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You've got to wonder – third self-titled LP in six with a cover like that, southern rap rasps, self-aggrandising lyrical quips guaranteed to have longstanding admirers cringe, a number sung entirely by drummer Pat Wilson – if Weezer aren't taking the piss slightly with their anticipated latest long-player, sure to (already) be lovingly called 'The Red Album' in the tradition of preceding Blue (debut) and Green (album three) instalments.
Some – and I include myself – felt that the Los Angeles foursome's wheels rather came off around the release of 2001's Weezer, the green version; a commercially successful comeback though it was after a period of hiatus, spawning the hit singles 'Hash Pipe' and 'Islands In The Sun', it felt like frontman Rivers Cuomo was operating on autopilot. All the riffs, melodies and sing-along segments were in place, but where was the soul? Perhaps Weezer's sole songwriter – until this record, anyway – was too bruised after the experience of 1996's Pinkerton, his most emotionally naked LP ever and one that was promoted while the band gradually drifted apart, to commit fully again to the artistic process. Perhaps his time at Harvard instilled a more calculated mentality where hooks took absolute priority over heartache and headaches. Perhaps, even, the singer's love of association football distracted him from completely engrossing his attentions in the creative experience. Whatever the reason, the album felt cold, stripped of the rawness and vulnerability that made Weezer's high watermark, and to a lesser extent their '94 debut, such classic and timeless pop-rock LPs.
Another three albums later and Weezer, mark III, again finds its makers running on half-full rather than half-empty, but nevertheless comes across as a far cry from the band's pre-break – 1997 to 2000 – material. Cuomo's lyricism can be appreciated for its nudge-wink nostalgia and intelligent wordplay from time to time – 'Heart Songs' features a series of neat twists, acknowledging a succession of other popular recording artists, before celebrating Nevermind as the record that ultimately sparked Weezer into life; it's a triumphant hell yeah to the songs that everyone keeps singing – but at others his played-for-laughs larger-than-life-ing grates terribly. 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is undeniably penned with tongues in cheek – from its first lines, "You try to play cool like you just don't care / But soon I'll be playing in your underwear", onwards, it's a solid five minutes of chest-puffed braggadocio set to undulating riffs that break for an acoustic-accompanied howl only to snap back to Kid Rock-aping attention – but one must wonder what the hell Weezer are doing committing such a sub-Bloodhound Gang stinker to an LP that, for some, will be the last chance they get to recapture the fans they so let down with Make Believe, 2005's fifth album that famously received a 0.4 score from Pitchfork.
Lead single 'Pork & Beans' – watch the video here – is a faint echo of past glories, Cuomo's repeated refrains fighting a tide of screaming amplification that washes forth atop backing harmonies beamed straight from a 1960s chart countdown. Modern culture's clearly on Cuomo's mind as he references Timbaland's recent commercial successes, while stating that he'll never adhere to present trends and fashions – "I don't give a hoot about what you think." Ultimately, his sentiments are sound – everyone does like to dance to happy songs, and sing along too given the chance – but when looking outwardly rather than inwardly for his thematic inspiration the singer can't engage an audience at the level he once regularly reached. He's no longer singing with us, he's singing at us, and at times during this Weezer the affect on the listener is overpowering in the wrong way: it's too much, too Look At Me, too effortlessly tossed off in the knowledge that Weezer's canon classics are already established and whatever follows is always going to fall short in the ears of the critics.
That's the impression that Weezer leaves – for all its highs, of which there certainly are more than its immediate predecessor, the album captures the sound of a band writing and recording through habit, not necessarily because they're especially driven to. This isn't catharsis, it's not envelope-pushing; it may be spoken about by label types as the band's most experimental album yet, but it sticks close enough to familiar formulas to always have the listener yearning for just a snatch of a semblance of a whisper of Pinkerton's fantastically understated grandeur. The tracks that do wander furthest from the source – the crap-rap of 'Cold Dark World' (featuring bassist Scott Shriner on vocals), the throwaway thrash of 'Everybody Get Dangerous' – prove to be the least memorable, the most substantial impression left by numbers that most closely resemble what's come long before.
I'm all for progress, but only when it's with the artist in question's credibility fully considered. Weezer – the red version – chances its arm with mixed results without ever truly going as far as it could; thus, its divergences from the marked path are almost instantly forgettable, the million-dollar budget and time of producers Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee perhaps not spent as well as they could've been. Kudos to Cuomo for bringing his bandmates further into the fold, encouraging them to step up to the microphone and make their mark on album six in a way they've never been offered the opportunity of before. But approach this with caution, old-timers, do: many of its ten tracks* are going to slip easily into a live set worth seeing forevermore, but don't expect to get much repeat-play mileage from an LP bold of intent but muddled of execution.
A number of plays through and it's still not clear who, exactly, the band are taking the proverbial out of: themselves, playfully and absolutely intentionally, or us, fans who've become conditioned to not expecting the best from a band who, personally, have been a shadow of themselves since that first 'sequel' release.
* The UK version comes with a pair of bonus covers: Talk Talk's 'Life Is What You Make It' and The Band's 'The Weight'
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Report: Lance Armstrong considering admitting to doping
The New York Times, citing sources with direct knowledge of the situation, reported late Friday night that Lance Armstrong has told associates and anti-doping officials that he is considering a public admission to using performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions during his cycling career.
