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Many people shop for wines to serve with dinner, and usually they have the meal decided and are wanting a wine that pairs well. Oh, and that day in Arcachon where all we did all day was chase down local oysters and drink vintage Champagne… that was a good day as well! It was my 50th birthday and I had the privilege of lunch with Olivier Bernard of Domaine de Chevalier… and if that weren’t enough for one day, a small group of us had dinner at Chateau Margaux with Corinne Mentzelopoulos and her Managing Director, the late Paul Pontallier. Spain is on the bucket list! As for my favorite, that’s tough…in April 2013 at the annual barrel tasting in Bordeaux (UGC event) I had a day that I will never forget. Austria, Switzerland, the Finger Lakes and Long Island, Canada and Washington State. I have been to Italy and France many times, Germany, Portugal, Australia and of course California. Having been with ABC for 25 years, I’ve had the pleasure of traveling quite a bit over the past years. How often do you travel? Where have you been? What has been your favorite trip and why? ![]() The top wines continue to impress, and wines from places like the Sonoma Coast or Coombsville (to name only a few) have built a solid reputation almost overnight! Exciting stuff! She is still in the discovery process, with up and coming regions that were relatively unheard of even ten years ago, gaining AVA status and becoming household names. ![]() The quality of the wines here has never been higher!Ĭalifornia is quite different from Bordeaux. At the same time, Bordeaux has been experiencing a renaissance over the past 20+ years and that is definitely exciting as well. Well, with the wines of Bordeaux, it is history, the region has such a long and storied past relating to the production of top-quality wines. Prior to that I worked for a wine & spirits wholesaler as well as a few retail shops in upstate NY.īordeaux and California are the two areas I focus on, although pretty much anything French or Italian would be found on my table at home! I have worked with wine for 35 years give or take, 25 of those years here at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits. I am now a Sales Manager in the Orlando/Daytona areas. I began my career with ABC at the Winter Park location ( #071) in April 1994, as a Wine Consultant. How many years have you been with ABC? What experience do you have in the world of wine? It wowed our expert team with its freshness, perfect balance and expressive aromas. The 2017 Gueguen Rosé was the best 100% Pinot Noir Rosé ever tasted by our wine committee. Some of my favorite finds are in the French Rosé category, including Château Trians Provence Rosé and Domaine Gueguen Bourgogne Pinot Noir Rosé. I have had a part in finding almost all of our French Sourced and Certified wines. What wines have you discovered while traveling that are now in our Sourced and Certified Collection? If it runs away from us, serve with white.” Wine Cooperatives should be your next choice for quality and value.ĭo you have a particular rule of thumb when it comes to pairing wine with food? I would also say in order of priority, look for these terms on labels: estate, domain, chateau. What are your top three tips for picking out a good wine?ĭon’t be afraid to ask questions and get help from the experts. What do you look for in a wine when shopping yourself? I visit every year with ABC looking for new wines to add to our Sourced and Certified Collection. What do you find most fascinating about the region you specialize in?įrance is the original birthplace of modern-day classic wines and France still is the source for world’s greatest wines. I have been working in the wine industry for nearly 30 years and I am also a Court of Master Sommelier, Level 2. I am currently a Sales Manager for ABC Fine Wine & Spirits specializing in French wines. ![]() What is your current position at ABC Fine Wine & Spirits? What is your experience in the world of wine? Once full, the manifest accounted for just over 2200 people, more than a third of them crew. The ship rolled off a drydock in Northern Ireland in early 1912 and stopped to make pick-ups in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before turning west for New York. None of these amenities turned out to matter for long. The highest price ticket on the Titanic, just north of $60,000 in today’s dollars, granted a passenger access to an elite dining room, oak-paneled meeting rooms, a Turkish bath, a salt-water swimming pool, enormous bay windows and a roving orchestra. They were designed to ferry the rich, famous and well-connected across the Atlantic in ornate cabins with elegant Victorian amenities. Built over three years, it was a triplet, designed by the White Star Line with two sister ships, the Olympic (1911) and the slightly larger Britannic (1915). It would be the largest and most luxurious passenger liner ever to float. That steamship, the Titanic, was conceived with a competitive ambition for size and opulence. It would tower over the largest steamship ever conceived, which was also formed in that summer of 1909. Around too briefly to have a name, this iceberg was more than two miles wide and one hundred feet tall at its birth, big enough to dwarf the Colosseum in Rome and all the pyramids put together, at least before it started melting. But it was one particular iceberg that fell in the summer of 1909 that would drift toward infamy. Ice weakens as it nears the coast, because every day, particularly in the summer, enormous walls of ice flake off the glacier and fall into the ocean. 