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The City of Saint John is proceeding with a program of fire hydrant flushing to clean the water distribution pipes in West Saint John. Over the next few weeks flushing will be performed between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. This may affect water customers in areas or subdivisions on or near: Sand Cove Road, Fundy Heights, Lancaster Avenue and the Lower West Side Customers may experience dirty water for up to 20 minutes if they use water during the time that the line on their street is being flushed. Though customers may encounter a drop in water pressure, at no time should they be without water. For further information please contact 658-4455. TTY Service 632-6172
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How are you all doing with the challenge now that we are nearing the halfway mark? Who's got some great successes to share? Anyone have any amazing tips? Anyone run into any problems?
I got a little crazy the other week and signed up to participate in Crunchy Chicken's Cloth Wipe Challenge (for #1 only). I figured if I suggest using cloth in my challenge, I should probably at least give it a try myself. I only did it about 50% of the time, but was honestly surprised how soft the cloth was. I will likely continue to use it on a part-time basis. Anybody else give cloth TP a try?
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TAMA NEWS-HERALD- The City of Tama will observe its 150th anniversary in 2012.
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- If you can access the circuit breakers safely, make sure that you turn the power off in every affected room. You should also shut off the main valve if there is still water flow.
- Remove anything that could stain on wet floors or carpets like newspapers and books.
- Remove wet upholstery cushions from furniture and put them in a dry area.
- Avoid any contact with wet areas if the water didn't originate from a clean source.
- In case you've come in contact with the contaminated water, make sure to wash your hands thoroughly and immediately.
- Don't enter a room where there's a possible electric shock hazard.
- HVAC units must be turned off, as they can spread contaminated air.
- Don't try to extract water using a household vacuum cleaner or use fans to try drying the structure. This is an unsafe practice that could cause an electric shock or the machine could be damaged.
- Don't use any of your electrical appliances while standing on concrete, wet carpets or any types of flooring.
- Place plywood or foil under furniture legs in order to separate them from wet flooring or carpeting.


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OpenPlanner is an integrated mobile/web application that helps organise people looking to buy or rent a home. In particular, it assists with the planning and scheduling of visiting open inspections.
OpenPlanner is a service for people looking to buy or rent a home. Here in Australia, Saturdays and Wednesday afternoons are spent driving madly from property to property with the newspaper and street directory balanced precariously on the steering wheel.
OpenPlanner is an integrated web/mobile application that provides planning and scheduling of open house inspections.
The service will have broad mass-market appeal but the key target demographic will be professional singles/couples in their early 20's to late 40's.
The logo must be suitable for both web and mobile screens. In particular, the smallest mobile version of the logo will only be around 128 x 30 pixels so the overall design can't be too complicated.
In order to accommodate the wide variety of sizes, having different versions of the logo i.e. with or without the name, or different aspect ratios, may be necessary.
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- The mobile version of the logo must have an aspect ratio of around 5:1 or 6:1 (width x height)
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SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Storage Application
This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx
On-premise data will be a part of computing for quite some time – perhaps permanently. Bandwidth requirements, security, or even financial considerations for large data sets often dictate that relational (on non-relational) systems will be maintained locally in many organizations, especially in enterprise computing.
But distributed data systems are useful in many situations. Organizations may wish to store a portion of data off-site, either for sharing the data with other applications (including web-based applications) or as a supplement to a High-Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) strategy.
SQL Azure can be used to add an additional option to an HADR strategy by copying off portions (or all) of an on-premise database system.
In this arrangement, on-premise systems remain as they are. Data is replicated using many technologies, such as SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), scripts, or Microsoft's Sync Framework to a SQL Azure database. This data can be kept "cold", meaning that a manual process is required to bring the data back, or as a "warm" standby using connection string management in the application.
Recently we architected a solution where a company kept a rolling two-week window of data replicated to SQL Azure using the Sync Framework. The application, a compiled EXE running on user's systems, had a "switch connections" button, that allowed the users to take a laptop to another location, select that option, and continue working from anywhere they had Internet connectivity. This required forethought and planning, and did not replace their primary HADR systems, but it did allow them to continue operations in the case of a severe outage at multiple sites. Since they are an emergency services provider, this gave them the highest redundancy.
Another option is to amalgamate data from disparate sources.
