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Home	Military Aviation	U.S. AIR FORCE BUYS NEXT LOT OF KC-46A PEGASUS TANKERS
U.S. AIR FORCE BUYS NEXT LOT OF KC-46A PEGASUS TANKERS
by Dario Leone Jan 31 2017
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The KC-46A is the first phase of a 3-phase effort to replace the USAF aging tanker fleet
On Jan. 27, 2017 the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded a $2.1 billion contract to Boeing for the third Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) lot of KC-46A Pegasus tankers.
As explained by 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs in the article AF buys next lot of Pegasus tankers, this award includes 15 aircraft and associated spare parts. The first two production lots for seven and 12 aircraft respectively were awarded in Aug. 2016. This award brings the total number of tankers purchased by the Air Force to 34.
"This program is moving forward at a steady rate," said Brig. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, the program executive officer for tankers. "We are getting aircraft on contract and moving them down the production line, meeting test requirements, and preparing for 'iron on the ramp'."
The first aircraft delivery is scheduled for McConnell Air Force Base (AFB), Kansas, which is the first active duty Air Force operating location (OL) for the Pegasus. That delivery will be followed by deliveries to Altus AFB, Oklahoma, the Pegasus training location, and Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, the second OL.
"Placing an order for another 15 aircraft is an important milestone for the KC-46 program," said Col. John Newberry, the KC-46 System Program manager. "I know the warfighter is excited about bringing this next generation capability into the inventory."
The KC-46A is the first phase of a 3-phase effort to replace the USAF aging tanker fleet. With more refueling capacity and enhanced capabilities, improved efficiency and increased capabilities for cargo and aeromedical evacuation, the KC-46A will provide aerial refueling support to the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps as well as allied nation coalition force aircraft.
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If that doesn't work, I'd recommend opening a help desk ticket.
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Yes, a good reminder. I've been way too busy, and need to slow down.
Slowing down can be so hard to do, can't it? Especially at this time of year.
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The night I jilted Gloria Steinem
Posted July 30, 2012 by Jason Cochran (@JasCochran) & filed under Blog.
Gloria Steinem and David Bale
I don't have many regrets in my life, and I'm thankful for that. But I have one enormous one, and if I could take it back, I would. However, like all regrets, it is indelible.
I was a young reporter for Entertainment Weekly, spending my days jockeying for space in cubicles left empty by vacationing assistants and hoping I could fly under the radar long enough to be noticed and get a promotion that would make my parents proud. Whenever I wasn't fact-checking, I spent my time hunting for the clever story angles that were too big for the staff writers, who were handed the big movie star feature interviews the way raw fish is hand-fed to Shamu.
Trawling one day over the Usenet message boards — the Internet's messy afterbirth, soon to be tidied up — I noticed a mostly unknown young British actor named Christian Bale had a disproportionately large number of message threads devoted to him. Mel Gibson, three; Chris O'Donnell, two. But Christian Bale had eight. I had discovered the first male Hollywood actor with a major online following.
There was a precedent to my interest. I had first seen Christian in 1987's lesser-known Steven Speilberg movie Empire of the Sun, in which he played a young J.G. Ballard separated from his parents in China in World War Two. I saw it five times at the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale. (I was one of those kids who saw mostly serious movies and loved them). I memorized every moment, and even savored the several false climaxes that, I now recognize, plagued both it and The Color Purple. In my middle teens, not much older than he was, I had been moved by Bale's mid-film monologue in which he realized with horror that he could no longer remember what his own mother looked like. Now I was entering adulthood as a peon, albeit powerfully placed at a national magazine where people quickly returned my calls without knowing I dined nightly on Kraft Macaroni and Cheese mixed with hot dog bits.
I decided to set myself apart in my adult life by writing an article about Christian Bale, who was setting himself apart in his. But he didn't have a PR person. He only had a manager. I soon discovered the trouble when I telephoned it. I was told that Christian didn't want to grant interviews. Not much has changed there. He was and is rightfully suspicious.
His management, it turned out, was his own father, David Bale, an ambitious paternal Svengali who had tenaciously shepherded Christian from child actor to young adult and had moved from Britain to Hollywood with his son to help him gain enough velocity to join the freeway of the Hollywood Industry. And in that first telephone conversation, David declined, on his son's behalf, to give an interview.
