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Chateau Musar 2018: a classic reborn

Helsinki Times 

Chateau Musar’s 2018 vintage continues the legacy of this Lebanese icon, blending tradition and innovation from the Bekaa Valley. The wine is crafted with the same steadfast philosophy that has defined the winery since its establishment by Gaston Hochar in 1930.

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Where’s My Gordon Liddy?

Splice Today 

G. Gordon Liddy, whose 1980 autobiography Will was a dubious influence on my adolescence, wrote about going to the Justice Department for a meeting in late-April 1971, as anti-war protestors converged on Washington. Liddy, then a Treasury official, was about to be reassigned at the behest of Attorney General John Mitchell to the White House “Plumbers” unit, where he’d oversee the Watergate burglary that, in time, would land various Nixon administration officials, including him and Mitchell, in prison. Читать дальше...

Berlinale Sets New Screening Venue And Festival Hub For 2025 Edition 

Deadline.com 

The Berlin Film Festival will occupy two new venues across the German capital during next year’s edition.  The festival announced today that it will use Stage Bluemax Theater at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz as a new premiere screening venue. The festival said that once adapted for the event, the venue will offer a seating capacity of around 500. […]

PH target of state-backed hackers from China – NICA

Technology.inquirer.net 

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is being targeted by state-affiliated hacking groups from China, a high-ranking official of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) confirmed on Tuesday. At the Senate panel on women’s final probe into Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos), NICA Deputy Director General Ashely Acedillo bared that the hacking groups are called “Chinese Advanced

Los Angeles Neighborhoods: Silver Lake

Splice Today 

Silver Lake isn’t a lake. It’s a reservoir. Located between Los Feliz and Echo Park, Silver Lake has a hipster reputation with overpriced coffee houses, indie music venues, wine bars and rival cheese shops. The flatlands of Silver Lake house millennials and working-class people while the hills are a desired celebrity location. Residents of note include Moby, Rowan Farrow, Fred Armisen, Rachel McAdams, Kiefer Sutherland, Kristen Wiig, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Beck. Locals prefer the west side of... Читать дальше...

PAN 2.0 project to reduce costs for fintech companies: experts

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

The government approved the PAN 2.0 project. The project will create a central database for PAN cards. It will merge data from current providers. This will simplify things for fintech companies. The project will also reduce costs. New PAN cards will have updated features. Existing PAN cards will remain valid. The project aims to improve India's financial system.

Chinese warplanes track US Navy aircraft through sensitive Taiwan Strait

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

A US Navy plane flew through the Taiwan Strait. China's military monitored the flight. Beijing criticized the US action. The US stated the flight was routine and legal. The US reiterated its commitment to a free Indo-Pacific. China regularly sends military assets near Taiwan. Taiwan recently reported a Chinese balloon over the sea.

Millions could lose benefits if they refuse to do two things

CoventryTelegraph.net 

The government is set to unveil a £240million plan to tackle unemployment and spiralling levels of economic inactivity today - and those who refuse to take up jobs and training will be stripped of their benefits

Remembering Julian Mazor, the Writer Who Changed My Life

Splice Today 

When I was 14 and was suspended from school, my father gave me a book that changed my life. Washington and Baltimore is a collection of short stories by Julian Mazor (1929-2018). Mazor wrote several short stories that appeared in The New Yorker in the 1960s. Washington and Baltimore, a collection of those stories, was published by Knopf in 1968.

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Footsteps in the Dirt

Splice Today 

The culture has begun to settle in the post-election moment. In the duopoly of American politics, this is manifested as the resignation towards cultural solipsism under Trumpism for the Republicans and the resignation to conservative forces for the Democratic establishment. Both these manifestations are psychoses in their own right. They are rejections of reality in favor of narratives about how the world is: Trumpist populism blames material conditions on the excommunicable poor and “elites,”... Читать дальше...