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Thirty-one years ago, when ad-man Santosh Desai went to study at IIM Ahmedabad, he got quizzical reactions from people there. Studying management was an alien concept among Gujaratis—the only way to learn how to do ‘bijnis’ was by actually doing business. Few among the Gujarati business class had a clue about management education. Fewer believed that business could actually be taught. Despite India’s first IIM coming up there, studying ‘doing business’ in an institution was culturally detached from anything Gujarati.

In Narendra Modi’s vibrant Gujarat, the one thing that mattered most was business. It continues to be so. It is a cliche, but bears repeating—business runs in the blood of Gujaratis. With a business-minded Gujarati at the helm of India’s affairs, one has to see why ‘bijnis’ will occupy a greater share in the scheme of things. How will it affect governance in New Delhi? For answers, look no further than the zooming values of Gujarat-based companies in the stock market. They sense what a Modi victory will mean for business.

Across ages, Gujaratis have been known as India’s largest mercantile class that set up much of India’s industries. The first textile mill, the first polyester making facility and India’s largest milk cooperative all have had a very prominent Gujarati stamp. With Modi at the Centre, it is expected that Gujarati business, which has made the state one of the biggest business success stories in India, will come into greater national focus.

Gujarati business successes have come through family traditions and on-ground experience rather than higher education. For a true Gujarati, the time-tested formula was to get a BCom degree and then plunge into ‘dhanda’. True Gujaratis have accept this readily. “Education is not as valuable as it is in other states.... Education does not get the importance it needs even from the state government,” says senior journalist Aakar Patel

“Gujaratis have a mercantile tradition and strong business ethic, with the ability to take business opportunities and risks.”Raman Mahadevan, Business historian
Nor do Gujaratis join the rat race for government jobs or for the IAS or other services. A ‘true’ Gujarati would join a family business or set up his own. That’s why Gujarat, despite being a developed state, lacks a good human resource talent pool. Kingshuk Nag, who has studied the Gujarat model, says, “Gujaratis never aspire to become top government officials. Even state police service recruits come from Delhi and other states as the locals rarely sat in these examinations.”

Unlike India’s other business community, the Marwaris, Gujaratis have been more of go-getters, taking risks and boldly entering uncharted territories.  Take for instance Dhirubhai Ambani, who, in the land of Gandhi and cotton, introduced polyester as the poor man’s fabric. Or Karsanbhai Patel, who went a step further and started making synthetic detergent by hand, thereby merging Gandhian small-scale industry with modern chemistry. “More than others, Gujaratis have always been counter-intuitive businessmen. They tend to get into new businesses and try out new opportunities. For instance, the Adanis went into ports when no one was looking at it,” says author Harish Damodaran.

Unlike Marwaris, Gujaratis have been outward-looking, and have been the first among India’s trading communities to go beyond Indian shores, to East and South Africa, Burma and to the US to set up their business and networks.

So why is business so deeply rooted in Gujarati tradition? Experts say that Gujaratis’ business instinct resulted from the state’s geographical location—it has  for centuries been a trading centre and an entry port for supplying India. Business historian Dwijendra Tripathy says, “With locational advantages of a long coastline, ports including Cambay and Surat—considered to be the best in India before the rise of Bombay—Gujarat is a virtual window to the outside world. Its rich hinterland and well-developed trade routes connect it to the rest of the subcontinent and beckoned its residents to profitable business opportunities.”

Commercial ethics is so pervasive in Gujarat that it drew in even non-mercantile groups. Business historian Raman Mahadevan says, “The strong mercantile tradition and business ethic rooted among Gujaratis, along with the ability to take advantage of opportunities in business makes for a success story.” Examples are aplenty. For instance, who ever thought that India can make a success of importing rough diamonds and become one of the world’s largest hubs of cutting and polishing them? The Surat diamond industry, one of the largest and most valued in the world, is almost entirely managed by Palanpuri Jains.

In many parts of India, business is still a last resort and an apologetic proposition. Except in Gujarat. “For Gujaratis, business, not education, is top on social acceptance. They are more comfortable with business and trading where they exchange assets and there is no time lag between investment and returns,” says Santosh Desai, CEO Future Brands.

“Gujaratis are more comfortable with businesses in which they exchange asssets, with no time lag between investment and returns.”Santosh Desai, CEO, Future Brands
That also explains Gujaratis’ felicity with the stock market, where a majority of brokers and operators are Gujaratis. Says Patel, “Some years ago, I asked someone in CNBC how many of their in-house analysts were Gujaratis, and he said he couldn’t think of a single one who wasn’t.” This is related to the fact that they understand the self-generating nature of money, being  a money-lending and trading community historically. In earlier times, Gujaratis were familiar with financial instruments like the hundi, which made them naturals in the money trade. With their ability to understand and take risks, the stock market trade is a natural home.

Consider the long list of Gujarati firms (or those whose promoters are Gujaratis) that are stock market stars—Adani Enterprises, Alembic Pharma, Cadila Healthcare, Cipla, Glenmark, hdfc Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Reliance Industries, Sun Pharma, Torrent Pharma, Wipro—the list rattles on.

Gujaratis are also better networked within their community than others. Patel-owned motels in the US, for instance, are a great example how Gujaratis have taken advantage of cheap land outside larger cities and created a chain of budget hotels on highways.

As the earlier Brahmins and Vaishyas have given way to Patidars or Patels who have taken centrestage among Gujarati businessmen, traditional businesses like textiles, chemicals and commodities trade have today given way to modern industries like petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Many have branched out to newer areas. As a result, some of the fastest growing industries are located in Gujarat. Land acquisition (a prickly issue nationally) has been (often controversially) tackled with speed. Who can forget how Modi found space to relocate the Tata Nano project?

One of the success formulas of PM-elect Narendra Modi too has been to package the Gujarat model of business-led development and present it to the world. A few years ago, his Vibrant Gujarat initiative attracted the biggest names in India Inc and has continued to be India’s biggest business showcase. His detractors say this is marketing led, pro-corporate hype that fills the coffers of the rich and ignores the poor.

