A magnificent new route forms part of Durbanville Hills' new, guided experiences in celebration of the cellar's unique view of Table Mountain, Table Bay and Robben Island.
Durbanville Hills Wines has added a route, not open to the general public, to its Table Mountain wine-tasting excursions experienced in the comfort of a customised safari vehicle. The striking Durbanville Hills cellar sits on the side of a series of rolling hills with magnificent views of Table Mountain and Table Bay – the very geography that lies at the heart of what makes the wines so unique. The historic route starts at the cableway from where it continues along the slopes of Devil's Peak offering spectacular views of Table Bay, Lion's Head and the Cape Peninsula. The area, rich with indigenous flora, is also home to historical Malay burial sites, the King George and two other blockhouses that were predominantly used as early warning lookout-points. Near Rhodes Memorial, the tour will include a stopover at a breeding programme established for the protection of the Cape Mountain Zebra and other animals that once used to freely roam the slopes.
At a carefully selected spot chosen for its beautiful scenery, a wine tasting experience will be presented with a selection of the finest wine from Durbanville Hills, complemented with a selection of cheeses and fresh breads. With collection points at selected guest houses and hotels in and around Cape Town, the new historical tour compliments the other two options currently available, whereby guests can choose to visit Table Mountain followed by a tasting of Durbanville Hills' wines at a lookout point overlooking the city. Guests can also visit the home of Durbanville Hills Wines, a mere 30 minutes from Cape Town's city centre, where they can choose between a tasting of eight wines or a biltong and wine pairing.
Costs: From R130 to R200, with collection and drop-off at hotels and guest houses on selected days. For bookings, contact Henri Bruce on 076 788 4992.
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Goethe University Frankfurt, TU Darmstadt, and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz intensify their collaboration
The presidents of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Goethe University Frankfurt have signed a framework agreement intended to promote further collaboration between the three universities. This strategic alliance of the Rhine-Main Universities with a total of about 107,400 students, 1,440 professors, and more than 70 cooperation projects is aimed at expanding and permanently securing existing collaborations in research, teaching, academic continuing education, and the promotion and mentoring of young research talents.
The trilateral agreement will enable the three Rhine-Main Universities to combine their strengths, to jointly develop and specify their complementary profiles, and to extend the opportunities for study available to their students. As centers of scholarship and research, they intend to promote the development of the Rhine-Main region as a knowledge hub and improve its international visibility and attractiveness.
The Rhine-Main region with the support of the three Rhine-Main Universities positions itself as a leading center of science and research. According to the most recent Funding Atlas of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the amount of third-party funding acquired in the core academic fields and the total third-party funding obtained by the three Rhine-Main Universities, which amounts to more than EUR 450 million per annum, places the Rhine-Main area among Germany's top five science regions. Between 2007 and 2013, academics in Darmstadt, Frankfurt, and Mainz received all in all 31 ERC Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), which is the most highly remunerated research funding award in the European Union.
Four clusters of excellence, three graduate schools of excellence, and 27 collaborative research centers funded by the German Research Foundation bear witness to the impressive research achievements at the three universities. The close collaboration with altogether 20 research institutes of the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and different Academies of Sciences and Humanities in the Rhine-Main region play an important role in these achievements.
In 2004, the universities in Mainz and Frankfurt signed the initial framework agreement; since then both have entered into bilateral agreements with TU Darmstadt. In more than 70 cooperation projects and discipline-specific collaborations, the three universities have been able to gather an enormous amount of collaboration experience in working together. They share clusters of excellence, collaborative research centers, and joint research projects in the program of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities as well as joint degree programs and graduate colleges. The collaborating disciplines range from Political Science to Nuclear Physics and from Neurobiology to Computer Science. The topics covered come from the wide spectrum of disciplines at the Rhine-Main Universities – covering Medicine and the Natural Sciences, the Humanities and the Social Sciences to Engineering.
The President of TU Darmstadt, Professor Hans Jürgen Prömel, explained: "This is an alliance of partners who already know each other well and who are in tune with each another – internationally renowned research universities in the Rhine-Main region, with a complementary range of subjects and successful collaborative projects. The new Rhine-Main Universities framework agreement opens up many new opportunities to create additional advantages for our researchers and students." TU President Prömel also sees further joint opportunities and potential for the development of promising research fields: "Our Rhine-Main Universities alliance can target major academic challenges by intelligently combining our specific strengths – in Medicine, Engineering, Computer Science, and the Humanities, for example."