Citing its sources, the newspaper reports that Armstrong is considering this in hopes of having his eligibility restored after receiving a lifetime ban from the United States Anti-Doping Agency last October.
Armstrong's longtime lawyer, Tim Herman, told USA TODAY Sports: "There are no ongoing discussions with USADA or (World Anti-Doping Agency chief) David Howman as reported in the NYT. That is the only comment at this time."
Earlier Herman told the Times he had no knowledge of a possible admission.
Said Herman to the Associated Press: "When, and if, Lance has something to say, there won't be any secret about it."
Armstrong, 41, who recovered from testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain, had his seven Tour de France titles stripped to go along with the lifetime ban. Although he has vehemently denied doping, Armstrong's athletic career crumbled under the weight of a massive report by USADA detailing allegations of drug use by Armstrong and his teammates on his U.S. Postal Service teams.
The report caused Armstrong to lose most of his personal corporate sponsor, and he recently stepped down from the board of Livestrong, the cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997.
Armstrong is facing other legal hurdles.
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering whether to join a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis. A Dallas-based promotions company has also said it wants to recover several million dollars paid to Armstrong in bonuses for winning the Tour de France. The British newspaper The Sunday Times has sued Armstrong to recover $500,000 paid to him to settle a libel lawsuit.
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Rooney, who faces Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday evening having scored nine goals in his last nine appearances for United, was criticised by Ferguson after missing from the penalty spot for the second time this season during the FA Cup third-round replay against West Ham last month.
The miss was United's fifth from nine penalties so far this season – Ryan Giggs has since scored from the spot against Fulham in the FA Cup – and Ferguson has warned his players that they cannot afford to spurn more chances from score from 12 yards.
But having been left with a record of nine misses from 27 penalties in competitive games for United, Rooney admits that his failure against West Ham, when he shot over the crossbar, convinced him that he no longer deserved the role of penalty taker.
"To be honest, it was my choice," Rooney said. "It wasn't good enough. I went in to speak with the manager and said I'd spoken with Robin and told him he could take them. At a club like this, to miss two penalties like I did and not hit the target, it wasn't good enough."
Ferguson, meanwhile, is facing a battle with the Football Association on two fronts after denying a charge of misconduct in relation to post-match comments following the 1-1 draw at Tottenham last month. The United manager has requested a non-personal hearing (submissions are written rather than delivered in person), which may not take place until later this month, after denying the allegation that his comments about assistant referee Simon Beck were motivated by bias.
Ferguson, who is facing a fine if he is found guilty by an independent commission, could also challenge the FA if United defender Phil Jones is called into the England Under-21 squad for this summer's European Championship in Israel.
Jones, a squad member at Euro 2012, has surprisingly been called into Stuart Pearce's squad for next the friendly against Sweden at Walsall on Tuesday and Ferguson admitted that the condition of the 20-year-old's knee after recent surgery could be an issue should he be required in Israel. "I haven't paid much attention to the squads, but I'm surprised he [Jones] is in the under 21s and not the full squad," Ferguson said. Once a player gets into a full squad, he thinks he's achieved what he wants to achieve and taking the step back can be hard to manage.
"We just have to see how things are [if Jones gets selected for Israel]. He has had an injury this season that has needed looking after and we'll see what it's like in the summer."
With Ferguson confirming that Rio Ferdinand will start against Fulham after being rested during the midweek win against Southampton, Jones may be rested at Craven Cottage in a game which could see United open up a ten point lead at the top of the table ahead of Manchester City's encounter with Liverpool on Sunday.
Despite that prospect, however, Ferguson insists that 10 points will not be enough for United to believe they have taken a significant stride towards the title. "It's very tempting to think about it being 10 points clear and it's attractive to think about it," Ferguson said. "But the most important thing is to win our games and see where it takes us. It is a long way to go, 14 games, and a lot can happen.
"We're not certainties. No one is in this league and they never have been. We were 11 points clear of Arsenal one year and lost it and we were 12 points behind Newcastle one year and won it. It's an unremitting league and you make mistakes, you get punished."


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March 13, 2013
We've seen it in the movies and perhaps even witnessed it in person, but most of us never realized it was an offense punishable with lots of prison time.
When Anthony Brasfield released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach, Fla., for his his sweetheart, all he wanted was to create the perfect atmosphere of romance. What he created instead was a court date.
According to the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, Brasfield's act of love was witnessed by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper. What he saw was not an act of love but a felony.
Massive jail time for – balloons?
The 40-year-old Brasfield was with his girlfriend, Shaquina Baxter, in the parking lot of a Motel 6 on Dania Beach Boulevard when he released the 12 shiny, red and silver mylar balloons into the sky and watched them float away in the Sunday morning breeze.
But the trooper saw nothing more than probable cause for a crime against the environment. Apparently, lawmakers in the Sunshine State think it's appropriate to treat what should have been, at most, simple littering (to which courts would have issued a fine, maybe?), into a major crime against Mother Nature. As if Florida jails weren't full enough.
The trooper arrested Brasfield and charged him with polluting to harm humans, animals, plants and everything else living under the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Act.
"Endangered marine turtle species and birds, such as wood storks and brown pelicans, seek refuge in John U. Lloyd State Park, about 1.5 miles east of the motel," said the paper.
As you might imagine, the law is rarely used. According to the Sun-Sentinel, just 21 arrests were made under the environmental statute between 2008 and 2012.
