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May 4, 2017 Closures, Coming soon.
The chicken enchiladas with sour cream sauce at Tres Amigos will soon be a thing of the past.
Longtime South Austin Tex-Mex staple Tres Amigos will close at 1807 W. Slaughter Lane at the end of the month, and a new Tex-Mex restaurant with new ownership will move into the space.
DK Maria's Legendary Tex-Mex, which is owned and operated by Mike and DK Reynolds and Bruce and Mary Evans, plans to "keep the lively vibe that Tres Amigos fans have grown to know and love," the owners said in a release.
Mike Reynolds and Bruce Evans, who named the restaurant after their wives, are both native Austinites with experience in the restaurant industry. Reynolds was a part of the ownership group at the former downtown sushi restaurant Kenichi and Evans is a partner at Cooper's BBQ on Congress Avenue.
Tres Amigos was originally founded on Loop 360 in 1978 and expanded to several locations, but has downsized over the past couple of years. The original closed in 2015 to much fanfare, and with the closing of the Slaughter Lane location, the only Tres Amigos remaining is at 7535 U.S. 290.
Partners Don Burdett and Bobby Steiner (of Steiner Ranch Steakhouse) are close to opening a new Tex-Mex restaurant, Vaquero's, on Loop 360 in the original Tres Amigos spot, though a representative for the owners said no opening date has been set.


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Autel EVO II 640T Thermal Drone for Catch Suspects
As an advanced thermal imaging drone, the EVO II 640T excels in many fields. Thermal imaging drones can also help the police complete arrest tasks. The rapid deployment capability, range and adaptability of drones are of great benefit to policing.
According to incomplete statistics:
As of March 2020, at least 1,578 state and local public safety agencies in the United States disclosed having acquired drones.
Of these public safety agencies with drones, 70 percent were law enforcement agencies, and 431 of these agencies (27 percent of the total reported) had acquired more than one drone.
In 2021, the NYPD conducted 75 drone operations across the five boroughs, and in the first 18 months of its drone program, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida flew more than 750 missions, making arrests. 31 suspects were identified and the whereabouts of 5 missing or endangered persons were located.
On average, it costs police departments an estimated $35,000 to $55,000 to start a drone program consisting of two drone systems.
Let's take a look at the heroics of the EVO II 640T.
Application Cases Of Autel EVO II 640T
The American-made Autel Evo II Dual 640T Aircraft/Drone provides police with best-in-class imagery that turns night into day, offering 10 color palettes for viewing in virtually any environment.
EVO II 640T is a professional UAV with dual cameras. In the execution of special police missions, in addition to the high-definition RGB camera, the real ability of the thermal imager is the key.
Thermal imager UAV equipment with good performance can detect the whereabouts of suspects in time in the dark, report intelligence, connect with Live Deck, and provide real-time information about the ground situation to the command post so that commanders can make better decisions.
Autel EVO II Dual 640T
Thermal Imager Quality Combined with Platform Size and Ease of Use
Autel EVO II 640T is a foldable quadcopter drone, very easy to operate, has VTOL capability, has a long flight time, supports omni-directional obstacle avoidance and intelligent tracking, which is among the thermal camera drones is a leading combination.
The EVO II Dual 640T is the best combination of camera size and quality. As a police drone, there are often a large number of mission execution areas within the controlled airspace, and drones with geo-fences will be forced to stop flying, which is a big trouble for mission execution.
The EVO II drone does not have geo-fencing, but only a warning, the choice is the driver. The ability of Autel drones not to be locked out by geo-fences has also become a point of interest for many organizations.
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The use of thermal technology is a force multiplier for tactical teams, SWAT, search and rescue, surveillance and other public safety applications. The thermal imager of Autel EVO II Dual 640T has a resolution of 640*512, updates images at a refresh rate of 30Hz per second, 10 thermal color palettes, and accurate temperature measurement, making 640T a police drone.
Thermal Drone Resolution
Autel EVO II Dual 640T uses the Uncooled VOx Microbolometer, and the resolution of the detector is the primary factor that determines the camera's ability to generate high-quality images. A high-resolution thermal camera typically has a 640×480 detector, which provides 307,200 pixels; compare that to the 76,800 in a camera with a 320×240 detector. Standard formats are 160×120 (19,600 pixels), 384×288 (110,592 pixels), 640×480 (307,200 pixels), 1024×768 (786,432 pixels).
Obviously, the EVO II Dual 640T has a larger resolution: 640*512. The high-resolution thermal imaging drone camera has a larger usable range, and can detect the thermal activity of a target at a distance of 100 meters.
Thermal Drone Refresh Rate
Also very important is the refresh rate of the thermal drone, which is a number measured in Hertz, or Hz.
Refresh rate is defined as how often the image on the screen is updated with new images. A higher frame rate means faster image updates. So 9Hz means that the thermal image is updated 9 times per second, and 30Hz is 30 times per second.
Faster frame rates are especially important for applications where objects may be moving at higher speeds, such as vehicles or drones.
When the refresh rate is higher, the video is less blurry. When capturing and analyzing thermal images to detect faults or anomalies, the 9Hz frequency is sufficient for most inspection applications. However, the 30Hz refresh rate makes it easy to discern on-screen motion, making it ideal for search and rescue (SAR) and law enforcement applications.
Thermal Drone's Palette
How to properly read and process thermal images when using the 640T for suspect hunting?
Once the thermal information is captured by the drone using an infrared camera, that thermal data is displayed as a regular image on the screen for the operator to review.
Using the thermal imaging software IRPC, a free temperature measurement analysis tool specially developed for 640T, allows users to quickly import images, edit and analyze temperature measurements, and generate detailed reports for sharing and collaboration.
The thermal palette of the thermal drone can be changed by the user to highlight the thermal display of the scene. Each view helps to pick out various details from the imagery, including thermal data and temperature readings, as well as GPS tags.
White Hot: Warmer objects appear brighter, while cooler areas appear darker.
Black Hot: As opposed to Hot White, hotter objects appear darker.
Rainbow: Temperature corresponds to hue, and warm colors represent heat.
The above are the three common palette characteristics. White Hot and Black Hot are by far the most popular ways to view them, and this palette highlights objects in the scene with the greatest temperature differences. Objects in the scene that emit the most radiation are white, those that emit the least are black, and vice versa. A more advanced thermal camera offers a wider field of view - the EVO II Dual 640T offers 10 individual color palettes.
640T's Picture-in-Picture Mode
640T thermal image resolution, refresh rate, color palette display is the leader among many thermal drones. However, Autel also organically combines the thermal image display of 640T with the images captured by the visual camera. The unique picture-in-picture mode will make it easier to view everything, enhance situational awareness, and help users quickly interpret data and make key decisions.
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Understanding the Algorithm Meant to Help Refugees Get Jobs Fast
Researchers from Stanford University say an algorithm for locating refugee resettlement could vastly improve their probability of finding work. We speak with them about their research and the limits and opportunities of big data for refugee resettlement.
Written by Natalie Sikorski Published on  April 20, 2018 Read time Approx. 8 minutes
Eritrean asylum seekers in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland in 2014. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
Amid the steep decline in the number of refugees who have resettled in the United States, a group of researchers say an algorithm can make the process of resettlement more efficient by placing refugees in areas where they're most likely to find work.
The algorithm was developed by researchers from Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) , ETH Zurich and Dartmouth College. Their recent study in the journal Science tested the algorithm on recent refugee data in the U.S. and Switzerland. Currently refugees are assigned to locations based on their capacity in the U.S. and proportional distribution in Switzerland.
The algorithm instead uses supervised machine learning to find the optimal place for a refugee to be located in the country in order to enter work fast, based on historical data and taking into account a range of refugee and location characteristics.
In the U.S. the model improved refugees' probability of getting a job within 90 days – after which most government assistance stops – by between 25 and 50 percent, according to the study. In Switzerland, refugees' probability of employment after three years improved by 73 percent.