For Professor Georg Krausch, President of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the location of the Rhine-Main Universities is a decisive advantage. "The strategic partnership of the three universities benefits significantly from the geographic proximity of the university campuses and the non-university research institutions together with the excellent transport infrastructure in the Rhine-Main area. The short distances between the universities can be covered in just 30 minutes by car or commuter rail, facilitating the exchange of knowledge right in the center of an important German metropolitan area – and even across state borders. The geographical situation in the Rhine-Main region is thus at least similar to that in certain large municipalities in which several universities and non-university research institutions may well be located within the same city but in fact are often quite far away from one another."
The President of Goethe University Frankfurt, Professor Birgitta Wolff, said: "The three universities can learn a lot from each other and achieve a lot more together than each on their own. We not only have a natural interest in closer collaboration with one another, but also invite potential partners working in research and social institutions to join in project-based collaborations. We will thus be able to significantly build on the strengths of our alliance."
Through their trilateral agreement, the universities in Frankfurt, Mainz, and Darmstadt also confirm their intention to apply for support for collaborative research projects and strategic alliances from national and international funding programs. The partner universities also plan to submit joint applications for third party-funded graduate programs and to improve the networking options for young scientists.
Students at the three universities will also benefit from the framework agreement. They are invited to use the infrastructure – such as the libraries, for example – at all the universities, while also being able to acquire a part of their qualifications and to sit examinations at one of the partner universities. Furthermore, new joint courses of study are currently being planned by the Rhine-Main Universities. Teaching staff at one university will have the opportunity to also teach at the other universities and to act as examiners there. Employees can participate in the continuing education programs offered by all the universities in the alliance.
For the support of the strategic development of the Rhine-Main Universities partnership, the presidents have created an initiative fund designed to provide targeted support to new collaborations. At the same time, they are encouraging the faculties and institutions at their universities to develop new fields of potential cooperation.
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For nearly two decades, Northeast Utilities has been an unusually strong and imaginative force in economic development in Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
The company's economic development and community relations department had a small core of bright people who founded, funded or otherwise got the company involved in such initiatives as the Hartford-Springfield Economic Partnership, Connecticut Main Street Center, Community Builders Institute, Bradley Development League, MetroHartford Alliance and Team New England. The company is a longtime major supporter of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, the state's marketing arm.
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NU merged with Boston-based NStar in April, and as the companies joined their corporate operations, the new NU has taken a different philosophical tack on economic development.
The three key company executives promoting the existing economic development programs, Douglas Fisher, David Driver and Thomas Marano, were all laid off in September, as The Hartford Business Journal reported.
Company spokesman Al Lara said the company is still committed to funding community and charitable organizations in the region. He said its new approach to economic development is being reviewed, but that a "grass-roots strategy" is emerging, in which NU representatives work with each community.
According to other sources, the new department is more focused on community liaison for emergency response in cases of storms or other crises, not on the large-scale, proactive economic development efforts that have characterized the past two decades.
This change apparently reflects the low-key marketing philosophy of the Boston-based managers of the new company.
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While it's too soon to say how this will play out, we were impressed by what Messrs. Fisher, Driver and Marano were doing, both from a civic and business perspective.
Take, for example, Connecticut Main Street, a program dedicated to reviving historic downtowns around the state. Since it was founded by Mr. Fisher and others in 1995, it has triggered nearly $1 billion in investment in dozens of downtowns. Since 2007, despite the recession, downtowns with Main Street programs have seen a 20 percent increase in jobs, an 18 percent increase in new businesses and a 68 percent increase in private investment.
This is good for the cities and for NU's bottom line. With more commercial activity, NU sells more electricity in areas where circuits and other infrastructure already exist. Funding Connecticut Main Street is enlightened self-interest.
Or consider the Hartford-Springfield partnership. By bringing together chambers of commerce, planners, businesses, colleges, government agencies and others, the partnership has been able to take part in trade shows, lobby for initiatives such as the new New Haven-Hartford-Springfield commuter rail line and restructuring of governance at Bradley International Airport, and promote tourism, education and workforce development.
For example, the partnership help produce a $4.9 million U.S. Department of Labor grant earlier this year to the Capital Workforce Partners in Hartford and the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County in Springfield to train nurses and other health workers. In the past decade, the partnership has brought about $16 million in federal grants to the region.
