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Protests turned violent in Los Angeles following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in Florida. Aerial video caught some throwing rocks, attacking people and clashing with police. Patrick Healy reports from the Crenshaw District for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on July 15, 2013.
Los Angeles police made arrests after a peaceful prayer vigil gave way to violence at Leimert Park on Monday, the second night of unrest after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida.
Fourteen people were arrested -- most for failure to disperse -- in connection with the violence, Los Angeles Police Department officials told NBC4 Tuesday morning. Aerial video caught some throwing rocks, attacking people and clashing with police. No serious injuries were reported, police said.
A prayer vigil began peacefully about 6 p.m. before a group broke off from the vigil and incited chaos in the streets. Just before 10 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department declared the protest an unlawful assembly and dispersed the gathering, an LAPD spokesman said.
"The rights of the many have been abused by the actions of a few," said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.
The area quickly cleared and officers detained several people. Beck said officers will be out in force Tuesday night to prevent a repeat of the violence
"The best way to honor (Trayvon Martin) is in a nonviolent manner," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. "The Martin family didn't ask anybody to break car windows. They didn't ask anybody to take little kids' scooters. They didn't ask anybody to attack businesses. And they certainly didn't say to take over traffic in the streets."
Protesters showed disapproval of a jury's not guilty verdict in the case of George Zimmerman, a 29-year-old neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old in a Sanford, Fla., gated community.
The Zimmerman trial fueled a national debate about race, guns and Florida's "stand-your-ground" law that broadens the definition of self-defense and the legal scope of the use of firearms in exercising it.
On Monday night, a majority of protesters were gathered at Leimert Park (map), but a violent group split off and walked up and down surrounding streets, rushing into businesses, attacking pedestrians and bicyclists, breaking windows and throwing objects at police.
LAPD officers appeared to use rubber bullets or bean bag weapons against some of the protesters at one point.
Cameras also captured an attack on a CBS2/KCAL9 news crew as they conducted an interview. The crew members were treated for minor injuries, according to the station.
As a violent group split off from the peaceful prayer vigil, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted: "I commend the prayer rally attendees in Leimert Park for practicing peace. I call on people in street on Crenshaw to follow their example."
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck tweeted: "Violence is never the answer. Urging all protestors around LA 2let peace prevail.This is OUR City and we need to work 2gether 2 preserve it"
In Oakland on Monday, a group of protesters briefly blocked Interstate 880.
On Sunday night in Los Angeles, police made arrests and issued citations during demonstrations across the city.
At one point, protesters blocked Interstate 10 at Arlington Boulevard for more than 30 minutes. At another, a group broke off and walked into the W Hotel, causing some $15,000 in damage to the lobby, said LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith, a department spokesman.
On Monday night, Smith said, the protests began peacefully but a group broke off and turned violent.
"It originally started out as a peaceful protest, as they all have, and we certainly support that - in fact encourage people to peacefully protest, exercise their First Amendment rights," LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith told NBC4. "But what happened here unfortunately is some people took this as an opportunity to break into buildings, to jump on cars, to commit acts of vandalism, to assault other people and to commit some thefts from some of the buildings here."
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Grady County residents were shook up a bit following minor earthquakes near Dibble and Tuttle.
The magnitude of the Dibble earthquake measured 2.7 on the Richter scale, occurring around 6:23 p.m. on June 26.
The following day, Tuttle experienced an earthquake reaching a 3.1 magnitude, occurring around 3:30 a.m.
Research Seismologist Austin Holland at the Oklahoma Geological Survey, a state agency for research and public service, said although people were able to feel these particular earthquakes, they are no longer uncommon occurrences in Oklahoma.
"We measure a 2.7 to 2.8 earthquake about everyday somewhere in the state," Holland said. "Prior to 2009, we would only measure about 30 a year but now there is definitely more activity in Oklahoma."
Research is currently being conducted, he said, to find the reason behind the increase in tectonic movement.
"These things sometimes happen in cycles," Holland said, pointing out states that were once hot spots for earthquakes are no longer.
Holland advised all Oklahomans learn proper precautions for earthquakes, as minuscule an issue as they may seem.
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George W. Bush is a Goddamn Liar - Part Deaux
If George W. Bush tells us that we invaded Iraq because Saddam did not let the inspectors in, and we all know that the inspectors were indeed let in, then how does anyone not realize we are being lied to about the reason for going to war? It is SO OBVIOUS!
When George W. Bush opens his mouth out come blatant lies. But this lie was not just one of his usual lies where he twists his words so badly that you don't even know what he is trying to say. This lie was his most blatant lie, the one that started a war, the one that got over 1700 Americans and 10's of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis killed. Remember the lie that he told the world on television? The lie: that he gave Saddam Hussein "a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."
George W. Bush has repeated time and time again that he invaded Iraq because Saddam would not cooperate and that he would not let the inspectors in. What the hell is he talking about? Is the entire nation in a coma? Is every member of Congress completely insane? Does any member of the media have a functioning brain? Is there a single god damn Bush supporter who realizes that this is a lie?
This repeated lie is the conclusive evidence that we went to war based on lies. HEY YOU AMERICANS WHO MIGHT BE IN A COMA…WAKE UP…SADDAM LET THE INSPECTORS IN! Does the name Hans Blix ring a bell?
Reality check: The Downing Street minutes, that have been so shamefully ignored by the US media, show us why this was done.
One of the memo's stated the following:
"It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force. … The Prime Minister said that it would make a big difference politically and legally if Saddam refused to allow in the UN inspectors.â€
Enough said. Remember that this was the LAST of a series of lies…each one pulled out of the Bush/PNAC hat as the others failed. How much longer can we allow this to go unchallenged?