The Gujarat model is partly responsible for giving Modi a convincing political mandate. The Modi administration is likely to cut-and-paste the formula of business-led growth nationally. This, they hope, will bring in prosperity and economic growth. Millions of Indians anxiously await those returns.

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Truly, there is no end to Gujarati enterprise

Mitron: The Not-So-Small Club Of Gujaratis Who Fell Foul Of The Law

  • Jignesh Shah: High flying founder of commodity exchange arrested 2014 for his role in the Rs 5,600-cr NSEL scam.
  • Ketan Desai: Former president of the Medical Council of India was arrested in April 2010 on bribery charges.
  • Rustom Nagarwala: In 1971 Nagarwala mimicked voice of PM Indira Gandhi by phone and withdrew Rs 60 lakh from SBI.
  • Ketan Parekh: ‘KP’ was a stock market darling, pushing new economy stocks. The 2001 crisis walloped his investors.
  • Shobhan Mehta: The cricket betting syndicate man was accused of fixing cricket matches
    and arrested.
  • Jayant Patel: This Gujarati-origin doctor was arrested by FBI and faced charges of botched operations in Australia.
  • Bharat Shah: The diamond merchant (and Bollywood financier) was arrested for his underworld links.
  • Harshad Mehta: ‘Big Bull’ stockbroker was brought down by the securities scam. Died in jail, aged 47, in 2001.
  • Santokben Jadeja,  Abdul Latif, Sukur Bakhia: Gujarat has a long list of worthies who were part of the underworld
  • Roopalben Panchal: Opened thousands of demat accounts to take advantage of a booming IPA market in 2003-05; SEBI penalised her and stock broking firm Karvy.
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Despite all Boyd’s talent, and best efforts, the book is underwhelming
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Solo: A James Bond Novel

Ian Fleming swore softly under his breath. He put down this new book and lit a Gitane Filtre, his thirtieth of the day. He hated what his various legal heirs had done to the James Bond character he had created.

The cinema rights had gone to a company called Danjaq llc, and they had turned his Bond into a bloody parody. But he was even angrier about the book rights. They had been inherited by Fleming’s own family, who had commissioned a series of writers over the years to produce James Bond sequels, so they could make whatever money they could off his legacy. ‘To monetise the Bond brand’, as their business consultants put it. So that was what his 007 had become now. No longer a spy, or cult figure, but simply a brand; nothing more than a marketing asset to be periodically exploited.

To be fair, to write this new book, Solo, Fleming’s family had brought in William Boyd, probably the most competent author they’d ever commissioned, someone who had himself been twice shortlisted for a Booker Prize. And Boyd had chosen to set the action in a place that he  in turn knew intimately: Africa, where he’d grown up, and set some of his earlier novels. The result was this Ian-Fleming-meets-Frederick-Forsyth kind of thriller, with resonances of The Dogs of War, set in 1969 in a fictionalised Biafran civil war, and featuring the world of mercenaries and war correspondents. Boyd had also, naturally, played with all the props and elements that had made Ian Fleming’s books what they were: lashings of high living, sex, violence, cynicism and pseudo-sophistication. There was a suitably sinister Rhodesian mercenary for a villain, two rather libidinous heroines, a Jensen Interceptor sports car (one of the design icons of that era), and lots of alcohol, both shaken and stirred. There was also, incidentally, Bond’s personal salad dressing recipe (5 parts red-wine vinegar, one part extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, Dijon mustard, fresh pepper, sugar—the red-wine vinegar overload being a characteristic flourish).

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But despite all Boyd’s talent, and best efforts, the book was underwhelming. It was, admittedly, a Catch 22 situation for any novelist: write in Ian Fleming’s voice and the book became a parody; write in your own voice and it was no longer James Bond. Most Bond sequels fell somewhere in between, neither grouse nor pheasant. Even the redoubtable Kingsley Amis had learned this the hard way when he wrote Colonel Sun, the very first sequel. This new book had hit the bestseller lists in the UK, as you’d have wagered it would. But the truth was, James Bond was no longer the dark, faintly Hemingwayesque literary character that Raymond Chandler had admired; he was now, primarily, a brand—nothing more, ironically, than a literary version of the Morland’s Balkan blend cigarettes, Rolex Oyster Perpetual watches, or Lentheric soap that Fleming had punctuated his books with.

So now what? Ian Fleming suddenly felt very, very tired. To hell with them, to hell with his family, and their money-making ways and slick marketing consultants. He poured himself four fingers of potent Stolichnaya vodka and knocked it back. ‘Il faut laisser aller le monde comme il va,’ he said to himself, softly: Let the world go the way it goes. It was a good philosophy, under the circumstances.

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MSI has finally readied its HD 6870 card and as expected, it has equipped the GPU with its proprietary Twin Frozr II technology. The MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II has been made available in two versions – a regular one and a factory overclocked one. The cards have been obviously dubbed at MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II and MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II/OC.

In terms of features, there is not much to choose between the two versions – both cards will carry the same 1GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit interface as the original AMD reference card. MSI has equipped both cards with its Military Class components and the highly acclaimed Twin Frozr II cooler. MSI’s Twin Frozr II cooling is marked by the two 80mm fans, five SuperPipe heatpipes and the extra large heatsink – a combination that delivers extraordinary cooling. When compared to the reference card, Twin Frozr II keeps the MSI R6870 as much as 19 degree C cooler and also 12.8dB quieter.

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Pronunciation: /ˈpärkmən/

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(1823–93), US historian. He traveled the Oregon Trail in 1846 to improve his health and later wrote an account of his journey in The California and Oregon Trail (1849). He also wrote The Discovery of the Great West (1869) and A Half-Century of Conflict (1892).

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Definition of corbel table in English:

A projecting course of bricks or stones resting on corbels.
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  • Just below the corbel table and centrally placed is a louvred slit without dressings to illuminate the belfry.
  • Falling just below the eaves, arcaded corbel tables are often found on the gabled facades of revival churches.