What is amazing, however, is the severity of the crime – it is a third-degree felony that is punishable by up to five years in prison. Just as one example, in other parts of the country, people who intentionally or actively work to harm the environment get about the same jail time. (http://articles.orlandosentinel.com)
Granted, it was a violation of the law, but…
It's too early to tell if a Florida court will actually sentence Brasfield to that much time but the fact that someone could be thrown in prison for five years for such a low-level environmental crime is difficult to fathom, especially given what seems to be an obvious fact: That Brasfield was not purposefully demonstrating malice or contempt for the law.
And while ignorance of the law is no excuse, we have a little provision of superseding law in American known as the Eight Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment."
Environmental preservation is important, of course, but there are real criminals committing real crimes in America that have dramatically more far-reaching and harmful effects on society than do individuals releasing balloons as a gesture of romance. Shouldn't we save our harshest punishment for the really serious environmental polluters?
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But I'm curious what counts as "experience" with linux.
I've tried ubuntu and debian, and can figure out how to do most things with the internet and the commands "man", "help", and "info". I know my way around the filesystem (It makes so much more sense than the windows one! ), and I know a bit about file permissions. Do I count as experienced?
And also, why not use BT as your main distro?
By experience, I mean having an understanding of what everything does, how to get around, how to trouble shoot issues, etc... If you feel confident, and you know what you are doing; feel free to step up your linux distro into something more advanced.
As for BT, I say not to use it as a main operating system because it isn't meant for that. It's not meant for everyday use such as downloading pictures, making graphics, downloading music, browsing the web, etc. It was made for a purpose to pentest. By using it as your main os, if not careful, you will probably notice that it isn't as stable as some other linux operating systems such as ubuntu. Also, the more junk you pile onto it as a main os, could potential be making your system more vulnerable and detectable than it initially is supposed to be.


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Newington, Connecticut, police have arrested a couple accused of locking their children in dog cages as a form of punishment when they lived on Kirkham Street in Newington.
Michael Thalmann, 44, and Jennifer Thalmann, 48, of Audubon, Pennsylvania, turned themselves in to Newington police on active arrest warrants around 4 p.m. Sunday. They are each charged with cruelty to persons and risk of injury to a minor.
The couple is accused of striking their two adoptive children with paddles, failing to feed the children, and locking the children in dog cages.
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Following Boston Bombings, Dozens "Run for Joy"
Following last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon, more than 70 runners and walkers participated in today's "Joy Run," an event organized by Dr. David O'Hara, associate professor of philosophy and classics, to promote the idea that "because we exist, we should not forget to live."
The run, which circled campus, began at 2:26 p.m. and stretched for 2.62 miles (one tenth of a marathon).
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A Palestinain being arrested by Israeli police during a protest in Arara.
Clashes erupted Friday evening around the Triangle area in Israel, home to a predominantly Palestinian population, in response to incursions by settlers attempting to vandalize mosques and public property and in solidarity with series of ongoing clashes in Jerusalem surrounding the brutal murder of a Palestinian teen earlier this week.
Armed Israeli citizens reportedly entered the Palestinian cities of Kfor-Karea, Taybeh, Tireh, Kfor-Qasem, Umm-Elfahem, Qalansawa, and Barta`a over the last five days, with the reported intentions of vandalizing property.
Israeli police have taken minimal action in response, generally removing Israeli vigilantes and blocking roads to keep them out, triggering further Palestinian anger. As of Saturday evening, the entrance to the city of Qalansawa remained blocked off. Police have reportedly allowed the riots to carry on within the city limits with minimal interference, something unusual for this area. Protesters have reportedly burned tires and thrown rocks at Israeli police.
Because these late-night incursions are taking place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, there are generally still teenagers awake and outside. As intrusions increase, youth have taken to waiting for the settlers at the entrances of each city.
"What's happening now, is teenagers and everybody are going into the streets, and they don't have a political preference or political party that's supporting them," said youth activist Mohammad Abu Toameh, from the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the Triangle area.
The minimal police action is abnormal, according to Abu Toameh, as is the recent raising of Palestinian flags in the villages where these protests are taking place.
"People have always feared holding up the Palestinian flag, the Palestinians within the green line ... If we [Palestinian citizens of Israel] hold it they [Israelis] will just target us, we will be blacklisted... All of these villages that have had these protests a few days ago, they raised the Palestinian flag," said Abu Toameh. "It's one of the biggest solidarities I've seen in a long time."
Clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli police forces widened on Saturday night, spreading into the city of Nazareth (Israel's largest Palestinian city), Shefamer, and all along the Wadi Ara road.
Tensions in the region are growing rapidly. A wave of violent incidents has shocked Israel and the West Bank since the three settler teens were found. On 30 June, just one day after the discovery of the bodies, a boy in Kofer-Qasem was abducted, beaten and stabbed by a gang of Israelis posing as police. He survived the attack, sustaining four stab wounds and receiving 16 stitches.
22-year-old Tariq Ziad Zuhdi Adeli was abducted in Osarinm avillage south of Nablus early Saturday morning and beaten with an axe. Two cars reportedly entered the village around midnight, took Adeli, attacked him and left on the side of the road on the outskirts of the village. Adeli was reportedly able to call his father, who took him to the hospital.
Over the past two days East Jerusalem has seen the most significant clashes in years. The clashes follow the abduction and murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The 16-year-old was reportedly abducted just outside his home in Jerusalem early Wednesday morning by what Palestinians believe to be three Israeli vigilantes. His charred corpse was found halfway across the city, ditched in a forest. Initial autopsy reports show the boy was burned alive.