If George W. Bush tells us that we invaded Iraq because Saddam did not let the inspectors in, and we all know that the inspectors were indeed let in, then how does anyone not realize we are being lied to about the reason for going to war? It is SO OBVIOUS!
WHAT THE HELL IS GEORGE W. BUSH TALKING ABOUT? This is so surreal that words can not describe it. This reminds me of situations where you might be at a party having a conversation with some people you just met and a person joins in and starts making completely insane comments and claims. Everyone simply stays quiet until this obviously crazy person leaves. The comments made were so insane that it was clear to everyone that the person who was talking was not all there, so nobody says anything, they just let him talk. Well this seems to be the situation but in this case the entire nation is holding the conversation and George W. Bush is the crazy person who chimes in with statements so ludicrous that all remain silent.
This is not a joke people. George W. Bush's insane comments took our nation to war. It is the reason that 100,000 are dead and more are dying every day.
Here is a little fact for you all: In this particular case George W. Bush is either a liar or he is completely out of his mind. Either way this has to be addressed. It can not be permitted to continue. Who is going to stop this insanity? We have a madman or a liar as our president!
So once again I plead for someone in our press to ask him the Goddamn question!
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Bush said the CIA's doubts about the charge — that Iraq sought to buy "yellowcake" uranium ore in Africa — were "subsequent" to the Jan. 28 State of the Union speech in which Bush made the allegation. Defending the broader decision to go to war with Iraq, the president said the decision was made after he gave Saddam Hussein "a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."


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The No. 5 Virginia field hockey team improved to 7-0 with a 7-0 victory over Vermont in the final game of the Sheraton Catamount Classic tournament in Burlington, Vt. The shutout followed Virginia's 2-0 blanking of Maine in Saturday's tournament opener.
"I thought the defense did a phenomenal job this weekend adopting to two different styles of attack," said head coach Michele Madison. "Being able to keep both Maine and Vermont off the scoreboard is a really great weekend."
Senior Elly Buckley led the Virginia attack with two goals and a pair of assists.
"We finally got our attack rhythm back and found our passing game," Madison said. "We also did a good job of driving the ball up the middle. Elly was on fire, taking advantage of her goal-scoring opportunities, but this victory was truly really a great team effort."
Freshman Riley Tata added a pair of goals, Covenant alum and UVa sophomore Taylor Brown scored her first of the season and freshman Lucy Hyams added her second of the weekend.
Junior goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone had one save while logging her second shutout of the season.
Virginia returns home on Friday Sept. 20 at 6 p.m for a big showdown with No. 1 North Carolina.


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Contest – Guess Tinhorn Creek's New Oldfield Series Wine
Hey folks. Long time no post… Well, it's an odd-numbered year, so I thought it was about time to get back to wriiting about wine a bit. God knows I drink enough of it, so here we go again. Over the next while I plan to re-design the site (it's been too long) and actually make an effort to sit down and put word to screen.
On that note, I was recently contacted by the good folks from our beloved Okanagan Valley's Tinhorn Creek Vineyards. They're running a contest to see if you can guess the new wine in their Oldfield Series line-up. If you can, you stand a chance at winning 2 bottles of the new Oldfield Series Wine before it's released, along with two tickets to Tinhorn's Canadian Concert Series. Sounds good, am I correct? Entries must be received by midnight, January 14th. Keep reading for more details.
On February 1, 2013 Tinhorn Creek Vineyards in Oliver BC will be adding a new wine to their Oldfield Series line-up, but they are not revealing what it is just yet. They thought it would be more fun to let you try and guess what it is.
The Oldfield Series is Tinhorn Creek's reserve tier of wines, for which they currently produce a Syrah, Merlot, Pinot Noir, a 2Bench Red (a Bordeaux style blend made up of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, & Petite Verdot), a Rosé and the 2Bench White (a blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Semillon and Muscat).
"Throughout the growing season, winemakers often find a golden spot – or two – in the vineyard that tempts our creativity. The Oldfield Series is a way for me to showcase what best defines that vintage. It's where I can experiment, and push myself as a winemaker."
~ Sandra Oldfield, Executive Winemaker and CEO
So what is the new Oldfield Series wine?
If you guess correctly, you will be entered to win 2 bottles of the new Oldfield Series Wine before it is released, along with two tickets to Tinhorn's Canadian Concert Series. The winning tickets will be to see the high energy and phenomenal musicianship of Jackie Treehorn on June 23, 2013. The coveted annual concert series is a rare opportunity to see some of Canada's top talent while sipping award-winning wines and enjoying a breathtaking view of the South Okanagan Valley.
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Established in 1993, Tinhorn Creek Vineyards is located just south of Oliver B.C., in the famed Golden Mile wine-growing district. As the number one winery destination evoking classic south Okanagan terroir, Tinhorn Creek proudly offers 100% estate grown wines, growing grapes on both the Black Sage and Golden Mile benches. As the first winery in Canada to support carbon neutral measures, Tinhorn Creek continues their commitment to land stewardship, conservation and environmentally sustainable practices. Family owned and operated, Tinhorn Creek offers an unrivalled visitor experience including a self-guided tour, along with wines that rank among the best in the world, and since April 2011, the exceptional Miradoro Restaurant. For more information about Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, call 1.888.484.6467 or visit the website at www.tinhorn.com.