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Pronunciation: /ˈsɪstɪiːn/
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[mass noun] Biochemistry
A sulphur-containing amino acid which occurs in keratins and other proteins, often in the form of cystine, and is a constituent of many enzymes.
  • Chemical formula: HSCH2CH(NH2)COOH
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  • Whey proteins are also rich in the sulfur-containing amino acids cysteine and methionine.
  • The gelatinase activity was due to metalloproteinases and not cysteine or serine proteinases.
  • The integration of reduced sulphur into the amino acid cysteine is a central step in the assimilation of inorganic sulphur.

Late 19th century: from cystine + -eine (variant of -ine4).

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An undignified or unprincipled acquisition of a large sum of money with little effort.
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Design (something) again or in a different way: the front seats have been redesigned
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The action or process of redesigning something: it was achieved by the redesign of the product
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Pronunciation: /ˈsan(d)lɒt/

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1A piece of unoccupied land used by children for games.
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1.1 [as modifier] Denoting or relating to sport played by amateurs: sandlot baseball
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  • He grew up playing soccer and sandlot baseball after spending mornings baking bread in his grandfather's bakery.
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Pronunciación: /ˈkōˌhôrt/

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1 [treated as singular or plural] An ancient Roman military unit, comprising six centuries, equal to one tenth of a legion.
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  • He replaced the existing praetorian guard with sixteen cohorts recruited from his German legions.
  • Initially designed for cavalry, the fort was garrisoned by an infantry cohort of 800 men in the C2.
  • Sometimes linked with Mars, he was honoured by various senior officers, by soldiers of all the legions, and by the cohort at the fort of Birdoswald.
unit, force, corps, division, brigade, battalion, regiment, squadron, company, troop, contingent, legion, phalanx
2 [treated as singular or plural] A group of people banded together or treated as a group: a cohort of civil servants patiently drafting legislation
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  • The rollback has been gradual, first offering free doctor's visits to children, then pensioners, then subsidies to various cohorts of adults - and now, it finally seems to be bearing fruit.
  • Exactly how China's future cohorts of young men are to be socialized with no prospect of settled family life and no tradition of honorable bachelorhood is a question that can be asked today, but not answered.
  • Modern warfare, modern weaponry is so hi-tech that if you try to run our defences on the basis of conscription, you have your professional soldiery permanently employed training successive cohorts of conscripts.
2.1A group of people with a common statistical characteristic: the 1940–44 birth cohort of women
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  • Although biomass allocation patterns were statistically significant between cohorts during juvenile growth stages, the most obvious differences were at late-fruiting.
  • Later age of onset of first drug use was significantly associated with delayed age of first treatment among all male birth cohorts and females born before 1971.
  • Similarly, the association of family and school problems with early age of onset of escalated drug use was also consistent across gender and birth cohorts.
group, grouping, category, class, set, division, batch, list;
age group, generation
3often derogatory A supporter or companion.
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  • How to understand the older generation which supported Hitler and his cohorts?
  • Elaine May plays Frenchy's batty sister and Tony Darrow, Michael Rapaport and John Lovitz offer able support as Ray's cohorts.
  • For the easily confused, a cast directory helps you to identify all the various roles for the Pythons and their supporting cohorts.
colleague, companion, associate, friend

The co- in cohort is not a prefix signifying a joint or auxiliary relationship (as in coauthor or codependency). The word derives from the Latin cohors, an ancient Roman military unit, and also ‘band of people with a common interest.’ In the mid 20th century, a new sense developed in the US, meaning ‘a companion or colleague,’ as in young Jack arrived with three of his cohorts. Although this use is well established, there are still some people who object to it on the grounds that cohort should be used only for groups of people, never for individuals.

Late Middle English: from Old French cohorte, or from Latin cohors, cohort- 'yard, retinue'. Compare with court.

  • courteous from Middle English:

    Medieval courts were associated with good manners, hence the early meaning of courteous, ‘having manners fit for a royal court’. It derived from Old French corteis, based on cort ‘court’. Courtesy (Middle English), ‘the showing of politeness towards others’, is from the same root, and got shortened to produce curtsey (early 16th century). Court itself is from the same period and goes back to Latin cohors which had, as the English word has, the senses of both ‘courtyard’ and ‘retinue’, and is the source of the word cohort (Late Middle English) originally a tenth of a Roman legion.

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backcourt • Port Harcourt

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  • 1 a volcanic eruption
    discharge, ejection, emission;
  • 2 an eruption of violence
  • 3 a skin eruption
    rash, outbreak, breakout, inflammation
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national minority Line breaks: na|tion¦al mi¦nor|ity

Definition of national minority in English:

A minority group within a country felt to be distinct from the majority because of historical differences of language, religion, culture, etc.
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  • Indeed, far from opposing liberal principles, public opinion polls show there are often no statistical differences between national minorities and majorities in their adherence to liberal principles.
  • His alternative was not the assimilation of Russia's national minorities into the ‘dominant culture’ of the Russian majority.
  • Despite this, the Québécois nation has welcomed and continues to welcome a high proportion of Canada's national minorities and immigrants.

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A social wasp that forms a small umbrella-shaped nest made from wood pulp.
  • Genus Polistes, family Vespidae
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  • The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp.
  • She's a paper wasp, specifically a member of the genus Polistes, the sort that builds small, open-celled, umbrella-like nests beneath eaves and picnic-shelter roofs.
  • Native to North America, the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus lives in colonies of one or two queens, and usually fewer than a hundred workers.

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smog Line breaks: smog

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Fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants: exhaust emissions are mainly responsible for the smog [count noun]: the fires caused widespread smogs
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  • If there is a quantity of smoke or other airborne pollutant particles present, it is known as smog.
  • Lavanya cannot believe our clear atmosphere after London smog and fog, the huge horizon and the sunsets.
  • The clouds of smog and smoke did block out a good bit of the sun, meaning it shouldn't be too hot for travel.
exhaust fumes, fumes, smoke, pollution, gas;
fog, haze, vapour
British informal pea-souper

adjective (smoggier, smoggiest)
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  • In a week or so,. New York's climate will lurch into summer gear: 95 degrees and up, humid, and smoggy.
  • The whole L.A. Basin was smoggy or hazy today, and my lungs hurt.
  • Observe fire ordinances and don't use your firepit on no-burn days or when it's smoggy or windy.

