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The Obama administration is doling out federal funds to help law enforcement agencies across the country hire veterans of military service to serve as police officers.
The so-called "Vets to Cops" program run by the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services program is awarding $111 million to cities and counties nationwide to help underwrite the salaries and benefits of 600 new law enforcement officers and pay the costs for 200 other positions that were jeopardized by local budget cuts.
The federal support lasts for three years.
The rub? No law enforcement agency in the greater Houston area is slated to receive money under the program.
Texas-wide, three law enforcement agencies — the city of Alamo, Brownsville and Webb County — will receive $1.9 million in federal funds to pay for 16 police officers.
The spending reflects the Obama administration's commitment to "helping our returning heroes find jobs and transition back into civilian life," Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement. "A lot of them want to keep serving now that they're back, and these (grants) help give them that chance."
Attorney General Eric Holder, head of the Cabinet department that handles the program, said the spending showed the Obama administration was stepping up support for veterans by "offering them the chance to pursue meaningful careers in law enforcement."
"At a time of budget shortfalls, these grants will provide opportunities for much-needed, highly-trained professionals — with a proven commitment to service — to continue their careers in communities all across the country," Holder said.
Grants were awarded based on local law enforcement agencies' pledge to hire military veterans as well as "fiscal need and local crime rates," the White House said in a statement.
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Good morning, TexMessagers! Taxes are due today!
On Monday, Rep. John Cornyn told Bloomberg that the Buffett tax is "the wrong thing at the wrong time."
Congress is back in session after a two week "spring break," and the Republican from San Antonio voiced his opposition to the Buffett Rule.
"What we need to do is try to cut federal spending, which this, by the way, does not do. All it does is fund current levels of expenditures, but also to help grow the treasury by growing the private sector by closing that gap. Only then will we be able to deal with the $15 trillion plus debt," said Cornyn.
Cornyn also had some advise for President Barack Obama's campaign to remain in the White House.
"If the president would do something big and important and serious on a bipartisan basis, that would probably help him get reelected ."
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CNN's Candy Crowley asked Rep. Paul about his remarks the next day: "Do you really think that the U.S. now has a fascist system? And point to me, you know, some examples of that."
Rep. Paul said that the United States did not yet have all the trappings of fascism, "No, I don't think we do. But I worry about it a lot.... Why I'm getting more nervous is because fascism usually suggests an authoritarian and ruthless rule of government when we think of Mussolini and Hitler." The Congressman and obstetrician then went on to give some examples of what he believed were recent American practice of some of the principles of fascism:
Just look at the bailouts, the middle class didn't get it.... There's a coalition of big business and big government.... But just think of this change in civil liberties that nobody wants to talk about. The arrest of Americans citizens now by the military and held indefinitely without a trial. And people aren't concerned about it. So yes, if we have economic chaos, something like what's in Greece, or much worse, yes, they could clamp down on us. So this is why I do worry about it. But we don't have this now.
But are these examples evidence of adoption of the principles of fascism in the United States? To determine this, we must compare current U.S. policy to the policies of Benito Mussolini's Italy, where fascism was created. And the best source for analysis of fascism is the classical liberal John T. Flynn, whose 1944 book As We Go Marching, analyzed the economic, political, and military policies of Mussolini and Hitler. Flynn summarized the findings in his book this way:
As we survey the whole scene in Italy, therefore, we may now name all the essential ingredients of fascism. It is a form of social organization
1. In which the government acknowledges no restraint upon its powers — totalitarianism.
2. In which this unrestrained government is managed by a dictator — the leadership principle.
3. In which the government is organized to operate the capitalist system and enable it to function under an immense bureaucracy.
4. In which the economic society is organized on the syndicalist model, that is by producing groups formed into craft and professional categories under supervision of the state.
5. In which the government and the syndicalist organizations operate the capitalist society on the planned, autarchial principle.
6. In which the government holds itself responsible to provide the nation with adequate purchasing power by public spending and borrowing.
7. In which militarism is used as a conscious mechanism of government spending, and
8. In which imperialism is included as a policy inevitably flowing from militarism as well as other elements of fascism.
At first glance, few of those policies are being implemented in the United States. But a deeper look reveals that all of the principles have been admitted under the Obama administration, even if the exercise of all of these principles of fascism has not been regular:
1. No restraint on powers of government
President Obama has asserted — and exercised — the right to kill American citizens without trial or any other checks or balances mandated by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: in the cases of Anwar al-Awlaki; his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki; and Samir Khan, the President ordered them killed in two separate drone bombings. Of course, if the President can kill any American; he has no real restraint on his powers. That's why the U.S. Constitution restricts the President's ability to kill to a temporary provision for stopping an imminent attack during a time when Congress is not in session, and instead reserves to Congress the exclusive power to "declare war" and "punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations" and "make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces."
Though the President is not currently locking up all of his political opponents and political dissidents within the United States, there is no constitutional principle or provision that differentiates between the assassination of American citizens abroad without trial and the assassination of Americans at home. The only difference between the Obama administration and Mussolini's fascist Italy is not a principle, but rather that the Obama administration has not been regularly exercising the power it asserts for itself. It's worth noting that Mussolini did not acquire genuine dictatorial power at the time of his ascent to power during the 1922 march on Rome, but rather Il Duce consolidated his dictatorial power in a series of jumps over a decade that removed the Italian constitution's meager checks and balances.
2. A dictator — the leadership principle
The leadership principle was defined by Adolf Hitler using the following language in his book Mein Kampf: "At every man's side there stand councilors, indeed, but one man decides," Hitler proclaimed. "Responsibility can and must be borne always only by one man and thus he alone can and must have the authority and right of command."
President Obama has exercised the leadership principle (German translation: Führerprinzip) in the cases of the al-Awlakis and Samir Khan above, and Congress has consented to give the President power to detain American citizens in prison indefinitely without trial under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Again, the President and the legislative branch are agreed in principle upon establishing Führerprinzip in America, but they have yet to exercise it en masse on the scale that was used in Italy and Germany.