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2010 Laughing Stock Vineyards "In the Pink" Rosé
It's getting to be the time of year that I find myself sitting at my desk wishing I was on a warm and sunny patio with a dish of mixed olives, some cheese and a glass of dry rosé. From what I'm seeing in the stores, more and more of BC's winemakers seem to be having the same thoughts. I've only tried a few, but some of them, such as the folks at Laughing Stock Vineyards, are getting it right.
Laugh Stock's "In the Pink" is a project done in partnership with The Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver. Their YEW restaurant + bar's sales manager and sommelier, Emily Patterson recently helped select the blend with Laughing Stock's winemaker, David Enns. The wine, which is a blend of 70% Syrah and 30% Cabernet Franc will be sold exclusively at YEW for $22 for a bottle and $2 of each sale will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Only 75 cases were produced.
On May 26th, 2011 YEW restaurant + bar will also host the Laughing with YEW Wine Dinner. You can check out all the details on their site. It sounds like it will be a great time.
OK, so now that you know all that, you may be wondering if the wine is any good. It is. In the glass, the wine has a pretty pink salmon hue. A sniff filled my nose with strawberry, cranberry and citrus fruit. A sip gave me more of that gorgeous cranberry and strawberry fruit with a crisp finish that lasts for a minute.
Well done folks. This is a very nice bottle of wine. Now I just need some sun, a patio and those olives to go along with it.
* Disclaimer – I received this wine as a sample.
$22 exclusively at YEW restaurant + bar.
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Cape Coastal Luncheon at the Hart House – 2011 Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival
There are times when the disparate can come together to form something that is much better than one might expect, even to the point of surprise. Like this post, finally being able sit down and write it in the midst of an eighth birthday party at my house. To this point, my experience at the Cape Coastal Luncheon was a great example of the unexpected coming together to make something great. Specifically, value wines paired with great food that enhanced each sample.
My experience with the wines of South Africa prior to this had centered around the ubiquitous Pinotage and Chenin Blanc, with mixed results. I had one Pinotage at the bloggers conference last year that had notes of bacon and espresso (a breakfast wine I thought). Right from arrival at the Hart House, this tasting was something different.
We were handed a glass of Graham Beck Brut and this menu:
The Brut is a 50/50 blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and the light mineral on the palate and earthy finish were superbly paired with the trio of appetizers, in particularly the beets. While we enjoyed this, Chris the representative from the Beck winery told us a bit about the life of Graham Beck – certainly worthy of a biography by the sounds of it.
The second course brought the 2009 Nederburg Manor House Sauvignon Blanc and the 2009 KWV Cathedral Cellar Chardonnay. The Sauv Blanc had asparagus and pepper on the nose with a nice apple and green pepper that met the crispy chilies and the radish really nicely. The chardonnay on the other hand was a classic nutty honey vanilla nose with a toasty palate and bit of a hot finish. It picked up the swordfish nicely, but I gave the nod to the Sauv Blanc.
The next course brought us to red with a pair of Cabernet Sauvignons. Both cabs were very smoky on the nose, with the 2008 Durbanville Hills having some plum and green pepper that really reminded me of a number of the BC cabs I have had. The 2009 Graham Beck Game Keeper Reserve was my pick of the two, as it had a nice meaty palate with well balance oaked that paired with the gamey flavor of the rabbit. Delicious.
Course three, brought Bordeaux blends and included my favorite wine of the day. The 2009 Boekenhoutskloof Chocolate Block is very visible in this market and at $44.99 was the most expensive wine on the menu. It has a nice nose of coffee, chocolate and mint with a more coffee, plum and cherry and a tight tannic finish. It was a nice pairing, but the 2006 Glen Carlou Classique truly outshone at less than half the price. The nose was bright cherry with spice, graphite and vanilla and the palate was full of juicy clean red currant and cherry. The finish had some nice tannins and bit of tobacco. The clarity of the fruit was a beautiful pairing with the boar and also with the earthy celery root puree.
Dessert was delicious, and paired with Amarula Liqueur, however I was happy to continue on sipping the Glen Carlou. As stated, this was a chance for South African Wines to show some new directions and come together with the Hart House's food to make for a great afternoon. Kudos go to the Hart House and the South African Wine representatives for the excellent service and exceptional attention in pairing the wine and food.
2001 Mayacamas Vineyards Merlot, Napa Valley
God knows I'm not the world's biggest fan of Merlot. I'm pretty much there with Miles from "Sideways". When I hear "Merlot", I think a bit of cherry fruit, bland, vanilla and pretty much nothing else. There's a lot of that floating around this province, produced here and elsewhere, that fit that description perfectly.
Here's how I happened to pick this bottle up at Marquis Wine Cellars the other night. I was headed out for a long road cycling workout the next day and hadn't soaked up much iron in my diet in the last week, so I thought a steak would be a great choice for dinner. With that in my mind, I headed into Marquis and was looking for the classic steak pairing: Cabernet Sauvignon. While scanning the Cali section, my eyes landed on this bottle. 2001. From Mayacamas. A Merlot, I know, but I was thinking a Mayacamas Merlot should fit the bill quite nicely.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to call this an Old World style New World wine, but I guess I will. It's got a funky edge to it that most California producers seemingly try to avoid. Instead of a manipulated and polished vanilla-ness, this wine tastes of the grapes and that's good thing. Its colour is a dark brick-ish red that doesn't show any age-driven mellowing around the edges. The nose is an intriguing mix of black olives, tea, plum and dark cherry.
The flavours? Wow. The flavours amplify the slightly bitter edge of the dark cherry and finish off with tea-edged dark plum. The finish goes on for minutes. I had it with that steak and experienced one of those happy food-wine moments I wanted to last and last.
