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The region’s hot climate can be a challenge, but its high altitude and extreme daytime/nighttime temperature shifts offer the potential for great wine. In recent years, an increasing number of producers are utilizing better vineyard practices, upgrading equipment and experimenting with new varietals and techniques. The... |
In that spirit of experimentation and improvement, I headed down to Miami to discover a few gems from Castilla-La Mancha. The day-long event was hosted at The Villa by Barton G (formerly, the Versace mansion). We began the day crowded into a small upstairs classroom, watching a Powerpoint presentation and sipping on ei... |
Following the lecture, we headed down to the grand tasting in the hotel’s lush courtyard, complete with Spanish tapas and live flamenco guitar. The wines listed below are some of my favorites from the day. Many are not currently found in Florida, which is why retail prices aren’t always listed. Some wines were picked u... |
Gewürztraminer can be overwhelming at times, but this unique blend with sauvignon blanc tamed its wilder side. The pungent floral and perfumey notes were certainly present, but the crisp freshness of the sauvignon was a nice balance. On the palate, the blend of ripe tropical and citrus fruit was smooth and medium-bodie... |
Casa Gualda is a cooperative with more than 1600 acres across Castilla-La Mancha. Those vineyards located near the Júcar river benefit from a stony soil, similar to that found in Southeast France. The Casa Gualda Syrah is a deep purple color in the glass and smells of very ripe cherry, blackberry, and sweet date with h... |
Altolandon makes a variety of organic wines from local and international varietals. Rosalia Molina, who owns the property with her husband, Manuel Garrote, should be the region’s poster child for innovation and creativity. The enolgist and winemaker has experimented with everything from lesser-known Southern France var... |
The Altolandon Rayuelo is made from 100 percent bobal, picked from vines that are 40 to 80 years old. This being my first taste of bobal, I don’t have much frame of reference. But I immediately liked it. Fresh and aromatic red fruit aromas greet the nose. The wine is a blend of ripe cherry and red berries with a hint o... |
Though originally from the French region of Cahors, malbec is certainly better-known for its adoptive parent, Argentina, and that is where Molina fell in love with it. She saw a lot of similarities between the high Andean plateau around Mendoza and her own high altitude vineyards in Manchuela, and so decided to create ... |
In character, this wine falls somewhere between its French and Argentine brothers. The blend of ripe and juicy red and black fruit is certainly more Argentine, but the underlying earthy minerality feels more Old World. Molina’s high altitude vineyards lend a great acidity to the wine that give it wonderful balance. The... |
Los Aljibes is a family estate that produces wine, olives and cereal, as well as breeding pure-blood Spanish horses. The winery includes 178 hectares (440 acres) of vineyards that stand at almost 1,000 meters above sea level. They produce white, rosé and a variety of red single varietals and blends. The cabernet franc ... |
A complex blend of pungent red and black fruit, herbs, tobacco and coffee, this wine was giving me new aromas with each sniff. On palate, it’s a super smooth and elegant wine with a great balance of ripe fruit, acidity and tannin with a lingering finish. The cabernet franc isn’t yet in stores, but The Fresh Market carr... |
PALM BEACH FINE WINES: In last week’s Swirl Girls column on Indie wine vendors, we incorrectly wrote that Josh Volpe purchased Hampton’s of Palm Beach Fine Wines in the fall of 2011. Volpe actually purchased the store in the fall of 2012. |
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd: Can the Philippines Save This Struggling Casino Operator? |
With the challenging market conditions in Macau, this newer market could be good news for the company. |
Melco Crown Entertainment(NASDAQ:MLCO)was an incredible growth story in recent memory as its near-complete bet on Macau paid off big during the spectacular rise of the Chinese gaming enclave. Unfortunately for Melco Crown and its investors, Macau gaming revenue has declined drastically in the last year as Chinese Presi... |
However, the company has placed bets on another country that could be the next long-term winner: the Philippines. |
When 2013 ended, total Macau gaming revenue was up nearly 20% for the year, and companies with the biggest investments in the region made incredible gains. Melco Crown was the company with the highest percentage of its total revenue tied to Macau. The company did well on that substantial wager, and with a massive new r... |
Then came the massive decline in gaming revenue during the summer of 2014. While every company operating in Macau has struggled since, many of them had sufficient bets in other regions to help balance the scales. For example, Las Vegas Sands leaned on its U.S. and Singapore operations. |
Diversifying into other regions could likewise provide additional long-term growth and reduce risk for Melco Crown. And that is exactly what the company is pursuing with the City of Dreams Manila, which had a soft opening last December and formally opened to the public in February. |
The City of Dreams Manila largely resembles the City of Dreams resort in Macau with opulent casinos, world-class dining, and multiple hotels. The resort sets itself apart from the other two major casinos nearby as a more premier leisure destination with hotels, entertainment, and other amenities that the company hopes ... |
