finta frascatana ("The Fake Lady of Frascata"), which not only projects a vigorous mood but has segments of intense beauty, too. The booklet notes tell us that it was I tre amanti ("The Three Lovers") that established Cimarosa's name outside Naples, and one can certainly see why it became so well liked with its rhythmic charm and pleasant lilt. Still, it was the tragedy Giunio Bruto that Haydn most admired, and who conducted it at the Esterhazy court.
Producer Jiri Stilec and engineers Vaclav Roubal and Karel Soukenik recorded the disc at The House of Music, Pardubice, Czech Republic in October 2014. If you have a few of Naxos's better recordings already on your shelf, the sound of this one won't surprise you too much. It's smooth and rounded, almost of audiophile quality, well balanced, natural, nicely defined, and, most important, easy on the ear.
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An Affair To Die For
An Affair To Die For
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Genre: Thriller
Actors: Claire Forlani, Jake Abel, Titus Welliver, Nathan Cooper
Directors: Víctor García
Country: Spain
Quality: HD
Release: 2019
IMDb: 7,9
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Music Monday: November 4, 2013Welcome to Music Monday! Gettin' your week started off right. This week, we have a PREMIERE TRACK for you guys - Wild Cub's "Thunder Clatter (Twin Shadow Remix)", and the first song on our mix. Check it out and let us know what you think! —Corbin
Track premiere! Wild Cub has an LP coming in January, but for now, we get Twin Shadow's take on their song "Thunder Clatter". This has a spacey, disco feel, with a sound that is reminiscent of Close's "My Way", or even that new Internet stuff. Check out the original version of Wild Cub's "Thunder Clatter" here. We're looking forward to the new LP, and in the meantime, a free download of the track is available here.
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To accompany our big premiere, this is the first clip to make it to Music Mondays. You'll see why when you listen to "Requiem". This is a big track. There are a lot of tracks with this sound, but this one is definitely the winner. For more Ten Walls, check out Gotham.
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Although, it has snowed today on the third day of spring I am ever hopeful that warm temperatures are right around the corner. That said before we kick into high-season I want to remind everyone that our off-season rates extend to June 30th. So you can come up for early summer and enjoy lower rates. The schooners will be sailing, the hiking trails will be less busy, and the restaurants will be open. We are looking forward to seeing you this summer!


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This group has been in existence at the hospital for a number of years and includes mothers who have recently had babies at the hospital, community health professionals and hospital staff. The Trust lead for the group is the service manager for obstetrics and gynaecology.
Meetings are held quarterly and last for up to two hours.
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It works fine on 1.4.1_07 I have only a certain set of VMs that I can get my hands on due to restrictions imposed by my employer :-) so I cannot get 1.4.1_02 or 1.4.1_03 I was testing on 1.4.2_03. and 1.4.2_04; both fail. Darins "Peter Bulford" <firstname.lastname@example.com> 05/25/2004 12:37 PM Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: "Ant Users List" <email@example.com> cc: Subject: RE: Out of memory with javac Hi Darin. I don't have your answer however I'm curious if your problem works fine on 1.4.1_02 and does not work on 1.4.1_03. Pete Bulford <mailto:email@example.com> -----Original Message----- From: Darin Swanson [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:10 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Out of memory with javac Thanks NetaB...but I don't think you helped me at all :-) I have fork set to be true so memorymaximumsize and memoryinitialsize should not be ignored. The main thrust of my question is why the difference running on the two implementations of javac? Works fine on 1.3.1, 1.4.1. Does not work on 1.4.2? I could not find a bug in Sun's bug parade either for this problem with javac. TIA Darins "Neta Bar Tal" <firstname.lastname@example.com> 05/24/2004 09:21 PM Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: "Ant Users List" <email@example.com> cc: Subject: RE: Out of memory with javac Hi Darin, Did you try to run ant with ANT_OPTS set to something like: -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m When you pass the flags memorymaximumsize and memoryinitialsize it is only used when you set the compiler to run on new JVM and Is deprecated when you use your default javac. netaB -----Original Message----- From: Darin Swanson [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Tuesday: May 25: 2004 3:43 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Out of memory with javac Ant 1.6.1 Running the same buildfile I am seeing different results for using javac depending on the javac executable I am using. <javac fork="true" debug="on" memoryinitialsize="200m" memorymaximumsize="200m" destdir="testingBin" classpath=...> </javac> Using a 1.4.2 JDK install, I always run out of memory when the task is forked and I set memory attributes....and it is not that big of a build. [javac] The system is out of resources. [javac] Consult the following stack trace for details. [javac] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError Using a 1.3.1 JDK install, exact same buildfile, no out of memory. It is almost like the -J options passed to the 1.4.2 javac.exe are ignored? Is this a known issue? I searched bugzilla but found nothing new enough to be relevant Is this just dumb user error :-) ? TIA Darins The information contained in this message is proprietary of Amdocs, protected from disclosure, and may be privileged. The information is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) of the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Walk So Kids Can Talk
So, this past December something pretty amazing happened. I started work at a child and family services facility working with kids with mental health problems, those who've been abused, suffering from sexual exploitation, drug issues, ect. ect. I'm currently working as a temp until the end of June and to say it's been life-changing would be an understatement.
