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This is an important show for the 67-year-old painter, his first here since the large but not complete retrospective exhibition that began in 1995 in Fort Worth, then toured - impressing the hell out of his fans - to the Metropolitan Museum here, and then to Dusseldorf, before coming triumphantly home in 1997 to London's Hayward Gallery. Almost universally acclaimed, this touring show consolidated the critical reputation Hodgkin had achieved since he represented Britain in the 1984 Venice Biennale.
New York always has one art dealer with charisma. Currently that is Larry Gagosian, with two galleries: one Downtown, which allows him to keep up with the art-trend-spotters, and an Uptown 980 Madison Avenue space that used to be the old and old money Parke-Bernet gallery.
It is in the latter that Hodgkin's work is being shown until 13 June, and where there was a glittering private view last Thursday. Several collectors and would-be collectors were disappointed to find that almost all the pictures had been sold, as the museum and art world establishment sipped a little white wine and a lot of San Pellegrino with a good number of the artist's close friends and plenty of A-list celebrities. Sigourney Weaver, Irene Worth and David Hockney were the most familiar faces and they joined us on the coaches that took 100 guests to Gagosian's dinner afterwards.
This was only the first of the lavish but informal parties to mark the Hodgkin conquest. There was another on Saturday night, given by his London dealer, Anthony d'Offay, at the town house built for himself by architect Philip Johnson on East 52nd Street.
There, paying tribute to Hodgkin - by eating Glorious Food's potato crepes with goat cheese, served with a fine 1994 Meursault and baked red snapper, accompanied, as Hodgkin prefers, with red wine (in this case a superb, still, red champagne, Bouzy Rouge) - were art-world luminaries Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Bill Viola, Kiki Smith and the doyen of New York art critics John Russell and his wife Rosamond Bernier, the celebrated lecturer on art.
A single, small, earlier painting by Hodgkin, After Morandi, hung in the foyer, and I understand that a collector, frustrated in his attempt to buy a picture at the Gagosian show, managed to put a reserve on this one before the woman seated to my left could indicate her own interest in buying it. There was not enough Hodgkin to go around.
For, by this time, there was a sort of aesthetic frenzy shaping up. The local reviews probably won't appear before this coming weekend - the New York Times' art reviews are carried in the Friday edition - but word-of- mouth has already done its stuff, and the gallery is crowded. ("I don't think that the daily reviewers matter to the people who buy Howard's paintings," an important museum curator said to me.)
You take the lift to the sixth floor and are stunned by your first sight of the single painting you see when you walk down the long white entrance corridor. Bamboo (1995-97) is not big, but this 24in by 27in rectangular oil painting on wood makes a disproportionate impact. You glimpse a deep, window-like perspective through the cobalt-blue painted frame, and your eye is drawn so rapidly into the lower right hand corner that, at first, you almost overlook the orange, red and brown brushstrokes, so wide and bold that they cover most of the picture plane and part of the frame.
Then you turn the corner into a room with six small paintings. The colours are so vivid and strong that it is a little like being in a walk-in jewellery box. Nan Rosenthal, a curator in the department of 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum, told me: "Quite apart from the Met show, this is Howard's most beautiful gallery show. He's at the top of his form - the consistent level of quality is amazing; every picture is so lively, so confident in its touch. I like seeing the larger-scale pictures, but, of course, he's always been wonderful at small-scale paintings, which few others are."
And in the small gallery at Gagosian there are some breathtaking pictures. When in Rome (1996-97) is oval (its centre panel was originally a small board belonging to a friend, which Hodgkin has enlarged to 24in by 19in). A homage to Roman baroque, the swirling brushstrokes create a trompe l'oeil effect that suggests you're looking sideways on at what is really a ceiling painting, and your glance recedes into a Tiepolo blue central passage.
Old Sky (1996-97) is one of the loveliest pieces in the show. Its umber and gold image bleeds onto a small gilded frame, making the viewer think at once of Turner or old Dutch skyscapes. The ornate Chinese red painted frame of Chinoiserie (1994-97) reminds you both that Hodgkin can take a long time to decide that a painting is finished, and that he often begins with a found object like this frame, the oval board, or the mouldings that came from a church, which have been used to make a frame for the large picture, Andrew Allfree (1994-98).
One of the larger paintings of the six in the main gallery is revolutionary for Hodgkin in this regard. The most recently finished one, Rain at Il Palazzo (1993-98), has no frame. Moreover, this picture, whose title refers to a house in Italy (not a palace), is painted on a white ground, which means that the paint looks thinner and more diaphanous than usual. The brushstrokes are very broad, and you feel that you can almost reconstruct from the marks the order in which they were made, and so "read" the history of the painting, something Hodgkin's past work has perhaps deliberately kept secret.