3. An immense bureaucracy
President Obama and a compliant Congress have consented to fund huge bureaucracies under a federal government that is currently spending 20 percent more than what it spent four years ago. The bureaucracy wields a number of tools that bribe, subsidize, and threaten industry into producing the products and providing the services that government favors. Indeed, it was government subsidies of the housing market through loan guarantees from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, suppressed interest rates through the Federal Reserve Bank, and subprime loans through the Community Reinvestment Act that created the 2008 housing and financial crisis that brought on the current high unemployment levels.
4. Craft and industry regulations.
While the United States has long had statewide quasi-government regulation of various professions, such as the state bar associations that regulate the legal professions and the medical board that regulates doctors, the regulation of the financial industry and others through Sarbanes-Oxley and Frank-Dodd have brought regulation of industry to new heights. "Public-private partnerships" have been all the rage since at least the Clinton administration. However, the United States does not generally force industries into guilds as Mussolini did, guilds that controlled far more aspects of corporate decision-making than our government currently does.
5. A centrally planned economy
Flynn noted that "Mussolini accepted completely the principle that the capitalist economic system ought to be managed — planned and directed — under the supervision of the state." The federal government today believes it must pick winners and losers in the marketplace as well, as evidenced by the Wall Street bailouts, the auto bailouts, and subsidies to "green" companies such as Solyndra. Presidential State of the Union addresses from Clinton, Bush, and Obama have been wish-lists for central state planning of the economy for two decades.
6. Deficit spending and economic "stimulus"
Flynn wrote that "Mussolini had denounced 'demagogic finance' and promised to balance the budget. However, he lost little time in turning to the time-worn favorite of Ministers — the unbalanced budget.... As a matter of fact Mussolini never balanced a budget." The United States is spending in deficit at the highest level — and over the longest period of time — in its history. America will finish up its fourth straight year of more than a trillion-dollar deficit in fiscal 2012, and the President's budget proposal for fiscal 2013 may go over $1 trillion again if the economy recedes back into recession as Europe and Japan already have.
Mussolini also spent money freely on what today is called "infrastructure" projects designed to stimulate economic growth, Flynn wrote. "Money was spent on highways, schools, public projects of various kinds, and on the draining of the Pontine Marshes." Recent U.S. Presidents have done precisely the same kind of deficit-financed "stimulus" spending, except that they are filling swamps back up under environmental regulations rather than draining them.
7. Militarism
Militarism is a loaded term in the American political lexicon, but it simply means attacking nations that haven't attacked you. In short, it means any war that isn't a war of defense. The U.S. government fully and openly adopted the oxymoronic concept of "preventative war" since the second Bush administration. But it has also militarily attacked a number of nations since the elder Bush administration that didn't attack the United States first, under the guise of humanitarian missions, including Panama (1989), Kuwait (1991), Somalia (1992-93), Bosnia (1992-96), Haiti (1994-95), Kosovo (1998-99), Iraq (1991, 2003-11), Libya (2011), Pakistan (2005-present), Yemen (2010-present), etc.
Flynn also noted that military spending had become a means of economic stimulus under the fascist economic system and that military spending under both Mussolini's and Hitler's fascist regimes reached new heights. The United States currently spends more on its military than the next 10 biggest military budgets combined, and almost as much as the rest of the world combined.
8. Imperialism
When Mussolini prevailed in his colonialist attack against Ethiopia in 1936, he proclaimed he had done it to stop Ethiopian terrorism against Italian military bases in neighboring Somalia. The invasion, he proclaimed, would lead to peace. Moreover, Italy would take Ethiopia into its colonial stewardship and bring it into the modern era. "People of the world, peace has been restored," he said from Rome announcing the end of the war, announcing a new beginning for Ethiopia.
The United States has also undergone a similar tutelage of what we have previously regarded as renegade nations, engaging in "nation-building," especially recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are not greatly dissimilar from the 20th-century colonialism that marked European empires. The United States supervised the selection of governments, adoption of their constitutions, and then ensured that dissident military factions opposed to the government were destroyed. The United States does not claim an empire by name, but our foreign policy is otherwise indistinguishable from that of an empire.
"Wherever you find a nation using all of these devices you will know that this is a fascist nation," Flynn wrote. But a nation can still be tending in the direction of fascism if they employ a majority of these elements, Flynn stressed. "In proportion as any nation uses most of them you may assume it is tending in the direction of fascism. Because the brutalities committed by the fascist gangs, the suppressions of writers and statesmen, the aggressions of the fascist governments against neighbors make up the raw materials of news, the public is familiar chiefly with the dictator element in fascism and is only very dimly aware of its other factors. Dictatorship alone does not make a fascist state. The dictatorship of Russia, while following the usual shocking techniques of tyranny — the concentration camp and the firing squad — is very far from being a fascist dictatorship."
The relatively benign impact of fascist policies in the United States thus far (if one doesn't count the war dead, the economic crisis, or the looming economic debt crisis) is not necessarily an indication that the nature of America's ever-increasing slouch toward fascism will continue to be benign. Flynn warned that fascism must ultimately lead to government brutality. "Corporative control means regimentation of business which, when attempted, involves stern compliance measures which also provoke another powerful group of irritations and enmities. In the end the dictator must do things which the population does not like. Hence he must have power — power to subdue criticism and resistance. And this necessity for power grows by what it feeds on until nothing less than absolutism will do. And so the popular mind must be subjected to intense conditioning, and this calls for the positive and aggressive forms of propaganda."
Americans today equate fascism with the racism and anti-semitism of Adolf Hitler. But Flynn noted that Mussolini was not by his nature anti-semitic, and neither is fascism. "While Hitler denounces and persecutes the Jews, it was two Jews — Theodore Wolfï and Emil Ludwig — who acclaimed Mussolini, because the latter did not find it profitable to attack them. The central point of all this is that dictatorship is an essential instrument of fascism but that the other elements outlined here are equally essential to it as an institution. In different countries it may alter its attitudes on religion or literature or races or women or forms of education, but always it will be militaristic and imperialist dictatorship employing government debt and autarchy in its social structure." Mussolini did eventually persecute Jews in fascist Italy when his power had been overshadowed by his German ally in 1938 with his pronouncement of the Manifesto of Race, but initially as Italian dictator he had ridiculed the idea of racism.