There are gaming opportunities in Asia other than Macau, but most of them are a distant hope rather than a realistic bet. Japanese legislators have teased gaming companies with the possibility of legalization in the country, but so far to no avail. The same is true with South Korea opening its gaming market further -- ... |
However, the Philippines is looking to increase gaming to boost overall tourism. The island country makes sense as another bet for gaming companies in the region, with an already booming tourism industry and easy access to Manila from other major cities around Asia. |
Last year, Bloomberg analysts estimated the value of the Philippines gaming market at a modest $2 billion, about a third of that of Singapore and far less than Macau even during its rapid decline (about $40 billion last year). |
However, the gaming industry in the Philippines grew 16% in 2014. According to research from Macquarie, that growth could increase to 20% over the next three years, making the Philippines a nearly $5 billion gaming industry by 2018. |
There is clearly high demand for gaming in Asia, as illustrated by the rapid explosion of gaming in Macau and Singapore and the surge of interest in Japan, South Korea, and elsewhere. For Melco Crown and other resorts making an early bet on the Philippines, this could be the next high-growth market with long-term poten... |
Many holiday memories are conjured up by the smells of the season. From the whiff of a perfect fir tree permeating the living room to Grandma's highly spiced (and highly potent) eggnog, these holiday aromas create cravings for cozy family evenings and the crinkle of gaily wrapped gifts. |
But the onset of festivities may bring with it high levels of stress as presents must be bought, holiday menus planned, parties attended and dozens of cookies and treats baked. What everyone really needs is a night out with good friends, some wine, an appetizer or two, and a basketful of homemade cookies to take home t... |
"Everyone bakes cookies, brings them to the party and then takes a selection of everyone else's cookies home," said Leigh Koonce, a Hailey resident who hosted a cookie exchange last weekend. "It's also a nice way to see what everyone is up to for the holidays." |
A uniquely American tradition, the cookie exchange has grown in popularity in recent years. Nancy Rutherford, owner of Rolling in Dough, said that over the past week she's had half a dozen people pop into her Ketchum store pleading for her cookie dough. |
"Everybody has been coming in here asking for dough because they don't have time to make it themselves!" she said. "It seems to be a very popular deal this Christmas." |
"People call me up all the time, saying, 'I don't have time to bake, can you make them for me?'" Jones said. |
And if it's even too late for that, Jones' highly decorated cookies featuring snowflakes, gingerbread boys, snowmen, Santa Clauses, dreidels and menorahs are available at Rasberrys, Penelope's Café, Atkinsons' Markets and Main Street Market. |
Diane Hull, head baker at Cristina's Bakery, has been to more than a dozen cookie exchanges over the years. |
"It's lovely getting other people's cookies, seeing what they make for the holidays and getting new ideas." she said. |
This year she's whipping up almond cookies with raspberry jam, chocolate orange Christmas cookies, peppermint pinwheels and thumbprints in the Ketchum restaurant's kitchen. |
Assuming most of the attendees found the time to bake their own, a lovely tradition to share at a cookie exchange is to have each guest "present" his or her cookies, telling the group how it fits into his or her family holiday traditions. From "my Brazilian grandma's secret recipe" to "a treat I discovered on my honeym... |
"It's a great opportunity to get a big variety of cookies that then you can turn around and give as gifts," said Alex Taylor, a waitress at CK's Restaurant in Hailey who has hosted a cookie exchange. "It's also a great way to just have some girl time. I think it's important not to have any pressure to make the most bea... |
- Have guests bring a dozen cookies (preferably homemade, but don't insist) for each attendee and copies of the recipe to hand out. |
( Supply festive bags for guests to take cookies home in. |
- Prepare a large table, decorated with a festive theme, for everyone to set out their cookies on. |
- Hold the party in the morning and serve the cookies with milk, or make it part of a holiday cocktail party, saving the cookies for guests to take home. |
Nancy Rutherford's festive shortbread cookies are simple to make and take along to a cookie exchange (or, for those in a rush, easy to pick up at her Ketchum store). Make two separate doughs (traditional shortbread and gingerbread). Use the gingerbread dough as the round cookie and then, using a festive cookie cutter, ... |
Gingerbread: As above, substituting brown sugar for confectioner's sugar and adding molasses and powdered ginger. Other options include adding chocolate powder or vanilla flavoring. |
Directions: Combine butter, sugar, salt and egg and blend until smooth. Add flour and mix until just combined. Overmixing (and over-rolling) will quickly ruin cookie dough. Wrap the dough in plastic and freeze until firm (30 minutes). Roll out and cut circles and shapes. Assemble cookies and bake in preheated oven (350... |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KNX), North America's largest truckload transportation company, has issued its earnings release for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. |