There are no labels, captions or even numbers on the walls in this show, though a sheet with titles, dates and dimensions is available, as is a fine catalogue. Titles remain important when looking at a Hodgkin - some references are so concrete they contain people's names or indicate locations. It is the titles that remind you that Hodgkin does not regard himself as an abstract artist. In the past, scholars, critics and collectors have enjoyed hunting for some sort of drawing they were convinced (usually because of the titles) underlay the image, maybe giving the picture a narrative coherence. Hodgkin's new work reduces the temptation to indulge in this.
I think this is because of a new confidence in Hodgkin's current works. In most of them you can tell which is the final stroke of the brush. And in most cases this is wide, broad and looks as though it has been applied rapidly. "The brushstroke seems looser," says Rosenthal, "on the whole very unlaboured. He seems able to resolve things more quickly for himself. There is energy in these pictures, rather than conspicuous studiedness." I was very struck by some correspondences with some calligraphic works in the great China exhibition currently here at the Guggenheim Museum. Artistic self-confidence is all: one slip of the brush and the work (in Hodgkin's case, usually of years) would be ruined.
Hodgkin's collectors are special types, almost a club themselves. I asked Norman Finkelstein, a brash, outspoken, Yale-educated (in music) New Jersey surgeon, who, with his brother Fred, owns no fewer than six Hodgkin paintings what he thought of the show and why he collected Hodgkin. Dr Finkelstein shared the universal high opinion of the show, and answered my other question thoughtfully: "The colour, of course, and the energy. But in all Howard's pictures - to quote my old art history professor's view of Greek vases - through the image there emerges an enveloping and warm humanity."
"Lyrical and heroic," said a Russian writer friend, and I see what she meant. The colours sing, the forms and shapes move so much they practically dance, the brushstrokes are so bold they are thrilling. And there is heroism, too. In the face of today's minimalism and installation art, Hodgkin's work emphatically affirms the central place of painting.
Howard Hodgkin's next show will be in Berlin in November. His next London exhibition will be at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in autumn 1999.
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Being a baseball fan means a membership into the biggest debating society in the world. Mays or Mantle? Koufax or Marichal? Cardinals or Cubs? Peanuts or cracker jacks? All you have to do is pick a side, wait for someone to take another, and yet another conversation is born.
One thing that isn't up for much debate, however, is the identity of the foremost authority on the economics of the game. That would be one Dr. Andrew Zimbalist.
After all, Dr. Zimbalist's resume reads like a
laundry list of high-profile know-how about the business behind the game.
Shortly after he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1974, he became a tenured
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The good doctor is currently working on his eagerly awaited new book, 'The Best Interests of Baseball?: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig', which is expected to hit the stores in March 2006.
In your past writings, you've placed a lot of emphasis on baseball's monopoly status, on its status as the only industry which enjoys a presumed exemption from antitrust law. Please explain how you think that works in the game, and why you think it's important.
If you take a long view of the exemption, which
dates back to 1922, you see an industry that stood pretty much alone on the
professional sports pedestal in the
In those circumstances, you encouraged those in charge to be lax, lackadaisical, and non-responsive. I think if you look at the central governance of baseball, if you look at the management at the team level, you see this kind of creeping lassitude take over. Instead of getting entrepreneurship, instead of establishing bridges to the local community by courting fans and doing marketing to promote the game . . . instead of doing all that, they sort of sat back and said 'We're baseball. We're a monopoly, we can do what we want, we'll open the gates a little before game time and people will come'.
That might be exaggerated a little bit, but basically was the management culture that set in.
Is that kind of image still valid today?
I think they're still struggling to overcome that, that they're in a process that's finally moving forward in overcoming some of the historical inefficiencies and laxities.
In the late '50's the NFL emerged and emerged rapidly, and two decades later the NBA emerged as a strong competitor. As a result, baseball as a sport started to realize that it had to change its ways. I think you see the beginnings of that recognition at the end of [Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn's period [of the late 1970's and early 1980's] but he doesn't really do anything about it. [Commissioner] Peter Ueberroth started to do something about it [in 1984-88] by growing sponsorships. Fay Vincent didn't have much time to do anything [in 1989-92] and had all sorts of new problems.