And while the "Occupy" movement of 2011 focused upon the "right-wing" big business connections between Wall Street and government, Flynn took pains to note that fascism was a creation of the political Left. The myth that fascism is an offshoot of right-wing thought was prevalent even in Flynn's day, even though Mussolini had been a self-described socialist and continued to view himself as a man of the Left throughout his life. "The commonly accepted theory that fascism originated in the conspiracy of the great industrialists to capture the state will not hold," Flynn wrote. "It originated on the Left. Primarily it gets its first impulses in the decadent or corrupt forms of socialism — from among those erstwhile socialists who, wearying of that struggle, have turned first to syndicalism and then to becoming saviors of capitalism, by adapting the devices of socialism and syndicalism to the capitalist state."
Based upon the classical understanding of fascism, and current U.S. government policies that have adopted all the principles of fascism (if not the regular practice of all of them), Ron Paul does have a reason to be concerned. And so do all Americans.
Note: The full text of John T. Flynn's classic book As We Go Marching is posted for free on the Ludwig Von Mises Institute's website here.
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Francesca had long thought about serving a mission, but she was only 19, and the option of a mission was still two years away. Not knowing what could change during that time, she was preparing to serve however Heavenly Father might want.
When President Thomas S. Monson announced in the October 2012 general conference the change to age eligibility for missionary service, Francesca was one of many who counseled with their parents and priesthood leaders, sought spiritual confirmation that the opportunity was right, and started the recommendation process.
Missionary service is an opportunity, not an obligation, for women in the Church. Prayerfully counsel with your parents and priesthood leaders about your decision of if and when to serve.
If you, too, have felt a desire to serve and that a mission is what Heavenly Father wants for you, then you may have already realized that your efforts to live as a disciple of Jesus Christ have set you firmly on the path of successful mission preparation.
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Missionary service is an opportunity, not an obligation, for women in the Church. Prayerfully counsel with your parents and priesthood leaders about your decision of if and when to serve. Once you've decided it's right, you will work with your bishop or branch president throughout the missionary recommendation process.
Gospel Knowledge and Testimony
Your regular study of the scriptures, participation in the Church, and attendance at seminary have provided a firm foundation of gospel knowledge. If you aren't already, begin studying Preach My Gospel—particularly chapter three and its scripture references. As you prepare in your studies to invite others to receive the restored gospel and come unto Christ, you will strengthen your own knowledge and testimony.
Prepare to share the gospel by taking every opportunity to share what you are learning right now. Regular opportunities are found in the Personal Progress program, in the new Come, Follow Me curriculum, in visiting teaching if you are in Relief Society, in accompanying the full-time missionaries during lessons where possible, and in inviting others to learn more about the restored gospel. Teaching family home evening lessons from chapter three of Preach My Gospel is also a great way to prepare.
Personal Worthiness
Personal worthiness is key to being open to the influence of the Holy Ghost as you prepare to help others come unto the Savior. Your ongoing preparation to be worthy to enter the holy temple is important whether you are preparing to serve a mission or not.
"When a young woman is worthy to enter the temple, then she is also prepared to serve a mission," said Young Women general president, Sister Elaine S. Dalton, in an interview with the Church News. "The temple comes first! A missionary experience helps provide a setting in which she keeps the covenants she has made in the temple as she dedicates her time, talents, and personal resources to building the Lord's kingdom."
During the missionary recommendation process, young women who are preparing to serve should counsel with parents and priesthood leaders to decide when the time is right to receive the temple endowment. In addition to living in line with temple worthiness standards, young women can prepare by studying the temple preparation handbook.
Physical Health
Your mission will require a high level of activity. Improving your physical fitness, if necessary, will increase not only your ability to perform the work but your enthusiasm for it as well.
Learning to cope with challenges and the stresses of living and interacting with others is an important skill whether you serve a full-time mission or not.
Physical preparation can be different for every missionary. As part of the missionary recommendation process, be sure to ask your doctor about any concerns you may have.
Emotional Health
Learning to cope with challenges and the stresses of living and interacting with others is an important skill whether you serve a full-time mission or not. Your parents and priesthood leaders can help you evaluate how prepared you are to handle the stresses of mission life and identify the weaknesses you may want to focus on.
Preach My Gospel, the Missionary Handbook, and The District (a missionary documentary available online) can help you understand and prepare for the missionary lifestyle before you enter the field.
Financial Preparation
Church leaders have long counseled prospective missionaries to prepare to pay for as much of their missionary service as possible. You and your family should consider your financial circumstances carefully. Counsel with your bishop or branch president if you have questions. While financial challenges outside of your control don't automatically disqualify you from service, Heavenly Father expects you to do what is within your control.
Dress and Grooming
Not only is it important to save money for the monthly cost of a mission, but also for clothes and other supplies you'll need in preparation.
As representatives of Jesus Christ, all missionaries are asked to present themselves appropriately. Be aware of the dress and grooming guidelines for sisters.
Wait to gather clothing and supplies until you have your call so that you will know what is suitable for the climate where you'll serve. Remember to keep your clothes and supplies to a minimum, because too much luggage can make moving during transfers more difficult.
Additional Preparation
To find additional suggestions and resources for preparing to serve a mission, visit lds.org/missionary.
See examples of dress and grooming standards for sister missionaries.
Learn more about missionary life by watching The District, a show featuring the daily life of missionaries.