In this arrangement, two or more data services (one of which is SQL Azure) are accessed by a single program. The program queries each system independently, and using LINQ a single query can work across all of the data, assuming there is some sort of natural or artificial "key" that can join the data sets together. The user programs simply view this single data set as a single data source, unaware of the underlying data sets. This allows great flexibility and agility in the downstream program. The upstream data sources can change as long as the elements are kept consistent.
There are performance and security implications to amalgamated data systems, but if architected carefully they provide multiple benefits. A few of of these are that other systems can access the individual data sources, reporting is simplified and standardized, and multiple copies of data are eliminated.
You can read more about the Sync Framework and SQL Azure here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/sync-framework-sql-server-to-sql-azure-synchronization.aspx
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Author Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt took the stage at the at Envestnet's 2013 Advisor Summit Wednesday afternoon in Chicago.
During the question and answer session, Levitt (left) was asked to comment about the recent mistakes uncovered in economists' Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff's work.
"I know Carmen," he answered. "They had a series of about 33 numbers that they simply added up incorrectly. That doesn't reflect well on a paper meant to influence policy on such a large scale. Politicians typically want to believe something and then adopt academics that prove their view. I'm incredibly suspicious of academics in policy decision-making."
The duo also recounted what led to their introduction and bestselling books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics.
"If I was not a writer, I would have been a money manager," Dubner began. "It's not that I want to pander to you; it's just that I am really trying to understand the psychology of money. Money is equal only to religion and sex in the unpredictability it fosters in behavior."
As an example, he told of spending a week with Steven Spielberg for an article he wrote for The New York Times Magazine. Spielberg is a major collector of Tiffany lamps. He was bidding on a lamp through Christie's auction house and had a set price limit of $1.5 million in mind. He was about to win the bidding when he abruptly told the auctioneer he was through and hung up the phone. He pointed to the fine print of the lamp's description that identified David Geffen as the seller.
"Geffen probably paid $50,000 for the lamp and was not selling it for $1.5 million," Dubner said. "Spielberg didn't want to go to business meetings for the rest of his life and hear Geffen brag to him about it. He had the money, wanted the lamp, but because they are so fiercely competitive, he gave up on buying it. This is what money does."
It was this type of behavior that Dubner claimed led him to behavioral economics and Steven Levitt.
He was asking questions like, "Does a real estate agent really act in your best interest when selling your home? Surprise answer, no."
Levitt then took the stage and noted he "never wanted to be an economist like me. I set out to be a real economist, but there was too much math involved."
For reason he says he still doesn't understand, he was admitted to MIT's PhD program in economics.
"It was almost immediately apparent to my professors and me that I didn't belong there. The only reason I didn't flunk out was because professors are self-interested and they didn't want to take the time to fill out the paperwork."
He said he went home to Minneapolis one break to ponder his future. His father sat him down and said, "If you're not good in a particular field but still want to remain in that field, take on the most humiliating tasks available that no one else will do."
And that, Levitt claimed, is how he arrived at his current position.
Check out the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year home page to view profiles of the finalists and for additional and ongoing coverage of the winners and the award ceremony.