Thousands attended Abu Khdeir's funeral Friday afternoon in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shu'fat. 147 Palestinians were been injured in the ensuing riots.
Clashes after the funeral spread from Shu'fat throughout almost every Palestinian suburb in the holy city, including previously quiet neighborhoods of Umm Tuba, A-Zayyim, Sawana, Abu al-Tur, Tzure Baher and Azaria.
Clashes continued near Jerusalem late Saturday night between Israeli police and Palestinian youth in Beit Hanina, Isawiyah and Umm Tuba.
"It's one of the most intense times I've seen," said Abu Toameh.
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OnThursday, December 26, 2019, Mallinckrodt plc, (NYSE: MNK) recorded at $3.56 in the latest trading session, marking a -3.52 percent, (Loss↓) move from the prior day.
Notable Technical and Performance analysis of the Mallinckrodt plcstocks which belongs to US stocks Exchanges:
The overall total volume in the last trading session was 3031305shares while it's while its relative trading volume is 0.43.
The price target set for the stock is $5.The beta factor is 2.61.A stock with a beta more than 1 means high volatile and less than 1 means low volatile.
The RSI index is largely used by traders on a 14.0-day time period and is evaluated on a range from 0.0 to 100.00, along with both high and low volumes marked at 70.00 and 30.00, correspondingly. Both the shorter and longer timeframes are used by the traders for shorter and longer purposes.
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Notable Experts have a mean recommendation of 3.1on this stock. This is based on a 1-5 numeric scale where Rating Scale: 1.0 Strong Buy, 2.0 Buy, 3.0 Hold, 4.0 Sell, 5.0 Strong Sell.
Investigating the productivity proportions of business stock, the speculator will discover its ROE, ROA, ROI remaining at -117.6 percent, -33.9 percent and -36.7 percent, individually. ROI is expressed as a percentage and is typically used for personal financial commitment, to compare a company's profitability or to compare the efficiency of different investments.
The company's net profit margin is 0 percent. It measures how much out of every dollar of sales a company actually keeps in earnings. Operating Margin is seen at 0 percent. Forward P/E of Mallinckrodt plc is standing at 0.51.
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Mallinckrodt plc (MNK) recently closed with fall of -1.33 percent to its 20-Day "SMA". This short time frame picture represents a downward movement of current price over average price of last 20 days.50-day "SMA" is more useful at showing position trading trends lasting 50 days. Shares of MNK moved with change of 9.83 percent to its 50-day Moving average.MNK stock price revealed pessimistic move of -58.41 percent comparing average price of last 200 days.
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The Mallinckrodt plc's performances for Monthly, weekly, half-yearly, quarterly & year-to-date are mentioned below:-
- Weekly performance of stock is -3.26 percent.
- Monthly performance of stock is -1.39
- The quarterly performance of the stock is 46 percent, while the half-yearly performance is -60.49 percent.
- Looking further out we can see that the stock has moved -77.47 percent over the year to date.
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Why is Cochrane so excited about this inequality study?
It's called "The Mismeasure of Inequality", but it doesn't live up to it's name, nor does it live up to John Cochrane's hype.
It seems to just recycle a few points about inequality that we already know and that do not invalidate the way that others measure it. Namely:
1. The distribution of consumption is more equal than the distribution of income
2. Income gains are different from welfare gains
3. Higher income people get better benefits so if you choose to exclude that portion of compensation the income distribution looks more equal, and
4. Europe generally has more progressive benefits and less progressive taxes so if you look just at the tax burden the U.S. looks like it is very progressive
The other day we were talking about the general public's understanding of the minimum wage, but let's get back to the economists' bubble on this.
Didn't we already know all of this?
Why is John Cochrane so excited about this study?
Let me know when Emmanuel Saez actually teaches us something new about inequality, like what the most recent data says. It seems to me we know all of this already.
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Aren't disposable income comparisons kind of intellectually dishonest since it ignores consumption substitution (i.e. health and education) by higher tax governments?ReplyDelete
Also, I think it's Krugman that always points out that comparing relative federal taxes alone is also intellectually dishonest.
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Brother John refuses to acknowledge that a government that forces its subjects to use a counterfeiters money At penelty of death is the basis of our institutional, endowment, retirement system.ReplyDelete
He wouldn't put this on his site.Replies
Bob Roddis, are you drunk commenting again?Delete
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He is excited because now all the lefty bloggers will have to hide their heads under their shady carpets and pretend this was all always very obvious.Delete
That Greece and other pathetically failing countries reduced inequality the most is a significant data point never told on a loudspeaker to the OWS crowd. But then no one told them the poor are the fattest here, live in bigger houses than the average (average!! not poor? Whoa!) European and 31% of the below poverty line *?* drive two cars.
And now they also want lower inequality. Well there is a price to it and the least liberal leaning beta Economists can do is tell them what it could be. In a nice politically correct up way maybe.
*politically corrected*
A totally uneducated suspicion, but I wonder if Cochrane hasn't been reading more and more conservative blogs. This line---ReplyDelete
"'Lastly, we will address assertions that the rich are not paying their "fair share" of taxes.' 'Address' should be 'destroy', but they're being careful."
---in particular sounded to me like something I saw at Red State or Powerline back when I still had the constitution to read them. (Google indicates the former employs "demolish" more often than "destroy," but six of one....)