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Denis Gastin and Mack Schwing
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Liz Thach
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- Conclusion
Linda Nowak, Paul Wagner, and Jean Arnold
- Defining Marketing and Branding
- The Five Ps of Wine Marketing
- The Importance of Branding
- Conditions Favorable for Successful Branding
- Know Thy Customer: Wine Consumer Segmentation
- Wine Brand Positioning
- Being Consistent With Brand Image
- Characteristics of a Good Brand Name
- Building Brand Loyalty
- The Challenges of Taking a Brand International
- A Tale of Two Brands
- Summary
Bruce Herman and Gary Long
- Wine Distribution on a Global Basis
- Wine Distribution Outside the United States
- Wine Distribution in the United States
- The Role of the Wholesaler
- The Role of the Broker
- Finding a Distributor and Broker for Your Wine
- Working Successfully With Distributors and Brokers
- A Day in the Life of a Distributor Sales Rep
- Conclusion
Armen Khachaturian and Elizabeth Rice
- Defining Professional Wine Sales
- Selling Wine in the Three Major Channels of the US Market
- Creating the Annual Sales Plan
- Implementing the Sales Plan
- Evaluation and Revision to the Wine Sales Plan
- Challenges in Selling Wine Internationally
- Exporting Wine From the US to International
- Destinations
- Successful International Selling Tips
- Conclusion
Janeen Olsen and Josh Hermsmeyer
- Advantages and Challenges of Direct Wine Sales
- Channels for Direct Wine Sales
- Compliance and Regulation Issues With Direct Wine Sales
- The Advent of Wine 2.0
- Conclusion
Donald Getz, Jack Carlsen, and Liz Thach
- Defining Wine Tourism
- Benefits of Wine Tourism
- Motivations of Wine Tourists
- The Experiential Appeal of Wine Regions
- The Wine Tourism Development Process
- Case Studies in Wine Tourism
- Conclusion
Megghen Driscol, Tim Matz, and Tor Kenward
- Defining the Role of Wine Media
- The Importance of Wine Media
- Role of the Wine Journalist
- Wine Scores and Rating Systems
- Defining Wine Public Relations
- Public Relations Role
- Relationship Between the Wine Reporter and the Public Relations Professional
- Communication Vehicles
- The Future of Wine Media and Public Relations
Larry Lockshin and Tony Spawton
- Key Trends in the Global Wine Sector
- Success Strategies for Global Marketing
- Definitions and Examples of Exporting
- Examples of Three Australian Exporters
- Tactics for Exporting
- Export Readiness Checklist
- Branding the Export
- The Export Value Chain and Logistics
- Conclusion: Future Predictions for the Global Wine Market
Robert Eyler and Tony Correia
- Financial Foundations
- Net Present Value
- Financial Decisions in Vineyard Projects
- Real Estate Markets and Winery Investments
- Winery Economics and Finance
- Segment Analysis
- Equity Versus Debt Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Conclusion: How Wine Financing Is Different
Jeff Sully, Terry Lease, and Jon P. Dal Poggetto
- Product Costing: Introduction
- Produce Costing: Defining Cost Centers
- Product Costing: Using Cost Centers
- Costing the Vineyard
- Costing the Winery
- Tax Issues in the US Wine Industry
Liz Thach and Lillian Bynum
- Wine Labor Issues Through the Centuries
- Historical Impact on Wine Labor Issues Today
- Common Employee Positions in a Vineyard/Winery
- Defining Human Resource Management in the Wine Industry
- Future HRM Issues
Cyril Penn and Wendell Lee
- The Historical Context of US Wine Legalities
- Taxes and Compliance
- Trademark and Label Issues
- Farming and Land Use Issues in the US
- A Global View on Wine Legalities
- Trade Issues
- Shipping Internationally
Jeff Dlott, Karen Ross, Allison Jordan, and Kari Birdseye
- Defining Sustainability
- California Sustainable Winegrowing Program
- Overview of International Sustainable Winegrowing Efforts
- Sustainable Winegrowing Practices: The Next 5 Years
Paul Dolan, Tim Matz, Liz Thach, and Richard Cartiere
- From Supplier to Consumer Driven
- Trend 1: Rising Interest in New Varietals From Around the World
- Trend 2: Increased Environmental Concerns
- Trend 3: Focus on Health and Responsible Drinking
- Trend 4: Thirst for Innovative Products
- Trend 5: Desire for Both Value and Premium Wines
- Trend 6: Trust in ``Word of Mouth''
- Trend 7: Increased Online Purchasing
- Trend 8: Desire for Experiences Rather Than Possessions
- Future Forecasts for the Global Wine Industry
List of Figures
1.1 Map of major New World wine countries
2.1 Major phases of strategy development process
2.2 The wine business strategy star
2.3 Example of strategic group map for luxury tannat winery
2.4 Generic wine industry value chain
2.5 Example of grape grower value chain
2.6 Five major strategies adapted to the wine industry
2.7 Example of contents of a strategy document
3.1 Cyclical nature of wine industry
5.1 Supply chain management
5.2 Supply chain decision matrix
5.3 RFID data flow system
6.1 US wine consumer segmentation by shopping behavior
7.1 Distribution process in US open and control states
7.2 Distribution channels
8.1 Three major sales channels for wineries
9.1 Direct wine sales channels
9.2 Social media components
10.1 Wine tourism development process
10.2 Lake Okanagan wine region
10.3 Blending seminar at Sandaford Winery
12.1 Global market shares of the major beverage categories
13.1 Average prices, grapes/ton, selected California districts
14.1 Vineyard accounting worksheet
14.2 Facilities allocation summary
14.3 Facilities allocation
14.4 Example of bottling information worksheet
15.1 The five categories of human resource management
16.1 The three-tier wine distribution system in the US
17.1 The three Es of sustainability
18.1 How consumers select wine in retail stores
List of Tables
1.1 New Versus Old World Wine
1.2 The major wine players
1.3 Top global wine brands
1.4 Top 10 world wine-producing countries
2.1 Top 10 wine selling companies
2.2 Levels of strategy within a wine business
2.3 Macroenvironmental analysis questions
2.4 Example of Porter's fi ve forces
2.5 Critical success factors for grape growers
2.6 SWOT considerations for wine businesses
2.7 Steps 2 and 3 of SWOT analysis
2.8 A company's MVV
2.9 The five strategies defined
3.1 Famous grape varietals in New World countries
4.1 Standard wine price categories
4.2 The crush process
4.3 The five "Ss'' of wine appreciation
4.4 Sample bottling costs for standard 750-milliliter bottle
5.1 Common winemaking supplies
6.1 Defining wine marketing and branding
8.1 Checklist of decisions for annual sales plan
10.1 Benefits of wine tourism for wineries
10.2 Top 10 motivations of wine tourists
10.3 Wine tourism development partners
10.4 List of wine tourism programs
11.1 Three major wine scoring systems
12.1 Six major trends driving globalization of the wine market
12.2 Top exporters of wine in the world, 2003
12.3 Definitions of indirect and direct wine exporting
12.4 Major considerations when branding for export
12.5 Promotion strategies in wine export markets
13.1 Vineyard cost categories
13.2 Winery cost categories
13.3 Equity versus debt financing
13.4 Selected winery and vineyard property acquisitions, 2004–2007
13.5 Winery stocks and ticker symbols
14.1 Example of basic cost allocation method