If you want to try an old-school California approach to Merlot that won't have you longing for less oak and more flavour, give this a try.
$49.90 at Marquis Wine Cellars here in Vancouver.
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2005 Los 800 Priorat
The preview for the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival has piqued my interest in Spanish wine again, directly impacting my shopping habits at the same time. Even out here in the 'burbs, we are seeing a better variety on the shelves. I picked out this one considering that I love Priorat, and the price was right.
I popped this one open the other night and was immediately struck by the inky, almost felt marker hints and pencil shavings on the nose (a teacher's dream I guess ☺) with some tobacco and dusty currants. All the things I love in the unique nose of Priorat – and this one is a blend of 50% Garnacha, 30% Carignan, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Syrah. A few sips brought on loads more currant with some rustic earth and plum. As the evening went on, the plum became more pronounced with some nice spices. The finish was distinctly Priorat in my experience, – long with cherry, chalky mineral and some pepper. A winner all around in my mind as it got better as the night went on. We had this with some nice charcuterie and and cheese – a great complement.
I tasted the Les Terasses at the festival night, and as always, it was delicious and well worth the $45. Given this reference point, this one is well worth the $29 price tag.
I'm looking for to tracking down many more wines like this in just over a month!
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2007 Mauritson Wines Rockpile Jack's Cabin Vineyard Zinfandel
It's been a while since I wrote up a Zinfandel, but last week was the big Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (ZAP) Festival in San Francisco. I didn't attend this year, but it's a wine fest that holds a special place in my heart. It's got to be the most fun-oriented/least pretentious wine event I've had the pleasure of experiencing. I was down there the day after it ended, but America's grape was on my mind. I went into my write-up archive and found this one that I had tasted a month or so ago. I had picked this bottle up at the winery when Candace and I visited Napa and Sonoma back in March, 2010.
In the glass it's got a dark-dark red colour. I kept burying my nose in the glass to smell the aromas of ripe blackberry, dark chocolate, black pepper and cracked stone. You can smell the minerals from the soil. After a sip, the progression of the wine's flavours disappointed just a bit. They start out full and ripe, but then disappear a bit and go flat… then they make a sudden reappearance with the full ripe berry fruit and a jammy, yet balanced and looooooong finish. So what we have here is a wine with a killer nose that starts out impressively in the mouth then disappears for a bit before making a memorable comeback.
All in all, I did like this wine – quite a bit. I liked the dustiness and minerality that mixed in with the fruit.
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Tasting – Marquis Wine Cellars presents Buty Winery at C Restaurant
First things first… I'd like to thank John Clerides and the staff at Marquis Wine Cellars for putting on this great tasting. The food and wine pairings at C Restaurant made my day.
From the left, that's Graham, Caleb (the winemaker and co-proprietor at Buty), John and me (sporting a bit of a winter beard).
Last summer, when Graham and I were down in Walla Walla for the Wine Bloggers' Conference, we ran into John and as I've already written, he said, "Do you guys want to taste something great? Come with me." We headed out to Walla Walla's airport wine area and made our way into Buty Winery's tasting room. What we tasted were some of the highlights of the weekend.
So, when John decided to bring some of the Buty wines into his shop I was pretty stoked. I've grabbed a few bottles of the Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle blend over the last month or so.
I'll run through what was being poured, with a bit of a review of each wine. So, let's go. Here's they are:
- 2009 Beast Sphinx Semillon
This was the surprise of the tasting for me. It was a medium-bodied mouthful of honeyed lemon and mineral. So tasty. (4 stars – $24.99)
- 2009 Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc/Muscadelle
Personally, I love this wine. It has a crisp acidity that makes it a great food pairing wine along with beautiful melon, noney, citrus and stone flavours. What's not to love? (4-4.5 stars – $31.99)
- 2009 Conner Lee Vineyard Chardonnay
Wow. This was another surprise for me – and was a perfect pairing for the delicious C Restaurant-prepared lobster. It had a really nice citrus-edged crispness with nice tropical and stone minerals on the finish. More Chablis than slutty Chardonnay. Very nice. (4-4.5 – $45.99)
- 2008 Beast Wildebeest Red Wine
This blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Syrah and 10% Malbec adds up to a really tasty deep cherry, berry fruit-driven wine with a pepper-edged mineral finish. Nice. (3.5-4 stars – $32.99)
- 2009 Merlot & Cabernet Franc
Well now… another surprise. I really liked this. It had wonderful dark fruit and a flintiness on the finish that I find really appealing, especially on elegant Washington State reds. (4.5 stars – $48.99)
- 2008 Columbia Redviva
Wow. This is the winner. This blend of 52% Syrah and 48% Cabernet Sauvignon was definitely the standout of the tasting for me. In a word, this wine is elegant. It has a tonne of dark red fruit, but not in an over-ripe sort of way. The berry fruit is almost perfect. So good! (4.5 – $59.99)
- 2009 Redviva of the Stones
This wine is a blend of 79% Syrah and 21% Cabernet Sauvignon. To me, this one needed a bit of time. It was pretty closed up. I'm thinking in a year or so its dark fruit and minerality will be more in balance. (4-4.5 stars – $59.99)
It was great to see Caleb again. I always love seeing talented folks who are passionate about what they're doing. All wines are of course available for purchase or order from Marquis Wine Cellars. Head on over to their site for the contact information.
The folks at C Restaurant deserve a special mention for the fabulous food. Everything was delicious and reminded me that I should head there soon for my seafood fix. Amazing stuff.2 comments
2006 Domaine Tempier "La Tourtine" Bandol
The other night I walked into Marquis Wine Cellars with an open mind – without any idea what I felt like sipping. Marquis is arguably the best shop in town to happen upon in that state of mind. Through their entrance to the right is an area piled with recent arrivals and staff picks. It was there that I found this wine.