We spoke to two of the study's co-authors, Jens Hainmueller and Kirk Bansak, about the limits and opportunities of big data, measuring integration and reactions to the algorithm.
Refugees Deeply: How can an algorithm improve upon the judgments of refugee placement officers? Isn't it common sense that French-speaking refugees are more likely to find employment in French-speaking cantons of Switzerland?
Jens Hainmueller: It's a little bit more complicated than that, because as a placement officer you may have a lot of refugees coming in and need to make a lot of these decisions in short amounts of time. Then there are constraints you have – not every case can be sent to every location. These locations vary in terms of their characteristics, and the refugees vary in terms of their characteristics. There's a gazillion different ways you could allocate refugees to the different locations.
Finding the one allocation that optimizes employment and at the same time satisfies the allocation constraints, that's actually a very non-trivial kind of decision problem that's very hard to do by trial and error. If you are doing this manually – let's say with an Excel sheet – you very quickly get overwhelmed just by the sheer number of different ways to do the allocation.That's where a machine-learning model can be very helpful to dive into this whole treasure trove of historical data and look for patterns that are very hard to detect otherwise.
The way we envision this working in the real world is a computer-assisted allocation, where the caseworker might have a sense of where they want to send the refugee based on their common sense and their expertise, and then the algorithm will make suggestions based on the historical data of the optimal location. The placement officer can override the suggested allocation of the algorithm or go with the algorithmic allocation. It basically gives them information to make better decisions.
Kirk Bansak: If there were only two types of refugees, one that speaks language A and one that speaks language B, and there were only two different types of destinations, like a French-speaking canton and a German-speaking canton, no algorithm would be needed. But the reality is that there are many different locations. In Switzerland, you have 26 different cantons, and some of them are French-speaking, some of them are German-speaking and some of them speak both languages, while others are Italian-speaking.
And it's not just language, it's the local labor markets, and characteristics like different nationalities, age, gender, education level. You have interactions between variables that are discrete or continuous, and the discrete variables can have a ton of different levels. There's no reason to expect that a single human or a set of humans sitting down with all those different variables, and 20–50 different possible locations, can handle that in a very efficient manner without computational assistance.
Hainmueller: That's how we view the use of algorithms in general: This is not designed to replace what humans are doing, it's really how the machine can help the human make better decisions.
Refugees Deeply: Would you expect any political backlash to introducing your algorithm over existing systems – like proportional allocation in Switzerland, which rests on the principle of fairness?
Hainmueller: The algorithm is very flexible, so if a policymaker wants to build specific constraints into the allocation – like proportional allocation to the cantons in Switzerland – we can program those in and the algorithm will try to find the best possible allocation given the constraints. The more constraints you pile on, the fewer gains you will get from the algorithm, but that's ultimately something that has to be decided in the political process.
Refugees Deeply: Have you seen any interest in piloting the algorithm as yet?
Hainmueller: We are actively in communication with resettlement agencies here in the U.S. and are planning a pilot to test the algorithm. We're also in communication with the Swiss government on scoping out a potential pilot there.
Refugees Deeply: Could you talk about the significance of the algorithm yielding higher employment rates in areas of both high and low employment in the U.S.?
Bansak: We wanted to make sure that gains were being achieved on average and not just coming from one particular subset of refugees. So it was important that we did see consistent gains across virtually all locations and across all the different subsets. We want this algorithm to help out all refugees regardless of where they're sent and what their individual characteristics might be, and it's also important from a political perspective, for there to be buy-in from governments and other stakeholders.
Hainmueller: But also because of the flexibility of the algorithm, if you're a policymaker and you do want to make sure that certain groups get help more, that's something that you could also build into the algorithm, for example giving higher weighting to single moms.
Refugees Deeply: How does this algorithm compare to matching algorithms, which take into account community and refugee preferences as well? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each approach?
Bansak: There are a couple of reasons why we went with our approach and not a preference-based matching framework. The first is that preference data don't actually exist systematically. That could change in the future if governments decide to invest the money and interest into collecting those but for now, that's a practical impediment.
The second arguable disadvantage is that preference-based matching only works under the assumption that preferences are well-informed. One would have to come up with a really good way of measuring informed preferences on the part of refugees. Right now, those data don't exist and it's unclear even if those data did exist, how reliable they would be.
"Instead of trying to match people with places that they think they want to live in, we try to match them to places where they can actually achieve better outcomes."
So, with that in mind, we decided to take a different approach that is outcome-based: to figure out what outcome refugees and resettlement agencies care about. Early employment was clearly important from both perspectives. Instead of trying to match people with places that they think they want to live in, we try to match them to places where they can actually achieve better outcomes.
Hainmueller: Another concern that you might have about preference-based approaches is that once communities develop preferences over what types of refugees they want – "We only take Afghanis" or "We don't want any single males," for example – you end up in an endless political bargaining situation that could be pretty detrimental. That's another potential hurdle to implementing this in the real world, and our goal was to build something that you could implement within the existing institutional framework and just make it more efficient. It's also not the case that you couldn't combine these two approaches in a combined model. If the preference data were to become available, you could include that information in the algorithm.
Refugees Deeply: Employment is just one measure of refugee integration. Do you have any concerns that the algorithm could risk obscuring other important integration metrics, such as social ties or political participation?
Bansak: That's something that we definitely think about a lot. At the end of the day, the algorithm is designed to optimize on any variable or index of variables, so you could optimize political participation or a measure of happiness. The key constraint is that that data have to be measured. Given the fact that some things are not measured, it does make us wonder, at least theoretically, whether or not optimizing on early employment would somehow lead to perverse outcomes in other ways, and it's something that we'd like to track. We can't come up with any really plausible, good theoretical arguments that that would lead to systematically perverse outcomes. But if it were to become empirically apparent that this were happening then we'd have to rethink the way that this would be implemented.
[pllquote]"In the U.S., data collection has been really very limited – surprisingly, given that the U.S. has been running this refugee resettlement program for decades and we still don't know much about how refugees fare beyond 90 days."[/pullquote]
Hainmueller: It would be great if you could optimize on a broader basket of outcomes, but it's very hard to do right now. In the U.S., data collection has been really very limited – surprisingly, given that the U.S. has been running this refugee resettlement program for decades and we still don't know much about how refugees fare beyond 90 days. In Switzerland, the data situation is better, so we can optimize on longer-term employment, for example. We do tend to find that early employment is quite predictive of longer-term employment, but it definitely shows the need to collect more data.
Refugees Deeply: Does shaping resettlement around the speed of entering employment risk reinforcing downward-mobility? For example, by prioritizing refugees getting any kind of job fast rather than spending time adapting their skills and qualifications in order to maintain their professional level?
Hainmueller: There are some significant benefits to early employment in terms of creating social ties with natives, learning the language at the workplace and getting out of this situation of limbo that a lot of the refugees find themselves in. The empirical evidence is limited, especially in the U.S., but early employment does seem to be beneficial for better long-term integration.
This gets to a bigger question that we study here at the IPL about what's the best model for refugee integration. In the U.S., there's a very heavy focus on early self-sufficiency. You get very limited support from the government, and then you're on your own – a sink-or-swim model. That can be very beneficial, because you might fall on your feet very quickly, but it can also be tough in the sense that you might be locked into a low-wage job for the rest of your life. Contrast that with what's sometimes offered in Europe: "Let's train refugees up and then have them enter into the labor market at a higher-skill job." Which is better: the sink-or-swim or the train up and enter later model? I think the jury is still pretty much out on that.
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We hosted the Russell District Annual Meeting this year at St. Mary's Anglican Church Hall in Russell and had a surprise visitor "Adelaide Hoodless" (Susan Dunfield), the founder of WI. She told us all about her life and why she felt it was important for women to get together and share important knowledge for the benefit of their families & their communities. We also had a very lively health break led by our local fitness guru, Ray Scharf. He was very funny and encouraged us all to stay active.