And then we've had Bud Selig, who's been an owner and Commissioner at the same time. He's seen it as baseball's direct interest to develop the sport commercially and promote it as a business, so they've started to do that. Baseball began to change its ways. I think you had a combination of different sources and forces coming together in the early '90's to change the management culture for the first time.
That's not to say that they've dealt with all their problems and we don't have to worry about monopoly power any more, but I think the industry is much more responsive.
But how much of today's competition can be traced as far back several decades now, to the mid-1970's when the modern free agency overthrew the old reserve clause system?
It began to change in the late 1970's, when they suddenly had to start paying significant salaries to the players and start looking for new revenues. But the change has come slowly, it really has.
Part of the problem with baseball, historically,
is that the owners have been very fractious. They always had many different
ideas about what had to be done, because the ownership experience in
You see, the early years of free agency weren't only defined by pressures on the cost side - it was also very hard for the owners to agree on what they should be doing for the game. But one thing that they could agree on was their desire to smash or curtail free agency. It was really a period where the owners were really sent into a tizzy.
I wonder how much of that lack of owner unity or central control has really been a problem, however. Stuff like the color line, collusion to wreck the free agency market, and anti-labor efforts were all about united owners' desire to assert control. On the other hand, individual teams have done a lot to innovate and grow the game.
That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is creating a framework for centralized rules of the game. Do you have revenue sharing or not? Do you have centralized marketing initiatives or not? Do you do you do something about the advent of the steroids problem? Those are not issues you can deal with in a local market.
Yeah, in local markets, some teams are going to emphasize on-base percentage, others are going to emphasize batting average, some are going to emphasize player development, others are going to emphasize free agency. Yeah, you have local initiatives, but all that has to take place within a central framework created by Major League Baseball. It's that framework that hasn't been there, and that's created a lot of argumentation and divisiveness among the owners. Without a strategy, it's hard to get anywhere. You tend to get instead, crisis management and no industry can successfully operate with crisis management for long.
But the numbers seem to indicate that the majors have been very successful indeed for the last decade, at least to judge from record attendance and gross revenues.
Since the early '90s, they're starting to get their act together, increasingly so. When salaries started to push up in the late '70's, there was some promotion of the game and they started to expand the number of teams. Part of their revenue success since the early 1990's has had to do with the telecommunications revolution. You can't necessarily attribute the revenue growth to something they were doing right - it was more an outside something they took advantage of.
Commissioner Selig has promised to push for more revenue sharing in the next collective bargaining agreement. How do see the issue?
I think revenue sharing is a positive for baseball. The owners are going to share almost $300 million dollars this year.
The problem is with the incentive structure in the revenue sharing system - they reward failure and penalize success. The better job you do in building a team, attracting people to your ball park, and boosting television ratings, the more you'll be taxed. And, the worse job you do, the more revenue transfers you'll receive.
For example, you have an example like the Philadelphia Phillies. They play in the fourth largest market in baseball and, until last year, they were getting roughly $10 million plus per year in revenue sharing. That's absurd. [Owners] David Montgomery and Bill Giles weren't doing a good job in building their team and selling it in the community, and they were getting all that money in the largest unshared market in the game. Those are bad incentives.
At the other end, you have the Red Sox in the sixth largest media market in the country and the 18th or 19th largest baseball territory, as defined by Major League Baseball, and because they've been so successful, they're paying the second-most revenue sharing of any team. Close to $50 million dollars in revenue sharing. So, you're penalizing them for being successful.
In my view, the revenue sharing system is structured wrongly. The teams shouldn't share based on revenue; they should share based on local market size.
The Commissioner has taken the credit for the game's competitive balance by connecting it to his revenue sharing system.
If you look at the number of teams in contention
to make the playoffs as of September 1st, it's been close to half the
teams in the last two years. Selig says it's the revenue sharing but, if you
think about it, how's revenue sharing supposed to work? You're supposed to give
money from the rich teams to the poor teams and the poor teams are then supposed
to spend it on players. If you give David Glass, the owner in
The [revenue sharing system] is supposed to reduce the salaries at the top and raise them at the bottom, but if you look at the figures in payroll differences, they're significant and they're growing. All the numbers indicate that there's more payroll inequality today than there was in 2000 or 1996. The revenue sharing is, in fact, not working to promote competitive balance, though it is working to restrain salary growth.
It's a mistake to attribute whatever improvements in competitive balance to the revenue sharing system. It makes more sense to contribute it to other factors. Some of it may be chance; some of it may be better management, or the introduction of the wild card, which doubled the number of playoff teams. The Yankees have gotten older, and that alone has created greater opportunity for other teams - this is part of a natural team cycle.