Early 20th century: blend of smoke and fog1.

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agog, befog, blog, bog, clog, cog, dog, flog, fog, grog, hog, Hogg, hotdog, jog, log, nog, prog, slog, snog, sprog, tautog, tog, trog

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synovial Line breaks: syn|ovial
Pronunciation: /sʌɪˈnəʊvɪəl/

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Relating to or denoting a type of joint which is surrounded by a thick flexible membrane forming a sac into which is secreted a viscous fluid that lubricates the joint: synovial fluid
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  • Synovial membranes lining the inside of the joint produce synovial fluid that provides nutrition to articular cartilage.
  • The elbow joint is a synovial hinge joint limited to flexion and extension.
  • Theories include vascular insufficiency or micro-fractures of the subchondral plate, with synovial fluid being forced from the synovial space into the bone.

Mid 18th century: from modern Latin synovia, probably formed arbitrarily by Paracelsus.

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The Grafton High School softball team rode the strong arm of pitcher Amanda Hunt and made the most of its scoring chances Monday.

Despite managing just four hits, the Black Hawks downed host Port Washington, 5-1, in a North Shore Conference game.

Grafton jumped ahead early and built a 3-0 lead by scoring single runs in the second, third and fourth innings.

After Port scored in the fourth inning, the Hawks added two insurance runs in the fifth.

Hunt, a junior, went the distance for the win. She struck out 12 batters and walked one.

The loss went to Maggie Schmit, who pitched the first five innings. She struck out two and walked six.

The only batter with more than one hit was Grafton’s Jackie Corner, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.

The win improved the Hawks to 2-1 in NSC play and 2-4 overall. Port fell to 0-2 in the conference and overall.

Image Information: GRAFTON’S SARAH FISCHER was a picture of concentration as she prepared to put down a bunt against Port Washington in a North Shore Conference game Monday.  Photo by Sam Arendt

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“Oxygen is the enemy to all wine.” That’s according to Mark Naylor, bottling manager of Terravant Wine Co., a new custom winemaking operation in Buellton, CA, that just last August began bottling ultra-premium wines for vintners in the Santa Ynez Valley and beyond. Designed from the ground up to be one of the most state-of-the-art custom-crush and alternating-proprietor facilities available, Terravant is attacking oxygen head-on with innovative filling technology that eliminates oxygen pickup during bottling.

As Naylor told Packaging World during a recent visit, Terravant is the first winery in California to use this technology, which consists of a filler with electro-pneumatically controlled valves, manufactured by Bertolaso S.p.A. (www.bertolaso.com) of Verona, Italy, and supplied by ColloPack Solutions LLC (www.collopack.com). “We looked at several different bottling lines before we settled on Bertolaso,” Naylor says. “But the Bertolaso equipment has features that set it apart, which was key in the decision-making process. We wanted to differentiate ourselves from what everyone else was doing.”

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Since Terravant opened its doors last summer, its bottling technology is just one of the features that has distinguished the company from its competition. In Naylor’s estimation, Terravant is the only custom winemaking facility in California that offers everything from fruit sourcing and processing all the way through to case goods storage.

“We have the resources here to do things that other wineries would have to have performed off-site,” Naylor explains. “We are capable of bringing the fruit in right off the vine, and the wine never has to leave our facility for any outside processing until it’s complete.”

Terravant’s current production facility covers 45,000 sq ft and includes a large indoor crush area, a fermentation room, four aging rooms, and a bottling line. The operation is geared toward small to medium-sized ultra-premium winemakers, processing 4,500 tons of wine and bottling 300,000 cases per year. A future planned expansion to the facility will accommodate larger wineries.

For now, Terravant’s customers include California wineries requiring anywhere from 1,500 to 25,000 cases/yr. Among them are Ken Brown Wines of Solvang, Imagine Wine of Santa Ynez, Alere Wines of Nipomo, and Malibu Family Wines of Malibu. One label, Hartley-Ostini Hitching Post wines, may be recognizable to some movie and/or wine enthusiasts, as Buellton’s Hitching Post restaurant played a part in the 2004 feature film “Sideways.”

On the day of PW’s visit, Terravant was in the midst of an 8,000-case run of a 2007 Chardonnay for Gainey Vineyards of Santa Ynez. A local, family-owned winery, Gainey produces 18,000 cases of wine annually. For this lot, Terravant provided finishing and bottling services only to near bottle-ready wine delivered by tanker.

Oxygen pickup is eliminated

During the design of Terravant’s fully automated bottling line, the company looked for equipment that could provide the best quality, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Supplied entirely by ColloPack, the line includes:

• A four-station Bortolaso monobloc rinser/filler/corker/capper

• A Robino & Galandrino (www.robinoegalandrino.it) capsule spinner

• An Impresstik (www.impresstik.com.au) labeler, distributed in the U.S. by Tapp Technologies (www.tapptech.com)

• A Belcor case sealer from Wexxar Packaging (www.wexxar.com)

• An ID Technology (www.idtechnology.com) printer, and

• A Lantech (www.lantech.com) pallet wrapper.

Setting the pace for the line, which can run up to 60 bottles/min, is the 20-head low-vacuum filler, a model Olimpia 20/840. The filler is one component of a four-station Bertolaso Sincronia 16/20/4/3 monobloc. As explained, the system employs electro-pneumatically controlled solenoids on the filling valves and inert gas valves to enable a high degree of accuracy in controlling dissolved-oxygen pickup “both in the filling and in the processing of the packaging materials,” Naylor notes.

By packaging-material processing, Naylor is referring to the first station on the monobloc, the Neck Rins 16/840, a 16-nozzle neck rinser. Because empty wine bottles arrive at Terravant directly from the glass manufacturer, they do not need sterilization. Instead, the rinser inverts the bottles and blows dry, filtered, compressed air into them to ensure that they are free of dust or corrugate particles from the shipping cases. Next, the rinser nozzles fill the bottles with nitrogen to displace the oxygen inside.