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La corriente de las Malvinas es una corriente oceánica que transporta aguas frías subantárticas; se desplaza de sur a norte y rodea a las islas Malvinas. La velocidad de esta corriente tiene variaciones pero es, en promedio, de un nudo (una milla por hora), es decir aproximadamente 2 km/h. Si bien la corriente de Malvinas que fluye sobre el talud continental afecta el movimiento de las aguas de la plataforma argentina solo lo hace en los 30 km más cercanos a ella. Además, existen intrusiones de la corriente sobre la plataforma que llevan nutrientes y características subantárticas.

A lo largo del talud continental, desde su separación de la corriente Circumpolar Antártica en el pasaje de Drake (o mar de Hoces), transporta aguas subantárticas hacia el norte, desde una latitud aproximada de 55° S y hasta la zona imprecisa comprendida entre los 39° y 36° S. La masa principal de agua de esta corriente se halla entre los 150 y 600 m (a mayor profundidad que los 200 m se encuentra ya la cuenca Argentina) con temperaturas entre 4° y 5 °C y salinidades entre 34,1 y 34,2 por mil.

En sentido contrario a la corriente de las Malvinas sobre el talud continental, circula la corriente del Brasil, que transporta aguas subtropicales con una salinidad mayor a 35,0 por mil y temperatura superior a 16 °C. Entre los 36° y 38° S, esta corriente converge con la corriente de las Malvinas y define la Confluencia Brasil-Malvinas. Esta área se caracteriza por ser muy energética y presentar muchos remolinos de mesoescala.

Las dos corrientes ya fusionadas, se desprenden del borde continental y circulan con dirección sudeste alejándose del continente americano, para constituir la celda de recirculación anticiclónica del Atlántico Sur.

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Papuan students arrested for marking 'independence' in church
Four among dozens arrested for trying to mark first raising of nationalist Morning Star flag 58 years ago
Several Papuan students are seen here with the banned Morning Star flag while attending a Mass at the Good Shepherd Parish Church in Abepura on Dec. 1. (Photo supplied)
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Four Papuan students were arrested for displaying the banned Morning Star flag while attending Sunday Mass in a Catholic church on Dec. 1.
They were among dozens of people reportedly arrested for trying to celebrate what Papuans consider their independence day.
The students were arrested at the Good Shepherd Parish Church in Abepura, Jayapura Diocese, shortly after the Mass ended, according to parish priest Father James Kosay.
He said the students entered the church after the Mass had started, wearing traditional Papuan clothes and carrying flags. They also painted the flag on their faces.
"Undercover police were already sat at the back of the church," the priest told ucanews. "After the closing song, they grabbed the young men and took them to the police station."
The Papua Human Rights Defender Coalition later said in a statement that the men were interrogated for more than 14 hours before being released on Dec. 2
Father Kosay condemned the arrests, saying Indonesian law prohibits someone's arrest in a place of worship. He said police violated the sanctity of the church and that if it was absolutely necessary to arrest them, they should have done so outside the church building.
As far as the church was concerned, it "does not discriminate against people based on their political views" including those who aspire to have self-determination, he said.
He said he saw the students' action was symbolic, indicating that when public spaces could no longer be used to voice their aspirations of hope, they would turn to God as the source of hope.
According to Emanuel Gobay from the Papua Human Rights Defender Coalition, the young men had told him they held flags during the Mass "to ask for God's help for all Papuans."
He said there was no legal basis for the arrests. "People cannot be arrested for just carrying flags while expressing their political views unless they do so in a violent way," he told ucanews.
However, Papua police chief Paulus Waterpauw said the four were arrested for "wearing unauthorized symbols." Police wanted to know the motives behind their actions, he said.
Elsewhere, at least 34 other people were arrested for trying to mark Dec. 1, the Antara news agency said, citing police figures.
The arrests came amid tightened security involving at least 1,300 troops deployed to the restive region.
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One started giving Eric some gyp, so Eric decided to give it back. Now we're all getting battered. Bryan Robson, captain of England, he's in there. Typical Bryan, he's swung this punch and there's a hook on the wall. Nowhere near the fella he's trying to hit, but he's caught his elbow on it, ripped his arm completely open.
"Blood everywhere. He's screaming, and a big Turk comes in and boots him. So now we're tearing into them, trying to fight our way out of there, and over my shoulder I see Fergie come flying back down the stairs. He's taking his jacket off as he comes. He's over 50 years old, but he's straight in, wades in. We eventually get back to the dressing room.
"Fergie comes barging through. His hair's all over the place, his tie is under his ear and he says, "None of you have been fighting have you? No team of mine has been fighting, eh?" And we're all, "No, boss". So he says, "Didn't think so", and goes out and tells the world that his players have been assaulted in the tunnel.
"And I remember the door closed behind him that night, and we all looked at each other and said: 'He'll do'. He created that spirit."
That's brilliant. I can even picture it.
Same here, I even have that young Fergie picture in my head .
He grew up in Govan - the shipbuilding area of Glasgow - and I remember he was asked about his upbringing and he basically said you had to look after yourself and also something about a Glasgow wedding not being a real wedding unless there was at least one fistfight at the reception when the booze started to flow.
I think he is the type of guy you just don't mess with.
So now we're tearing into them, trying to fight our way out of there, and over my shoulder I see Fergie come flying back down the stairs. He's taking his jacket off as he comes.
I would spend a month salary to get a video of it.
You can take the Glaswegian out of Glasgow but you can't take the Glasgow out of the Glaswegian!
Doesn't even surprise me tbh, is it possible not to love SAF?
That kind of thing can't happen today.
Where was Jesse when you need him to put this on Snapchat.
It was all so natural for him.
He didn't need to check the notes from a leadership course before he jumped in to the middle of that or ask his PR team what he should say to the press.
I remember reading about this incident some time back, typical Fergie He represented everything I love about this club, a fecking legend.
God, I love Fergie. Miss his leadership everyday as well.
Gotta love sir Alex . We're so lucky to have lived during his reign.
Didn't he break his foot or toe on a bed frame when with England?
Fergie had won The League, The Cup, The League Cup and the Cup Winners Cup with United by this point. As great a story as it is, I doubt this is what "won the squad over."
I miss that man so much! I think myself very lucky to have lived through his era, i was born the same year fergie took over at united so i grew up watching us dominate the league for years.
Football was better in them days not just because we were more dominant but because it felt soo much more intense, Our rivalry with Arsenal sticks out for me more than anything else, Im sad my children wont ever experience such things as now days before a big game its all cuddles and kisses in the tunnel.
Yeah that sounded a bit weird. Probably endeared him further to them though.
Of course. They see a different side to him, a side that shows he's willing to literally fight for and with you. But he was at the club 7 years and had won a lot, so it's not like the players wouldn't have been won over already.
Why not? Mourinho has won the Europa league and Carabao cup already would you say he has already won the squad over in the same way? I wouldn't.
When you see your manager throwing off his jacket and pulling punches, literally, to defend his players... there is not a cup in the world that could match the kind of respect and spirit that would of generated amongst the team.
It's not the kind of thing you see in professional football, sure the lads would have known SAF was a winner already and he knew his stuff but i imagine it was at this point those lads knew when the chips were down he would defend them no matter what.
A bit more on this here.
We hadn't won the league in 26 years while our bitter rivals had dominated for the majority of that time. He ended that dominance and ended our 26 year drought. He had also won our first European Trophy in over 20 years and an FA cup when it still meant something.
I think it's safe to say those things won players and fans over more than a punch up.


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For the Love of the Land
9th Nov 2006
Pat McArdle is our guest blogger, analysing the Quarter 3 2006 figures.