As a teenager, I went through a lot of my own problems. Like every kid, I had my ups and downs, and more than once I relied on places like Kids Help Phone-- a charity organization that ensures kids have 24/7 access to counseling, information, and assistance. Kids Help Phone saves lives. I've seen first-hand the effects these organizations have from both sides of the coin, and it only makes me more determined to support them.
So, this May 6th, 2012, I will be joining the Kids Help Phone 'Walk So Kids Can Talk' to help raise money for youth mental health and well-being. I will be donning my YA Saves t-shirt and representing the young adult community in my walk. I'm planning on making a kickass sign (Just got to figure out how to make "Young adult authors kick serious ass" sound classy.) I plan on raising awareness not just for youth mental health, but I also want to spread the word on YA fiction, because hey, it saves lives too.
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I need all the help I can get. Feel free to donate here.
Any amount of money is good. Seriously. Pop a penny on that account and watch me hover out of my seat with glee. My goal right now is a humble $100, though I'm determined to raise as much money as possible in the next 32 days. If you can't donate anything, that's okay. You can still help by spreading the word about the fundraising.
As the date rolls closer, there will be more updates. Expect photos as well, when the big day comes around.
As a pre-emptive strike: THANK YOU. Not just for donating, not just for spreading the word, but clicking on my page and reading all the way through. It means a super-duper lot to me.
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Flat Rock wins Red Wine of the YearBack to Archive
The Summer of Chardonnay is back!
You can ask any winery owner around the world, and they will all agree - it takes patience and nerves of steel to own a winery. With a troubling winter and washed-out spring, it wasn't easy to put on the brave face and confidently convince wine enthusiasts how excited I was for the season to come. I'm happy to report however that the vineyards are in great shape (in spite of the early threats), due to the warm temperatures we've had over the past month. Take a read of Ross' vineyard update, and you too will agree - 2011 will be a great vintage.
If you've been to the winery in the past, you'll know summer is a great time to get out and taste some of your favourites in an incredible environment. Flat Rock has a number of reasons to get you out and about over the next couple of months, especially if you enjoy Chardonnay. We are over the moon to be hosting Aw Shucks!, the kick-off party for the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration. It's a perfect opportunity to meet up with some of your favourite Ontario Winemakers plus a number from renowned international wineries. We hope to see you here this summer!
Flat Rock wins Red Wine of the Year
By Tiffany Wise, Resident Wine Fanatic
The summer season is in full swing, and we have a lot to celebrate. Over the past couple of months, Flat Rock Cellars has been awarded a number of medals from competitions hosted at home and abroad. The latest came from the Ontario Wine Awards held on June 10, 2011 at Queen's Landing in Niagara-on-the-Lake. My hubby and Winemaker, Ross Wise, along with Ed the Elder, Nadja and myself were on hand to accept the honour of Red Wine of the Year for The Rogue Syrah 2007. FRC also took home a Gold medal for The Rogue Pinot Noir 2009 and Silver for the 2009 Riesling. I want to be among the first to congratulate the winemaking team (past and present) for all their hard work. If you'd like to second that motion, please join in the celebration on our Facebook page here.