“As it comes off that machine, in theory the bottle should be filled with nitrogen and ready for filling,” says Naylor. “And that would be the next process on a conventional bottling line.”

In contrast, when bottles are fed into the Olimpia 20/840 filler, a vacuum is pulled on each bottle, and any gas inside is extracted and then discharged outside of the filling process. With a conventional filler, as the wine is filled into the bottle, it displaces the gas within, pushing it up a vent into the filling valve and then into the filling bowl. “So if there is any oxygen left in the bottle, it goes right in on top of the wine in the bowl,” explains Naylor.

In the next phase of the Bertolaso-engineered filling process, the valve refills the bottle with an inert gas, in Terravant’s case, nitrogen. After this step, the filler begins to dispense the wine. If the wine is of a type that is particularly susceptible to oxygen, the electro-pneumatic controls allow Terravant to stop the filling process halfway, and remove the gas from, or “sparge,” the bottle a third time before filling resumes.

The last step in the process is also unique to the Bertolaso equipment, Naylor relates. Just before the bottle comes off the filling valve, the valve fills the bottle’s headspace with an inert gas under pressure, forcing any excess wine back into the spout. This self-leveling process ensures fill accuracy and further protects the wine against oxygen pickup until the bottle reaches the next station.

Depending on the customer’s requirements, the bottle will then advance either to the third station, a Delta 804 R four-head corker, or the fourth station, a Sigma 603 three-head screw-cap applicator.

The monobloc’s operation is controlled via an Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 700 operator interface from Rockwell Automation (www.rockwellautomation.com). Up to 25 different filling programs can be stored on the system, saving information on the number of filling phases required for each job and the duration of each phase. It is the number of phases engaged and their duration that determine the speed of the filler, Naylor explains.

Features provide flexibility

Another feature of the Bertolaso monobloc that Naylor says ensures the integrity of the wine is its positive-pressure enclosed system. The monobloc is surrounded by cabinets and topped by hoods that employ blowers and HEPA filters. As filtered air is pumped into the cabinet at a higher pressure than the ambient air outside, it produces a clean-room environment inside the cabinet. This allows Terravant to bottle any type of wine, regardless of the season, without fear of contamination.

As Naylor explains, during harvest season, there is a lot of yeast from the skin of the grapes in the air. If the yeast reaches the wine, especially one having residual sugar, it can restart the fermentation process, creating carbon dioxide inside the bottle. This CO2 buildup eventually can push the cap off the bottle, “which is a really bad situation,” he says.

Also ensuring a sanitized filling environment, the monobloc has a Clean-in-Place system, which Terravant uses each morning before starting up the line. The CIP system automatically sanitizes every surface the wine will come in contact with during production.

Since Terravant deals with a range of customers, requiring a variety of bottle sizes and shapes, the monobloc’s flexibility and ease of changeover are also essential. As Naylor explains, the wine industry typically deals with three standard volumes: 375-mL “half bottles,” 750-mL “standard bottles,” and 1.5-L “Magnums.” Using the monobloc, Terravant is easily able to accommodate virtually any shape/height of half- or standard-size bottle by adjusting the infeed and feedscrews and the height of the machines. The company is more limited when it comes to the Magnum, he says, as wider-width bottles require special parts on the filler that allow it to fill every other bottle. “But a lot of our clients don’t use the large-format bottles very often, simply because there is not a huge market for them,” he adds.

Customer-focused selections

After being filled and either corked or capped, bottles on Terravant’s packaging line proceed to the Robino & Galandrino monobloc capsule spinner, a Superbloc F6T. Capped bottles move directly through the machine to the outfeed. Corked bottles receive a capsule—made of tin, film laminate, or polyvinyl chloride—to the top and neck of the bottle. At the second station, the bottle is swept up onto a carousel where a rotary turret tightens tin capsules. Interchangeable thermal heat-shrink heads accommodate film and PVC capsules.

The next machine on the line is the Impresstik 3000 VAC in-line pressure-sensitive label applicator. Although Terravant had originally specified a rotary-style labeler, Naylor says that they switched to the Impresstik because it allows front and back labels to be applied from a single web. On a rotary applicator, separate webs of label stock are required. “For a lot of our smaller clients, it was just not financially viable for them to change from having their labels on a single roll,” he says.

“Impresstik labelers are the most versatile and easiest machines to use,” he adds. “Their accuracy and flexibility are fantastic.”

After labels are applied, bottles are carried by conveyor to the end of the line, where operators do a visual quality check and hand-pack the bottles into cases. Cases then move through a BEL 270 fully automatic hot-melt-glue case sealer, equipped with a Nordson (www.nordson.com) PROblue 7 adhesive applicator. Immediately following, an ID Technology Model 250 label printer/applicator, equipped with a Sato (www.satoamerica.com) M-848 5Se print engine, prints and applies 5 x 5-in. p-s labels. The labels can be printed with the winery’s logo, along with the bonded winery number, the alcohol content, and a bar code.

An ergonomic pallet-positioning system helps operators assemble pallets, which are then moved by forklift for stretch-wrapping by a Lantech pallet wrapper.

Terravant toasts to success

After operating the bottling line for a relatively short time, Naylor is very positive in his assessment. “Mechanically, the equipment has worked flawlessly,” he says. The only issues encountered thus far have been related to the control system and software, he relates, and in those instances, “ColloPack has been very responsive.”

With this equipment, Terravant is perfectly positioned to provide quality winemaking and bottling services to the many vineyards nearby. “This is a huge wine-producing area—there are more than 150 labels just in this area,” says Naylor. “With this packaging line, we can bottle wine with the lowest dissolved-oxygen pickup that’s currently available. So there are some very unique things about our facility that—as far as we know—no one else is offering anywhere in California.”

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Julia R. Trujillo, beloved mother, sister, aunt and friend to all was called home by the Lord, family and friends on Monday, February 9, 2009.  She was 57 years old.