We Irish have a love affair with property. Before the famine we split up the land amongst the children with ultimately disastrous results. Then we switched to the eldest son or, in the case of numerous bachelors, held on to it to the bitter end leaving various sundry relatives to squabble over the remains.
In time, the dispossessed children migrated from the countryside into the cities. They still, however, had a 'gra' for the land and, to this day, insist on buying a piece of suburbia with a garden patch at the rear. Combine this with avaricious developers and corrupt planners and you get urban sprawl, row after row of uninteresting identical boxes, frequently without the amenities that are taken for granted in other countries. The geographically constrained nature of our capital city and the virtual absence of high-rise-accommodation are the main reason for the elevated and ever-increasing level of house prices in Dublin.
Our newfound wealth has now enabled us to take our love of the land overseas. In this manifestation it is property rather than land, per se, that is sought after. An over-enthusiastic approach to buying has earned us a reputation as easy marks in some parts of Eastern Europe. But we don't care as long as we climb another rung on the property ladder.
We hear less about Irish forays into the overseas commercial property world. For the most part, this activity is still concentrated in the UK although purchases as far apart as the US, South Africa and even Russia are no longer uncommon. I was surprised recently to be told that the Irish were the largest source of foreign inflows into the UK commercial property market last year.
The Irish property market is unusual in that it is confined, almost exclusively, to the Irish. Leaving aside the Germans who moved in a quarter of a century ago, and the occasional Englander, it is rare to find a foreign owner. At least it was until recently. It is still the case that commercial property is snapped up by the locals - we buy commercial property abroad but foreigners do not reciprocate given our low yields and high stamp duty. In the residential market, however, things are changing.
The housing market slowed nicely in the first half of 2005 but to the dismay of many economists, myself included, re-accelerated strongly thereafter. The Minister for Housing is wont to attribute this to the effects of competition between lending institutions. An important explanation, which is seldom mentioned, was the surge in demand from immigrants. For a start, the level of net immigration was much higher than predicted. Second, the expectation was that non-nationals would rent accommodation. While many do rent, increasingly we hear that immigrants account for anything up to one-quarter of sales at new launches around Dublin.
The experience in 2006 has been the reverse, as the latest Daft.ie Report shows. Asking prices for residential property were rising at a 14% annual rate at the beginning of the year. By September, they were down to 6%.
The reason is straightforward. Higher interest rates have sapped the purchasing power of the first-time buyer. Since last December ECB rates and, by extension, mortgage rates have risen by 1.25% with another quarter-point rise pencilled in for early December. The main objective of the ECB is to curb economic activity so as to keep inflation below 2%. As they have not yet achieved this objective, it is likely that interest rates will be further increased next year. If this results in a slower housing market, so much the better in the eyes of the ECB.
This is cold comfort for the first-time buyer who, having inherited the genes of his/her ancestors is now struggling to get onto the property ladder. However, the situation has improved in many respects. A quarter of a century ago, the banks were not engaged in mortgage lending at all and one had to establish a regular savings record with a building society before they would even consider you for a loan. The standard annuity period was 20 years and multiples above 2.5 times income, 100% loans and interest only mortgages were unheard of. The banks are doing their utmost to assist, not for any altruistic motive but because competition is keener than ever-before and, indeed, keener than in most other EU countries.
Outsiders looking at the Irish market frequently look no further than the loan to income multiple and recoil in horror when they learn that it is now five or more. However, this fails to take into account the more sophisticated affordability measures now employed by Irish lenders. Monthly outgoings as a percentage of after-tax income are now the standard measure. This allows for the dramatic fall in interest rates that accompanied EMU entry as well as lower taxes and longer annuities. In addition, lending is stress-tested to allow for a further 2% increase in mortgage rates.
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Red Vermouth Tasting – A Comparison of 18 Red Vermouths
Posted on May 2, 2011 by DTS
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After our Dry Vermouth Tasting it seemed a natural progression to arrange a Red/Sweet/Italian Vermouth Tasting (the next step will be a Bianco Tasting) for the purposes of this article I will refer to this sweeter style of vermouth as "Red Vermouth" to avoid confusion. I used to think that the red colour in this type of Vermouth came from the use of red wine it appears that this is not usually the case and that the colour comes from the sugar or herbs used (sometimes colouring agents are added).
We decided to taste the vermouths in three ways, on their own (at room temperature) in Manhattans and in Negronis. For the Manhattans we were kindly supplied with tow bottles of Zuidam 5yr Old Dutch Rye. The Manhattans were mixed two parts Zuidam Rye, one part Red vermouth and a dash of Angostura, the mixture was stirred and served without a garnish.
On with the tasting… #1 Martini Rosso (15%ABV)
The brand synonymous with vermouth, Martini Rosso has been the company's staple product since its founding in 1863. The exact recipe is a closely guarded secret.
Own: Sweet, but deliciously herbal; a very classic example by all accounts. A number of the panelists confessed that they were surprised at how good it was.
Manhattan: Classic and rather tasty; there was a good balance between the flavours of the whisky and the vermouth, with some extra herbal and vanilla notes. Needs one more dash of bitters.
Negroni: Sweet and herbal, packed with flavours; a classic. Deliciously moreish.
I think it's fair to conclude the Martini Rosso tasting notes by saying that a lot of the panel were not expecting a lot from this product, but that it is very clear that it was exceptionally good and easily competed with products costing over twice the price.
Martini Rosso is available from most supermarkets and off licences: £8 (70cl).
#2 Bellino Rosso (13%ABV)
Not technically a vermouth but a mix of wine, grape juice and herbs.
Own: Very sweet and heavy on the vanilla, needs more flavour. Confectionery feel mingling with the grape juice. Not great.
Manhattan: Better than expected, not very complex slightly cloying.
Negroni: Bellino is robust against the Campari with notes of vanilla and grape juice.
Bellino Rosso available from Tesco £2.39 (70cl).
#3 Punt e Mes (16%ABV)
Made by Carpano, this is an aperitif based on hillside wine, sugar and mountain herbs. The recipe was defined in 1870 and owes its name to a stockbroker: "Punt e Mes" means "Point & a half" in the Piedmontise dialect.
Own: Rather bitter, with strong notes of Gentian root. The complexity of this was popular with the majority of the panelists, although two members thought that it was far too bitter.
Manhattan: Flavours of black cherry and burnt sugar/caramel. Flavours of the whisky come through nicely. Overall, a rather good, but mysterious and contemplative drink.
Negroni: Sophisticated and complex flavours. Quite bitter (but not as bitter as I had expected), and the bitterness is balanced well with a sweet finish.
Punt e Mes is available for around £11 from TheWhiskyExchange.
#4 Toso (14.8%ABV)
Made by Toso SpA a company over 100 years old and based in Cossano Belbo, in North-west Italy; they also make a Dry, Bianco and Orange vermouth.
Own: Toso has a very dark colour and the nose of a classic red vermouth. It was light and sweet, with hints of vanilla. In terms of taste, it was okay, but rather forgettable.
Manhattan: Inoffensive, but a touch dull. Some herbal notes, but they are very subtle.
Negroni: Far too bitter; the herbal notes are lost as the Campari overpowers vermouth. Awful.
#5 Byrhh (18%ABV)
Byrhh was created in 1873 and is mad using a blend of Muscat mistelles, Macabeu and Grenache, which is then macerated with a various herbs and spices as well as Quinquina bark (the bitter taste in tonic water) this is then aged in small oak barrels.
On a side note the Byrhh bottle was the favourite of the panel.
Own: Berries and other fruit on the nose. The taste has a good balance of sweet and bitter; quite light, with herbs and fruit and a subtle port-like quality. Very good.
Manhattan: A rather unusual Manhattan, with great subtleties and it isn't very sweet at all. A very different sort of Manhattan.
Negroni: Clean and crisp, and less bitter than a normal Negroni. Byrrh really takes the edge off of the Campari. Delicious.