To salute you, those who motivate us to make delicious wine, I've put together some offers I'd like to share with you. Up until now, the Syrah has been reserved for our Club on the Rock members due to the extremely small production (44 cases...yes 44). It's awfully tempting to hang on to the last couple cases and stash them away for staff parties (wishful thinking I know), but that would be extremely selfish and unrealistic - I don't exactly know how expensive this wine was to make, I can only imagine 200% new oak for 2 years made a dent in the bottom line. So, we've released the last few cases of this wine to you, our loyal followers. For more details on The Rogue Syrah, click here.
Also for a limited time, receive a free "Summer of Chardonnay" t-shirt with the purchase of any 6 bottle order (that includes any of the above listed winners) until June 30th. To place your order, please click here or call the winery at (905) 562-8994. Be sure to make note of your gender and size preference in the Special Instructions section or mention it to a FRC Team Member when you call.
Aw Shucks! i4c Kick-Off Party
by Jillian Nero, The Original Flat Rock Groupie
Nothing can compare with party atmosphere that results when you co-mingle boisterous bubbles and the humble oyster. Flat Rock Cellars will be hosting the kick-off party for the inaugural year of the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration. Rub shoulders and talk barrels with winemakers from over 15 international wineries, and Wine Spectator Columnist, Matt Kramer, all the while soaking in the views and dancing under the stars to local musicians Mosaik on our Green Roof Patio. Each winery will be serving up various Blanc-de-blanc Sparkling and Chardonnay wines, while Oyster Boy serves up oysters three ways (including one over open fire) and El Gastro concocts some of their fine culinary creations. Casual dress is required. For more information or to purchase tickets, please click here.
Vintage Update
by Ross Wise, Vineyard Guru and Winemaker
After a cold winter and a sluggish start to the growing season, the 2011 summer has started very well for us, and the vines are thriving. The abundant early season rainfall, combined with the warm sunny days of early June have left us with a healthy and well balanced canopy. We have just planted our cover crops for year two of our trial program. In addition to our buckwheat, alfalfa and mustard trials from last year, we have peas and millet on the go this year. I am looking forward to seeing what each of them brings to the vineyard in terms of soil health, biodiversity, colour, and food.
In the Cellar we have had a big month of sparkling wine. We have just bottled the 2010 Cuvees, and have disgorged our 2007 Brut and 2008 Riddled. The latter two will be making their way onto the shelves in the coming months, and are going to be great follow ups to our original sparklers. Now the cellar focus shifts to our 2010 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, which is almost ready for blending before bottling in August. I can foresee a couple of grueling tasting sessions ahead to decide the final blends. I guess someone has to do it.


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It's Christmas eve 2017. I'm driving my mother to the hospice to see my auntie, She's had terminal brain cancer for 6 years now. Each day that passes brings her closer to the end. As I'm driving my mother utters the words "This is the end". She didn't have to say anything else, my eyes open up like an over flowing canal and the rest of the journey is held in silence.
We arrive at the hospice, it's a sunny day, the cruel irony. Press buzzer, sign in, enter the room…There she is. Her face is warped and twisted, skin pale and bruised. She struggles to string a hello together as she sit's there paralysed in her chair. The once youthful look she held is gone, her hair in tatters and her posture crippled into a constant abstract shape. A large chunk of my family surrounded her making idle conversation, ignoring the pure reality of the situation, death sits among us.
My over active ego tries to lighten the mood with tales of my latest dating exploits, new recipes I'm learning to cook and general waffle about my life, the family laugh and my aunt stares blankly into the distance. What seems like a life time of inane conversation continues and the doctor arrives and ushers my uncle out of the room. A cold silence fills the pale pink walls and the thought of places where you die and colour schemes oddly pops in to my head. I wouldn't want to die in front of pale pink, give me something vibrant.
More time passes and some nurses enter the room, true saints, worship them not your sports hero's and your depraved pseudo celebrities. They have come to give my aunt a morphine deliverance system. A tumour has grown on her ovaries and is pressing on the bowls. I turn to my nan (My aunties mother) and the look on her face haunts me, it hasn't left my mind. All the blood in her face was gone, she looked dishevelled, twisted and scared…my stomachs in my hands. My uncle asks us to leave the room and give them some privacy.