Julia was born on January 7, 1952, in Pagosa Springs, Colo., to the late Deciderio and Eloisa Chavez. She was lovingly adopted and raised by her late Aunt and Uncle Samuel and Ester Trujillo.

She is survived by her loving children Nancy Vigil, Nathan and Samantha Trujillo; grandchildren, Demetrius Trujillo and Alyssa Martinez; brothers and sisters Herman and Billy Chavez, Leonard Trujillo, Darlene O’Brien, Leora Mannera, Henrietta Martinez, Alice Orona; several nephews and nieces; and a rather large extended family. She was reunited with brothers Demetro, Joe and Steve Chavez, as well as her sister, Virginia Chavez.

To say that Julia was a loving mother is an understatement. The love she gave her children and grandchildren was unconditional and conveyed with every ounce of her heart.

Though Julia’s immediate family was her priority, God blessed her with a heart big enough to love and care for everyone she encountered.  She was a cherished member of the Pagosa Springs community. Her selfless love, caring, and devotion will be missed by all.

A Rosary will be held at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Pagosa Springs, at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. Funeral services will take place at the same location on Saturday, Feb.14, at 10a.m. Burial to take place at the Westside Ignacio Cemetery followed by a dinner at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church Parish Hall at 3 p.m.

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While the federal government is set to gain $25 million from settling BP’s 2006 oil spill, the pipeline coatings industry may also benefit from the deal.

In addition to the $25 million civil penalty BP Exploration Alaska will pay for the 5,078-barrel spill on Alaska’s North Slope, the 64-page federal-court Consent Decree requires the company “to significantly improve inspection and maintenance of its pipeline infrastructure on the North Slope to reduce the threat of additional oil spills.”

The BP North Slope Clean Water Act Settlement, announced Monday (May 4), requires BPXA “to develop and implement a comprehensive program to maintain the integrity of the entire Prudhoe Bay pipeline system, consisting of over 1600 miles of pipeline, including both transportation and production lines.” The network must be inspected and all “actionable anomalies” repaired promptly, the decree says.

The spill was the largest ever on Alaska’s oil fields.

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The Integrity Management Program (IMP) must address corrosion and other threats to both the oil transit pipelines and the upstream production pipelines on the North Slope, according to the consent decree. The program includes collection of coatings data.

In all, the program will cost about $60 million over three years, the government said. BP Alaska has already spent $200 million replacing the lines that leaked on the North Slope.

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BPXA must also operate the oil transit pipelines as potentially affecting “high consequence areas”—a designation that triggers the pipeline integrity regulations of the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety.

BPXA must evaluate and report on new leak detection technologies; implement its new Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plan; and improve its asbestos safety training course.

Finally, the company must hire an independent monitoring contractor to apprise the government of BP’s compliance progress.

Lawsuit Settled

BP admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Justice and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The company reported the general terms of the agreement on its site, but made no comment.

The spills occurred in March and August of 2006. Investigators from EPA and PHMSA determined that BP Alaska had failed to properly inspect and maintain the pipeline to prevent corrosion.

The consent decree resolves a Justice Department lawsuit filed when BP refused to comply with a PHMSA Corrective Action Order that addressed the pipeline’s risks and ordered pipeline repair or replacement. BP was also found to have violated the Clean Air Act with improper asbestos removal after the spill.

In 2007, BP Alaska pled guilty to one misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act for the March spill, was sentenced to three years’ probation, and paid a $20 million criminal penalty.

(On Nov. 29, 2009, about 360 barrels of crude oil leaked out of a BPXA line into the Lisburne Processing Center in Prudhoe Bay. In November 2010, the US Probation Officer filed a federal-court petition to revoke BPXA’s 2007 probation, contending that the Lisburne spill had violated the probation terms. A hearing is scheduled for September.)

‘Wake-Up Call’

Cynthia Giles, of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, said the new penalty—the highest per barrel ever imposed—reflected BP’s “gross negligence” in the spill.

The case “sends a message that we intend to use that authority and to insist that BP Alaska and other companies act responsibly to prevent pipeline oil spills,” she said.

Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno said the penalty “should serve as a wake-up call to all pipeline operators that they will be held accountable for the safety of their operations and their compliance with the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the pipeline safety laws.”

Of the $25 million penalty, $20.05 million will be deposited in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund established under the Clean Water Act. The rest will be paid to the U.S. Treasury.

The consent decree is subject to a 30-day public comment period and final court approval.

BP Reports $5.4B Profit

BP Alaska should have little trouble paying its penalty. On April 27, parent company BP released first-quarter FY 2011 results that showed replacement cost profit of $5.4 billion—a $1 billion gain over the fourth quarter of 2010.

Per-share prices increased to $29.13 in the first quarter from $24.55 in Q4 of 2010.

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The leak—Alberta’s largest ever—raised new questions about Alberta’s aging pipeline system. The pipeline leak is the second in several weeks and the second major spill from the Rainbow line since 2006.

Investigators traced the 2006 spill, which released 7,500 barrels of oil, to “stress corrosion cracking, fatigue cracking and external coating failure."

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By faintingviolet | Book Reviews | February 15, 2012 | Comments ()

Do you like political intrigue? Subterfuge? Espionage? A tale of stolen identities and familial politics?

You do. Great. Here's the kicker:

How do you feel about the 9th century? Are you still interested? Wonderful!

Pope Joan chronicles the life of perhaps the only woman, to ascend the throne of St. Peter. This historical fiction is completely from Joan's perspective. The novel checks in with Joan every few years, detailing the nature of her family and family dynamics in general, life in rural Frankland - and eventually beyond, the ever-changing political landscape following Charlemagne (the man divided his empire amongst his sons - this was not a good idea.), and the inner workings on the Catholic Church.

There is, it should be said, a lot of information to absorb in this book but at no point did I feel overwhelmed. And this is fiction the way I like it best. The author, Donna Woolfolk Cross spent quite a bit of time and a lot of diligent effort doing the historical research on Joan specifically and the 9th century broadly. We meet a cavalcade of characters, some who stay in the story for hundreds of pages and some who come and go quite quickly but they are all richly developed.