Byrrh is available for around £19 (75cl) from The DrinksShop
#6 Stock (16%ABV)
Own:
Nose:Very rich and herbal nose, almost thick with a hint of bitterness.
Taste: The same richness and complexity a little syrupy but with herb and vanilla notes and a touch of bitterness at the end but more restrained than that of Antica Formula.
#7 Fillipetti Rosso
Made by Perlino who's Dry vermouth scored very well in our last tasting. They also make a Bianco and the Classico (see below).
Own: The nose of a classic vermouth, with all the sweet and herbal elements that go with that. Quite a simple flavour: soft, with a little tartness. Very drinkable on its own.
Manhattan: The flavour of this was a little flat and quite sweet, but good overall.
Negroni: Sweet, with a subtle complexity and balanced bitterness. Pleasant.
#8 Antica Formula (16.5%ABV)
Made by Carpano, who also make Punt e Mes and a regular Red Vermouth this comes in an impressive litre bottle and is a based on a recipe from 1786.
Own: Nose of vanilla, orange peel and a certain saltiness. Quite complex, with a herbal bitter end and notes of: fresh straw, bread, chocolate and vanilla.
Manhattan: Very hearty flavours, extremely well-balanced, with a lovely sweetness and a little hint of herbs. Absolutely superb!
Negroni: An intense Negroni, rich and herbally rather bitter. If you like your Negroni full of flavour and not too sweet, this may be worth a try.
Antica Formula is available for around £31 (1 litre) from TheWhiskyExchange
#9 Cinzano (15%ABV)
Owned by the Campari Group, Cinzano Vermouth was first produced in 1757. It includes a variety of herbal ingredients, including: nutmeg, coriander, juniper, orange peel, cloves and vermouth.
Own: Similar to the Martini Rosso, but with more floral and vanilla notes; it was also more bitter. Once more, this was better than expected.
Manhattan: Quite pleasant; some herbal notes, but could do with a touch more flavour.
Negroni: Off-balance, with clashing flavours. Not that great.
#10 Dolin Rouge (16%ABV)
Made in Chambery, near the French-Swiss border, Chambery vermouth has Geographical Indication (GI) status, like Plymouth Gin, Champagne and the Cornish Pasty.
Own: The nose was akin to an ancient bookshop, with a slightly salty wine element. The taste reminds me of the sea, with savoury elements and a balanced sweetness.
Manhattan: This cocktail had a strong, sweet cherry flavour (even though the drink was served without garnish), followed by herbal notes in the middle, but wasn't too complex. Still, it was very nice and had a jammy/berry finish.
Negroni: Fresh, with the herbal notes really coming through. The Dolin lightly rounds off the edges of the Campari, but not enough for the drink to loses its character; very good.
#11 Forteni Rosso (14.4%ABV)
I don't know too much about this vermouth, but it was purchased in Carrefour for seven euros.
Own: A faint jelly/confectionery element on the nose, like Jelly Tots or cola bottles. A rather underwhelming taste, with an artificial sweetness and an unpleasant metallic note. One panelist summed it up with the following: "clumsy, but not a disaster".
Manhattan: A rather dull cocktail that needs a lot more flavour.
Negroni: Rather poor, with clumsy flavours; illustrates how important the vermouth is in a Negroni.
Forteni is available from Carrefour €7 (70cl)
#12 Fillipetti Classico
This is the Rolls Royce of the Fillipetti range, based on the Classical style of vermouth, this sets itself apart from the majority of products out there.
Own: A subtle nose, with faint hints of herb and spice. The taste is great if not a touch bitter, overall it is pretty well balanced though with sweetness following the bitter. Some hints of Menthol and Anise. Excellent and very moreish.
Manhattan: Has a certain sharpness, but is still very nice; less sweet than some of the others, but more flavourful. Very good indeed.
Negroni: From one of our panelists: "Its sweetness was a good foil to the Campari with a rich, almost port-like wine flavour. Unexpectedly, however, it lent a delicious butterscotch note to the drink. Although some of the subtleties of this particular vermouth might be obliterated by Campari's gutsy bitterness, its herbal flavour was noticeable right at the end, after the bitter kick had subsided."
#13 Dubonet
Own: Much, much lighter and more pleasant than I had imagined; it just goes to show how much difference a fresh bottle makes.
Dubonet is available from Waitrose and Tesco for around £9 (70cl)
#14 Home-made
For this, I used the recipe which can be found here.
Own: A nose of sweet herbs, orange and green moss. Sweet initially, followed by some more bitter herbal notes and a slightly biscuity finish. Too sweet.
Manhattan: Vermouth blends well with the rye whisky, making an exceptionally smooth drink with a warming herbal after taste with a touch of sweetness and a hint of citrus.
Negroni: Sweetness of vermouth balances out the bitterness of Campari quite well but the vemrouth culd do with a bit more flavour-strength.
#15 Lillet Rouge (17%ABV)
Tasting Notes Coming Soon
#16 Marolo Vino Chinato
Marolo was started in 1977 by Paolo Marolo, with the aim of taking a rustic, local product and transforming it into a distilled art. The Chinato is made at the Santa Teresa Distillery using two "Bain Marie" (water bath) stills, one filled with white pomace and the other with red. The product is infused with cinchona bark and a variety of other rinds and herbs, such as gentian, cinnamon, rhubarb, clove and coriander. Finally, the Chinato is aged in acacia and oak barrels before bottling. Marolo also make a range of aged and non-aged Grappa.
Own: A very dark red, in a similar way to red vermouth, but this has an even deeper colour. Hints of cinnamon and thyme initially, with some sweetness; this is followed by a more bitter edge. Overall, the drink was complex and herbal, with a similar lasting finish to tonic water.
Negroni: This was a superb shade of dark crimson and a wonderfully smooth drink. The flavour of the gin came through first, then the deep, herbal warmth from the Chinato, before the final bitter finish from the Campari; at the very end there was a sweet lift that neatly rounds off the drink.
Manhattan: This was less sweet than most Manhattans, so would be a good option if you prefer your cocktails on the dry side. There were dry, herbal notes throughout, with a very long, warm finish. If you'd like the drink a little sweeter, I would suggest adding a Maraschino Cherry. Really rather good.
#17 Vya Sweet (17%ABV)
Vya Sweet is made with a base of Muscat wine and is infused with herbs and spices. It's made in the Quady Winery in California, USA.
Own: A fresh nose, with woody elements and a faint hint of coconut. Very fresh and herbal with a slight oiliness (that isn't unpleasant); also, once more, a hint of fresh coconut flesh.
Manhattan: Coming Soon
Negroni: Coming soon
#18 Noilly Prat Rouge (16%ABV)
Made in Southern France, using white wine as its base. Some of these wines are aged in oak casks and then infused with herbs and spices. This is sadly no longer available in the UK, its main market is the USA, it is a real shame but the lovely ladies at Bacardi-Martini and their PR company sorted em out with a bottle. My profound thanks to them, the tasting just wouldn't have been compelte without this.
Own: Slightly malty, soft and sweet. Herbal and well-rounded. Some of the panel expected more from this, but just as many really enjoyed it.
Manhattan: Rather pleasant, fruity herbal notes with a little musky woodiness and some fresh green leaves. It worked well with this but even better with Jim Beam Yellow.
Negroni: Fruity and sweet, with a bitter finish. Complex, with a flavour crescendo. Rather good.
The first thing that we noticed is that red vermouth was much nicer to drink on its own than dry vermouth and, as an ingredient, it is both more versatile and there was a greater variety within the category as a whole. The second thing to note is that whichever red vermouth you choose to use makes a big difference when mixing either a Manhattan and Negroni.