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They ventured into off the wall ventures, from the ill-fated Apple boutique, to their commercially unsuccessful film, ‘Magical Mystery Tour.’ Tensions inevitably exacerbated the existing personal and creative conflicts within the band.Ĭreative Differences George Harrison emerged as a profoundly talented songwriter to challenge the go-to songwriting partnership that made the Beatles famous, via Wikimedia Commons Without Brian Epstein and the money generated by live performances The Beatles faced serious money problems. Lennon, Harrison, and Ringo wanted the manager of the Rolling Stones, Allen Klein to take over, while Paul McCartney favored his soon-to-be wife Linda’s father to assume responsibility. ![]() However, Brian Epstein’s death in 1967 left the Beatles without their manager – a charismatic figure that handled their finances, and more importantly, their egos. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ (1967) changed the musical landscape forever and secured The Beatle’s status as counter-cultural icons. The plan was to focus on recording and the results were momentous. In 1966, The Beatles finally decided to stop performing live after years of relentless touring. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by Linda McCartney, 1967, via Victoria & Albert Museum, London Money Problems The Beatles at Brian Epstein’s home in Belgravia at the launch of Sgt. 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![]() It runs exactly the same Nokia Series 30+ software, so it does everything the new 3310 does plus you get a front-facing camera. And if you really, really want a basic phone - a don't-mind-losing "festival phone," for example, though I'm sure this use case is just an urban myth - then grab a Nokia 216 from Carphone Warehouse for £29. You can buy smartphones for that kind of money - not attractive, powerful devices running the latest version of Android, but fully fledged smartphones from the likes of Alcatel, ZTE and Archos all the same. The phone launches in the UK today for £50, or roughly $65. What's more, the new 3310 is expensive for what it is. And the only SMS messages I receive are takeaway-restaurant spam, so prepare to be completely unaware of what's going on in your group IM chats. IPhones simply don't have that functionality these days. I quickly learned I couldn't copy my Google contacts onto my SIM card so the 3310 could read them. No WhatsApp or Instagram or Tinder or Spotify or YouTube. ![]() There's no loading up Google Maps to navigate an unfamiliar part of town, or checking train times. It's small and light, colorful and cute, but think about all the apps you use on a daily basis. All HMD had to do was recycle the 3310 name, and you've got people like me writing amusing headlines and people like you excitedly sharing memories from your old 3310 days in Facebook shares.īut having used the new 3310 as my primary phone for the best part of a week, I'm not all that interested in pseudo-reliving the Nokia heydays. There's nothing like a retro product to whip the internet into a frenzy. I almost understand why the new 3310 ended up being the biggest announcement at this year's Mobile World Congress conference. Worse yet, there's no ringtone creator, which was part musical instrument, part game, and the perfect way to wind down after an intense Snake session on the school bus.Īll things considered, I really have no clue who HMD Global is making this phone for, and for what reason anyone would legitimately buy one. It's colorful and has levels, power-ups and a choice of control schemes (I don't like change). Īlso, there's some strange new abomination of Snake made by Gameloft that's barely recognizable from the semi-infinite arcade game of old. Now you've only four colors to choose from: yellow, red, blue and gray. Back then, a couple of bucks would buy you a shiny metallic peach number with spring-loaded keypad cover and, naturally, infinite cool points. How dare HMD even call this a 3310 when you can't replace the front and back shells? The scope for customization was one of the best things about the old model. In various ways, the new 3310 harks back to simpler times, but it also misremembers some important details. Remember when your phone would last a whole week without needing to be recharged? Or when your phone wouldn't shatter into uselessness at the mere suggestion of a 3-foot drop? How about the feeling of real feedback you only get with the glorious click of physical buttons? On a related note, predictive text is awfully accurate considering one key press can be any of three or four letters - not that I want to go back to the pre-full keyboard days. It's the worst, and a sobering reminder of everything we take for granted in the 4G smartphone era.