But the call wound up lasting an hour anyway. David, who was a hulking 6′ 5″ and a powerfully charismatic bon vivant, had a superhuman ability to make friends. David must have sensed right away that he was talking to a greenhorn, maybe even a soft target. With him, everything was fervently felt, and he could turn a simple rebuff of a national magazine journalist into a meandering discussion about corporate domination, oil company malfeasance, green issues, and animal rights.
For months, David and I would chat during my downtime at the magazine. The man was so loquacious I sometimes wondered how he got things done. I think his life lost a little meaning if he wasn't being instructive or supportive to someone. Fortunately, I needed his banter and his support. We had rangy discussions about Naomi Klein and apartheid and his negotiations with Charlton Heston and the Illuminati. Each time, David would ask after my family. He would talk carefully and proudly about his, including his daughter Louise. He hinted about the projects that Christian was nosing around (courting Terrence Malick or Mary Harron), or about the Hollywood phonies who made his job a minefield of empty promises, or his horror that a certain young actress he knew as a girl had taken up with a notorious Hollywood lothario. He viewed industry puffery through slitted eyes even as he mastered it. Working at an entertainment magazine, I could identify.
I now suspect he was testing me. He'd drop sizzling little nuggets of gossip, and when he didn't see them surface the press, he knew I wasn't like all the others and I gained his trust. It was like Dian Fossey with the gorillas (he was on the board of her fund). I was the gorilla.
His faith was well placed. I have never been a bloodthirsty journalist. In J-school, I would make fun of the "fire truck chasers" who would do anything to publish a story. I was never sleazy. I have never felt that conquest was half as rewarding as learning. For me, humanity was always paramount, even at Paramount, and David, at least to me, was humane beyond categorization. He was a reminder of the soulful shadow story going on beneath the brazen stories we read on the printed page.
I quickly began to see David as a sort of mentor for counterculture thought, or as a father figure at the end of the phone line. We suggested books to each other, and he took a frying pan to Hollywood fakery in gleeful, colorful diatribes that I admired as deeply transgressive for someone in the thick of the business. Our early industry talk melted away and we never talked about Christian anymore. I didn't particularly care since there were so many more interesting things to talk about; the world was stuffed with injustices to rail against and he was a born raconteur.
Yet despite his unabashed earnestness, I could never fully suppress the worry that Christian's online following was a cleverly faked public relations orchestration designed to catch someone's attention. Years later, it came out that the president of Christian's fan club, Harrison Cheung, inflated much of the Web adoration and later became his hanger-on and de facto personal assistant. (This year, validating Christian's inherent mistrust, he wrote an unpleasant tell-all, Christian Bale: The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman. I have not read it.) Maybe David was much more controlling with his son's career than he was with our friendship. But I was alert to it.
Finally, in the fall of 1996, the gates finally opened and I was granted an interview with Christian. We talked about his career goals and his bemusement about his fans as he listened to Donovan records in his bedroom. It was fine but I'm sure he hated it, and I hated being the symbol of everything he was suspicious of. The interview was the fulfillment of a contract of who we both had somewhat reluctantly signed up to be.
When the resulting two-page spread, "Christian Coalition," was published on October 11, 1996, David snapped up boxfuls of issues to distribute to studio heads. He understood the Hollywood game: that everyone in the business was impressionable and buzz was as bankable as a high Q rating. He used it to pitch Christian for bigger roles, and sure enough, soon other publications were picking up on my story. They haven't really stopped.
To this day, Christian is called a cult figure on the Internet, something that isn't really true anymore, because one day I was idly nosing around online, hungry for something to give me my own start. I thought of the story, I lobbied my editors, and I sought the sources. Bale was dubbed "The King of the World Wide Web" because I wanted to talk to the actor I had admired at my multiplex. Human connection is such a wispy thing.
After my story came out, David didn't drop me the way I feared he might. We remained close. I visited him at the family's Manhattan Beach home. Now he was the gorilla and I was Dian Fossey, because now that I had outlived my journalistic usefulness and helped put Christian on the short casting lists, I waited for him to drift away. Instead, he bonded tighter and industry talk nearly vanished from our discussions. He remained my friend and built on my trust in him, asking after my mother and coaching me on the choices I was making in my life in New York. I had proved myself more than a prying cannibal of an entertainment reporter, and he continued to prove himself a discreet and willing mentor despite the fact the original objective of our meeting had been consummated.