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 02/28/2018 settlement date, which shows a 2,727,591 share increase in total short interest for Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc , to 25,574,468, an increase of 11.94% since 02/15/2018. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; anoth... |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KNX) announced today that on January 31, 2018 its Board of Directors declared the company's quarterly cash dividend of $0. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KNX), North America's largest truckload transportation company, has issued its earnings release for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KNX) expects to release its 2017 fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, January 30 th, 2018, after market close. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE:KNX), North America's largest truckload transportation company, has issued its third quarter ended September 30, 2017, earnings release. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KNX) subsidiaries Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation were honored with the SmartWay ® Excellence Award from the U. |
President Donald Trump will pitch his tax plan to truckers on Wednesday, though just how much his policies will benefit the group is unclear. And his trade policies could actually do the trucking industry harm. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KNX) expects to release its 2017 third quarter earnings on Monday, November 6th, 2017, after market close. |
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. ("Knight-Swift" or the "Company") (NYSE: "KNX") announced today the completion of the merger of Knight Transportation, Inc. |
Knight Transportation, Inc. (NYSE: KNX), one of North America's largest and most diversified truckload transportation companies, today reported revenue and net income for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. |
Knight Transportation, Inc. (NYSE: KNX) expects to release its 2017 second quarter earnings on Wednesday, July 26th, 2017, after market close. |
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 04/28/2017 settlement date, which shows a 2,925,313 share increase in total short interest for Knight Transportation Inc , to 11,479,265, an increase of 34.20% since 04/13/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that ... |
Knight Transportation, Inc. (NYSE: KNX), one of North America's largest and most diversified truckload transportation companies, today reported revenue and net income for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017. |
Stocks retreated from highs in the final minutes of trading Monday as another rally in crude oil failed to inspire big gains on Wall Street. |
Truckers Swift Transportation and Knight Transportation are merging. |
Stocks rise as a rally in crude oil propels the energy sector higher. |
What Do We Want Next From The Cloverfield Franchise? |
The Cloverfield Paradox has left fans divided, but despite the mixed reception interest has far from died when it comes to the franchise, and there are some things we would love to see from it in the future. |
Major spoilers incoming for all three Cloverfield films, so if you haven't seen them yet you've been warned. |
The franchise's biggest weakness is in many ways also its biggest strength, that being the overarching mystery of the franchise. The first Cloverfield was such a unique beast, both literally and figuratively, as it offered way more questions than answers. Where did the monster come from, why is it attacking now, and ju... |
That film offered up a personal story of a grieving father who took his want of a daughter to a demented level, but those last 10 minutes place all of it within a crazy science fiction candy wrapper. All the sudden it wasn't just a story between three people, but one with alien spaceships and grotesque monsters trying ... |
Then Cloverfield Paradox came along, attempting to explain how the original Cloverfield monster got to Earth and did so in a convincing manner. It also opened the door to even more insanity though, as we'll get into in a bit. |
The Cloverfield franchise has been full of surprises thus far, and it's one of the reasons fans keep getting excited for them, despite their at times lack of answers. We've got a few ideas of what we want to see from future films, so hit the next slide to see if your picks match up with ours! |
Slide 1/8 – What Happened To Ava and Schmidt? |
At the end of Cloverfield Paradox, Ava and Schmidt are on their way back to Earth from the Cloverfield Station. They've finally made it home, but as their pod sails past the clouds a tense silence overtakes the scene, followed by an enormous Cloverfield monster piercing the cloud line with a thunderous roar. |
That's where it ends, but what happens right after? Imagine the opening of the film taking place right as the pod sails past the cloudline, heading towards the ocean. The pod is fraying a bit as it heads towards the water, through which Ava can see something bending its head and moving by the buildings. It sees the pod... |
Paradox planted seeds that there were many of these things now on Earth, and we would love to see what happens next. |
Speaking of wanting to see things pick up where they left off, let's move to 10 Cloverfield Lane. |