īut it works both ways, because the new 3310 embodies some of the user-friendly things we've long forgotten about. Doing anything online is long-winded and frustrating, however, because you're forever waiting on the sluggish 2.5G connection (there's no WiFi to speak of, unfortunately). You can still check your Gmail at a push, and there are simple apps available for Twitter, Facebook and Facebook Messenger that scale appropriately to the conservative resolution. You've got the basic Opera Mini WAP browser for web surfing, though most websites are a mess of unreadable text as they try to render on the tiny display. Having had no experience with feature phones for as long as I can remember, I'm relatively impressed with everything the new 3310 is capable of. Elaborate, I know, but it works.Įven some of the simplest features on the new 3310 would've looked alien on a phone at the turn of the millennium, like the loudspeaker and 3.5mm headphone jack, let alone Bluetooth support for pairing wireless headphones and speakers. But there are websites that let you easily convert YouTube videos in 3GP format, which you can then bung onto a microSD card - yep, the new 3310 has a microSD slot - and watch through the player. The device has a video player, too, which doesn't immediately make sense, besides playing back clips recorded through the 2MP camera. Then there's the FM radio and MP3 player, MP3 ringtone support, voice note recorder, calendar and weather apps. ![]() In this shot, Con Hall is pretty obvious. Not to be outdone, the re-makers of Robocop chose the handsome Donnelly Centre to stand in for “Detroit” police headquarters. You might also recognize UTSC’s Meeting Place as a futuristic train terminal. Knox College appears in an extensive sequence with stars Bryan Cranston and Colin Farrell. Just because this sci-fi remake takes place in the future doesn’t mean there isn’t a role for U of T’s historic architecture. The cutesy-pie characters in this predictable romantic comedy study at the EJ Pratt Library, walk out of the Earth Sciences Building and even hang out at the cafe at Sid Smith. The characters also have a coffee at Diabolos’ Cafe. The University College quad is ground zero, however, with shots inside and out and in front of the Sir Daniel Wilson residence. This slasher flick in which people die in ways described by urban legends seems to cover the entire downtown campus, with scenes at Victoria, Knox and the Rotman School. At the brighter end of the campus’s architectural spectrum, there’s also a glimpse of those cool pods in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. George campus has gotten its 15 minutes, too! Here Robarts Library plays a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic, mega-prison. With its brutalist concrete architecture, U of T Scarborough (in the movie called “The University of Greater Toronto”), fits in perfectly.īrutalist architecture on the St. This is one of the few movies filmed in Toronto that’s actually set here, but it’s a dark, dehumanizing version of the city. Tom Cruise has been there too - in one of the most successful movies to emerge from the early days of Hollywood North. In one scene, actor Edward Norton, disguised as a delivery man, infiltrates the fictional Culver University, where he runs into former Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno.Įdward Norton is not the biggest star ever to wander the halls of Knox College. If there’s one location on the downtown campus that gets more screen time than the neo-Gothic facade of University College, it’s Knox College. Even the movie’s poster features the cast on the steps of University College. George Campus but PCU makes great use of the school - with clear shots of Victoria University, Philosophers Walk and front campus. It’s certainly not the best movie ever filmed on the St. The “Skulls” meet inside the Croft Chapter House, but Victoria University and Knox College also have starring roles. Showing that it doesn’t take sides in longstanding Ivy League rivalries, U of T plays a (very) thinly disguised version of Yale in this tale of a secret university society. Several campus locations were used, but the easiest to spot are actress Minnie Driver’s residence, shot at the Whitney Hall residences at University College, and the MIT lecture hall, shot at the McLennan Physical Laboratories. ![]() U of T fills in for MIT and Harvard in this Oscar-winning drama about a math prodigy. Here are just a few of films starring one or more of the university’s three