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08:30:08 02/07/12
Breaking Down
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An(n)ymous and Unnamed at last reach the final chapter in Stephanie Meyer's torturous quartet! Will they make it through alive? How many bottles of wine do you NEED to get through a "Twilight" novel? And will they discover Philip's dastardly Dalek plan? Find out!
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04:54:24 02/05/12
Slamdance 2012 Interview with Kevin Gordon
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Documentary director Kevin Gordon talks about his Slamdance Official Selection NO WINE LEFT BEHIND. He discusses leaving out politics out of his film, focusing on the plight of returning vets, and how he got in touch with his subjects to make the film.
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09:07:44 02/02/12
"The Finest and Rarest Wines of France" Auctioned at New York Christie's
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"The Finest and Rarest Wines of France" Auctioned at New York Christie's
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me World's appraisers of French wines made their bid at New York's Christie's auction. 12 bottle-cases sold for up to 58 thousand dollars. How much would a wine lover pay...for a bottle of the finest...and rarest wines of France? The World's appraisers made their bid...at Christie's auction house in New York City. [Robin Kelley O'Connor, Head of Wines for Christie's Americas] : "This was such a global auction today. Literally our buyers were from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, England, Brazil, France, of course the United States and Mexico..." The sale focused on the finest and rarest Bordeaux, Burgundy and Nothern Rh%ocircne wines. The highest bid went to a P%eacutetrus Vintage case from 1982 which contained dozen bottles. The case sold for 58 thousand dollars to a private Asian buyer. But what makes French wines so special? [Robin Kelley O'Connor, Head of Wines for Christie's Americas]: "You can say the Greeks, the Italians, possibly have been making wines longer. But what the French have achieved, particularly in Bordeaux and Burgundy is an understanding of the soil". [Chris Adams, CEO, Sherry-Lehmann Wine and Spirits, Manhattan]: "The French put a lot of thought into what should they plant and where should they plant it." [Robin Kelley O'Connor, Head of Wines for Christie's Americas]: "Not every year, but many years, they have this magical, I would say, formula of ... From: NTDTV Views: 78 2 ratings Time: 02:47 More in News & Politics
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09:03:44 02/02/12
Chilean Wine Out of This World
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Chilean Wine Out of This World
For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me A British astronomer and winemaker has created a new wine infused with a four-billion-year-old meteorite. Time will tell if his "Meterito" will enjoy an out-of-this-world following. Wine lovers in this small Chilean town of San Vicente can now add a new dimension to their wine tasting palettes. In the local vineyard a British man, Ian Hutcheon, has disclosed his new 2010 Meteorito, a robust cabernet imbued with celestial elements. Ian Hutcheon has combined his two obsessions of astronomy and wine-making and created a wine infused with a meteorite which is more than four billion years old. Hutcheon hails from Scotland originally but has lived in Chile for the past 14-years. He explains how he did lots of experimenting with different grape varieties before deciding that Cabernet was the best variety for his "Out of this World" wine. [Ian Hutcheon, Winemaker and Astronomer]: "A lot of experimenting with different varietals and varieties. And with the cabernet being a slightly more robust wine, a bigger wine, we realised it would work better with that style of wine because the meteorite does give some added mineral from the meteorite itself. So really, in general terms, it makes the wine livelier; we find that it brings out the flavors better. The color doesn't change much but perhaps a little bit darker because of the carbonised shell of the meteorite but generally ... From: NTDTV Views: 111 4 ratings Time: 02:50 More in News & Politics
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20:00:00 12/19/11
Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Claiming
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Former President Havel addresses a European cultural congress on the economics of culture
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy waitress, a bartender polishing glasses, and a single patron who sat alone drinking wine and chain-smoking cigarettes.
The President of Czechoslovakia wasn't reviewing official papers. He was reading a book, a startlingly un-Presidential act to our American eyes. My companion, a neoconservative State Department official, already admired him for defying and defeating a Communist state. He'd impressed me by bringing a writer's sensibility and an affinity for true underground culture to his role as head of state.
Václav Havel even tried to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture. "We're not rock musicians," Zappa told a reporter back in the sixties. "We're electronic social workers." The State Department wouldn't let Zappa assume the post, but Havel had made his point to the Czech public by offering this apparatchik's position to the composer of songs like "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" ("Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind .")
We never spoke to Havel that night. It didn't seem polite to offer anything more than the curt nod of acknowledgement any café patron gives another at that hour. But Havel spoke to us, to all of us. And on the occasion of his death, the real lessons of his life's work are in danger of being lost.
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Think of that as the Velvet Revolution's "one demand."
Portrait of the President as a Young Freak
As millions of people know, the underground playwright Havel first made his political mark in Charter 77. That group was formed to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, a banned and imprisoned rock band working in the Zappa mold of musical dissonance and cultural dissidence.
The Occupy movement is not on the cultural fringe, despite what its detractors say. But Havel's movement began as a Yippie-like creature of the underworld. Charter 77 rarely had more than a thousand members. It was a strange blend of political idealism and the hippie subculture where people proudly labeled themselves "freaks" to the conventional world. Despite its later alignment with economically conservative forces, it was more Allen Ginsburg than Alan Greenspan.