In that film, Michelle realizes that Aliens have taken over the planet, and even ends up destroying an alien ship in order to keep it from essentially swallowing her and her truck. Michelle changes quite a bit by the end of this film, and that results in her making a very courageous choice. |
Instead of heading to the safe zone she hears about on the radio, she chooses to go to Houston once she hits the crossroads. The radio says Houston needs help, and this Michelle is someone who doesn't want to run away anymore. She wants to fight, and we would love to see the continuation of that storyline. |
Fans could learn more about the aliens in this era, how they took over, and what humanity is doing to stay alive and not under their thumb. It could be great and could be an amazing way to add yet another layer to the Cloverfield universe. |
Cloverfield Overlord is actually Cloverfield 4 and is already being worked on. |
As J.J. Abrams has recently revealed, Overlord will be directed by Julius Avery. According to earlier reports, Overlord is set during World War II and will feature the Nazis toying with supernatural forces as they try and win the war. This provides plenty of avenues to introduce monsters and creatures new and old and w... |
Not much else is known about the project, other than that this one is being planned for theaters, as opposed to Paradox's Netflix debut. |
Cloverfield Paradox opened the door for not only other dimensions making their way into ours but also changes in the very fabric of time. |
That's important to note, especially when you factor in that Paradox takes place in the year 2028, 20 full years after the original Cloverfield in 2008. The monster seen in the final minutes of Paradox is not the same monster in the original, though the statement that the original was just a baby definitely turns out t... |
It's been revealed that Paradox and the original Cloverfield are not taking place at the same time, despite some unplanned similarities. It is said in Paradox that rifts created by Cloverfield Station not only affect space but also time, so any era can have rifts form as a result. |
So, the toybox is open, so why not head to other notable eras and timelines for side stories that feed into the greater mystery of the Cloverfield universe? Sounds great right? Overlord is kicking things off with World War II, so we'll see how things progress after that. |
The original Cloverfield was directed by Matt Reeves, and while he has his hands full with The Batman movie, we would love to see him return to deliver another Cloverfield film. |
The original's hand cam approach was part of its appeal, creating a palpable tension and only teasing the monster through the majority of the movie. It created an amazing atmosphere and never showed the creature for too long, keeping the sense of mystery and awe until the film's final moments. |
We would love to see him behind the camera once again, though the series seems to favor a new director with every installment. It makes sense to a degree, but if Bad Robot ever does a true sequel to the original, Reeves is the man for the job. |
While you have rifts dealing with time and space, why not shift things underwater? |
This would be based around a set of scuba divers or explorers who find an unmarked set of caverns in the ocean, only to find out that this was actually a city that was overtaken by the waves after an unknown event took place. What is that event? Well, it has to do with another dimension and crazy creatures, and it coul... |
It can't be just monsters and aliens coming through these rifts, so why not expand that to something else? |
That's the idea behind the Cloverfield Infection, an otherworldly virus that has started taking its toll on the populace. Now, it couldn't just be undead vs humanity, because we've seen that hundreds of times. It would have to put its own unique spin on things, but the idea that plagues and such have made their way thr... |
This would likely be the end of the franchise, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be. |
At some point after Paradox, humanity now knows what they did to wreck space-time, so they would probably put a mission together to try and repair it. It would require them sacrificing their new energy source, but then again, if you're not alive to use it then energy doesn't have much use. |
Depending on the number of films, it would be interesting to see characters from the other films come together in this mission. If other creatures can enter through the rifts, why not us? |
Granted, there are few happy endings in the Cloverfield universe, so there's no certainty that they actually fix it, but it would make for an entertaining finale regardless. |
I write in response to the City Press editorial on Sunday It’s time to disarm everyone, regarding the disarming of all and sundry, leaving only the police and military with any firearms. |
First, allow me to place on record that the South African press has been vehemently opposed to civilian firearm ownership for years. |
A simple Google search will provide a myriad articles published in this regard. |
Additionally, instead of publishing both sides of the story, newspapers are seemingly intent on only running stories in support of disarming the populace. |
What is abundantly clear in this particular instance, is that the piece is merely someone’s opinion, and not backed by verified facts and research. |
What has been lost during last few days since the Constitutional Court ruling (that gun owners with expired licences must hand them in or face arrest), and the tragic shooting of a son by his father, is the reason why many people carry firearms. |
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