Best Aperitif: Fillipetti Classico & Antica Formula
Best Manhattan: Antica Formula
Best Negroni: Byrhh & Punt e Mes
Best All-rounder: Martini Rosso
High Recommendations:
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Dry Vermouth Tasting – With SW4 Gin
Posted on February 27, 2011 by DTS
Anyone that has been following my series on Martini Gadgets will realise I have a passion for this mixture of gin and vermouth. As gin has become increasingly popular, a wide array of gin tastings have taken place, held in London, Manchester and Oxford, to name but a few. But what about the vermouth? When a cocktail only has two ingredients, even the lesser partner is a crucial component.
Vermouth is an automatized wine. The flavour is determined by "appropriate derived substances" (e.g. seeds, herbs, spices, roots) and there is no prescribed combination of these, with the one exception that a Vermouth must contain an Artemisia (such as wormwood). Vermouth can be sweetened, but only with caramelized sugar, sucrose or grape must.
Typically there are three main types of vermouth:
Red: A sweet style that is coloured with either caramel or herbs. Often drunk as an aperitif or in cocktails such as the Manhattan and Martinez (both potential ancestors of the Martini).
White: A sweet style based on white wine.
Dry: A dry style, also based on white wine and synonymous with the modern Martini.
Two more styles seem to be growing increasingly popular: Rose Vermouth and Orange/Ambre Vermouth.
All of the vermouths in our tasting were tried on their own and then we tried our top ten in a Dry Martini.
Dry Martini Details
SW4 Gin
5:1 Ratio
Stirred
No Garnish
#1) Martini Extra Dry (Italy) (15%)
A very familiar product to most and synonymous with its namesake cocktail.
Own: On the nose, there is a little pistachio and wet slate. This is quite dry; probably one of the driest we tried. It was quite simple and rather tart.
Martini: Pretty good, a classic drink. It's a popular brand, readily available and makes a decent drink. This is an excellent fall-back when it's difficult to get hold of some of the more obscure varieties.
Martini Extra Dry is available from most supermarkets and off-licences for around £8 (75cl).
#2) Noilly Prat Dry (France) (18%)
Own: A very fruity nose with a hint of nail polish. Great scents of honey and blossom, and the slightest hint of salt. One panelist likened the nose to that of a good muscat. Noilly Prat has depth of flavours and is quite complex. There is some jamminess, akin to an apricot preserve, and there is a pleasant warmth at the end. Very popular with the panelists.
Martini: A truly classic Martini and exactly what I would expect when ordering a Dry Martini. Excellent balance between gin and vermouth, with just enough herbal flavours to complement the gin without overpowering it. Cool, clean and crisp.
Available from Waitrose around £10 for 75cl.
#3) Filipetti Extra Dry Vermouth (Italy) (14.8%)
Perlino also make a Blanco and a sweet vermouth, as well as Martelletti, a Classico Vermouth.
Own: Dry; exactly what you'd expect from dry vermouth. Some floral aspects like a good muscat. Well balanced with hints of honey and cinnamon. Very pleasant.
Martini: In the proportions of 5:1, this made the wettest Martini of those that we tried. The dry and slightly fruity flavours have a strong presence in the cocktail and, if you like only a whisp of Vermouth flavour in your Martini, this is worth a look.
#4) Dolin Chamberry Dry Vermouth (France) (17.5%)
Made in Chambery, near the French-Swiss border, this has a wine content of 75-80%, which is notably higher than some of its competitors. Dolin also make a Blanco and a Rosso vermouth.
Own: A musky, tropical nose with notes of passionfruit and guava. Soft flavours, well-rounded, simple and neat. This would make an excellent aperitif and has a lovely aftertaste. A couple of panelists likened it to a dry sherry. Another popular vermouth amongst our panel.
Martini: Exceptionally clean, with a slightly warm texture. Strong, but not overpowering flavours of Juniper and Angelica, a balanced bitterness and a touch of cinnamon. The vermouth compliments SW4 well.
Available from Waitrose around £8 for 75cl.
#5) Stock (Italy) (16%)
Made by the Stock Spirit Company, whose biggest markets are in Italy and Slovenia, Stock is made with Italian Table Wine and Italian Brandy and is infused with more than 50 herbs & spices. They also make a Blanco and a Rosso vermouth, in addition to a very tasty Maraschino.
This has a superb, fresh leafy green flavour and was a favourite of one of the panel. It made a very flavourful Martini whilst still maintaining the underlying characteristics of a Dry Martini.
#6) Cinzano (Italy) (15%)
Founded in 1757 in Turin, Cinzano is owned by Gruppo Campari. Cinzano has a Classic range, comprising of a Dry, Red, White and Rosé varieties, and a Mediterranean range: Limetto and Orancio, which are vermouths with twists of orange and lemon (somewhat akin to the old Martini Limon).
Own: A fruity nose, akin to a house white wine, with some peach notes. It tastes like sweet grape juice and is not very dry, as vermouths go. The taste is much better than the smell, but the panel was left unimpressed.
Martini: Quite a basic Martini; pretty good, but lacks the depth and crispness of some of the others.
#7) Vya (USA) (17%)
Made in Madera, California, Vya was made in response to an increasing number of premium gins making their way into the market; the idea being that, if you're spending $30 on a gin, does it make sense to then mix it with a $6 vermouth? They also make a sweet variety of their premium vermouth.
Own: Vya had a nose reminiscent of fresh vegetation: cabbage or pea pods. The panel disagreed on their opinion of the taste: some enjoyed its definitive flavours, which were fresh and bright with hints of cloves and liquorice, whereas others found it exceptionally bitter and overpowering.
Martini: Cool and flavoursome with hint of cinnamon and spice, followed by a lightly bitter edge at the end. Complex and slips down the throat very easily, moving toward the intense flavours of the home-made vermouth.
Available from The Whisky Exchange for around £16 for 75cl.
#8) Top Shelf (UK)
This is based on a flavouring syrup produced by home-brew specialist Still Spirits. They suggest mixing it with either vodka or wine, so we decided to try both versions.
i) Wine-based (14.7%) – This had a nose of moth balls; slightly sherberty. Very sour, very dry, a bit like cordial. Watching the physical recoil of people as they tasted it was very interesting. As a result, this is not recommended, although it should be noted that mixing the syrup with a better quality wine would probably improve the results.
ii) Vodka-based (Sipsmith) (16%) – With a nose of moth balls and lavender perfume, this reminded one of the panel of their great aunt. The taste is much better than the wine version, being sweet with hints of creamy vanilla, although some of this obviously came from the vodka. Not so dry and closer to a Sweet Bianco than a Dry vermouth, this was nonetheless quite palatable and had an interesting a hint of Christmas spice.
Top Shelf Dry Vermouth Flavourings is available here for £2.29 for 50ml (One 50ml bottle makes up to 1.125 litres of Dry Vermouth.)
#10) Berlino (UK) (13%)
Berlino is produced and bottled by Continental Wine and Food (CWF), who are based in Huddersfield. Although it looks a lot like vermouth, it is in fact billed as "Extra Dry Aperitif", made from the "finest quality concentrated grape juice, herbs and spices."
Own: There were various cries of disgust at the smell of this; "wet dog" and "drains" were among two of the more polite comments. It had very little flavour and was rather watery, but did have a sharp, bitter finish. This was the least popular of the varieties we tried. At £3.20 a bottle it may look like a cheap alternative, but it would be a false economy.
Belrino is available from Tesco for around £3.20 for 70cl.
Mr Hartley waits, in anticipation, for the tasting to start.
#11) Home-made (UK)
Based on a recipe from the Plymouth Martini Book, which can be found here, this vermouth was designed specifically for Plymouth Gin, but we were intrigued as to how it would fare with SW4.
Own: Fresh, with a slightly meaty nose, one panelist likened it to hotdogs (in a most positive way). Another comment stated that it was reminiscent of a German Christmas market, with mulled wine, stollen and bratwurst. The taste was rather savoury and quite heavy on cloves, with some hints of anise and angelica too. Without a doubt, it had very intense flavours, but was also very good. If you've never tried making your own vermouth, I highly recommend it.