campuses: But if they gave out an Academy Award for most popular film location, U of T would definitely get a nod. As far as we can tell, only one Oscar-winning movie has ever been filmed at U of T. ![]() ![]() It’s not that he was sending me sexy pictures and vice versa, I swear…but when I first saw him, I said, ‘I am marrying this guy’. We were just sending messages, talking about life and existential issues,” the “Living La Vida Loca” singer told the Associated Press in 2018. “I contacted him, and we talked for six months. However, they kept their relationship old-fashioned for the first six months. Ricky Martin met husband Jwan Yosef in a very modern way: online. They married in Italy in September 2014 where their love still endures. The duo welcomed twins Harper Grace and Gideon Scott in October 2010 (and if you follow them on social media, they are Halloween costume family goals). We go out together all the time … I never felt it was an obligation for me to hold pinkies down the red carpet or anything.” I’ve been dating the same guy for three years and our families know. My life had been relatively open in my world. star came out and later told Ellen DeGeneres (via People), “I’m not a very scandalous person and so I didn’t want to have to respond to some story … I just made a statement and sort of squashed the fires. They met on a street corner in 2004, but Harris was not out to the public, so their relationship stayed off fans’ radar. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s romantic beginnings are a very New York story. Image Credit: Fairchild Archive/Penske Media. There are so many romantic moments that will have you grabbing for tissues - and don’t miss who found the love of their life on the disco dance floor in the ’90s at a New York City nightclub. David is the glue that holds our family together, the constant provider of meals and compassion, and the funniest, most loving man I know.” Neil Patrick Harris raved about his husband, David Burtka, in 2021, writing on Instagram, “I’m simply amazed by this awesome man. Some couples prefer to keep their relationship out of the limelight, like Magic Mike‘s Matt Bomer and Simon Halls, but other celebrities radiate sunshine when talking about their significant others on social media. “I love how I can be unapologetically myself and I love that he loves me unconditionally for it,” he told People in 2020. Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett loves gushing about his husband, Jaymes Vaughan, as a newlywed. was legalized just over seven years ago, so it is a major thing for the LGBTQ+ stars to be able to discuss their love stories with their fans and the public. For many gay couples, being able to be together openly and walk down the aisle is a big deal. ![]() This means there are higher volumes of diluted “dilbit” crude squeezing through an export network already pumping flat out.īut several important factors have changed, including the expansion of key North American refiners that have invested billions of dollars in consuming more Canadian heavy crude. TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which was proposed more than five years ago to help relieve congestion, has been repeatedly delayed by the Obama Administration amid fierce environmental opposition.Ĭongestion can be worse during cold weather, which makes oil sands bitumen even more viscous than usual and forces producers to blend in a higher proportion per barrel of ultra-light oil known as condensate so the bitumen can be shipped through pipelines, according to traders. ![]() Seasonal discounts are exacerbated by congestion on Canadian export pipelines that can leave crude bottlenecked in Alberta, sparking wild price swings. That was the narrowest differential since July 2013. Thus far, Canadian crude is holding up well around $13.50 per barrel under WTI, which fetched about $93 a barrel on Monday. At around $79 per barrel, the absolute price in Canada is getting nearer the break-even cost for major new developments. oil tumbled to its lowest prices in nearly two years this month, a sudden slump in prices this winter would be particularly unwelcome. With oil sands production at just under 2 million barrels per day, each $1 increase in the discount equates to some $2 million a day in lost revenues for producers like Cenovus Energy and Suncor Energy, and wipes billions of dollars a year off Alberta government revenues.Īfter U.S. benchmark WTI crude, far cheaper than the typical discount of around $20 per barrel during the rest of the year. In recent winters, the price of Western Canada Select (WCS) heavy blend crude has fallen to fetch between $33 and $42 per barrel less than the U.S. But just a small volume of such shipments could help avoid the short-term supply overhangs that have burdened the market for years. Shipping crude by rail can be up to twice as expensive as by pipeline, roughly $14-$21 per barrel to the Gulf Coast. |
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