Part of the complication seems to be in the definition of a 'market', in deciding how much built-in economic power different franchises really possess.
The one thing that's often overlooked about smaller markets is the fact that they tend to have less competition from other sports. They also tend to have fewer cultural entertainment options - they don't have as many expensive theatres or expensive museums or expensive night clubs. The Yankees and the Mets, though they tend to have a greater population to work with, also have far more entertainment competition. That tends to diminish their apparent advantage in terms of population size.
The other thing that gets left out of the
discussion, unfortunately, that some owners have a much greater incentive to
invest in their team. If you're Ted Turner and you own TBS, or you're George
Steinbrenner and you own the YES Network, or you're Tom Hicks and you own Clear
Channel entertainment, it's different. For instance, when Hicks signed Alex Rodriguez for $252 million, he was thinking of A-Rod's direct contribution to
the baseball team, but also his indirect contribution to the worth of the
ballpark real estate and Hicks' profile in
In the past, you've made reference to the need to 'level the playing field'. Is that a practical goal, insofar as it suggests absolute equality between teams?
Oh, 'leveling the playing field' doesn't suggest absolute equality - it suggests more equality. 'Level' is a verb. The phrase suggests a more level field.
I don't think anyone wants perfect parity; it
doesn't make sense to have perfect parity. What you want to do, to be candid, is
to have big market teams be somewhat more successful than small market teams.
When the ten million TV households in the greater
There are so many different measures of competitive balance. How would you suggest measuring it?
Unfortunately, it's a very elusive matter. The more important measurement is the distribution of outcomes over time. In other words, the mobility between the top and the bottom.
One of the reasons the
I think it's the same thing in baseball. It doesn't matter if a team has a terrible year, as long as they aren't stuck in the cellar year after year. As long as they can come back after a few years and contend for the postseason, you're probably doing a good job. At the end of the day, what's most important is fan perception that their teams have a chance, that they won't necessarily get bowled over by a $208 million payroll.
In your 2003 review of 'Moneyball', you expressed a lot of skepticism over smaller budget teams' long-term ability to compete against bigger market teams. Do you still feel the same way? Is the story less about Billy Beane's brilliance and more about smaller market teams' tendency to make up for their budget shortfalls with better management?
I'm not sure how brilliant Billy Beane might be. I mean, I think he's competent, but I wouldn't call him brilliant.
I think the main story in the A's success is the pitching staff - they had four top-flight pitchers. Those pitchers didn't come to the A's because of the insights of sabermetricians or Bill James and his theories. I have a high regard for Billy Beane; I have a high regard for Bill James, but to say that their pitching came through some special sabermetric insight, rather than good scouting, makes no sense whatsoever.
I thought [Michael Lewis' 'Moneyball'] was a nicely told story, but the notion that this should be elevated to some kind of a bible for baseball, a secret for competitive balance, just didn't appeal to me at all.
The argument remains, however, that smaller budget teams like the Athletics, Twins, and Marlins have made multiple playoff runs because they tend to be more fundamentally sound, innovative, systematic, and longer term in their thinking. Do you think that's a valid way of looking at the business of baseball?
The notion that somebody in a small market is
going to be more frugal and somebody in
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The following is my 16-week marathon training schedule adapted from Mark Bravo's Intermediate Level Plan.
Here are some highlights about this schedule:
Now that I have set the goal and made the plan, all I have to do is to follow it through without injury, hopefully.
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"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up you'd better be running." -Anon
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My cross country workout tracker has proven to be a smashing success. Here is what I have achieved since I started the tracker a little bit over a year ago:
To maintain these benefits in long term, I need to take on something grander, more ambitious. What I have in mind is the Forrest Gump Route. According to my research, the route consists of 5 cross country trips with a total distance of some 15,000 miles. Supposedly, Forrest Gump did it in over 3 years. Since I have a full time job and a life other than just fitness, I will allow myself to cover the same distance in 5 years through daily workout. And like my previous cross country workout, every activity by any means counts, running, biking, hiking, cardio machines, swimming, you name it. Here is a breakdown in percentage of mileage I try to maintain:
I credit much of my improvement in physical fitness as well as mental strength to the intensive marathon training. I would like to do this once a year just to reassure my fitness level. If I can run a marathon, I must be in good shape. Here are some local marathon events that I have targeted on:
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So here is a summary of my goals:
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I will use the following tracker to track my progress. I will update it on a daily basis. So please come back and check it often. Just zoom in and hover your mouse cursor on the little red dots to see my daily activities.