This is my first Bandol, yet I've had all the grapes in the mix many time before… and why not start with a single vineyard wine from what is arguably the area's best-known winery. What's in the wine? Well, it can vary vintage to vintage, but it's generally 70-80% Mourvèdre, which is rounded out with an equal blend of Grenache and Cinsault.
What's it like? I loved the nose. It's full of black pepper along with some burnt rubber (it fits better than you would think), ripe plum and dark berries. The flavours deliver on the promise of the nose. There's so much going on with this wine – it's so complex. There are layers of jammy dark fruit with a big backbone of black pepper and firm flinty tannins. Wow.
Drink it now or in 15 years. That's your choice. It could certainly cellar for a while.
Strongly recommended.
$60 at Marquis Wine Cellars here in Vancouver.
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The new lineup from Averill Creek Winery
Back in June of 2010, I tasted my way through Averill Creek Winery's lineup, so when they sent me samples from their current vintage I was looking forward to giving them a try. I was also looking forward to getting Graham's take on the wines, so I set aside a couple of them for him.
I won't get into the winery's story. I did that in my last write-up of their wines, so you can always give it a read there. So, onto the wines we go.
2008 Pinot Gris: I really like this wine's acidity… its crispness. Right now I'm sipping it with a bit of soft Gourmelin cheese (French) and it's a great match. On the nose, the wine has crisp apple, citrus and a bit of flinty rock. A sip gives a rush of the crisp apple-driven acidity followed by some lush pineapple and lemon. The finish is capped with flinty stone and citrus. It's quite a nice wine, that'll go with a lot of food. $20 from the winery and at wine shops here in BC. 3.5 stars
Graham sampled the other 2 wines – the 2009 Pinot Grigio and the Marechal Foch-based 2008 Prevost. Here's what he had to say:
Things have been looking up on some of the wines coming off the island, and I was really interested to give these two a go when we received these samples.
Right off the bat, I liked both of these wines. They are lean with firm acidity and perhaps best of all food friendly and not trying to be something they're not. Not pumped up, over extracted or over-oaked – just nice clean fruit.
The 2009 Pinot Grigio is reminiscent of an Italian Grigio. It begs for some seafood or grilled chicken. Light citrus and mineral on the nose. It's bursting with zingy acidity on the palate. I liked the tart green apple and lime, but wanted a little more before the tight mineral came back in the finish. I had this with some grilled prawns and the clean style was a great match. $18 from the winery and at wine shops here in BC. 3.5 stars
The 2008 Prevost was a pleasant surprise for me. Built around Marechal Foch, which I have found it to be a bit hit and miss in the attempt to be bigger and bolder than it needs to be. This is no such wine for certain. The choice to blend as they have with some cab, leads to a different and enjoyable glass of red.
The nose has some cranberry and currant, backed up by a some earthy hints. A few sips brings some rhubarb and more red currants. Like the grigio, the Prevost has a prominent acidity that again – I liked. It paired well with some grilled vegetable pasta. Again, this is a well-priced choice. $20 from the winery and at wine shops here in BC. 3.5 stars
I would certainly give both of these a go again, particularly as the patio and grill time will soon be increasing. (What can I say I'm meteorological optimist!)
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The Festival Approaches…The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival 2011
Earlier this week, we had a chance to have a little preview of this year's Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. This year's feature region is Spain and the varietal theme is fortified wine. It looks to be a great event again this year.
The gathering at the Shore Club restaurant gave us an opportunity to sample a few of the wines and get a "sneak peek" of some of the key events being held throughout the festival.
The great thing about Spain being the star of this year's festival is the breadth of choice we will be able to enjoy. From the crisp minerality of Albariño, the delicious value bubbles of Cava, let alone white Rioja, the offerings in white are really exciting. In terms of the reds, full fruity Garnacha, deep, bold Priorat and rich complex Riojas are just a few of the sips bound to test and tempt the palate.
The great thing about this year is that the choices with Spain go one step further. As mentioned, the feature theme is fortified wine, and there stands to be an amazing array of choices. If you've never tried the broad ranges of Sherries or Ports, this is your chance. Many will challenge your tastes and are an experience not to be missed. We had the opportunity to sample some Solera and Fino sherry, along with some tawny and late bottle vintage port that were perfect on a chilly evening.
Tickets go on sale on Tuesday and needless to say, many of the events will sell out quickly. Based in Vancouver's Convention Centre, the Festival runs from March 28th through April 3 in various venues around town. Check out the Events page on the Festival's web site for the where and whens.
One of the many highlights include the Vega Sicilia vertical tasting which may venture back 50 vintages. Their 2004 Bodegas Alion was one of the superb sips of our evening, look out for them in the tasting room too!
In addition, many of the winemakers' events or seminars are very reasonable and give a great chance to learn from the experts in a smaller scale. There are where you can learn more about bubbly, a region of interest, pairings and of course, fortified wine! I always enjoy these guided tastings as they can lend so much insight into wines and their stories. As part of your festival experience this year, check one out!