David, perhaps too much of a dreamer, believed that movies were necessary. Or so he said. I always wondered how he could justify devoting himself to an industry that was so abjectly mercenary when he himself believed in the greater good, in taking care of the poorest of us, in toppling the tyrannical elite. But that was it: People needed dreams, he said, and films returned us to our humanity. They gave us something noble to gaze upon. His vocal idealism likely shaped Christian's choice in high-art roles, which are never mindless and pandering. I sometimes suspected a personality as persuasive as David Bale's could be better used as a modern-day Ralph Nader or Rachel Carson, but for reasons of his own, including some health issues and his flair for the fanciful, he was content to remain in his beach house outside L.A. and pour his energies into boosting his son up the million-dollar Hollywood ladder.
In early 1998, feeling burned out from my bottom-rung role at EW, I decided to take a long break and backpack around the world for an undetermined length of time that wound up being nearly two years. I surprised myself by feeling the urgent need to obtain David's blessing. Would quitting my job be a mistake? Would I not be destroying my prospects?
"You have to do it" he told me. Cheerleading promising young people had become his forte. "It will transform your life. You will be doing something that few Americans ever do." He told me to I had to seize this chance to live. He not only gave his blessing, but he smoothed the way with numbers and names. He gave me contact information of friends in his native South Africa, he sent me the number of his daughter in London, he insisted I stay in his favorite hotels in Lucca and Wenceslas Square although I could only afford hostels.
I went, but I didn't call any of David's contacts during those two years. Somehow I didn't believe that the connection could be authentic. My connection with his family had started when I was a mere audience member on the wrong side of a movie screen. My service to him had been rendered in the pages of EW. Despite everything, I didn't trust that I entirely deserved his outpouring of friendship. I remained, in a sense, as guarded as his son was with the press.
Looking back, I see now, my insularity was a warning that I was going to make a terrible mistake in accepting love as it was offered to me.
David's advice was correct. When I returned from my trip, I was qualified to become a travel writer, and a new mentor, Arthur Frommer, took me under his wing. In no small way, David Bale gave me the courage to be the person I have been for the past 14 years. He probably wouldn't like the pomposity of that credit, though, believing so strongly that I was smart and self-sufficient, so let's revise that to say his support helped me believe I could do my own thing and still flourish.
Weeks after I returned from my trip, David was in New York City, and we had coffee and a long talk at the French Roast in Greenwich Village. I remember the afternoon distinctly because Stephen Dorff, who at the time was one of Christian's main industry rivals, was sitting unaware on the other side of the room, and we never acknowledged him.
David, eager and alive as always, couldn't stop fidgeting. He told me that he was going on a first date that night, and that he needed my advice.
"I need to hire a car," he explained. "And I don't know how to do that in New York."
"Why can't you get a taxi for her?" I asked. I thought he was probably just being too L.A.
"I can't get a cab. Not for her," he said. "You see, she's the most fantastic, most incredible woman I've ever met. She's sexy and brilliant and I'm a schoolboy around her."
"I can't get a taxi for this woman. Not for her. It has to be a car, with a driver."
I loved the idea of my friend David getting laid. I loved seeing him destroyed by a crush. I wanted to help. But I wasn't much evolved from that Mac and Cheese greenhorn he trusted a few years before. "Well, who is it?"
"I'm nervous as hell. And women do not make me nervous."
"All right. David! Don't be nervous. You're great! Who is it?"
"It's Gloria Steinem."
In the movie version of this moment, I freeze in place with my café au lait held aloft and I swallow hard.
To me, this was as outlandish as someone going on a date with the moon. But apparently, the two of them had met at a party in L.A., if memory serves, for The Ark Trust (which David helped build and is now a part of the Humane Society), and David was smitten. He had set his sights on ONE OF THE MOST LEGENDARY WOMEN OF OUR AGE.
I am horrified to say that I suggested he hire Carmel Car Service for Gloria Steinem, as if he was just catching a flight at LaGuardia. "Don't be nervous. She takes shits, just like you!" I said. I assume, which is to say I fantasize, that his choice in a crappy car service, foisted upon him by me, seduced Gloria Steinem with its brutal normalness. But I know David's charisma was more potent than my proletarian choices.
Reader, he married her. Not husband-and-wife married, which I agree is patriarchal, but partner-married. My friend was the only man in the world who proved worthy of Gloria. Fucking. Steinem.