In any event, it seems pretty obvious that Cochrane is just delighted to read something that agrees with everything he believed when he woke up this morning, so the precise cause is perhaps not significant.
(Also, it's "its," not "it's.")
- SilvanoAugust 17, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Maybe because "inequality" is avocated by Socialist parties (in Europe) or by Liberals (like Krugman, but worse Stiglitz) as a good argument for more tax, spend & regulate policies?ReplyDelete
It doesn't take a genius why he repeats this arguments which I doubt the average reader of NYT consider or even knows.


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President Barack Obama has resorted to "extremism" with stifling, anti-growth policies and sought to divide Americans, not unite them, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said last night in the formal Republican response to the president's State of the Union address.
Eight months after deciding against a bid for his party's presidential nomination, Daniels used his nationally televised speech to lash out at Obama and cast the GOP as compassionate and eager to unchain the country's economic potential.
He took particular aim at Obama's efforts to raise taxes on the rich and castigate them for not contributing their fair share to the nation's burdens. Joined by Republicans on Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign trails, the GOP goal was to both blunt and shift the focus away from Obama's theme on Tuesday of fairness, which included protecting the middle class and making sure the rich pay an equitable share of taxes.
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President George W. Bush's first budget chief and a two-term Indiana governor, Daniels often rails against wasteful spending big budget deficits, though critics note he served during the abrupt shift from fleeting federal surpluses to massive deficits early in Bush's term.
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The night's rhetoric come at the dawn of a presidential and congressional election year in which the defining issues are the faltering economy and weak job market and the parties' clashing prescriptions for restoring both. Obama and congressional Democrats have focused on the more populist pathway of financing federal initiatives by taxing millionaires, while Republicans preach the virtues of less regulation and smaller government.
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Obama was delivering his address during a rowdy battle for the GOP presidential nomination that has ended up providing ammunition for Obama's theme of fairness.
That fight has called attention to the wealth of one of the top contenders, Romney, and the low — but legal — effective federal income tax rate of around 15 percent that the multimillionaire has paid in the past two years. Romney, in Florida campaigning for that state's Jan. 31 primary, released his tax documents for the two-year period on Tuesday.
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Francis Ford Coppola restoring Inglenook's legacy
Thirst By Jon Bonné Famed filmmaker-turned-vintner Coppola returning Inglenook to its historic greatness
Francis Ford Coppola knew he had a special place when he bought the old Niebaum mansion in 1975. But, how special? Robert Mondavi, who came over from nearby Oakville to pay his respects, perhaps framed it best.
"You realize you have bought the most beautiful, the most important winery property in the Napa Valley?" Coppola recalls Mondavi asking. "You realize what this is?"
It didn't take long for Coppola to figure it out. The property once known as Inglenook isn't simply important in Napa Valley history - it's as close as Napa gets to hallowed ground, a spot that encompasses nearly the valley's entire wine history.
While much of Napa's fame today is measured in years, Inglenook's is measured in decades. A century ago, it made some of the best wines in the New World. Bottles like the 1941 Inglenook Cabernet are legendary; at a time when California wine was hardly refined, they proved that Napa was one of the world's perfect places to grow grapes.
For nearly four decades, restoring this piece of Rutherford bench land has been the looming mission in Coppola's life. It has been his family's home, his labor of love and occasional money pit - the one project that has stayed with him through ripe times and lean.
Now he's planning a grand finale: restoring Inglenook's legacy as one of Napa's great estates - and reviving the style of Cabernet that made it famous.
"I want Inglenook to be what it was," Coppola said during a rare interview. "It was Napa Valley's premier cru."
It's no surprise, then, that when the chance arose last year to buy back the actual Inglenook name, there was no question that Coppola would follow through and reunite the wine with the name that made it legendary. It was "the last step after a very arduous task of getting back the land."
The beginning: 1880
To understand Inglenook's importance, you must understand its improbable creation. Starting in 1880, Gustave Niebaum bought land in Rutherford, intending to create a top wine estate. Finnish-born Niebaum is often described as a sea captain, but by 1879 he was a partner in the Alaska Commercial Co. and was one of America's richest men.
Wine was a lark. Though he could have purchased any of Bordeaux's first growths, he chose to establish a vineyard closer to his San Francisco home. Over the next decade, he amassed about 1,000 acres from the valley floor to the top of Mount St. John, and planted 250 acres of vineyards - not only Cabernet, using cuttings he brought from Bordeaux, but everything from Furmint to Charbono.
Niebaum borrowed the Scottish name, Inglenook (meaning "cozy spot"), coined by the property's original owner, William Watson. Soon he built a winery with architecture that was not only grand but forward-thinking: Its concrete included an early form of rebar - cable car cables brought from San Francisco, not to stave off earthquake damage but to help the building shift as grape must was pumped through during harvest.
At a time when vineyards resembled orchards, Niebaum insisted on dense European-style planting - less than 4 feet between vines. Most California wine was sold in casks, but he set up one of the state's first bottling lines in his immaculately clean cellar as a way to ensure the provenance of Inglenook wines. He is thought to have devised the state's first grape-sorting table.
A full-page April 1890 feature on Inglenook in the San Francisco Examiner asserted that Niebaum had "performed a work of incalculable value to the State by demonstrating that California can not only produce wine, but can make a wine the equal of any in the world."