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In Part I, I decribed what the Virtual Earth Workout Tracker was, and how it could be a useful tool for tracking one's workout and motivating him to keep going. In this part, I'll describe how to implement the Workout Tracker with Virtual Earth SDK.
Generating the Route
Normally, you want to generate a route that is closely resembling the physical thing on the ground, whether it's a highway or things like the Greate Wall of China. There are basically two ways to generate a route: trace the route manually with the aid of some mapping tool, or generate it automatically with a route engine. The following screenshot shows how you could trace a stretch of highway, say Route 66, using Google Earth.
Google Earth will save the route you are tracing in KML format, which is just XML understandable by any XML parser. As to how many points you need, depending on the length and geometry of the route, a few hundread to a couple of thousand points seem to be a good number. You need more points to trace the route more closely, but it will take longer time to get it done and longer computing time to render the route.
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- Average student debt: $26,529
- Student loan default rate: 12.80%
- % of homes underwater (mortgage more than value): 17.06%
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- % with past due debt (late, but not in default): 5.20%
- % with some type of debt in collections: 29.10%
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- Adjustable Resistance Analog Sticks: The resistance on both analog sticks of the Razer Onza TE is freely adjustable enabling you to fine-tune the force needed to tilt the analog stick, giving you the right resistance to achieve the optimal precision in any genre. Whether you want a high resistance for a racing game or minimal resistance for precise aiming in an FPS game, the adjustable resistance of each analog stick gives you the edge in every game you play
- Two Additional Fully Programmable Buttons: Two extra buttons positioned above the trigger buttons on both shoulders of the Razer Onza TE put the commands you deem most important at your fingertips. Whether it's one of the action buttons (A,B,X,Y), the analog stick button, an additional bumper or trigger button, the Back or Start button, these Multi-Function Buttons (MFB) let you actuate mission-critical commands at the most comfortable location on the Razer Onza TE for maximum adaptability in the heat of battle
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- Technical Specifications: 2 Adjustable resistance analog sticks; 2 Multi-Function Buttons (MFB); 4 backlit Hyperesponse action buttons; Precision D-Pad; Non-slip rubber surface; Quick release USB connector; 15 foot, lightweight, braided fiber cable; Approx. size in mm: 109(L) x 154(W) x 60.5(H)
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descriptionThe Razer Onza TE gaming controller for Xbox 360 is designed to give professional gamers the competitive edge by bringing maximum customizability to the Xbox 360 controller. Featuring adjustable resistance on both analog sticks and putting two fully programmable Multi-Function Buttons (MFB) at the fingertips, the Razer Onza TE allows every professional gamer to tweak the controller to their individual preferences.
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Eleven years ago, Dove's "Evolution" video went viral. The 60-second video illustrated how lighting, make-up and Photoshop completely transformed a model. It was compelling and eye-opening for consumers, yet did not sell a product. Instead, it supported Dove's social mission and resulted in becoming one of the most shared and talked about videos of the year.
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Tawse 2012 Laundry Vineyard Cabernet Franc
- Chef: Ross Midgley
- Restaurant: Ravine Estates Winery Restaurant
- Pairing: Ravine Vineyard
Best of Show
Cave Spring 2014 The Adam Step Reisling
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by James Chatto by National Culinary Advisor
Hurry, hurry home from Calgary – just in time to change our shirts and make it down to the Convention Centre for Toronto's own Gold Medal Plates event. Could it possibly equal the energy and excitement of our other city galas? The answer was a resounding "Yes!" Here was emcee Scott Russell introducing a regiment of Olympic athletes glittering with precious metals from Rio. There was Anne Lindsay beating the devil on her violin and bringing the audience to its feet, together with the rest of the dream-team band of Jim Cuddy, Alan Doyle, Ed Robertson, Colin Cripps, Sam Polley and Devin Cuddy. And then there was also Patrick McMurray of The Ceili Cottage giving an oyster presentation that had the longest line-up of the night, especially when he was shucking great big Galway flats from Ireland and rinsing out each empty shell with a dram of Irish whiskey, so that not a drop of goodness was lost.
Wine Report
by David Lawrason, National Wine Advisor
When I first saw the line-up of chef wines being poured in Toronto – not long before the big night – I said to myself "this is the who's who" among quality-driven Ontario winemakers. The crème de la crème coming forward: Tawse, Hidden Bench, Stratus, Southbrook, Rosehall Run, Cave Spring, Hinterland and Ravine. Picking a Best of Show was going to be tough.