After that, he lived much of the time in New York, but by that time I was so busy traveling for Arthur Frommer at Budget Travel magazine that I didn't get to talk to him much.
One night in 2002, I was staying in the Hotel Ibis on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh when my cell phone rang. It was David.
"Why don't you come to dinner with Gloria and I?" he said. "It will just be a few of us and we'd love to have you."
You have already guessed my response. Here comes my biggest regret. I constantly relive it.
I didn't trust my place. My mind's eye saw the screen of Empire of the Sun in a Fort Lauderdale multiplex and refused to integrate the reality of his friendship in my life. I didn't believe the connection could be as real as me having dinner with Gloria Steinem and David. I caved to unworthiness. I made excuses. I said I wasn't sure I could come.
I claimed I was too busy doing some bullshit that I can't remember now. I hedged. I thought the invitation would come again after my self-esteem had steeled itself and I could imagine myself worthy of Gloria Steinem's company.
But it didn't. Soon afterward, David got sick: brain lymphoma. He died the next year.
I missed my chance. I missed my chance to support him. I missed the chance to bridge the profound value of his mentorship with my adult life. I missed the chance to tell him just what he had done for me.
I missed the chance to become friends with Gloria Steinem, someone who appreciated him as I did. I was important to him, and she was important to him, and he wanted us to meet. And I hid.
I missed so much. Most of all, I miss my friend. I let him down. He never did that to me.
As with most regrets, my cowardly decision is steeped in shame and in some pretty heavy metaphysical symbolism about how I view my position in this world. Feeling worthy is a mighty difficult challenge. I'm beginning to feel it demands pharmaceuticals before it can be fully achieved.
I'm glad that I don't have many regrets, because the one I have is pretty solid. That I hid from a friend, that I thought myself unworthy, that I avoided the chance to befriend a legend… This regret is big enough to be the only one I ever have.
David Bale, imperfect as he was, gave me many things that I never properly thanked him for. His support helped me define my life. But his biggest lesson was not to hide when I am invited to live.
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19 Responses to "The night I jilted Gloria Steinem"
Andrea Chalupa July 30th, 2012
This is an amazing story and lesson. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Cristina July 30th, 2012
Startlingly beautiful… and you are worthy of every ounce of love that is presented to you. Embrace your blessings. Your writing, your integrity, and your candor is a blessing to me.
Jeff Kurtti July 30th, 2012
Insightful, informative, bittersweet and beautifully written.
That's Kentertainment! July 30th, 2012
The honesty and tenderness it took to tell this story is remarkable. Congrats. And don't worry too much…life-altering moments happen for a reason, even if it is to tell a cautionary-tale to others about not seizing the moment and the after-effects of that decision. Excellent work.
Holly July 30th, 2012
That is an incredible story. I hope that Gloria Steinem reads it and will celebrate your love of a special man.
Jason Cochran July 31st, 2012
Holly, I did send a note through her representatives a few years after David died, but I didn't tell her this story. I simply told her what was most important: what David had meant to me personally. She was generous enough to send me an email to thank me. But I did not meet her, and I especially did not meet her in the easy company of my friend. That chance will never come again.
Holly Rosen Fink July 31st, 2012
If I had the chance to meet Gloria Steinem, I might have done the same thing. She's such a force of life. I saw her at a book signing at Shakespeare & Company on the Upper West Side in the 1990s and was beside myself. David sounded like an amazing person, which I think he must have passed onto his son, who sounds very special himself (in light of the Aurora shootings and his going down to be with the victims).
Jennifer Jaff July 31st, 2012
As another one of David's friends, i thank you for writing this. For a moment, David was alive again. I am most grateful. And I will send this to Gloria, too. Don't be surprised if your phone rings and you hear that unique voice.
JamesJames August 7th, 2012
"Missed out on making friends with Gloria Steinem…" You didn't miss out on anything.
"Gloria Steinem is a force of life…" How can you be for abortion and a "force of life" at the same time?
Jason Cochran August 7th, 2012
Your politics are not the subject of this post, nor do I think we will ever attain peace together if we are so willing to generalize people who disagree with us.
Holly Rosen Fink August 7th, 2012
In my world and lifetime, Gloria Steinem is just as I stated, nothing less.
cazbaz August 15th, 2012
This second right now, you are my favourite person in the whole world. For several reasons this resonates for me and I feel this story will stay with me a long, long time. Thank you.
