#Politics @Interior #AustraliaPeachy #WashingtonDCPeachy The United States and Australia Formalize Partnership on Critical Minerals
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Monday, November 18, 2019
Photo: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan (photo credit, DOI Photographer Tami Heilemann)
Today, the United States and Australia formalized their partnership on developing both nations’ critical mineral assets between Geoscience Australia CEO James Johnson and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Director Jim Reilly. The two partners outlined specific steps to strengthen an existing Memorandum of Understanding by collaborating on research and increasing critical mineral capacity for both countries.
“We are working with our close international partners and allies to carry out President Trump’s blueprint to position the United States as a leader in the critical minerals sector and ensure economic prosperity,” said Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. “This is an important milestone in reducing the Nation’s susceptibility to critical mineral supply disruptions.”
Critical minerals are used in nearly all economic sectors for a range of products, including mobile phones, electronics, batteries, fiber optics, steelmaking, military gear and medical equipment.
The new activities focus on joint critical mineral potential mapping and quantitative mineral assessments; determining geological controls on critical mineral distribution; and developing data analytics capability to understand supply and demand scenarios for developing critical minerals trade between the two countries.
"Today's commitment is an important next step in accomplishing the goals of the Trump Administration's strategy to secure the supply of minerals critical to our national security and economic growth," said Reilly. "We are grateful for the strong partnership we continue to enjoy with our Australian counterparts."
“This is a partnership that will deliver opportunity and security to both nations,” said Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan. “Australia is in a position to develop stable supply chains to meet the growing global demand for critical minerals, especially in key economies such as the U.S. The U.S. has a need for critical minerals and Australia’s abundant supplies makes us a reliable international partner in securing access to a wide range of those including rare earth elements.”
These research priorities and international cooperation are both significant aspects of the Federal Strategy to Ensure a Reliable Supply of Critical Minerals, which the Trump Administration published in June of 2019. Among other things, the strategy directs the DOI to locate domestic supplies of those minerals, ensure access to information necessary for the study and production of minerals, and expedite permitting for minerals projects.
The strategy also directs the USGS to explore international partnerships with close allies and partners to learn more about how those countries study their critical minerals and what lessons the United States could take from them. The USGS has begun doing so with Australia, and a wide-ranging Memorandum of Understanding that was updated in 2018 has already been of great benefit.
For example, the USGS’s effort to collect new geophysical, geological and topographical data is modeled on, among other things, Australian investments in similar geoscience datasets.
Under Executive Order 13817 signed by President Trump, “critical minerals” are non-fuel mineral or mineral materials that are essential to the economic and national security of the United States, that have a supply chain vulnerable to disruption, and that serve an essential function in the manufacturing of a product, the absence of which would have significant consequences for the economy or national security.
In May of 2018, DOI released a list of 35 minerals deemed critical to the U.S. economy and security, based on a methodology by the USGS. This list forms the foundation of the full Federal strategy.
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Director Jim Reilly and Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan (photo credit, DOI Photographer Tami Heilemann)
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Friday, March 23, 2018
LENOVO KICKS OFF MULTI-YEAR SCUDERIA FERRARI PARTNERSHIP IN MELBOURNE
As it continues its ambitions to become one of the world’s most admired and globally recognized brands, Lenovo has entered into a multi-year sponsorship partnership with Scuderia Ferrari – starting with the 2018 season which kicks off in Melbourne this Sunday, 25th March.
The partnership will see brand exposure through the placement of the Lenovo logo on the side wing and front suspension of the Scuderia Ferrari 2018 F1 single-seater as well as team uniforms and on the arm of drivers’ racing suits. Lenovo will also be providing products (ThinkPad laptops and Miix tablets) to be used by Scuderia Ferrari on and off the track.
Commenting on the sponsorship, Lenovo Corporate President and Chief Operating Officer Gianfranco Lanci, said: “Lenovo is happy to partner with Scuderia Ferrari and to get close to one of the most iconic global brands, recognized for excellence in design, performance and innovation – all values that are important to Lenovo. The combination of the global platform of Formula One and the Ferrari brand is the perfect opportunity for us to further grow the Lenovo brand on the world stage.”