Niebaum died in 1908, and his widow, Susan, brought her niece's children, John Daniel Jr. and his sister Suzanne, to live at the estate. She kept Inglenook afloat during Prohibition by selling grapes to neighboring Beaulieu Vineyards. After she died in 1936, the Daniel siblings inherited the property, and John Daniel took over its affairs.
The Daniel years brought Inglenook's greatest glory. Winemakers like George Deuer produced an astonishing range of wines, including the Cask Cabernets, some of the finest reds ever made in Napa, and a varietal Charbono that became one of Inglenook's signatures.
Yet Inglenook's products never quite paid the bills, and the tough economic realities of midcentury American wine caught up with Daniel. He kept his historic mansion, but in 1964 he sold the winery for $1.2 million to Louis Petri, founder of Allied Grape Growers and United Vintners, the largest wine producer in California.
Despite promises to maintain its reputation, Petri quickly linked Inglenook to cheap jug wines. Five years later, when it was sold to spirits conglomerate Heublein as part of a $100 million transaction, its reputation was hobbled.
Reputation demolished
If United Vintners dented Inglenook's reputation, Heublein utterly demolished it. The Connecticut spirits company was mostly interested in leveraging the winery name to sell even more cheap wine.
Heritage Cabernet plantings were ripped out for Chenin Blanc. A parcel that helped produce the legendary 1941 Cabernet was plowed under to allow a barrel-storage building, a perennial eyesore that became so loathed in Napa Valley as a sign of corporate meddling that Coppola made a public event of its 2007 demolition.
The organic farming that had been in place since Niebaum's days was cast aside for conventional pesticides. When Heublein acquired Beaulieu Vineyards next door, this swath of Rutherford became a grim testament to the wine industry's darker tendencies.
"Heublein should never have owned this property," Rafael Rodriguez, Inglenook's vineyard manager since the Daniel era, said in 1999.
There remained one bright spot. In 1972, the Daniel family sold the original Victorian mansion and surrounding vineyards. Coppola, then a young director with "The Godfather" freshly to his credit, was hunting for property in Napa. He was outbid by an investors' group, but the county denied the group's request to subdivide the property and three years later the property was up for sale again. This time, Coppola didn't dicker. For about $2.2 million, financed with profits from "The Godfather: Part II," the core of Inglenook was his.
Grandfather made wine
Coppola often ties his wine business to his Italian family's lore - watching his grandfather make Prohibition-era family wine in a Spanish Harlem tenement. But, that doesn't quite tell the full story.
As a graduate student at UCLA, he became familiar with Inglenook's neighbor, Beaulieu, occasionally stopping in to persuade the staff to sell him a case of the 1960 vintage.
Wine pervaded his Hollywood circle. He learned about Bordeaux from Gore Vidal and about Burgundy from dinners hosted by Bill Cosby (who was a teetotaler, but ensured there were bottles of Romanee-Conti on the table).
"By then I knew there was such a thing as great wine," he said. "So that was the person who bought the Niebaum home."
Soon after moving in, Coppola and his wife, Eleanor, discovered a pile of old Inglenook bottles dating back to 1890 in the cellar. On occasion he would sneak down to grab one - including on the day Mondavi came to visit.
"I said, 'There's this wine in the cellar,' " Coppola recalled. "We went down. We took another bottle of the 1890. We brought it up and I opened it up for him, and the perfume of it filled the room and we drank it. And it was wonderful and he started dancing around and said, 'See, a Napa Valley wine' - and here it was in the actual cellar - 'You can make a wine as great as any in the world.' "
Coppola was already contemplating his own wine, preferably a red blend in the style of Bordeaux, like the first-growth Chateau Margaux he admired. In 1977, he borrowed about $40,000 from his mother to buy winemaking equipment, and made a trial vintage. He liked it enough that the inaugural vintage of Rubicon was vinified the following year.
Once again the property was making wine of the quality that John Daniel demanded. Coppola, by that point aware of the value of linking his own efforts to the winery's storied past, named the estate Niebaum-Coppola.
Film career in tumult
Even as Coppola launched his winery, the rest of his career was in tumult. The epic production of "Apocalypse Now" had gone awry, leaving him in financial ruin. He decided to make one film per year for the next decade to rebuild his bank account, all while trying to launch Rubicon.
Initially, he got help from Andre Tchelistcheff, the Russian-born winemaker at Beaulieu and adviser to nearly everyone else who was largely responsible for Napa's postwar success. Rubicon was always an ambitious wine - the first labels were printed by Tiffany & Co.
In 1984, a young consultant named Tony Soter took over. He fine-tuned the vineyards and softened the wine style, which under Tchelistcheff's hand had been so stoic that the inaugural 1978 vintage was held nearly seven years before release.
Seven years later, Soter handed the reins to Scott McLeod, who would guide Rubicon through its teen years. Napa's style of Cabernet was growing more expansive and rich, and McLeod followed suit, breaking with what was sometimes sniffily described as a "Bordeaux-style" approach.
As Coppola built his wine empire, launching less-expensive wines to pay the bills, the Inglenook brand had become a hot potato in the land of corporate wine, tossed from Heublein to R.J. Reynolds to Grand Metropolitan and Canandaigua (the precursor to Constellation Brands).
Coppola's big chance
In 1995, Canandaigua decided to sell its portion of the property. Coppola immediately saw the chance to reunite the entire estate, and for about $10 million bought the remaining vineyards and Niebaum's original chateau, where he vowed to again make wine. In 2002, he purchased 140 acres of the neighboring Cohn ranch for nearly $34 million. And he put distance between Rubicon and the more populist side of his business, wines like Francis Ford Coppola Presents, which he gave their own slightly theme-parky home in Geyserville.