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Release date: 23 April 1971
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Brown Sugar (4/26/71, #1 US, #1 UK) / Sway / Wild Horses (6/19/71, #28 US) / Can't You Hear Me Knocking / You Gotta Move / Bitch / I Got the Blues / Sister Morphine / Dead Flowers / Moonlight Mile
Sales (in millions): 3.0 US, -- UK, 7.5 world
Peak: 14 US, 15 UK
Review: After the experimental outing with Their Satanic Majesties Request and the Altamont disaster, "the Rolling Stones came back nastier and more assured than ever…[it] became their biggest seller to date." TL "The key to the album…[is] the utter weariness of the songs" AMG betraying the struggles the members were enduring, from the aftermath of the Altamont disaster to singer Mick Jagger's breakup with Marianne Faithfull and guitarist Keith Richards' worries about his newborn son Marlon. CDU
"It's a weary, drug-laden album – well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it." AMG The album, which was recorded in part at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, CDU is marked by "a loose, ramshackle ambience." AMG It is "a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure." AMG
"The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out, particularly on the extended coda" AMG of "the near-dangerous electrified Can't You Hear Me Knocking" CDU Also "added to the brew are the spicy horn arrangements of saxophonist Bobby Keys and trumpet player Jim Price. The use of horns in the Stones' repertoire seemed inevitable – when they kick in during 'Brown Sugar' and 'Bitch,' it's as if Keith's guitar is rebirthed in brass." CDU
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
"As if to prove their minds were still as dirty as their music," AZ "the classic opener, Brown Sugar [is] a gleeful tune about slavery, interracial sex, and lost virginity, not necessarily in that order." AMG The song "begins with some magical raunch chords…in the tradition of…[The Kinks'] 'All Day and All of the Night,' [and the Stones' own] 'Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown,' and 'Satisfaction.'" RS
Brown Sugar
"Sway is pure terror," TL a "midtempo rocker that would sound orchestral even without Paul Buckmaster's climactic string arrangement." AZ "The sound is characteristic Rolling Stones messiness…[but] lacks intensity…it remains a series of riffs whose lack of content is obscured by prolonged and indifferent guitar semi-solos and a fine string arrangement that suddenly enters towards the end." RS
"Wild Horses is their first non-ironic stab at a country song, and it is a beautiful, heart-tugging masterpiece;" AMG it "is as tender as the Stones can get." TL "The longing of the song's lyrics coupled with its ultimate hope constitute as much of a theme as there is on this record." RS
Wild Horses
"Mick Taylor's electric slide guitar is absolutely exquisite" RS on You Gotta Move. "Combined with Richard's fine work on the acoustic they create one of the album's few real moments. Charlie Watts' bass drum holds it together perfectly, while Richard's harmony smoothes off the more outrageous edges of Jagger's lead vocal. In the end, all the pieces fit. A small but important triumph." RS
On the "mean-spirted" AMG "rocker Bitch," AZ Jagger assumes "one of his most popular poses: demonic. here he flaunts naughty words and naughty thoughts as if he still thought they were naughty. The arrangement is straight-ahead. The horns sound great here as they are used primarily for purposes of syncopation and rhythm. The bass and drums…burns like a bitch." RS
"In the tradition of the earlier R&B imitations," RS "I Got the Blues is a ravished, late-night classic that ranks among their very best blues." AMG "This is the first time they actually added Stax horns." RS
"The terrifyingly spare Sister Morphine" CDU is "one of the most vivid, horrifying songs about drug abuse ever recorded" AZ while "the countryish Dead Flowers" AZ is "a definitive comedy of decadence." TL
"The gorgeous…Moonlight Mile" AMG is "sad, yearning, drug-addled, and beautiful." AMG "Grandiose strings" AMG "push the intensity level constantly upwards…The energy becomes unmistakably erotic." RS "There is something soulful here, something deeply felt." RS It is Jagger's "best performance on the album – the only thing that compares with his singing of 'Gimme Shelter.'" It "is a perfect closure" AMG – "a masterpiece." RS
Moonlight Mile
Sticky Fingers proved that the endless summer of the 1960s was over, but that the Stones would rock just as hard in the following decade." CDU "It doesn't have the sprawl and mood of their next release, Exile on Main Street, but Sticky Fingers truly captures the Stones at the peak of their game." TL
Resources and Related Links:
- The Rolling Stones' DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- AZ Amazon.com review
- CDU CdUniverse.com
- RS RollingStone.com review by Jon Landau, originally in print issue 84: 6/10/71
- RS500 Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
- TL Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Albums by Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light (11/13/06).


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Navassa Island: A Photographic Tour (1998 - 1999)
The team conducted an inventory of natural resources of the island for the Department of Interior, Office of Insular Affairs. Preliminary results of the inventories have increased the number of terrestrial species known to the island from 150 to more than 650. On the last day of the first trip, the group found a single living specimen of the palm tree Pseudopheonix sargentti saonae var. navassana. Further exploration during the second trip proved the specimen to be the last living example of this endemic palm, which had been common on the island as late as 1928.
National Wildlife Refuge Status
The information collected during these expeditions was instrumental in the decision in 1999 to make Navassa a National Wildlife Refuge, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The refuge was established to preserve and protect the coral reef ecosystems and the marine environment, to restore and enhance native wildlife and plants, and to provide opportunities for
wildlife research. This refuge is closed to the public.