14.2 Example of cost allocation by block
14.3 Example of cost allocation with different block techniques
14.4 Example of cost allocation based on block farming costs
14.5 Example of per ton calculation
14.6 Bulk wine cost summary
14.7 Example of capitalized interest
14.8 Comparative depreciable lives
14.9 LIFO calculation example
15.1 High-level job categories in vineyard/winery
17.1 The 14 chapter topics in the Code of Sustainability
Book Reviews
"This book offers an extensive overview of the global wine business. A must-have for anyone who is interested in developing successful strategies to compete in the global wine marketplace. Enjoy reading this book while sipping a glass of your favorite wine." Gina Gallo, Winemaker, Gallo of Sonoma
"As the global wine industry evolves, it is imperative to have a basic understand of all the aspects of the wine business. This book will help you to start thinking strategically, as well as analyze all of the cost and efficiency issue that are necessary to be competitive in a global environment." Bill Spence, General Manager, Matua Winery, New Zealand
"Finally a resource that puts together all the different components of the business. This book is useful to help develop employees who are new to the wine industry, or who want to enhance their general wine business and management skills." Geraldine Flatt, Director of Human Resources, Gloria Ferrer Winery of the Freixenet Family of Wines


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I am writing some history on my Grand Uncle Irwin Jonas who gave his life shortly after D-Day. I do not have a picture of his tombstone and I hoped to grab one this past weekend. Let me tell you how disgusted I am with the condition of his tombstone! This is in the Richmond, Cache, Utah city cemetery.
Here is a picture from 2009 of his tombstone. Even the markings on the stone at that time show a complete disregard by the caretakers regarding driving over the stone and scratching it, very likely with their mower. Notice how the top right corner is chipped and I am willing to bet it is from the same activity that marked it. This grave stone was in good shape only a few years before this photo was taken and these were new markings at the time. Unfortunately I cannot find that circa 2004 photo at this time. Of course I complained to city offices.
It is quite apparent my complaint to the city offices fell on deaf ears. Here is a picture of the same grave in 2014!
Notice that the top of the stone is nearly all chipped away! It is bad enough that portions of the cross on his stone have also chipped away. Also, look at the nice king/bend in the American Legion marker on the top left of the picture. This shows a complete disregard for the property of another and a disrespect for the dead and their family for which the stone represents. This is a man who fought to protect Americans and died in France about a month after D-Day. He was not buried until February 1948, nearly four years after he died in battle. This is the grave of a veteran who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Richmond is a fiduciary, a trustee, of these stones and must treat them with full respect and accord. I cannot imagine this is allowed in many other cities in Cache County, not from my personal experience in most of the other cemeteries. Somebody needs be held accountable for this damage.
I walked through the cemetery quickly in the space of about an hour and documented many more failures by Richmond in their care and maintenance of this grave. It extends beyond just markings and chipping of markers which I will document at another post. The members of the cemetery district should be held accountable. The City of Richmond should hold them accountable, the taxpayers in this cemetery district should hold them accountable, and someone should put together a class action lawsuit to pay for these damages. I would happily sign on. Does the City of Richmond not see what is going on in their own cemetery district? Inasmuch as the City of Richmond is condoning this activity, the mayor and council-members should also be held accountable. Not only should anyone responsible be voted out or removed from office, there should be personal liability for the damages. This is quite frankly disgusting. Shame on Richmond City.


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Today, we're talking with Jonathan Lindo, CEO and co-founder of Replay Solutions, a company that provides tools for capturing and recording applications for debugging purposes.
DDJ: Jonathan, from what I can tell, ReplayDIRECTOR which your company produces is akin to "TiVo for developers" but with a debugger thrown into the mix. Is that a fair assessment?
JL: Well, you're definitely on the right track. ReplayDIRECTOR is a technology that does record-and-replay applications the same way you would use a DVR. In fact, our customers often refer to us as a "TiVo for software" because our technology records and replays software, but also, because it's just that easy to use. When DVR technology was introduced, it changed how people watched television. In the same way, ReplayDIRECTOR is completely changing the way developers resolve issues in their software. Now, you can record any issue, then skip over the stuff you don't want to see during replay, and get straight to the root-cause of any software issue.
Having been a developer since the early '90s, I've felt the pains of non-reproducible issues, the "works-on-my-machine" bugs, and the "heisenbugs" that disappear every time you attach a debugger. When my co-founder Jeff Daudel and I got together to create ReplayDIRECTOR, it originated from the problems we were facing while working together at another company building massively networked and multi-tier applications. We were drowning in a sea of issues that just couldn't be reproduced fast enough. We needed to replay them!
So what is it we do exactly? ReplayDIRECTOR has two important and unique abilities. First, it will record any application or server execution, allowing that application or server to be replayed at any time. During replay, the application is actually running, and executing the same lines of code that were run during the recording. Secondly, ReplayDIRECTOR captures the environment in which the application ran. This means if you had a database, other servers, and hundreds of clients connected during the recording, none of those are required during replay. The recording has captured them all and will simulate the entire environment with our application virtualization technology. This means you don't need to run your database, you don't need the database dataset, and you don't need to reproduce the original load on your application. Your application will believe it's running in the exact same environment, with the same inputs as it did when it was recorded.
The best part is you can use any tools you like during replay, because your application is actually running. Most coders I know have particular debuggers or diagnostic tools they like, so ReplayDIRECTOR allows you to use any standard debugger or tool, such as Eclipse, gdb or Visual Studio to fix the problem. Your application is running live, so you can do whatever you like to it.
DDJ: Can you tell us how it works?