Jane.Jago July 21st, 2013
I stumbled upon your story and it moved me profoundly. I think worthiness is something we all struggle with.
After reading I am determined not to let myself off the hook when I want to 'hide' from receiving love in all its forms.
( I read only yesterday that Steve McQueen resisted attending the official party to wrap his film Papillion because he was phased by the presence of certain notables he thought intellectually intimidating, even though anyone at the party would most likely be in awe of, and rendered speechless by McQueen himself.)
Theresa Maska January 22nd, 2016
I just stumbled upon your site quite by accident, and just finished reading your blog post. I found it very moving. It reminded me that we should all be more "in the moment" when making a decision or what we feel is an "off hand" comment. I don't think anyone of us realize how our words can affect people, and we all say and do things without thinking…then something happens and we can never change that moment.
I hope you were able to at the very least maintain your friendship with Christian….and try not to beat yourself up for what happened. You said and did what you did because that was the best you knew how to do at the time. None of us are born knowing "everything." Life is one long "classroom" where we learn (hopefully) and grow to be better each and everyday. Thank you so much for sharing this episode from your life. I
Ted Fay May 28th, 2016
Jason, I don't think it's an understatement to say you have written my heart about David. We met over business, but he quickly became a parental, mentoring genuine friend when he learned that my mom had recently died of cancer. We became very close, with long talks on the phone, at the house, over dinner, or driving up the coast for no reason other than because it was a great venue for deep conversation. Yet as Christian's career exploded, I found myself distancing myself from the family – such a wonderful, genuine family – because I didn't want them to think I was only their friend because of Christian's success or fame. I stopped calling. I stopped visiting. I stopped taking the initiative that genuine friends take to stay involved in each other's lives. Yet David never stopped calling – including every birthday without fail. When Louise called me to tell me David had passed, I felt a profound sense of loss, not just for Louise and the family, but for my friend, and the sense that in some ways I'd allowed my fears of being unworthy of his friendship to become in a way a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. I still very much miss him. He wasn't flawless – none of us are – but he was a rare gem of a human being.
Eileen Marsh November 18th, 2016
I became freinds with David Bale in the 1970's when Christian, Louise and Sharon were very young. Trying against the odds to make it in the world of art, David and his wife encouraged me not to give up and not only that, helped me find interviews and paid for me to see a private specialist in relation to an undiagnosed illness.
I initially went to their home as a babysitter, but soon found myself discussing the cosmos, the rights of animals and the belief in ethereal beings.
When I met my husband to be, I took him round to meet the Bale family. My partner Roger, was immediately surrounded by the Bale's large family of cats who proceeded to lie and roll around on their guest! David instantly took this to be a good omen saying Roger was most definitely a sound human being as the cats were never wrong.
David was a lovely man and even long after his passing and those early days, he has continued to inspired me throughout my life.
Elisabeth Timmons January 22nd, 2017
Thanks for the wonderful and touching story. I did meet Gloria Steinem once in NYC in the early 90's when I was teaching at Rutgers. She is / was extraordinary and I am sure your regret over your missed chance is insufferable. I admired her writing, especially how she expressed her hardships in Toledo.
Kushlani Jayasinha September 20th, 2017
I am reading Gloria Steinem's – Revolution from within. Reason how I got to this Blog. What an amazing story. I dearly wish you two will meet. How do people move others, so much, with words? I think it's the authenticity of the voice and the wisdom that shines through. Either way, Thank you!


The Twin Lakes Condos of Stuart FL is located at 6531 SE Federal Highway in South Stuart, just north of the edge of Hobe Sound. There are just over 280 units in Twin Lakes. These condos were first built in 1973 through 1979 with the last phase having been completed in 1989. All condos are 2 bedroom two bathroom units in two story buildings. Interior square footage range from 977 up to 1,182.
One portion of this community is a 55 an over while the other is open to all ages. Both phases will accept one small pet. There is a community pool, clubhouse, tennis courts, shuffleboard courts and a pleasant area for those wishing to hike around the lakes.
The current Condo Association fees are $307.00 a month (as of March 2019) and these fees cover Building Insurance, Cable, Common Areas, Lawn Care, Maintenance Exterior, Manager, Master Antenna/TV, Pest Control, Pool Service, Reserve Funds and Trash Removal.