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Getting Out of the Bunkers
A bunker shot is the only shot in golf where we don't actually hit the golf ball. To improve your bunker play, use this practice drill. Draw two parallel lines in the sand approximately 4 inches apart that are 3 to 4 feet long and run perpendicular to your target line. Aligning your body left of your target line, placing your lead foot even with the line closest to the target. Next, open your clubface so it is aiming at the target. This increases the loft and allows the bounce of the club to work. Now make ¾ length swings, having the club enter the sand at the back line and taking the sand out between the lines. The swings should follow your body line, not your target line. When you have become proficient at making the club enter and exit the sand between the lines, again redraw the lines and placing balls between them. Making the same swings, the golf balls should come out of the sand high and land softly on the putting green.


text: What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? I'm betting that you've probably never seen it, even if you've lived in your home for awhile. And although there's not a lot of room to hide stuff in there, well, if you're like me, the stuff you want to hide is usually on the smaller side. Not many people think of the space inside the door as a hiding spot, but it's right there in easy reaching distance when you need to get to it. And it's devious enough that, yes, I think this trick will still be effective even after we blog it all over the tubes.


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Please note: Magazines are paid for just like paper version.
The app comes with:
- Interactive page flipping, so you can read it just like a normal magazine
- Zoom feature to read in depth features and stories
- Share facility so you can lend you magazine to friends just like in the real world
- Bookmarks to keep a note of articles you want to read again
- A search tool which lets you not only to search the magazine your reading but also all of your back issues too.
We'll let you know when there is a new issue available to download, and you can buy single issues, subscriptions and even back issues.
The Cooler Magazine App can be read anywhere regardless of your connection, essential for reading on the move on planes, tubes and even mountains…


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'As for the Buffalo Sabres, it's impossible to tell whether the National Hockey League franchise might get pulled into bankruptcy wrangling, experts said. Investigators reportedly are looking at the team's ties to the cable company, including whether Adelphia backed Sabres debts.'
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The data shows that a man and woman were released in Silvis. The younger parolee was a 36-year-old man sentenced in 2017. The other was a 62-year-old woman sentenced in 2015.
The offender who was incarcerated the longest was Christine M. Martinez. She was convicted of a crime involving alcohol in 2015 when she was 58 years old. She is now 62.
Under state law, paroled offenders are still in legal custody of the IDOC, meaning they can be taken back to a correctional center at any time if the state has probable cause or a warrant.
The table below shows the 50 cities in Illinois with the most paroled offenders during the second half of 2018 who were convicted of crimes involving alcohol.
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With a panorama of giant red sandhills, Windorah is located in the heart of the Channel Country , beside Cooper's Creek. It doesn't get much more 'Outback' than here, with its stunning vistas, picturesque ruins and historical sites.
Windorah's history is linked with Isisford for it was the Whitman brothers who established both towns. Originally known as Stony Point, its current name is the Aboriginal word for 'place of large fish'. This relates to Cooper's Creek, which is formed by the junction of the Thomson and Barcoo Rivers just south of Jundah. Cooper Creek at Windorah is a top fishing spot, ideal for birdwatching and enjoying watersports with a waterhole about 19 kilometres in length and up to 10 metres deep. The channels can spread floodwaters up to 100 kilometres wide as they flow towards Lake Eyre.
A scenic 12 kilometre nature drive from town to Cooper's Creek gives a view of the area with all its diversity. Magnificent red sandhills are situated just to the west of town. The towns main industry is cattle grazing, due to the abundance of Mitchell Grass and other herbage that is available after heavy rainfall.
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Chaffee County controversy: Case divided investigators and prosecutor
Names: Nancy Mason, 47
Location: Stream near St. Elmo in Chaffee County
Agency: Chaffee County Sheriff's Office
Date died: May 30, 2004
Cause of death: Suspicious
Suspect: Dan Mason
Though they work side by side, police and prosecutors don't always agree about cases.
But usually they keep their differences to themselves. They don't criticize each other publicly because they are on the same team and will have to work together in the future. They must maintain a working relationship.
On the anniversary of Nancy Mason's death on a Memorial Day weekend in 2004, I recount her case that was handled so differently than most.
In Mason's case differences in strategy between the Chaffee County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney became a point of contention. It became a very visible battle. The two offices remain at odds.