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This bread is actually perfection! Sooooo good! And sooo super easy too. I do not have a bread machine so here is how to make it without one: First mix the yeast, sugar, and water and let that proof for about 10 minutes. Then, mix in the flour and salt and knead until smooth (okay, so I DO have a KitchenAid Mixer, which helps immensely), about 5-7 minutes with the dough hook in the KitchenAid. Place in a greased bowl (make it a BIG bowl, this rises sooo much) and cover with greased plastic wrap, and let rise until doubled (about an hour). Then punch down and knead another two minutes or so on a lightly floured surface, flatten slightly (maybe an inch thick) and roll once into an oval shaped loaf (be sure to pinch the seal closed). Make three diagonal slices on top of bread, place on greased cookie sheet, cover and let rise another hour. Bake at 350 for about 40 minutes. Bread is done when it sounds hollow when thumped on the bottom. Oh, also, I used an extra 1/2 cup of flour, but my house must be extra humid because I always have to add extra flour to my bread recipes. You are looking for the dough to pull completely away from the edge and bottom of the bowl when you are doing your first knead. This bread is soooo good it is really a must try!
The posted recipe is nearly the exact recipe for French Bread that was included with my bread machine. I agree...it's the BEST french bread! I read that some people's loaves were falling...it may be that the proportions are off a bit. My recipe says (instead of 1 1/2 cups of water) there should only be 1 cup + 2TBL for 3 1/2 cups of flour. 1 1/2 TBL of vegetable oil is an optional add. I always make the 2 LB loaf, bake it on the French Bread cycle and it comes out perfect every time!!
I'm smiling ear-to-ear over how wonderful this bread turned out! I didn't change a thing to the recipe and baked it on medium crust on the french bread cycle. It turned out a nice golden brown color and was very crispy on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. I love how the end pieces are really crunchy. This is my very first time ever baking in my bread machine too!!! My husband was so impressed. A great way to eat it is to slice it and dip it in some balsamic vinegar with olive oil and fresh cracked pepper. It's also one of those breads that is so good you can eat it plain!
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Amount Per Serving (12 total)
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- 151 cal
- 8%
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- 0.7 g
- 1%
- Carbs
- 30.3 g
- 10%
- Protein
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- 10%
- Cholesterol
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- Sodium
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- 12%
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It was only a few years before I understood exactly what I had walked away from. Jobs not only turned Apple into the most valued company in the world, worth an estimated $342 billion, he rewrote the rules of business, combining Sixties idealism with greed-is-good capitalism. At a time when software was the model, he built hardware. At a time when everyone focused on the macro, he focused on the micro. He never did anything first, but he did it best. More than anyone else on the planet, he is responsible for fusing the human realm with the digital, for giving us the ability to encode our deepest desires and most intimate thoughts with the touch of a finger. "He's the Bob Dylan of machines," says Bono, who knew Jobs for years. "He's the Elvis of the hardware-software dialectic."
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But, God, he could be a dick. Those who knew Jobs best and worked with him most closely - and I have talked to hundreds of them over the years – were always struck by his abrasive personality, his unapologetic brutality. He screamed, he cried, he stomped his feet. He had a cruelly casual way of driving employees to the breaking point and tossing them aside; few people ever wanted to work for him twice. When he fathered a daughter with his longtime girlfriend Chrisann Brennan at age 23, he not only denied his paternity, he famously trashed Brennan in public, telling Time in 1983 that "28 percent of the male population of the United States could be the father." His kinder side would only emerge years later, after he had been kicked around, beaten up, humbled by life. He grew up poor, an adopted kid who felt cast aside by his birth parents, feeling scrawny and teased and out of place, and he remained deeply insecure for most of his life, certain that it would not last long.
"Steve always had that James Dean, live-fast, die-young thing," says Steve Capps, one of the key programmers on the first Apple Macintosh. As they worked late into the night to design and build the device that would revolutionize personal computing, Jobs would talk about death a lot. "It was a little morbid," Capps recalls. "He'd say, 'I don't want to be 50.'" Brennan recalls Jobs making similar comments when he was only 17. "Steve always believed he was going to die young," Brennan says. "I think that's part of what gave his life such urgency. He never expected to live past 45."
In 2005, not long after he was diagnosed with the cancer that would eventually kill him, Jobs gave a now-famous commencement address at Stanford University in which he hailed death as "very likely the single best invention of life," one that "clears out the old to make way for the new." Perhaps it was not unexpected that Jobs, the archetype of the modern inventor, would conceive of death in such terms – as if life itself were an idea that had been hacked together by a larger, more powerful version of himself in some big garage in the sky. But if death is life's greatest invention, the greatest invention of Steve Jobs was not the iPod or the iPhone or the iPad. It was Steve Jobs. Before he could alter the landscape of the world as he found it, he first had to design and assemble the Jobs the world would come to idolize. "Steve was a shallow, narcissistic person who became more fully developed emotionally as he went along," says John Perry Barlow, a digital pioneer and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead who knew Jobs for several decades. "He created a lot of great hardware, but over the years, he also invented himself."
Jobs was born to insecurity. His mother, Joanne Schieble, was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, where she got involved with a Syrian student named Ab-dulfattah Jandali. When Schieble found out she was pregnant, her father objected to her marrying a Syrian. "Without telling me, Joanne upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without anyone knowing, including me," Jandali would later tell a reporter. "She did not want to bring shame onto the family and thought this was the best for everyone."
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955. Schieble gave her baby up to Paul and Clara Jobs, a working-class couple in San Francisco. Paul, a high school dropout who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, made his living as a debt collector, a repo man and a machinist. Clara worked as a payroll clerk at Varian Associates, one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was not what Schieble wanted for her child, but she made one provision for him before she left. The first in her family to go to college, Schieble believed in the value of education: Before she signed the adoption papers, she made Paul and Clara promise to send her son to college.