And it was created to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, whose grating music makes Occupy's drum circles seem like a children's choir serenading the bored residents of a home for aging veterans.
Words
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - what wonderful words! And how terrifying their meaning can be! Freedom in the shirt unbuttoned before execution. Equality in the constant speed of the guillotine's fall on different necks. Fraternity in some dubious paradise ...
Havel addressed the liberal democratic West on words in the 1970s, noting that the suppression of speech can give language enormous power: >
I ... live in a country where a writers' congress speech is capable of shaking the system ... a manifesto served as one of the pretexts for the invasion of our country one night by five foreign armies ... a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When a system has become inflexible and is in danger of collapsing, what it fears most is words. Think about that the next time you see a phalanx of cops tear down a tent city on television.
Havel had been burned by language, too: >
The same word can at one moment radiate great hope, at another it can emit lethal rays ... true at one moment and false the next, at one moment illuminating, at another, deceptive. On one occasion it can open up glorious horizons, on another, it can lay down the tracks to an entire archipelago of concentration camps.
And as we approach an election year that will be filled with the rhetoric of freedom, this observation still resonates: >
The same word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another time machine-gun fire resounds in its every syllable.
Control
In 1975 Havel had the presumption to write directly to Czechoslovakian head of state Gustáv Husák with a few suggestions. There's more than a passing resemblance between the fear-driven Communist society Havel condemned in that letter and the financial anxiety many Americans endure today: >
The technique of existential pressure is ... universal. There is no one in our country who is not, in a broad sense, existentially vulnerable. Everyone has something to lose and so everyone has reason to be afraid. The range of things one can lose is broad, extending from the manifold privileges of the ruling caste... down to the mere possibility of living in that limited degree of legal certainty available to other citizens.
Today, one out of two Americans lives in financial insecurity. Even many upper-middle-class citizens live from month to month, just one layoff notice away from medical bankruptcy or home foreclosure.
"Everyone has something to lose," observed Havel.
Havel's description of his 20th Century Communist society echoes our own: >
The more completely one abandons any hope of general reform, any interest in suprapersonal goals and values, or any chance of exercising influence in an 'outward' direction, the more one's energy is diverted in the direction of least resistance, that is, 'inwards.'"
People today are preoccupied far more with themselves ... They fill their homes with all kinds of appliances and pretty things, they try to improve their accommodations, they try to make life pleasant for themselves, building cottages, looking after their cars, taking more interest in food and clothing and domestic comfort ...They turn their main attention to the material aspects of their private lives.
Havel concluded that "Despair leads to apathy, apathy to conformity, and conformity to routine (political) performance - which is then quoted as evidence of 'mass political involvement.'"
Ambition
Havel understood the psychology of greed and power, too. From his letter to Husák: >
If it is fear which lies behind people's defensive attempts to preserve what they have, it becomes increasingly apparent that the chief impulses for their aggressive efforts to win what they do not yet possess are selfishness and careerism.
It is not surprising that so many public and influential positions are occupied more than ever before by notorious careerists, opportunists, charlatans, and men of dubious record.
From Prague to Washington, from Moscow to lower Manhattan, the opportunities change. But human nature never does: >
Seldom in recent times has a social system offered scope so openly and so brazenly to people willing to support anything as long as it brings them some advantage; to unprincipled and spineless men, prepared to do anything in their craving for power and personal gain; to born lackeys, ready for any humiliation and willing at all times to sacrifice their neighbors' and their own honor for a chance to ingratiate themselves with those in power.
Technocracy
It's a historical irony that those who claim they'll govern with the most efficiency usually wind up governing with the least effectiveness. Today corporate-funded politicians from both parties argue that the country should be led by "technocrats' who'll govern without messy "ideologies."
That's a false premise Havel knew well. He called it the "process by which power becomes anonymous and depersonalized, reduced to a mere technology of rule and manipulation."
Washington's technocratic "bipartisans" dream of a world where, in Havel's words, the "professional ruler is (seen as) the 'innocent' tool of an 'innocent' anonymous power ... legitimized by science, cybernetics, ideology, law, abstraction, and objectivity - that is, by everything except personal responsibility to human beings as persons and neighbors." Havel's Prague is our Beltway: >
States grow ever more machinelike; people are transformed into statistical choruses of voters, producers, consumers, patients, tourists, or soldiers, (where) in politics good and evil, categories of the natural world and therefore obsolete remnants of the past, lose all absolute meaning (and where) the sole method of politics is quantifiable success.
Havel condemned a system of state-orchestrated political theater, and the self-perpetuating failures of imagination which mistook the indifferent and pro forma participation of its citizens for genuine democracy. And he saw its universal nature: >
(It) has a thousand masks, variants, and expressions. Essentially, though, it is the same universal trend ... the essential trait of all modern civilization, growing directly from its spiritual structure, rooted in it by a thousand tangled tendrils and inseparable even in thought from its technological nature, its mass characteristics, and its consumer orientation.
"The contemporary concept of 'normal' behavior is," Havel wrote, "deeply pessimistic."