Originally, Mason's case was considered an accident. Mason was celebrating the holiday with her husband and his close friend Efren Gallegos who lived with them. She was on a rock ledge fishing upstream from Mason and Gallegos when she fell into the water and drowned.
Years later, when Chaffee County investigators looked into Mason's case, they found many clues that they believed pointed to homicide, not an accidental fall in a river. For example, Mason and Gallegos claimed they heard Nancy Mason scream after she fell into the stream, but an autopsy showed her neck was broken.
But the prosecutor disagreed. He believed that there was strong evidence including the original autopsy that indicated Nancy Mason died of natural causes.
Then began a very public dispute. The investigator called me in the spring of 2008 and asked if I'd be interested in doing a profile. I was. It was the first year that I had been writing stories about Colorado cold cases.
When I reached Dan Mason on the phone he told me an amazing story. He claimed his wife fell into a raging mountain creek while fishing during a Memorial Day weekend. He said he leaped into the water and tried to save her. During the attempt an angel literally pulled him and Nancy out of the water, he told me. But he couldn't save her.
Subsequently, a bitter legal battle ensued between the sheriff's office and the DA's office.
The inquest resulted in a finding that Mason was the victim of a homicide.
A warrant was subsequently issued in the case for the arrest of two suspects.
But the Chaffee County district attorney Thom LeDoux declined to file charges.
The sheriff's office petitioned a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to file charges in the case, but the request was later rejected.
The story caught the interest of the national media.
Dateline NBC correspondent Dennis Murphy narrated a story in August of 2009 about the case called "Mystery at Chalk Creek: A mother's 'accidental' death leaves behind clues that point to murder.'"
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Corn meal, chicken by-product meal (including white meat, dark meat, liver and other internal organs), animal fat (preserved with BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid), dried beet pulp, vegetable oil, dried egg product, flaxseed, preserved with BHT and BHA, minerals (potassium chloride, iodized salt, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite), vitamins (choline chloride, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin, thiamine, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement).
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Inadequate meat content, by-products, low quality grains, fat of unidentifiable origin, carcinogenic preservatives.
This food receives a 1 star rating simply because there is nothing lower.
The primary ingredient is Corn meal, another low quality ingredient. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food.
The second ingredient in the food is by-products. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.
Animal fat is a further low quality ingredient and is impossible to determine the source. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as "obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative". It is a concern to see a fat as the third ingredient. Research at Purdue University has identified fat in the top four ingredients of a dry food as a factor that increases the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Beet pulp is further filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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A lot of you have been sending me this today: the New York Times video featuring (mostly) world class actors "acting" for a minute.
Let's call this what it is, ok? It's a little pretentious and contrived. Come on now…
The black and white, the music, the self involvement disguised as art – this kind of sh-t alienates people. Having said that, it's given us a lot to talk about. And most of you are talking about James Franco's portrait. James Franco flirting with James Franco.
I don't know…
I didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. It didn't actually bother me at all. I WENT TO FILM SCHOOL bothered me. This actually wasn't bad. At least not to me. And you know, you know I can't bear Franco these days. You know he's become my giant eyeroll.
You know who was bad though?
I'm sorry to say this, because I love him and he's adorable, but Jesse Eisenberg's was probably the worst. (OK maybe a tie for first with Chloe Moretz. Suddenly she exhausts me.) Jesus. I had to look away. And not in a good way like for Tilda Swinton whose bare one minute acting made me genuinely uncomfortable. Same goes for Michael Douglas. They're excellent.
Then there's Javier Bardem – sex. And Matt Damon – good, but woah the pudge. And the best, obviously, Robert Duvall. Because he was probably like – what do you mean shoot me in a room doing nothing but "acting". What kind of new age arty bullsh-t is that? I'm just gonna shave. Look, I need to shave. You can film that. So they did.
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Tucked away between glamorous Port Douglas and the vast wilderness of the World Heritage listed Daintree National Park is the sleepy beachside community of Newell Beach.
Newell Beach boasts spectacular views to Port Douglas in the south and the lighthouse on Low Isles to the east. The two and a half kilometre beach is clean and pristine and is bordered to the north and south by estuaries.
Not far to the west you'll discover the crystal clear rock pools of Mossman Gorge National Park, picturesque Daintree Village, and ancient world of the Daintree Rainforest.