The Lenovo logo first appeared on the SF71H single-seater on 22nd February in Maranello, Italy and will debut in Melbourne for the first Grand Prix of the 2018 F1 season.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Mures Tasmania wins in National Restaurant Industry Awards
The 2017 Savour Australia™ Restaurant & Catering Hostplus National Awards for Excellence, celebrating the achievements of Australia’s finest hospitality businesses, were held at Melbourne’s Peninsula, 30 October 2017.
Mures Tasmania were honoured as recipients of two National Awards
Mures Upper Deck, Seafood Restaurant – Formal (SILVER)
PEARL + CO, Café Dining (SILVER)
Owners and Restaurant and Catering Australia (R&CA) members, Will Mure and Jude Mure were present to accept the awards and said “We are very pleased and humbled to be honoured with these awards by this panel of industry influencers who understand the challenges and opportunities facing businesses today. It’s a wonderful result and acknowledgement of our teams’ drive, hard work and continued commitment to quality and customer service across all aspects of our family’s business.” Mure added “We’re proud to play a role in ensuring that our local guests, as well as, the growing number of visitors, are provided, a unique Tasmanian experience, with the best food and services that Tasmania can offer.”
The Savour Australia Awards for Excellence is a nationally recognised, independently judged awards program of Cafés, restaurants and catering businesses, across Australia, demonstrating exceptional service, culinary excellence and value for money across 41 different categories. The award winners from each category are determined by individual judges trained in the Restaurant and Catering Evaluation System (RACES) program.
About Mures Tasmania: Mures are one of the few 100% vertically integrated businesses in Australia, who catches, cleans and cooks their own fish. Started in 1973 by George and Jill Mure and now headed up by their son Will and his wife Jude, today Mures Tasmania, incorporates a 23 metre longline vessel; a fish processing factory including a fishmonger outlet, in Cambridge, Tasmania and three award winning seafood restaurants (Mures Upper Deck, Mures Lower Deck, PEARL + CO) and a second fishmonger at Mures Fish Centre on the Hobart waterfront.
Friday, October 13, 2017
#PeachysPetPals #WhomYouKnow #BarkHyattMelbourne #GuideDogsVictoria @ParkHyattMelb Mr Walker, Park Hyatt Melbourne’s Canine Ambassador Our Coverage Sponsored by Bergen Linen
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Established in 1957, Guide Dogs Victoria provides vital support to enable Victorians with low vision or blindness to live independently and achieve their goals in life.
You may be surprised to know that Guide Dogs Victoria is so much more than dogs and delivers a broad range of orientation and mobility services for children and adults including white cane training, occupational therapy assistive technology and more.
In 2017, Guide Dogs was voted Australia’s Most Trusted Charity Brand for the 5th year in a row by the Readers Digest official poll.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision from Australia Wins Grand Championship at 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge
Additional winners at the event included Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, winners of the Pick Task, and MIT Princeton of the U.S., winners of the Stow Task
Contestants at this year's Amazon Robotics Challenge were awarded $270,000 in prizes to support continued innovation within the robotics and automation community
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the results of its 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge with winners hailing from Australia, the U.S., and Singapore. Australian Centre for Robotic Vision from Australiasucceed in the Grand Championship Combined Task to win the overall Challenge with Nanyang Technological University of Singapore winning the Pick Task and MIT Princeton of the U.S., winning the Stow Task. This year's finalists demonstrated sophisticated solutions combining object recognition, pose recognition, grasp planning, compliant manipulation, motion planning, task planning, task execution, and error detection and recovery to successfully pick and stow unique items. Teams were judged based on how many items were successfully picked and stowed by their robots in a fixed amount of time. A total of $270,000 in prizes were awarded to contestants throughout the four-day competition.
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The 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. (Photo: Business Wire)
The Amazon Robotics Challenge aims to strengthen the ties between the industrial and academic robotic communities and promote shared and open solutions to the technical challenges faced in unstructured automation. This year's Amazon Robotics Challenge was held during RoboCup, the leading and most diverse competition for intelligent robots and one of the world's most important technology events in research and training. RoboCup and the Amazon Robotics Challenge were held in Japan at the Nagoya International Exhibition Hall (Portmesse Nagoya).