Responsibility
"I favor 'antipolitical politics,'" said Havel, "politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them." >
I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans.
None of us--as an individual--can save the world as a whole, but . . . each of us must behave as though it were in his power to do so.
Decades later he said this to the leaders of Western countries: >
Today, more than ever before in the history of mankind, everything is interrelated ... Because of this, the future of the United States or the European Union is being decided in suffering Sarajevo or Mostar, in the plundered Brazilian rain forests, in the wretched poverty of Bangladesh or Somalia.
Havel had glaring faults. American neocons offered him small favors during his final rise to power. He reciprocated, consciously or unconsciously, by aiding their destructive military ventures and adopting their foolish economic policies. He succumbed to the politics of personality, both his own and those of the leaders who courted him. But it would be a shame if that's all the world remembered.
Havel seemed unhappy in the role of leader. It's possible than he lost sight of his deepest insights, his truest gifts. It was the outsider Havel, the dreamer of the impossible, the surrealist and absurdist, we should remember. That's the Havel who can and should inspire dissidents everywhere.
"Is the human word truly powerful enough to change the world and influence history?" he once asked. With his life and his words, Václav Havel gave us his answer. He showed us the power in each individual and the responsibility that accompanies that power.
At his best, and above all else, Havel was a dissident outsider who realized his power and used it. Now it's our turn.
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07:14:58 12/11/11
How to Make the Kentucky Medicine Cocktail
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Learn how to make the Kentucky Medicine Cocktail. Jamie brings back the "golden ratio" and discusses proper technique when opening a corked bottle of wine or vermouth. The resulting cocktail, Kentucky Medicine, will surely cure what ails you this Winter season.
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17:05:30 11/05/11
How to Make the Aloha Bubbly Mixed Drink
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The Aloha Bubbly is a mixed drink with wine that's easy to make at home. Our professional bartender will show you how.
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05:32:01 10/12/11
Wine Making at Home: Stir the Batch
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Stirring the homemade fruit mash to make wine is important for fermentation. Learn how to stew the batch of organic wine at home in this free wine making video.
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09:56:17 10/05/11
How to Make an Italian Sparkling Wine Cocktail
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Personal Chef Judith Klinger gives you great cocktail idea and shows you how to make an Italian sparkling wine cocktail that will impress your dinner guests.
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19:41:28 09/28/11
Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Query Data on the Web
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These days, Web sites are providing access to a large amount of data, everything from RSS feeds to pictures to movie titles and more. Often, all you need to do in an application is send an HTTP request to a Web site. The Web site sends the data back via XML, and the easiest way to work with that data is to use LINQ queries. In this episode, Robert shows you how to use LINQ to XML to make sense of the XML data a Web site sends you. He gives examples of working with an RSS feed, retrieving images from Flickr, querying for wineries and wines using Wine.com, and returning movies from NetFlix. You'll see basic queries, see how to retrieve data from elements and attributes, and see how to work with namespaces.
Check out Robert's blog for all the code he used in this episode.
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19:41:28 09/28/11
Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Query Data on the Web
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These days, Web sites are providing access to a large amount of data, everything from RSS feeds to pictures to movie titles and more. Often, all you need to do in an application is send an HTTP request to a Web site. The Web site sends the data back via XML, and the easiest way to work with that data is to use LINQ queries. In this episode, Robert shows you how to use LINQ to XML to make sense of the XML data a Web site sends you. He gives examples of working with an RSS feed, retrieving images from Flickr, querying for wineries and wines using Wine.com, and returning movies from NetFlix. You'll see basic queries, see how to retrieve data from elements and attributes, and see how to work with namespaces.
Check out Robert's blog for all the code he used in this episode.
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17:28:32 09/16/11
Polish Strawberry Martini
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Polish Strawberry Martini
Learn how to make a delicious Polish Strawberry Martini and enjoy one at this year's Epcot%reg International Food & Wine Festival From: DisneyParks Views: 1057 24 ratings Time: 00:39 More in Travel & Events
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17:25:40 09/16/11
Mexican Shrimp Tacos
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Mexican Shrimp Tacos
Learn how to make a delicious Mexican Shrimp Taco and enjoy some at this year's Epcot%reg International Food & Wine Festival From: DisneyParks Views: 860 26 ratings Time: 00:59 More in Travel & Events
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17:23:47 09/16/11
Japanese California Sushi Roll
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Japanese California Sushi Roll
Learn how to make a delicious California Sushi Roll and enjoy some at this year's Epcot%reg International Food & Wine Festival From: DisneyParks Views: 849 25 ratings Time: 00:47 More in Travel & Events
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17:21:56 09/16/11
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Learn how to make delicious Jamaican Jerk Chicken and enjoy some at this year's Epcot%reg International Food & Wine Festival From: DisneyParks Views: 707 22 ratings Time: 00:47 More in Travel & Events
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17:19:26 09/16/11
German Apple Strudel
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German Apple Strudel
Learn how to make delicious German Apple Strudel and enjoy some at this year's Epcot%reg International Food & Wine Festival From: DisneyParks Views: 767 18 ratings Time: 01:00 More in Travel & Events