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"It's been very useful," said Lyle Wray, executive director of the Capitol Region Council of Governments. It is indeed useful: It makes the area more attractive to businesses and residents, which in turn means more customers for electricity.
The partnership is supported by member dues and will continue to exist. NU sponsored some of the marketing efforts, such as attendance at trade shows. Hopefully that will continue.
But what is lost is the substantial expertise and institutional knowledge that the three former NU executives brought to the table. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Driver are the chairmen, respectively, of the Hartford-Springfield partnership and Connecticut Economic Resource Center (but will soon be stepping down).
Marketing works, especially with experienced professionals at the helm. As NU's new managers continue to review their operations in Connecticut, they might want to take a second look at what Mr. Fisher and his crew were doing here. They were making things better.
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Lachey, 36, popped the question to Minnillo, 29, on Thursday "near a beach" in California, with an Asscher-cut diamond flanked with trapezoids from Bader & Garrin, a source tells PEOPLE.
The couple, who split briefly in 2009, were not apart long before getting back together. "I am happy in a relationship," Lachey said at the time.
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Is it a sign of impending old age if you wake up one morning to discover that the latest Playstation game you're addicted to is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003?
Surely there's some mistake here? Shouldn't I be rampaging the streets with GTA3, or stealthy infiltrating with Metal Gear Solid 2? Why has the fact that I can get up and make a cup of tea mid-game and not be either arrested or shot, become an influencing factor in my choice of game?!


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EU Referendum Result – Looking forward
Emotions are running high after the EU referendum result last week. Although I voted to remain, as did Croydon and London, the British people as a whole have voted to leave the European Union. It is important that we respect the will of the people and implement their decision.
There should not be a rush to trigger Article 50 – the formal notification that a country is leaving the EU. We must wait for the dust to settle and a new Prime Minister to take us forward with a clear plan through the negotiations. In order to keep our economy protected, these negotiations need to focus on maintaining our financial services passport as well as full access to the single market, including for services. Immigration also played a part in the decision made by the public so we must now introduce controls on those coming here from the EU.
Several big banks are already looking at moving out of the UK on the assumption that the UK will lose its 'passporting' rights, which allow financial institutions to access the EU single market without restrictions. They should not do this. Article 50 will not be triggered for some months. I will be fighting to keep the financial services passport and so will the UK Government. I join with the Prime Minister in reassuring markets and investors that Britain's economy is fundamentally strong. Our long term economic plan is working and I have faith, despite the initial economic shock, that we can recover.
This new deal with the EU will not be easy to negotiate, but it is the instruction the British people have given us. We are the world's 5th largest economy and we have an £80 billion trade deficit with Europe in goods. We have negotiating leverage and we should use it. More positively we are now free to negotiate bilateral free trade deals with the US, China, India and many other countries. This should now be a priority.
There are turbulent times ahead. But ours is a strong country and we will come through them.
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You know the "21 Club," right? You've driven by it a hundred times…wondered what it would be like inside? I've wondered too. Lunch with a friend provided the excuse to find out.
The restaurant has a long history, briefly chronicled in a recent William Grimes Q&A on the New York Times website. It actually started as a dive bar in the Village called the Red Head (no relation to the current restaurant by that name). The present incarnation is anything but a dive; in fact, it has some of the highest à la carte prices of any restaurant in the city.
It is not actually a "Club," but it has a clubby feel. Most of the patrons seemed to be old-money regulars, whom the host greeted warmly. But they're also mostly over 60, and therein lies the problem. Who will dine here twenty years from now? In a bid to attract the younger generation, last year, "21" stopped requiring neckties for gentlemen. Restaurants much fancier than "21" stopped doing so years ago. Jackets remain de rigeur, and most of the customers still wear ties anyway.
Prices are at nosebleed levels, with appetizers $15–24 and entrées $30–42. Prices are the same at dinner, but a few extra (more expensive) entrées are available. The website touts a lunch prix fixe at $30, but it was not offered to us.
My friend recommended the burger—famous enough that the Times has printed the recipe twice (here, here). It was a large, beefy mass, slightly over-cooked but still very good. The shoestring fries that came with it were perfect. But it's $30, and I've had better ones at half the price.
The kitchen accommodated our request to share a Caesar Salad ($18); even after it was divided, there was plenty for each of us. A plate of cookies afterwards was free. Sodas were served in the bottle ($6 apiece), but there was no charge for a refill.
Still, $90 before tax and tip is an awful lot for salads and burgers. I won't be rushing back.


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