"This year, we made some changes to the Challenge to make it even more difficult and to encourage broader participation from multiple robotics fields - and the response was exciting," said Joey Durham, Contest Chairperson and Manager of Research and Advanced Development for Amazon Robotics. "The versatility of recognition capabilities in an unstructured environment and the dexterity of grasping mechanisms was truly impressive. What we're most proud of with the Amazon Robotics Challenge is its celebration of robotic community and the venue it's created to share and promote research in a fun and rewarding way. Congratulations to our winners and all of our contestants!"
The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision team consisted of researchers, early PhD candidates and undergraduate students who combined computer vision, machine learning and a variety of robotic hardware to successfully complete both pick and stow tasks the fastest. Below is additional information on all winners.
Grand Championship in Combined Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st ACRV Australian Center for Robotic Vision Australia $80,000
2nd NimbRo University of Bonn Germany $40,000
3rd Nanyang Nanyang Technological University Singapore $20,000
Pick Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st Nanyang Nanyang Technological University Singapore $20,000
2nd NimbRo Picking University of Bonn Germany $10,000
3rd IITK TCS Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Tata Consultancy Services India $5,000
Stow Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st MIT-Princeton MIT-Princeton USA $20,000
2nd Nanyang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore $10,000
3rd MC^2 Mitsubishi Electric, Chubu University, Chukyo University Japan $5,000
Amazon is committed to supporting innovation in robotics and automation. The company utilizes a wide range of innovative technology within its fulfillment centers, including more than 100,000 Amazon Robotics drive units in over 25 fulfillment centers worldwide. Amazon Robotics drive units deliver items directly to employees at ergonomic work stations and help make associates' roles more efficient to enable superfast delivery speeds for customer orders. The company currently has more than 90,000 full-time employees across its U.S. fulfillment network.
For additional information about the Amazon Robotics Challenge including contest details, participating teams, rules, FAQs and detailed results, visit www.amazonrobotics.com/#/roboticschallenge. For more information about RoboCup, visit www.robocup2017.org. A video from the event can be viewed here.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
#SupportMusic THE RECORDING ACADEMY® TO HONOR FOUR-TIME GRAMMY® WINNER KEITH URBAN AT GRAMMYS ON THE HILL® AWARDS ON APRIL 5 IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Urban To Be Recognized For Contributions to the Music Community and Dedication to Music Education Our Coverage Sponsored by Hallak Cleaners the Couture Cleaner
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On April 5, The Recording Academy® will honor four-time GRAMMY® winner Keith Urban with the Recording Artists' Coalition®Award at the annual GRAMMYs on the Hill® Awards in Washington, D.C. Urban's continued commitment to numerous music education programs has not only served to inspire young musicians, it has provided thousands of greatly needed musical instruments to underserved programs across the country.
Urban's contributions to music education date back nearly a decade and have remained consistent ever since. Underscoring the need to support education-based initiatives that attract young people toward music and encourage their creative pursuits, Urban has volunteered for The Academy's GRAMMY Camp® music program, which offers high school students an interactive summer music experience. He has supported The Recording Academy's grant-based education initiatives, which provide necessary funds to America's public schools, helping to sustain local music education programs for youth. In addition, Urban has participated in the GRAMMY U Soundchecks® program on multiple occasions.
"Through music education programs, Keith Urban has encouraged aspiring musicians by giving them the opportunity to perform and achieve their dreams," said Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow. "An engaged member of the music community and The Recording Academy for many years, Keith is an outstanding music citizen and supporter of the future of music, so it is our great pleasure to honor and recognize his dedication at GRAMMYs on the Hill."
"The opportunity to work with aspiring musicians and kids, who are just discovering music for the first time, really inspires me," said Urban. "Creativity is at the heart of an innovative society – it brings people together and teaches children self-expression, creative confidence, and improvisational skills which are essential to their development. Being honored by The Academy, especially given the fact that they're the ones that have given me the chance to be part of their work in this area, is humbling. It's an incredible honor."
Uniting the worlds of music and politics, GRAMMYs on the Hill also recognizes legislators who have improved the environment for music by advocating for music creators' rights. Previously honored legislators include former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), and John McCain (R-Ariz.), and House Leaders Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi.
The awards take place at the Hamilton Live in Washington D.C., and will feature unique live performances and musical surprises. The GRAMMYs on the Hill Awards are sponsored by music rights organization SESAC.