JL: Absolutely. ReplayDIRECTOR is an "always on" recording technology. We built it from the ground up to be high-performance so that it never slows down or interferes with even the heaviest, most complex development, staging or production environments.
Once deployed, ReplayDIRECTOR records every non-deterministic input that can affect your application. This includes things such as network IO, disk IO, asynchronous IO and user input. During replay, these same inputs are then fed back to the application again. By doing this, we can make certain that every line of code executed during recording will also be executed in the same way during replay. This is what puts ReplayDIRECTOR in a different category of quality management solutions. It provides the ability to actually re-execute application without the original environment, and it does this without requiring any source code changes.
As most developers know, the first step in resolving an issue is always to reproduce it, and this is often the most difficult. Because ReplayDIRECTOR has captured the entire environment, youre not spending any time setting up databases, bringing up servers, and generating network traffic. Now you, as the developer or QA engineer, don't have to deal with any of that pain-staking process, because we've captured everything you need with absolutely no effort on your end.
We've essentially changed the protocol for fixing bugs. Let's say you're in QA and you know that a bug occurred in yesterday's build. You go in, select yesterday's recording, and press play. ReplayDIRECTOR goes to work re-executing your application and brings you quickly to the exact point of failure. Your favorite debugger will show you the line of code that caused the problem.
ReplayDIRECTOR eliminates the need to ever recreate the environment a bug occurred in because we're giving you an exact reproduction of the actual bug, along with its environment. The benefits are the time you save, and the fact that you know the problem has been captured in a glass jar, ready to be fixed. Replaying applications from our recordings and fast-forwarding to bugs literally takes minutes.
Anyone who's ever spent more than 5 minutes trying to reproduce a bug can quickly appreciate how valuable Replay technology is, and ReplayDIRECTOR isn't just for developers. Our customers are also running in production, QA and customer support. ReplayDIRECTOR works across the application lifecycle, and the greatest benefits are realized when its used throughout the lifecycle. This can be especially true when youre working with teams located in different parts of the world.
DDJ: If I have the chronology correct, you first launched ReplayDIRECTOR in the game development space. Why there?
JL: That's correct. We started working with some of the biggest software developers in the gaming industry such as Electronic Arts and Microsoft early on. These environments are some of the most complex, high-performance, real-time environments you can imagine. Especially with today's multi-core hardware that is now prevalent.
A nice feature of the gaming industry is their natural embrace of bleeding-edge technology. ReplayDIRECTOR is not an improvement on something that already exists, but a radically new approach to an age-old problem. The gaming industry immediately recognized the value that we deliver, and within a very short period we had teams all over the world saving time by recording and replaying as part of their daily workflows.
The gaming industry also has very advanced needs because the zero tolerance for slipping software ship dates. Bugs need to get killed fast. Also, when your application is a game that needs to be executing in real time, you can't use a solution that's going to slow it down, so we knew that tackling gaming would ensure our technology could handle heavy loads. We also knew that if we passed the test in gaming, we would easily expand into the enterprise and other software environments. Having achieved success with most of the major players in the gaming industry using our technology, we were ready to bring our technology to Java teams around the world.
DDJ: What about multi-threaded applications running on multi-core systems? Can ReplayDIRECTOR aid developers in these environments?
JL: Multi-core environments are our specialty. ReplayDIRECTOR is designed to handle any application, no matter how complex the environment, and multi-threaded applications on multi-core hardware are no different.
Concurrency and multi-threading related issues such as race conditions and deadlocks are often the most challenging types of bugs to reproduce and fix. Luckily, thread context switch timings and memory access ordering are just some of the types of non-deterministic inputs that our technology will record and replay. This means that race conditions and deadlocks will be reproduced every time during replay.
ReplayDIRECTOR changes the issue resolution process from a grueling trek through the layers of the application and compacts it down to one simple, short process. This is especially true for multi-threading related bugs.
DDJ: And ReplayDIRECTOR supports what languages, processors, platforms?
JL: We just announced the general availability of ReplayDIRECTOR for Java EE. We are currently supporting Java running on Windows, Linux, and Solaris environments.
In addition, ReplayDIRECTOR supports native applications, such as those written in C or C++, on Windows, Linux, or Solaris.
As far as processors go, any Intel or AMD x86-based architecture is supported, including 32-bit, 64-bit and multi-core chips. We also support PowerPC and Sparc architectures.
DDJ: Where can readers go to find out more about ReplayDIRECTOR?
JL: For a very quick demo, readers should check out our 3-minute video. There is also a lot of good information on the Replay Solutions website, including info on our most recent release.
Finally, there is a free analyst report by Theresa Lanowitz and Lisa Dronzek with great info.


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Work on realigning First Street with Third Avenue that began in April was slowed for the past two weeks while workers removed several utility poles.
Work on realigning First Street with Third Avenue that began in April was slowed for the past two weeks while workers removed several utility poles.
Jordan Hughes, city engineer, said if weather permits the contractor will start working next week on curbs and gutters at the new intersection.
All water and sewer mains have been installed and the rough grading has been done for the new alignment, Hughes said.
When the realignment cut was made, some utility poles were in the middle of the new section and had to be relocated, Hughes said.
During the past week, surveying was done for the curbs and gutters, Hughes said.
The realignment will convert Third Avenue, which now only allows vehicles to exit onto Broad Street, into a two-way street from Cedar Avenue to Broad Street. It will make it safer at the intersection and provide more access to vehicles, Hughes said.
�People coming off of First Street trying to get in their neighborhoods before had to snake their way through a maze of one-way streets,� he said.
All of the work is being done as part of a Community Development Block Grant program that has revitalized many utilities and streets along the Broad Street corridor into the city, Hughes said.
In April, Sue Steinhauser of Development Services said the city received a $1 million CDBG grant in 2010 to acquire 22 dilapidated and abandoned houses that were demolished for the realignment and to rehabilitate houses and areas on the east side of the street.
Hughes said a lot of work has been ongoing with the Third Street realignment, from the demolition to upgrading the water and sewer system to bring it up to state standards. The old water and sewer system dates back to the 1950s, he said.