At over four hundred pages you might not expect it to be a quick read, but I was able to move through it at a relatively quick pace, but not so quickly as to not remember the details and nuance of the story. As I write this review it has been a few weeks since completing the novel and the plot has stayed with me, and in the days that followed my completion of the novel I was dying to talk to someone about it.

So go read it so we can talk about it!

This review is part of Cannonball Read IV. Read all about it, and find more of faintingviolet's reviews on the group blog.

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By Dustin Rowles | Film Reviews | August 2, 2013 | Comments ()

You know what’s great about a Denzel movie? You know what is specifically unique about every single one of them? You know what Denzel movies have that no other movies have? They’ve got Denzel Washington, motherfucker. What the else could you possibly want in a movie? We go to Denzel movies for two reasons: 1) Because Denzel doesn’t make terrible movies, (except Flight, which was a piece of sh*t), and because Denzel makes Denzel movies.

Think about it a minute, and ask yourself this: How many sequels has Denzel Washington made? How many superhero movies has Denzel Washington made? How many franchises does he have? How many Happy Meal toys do you own from a Denzel movie?

You know why? Because Denzel doesn’t need that shit. Denzel doesn’t need a superpower because being Denzel is his superpower. He doesn’t need a blockbuster franchise with a built-in audience, because Denzel brings his own built in-audience. It’s called America. Denzel says shove your $200 million special effects movies with your lilly-ass men in capes up your ass and give me a goddamn gun and some white guy that I can bounce my Denzelness off of and let me be motherfucking Denzel. That’s what the people want to see.

And he is absolutely right.

Denzel makes two kinds of movies: Movies where Denzel gets to be a bad ass, and movies with a message where Denzel gets to be a bad ass. He only makes the latter every once in a while these days to remind everyone that Denzel is still the best goddamn actor of his generation, so shut the fuck and leave him alone so he can make movies where he shoots people.

Boom! You’ve been Denzel’d.

2 Guns falls squarely in the bad ass without a message camp. Here, Denzel plays Denzel, and Mark Wahlberg plays the goofy charming version of Mark Wahlberg that winks at women and asks you how your mother is. They’re both working undercover for different agencies — Denzel for the DEA, Wahlberg for the Navy — aiming to rob a bank for various reasons, only neither knows that the other is undercover until everything goes to hell when they find out they’ve taken money from the wrong agency. Then, bing, bang, boom: They’ve got a drug kingpin, the Navy, the DEA, and the government after them and Bill Paxton strutting through the picture chewing the dicks off the scenery. But they’ve also got one thing that no one else has: They’ve got Denzel.

Does the story make much sense? Shut the fuck up. Does Denzel shoot a gun? Why yes, yes he does. On more than a few occasions, in fact. He whips that bitch out, flashes that Denzel grin, and blows his Denzel all over everyone. Does Denzel blow up shit and walk away casually with his back turned to the explosion? You’re goddamn right he does, and Marky Mark stands back and goes all Jesse Pinkman “Yeah Bitch!” on the joint because that’s what you do when Denzel is being Denzel. Is it a good movie? Again, shut the fuck up. Denzel is in it, isn’t he? Well, then, that’s a stupid fucking question, asshole.

There are a lot of choices at the multiplex this summer, but there’s only one that stars Denzel Washington. You want to watch a grown man with knives coming out of his hand perform stunts on top of a high-speed train, or emo Superman destroy a city, or a guy fly around in an iron suit or Johnny Depp pretend to be a Native American, then go for it, compadre. Have a great time. It’s your dime. To each their own. But if you want to watch a Denzel movie, you go see 2 Guns, motherfucker: It’s the Denzeliest goddamn movie of the year.

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  • This is the best goddamn review since a caveman took a bite out of a sabretooth and said 'YUM'.

  • Flight was a bad movie? Really? Who the hell else is gonna have balls Denzelly enough to land a plane full of passengers upside down while drunk and high on some seriously Denzelly shit, after giving it to that hot hooker Denzelly style all night long? There is only one man goddamn Denzeliest enough for that job!!!!!

  • Jifaner

    I went and got Denzelled today and it was motherfucking hilarious.

  • Simulacrum 1138

    This review is even better if you read it in Denzel's voice.

  • Al

    A fantastic review but this was a terrible movie. Worst performance of Denzel's career. I saw this in lieu of Fruitvale Station. Probably a mistake.

  • nighttimer

    Enjoyed the review except for the shot at "Flight." If that's a piece of shit by Denzel then "Unstoppable," "Safe House" and "Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" is explosive diarrhea.

  • A. Smith

    In my time reading reviews from this site and others, this is probably my all time favorite.

  • Littlejon2001

    There has never been a more perfect review.

  • Eyvi

    You know, every once in awhile reviews like this one remind me why I fell in love with Pajiba. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy most of the reviews, but this? This is so full of awesome.

  • e jerry powell

    But what about when Denzel makes a Spike Lee movie? It's difficult to call them Denzel movies, because in those cases Denzel is just a muse, pretty much on the same level as your Wesley Snipes, your Laurence FIshburne, your (insert-40-Acres-&-A-Mule-repertory-actor-name here).

    Denzel is still Denzel in them, he just makes Spike's work better. Replace him with another actor in Malcom X or Mo Betta Blues...you feel me. Although Snipes stole Mo Betta Blues.

  • TrickyHD

    And if you have not seen "Fallen" (which also has some John Goodman goodness), then get your Denzel+Supernatural fix, I watch it once a year and then can't singing...Tigh-i-eh-ime, is on my side...Yes it is!

  • kushiro -
  • Well this is about perfect.

  • zeke_the_pig

    So...there's some Denzel in this?

  • LadyBuggy

    I have a major thing for Marky Mark, especially when he's asking me how my mother is. I also have a thing for Denzel at his Denzeliest. This is not usually my "type" but these 2 at their best might blow me right out of my seat.