Fishermen are well catered for with boat ramps at the northern end of the beach and at Saltwater Creek. The nearby estuaries are brimming with good eating fish but remember to be on the lookout for crocodiles at all times. Sitting at the mouth of the mighty Daintree River, nearby Snapper Island is a Mecca for local anglers. Barramundi can be found in nearby Daintree River and fishing off the beach can also prove rewarding.
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On site vans and self contained units can be found at the local caravan park and there are also beachside holiday houses for rent.
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02 May, 2011
Now thisis inspring!! Thank you! Magnificent!
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U2 Rocks!!!!!I'm from Ireland & I am 13 & I just want to say U2 Rocks!!!! Further more, I went to see the '360 Tour' in 2009 & am happy to say it was AWESOME!!!!!!!
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i beg you guys...!!Come to BRAZIL and do this perfect show that just you guys know how to do! ohhh....please connect to space (nasa) like you guys did in Dublin and Tampa, was so amazing and beautiful. We are waiting you guys here in Brazil(São Paulo). Will be a honor receive you. Big hug for each one. Bruno Esturba Molino.
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Please !Please U2 come to Brazil we are waiting for you ! We love you <3
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Very beautiful!!!!!!!!!I LOVE TOO MUCH U2 and humanitarian causes which always helps! PLEASE COME TO BRAZIL, my biggest dream is WATCHING THE SHOW FOR YOU! JULIANA SOUZA CIDADE - SANTA CATARINA/BRAZIL.
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE NO PROBLEMI was there for the Houston show and I remember when they brought up the fact that they were at NASA the day before. I was like "What? They were here for 2 days and went to NASA too!?" Anyway, it was awesome to include a little bit of space travel into the tour, considering the theme, with the stage and all, did make it seem like we were in space. I sure know I was! Then again, I always am when I listen to a U2 song. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was growing up and was in love with space. I went to Mission Control when I was 10 and told my mom and dad "I"m gonna work here one day!" Even though I'm in nursing school now, I still like astronomy (not to be confused with astrology). My two loves together at last - U2 and space.
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U2 & NASAAn exception video. I was at the Croke Park concert in Dublin and thought that that this was a truly original idea for U2 and NASA to combine their efforts to make everyone more aware of the state of the planet earth today. It was also nice to see U2 turn the focus from the "Rock Stars" to the researchers and scientists at work trying to make the planet a better place. Bravo Gentlemen!


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Cartoons of the day: Obama and Nixon
Benghazi hearings. IRS scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Secret gathering of AP phone records. It hasn't been a good couple weeks for the Obama administration. What's next — comparisons of President Obama to Richard Nixon?
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Kempe & the Big Apple
Last time I stayed in New York, the hotel room alone cost something like $400 a night, and some said that was a bargain.
On April 16, at Kempe Takes Manhattan, $250 might not get you overnight lodging, but it will cover admission to a party filled with sights, sounds and tastes sure to conjur images of the Big Apple. And the only travel involved is a drive to the Marriott City Center.
Those with a major hand in the gala were treated to a preview when Dick and Jeanne Saunders opened their Cherry Hills Village home for cocktails and a buffet supper.
Co-chairs Gail and George Johnson said guests will walk through a subway-like setting, to emerge on the "streets of New York" where a variety of foods — from street-corner delights to penthouse fare — will be there for the tasting. Later, students from Denver School of the Arts will perform Broadway tunes and more in a choreographed-for-the-occasion show.
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This is actually a semi request fill. Semi, in that a different image was actually asked for, but I liked this one more. Never really been an enormous fan of Iori, but I really like the changes they made to her design for the game's sequel and the anime. One of the cards included with the Game / BD vol 1 LE pack (yes, I bought it ) was this, and the instant I saw it I decided I wanted to go back to the anime (the episode 2 ED specifically) and vector it. I could probably have just scanned the card, but I like doing it this way, though I'm way out of practice since this took me ages.


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Students are now in the full swing of school, getting used to their new schedules, teachers and friends.
But for many foster kids, school never becomes routine. Foster kids often move from home to home so staying in the same school can be difficult.
School stability often can make the difference between failure and success.
A bill before the governor's desk that could help provide some stability.