The following day, April 6, The Recording Academy will host the music community's largest annual Washington, D.C. gathering, GRAMMYs on the Hill Advocacy Day, which sees hundreds of music professionals from across the country visiting lawmakers to discuss important issues facing today's music creators.
About Keith Urban
Urban has celebrated 22 No. 1 songs, including "Blue Ain't Your Color" from his Best Country Album GRAMMY-nominated Ripcord. A streak of 37 Top 10 songs, dating back to 2000, is an historic mark that has placed him at No. 8 on the all-time Country Airplay Chart. He's sold more than 20 million albums, scoring five consecutive platinum or multiplatinum albums, and he is the only male country artist to simultaneously debut atop the all-genre album charts in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, a feat he's achieved twice.
About The Recording Academy
Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers, and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards®—the preeminent peer-recognized award for musical excellence and the most credible brand in music—The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education, and human services programs. The Academy continues to focus on its mission of recognizing musical excellence, advocating for the well-being of music makers and ensuring music remains an indelible part of our culture. For more information about The Academy's advocacy efforts, please visit grammy.com/action, and follow the online conversation on Twitter @GRAMMYAdvocacy, #SupportMusic, and "like" GRAMMY Advocacy on Facebook.
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
The National Gallery of London Tells Whom You Know: AUSTRALIA’S IMPRESSIONISTS: 7 December 2016 – 26 March 2017 Sunley Room Our Coverage Sponsored by Bergen Linen
Arthur Streeton, Fire’s On, 1891
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This will be the first exhibition in the UK to focus solely on Australian Impressionists, presenting 41 paintings including important masterpieces never previously shown in the UK. For the first time at the National Gallery, visitors will have the opportunity to discover the impact of European Impressionism on Australian painting of the 1880s and 1890s, and explore how the art that emerged both referenced the work of the European masters and yet was distinct from it.
The exhibition focuses on four major Australian Impressionists: Tom Roberts (1856–1931), Arthur Streeton (1867–1943), Charles Conder (1868–1909), and John Russell (1858–1930) and will show how their work epitomised a growing sense of national identity as Australia approached Federation in 1901. The works will travel to London from some of Australia’s leading public galleries, as well as private collections from Australia and the UK.
All of the artists featured in the exhibition either studied or worked in Europe at different stages of their careers. Inspired by their counterparts active in Europe, such as Whistler and Monet, the Australian Impressionists painted
en plein air; their works displaying a preoccupation with the effects of light and colour, using bold and experimental techniques to depict scenes of daily life.
Australia’s Impressionists is organised in three sections, each exploring the artists’ working relationships and respective styles, as well as their proximity to, or distance from, the European tradition.
Urban Australia and the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
The first section features the landmark 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition held in 1889 in Melbourne. Organised by the three major figures of the so-called ‘Heidelberg School’ (later known as the Australian Impressionists) – Tom Roberts, Charles
Conder, and Arthur Streeton – it is regarded as one of the most significant art exhibitions ever to have been mounted in Australia. The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition introduced Melbourne society to a distinctly Australian version of Impressionism with some one hundred and eighty ‘impressions’ or oil sketches, many of which were painted on panels of 9 x 5 inches made out of cigar box lids. This section of the exhibition also features a number of iconic paintings of the rapidly changing cityscapes of Melbourne and Sydney, introducing late-19th century Australian society as one that was highly urbanised.
National Landscape
Australian Impressionism hit its stride around 1888 at the time of the centenary of the European settlement of the Australian continent. With a growing sense of national identity came a desire to authentically represent the great Australian landscape and in particular, the light. The practice of painting en plein air, which Roberts had embraced while travelling in Europe in the early 1880s, provided the basis for this new school of painting. Scenes of daily life at Sydney Harbour are recorded with a vibrant sense of excitement and pride, while scenes of the bush are elevated to a mode of heroic myth. A highlight painting in this section is Streeton’s Fire’s On (Art Gallery of New South Wales) from 1891, which shows the construction of the Lapstone Tunnel through the Blue Mountains near Sydney, and vividly depicts the moment when a young navvy was killed by a blast just a few yards away from Streeton. Resilience in the face of the sometimes harsh and unforgiving Australian environment became a recurrent theme.