From the start, Jobs was a temperamental kid. He jammed bobby pins into an electric outlet and burned his hand. He had to have his stomach pumped after he drank ant poison. He woke up early, so his parents got him a rocking horse, a gramophone and some Little Richard records to entertain himself. "He was so difficult a child," his mother would later confide to Brennan, "that by the time he was two, I felt we had made a mistake, and I wanted to return him." Like many other parents of the time, Paul and Clara soon plunked their son down in front of a relatively new technology called television, where he eagerly devoured everything from Dobie Gillis and I Love Lucy to Jonny Quest.
When Jobs was three, Paul moved the family from San Francisco to Mountain View, an unsophisticated town of tract houses and apricot orchards just south of Palo Alto. It turned out to be a fortuitous move, putting young Steve right in the middle of the engineering culture that was just beginning to blossom in Silicon Valley. Not that the Jobs family had much connection to it. Paul tried fixing up old cars and dabbling in real estate, but money always seemed to elude him. In the fourth grade, Steve's teacher, Imogene Hill, asked the class, "What is it in this universe that you don't understand?" When it came to Steve's turn to answer, his reply was heartbreaking: "I don't understand why all of a sudden we're so broke."
Jobs was too mouthy and inattentive to be a great student. But he was saved from truancy and delinquency by Hill. "She was one of the saints of my life," he would later recall. "She taught an advanced fourth-grade class, and it took her about a month to get hip to my situation. She bribed me into learning." Hill paid Steve $5 bills out of her own pocket to do his homework and read. Spurred by her confidence in him, he skipped the fifth grade and went straight into Crittenden Middle School. It proved a rough place for a thin, wispy kid who was never much of an athlete. The other children taunted Jobs about his adoption. "What happened?" they would sneer. "Didn't your mother love you?" When he would recount the teasing years later, his girlfriend Chrisann recalls, "the pain of it still showed on his face."
At 11, Jobs announced to his parents that he was not going back to Crittenden. But instead of telling him to tough it out, Paul and Clara moved the family to Los Altos, a richer town a few miles away, with a better school system. It was in those years that what we now know as Silicon Valley came into being. The orchards that had covered the Valley had recently been bulldozed, and there was a sense of a new world rising, a belief that you could engineer your own future. There were no stuffy traditions, no cultural baggage. You could be whatever or whoever you wanted to be.
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Celebrate the season with the students of the Northview Fine Arts Department as it presents the 24th Annual Northview Christmas Spectacular at 7 p.m. Dec. 13 and 15 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 16 in the high school's auditorium.
Heartwarming carols, exciting band arrangements and loads of Christmas memories are just the beginning of an evening certain to capture the holiday spirit. This popular extravaganza began as a one-night production in 1989 and has grown to a three-night holiday variety show.
The Northview choirs will perform a few holiday favorites including "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "Walking in a Winter Wonderland." The Symphonic Choir will take audiences back to the 1940s with "Jing-a-Ling, Jing-a-Ling," originally performed by the Andrews Sisters. The Knight Singers will sing a jazzy a cappella version of "Carol of the Bells," and the Knight Shades will present their version of "Zat You Santa Claus" made famous by Louis Armstrong.
Dancers will take the stage throughout the evening bringing to life their versions of the iconic "Rudolph the Reindeer," "Radio City Santa" and "Toy Soldier" routines made famous on Broadway. Musical selections from the band will include Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride," Mariah Carey's "All I want For Christmas is You" and the stunning carol "This Christmastide." The award-winning Northview Percussion Ensemble will perform a unique arrangement of "Greensleeves."
The band and choir will be performing a special finale, "Christmas Day," originally recorded by Michael W. Smith and Mandisa followed by a full cast rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."
All seats cost $6 and must be reserved. Tickets go on sale today and will be on sale from 8 a.m. to noon weekdays in the Music Office at the high school.
A special holiday dinner with entertainment will be presented prior to the show on Saturday evening. Total cost for the dinner and a reserved seat for the show is $15. Call 812 448 2661, ext 1257 for more information or visit the website at www.northviewband.org for a mail-in order form.


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Thank goodness the Dems took Congress. Now we can expect no more clamping down on civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism, no more suppressing Americans' rights of citizenship at the behest of corporations, no more waking up in the morning wondering where our freedoms went.
Oh, wait. Make that: Is there any real point in celebrating that Democrats took Congress?
Before answering, join me in a sobering parlor game. Read the following quotation from the head of the pro-civil liberties National Lawyers Guild. Then guess whose deeds made this person fret.
"Adding the term 'terrorist' to identify activists in a recognizable civic group that exploits the tragedies that accompany real terrorist action," said Heidi Boghosian. "We think that the wealth and pressure of big business and corporations has pushed this through, and it's an example of corporate interests working against civic rights."
Is George Bush II again rifling through our phone records, or conjuring a new Patriot Act?
Has his Republican administration again sicced the FBI on library patrons?
No. The latest federal assault on civil liberties is a San Francisco Democratic creation.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein just finished ensuring the success of a bill that expands the federal government definition of "terrorism" to mean an act of protest that reduces the profits of a corporation, its suppliers, or partners.
Feinstein co-sponsored the just-passed Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which claims to provide law enforcement tools needed to go after animal rights extremists who vandalize research facilities. But the measure does very little to advance law enforcement's pursuit of loony PETA brigands. Instead, it goes a long way toward making ordinary Americans rightfully nervous about boycotting, picketing, blogging, investigating, or otherwise righteously beleaguering private companies whose actions they disagree with.
"The language of this legislation was too broad and vague, and could be interpreted to infringe upon lawful practices, such as protest, whistleblowing, or boycotts," said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States a nonbrigand organization if there ever were one.