Martini: Very popular with the panel, this was jam-packed with flavour. This vermouth may not produce your typical, very clean, very crisp Martini, but it is an excellent drink nonetheless and, if you like a wetter, more flavourful Martini, then this is definitely worth trying. Cloves and Christmas spice come through, but complement the gin well.
#12) Lillet Blanc (17%)
Own: A very light and subtle nose of white grape, grass and dried flowers. Sweeter than expected, this was less complex and thinner than the Jean de Lillet, but, served cold, it is an excellent aperitif and an all-round good product.
Martini: A soft Martini that was less herbal than normal. Simple flavours, less bite and some subtle citrus. Smooth and delicate, and rounds off the gin nicely.
#13) Jean de Lillet
Own: Strong, savoury nose; fresh and very appetising. The taste is quite sweet, with overtones of honey, blossom, apple, pear and peach. It's a little buttery and reminiscent of a quality Sauternes. This was really very, very good and there would be little danger of it oxidising before the bottle was finished. It had a finish of apricot stones, apple and almond.
Martini: A rich and flavourful Martini, this does make a truly excellent drink, but for my money I'd rather drink it neat. We also tried it in a Vesper as a substitute for Kina Lillet and the drink certainly had a more bitter edge and was pleasant golden yellow, although perhaps not quite sweet enough.
A selection of the Vermouths we tasted
#14) Gancia Bianco (14.8%)
Own: The nose of Gancia Bianco had hints of sloe gin and lemonade. Floral and herbal. The taste is very pleasant and was a very nice surprise: it was a little syrupy, like mead. It also had a finish of lemon pith, which counteracts the sweetness well.
Martini: A very flavourful Martini and not too sweet. I'd never really thought of using Bianco vermouth in many cocktails, but in a Martini it worked well; nice for a change.
#15) Martini Gold (Italy) (18%)
Own: Very floral on the nose, with hints of tea, lavender and Bergamot. The taste is quite smooth and sweet, but has an underlying bitterness akin to Campari or Suze. Quite a long finish, with the saffron coming through. Very much a departure from their traditional range, but a product with potential.
Martini: On the face of it, this is a pretty standard martini – cool and crisp – but there is definitely a more bitter finish than usual, with herbs and spice and the hint of saffron, which works well with the bitter elements. It's like you've made a martini half with vermouth, half with a bitter apertif.
From our tasting, it is clear that the vermouth you choose for your Martinis can have a big impact on the drink and so it's a decision worth some consideration. It's also clear that vermouth is something that is more versatile than I had previously thought: its merits extend beyond its use in Martinis and that, by over-looking Bianco/White vermouth, I've been missing out; definitely something to look into.
Best Aperitif: Dolin
Best Martini: Noilly Prat, Home-made
Best All-rounder: Fillipetti
Special Recommendation: Jean de Lillet
A special thanks to Pernod Ricard, Bacardi-Martini, Lillet, Marblehead, Speciality Brands, Vya, Perlino, Stock Spirits Interntional, Imbue and Graphic Bar for their support in this tasting.
Thanks also to SW4 Gin for providing the Gin for our Martinis.
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Cyprus maritime takes smart option
in International Shipping News 28/06/2021
Cyprus maritime stakeholders are joining forces on a €1 mln artificial intelligence project that puts the island on the technological map to keep the seas cleaner and safer.
MARI-Sense, a project using intelligent systems for human operators to make sense of the complex maritime environment for transport, shipping, coastal tourism, search and rescue, spatial planning.
It supports the shipping industry, environmental authorities, academia, and law enforcement in decision making by providing the bigger picture of underwater and overwater ecosystems.
The Maritime Cognitive Decision Support System (MARI-Sense) project is co-financed with €1 mln by the European Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.
Petros Petrikkos, a researcher at the University of Nicosia Research Foundation, lead partner of the project, told the Financial Mirror: "MARI-Sense is a strategic project for smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth with a beneficial impact on society, technology, and the economy".
He said there is a cooperation between the academic community, the shipping and tourism industries, government and local authorities and the general public.
The system deploys smart equipment that includes buoys, smart-boats, smart-floats, and land-based stations that monitor weather conditions, presence of swimmers, potential illegal activity in marine protected areas, ports, tourism areas, and critical infrastructures, providing early warning and tools for planning and action by authorities.
The project's research associate Olympia Nisiforou of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), said the system could help save lives by giving out early warning systems to the coast guard.
The project's scientific and technological objectives are designing marine nodes with onboard processing capabilities for smart sensing, power and bandwidth savings, remote sensing capabilities, sensor interconnectivity for swarm intelligence.
"Buoys in the water and smart boats patrolling the area can detect changes in the sea environment that could pose an unforeseen danger to ships or swimmers in danger, dispatching help," said Nisiforou.
"The Maritime Cognitive Decision Support System is a holistic ecosystem of AI systems which gathers information on the sea environment from changes in currents to changes of the seabed," she added.
It could help with marine farming, as the system will provide farmers with all the data they need regarding the sea environment.
Nisiforou stressed the importance of monitoring the seaweed at the bottom of the sea, which act as a natural carbon sink, cleaning the sea and the atmosphere from carbon dioxide pollutants emitted by ships.
"We often talk about pollution on land, but we often ignore pollution created by ships in the sea. The ecosystem at the bottom of the sea helps to regulate the global climate system."
MARI-Sense will also be in a position to help the shipping industry meet its environmental targets, detecting vessels that do not meet green criteria.
Shipping companies have already heavily invested in reducing their emissions over the last decade.
As set by the European Union, the shipping industry aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030, compared to 2008 levels.
"The system will be able to detect ships that are not complying with the directive, while also spotting those that are illegally offloading their waste into the sea," Petrikkos said.
The system can also regulate routes of ships, sending them the quickest, safest way to their destination while also coordinating traffic at neighbouring ports to save time and expenses.
"It can also warn ships of the potential presence of a pirate ship.
"The main motivation is to facilitate sustainable growth in all maritime related industries," said Nisiforou.
She said the general objective is developing and implementing smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth strategies with a beneficial impact on society, technology, and the economy.
"The project can also benefit Cyprus' tourism industry, the island's main source of income, as the industry will have a better view of the sea environment near crowded beaches and be in a better position to take decisions on future investments."
She argued MARI-Sense would contribute to developing new skills and jobs to promote marine science, research, and innovation.
The project comprises 14 partners from academia, industry and government.
It has partially gone online with researchers preparing the first reports of data collected from the sea.
Source: Financial Mirror
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Bobby "Slick" Leonard is Indiana basketball. No one better embodies its toughness; no one better personifies its passion. And no one takes more pride in being a native Hoosier. Heart of a Hoosier chronicles Leonard's journey as never before, from the poorest part of Depression-era Terre Haute to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.


Fuel protesters have staged a 'go slow' protest and demonstration outside the Shell oil depot at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Starting out from Manchester and North Wales, around 100 vehicles converged on the Stanlow Refinery before parking outside the gates and staging a foot protest, according to Cheshire police.
The Stanlow Fuel Protest and Direct Action Group organised the event on Sunday 8 May to call on the government to reduce fuel duty.
Cheshire Constabulary added that tankers continued to arrive and leave the refinery as normal throughout the protest. A spokesperson for Shell, which runs the site, said the protest was "not affecting operations".


A hearing is underway in Atlantic to determine if Cass County Attorney James Barry should be removed from office for alleged misconduct. The sheriff's job will be the line next week. Monday the court heard from Stephanie Witzmer, a civil processor for the Cass County Sheriff's office. Witzmer said less than two months before a newspaper report detailing allegations of mishandling of funds in the sheriff's department, Barry and Sheriff Larry Jones asked her if she wouldn't mind taking over the books relating to the sheriff's drug fund so that the records would be more accurate. Witzmer said she received two sets of ledgers and two sacks of money that took a long-time to reconcile, but that Barry did not anything improper in the handling of the books, and had never asked her to lie about the records. And, Annette Campbell, from the State Auditor's Office, said there was no evidence to suggest that Barry had any control over the sheriff's cash fund, and that there were no records linking him to the purchase of a high-powered rifle using money from the sheriff's fund.