John Russell
John Russell was born and died in Sydney, but spent 40 years as an expatriate in Europe, closely connected to the avant-garde. Russell first enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1881 under French artist and professor Alphonse Legros before continuing his studies in Paris alongside Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh. He travelled to Spain with Roberts in 1883, painting en plein air, but unlike Roberts, Russell settled in Europe on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany, where he observed Monet painting and where he also met and mentored the young Matisse. He returned to the Antipodes in the early 1920s, eventually settling in Sydney in 1924. This section explores the work of a painter who, despite his connections to some of the most important artists of his time, rarely exhibited and was only rediscovered as ‘Australia’s lost Impressionist’ in the second half of the 20th century.
The inspiration for Australia’s Impressionists came as the result of the National Gallery receiving the long-term loan of Blue Pacific (1890, Private collection) by Arthur Streeton in 2015. This was the first painting by an Australian artist to be displayed at the National Gallery and the exhibition will further introduce visitors to the artistic movement to which it belongs.
Christopher Riopelle, National Gallery Curator of Post-1800 Paintings said, “Australia’s Impressionist painters were doing more than just recording familiar visual phenomena. They were actually inventing a way for Australians to see this vast and various land, its suddenly teeming cities, and the abrupt new intersections of nature and the man-made. That is what makes the subject so exciting, especially for British and other European viewers; they witness Australians using oil painting to come to visual terms with a continent so endlessly different from their own.”
National Gallery Director, Gabriele Finaldi said, ”Australian painters at the end of the 19th century were deeply interested in how the language of contemporary European Impressionism could be adapted to the Australian landscape and Australian subject matter. The process produced some striking and original results. This will be the first time an exhibition devoted to Australian painting can be seen in the National Gallery.”
Exhibition supported by:
Mr Kerry Stokes AC & Mrs Christine Simpson Stokes, The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth Western Australia
and members of the Australia's Impressionists Exhibition Supporters Circle.
The Sunley Room exhibition programme is supported by the Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation.
Organisation
This exhibition is organised by the National Gallery, in collaboration with Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Publication
Australia's Impressionists
Edited by Christopher Riopelle
Tim Bonyhady, Allison Goudie, Sarah Thomas, and Wayne Tunnicliffe, with contributions by Alex J. Taylor
128 pages, 260 x 240 mm, casebound £16.95
86 colour illustrations
Published by National Gallery Company. Distributed by Yale University Press.
Opening hours
Press View: 6 December 2016 (10.30am–1.30pm)
Open to public: 7 December 2016
Daily 10am–6pm (last admission 5pm)
Fridays 10am–9pm (last admission 8.15pm)
Admission
Full price: £7.50
Senior/Concession/Disabled: £6.50 visitors (carers go free)
Job seeker/Student/Art Fund/12–18s: £4.00
Under 12s (ticket required): free
Members go free
Tickets
For tickets to Australia’s Impressionists (on sale from mid November) please visit nationalgallery.org.uk or call 0800 912 6958 (booking fee). You can also book tickets by post and in person from the Gallery. Overseas customers can contact us by dialling +44 020 7126 5573.
For public enquiries, please contact 020 7747 2885 or information@ng-london.org.uk
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
For the glory of a nation – Australia II wins the America’s Cup Our Coverage Sponsored by Bergen Linen
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The sailing world changed on September 26, 1983. That was the day Australia II rumbled past Liberty to become the first challenger in history to win the America’s Cup.
With the win, the Australian team ended what is often called the longest winning streak in sport, at 132-years. Of equal importance the glory of winning the America’s Cup captivated fans all around the world.
“You captured the imagination of the people the world over,” said President Ronald Reagan, as he congratulated the foreign upstarts on a visit to the White House two days after the race. “You have shown us the stuff of which Australians are made.”
That ‘stuff’ included ingenuity, perseverance, and a determination to win that would not be denied.
It took Australia over 20 years to win the America’s Cup with the first challenge coming in 1962. Subsequent efforts in 1964 and 1967 were equally unsuccessful.
In 1970, the defending club allowed multiple challenges for the first time in over 100 years. Many observers point to this as the beginning of the end of the successful winning streak for the Americans as for the first time, the challengers would enter the match battle-hardened, through internal competition to select the ultimate challenger.
Still, the USA held on to the trophy through 1970, 1974, 1977 and 1980, routing the challengers 16-2 over that period.