  • TripleKick

    It looks like Denzel has Channing'd all over Dustin's Tatum.

  • JJ

    Nothing against Mo' Better Blues, but we're more than past due for a Samuel L. Jackson and Denzel Washington movie.

  • e jerry powell

    Hell, throw in LarryLaurence FIshburne and Wesley Snipes. It'll turn franchise-worthy. Morgan Freeman shouldn't be the only one having fun in the 2010s.

  • Tenatively titled 'Motherfucker: The Motherfuckening'

  • the dude

    So... it's a bad movie?

    NOOO, because Denzel Washington.

  • Reba

    "Denzeliest" is now my new favorite word.

  • badkittyuno

    I'll pay $11 for a ticket to sit in the a/c and watch Denzel do that cocky Denzel smile for two hours. I wouldn't even need popcorn.

  • L.O.V.E.

    Denzel ALWAYS Brings the Ruckus

  • Denzel cracking wise with Marky Mark? I am SO there.

  • TherecanbeonlyoneAdmin

    I'm sorry. I'm going to have to insist that Denzel get's tested before Denzelling me with his Denzel. I got Denzelled by watching Flight and now my Denzel is all Denzelled.

  • e jerry powell

    Big Pharma's working on a treatment for that as we speak.

  • BlackRabbit

    It's Denzelicious!

  • I was listening to the radio this morning, and during the discussion of this movie, they brought up the Denzel "guarantee": every movie he makes, he says "I guarantee it." Also, whenever he laughs in a movie, something bad happens to someone else, pretty much by Denzel's hand.

    No real point to this; does Denzel need a point?

  • Bob Barker

    i believe denzel once stated that the movie king kong has nothing on him.

  • Matt N.

    This person wins the internet. Well done.

  • Rachel

    Hands down, the BEST review I have ever read. Thank you, Pajiba.

  • Matt Staten

    We need more reviews like this in the world.

  • PaddyDog

    It's the grin. It's 100% the grin.

  • Fredo

    /stands up and applauds

  • Dumily

    Somebody get this man a motherfucking Pulitzer.

  • Batesian

    A Pulitzer? Hell, he's got motherfucking Denzel.

  • UglyBattery

    This article made me so happy. I'M READY TO GET DENZEL'D!!! I'm 39 weeks pregnant, do you think he might Denzel me into labor?!

  • badkittyuno

    I'm 37 weeks. I'll race you! Hope there's enough Denzel to go around (haha of course there is)

  • UglyBattery

    He will Denzel us so hard our waters will break only 5 gunshots and a smirk into the movie!!

  • Sara_Tonin00

    and what will you name your babies....?

  • UglyBattery

    Mine is a girl, so Denzeleisha or Amber. lol

  • gorge jung

    I heard Paula Patton gets topless in this. Is this true?

  • Lurkey Turkey

    But yes, it is true.

  • Maguita NYC

    The complete Denzelation of Rowles made him forget about Boobies. Brain washing never sounded more fun. Or high.

  • lowercase_ryan

    Bill Paxton strutting through the picture chewing the dicks off the scenery.

  • zeke_the_pig

    Dickless scenery is the best scenery

  • Fabius_Maximus

    That is... surprisingly accurate.

  • Kala

    This review has cinched it for me: I am going to the motherfucking multiplex to see the motherfucking Denzel movie.

  • Lauren_Lauren

    You don't even have to go, you are already THERE. Anyone who reads this review is instantly catapulted to their nearest theatre, by fucking magic.

  • PDamian

    Right behind ya.

  • annoyingmouse

    I had no interest in this movie until right fucking now.

  • jon29

    Kirk: "Denzel doesn’t make terrible movies, but Denzel made Virtuosity."
    Computer: *explodes*

  • Jerce

    There are some seriously painfully bad movies on Denzel's imdb page:

    The Book of Eli
    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    John Q
    The Bone Collector
    The Siege
    The Preacher's Wife
    Heart Condition

    ...and that's without bothering to scroll down...

    P.S. I loved Unstoppable even though nobody else did.

  • e jerry powell

    Let's be real: the people who went to see Bone Collector were there for Angelina. I will brook no opposition on this point.

    You go to hell...Denzel makes movies that you just can't comprehend. Every one of these films are masterpieces, made to comfort me on late, lonely Saturday nights when I refuse to watch anything too serious or too funny. Denzel is the East African god of consistency.

  • Foop

    Am I the only one who liked Book of Eli? and I wouldn't argue any of those movies are 'bad', but theres several I wouldn't watch again.

  • nighttimer

    I liked Book of Eli. I would never watch John Q again or The Preacher's Wife at all.

  • kirbyjay

    I LOVED The Book of Eli. Why? Grizzled grey Denzel grappling with the bad guys 5 at a time, Gary Oldman gnawing the scenery, bald and bad Ray Stevenson taking a machete through the heart, and Mila.
    I love me some Denzel and may I remind you that he was on my Pajiba 10 list.
    For every John Q and The Preacher's Wife, I'll raise you Man on Fire, Training Day, American Gangster, Courage Under Fire, Inside Man, Out of Time ...
    My second favorite actor of all time

  • Ok I have seen all of those films. Why? Because of Denzel, no doubt.

    Would I watch any of them again? Maybe except for John Q. I just can't.

  • katenonymous

    I could barely even start John Q.

  • Helo

    Unstoppable was Tony Scott's comeback film, if you ask me. Vaya con Dios, Señor Scott... =(

    The Siege wasn't bad, it just wasn't as great as it wanted to be. I'm with you on everything else.

  • Fredo

    Virtuosity is a great movie full of bad 90s CGI and Denzel facing Russell Crowe. How that movie didn't win all the awards -- Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Kid's Choice -- is still a mystery to me.

  • e jerry powell

    And full of Russell Crowe's firm, supple bootay, let's not forget.

  • sanity fair

    I want to marry this review.

  • so shut the fuck and leave him alone

    I want to marry this typo.

  • sanity fair

    It IS a pretty fantastic typo. You could do worse than that typo.

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