We're in the waiting room and my uncle sits down immediately with his head in hands revealing all. "The tumour in her ovaries has grown to large…it's pressing on the colon and the bowl… she can't eat, go the toilet, she can't do anything…the doctor says a few days, weeks minimum" That cold silence creeps back in only broken by the flood of tears by my nan, I hold her in my arms trying to reassure her, but I have nothing, no words, no inspirational speeches, no wisdom…Sometimes you have to sit with the reality of a situation and feel every ounce of it, I've never felt such pain in my life.
My emotions couldn't take the situation anymore but one last gut punch to the stomach was making my final good bye to my auntie. I walk into her room and she sits there a husk. I rest my forehead on hers and kiss her cheek. "I love you Jo". The tears erupt from my ducts but I turn swiftly to hide them. "Happy Christmas." I walk down the dimly lit corridors and feel like I'm dragging boulders with me, I can't even say goodbye to the rest of my family.
I don't pray to god in the car park. I look up to the sky which was once full of light and now is overcast with darkness and grey, the threat of a storm looms. I sit with the newly created memory I have of my family in pain and weep, I weep forever. I curse the world in which we live In as my new found feelings of hope and goodness are destroyed. If miracles are real that's the only hope I have left.


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Brown and Curry fought officially before Sioux City boxing fans at least five times. Curry had become a local favorite after working with Jack Dempsey during his vacation at Great Falls, Montana when the champion was preparing to defend his world heavyweight title against Tommy Gibbons on July 4, 1923. Curry had even scored a big defeat over Pat Moore, a bantamweight who had beaten several champions in his weight classification.
Montrose, fighting under the moniker of "Newsboy Brown," was managed by Johnny Lynn, and even at the age of 17 had acquired a reputation as a cool ring general with a good punch in either hand.
By the time of their fourth official matchup, neither fighter had scored a decisive victory over the other. When they fought at the Veterans Auditorium in Sioux City on June 23, 1923, Curry was hoping for a win in order to further his chances of taking on some major contenders in Chicago during the coming year. Brown also hoped a decisive win would mean good matches for him with some of the best boys in the division.
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A stakeholder is a person, a group, or an organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the results achieved by or the completion of the project. As I have extensively covered this topic in my previous article in the PMP Exam prep series we will keep this article short.
Please do refer to the article to understand more about the different stakeholders in a project because irrespective of whether the project management style is Agile or Traditional, the concept of stakeholder doesn't change.
A project manager should identify both the internal and external stakeholders of and their influence levels on the project as early as possible (in terms of projects life cycle)
Why are Stakeholders Important?
Individual stakeholders often have different conflicting objectives. For Example, if you are given the responsibility of setting up a new factory in a city, you could have stakeholders that welcome the move (politicians in the area) whereas you could also have stakeholders who oppose the move (locals who don't want to sell their land for the factory). As project manager, your responsibility includes identifying all the stakeholders who will have a positive or negative influence on the project so that you can foresee potential risks & impacts on your Project.
In my article on Stakeholders, I have listed down the 12 Most common stakeholders that every Project would have. Don't forget to check it out by Clicking here
Though Stakeholder Management was part of PMBOK 4th Edition, in the 5th Edition, a new Knowledge Area got introduced called Project Stakeholder Management. That is how much importance PMI gives toward managing project stakeholders. The following articles from the PMP Exam series on Stakeholder Management will also be useful for you to understand more about Stakeholder Management. Check them out.
You the Project Manager is an extremely important stakeholder for the Project as well. That's why I spent an entire article talking about just you. The article is titled "The Most Influential Stakeholder" which is appropriate because you will have a direct impact on the success or failure of the project.
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The New Student Conference is a two-day overnight orientation required of all new undergraduate students. Over the course of your NSC you will participate in sessions designed to assist you with your transition from your previous environment to Texas A&M University. Specific objectives of the New Student Conference are to provide:
- Awareness of the University's services for housing, on campus dining, financial assistance, academic support and career guidance.
- Information concerning the University's academic requirements, policies and procedures — including course selection and registration.
- Information concerning personal safety and security on campus.
- Understanding of the broad range of student activities and leadership opportunities on campus.
- Interactions with current students to discuss expectations and ask questions.