In 2006, Coppola changed the property's name to Rubicon Estate, but he had begun to question the trajectory of his grand effort. In the fields, he saw old vines ripped out for replanting, mostly to increase yields. Rafael Rodriguez, who had managed Inglenook's vineyards since the 1950s - and was crucial enough to its success that one of Coppola's early moves was to rehire him for $40,000, an estimable salary in 1976 - was essentially forced out.
"I questioned some things I saw happening," Coppola says. "I would go off and make movies, so I'd come back and see these changes and I was specifically disturbed about what I thought was happening to the vineyard."
McLeod's wines had been well-received, although overshadowed by the daredevil style of Napa's top cult wines. The winemaking had, to Coppola's mind, become too technocratic - too far from the classic style that had defined Inglenook. It no longer reflected the possibilities of the Bale loam soils that had a century-long track record.
"Ultimately," he says, "I felt there was too much science being employed. And I wanted more instinct."
But how to return the wines to their classic bones? By the time McLeod departed in 2010, Coppola had tapped a Bordeaux consultant, Stephane Derenoncourt, who began reeling Rubicon back from the exuberant, if heavy-handed, style that marked the early 2000s. (McLeod wasn't the only notable to depart; master sommelier Larry Stone, who had been tapped as estate manager, left as well.) Coppola brought in candidates from around the world to interview.
Margaux winemaker
One was Philippe Bascaules, the winemaking talent behind Chateau Margaux. Bascaules fit precisely into Coppola's scheme - someone who knew how to run a top estate.
Bascaules arrived on Niebaum Lane last October, just in time to navigate one of Napa's trickier, colder vintages. It was the perfect time to find a lighter step. The presumed blend of the 2011 Rubicon - the wine's name isn't changing - will land around 13.8 percent alcohol, far closer in style to the Inglenook of old than anything that has come off Coppola's land in recent years.
"I don't want to make a Bordeaux style. I just want to make a wine I like," Bascaules says. "This is the big challenge, to make the wine impressive, but not aggressive. A lot of expensive wines are very aggressive for me."
To complete the change, Coppola planned to build a new winery, very much in the mold of Niebaum's 1880s design: big enough to handle all of Inglenook's 250 acres, with the wine made in small lots and moved by gravity.
Acquiring the name
But there was one final piece: the Inglenook name. By the time the Wine Group bought it in 2008, along with Almaden and Paul Masson, as a $134 million purchase from Constellation Brands, Inglenook meant just another cheap wine.
Coppola, though, saw something different. Old Inglenook Cabernet was cherished at wine auctions; in 2004, a single bottle of the 1941 went for $24,675.
"I thought, just logically, maybe the people who knew of the cheap box wine Inglenook didn't know of the value of the old wine Inglenook, and the people who knew of the value of the old wine Inglenook didn't know of the existence of the cheap. So maybe it wasn't trashed."
Last April, Coppola announced he had bought the name and trademark from the Wine Group. Financial terms haven't been disclosed, and the privately held Wine Group was tight-lipped, aside from calling it "a proud moment for the California wine industry."
But for Coppola, it was a final checkmate after 37 years of rebuilding one of California's most revered vineyards. That might explain why, later this spring, the 2009 Inglenook Cask Cabernet will be unveiled with a label that's essentially a facsimile of John Daniel, Jr.'s midcentury version.
In a very Act III sort of way, Inglenook will be whole once again. And Coppola, having spent at least $46 million on his mission, seems content with his four decades of work.
The next steps are more likely to be taken by his daughter, Sofia, and son, Roman.
"I'm very aware that Inglenook is going to maybe reach a golden age after I'm gone," he said. "In the wine field, it takes decades and I'm 72. So clearly I have 10 years, or maybe more, to make it happen.
"I'd like to see it. But I know my children will see it. So that makes me happy."
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Rubicon's style goes back to the future
One key piece of reviving the Inglenook name was to shift the style of Rubicon closer to the Cabernets that had brought the estate fame in the John Daniel Jr. era.
The wines of the Daniel years were very much classically styled Napa Cabernet: picked at moderate ripeness, fermented in upright wooden vats, aged in mostly old wood casks. They were made with few of the modern techniques that seem mandatory nowadays, and yet many of them have endured through the decades, showing the sheer quality of the Niebaum vineyards and the volcanic and bale loam soils in the heart of Rutherford.
But Francis Ford Coppola is clear that he wants to circle back to the style that brought Napa its earlier fame - which means retrenchment from the more lavish wines that marked Rubicon's recent years. Winemaker Philippe Bascaules' task is, as Coppola puts it, to "learn what a Napa wine is."
I expected to see a few hints of the shift. So when Bascaules poured his probable blend of 2011 Rubicon, I was stunned.
This is not Rubicon as we have known it. It is an extraordinary young wine, 95 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 5 percent Petit Verdot, complex with dry-herb and graphite accents that hint at the Napa benchland, plus fresh cassis fruit.
Dense and sinewy, it has thus far absorbed the 100 percent new French oak in which it is being aged - as Bascaules put it, "a really good sign of the strength of the wine." It finished around 13.8 percent alcohol, in part because of the cool vintage but also a sign of decisions made in the vineyard and at harvest.