Work in that area could provide opportunities to create affordable housing on the west side of Third Avenue, Hughes said.
Although weather will play a big role in when the realignment project is completed, Hughes said they hope to finish by the end of June.
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So you have a device that can stream internet video but are not sure where to start. Well, we are here to help. This page will give you some basic information on popular internet streaming sevices available on select Sony devices. Check the manual for your individual product to see if your device supports internet streaming.
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15 Things You Didn't Know About Bachelorette Emily Maynard
By now we've all heard Emily Maynard's story: The Season 8 Bachelorette and Season 15 Bachelor winner lost her race-car driver fiance, Ricky Hendrick, in a plane crash just days before she learned she was pregnant with their now 6-year-old daughter, Josephine Riddick "Ricki" Hendrick. But here are some other interesting tidbits about the popular Southern belle:
1. According to Factoidz, Emily, now 26, met Ricky when they were in West Keys, Florida, back in 1999. They discovered their parents were building homes next to each other, and the rest was history.
2. Emily and Ricki live in the same Charlotte, North Carolina, home that Emily shared with Ricky.
3. Emily has done a lot of media for NASCAR. She did a podcast for the Speed channel called "Emily on the Scene" and also hosted "Three Wide Life," about all types of racing.
4. When she's not on The Bachelorette, Emily works as an event coordinator at the Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte. The 11-story, 234-bed kid-friendly facility — the largest children's hospital between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. — includes the Ricky Hendrick Centers for Intensive Care, a pediatric intensive-care facility named for Ricky after his father Rick Hendrick and mother Linda Hendrick donated $3 million to the hospital.
5. What's the most romantic city in the United States? To Emily, it's Aspen, Colorado. "As much as I love hot weather, Aspen is very romantic to me because after being outside all day you can sit in front of the fire."
6. Most romantic book? Gone with the Wind.
7. If stranded on a desert island, Emily would bring these three things:
Radio: I love music.
Sunscreen: No wrinkles!
Diet Coke: I drink way too many but can't get through the day without it!
8. Emily can meet a good guy anywhere! Nashville Lifestyles asked back in 2009, "Where do you go in town to meet other interesting singles?" Emily replied, "I actually met a nice guy at Whole Foods the other day." So what does she need The Bachelor for?
9. She's said to have dated another famous driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
10. She has two tattoos — one on her wrist and another behind her ear (ouch!). She's also rumored to have had breast implants. Someone named "Sutton" commented on a Hollywood Gossip story on Emily, writing, "Emily was my roommate freshmen year of high school - she is a sweet down to earth girl who deserves nothing but the best. She has gotten a breast augmentation but would never pose in Playboy - he daughter is her life and she would never do anything that would hurt that little girl. I hope she finds true love - no one deserves it more than Em."
11. Where does she spend time by herself? "I love putting on a baseball hat and going to the movies in my pajamas. Other that that, in my bed because I love to sleep."
12. More than anything, she's passionate about her faith. When asked for her motto, she said John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
13. She won't put up with a disrespectful man. When asked about her worst date, Emily said, "Well, I went out with a guy that I thought was a gentleman, but he was completely rude to the waitress. I felt so bad I went back to apologize and gave her a bigger tip just for putting up with him." Asked for deal-breaker traits, she said, "Obviously I wouldn't go out with someone who was disrespectful, but also I'd say no to someone who had nothing to say. Nothing is worse than an awkward silence."
14. What three words would describe her ideal partner? "Funny, laid back, and modest." (Is Brad funny?)
15. What three words would she use to describe herself? "Free spirit, real, and honest."
Sources: Factoidz, Starcasm, Nashville Lifestyles, ABC


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September 23, 2018
1. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Technological, political and social issues in the modern era, and the choices individuals might consider in facing them.
2. The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain and Mark Salter
A memoir by the recently deceased Republican senator from Arizona.
3. The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
Gregg Jarrett
The Fox News analyst makes his case against the F.B.I. investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
4. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
The daughter of survivalists leaves home for university.
5. Every Day is Extra
John Kerry
A memoir by the former Massachusetts senator, secretary of state and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee.
6. Small Fry: A Memoir
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
A memoir about the author's difficult relationship with her father, Steve Jobs.
7. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman
The reality TV star and former White House staffer describes her time and relationship with Donald Trump.
8. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
An investigation of cultural trends that the authors argue are failing the next generation.
9. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the universe.
10. Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy
Jeanine Pirro
The legal analyst and Fox News host argues in favor of President Trump.
11. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King
The personal, professional and artistic life of Fred Rogers, the creator and star of "Mister Rogers Neighborhood".
12. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
The present political climate is contextualized through the lens of difficult moments in American history.
13. Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times
Mark Leibovich
The New York Times Magazine's chief national correspondent examines professional football's current economic success and cultural dominance.
14. Fashion Climbing: A Memoir With Photographs
Bill Cunningham
The New York Times fashion and society photographer's posthumous memoir.
15. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
Craig Unger
An investigation into the relationship between the current heads of Russia and the United States, and their potential ties to the Russian Mafia.
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- • Multi-Shot 40mm launcher
- • Single Shot 40mm launcher
- • Mountable Shot 40mm launcher
There are a variety of advantages and disadvantages to using these different types of platforms. This generally depends on the operational requirements of the forces using it and ammunition being used.
Multi-Shot 40mm Launcher
The Multi-Shot launcher gives the user a semi-automatic capability. This is generally useful as part of a tactical team. In law enforcement, this is most effective for SWAT or Riot Control teams in order to augment it with less lethal capability. These teams usually have a designated individual responsible for its use.
Multi-Shot 40mm launcher provides the ability to fire between 5–6 shots per minute and ability to fire repeat rounds without reloading until there is compliance by the targeted individuals.
This type of delivery platform is also ideal for area denial tactics associated with certain types of payloads such as malodorants and pepper spray rounds. The launcher's rapid fire can saturate a specific area with the purpose of forcing groups to leave that space.
Single Shot 40mm Launcher
The Single Shot launcher makes more sense for equipping individual law enforcement officers rather than tactical teams. This is ideal for equipping a squad car as a supplemental platform. Many users prefer this type of platform instead of a Multi-Shot platform because they feel it results in greater accuracy against individual targets. A well-trained user would be able to fire one shot ever 10–15 seconds.