"It Is A Straight-Up Conflict Of Interest"
Veteran journalism experts and two former NBC News presidents are urging CNBC to remove senior contributor Larry Kudlow from the channel as he lays the groundwork for a potential campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Kudlow has said he is "moving toward" a Senate run in Connecticut with no apparent action from the network.
Among Kudlow's steps are interviewing potential campaign staff, creating strategy, and promoting "a test-the-water committee, which would become the campaign." At the same time, CNBC has allowed Kudlow to use its platform to attack potential Democratic opponent Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
In 2010, when Kudlow was also rumored to be weighing a run for office, CNBC said it would "change" Kudlow's status with the network if he started "seriously considering" running.
Asked about Kudlow's latest apparent political aspirations, a CNBC spokesperson told Media Matters on Monday, "Larry Kudlow is not a CNBC employee and no longer anchors a show and hasn't since March 28, 2014. He is now a senior contributor."
CNBC offered the same response to the Washington Examiner when the paper asked about Kudlow in September. The Examiner noted at the time, "Kudlow is, however, under contract with CNBC. The spokesperson would not comment on the terms of that arrangement, Kudlow's compensation, or when exactly CNBC would make a decision on its relationship with him as he considers a run for public office."
In a press release announcing its October 2015 Republican debate coverage, CNBC called Kudlow one of its "top" contributors and touted his involvement in the network's "special programming" surrounding the debate. He has recently been covering the Republican primary for the network from Iowa and New Hampshire.
In comments to Media Matters, news veterans criticized Kudlow and the network.
"If I were still there I would not allow it," said William Small, who served as NBC News president from 1979-1982. "It's a misuse of a news division, a news division is not supposed to take sides. There are a lot of people, especially at Fox, who do, but it never happened on my shift. That's a conflict of interest. I'm surprised that CNBC would allow that."
Richard Wald, a former NBC News president from 1972-1977, said CNBC should make Kudlow clarify what he is doing and act accordingly by taking him off the air if he is running.
"The first step is for the management of the network to sit down with Mr. Kudlow and find out his intentions and his timing. They should not skirt the ethical positions by deliberately not knowing," Wald said via email. "He can't use the network for political advantage if he is going into electoral politics. If the network finds that he is about to join the contest, or will do so on a date certain, then they should be prepared -- as you say they have stated before -- to take him off the air until the election is over."
Several former network news reporters agreed.
"Anchors/reporters/'contributors' should not -- and should not be allowed -- to use a network to advance their political ambitions," Marvin Kalb, a 30-year Washington reporter and former host of Meet the Press, said via email. "This is done regularly on Fox, and it should not now spread to CNBC. If anyone, Kudlow included, wants to prepare a campaign for political office, it should not be from his or her perch atop a network."
Frank Sesno, former CNN Washington correspondent and current director of the School of Media & Public Affairs at George Washington University, said Kudlow's actions are a "very bright red flag" for CNBC management.
"The network cannot, should not, doesn't want to be used as a crass launching pad for someone's political future," Sesno said. "If he hasn't had meetings with network executives, if he hasn't he's overdue. If he hasn't crossed the line, he's very, very close to it. This is not hard, if you are the head of the network you call the guy in and ask if he is running, if he says 'yes,' he is off the air. If he says 'no,' he goes back to work."
Kelly McBride, ethics instructor the Poynter Institute, echoed that view.
"CNBC should step in here and tell Larry he can't use his on-air platform as an exploratory committee because that's not in the best interests of the network and its audience," she said. "They should force him to make his decision and get on with it, now that he's already mentioned it. At the very least, he shouldn't talk about it on air again."
Edward Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, said CNBC's problem is that anything Kudlow says, especially related to financial interests that might be funding his campaign down the road, is tainted.
"It is a straight-up conflict of interest," Wasserman said. "The reality is that he cannot help but filter and decide what he is going to put on the air in light of how it's going to serve that ambition. And once he's done that, he is a classic conflict of interest, his judgment is impaired by a classic outside entanglement."


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Armey seeks probe of short yellow lights
House Majority Leader Dick Armey and other lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings in the wake of a report that accuses local governments across the country of endangering motorists and maximizing fines by shortening yellow-light cycles on traffic signals.
The study, first reported in yesterdays editions of The Washington Times, indicates that since 1985, yellow lights on traffic signals have been cut from an average duration of five seconds to three — and that fines generated by traffic cameras capturing drivers running the quick-changing signals has become a critical revenue source for local governments.
Rep. Dick Armey, who presented the study — "The Red Light Running Crisis — Is it Intentional?" — at a news conference yesterday, said the shortened yellow lights put motorists at risk, and he called the red-light cameras a violation of Americans privacy rights.
The Texas Republican called for hearings on the issue before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Mr. Armeys report focused on national trends, but an ongoing independent investigation by The Washington Times indicates the traffic signal problems are particularly chronic in the Washington area, where many jurisdictions have invested heavily in electronic monitoring of busy intersections.
Last fall, reporters at The Times counted 20 vehicles in 30 minutes — including a police cruiser — running a red light under the three-second yellow signal at Slaters Lane and the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Alexandria. Six months later, those two reporters watched for another half-hour as 21 vehicles got caught by the same quick-changing light.
The combination of short-cycling lights and unsynchronized signals along major thoroughfares leaves some Washington drivers fuming.
"Its not a good way to start your day off, being mad," said Alan Phillips, a federal government worker from Centreville who, on a good day, sits in traffic for about 90 minutes to get to work in the District every morning. "You get upset and irritated even before you walk through your office door. Thats not right."
Mr. Armeys report, according to Lon Anderson, a spokesman for the American Automobile Associations Mid-Atlantic division, verifies what many drivers in the gridlocked Washington region already know: Incorrectly programmed traffic signals are adding to danger on area roads.
Mr. Anderson said congressional hearings are a step in the right direction, and he urged Mr. Armey and other lawmakers to step in and set a national standard on the timing of traffic lights to discourage "unscrupulous" behavior by localities trying to profit off the use of red-light cameras.
"AAA strongly believes that law enforcement should never be a get-rich-quick scheme for local governments," Mr. Anderson said.
Supporters of the red-light cameras in the Washington area, however, were skeptical.
Fairfax City Manager Robert Sisson and Alexandria Police Department spokeswoman Amy Bertsch — who work for two jurisdictions that have red light cameras — said the cameras help save lives and prevent injuries.
"Red means stop, a 4-year-old knows that," Miss Bertsch said. "There is no greater invasion of privacy than getting broadsided by someone running a red light."
Mr. Sisson said persons who are caught on the candid camera can contest their ticket and have their day in court.
"You still have the opportunity to go before a judge and plead your case," Mr. Sisson said.
Richard Retting, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said Mr. Armeys report is making a federal issue out of what is really a local and state matter. "Most people in their community know what to expect when a yellow light turns yellow," Mr. Retting said.
Mr. Rettings group estimates that about 260,000 crashes — and 800 deaths and 1,200 injuries — a year are caused by red-light violators.
At his news conference, Mr. Armey slammed communities using red-light cameras to fill their coffers.
"There seems to be a tendency to see the traffic camera as a revenue device as opposed to a traffic device," he said.
And shortened yellow lights, he said, can lead to more crashes.
"As you shorten the yellow, you find people that are more rushed into what we would call panic stops," Mr. Armey said. "And the panic stop, as we know by our own driving experience, is what creates the rear-end collisions."
* Ellen Sorokin and Stephen Dinan contributed to this report.


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