Indeed, it was a grand wine and culinary night for the sell-out crowd of over 700. And three great wines rose to the top – separated by very few points – in the Best of Show competition when tasted by seven leading Toronto wine critics and sommeliers.
Before announcing them, a nod to a new element presented to the Toronto guests this night – the debut of a tasting and demonstration station featuring three new Ontario-based craft whiskies. The concept belonged to Geoff Kanhert, a retired LCBO product consultant whose heart has always been in whisky, and has founded a whisky education/consultancy. He assembled the new Wayne Gretzky Red Cask, Collingwood Toasted Maple Finished Canadian Whisky and Toronto Distiller's First Barrels Straight Canadian Whisky. And business was brisk all evening.
The Best of Show Award went to the delicious and profound Hidden Bench 2014 Nuits Blanche, a structured, deep, barrel-aged sauvignon blanc-semillon blend channeling white Graves from Bordeaux. It's not a style widely made in Ontario but Hidden Bench purchased the maturing Rosomel Vineyard with these rare component whites in the early 2000s and has been making show-stopping white ever since.
The runner-up was Tawse 2012 Laundry Vineyard Cabernet Franc, a single vineyard Lincoln Lakeshore edition from the best red wine vintage Ontario has yet seen. I have tasted this wine several times, and now at four years of age its quality is unfolding very nicely. The first runner-up was the impeccable Cave Spring 2014 The Adam Step Riesling from a small, mature block on the winery's original Beamsville Bench vineyard.
The Best of Show judging exits to recognize and thank the wineries for their donations to Gold Medal Plates chefs. But several wineries also donated to the VIP Reception and Celebration portions of the evening.
I want to thank Andrew Peller in particular for donating to Toronto and many other cities on our tour. Canada's largest family-owned wine company owns familiar brands like Wayne Gretzky and Trius .Toronto guests also enjoyed Chateau des Charmes powerful 2012 St David's Vineyard Merlot and Malivoire's elegant 2014 Chardonnay.
I was joined by six leading Toronto wine authorities to taste and talk through the wines, and rank our favourites. In seniority order: Tony Aspler, writer, author and founder of the Ontario Wine Awards. Michael Vaughan, publisher of Vintages Assessments, Geoff Kahnert of Kahnert Wine and Whisky Specialists; Master Sommelier John Szabo, WineAlign National Wines Awards of Canada judge and author of just published Volcanic Wines' Michael Godel, National Wine Awards judge and writer; and Sara d'Amato, sommelier and National judge.
Here is the stellar line-up of wines and beers in Toronto, in pouring order as presented by the judges.
The Toronto Wines
Trius Brut
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Hinterland Rosé Method Traditional
Prince Edward County, ON
Cave Spring Cellars 2014 The Adam Step Riesling
Beamsville Bench, ON
Wayne Gretzky 2015 Riesling
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Tawse 2013 South Bay Chardonnay
Cuddy by Tawse 2013 Chardonnay
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Wayne Gretzky 2015 Chardonnay
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Malivoire 2014 Chardonnay
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Hidden Bench 2014 Nuit Blanche
Beamsville Bench, ON
Stratus 2008 Evergreen White
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Trius 2014 Gamay
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Rosehall Run Vineyard 2014 JCR Pinot Noir
Prince Edward County, ON
Wayne Gretzky 2014 Cabernet Merlot
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Cuddy by Tawse 2013 Cabernet-Merlot
Niagara Peninsula, ON
Southbrook 2013 Southbrook Small Lot '101' Cabernet Franc
Four Mile Creek, ON
Tawse Winery 2012 Laundry Cabernet Franc
Lincoln Lakeshore, ON
Chateau des Charmes 2012 Merlot St. Davids Bench Vineyard
St. Davids Bench, ON
Ravine Lowrey Brothers Hard Apple Cider
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Sam Roberts Band Session Ale
Sam Roberts Band Belgian Stout
Toronto Distiller's First Barrels Straight Canadian Whisky
Wayne Gretzky No 99 Red Cask Whisky
Collingwood Toasted Maple Finished Canadian Whisky
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Focus Studies are another great way to connect. They are offered at different times throughout the week. You'll find a list of current and upcoming Focus Studies in the Focus Studies Brochure located at the Discipleship Connection Center in the Atrium (Entrance A) and in the Connection Center (Entrance G) as well as online.
Join us for one of these groups tonight:
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March 15 – May 17 | Wilson Hall C | Carey Purdom
The Well Focus Study is a weekly gathering of women who want to grow to be disciples who make disciples.