Given Bascaules' previous job at Chateau Margaux, there's a temptation to tag the wine as a return to what had been considered an older, more Bordeaux, style. Yet the dusty refinement of tannins and the forward fruit mark it as very much Napa. It has a kinship with Inglenook's midcentury style, except for all that oak.
By comparison, a barrel sample of the 2010 Rubicon is notably different: bigger and fuller of roasted fruit, thicker and ropey in its texture, with evident oak presence and a slight awkwardness. It could be a sign of a tricky vintage, but it could also be the sign of a wine in transition.
Bascaules said he hopes to have the approximate level of the 2011's ripeness each year - though he has no interest in making wines that don't show the variations of vintage. "If you make wine with overripe grapes, you could make the same wine anywhere," he said.
Rubicon also made a standout Napa Zinfandel, the Edizione Pennino, and a sample of the 2011 shows an energetic, kirsch-edged wine full of perfume and leafy raspberry - a reminder of Zinfandel's best charms. While Cabernet is old hat to the former Margaux winemaker, Zin is a completely new specimen. Yet he has a newcomer's zeal for the grape.
"For me," Bascaules said, "Zinfandel could be a great wine."
- Jon Bonné
A farming debate at Inglenook
More than anything, Inglenook's shift in style requires change in the vineyards.
Francis Ford Coppola and his wife, Eleanor, have always been attentive to how their land was farmed. Eleanor Coppola successfully lobbied to convert the estate to organic farming more than two decades ago.
But there's a curious ongoing dialogue in the fields between the Coppolas, Philippe Bascaules and vineyard manager Enrique Herrero - one that I caught in progress during a visit this month.
Coppola is an adamant proponent of farming without irrigation, while Bascaules - a newcomer to water use after his time in Bordeaux, where it's illegal - views it as a tool to help reduce the dramatic ripeness and shriveled fruit that marks much Napa viticulture. For that matter, the estate's dramatically low yields might be raised (some blocks at Inglenook currently grow 1 1/2 tons per acre), which would help reduce sugar levels.
As he did at Chateau Margaux, Bascaules is tempted to take the best vine material - the descendants of Gustave Niebaum's original cuttings (now called the Niebaum clone, or clone 29) and other outperformers - and cultivate them in a mass selection of genetic material for replanting, replacing small parcels each year rather than one large block at a time.
Although you can barely see them from Highway 29, Inglenook's hundreds of acres of vineyards remain its best strength, including head-trained Cabernet from 1965 in the "old garden" block, Zinfandel vines from 1973, a bit of Syrah and the mix of Rhone-native white grapes in a cooler swale. Herrero has been working for four years to improve the soils' water capacity, avoiding tilling for several seasons to allow the soil drainage to improve.
Much as founder Gustave Niebaum employed 34 men year-round to tend his property, Coppola and his staff employ much of their vineyard crew full time, a departure from the valley's typical use of migrant labor.
"It's important for us that we keep people who have been employed for many years," Herrero says. "When vines are planted over time, you need people to know them."
For decades, that included Rafael Rodriguez, who had managed the Inglenook vineyards since the 1950s ( sfg.ly/K0VCKJ) and became its "vineyard historian," but who also found himself at odds with viticultural practices in Rubicon's past - including drastic reductions in yield that put vines into shock, as he describes it, on the way to cultivating super-ripe grapes.
"It was a defeat of my philosophy," Rodriguez says now. "It made me cry when I saw those fields loaded with grapes at the bottom. I said hell, if you want to do that, why? Besides, it's labor intensive. ... You are throwing money to the ground."
But Rodriguez also recalls how the vineyards were farmed (admittedly with very different vine training) in Inglenook's heyday, when grapes were picked at moderate ripeness.
Though the particulars remain to be worked out, it appears that Bascaules' intentions are reminiscent of those earlier days.
"I see already little changes, little changes that are good. I saw some cutting off of shoots that wasn't done in previous years. It seems to me that Philippe wants to bring back the production of the vines."
- Jon Bonné
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Lost in all the hullabaloo over the announcement of the Hyundai i20 World Rally Championship car today was the news that Hyundai is launching a performance-oriented sub brand for their racing and production cars. Its name — and I am totally not making this up, I swear — is N.
Yes, N. The 14th letter of the alphabet, and just one away from a slightly more famous brand established by a certain Bavarian automaker. The N brand logo even has a remarkably similar color scheme to BMW's M.
Wow, Hyundai. I mean, just, wow.
Hyundai in a news release that the brand is not named for "Notorsport," which I am told is not a word, but after the Namyang R&D Centre that developed the i20 rally car and will make future road-going cars.
Slightly ridiculous name aside, I say this is a good thing. Hyundai's cars are now as good as any on the market, but their performance-oriented cars like the Genesis Coupe and Veloster Turbo aren't quite as competitive as they could be. Maybe race-inspired stuff from N will push them in that direction.
Personally, I'd love to see a medium-sized rear-wheel drive performance sedan from this brand. Maybe they can call it the N3. Or is that going too far?


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Monday, December 15, 2014
Milestones and Gratitude
28 years sober…more grateful than I can adequately express.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me along this road and continues to help me along it.
I am infinitely blessed with astounding family of both origin and choice and I am exceedingly aware of how lucky I am in both those respects.
I am infinitely blessed with astounding friends near and far, some I've never met face to face, but you are all my friends and you make my life richer and you make me more able to live my life.
Thank you.