Children in the all ages section of twin Lakes attend Port Salerno Elementary School, Murray Middle School, and South Fork High School.
There is ample reserved and guest parking and commercial vehicles, trucks and RV's are not permitted. Rentals are OK with some restrictions.


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RIP: JONATHAN WINTERS
The world of comedy has lost a legend.
Jonathan Winters, who was known for his improv work that inspired many a contemporary stand-up comic including Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and others, has died. He was 87. Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says Winters died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, reports AP. A note on his website adds, "Rest in Peace, Mr. Winters."
Winters' career began when he won a talent contest in Dayton, Ohio, which led to radio gigs and appearances at comedy clubs, along with comedy albums.
He was a favorite guest on the late night TV circuit for decades, often appearing with Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Steve Allen. And he often performed in character. One one of his best known was Maude Frickert, an old lady with a quick and acid wit. He had his own TV show in the 1950s.
Winters also appeared in nearly 50 movies, including a particularly notable role in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
A devotee of Groucho Marx and Laurel and Hardy, Winters and his free-for-all brand of humor inspired Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Tracey Ullman and Lily Tomlin, among others. But Williams and Carrey are his best-known followers.
Winters, who battled alcoholism and depression for years, was introduced to millions of new fans in 1981 as the son of Williams' goofball alien and his earthling wife in the final season of ABC's "Mork and Mindy." The two often strayed from the script. Said Williams: "The best stuff was before the cameras were on, when he was open and free to create. ... Jonathan would just blow the doors off."
Winters' only Emmy was for best-supporting actor for playing Randy Quaid's father in the sitcom "Davis Rules" (1991). He was nominated again in 2003 as outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for an appearance on "Life With Bonnie."
He also won two Grammys: One for his work on "The Little Prince" album in 1975 another for his "Crank Calls" comedy album in 1996. He also won the Kennedy Center's second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
Winters was sought out in later years for his changeling voice and he contributed to numerous cartoons and animated films. Fittingly, he played three characters in the The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle movie in 2000.
"These voices are always screaming to get out," he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that year. "They follow me around pretty much all day and night."
Winters had made television history in 1956, when RCA broadcast the first public demonstration of color videotape on "The Jonathan Winters Show." Winters quickly realized the possibilities, author David Hajdu wrote in The New York Times in 2006. He soon used video technology "to appear as two characters, bantering back and forth, seemingly in the studio at the same time. You could say he invented the video stunt."
He continued to work up until the end, providing the voice of Papa Smurf in the movie Smurfs (2011) and its sequel due in theaters this summer.
Eileen Schauder Winters, his wife of more than 60 years, died on Jan. 11, 2009. She fought breast cancer for nearly 20 years. Jonathan is survived by two children and five grandchildren. Rest in peace funny man...
Posted by David Lobosco at 10:44 AM
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Its not to hard to learn about wine and it has rewards. Being able to tell a bargain wine from a cheap wine that is ordinary is a very comfortable feeling and over a lifetimes of buying you can save a large sum of money and this applies in restaurants as well as bottle shops. So it is worth it to press on. From the first tasting you discovered that sight, aroma and taste all work with the brain to produce your �impression� of the wine. Plus how easily it is to be influenced and swayed off course which means you have to stay focused and disciplined.
Add to those senses already discussed, hearing, talking and writing and you�ve got all the tools needed to understand this tasting business. A famous wine judge who had moved to the chairman�s role found a very simple way to steer the desired outcome in the direction he wanted. In a loud voice he would proclaim that �wine number 35 is outstanding� and he hoped the judges agreed. Naturally we all went back to our work sheets and furiously rubbed out the pathetic score we had given the wine and marked it up to high silver. So it is with any tasting group. So for your second tasting listen to those who know more though do not be swayed by everything you are told.
A proven way to learn about wine is to talk about it and even better write a tasting note. For some reason people who do this learn a lot faster. Sure it�s not easy to talk about something of which you know little and who wants to be laughed or snickered at. I think the reason it works is because it creates confidence quicker and you zoom up the learning curve sooner. Keep the words simple and talk about aromas and flavours. As far as a tasting note goes even one word is better than a blank sheet. Describe the colour then a few words about what you liked or did not like about the wine. The main thing is to start. If you are looking at a range of wines try to rank them in your order of preference. Doing this builds real wine knowledge so be prepared to make plenty of mistakes and remember the old saying, appearing to have knowledge when you don�t means you will stop learning.