Romans Focus Study
March 1 – May 10 | 6:00 PM | Steele Wright
Join Steele Wright for this six-week study of Romans 1-8, and immerse yourself in the book that one observer has called "the doorway to the treasure of all of Scripture."
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April 19 – May 3 | Wilson Hall B | Joe Stacker
Was Jesus a Baptist? If not, where did "Baptists" originate? Come join us for a 3-week study on the foundations of Baptists. No registration or materials to purchase. Open to all adults each week.
Habits of Holiness
April 19 – May 10 | Wilson Hall E | Zac Rigsby
A four-week study on spiritual disciplines and how they open the door to a deeper and richer relationship with God.
April 19 – May 3 | Room 1010 | Rian Berger
This short 3-week JourneyOn@Home Focus Study will teach practical ways to set boundaries and help your child gain a healthy identity as beloved children of God, both on and off the sports field.
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These discussions are designed for LIFE Group leaders but available to anyone who would like to deepen their understanding of God' mission and learn practical ways to "Live Sent" in our culture today.
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The four were named as the pole vaulter, Rodion Gataullin, the women's world 100 metres hurdles champion, Ludmila Naroshilenko, the women's world 400m hurdles champion, Margarita Ponomaryeva, and the sprinter, Tachana Reshnetikova.
The athletes were taking part in a training programme in Malmo, which has now been curtailed. Bengt Bendeus, the chairman of the MAI club which had organised the programme, said: 'Customs officials found anabolic steroids and syringes in a suitcase belonging to the coach, Lydia Fedotova.'
However, Fedotova said later, in a television interview, that the drugs were for private use: 'I suffered a serious case of pneumonia last September. Would I, a grown-up athlete, use or give something (anabolic steroids) to someone?'
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"Audio Panton, Cogito Singularis, Listen to everything, think for yourself."
¨A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. ¨ Engles
¨I came,I saw, I rejected.¨ David Perlman (Poppa Neutrino)
And it is not our object to destroy civilization. We do not desire to "divide up," as people are in the habit of saying; we do not wish to throw humanity back into barbarism; on the contrary, we desire to lift the whole of humanity to the highest thinkable plane of civilization. We wish every individual without exception to have a share in the means of culture and education according to his capacities and his needs. This is the loftiest ideal that the human race can set before itself; and this ideal is possible today because it is only now that, in consequence of the thousands of years of progress towards civilization and of the tremendous acquisitions which man has gained in this age of culture; because only now are all the means and possibilities given through which we may realize this ideal condition in the way that the majority of men desire to realize it.
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What are some themes in Mama Day except for Supernatural?
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There is only one other main theme in Mama Day, by Gloria Naylor, than the one of the supernatural. The other main theme in the text is one of cultural heritage.
Normally, one's cultural heritage is either accepted and revered or rejected and ignored. In Mama Day, Cocoa must come to terms with the fact that she cannot escape from her cultural identity and cultural heritage. The fact that the Day family adheres to the traditions of their family's past shows the respect that they have for their own cultural heritage and identity. In over half the book, Cocoa (trying to come to terms with her past through escape) realizes that she must learn to accept and embrace her past in order to find the inner peace she is so desperately searching for.
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Melanin does not have a reputation as a strengthening agent so why these scientists tested it for that purpose is a mystery. From a Nov. 9, 2016 news item on phys.org,
Melanin is the natural molecule in animals' skin, hair and the iris of eyes that gives them color and helps protect them from ultraviolet light. Someday soon, the pigment could be found in unexpected places such as sofa cushions or clothing—but not for its hue. Scientists have found that adding a small amount of melanin to polyurethane makes it far stronger than the material by itself. …
A Nov. 9, 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) press release (also on EurekAlert), which originated the news item, expands on the theme,
From durable foam seating and insulation to glossy coatings and stretchy textiles, polyurethane is used in a huge range of products. Although already fairly versatile, polyurethane still has room for improvement. To make it more durable, scientists have tried adding fillers, including silica, carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide. But these efforts have often led to the enhancement of only one physical property at a time, such as tensile strength — how hard a material can be pulled before it snaps — but not toughness — how much energy it can absorb without breaking. Mingqing Chen, Weifu Dong and colleagues wanted to try a new approach: adding melanin, a biomolecule increasingly used in various other materials.
The researchers found that polyurethane containing just 2 percent melanin, extracted from the ink sacs of cuttlefish, had improved tensile strength and toughness. These properties were enhanced about 10 fold, increasing from 5.6 megapascals and 33 megajoules per cubic meter in plain polyurethane to 51.5 MPa and 413 MJ/m3, respectively. Polyurethane by itself could stretch 770 percent before breaking, whereas the melanin-infused version stretched 1,880 percent before rupturing.