But 1983 felt different from the beginning. This was the best prepared challenger in history. Skipper John Bertrand was an engineer, an Olympic medalist and an intense competitor.
And the design of Australia II, from the pen of the brilliant Ben Lexcen, featured a secret weapon – a winged keel – that the team kept hidden from view with tarpaulin ‘modesty skirts’ that were draped over the side of the boat each day before it was lifted in or out of the water.
Australia II made fast work of the challenger trials and a showdown was set with Liberty, skippered by Dennis Conner, who was just beginning to earn his nickname ‘Mr. America’s Cup’.
Dramatically, the best of seven series opened with two wins to the American boat, after the Australians suffered equipment failure. Australia won the next race, but lost race four and suddenly, unexpectedly, Conner was on match point, up 3-1, needing just one win to retain the Cup against what was largely considered to be a faster boat.
“It’s going to be very exciting to be involved in what’s going to be the race of the century,” Conner would say on the eve of the final race. “At this point, we’re hoping we can find a way to prevail like we have over the last 132-years. We have a lot of tradition going for us, and we have a very courageous crew and somehow I think we’ll pull it out.”
For the Australians, just winning three races in the final series was an achievement no other challenger could claim. But it wasn’t enough. Only winning the Cup would sate the hunger. Back home in Australia, the nation had become transfixed by the match. A nation was united behind the team, despite the races taking place in the middle night. “We were a nation of zombies by the end,” said one television commentator.
The final race was a bit like the series. Despite showing flashes of speed, the Australian boat found itself behind in the later stages of the race.
“With Liberty in front, we just had to bide our time,” Bertrand recalled. “She was sailing very fast in the light conditions. We just had to wait for her to make a mistake.”
On the final downwind leg, Bertrand and his crew would get his opportunity. He found a puff of wind that eluded the Americans and made an historic pass. Conner and his team fought valiantly on the final leg to the finish, but couldn’t recover, all glory to Australia.
The celebrations were epic. Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke famously declared: “Any boss who sacks a worker for not turning up today is a bum."
Years later, reflecting on the win he said, “The nation celebrated because this was truly historic. Little Australia had gone up and done what people had thought was impossible.”
Dennis Conner would redouble he efforts and win the Cup back in 1987. However painful at the time, he said losing the Cup in ’83 was perhaps the best thing that ever happened.
“Me losing after 132 years was the best thing that ever happened to the America’s Cup and the best thing that ever happened to Dennis Conner,” he would say. “Before the win by the Australians, the America’s Cup was only big in the minds of the yachties, but the rest of the world didn't know or care about it at all. But when we lost it… suddenly everyone appreciated it. If I hadn't lost it, there never would have been the national effort... without that there never would have been the ticker-tape parade up Fifth Avenue in New York, lunch with the President at the White House and all the doors that it opened.”
Conner would continue to race for America’s Cup glory through 2003, claiming wins in 1987 and 1988, to go along with his 1980 victory.
Bertrand’s last America’s Cup appearance was in 1995 but his win with Australia II was the time he captured the hearts of a nation and won America’s Cup glory.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Terrific Takeout: Flinders Lane Summer 2016 in Manhattan of course - PLUS CONNECTICUT YOU SHOULD BE GETTING EXCITED FOR THEIR STAMFORD OPENING SOON! Our Coverage Sponsored by Fresh Origins
Owner Chris McPherson and Peachy Deegan
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Lachlan McPherson, this one's for you!
We can't wait to work with you too someday and by the time you can read this we think we'll see you here.
We have yet to visit Australia, but feel like we must be there every time we visit Flinders Lane, a bastion of excellence all the way east in Manhattan on Avenue A, definitely the best venue in its neighborhood and more than worth the trip from any other neighborhood. Our first visit in early 2015 was highly promising and the fantastic news is that Flinders Lane is no one-hit wonder. They are in it to win it and they are going to be winning even bigger once they open in the great State of Connecticut.
Every hedge fund in Fairfield County is going to be clamoring to get their attention at lunchtime for catering.
We bet there has never been an Australian restaurant in Connecticut before this and we hope we are the first to tell you about it. Sometimes the Best of Connecticut comes to Manhattan but in this case it is vice versa! (But technically speaking you know Chris and Chris are the Best of Melbourne, Australia.)