Mountable Shot 40mm Launcher
This type of platform is more applicable in the military environment. This type of launcher gives soldiers dual-purpose capability. They provide a platform that allows the solider to switch between lethal and less lethal options. A 40mm launcher is mounted underneath a standard assault rifle such as the M4. This is ideal for situations where war fighters face combat situations that are intermingled with the civilian population. This gives them the option of switching between capabilities depending on the threat at hand. These types of launchers can be detached from the rifle and used as a single shot launcher independently.
These three types of launcher platforms have different capabilities depending on a variety of operational circumstances. Regardless of the platform the SDI 40mm BIP Standard and payload variants work seamlessly in all 40mm launchers.
BIP being used with multi-shot 40mm launcher
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…awesome interviews that give me something to write about during the summer.
A lot of the things Karl said in this interview with CBS Houston's Vandemeer and Lopez was stuff we've heard before, especially in the interviews he's done since Jerry retired (mainly because people keep asking him the same questions). They don't get old for me, though.
BBJ from SLC Dunk said that the Oscar Robertson interview yesterday had a very "get off my lawn" feel. This, in parts, does too. Probably because I'm creeping up towards "get off my lawn" age and I find myself agreeing with everything old guys say and missing the old days when players were allowed contact with one another without a cacophony of whistles going off. Anyway, on to the good stuff.
** "I was a nice guy. Not when I played though."
** [What do you make of what went down in Utah this year with Jerry Sloan and Deron Williams?] You talk about a guy like Coach Sloan who played the game and did it the right way, with respect, and then for it to come down like that…it seems like they just picked between one or the other. And it seemed like they picked Deron…and then maybe a week or two before the trade deadline, they get rid of Deron…
Coach Sloan, I love him to death. It's not too many people that can call me and say, "Karl, I need you" and I say, "Where you at? I'm on the way." He's that kind of guy. He's a great guy…they got some young guys in return [for Deron], but it just seem to me now that we took a little bit of a step back.
Love the way Karl is still defending Jerry, and love how he refers to the Jazz as "we."
** In response to a question on whether he thinks Phil Jackass is done: "You can 'retire' for a year or two now and come back. Retirement to me is one of them things, all due respect to the fans that followed you and you can't [tug] on their heartstring. When you announce your retirement, just retire and be done with it."
** In regards to a remark from the interviewer about how Kobe was bitching about how he was hurt and couldn't practice, and his teammates felt like they could take time off because he wasn't there waaaaah waaaaah waaaaah:
Karl: Aren't you guys tired of guys telling you their injury lists?
Interviewer: YES! I'm glad you said that.
Karl continues in a whiny, sobby voice: "Hey look, look, oh gosh, he was on an IV, and he, he was on fluids, and oh God, he just willing his team to win!" Think about it. That ain't no damn hero…I hate when somebody say, "They're just warriors!"…look at our military, look at our police officers. Those are warriors. So stop using that phrase and nobody care if you're hurt and sick. You gotta come in to work if you're not feeling well and everybody else do too.
No surprise he feels this way given the way he and Stock told injury to suck it.
** Power forwards he likes to watch: I really love Blake Griffin…I like Dirk…Millsap in Utah, of course I gotta throw one of them in there. I like watching Scola play.
** Point guard today he'd want to play with:
Michael Russell Westbrook.
** Vandemeer or Lopez after the interview: "I don't mean to sound like Rome, but that was epic." (CBS Houston via SLC Dunk)


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Mar. 7-17: 20th Anniversary of San Diego Latino Film Festival
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Regardless of what side of the border you find yourself, you can enjoy the best of Latino film! The arts communities in San Diego and Tijuana continue paving the way for the rest of the region with their binational collaboration for the 20th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF). Films, festivities and celebrity guests will cross the border to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival.
The Cineteca Tijuana and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) are partnering with the SDLFF to present films and special showcases for Baja California audiences during the film festival. The Media Arts Center San Diego and the CECUT have been working together for the past two years in creating festival programming and created the Cuban Cinema Retrospective Showcase for this year's festival. This unique partnership is the only one of its kind, making the SDLFF the only truly binational film festival.
Presenting the latest and most cutting edge in Latino cinema the CECUT will treat Tijuana filmgoers with the screening of the 2nd annual New Chilean Directors Showcase, a special exhibition of work by new and up and coming Chilean directors, who represent a budding wave of artistic creation with diverse, vibrant and complex films. Showcasing the best of Latino film the CECUT will also be screening the Cuban Cinema Retrospective in addition to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences funded top 10 groundbreaking and influential Latino films from the past 20 years.
"The binational spirit really interests me. We keep bringing the two cities closer together," expressed Tijuana mayor Carlos Bustamante. "The festival has always been a binational celebration. I couldn't imagine this festival without Tijuana," stated festival director Ethan Van Thillo.
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SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian federal court has dismissed criminal charges filed last year against Chevron (NYSE:CVX), driller Transocean (NYSE:RIG), and several of their executives in connection with a 2011 oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The two companies and 17 of their executives had been charged with "crimes against the environment" and faced up to 31 years in prison if convicted.
Judge Marcelo Luzio sent the charges back to prosecutors, who have five days to appeal his ruling, a court official said Thursday. The official did not provide further details. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the news media.
The prosecutor's office said it would not have any immediate comment.
Chevron said in a statement that it was pleased by the court's decision and that it remained "committed to its policy of full transparency and close cooperation with Brazilian authorities."
Transocean said it welcomed the ruling, which it said showed that "Transocean's crew members did exactly what they were trained to do, acting responsibly, appropriately and quickly while always maintaining safety as their top priority."
The companies still face two civil lawsuits seeking $20 billion in damages for the spill, in which about 155,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from the seabed near a Chevron well off the coast in November 2011.
"Both sides are seeking an agreement regarding the amount to be paid," said Marcelo Del Negri, a spokesman at the federal prosecutor's office. "All I can tell you is that they have offered to pay far less than what we want -- about $160 million."