Let�s revisit the five basic tastes and see how they apply to wine. Sour in wine is the taste of acids of which there are a number so think of the citrus family, green apples and hints of vinegar. Sweet is easy as this is the sugar of the grape. Even dry wines still have a few grams of sugar and often a lot more. Sugar and acids work together to give you the best taste so look for a nice balance of these two. Bitterness is the mouth filling grip from the tannin family found in red wines. Saltiness is essential to balance out food but does not show up in taste of wine and the last is umami which is the textural quality or savouriness of the wine. The wine maker can build this up with techniques such as lees stirring and the use of oak, with the idea being to give a creamy texture to the wine. The alcohol content of the wine is also part a wines texture. The mouth feel or texture of a wine is very important so I will return to this another day.
While we are on the topic of the sugar, acid and alcohol balance a good way to experiment is making cocktails. I love making cocktails and was greatly influenced by David Embury�s fabulous book, �The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks� (Faber) that came out in the 1950�s and is now out of print. He leads you through the art and teaches what he calls, how to roll your own. In other words do not follow a recipe but get the balance right. I came down to the following mix which has produced splendid results. Use three strong to two sour to one sweet. Strong is the alcohol of choice such as gin or rum. Sour is the balancing ingredient or the cocktail falls over and this of course is lemon or lime juice or tiny amounts of those bitter alcohols like campari. Sweet is a sugar syrup or grenadine or a portion of a sweet liqueur although remember these are cocktails already so use sparingly. The harmony of the sour and sugar balance is the art though they must never mask the alcohol. The only other secret about making cocktails is that every thing must be stunningly cold and that includes the glasses.
A concept I have found useful in understanding wine is what I term the frame of reference. Simply imagine a large picture frame and down in one corner are all the wine drinkers of Australia. In the top corner are the wine drinkers of Germany and so on from all over the globe. What you will learn to like is what you are taught to like and become familiar with. It will be the ripe, golden tastes of Australian wine. Others see it differently and will like what they are familiar with. So please try not to get to certain about what is acceptable and what is not. The wine you reject may give great joy to someone else. This could well mean you have made a hasty decision and may be missing out on pleasure. Your palate can evolve and enjoy a much broader range of tastes than you can imagine. To enjoy all the world�s wines is the long term objective so keep the mind open. The unfamiliar taste should not be hastily rejected.
As you progress with your tasting skills you will need a test to see how well you are going. I will give you two. You need to be able to look at any restaurant wine list and see which wines offer the best value. Actually if you do not get to that level I have another idea. What is working well for me in Sydney restaurants is to summon over the wine waiter and tell him bring me a good white that will excite me and the same with a red and don�t let me down. The other test is if you are given a glass of wine, masked of course, after determining the quality can you estimate what it would cost.
You spend your life making decisions about how to spend money. We all start very early doing this so I liken wine knowledge to your early days of getting the best deal on lollies. So part of the point about learning about wine is how to get more lollies in the jar.


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Israeli foreign minister Katz praises Trump on Jerusalem move in UNGA speech
United Nations Published: Sep 27, 2019, 05:10 PM(IST)
Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz. Photograph:( Reuters )
In 2017 Trump broke with longstanding US policy when he recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperilling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike
Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz praised US President Donald Trump in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.
"I want to thank the President of the United States, Donald Trump, for his historic and brave decision to recognise Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people," Katz told the gathering.
In 2017 Trump broke with longstanding US policy when he recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperilling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.
"I call on all countries to follow the United States and to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. No one can separate the Jewish people from our historical homeland, and no one can separate us from Jerusalem, our eternal capital," he added.
Earlier in the day, in his address to the General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Trump to rescind his decisions recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and cutting aid to the Palestinians, which he said had undermined the two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
Katz also singled out Trump's hard line policy towards Iran, saying, "I call on the international community to support President Trump's "maximum pressure policy' against Iran. This is the way to stop them. We must stop Iran today, in order to prevent war tomorrow," he added.
The US-Iranian confrontation has ratcheted up since last year, when US President Donald Trump withdrew from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy to force Tehran to renegotiate the pact.
Iran refuses to hold any talks with the United States unless Washington lifts sanctions on Tehran.
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