Peachy Picked Flinders Lane in the fall of 2015:
We first visited over a year ago:
and they also were featured in early 2016:
This time we were delighted to work with Owner Chris McPherson and Owner Chris Rendell, who is the Executive Chef-we look forward to seeing you again next time.
If you know Peachy well, you know she often carries a Lilly Pulitzer bag with pink elephants on it and it is pink and green of course. Lilly, like Peachy, was a Miss Porter's Graduate (Farmington, Connecticut; i.e. an Ancient) and since Lilly was a "9" and Peachy is a "4" they used to see each other at reunions (Lilly has since passed - say a prayer for her please.) Flinders Lane this season has had the brilliance to bring the pink and green of Lilly Pulitzer to your plate with the Montauk Fluke Sashimi, which is purely gorgeous. This must be a subconscious Connecticut thought...and w
hen Virgin Atlantic says "Hello Gorgeous" we think they must be talking to this plate.
The Montauk Fluke is finely sliced and superbly refreshing.
The serrano chili (green) is finely sliced as well as its companion radish (pink), and we even trust Flinders Lane with the Salad Dressing and we like the Lemon Dressing which boasts an amazing kick. What a brilliant appetizer!
Also note that the ambiance of Flinders Lane is upbeat and festive without being overbearing and the music selection we heard from The Supremes to A-ha's Take on Me and We Built this City on Rock n Roll confirms that it is not only your appetite that will be rocked; your ears experience a virtual jukebox to be adored.
So, movie and television producers, we're talking to you with scenery selection: pick this for a great scene (and maybe put the Chris team in it to secure a good review!). PBS-why would you have Indian Summer when you can have AUSTRALIAN SUMMER! That should be next.
We have been lucky to experience some truly phenomenal salads this summer, but this one is the best: meet the Grilled Peach and Ricotta Salad which endeavors to party in pistachios, baby greens and drumroll please, BLACK TRUFFLES! The genius combination has flavor and texture that has been unparalleled in our experience and from the succulent grilled peaches to the creamy ricotta to the nutritious greens to the ultimate triumph: black truffles! - every aspect on this team is cast from an All-Star lineup.
This is the salad to beat in Manhattan right now.
For your tastebuds, the experience of eating this salad and enjoying the taste it exudes is like swinging from the most gorgeous chandelier in Manhattan and not getting in trouble for it.
Obviously peaches speak to us and they said basking in the brilliance of black truffles makes them the happiest!
We applaud Flinders Lane for their healthy menu: they also have a wonderful Heirloom Tomato Salad with Olives, Pickled Red onion and Basil Oil. Green, yellow and red tomatoes sing a song of summer that also have a lovely color contrast that's stunning. They are fresh and spectacular and this is a prime example of why less is more. This is the Chanel LBD (little black dress) of salads at Flinders Lane.
We love that Flinders Lane is so detail-oriented that they have glasses with their name etched on them with precision and we must say Chris McPherson has exquisite taste in wines and though we are not big believers in pairings because everyone has a different palate to start with, we agree with every combination he's come up with.
Now we would like to hear from the vineyard owners of these fine Australian wines!
Now we would like to hear from the vineyard owners of these fine Australian wines!
Every steakhouse in Manhattan should cower in a corner when they compare their steaks to the truly phenomenal Grilled Hanger Steak of Flinders Lane which is pure, juicy perfection. It arrived at a perfect medium rare and is hand cut with precision (close to its liver) and you will revel in all of its Black Angus glory which exhibits a laudable iodine, earthy character. It's also grass fed and Flinders Lane sources its steak from both Baldor and DeBragga, both of which we hold in high esteem. It has sidekicks of succulent sauteed mushrooms, shallot jus and fat chips which is the Australian way of saying steak fries.
Carnivores, rejoice!
Just when you thought "How could this review get even better?" amazing creamy Tiramisu arrived in style with PEACHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can't remember the last time we used an exclamation point so liberally but the fourth time's a charm and we cannot WAIT to brag about these guys in Connecticut.
We have every confidence they are going to blow everyone away.
Yes of course Flinders Lane is Terrific Takeout and it continues to be Highly Recommended!
Stamford, Connecticut you'd better get excited because the Australians are going to take the Nutmeg State!
184 Summer Street, Stamford, Connecticut!
BE THERE!
We'll let you know when it opens....
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