"Here is an assault on civil liberties that's upfront and blatant labeling activists as terrorists. Yet this passed without hardly any scrutiny. It was stunning how easily this went through. And in my mind it's one of the most egregious civil liberties abuses America has seen," adds Will Potter, author of Greenisthenewred.com, a blog dedicated to examining how anti-terrorism has been used as a pretext for cracking down on activism.
I'm usually quick to smirk at those who break into universities to set the lab rats free. And I'm not asking readers to return to the year-2000-era of magical thinking, when it was fashionable to say Democrats and Republicans were indistinguishable, then to support Ralph Nader's spoiler campaign.
But it's worth taking a close look at Feinstein's awful bill, how it may not have succeeded without her having added her Democrat's (and thus "bipartisan") imprimatur, and how it slipped through the House of Representatives after the congressional elections with nary a Democrat raising a peep.
Once we've done that, let's get to keeping our eyes on the new Congress, in hopes it doesn't turn out as bad as the old one.
I first discovered Feinstein's bill running across a press release from the senator, in which she "hailed the House of Representatives' passage of bipartisan legislation that will enhance the effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Justice's ability to prosecute animal rights extremists who cross the line and utilize violence and terroristic threats, while expressly preserving the First Amendment rights of animal rights activists to peacefully protest and boycott lawfully," the release said.
Feinstein's office wasn't able to roust anyone to comment in advance of my pre-Thanksgiving deadline. But the release makes her views clear.
Previous efforts to advance such a new animal "terrorism" bill stalled before Feinstein's sponsorship turned the latest incarnation into a "bipartisan" effort. On Nov. 13, before much of the House of Representatives had returned following mid-term elections, a version of the bill was heard before a near-empty chamber, and then passed the House unanimously. At press time, the bill awaited President Bush's signature.
Feinstein cites protesters' harassment of researchers who use animals at UC San Francisco and at Chiron Corporation in Emeryville, and says the school has had to spend millions on security; the new bill, the release notes, will "expand current law to address violent tactics used by animal rights extremists to frighten law-abiding citizens away from their work."
The thing is, however, that violence, threats, vandalism, and harassing assaults of the sort described by Feinstein are already illegal. Her bill criminalizes ordinary protest activities that weren't illegal before.
As a case in point, see the benchmark prosecution under the previous, milder, narrower version of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, in which six activists were jailed a week before Thanksgiving for sentences ranging from three to six years for running a Web site that supported a campaign against a New Jersey laboratory called Huntington Life Sciences that tests pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and dyes on animals. It was the first trial and conviction under the previous Act. An international campaign against the lab's British parent company, which had been the subject of a U.K. documentary on animal cruelty, had brought the company to the edge of bankruptcy.


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Cleanup dispute in final stages; DOE's potential tab reaches $4.5M
A year-long dispute over cleanup milestones in Oak Ridge is reaching the final stage of negotiations, and the Department of Energy potentially faces millions of dollars in fines.
At issue is DOE's alleged failure to remove "excess materials" from old nuclear facilities, even though the federal agency reportedly told environmental regulators years ago -- on multiple occasions -- that the work had been completed.
The materials ranged from classified chemicals and centrifuge equipment to surplus nickel and stuff belonging to the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. The materials were in storage at the former uranium-enrichment site now known as the East Tennessee Technology Park.
As part of its legally binding cleanup agreements with the state of Tennessee and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, DOE and its contractors were supposed to remove the materials from storage vaults at the K-25 and K-27 buildings scheduled for demolition. Those removals were to be conducted in stages, with multiple deadlines, and DOE reportedly submitted letters in 2005, 2008 and 2009, stating that the projects had been completed.
However, according to John Owsley, the Oak Ridge oversight chief for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the state learned in late 2009 -- via a letter from DOE -- that some materials had not been moved.
"On Dec. 21, 2009, DOE notified TDEC that 143.85 (cubic yards) of centrifuge and Y-12 materials and 1,604 (cubic yards) of excess material in the K-27 building still remained to be disposed," Owsley said.
Two weeks later, the state informed DOE that some of those materials were part of the earlier agreement and, as such, DOE had failed to meet the milestones and was out of compliance, he said.
Gerald Boyd, DOE's Oak Ridge manager,early this year said he believed the situation was, at least in a part, a misunderstanding, and the parties have been attempting to work out the differences ever since.
Under terms of the Federal Facilities Agreement for the Oak Ridge cleanup, DOE can be fined for missing milestones: $5,000 for the first week and $10,000 for each additional week until a cleanup action is achieved.
Owsley said the cumulative tab could exceed $4.5 million, but he added, "We have not assessed a penalty. That is just the maximum amount."
The dispute has gone through multiple phases with no resolution, and it now has reached formal dispute status before the Senior Executive Committee, which include DOE's Boyd; Paul Sloan, deputy commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation; and Gwen Keyes Fleming, regional administrator of EPA.
If the parties don't reach a resolution by the deadline of Oct. 25 and if that deadline isn't extended. EPA's Fleming will issue a decision. If there is disagreement by DOE or TDEC, the issue would go to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in Washington for a final decision.
Owsley said he believes a resolution will be reached by the three parties before it gets to that final step.
Mike Koentop, a spokesman in DOE's Oak Ridge, said agency officials are also hopeful. "We're going to continue working with the state and EPA to come up with a resolution to the dispute, and we expect to do that before the deadline."
Davina Marraccini, a spokeswoman at EPA's regional office in Atlanta, said the three parties are expected to have a face-to-face meeting sometime this week. She declined to discuss further details of the situation.


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