Here's a link to and a citation for the paper,
Superior Performance of Polyurethane Based on Natural Melanin Nanoparticles by Yang Wang, Ting Li, Xuefei Wang, Piming Ma, Huiyu Bai, Weifu Dong, Yi Xie, and Mingqing Chen. Biomacromolecules, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01298 Publication Date (Web): October 17, 2016
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When you were young | spoken word
Once upon a time
we were young.
We were wild things belonging to nature.
We were curious creatures,
creatures of light-
Dreamers and weavers.
When we were young
we were told that the world is at our finger tips
Instead of the truth
which is that worlds lay within them.
That, in our blood, instead of cells
swim stars
belonging to the many galaxies alive in our skin.
That, like the universe,
we are still growing
But we're told to have more
rather than to be more-
Or at least be us
Instead of making ourselves bleed more.
When we were young
we were inventors
who believed in wishes, shooting stars and adventures
We were not yet deprived of the light that shows us who we really are to each other:
Sister, brother
One bound to the other.
We were not yet polluted,
our minds not yet molded.
We were not yet transformed
or shamed
or scolded.
When we were young we didn't question our own beauty,
we saw it in ourselves and in others-
untouched by human cruelty,
our thoughts were free to form and release
with conviction and ease-
our bodies were our own,
not touched and changed to please.
From children to grown-ups
like sinners trying to own up
to the lies and the faults of ancestors passed
instead of choosing our own stories
and forging our own paths.
We are told, over and over
who to be,
who to love
how to think-
as we grow older
we disconnect from one another
eyes outward instead of inward
chanting "we are free!"
while unknowingly being shackled and bound
unable to flee or
even just be.
So please tell me
how my dreams have turned to dust
and my love to rust.
How has my soul turned so cold?
And how did I come to hate my body as I grew old?
How can I go back to the way I once was
without spilling stars like blood
from hating this self and everything she does.
Un-cage and undo me
all that has been done.
Unravel and reveal this self
brighter than the sun.
Wake my sleeping bones
and set this soul on fire.
Feel my heart beat slow and fast
with steadfast desire
for all this earth-side life has to teach and to tell
to my aching spirit
to my wanting flesh
that wraps me up so well-
So I call on you
to take my hand,
and his
and hers,
carry who you can!
Build your castles up
and leave no song unsung.
Live the life you always imagined
when you were young.


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Estate agents in England and Wales reported a 5.6% jump in the number of properties they had on their books during March, according to housing intelligence group Hometrack.
But the number of new buyers registering with estate agents rose by only 3.3% during the month, the first time that increases in potential sellers has outstripped rises in new buyers since January 2009.
The group said the supply of homes on the market had already jumped by 10.2% during the first two months of the year, compared with a rise of only 7% during the whole of 2009.
Richard Donnell, Hometrack's director of research, said: "Talk of improved market conditions and prices returning to near peak levels in some markets is encouraging a growing number of households to sell their properties.
"Many registered buyers are also sellers, and as they gain the confidence to move, so they need to put their homes on the market.
"Overall, it seems that we are moving from a sellers' market back towards something more akin to normal market conditions."
House prices in England and Wales edged ahead by 0.3% during the month, to stand at an average of £158,100, 1.3% higher than a year earlier.
Prices rose in 21% of postcode districts during March, slightly down on February's figure of 25.5%, while they fell in 3.6% of areas.
* Houses and flats for sale: property search
There was a 13% jump in the number of sales agreed during the month, while the average amount of time a property is on the market eased slightly to 8.3 weeks, while sellers are now achieving around 94% of their asking price.
The figures come as the British Bankers' Association reported that both mortgage lending and approvals for house purchase had remained subdued in February, as activity continued to be distorted by the end of the Government's stamp duty holiday.
Hometrack said the housing market recovery continued to be led by London and the South East, with prices in these regions rising by 0.6% and 0.3% respectively during the month.
But at the other end of the scale, Yorkshire and Humberside reported a 0.1% price fall, while the cost of property remained unchanged in the East Midlands and North East.
The average home is currently taking just 5.3 weeks to sell in London and 6.3 weeks in the South East, compared with more than 10 weeks in Wales, the East Midlands and the North West.
Mr Donnell said: "Looking ahead, the differential in performance between regions is here to stay, although further increases in supply are likely to temper the upward pressure on prices, especially if we see slower expansion in new demand for housing in the run-up to the election."
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