Going off to college is a big accomplishment for any student. For one San Diego area homecoming princess, recognized by her high school for always doing the right thing, leaving for college is an especially big accomplishment.
Candace was eleven when she and her younger brother went into the foster care system. Her older brothers soon followed.
"Basically all our life we've been neglected abused physically and emotionally," she said.
Candace moved to seven homes in seven years, but she stayed at the same high school.
"You actually see people every day. Knowing that even if things may not go well at home, you still have people to turn to at school," she said. .
Her younger brother, who moved to seven schools in seven years has not been so lucky.
"He couldn't trust people he had behavioral problems because he didn't know who to talk to who to turn to," she said.
The averages show foster children move anywhere from 8 to 9 times during their foster career.
"If you're moving that many times your academic achievement really takes a hit, " said Kate So.
So is a teacher and Court Appointed Special Advocate for Voices for Children, a non profit that helps support foster kids.
She says studies show every time a child is moved from one school to another, anywhere from four to six months in academic achievement is lost. Under the new legislation, she says school stability will be given the consideration it needs.
"Everyone must look at school stability now and that hasn't been the case before," she said. "It wasn't required to be considered; so it at least gives that badge of importance.
A bill, which is still on the governor's desk, doesn't require that students stay in the same school but it recommends that if a move needs to be made, at least do it over summer break.
If that can't happen, the state must provide transportation so students can go to the same school.
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I woke up Saturday morning eager to get dressed and start the day. Usually I'm happy to wear my PJs at least until noon, but this day, we were going strawberry picking...
I was so excited, and had been waiting to pick berries for weeks, hoping that the season's first crop wouldn't be all picked over by the time we were able go.
Berry Patch Farms is located in Brighton, CO, about a half hour away from where we live, so it was an easy drive there. Last summer we tried unsuccessfully to find some "pick your own" farms when we were in Paonia, wine country in southern Colorado. But we weren't there at the right time for picking, and crops weren't as productive as the farmers had hoped. So I was thrilled when, after researching online, I found this farm so close to us.
When we arrived at the farm, we were greeted by the morning "cockadoodle-doo" of several roosters, and a very large turkey ambling towards us, ruffling his feathers as intimidatingly as possible.
A sweet looking pig with a curly tail rooted around on the ground, sniffing out something yummy to nibble on. I was tempted to pet the pig since they have the reputation of being as friendly as dogs, but decided maybe I shouldn't.
A black and white farm cat wandered around the grounds, looking for attention and treats.
At 9am, it was already warm out, and the sky was bright blue and sunny, slightly streaked with clouds. We rode a wagon out to the organic strawberry fields, where we were given a few tips for strawberry picking and etiquette.
As we bent over the rows of plants, looking for the ripest berries, children ran around excitedly, asking their parents over and over, "Is this one ripe? Is it all red? Can I pick it?"
"Yes, it's all red" or "No, that one has too much white on it", came their patient answers. These conversations repeated themselves many times.
I could feel the sweat trickling down my spine, in spite of my lightweight, cotton sundress. We worked our way from the start of one long row down to the end, and before long, we had three containers full of juicy, sweet red berries.
When we took our berries to be weighed so we could pay for them, the lady at the counter asked me with a smile, "Did you pick a dandelion? Usually only the children do that."
Yes, I picked a dandelion because it was pretty. And yes, I know it's a weed. :) Something my younger brother used to love to tease me about regarding my name. "Heather is just a weed!" he would tell me, but it never made me feel bad. Even weeds can be pretty, even though they grow wild and free.
Back home, I immediately set to work cleaning and hulling the berries. I already knew what I was planning to use them for...
The day before, I had mixed up a vanilla custard base for ice cream, with plans to add fresh strawberries, macerated in a little sugar, after the custard had chilled overnight. This was my first time making ice cream with a cooked, egg-based custard, and the extra work was so worth it. The ice cream was so creamy, smooth and luscious, with the berries we'd picked ourselves making it just that much better.
Then I combined some of the strawberries with some rhubarb I'd bought earlier in the week, cooking it down with sugar and a little lemon, cinnamon and vanilla until it was thick and rich. I strained the mixture, extracting as much juice as I could, and then reduced the juice a little more until it became thick and syrupy. Now we have a beautiful jar of strawberry-rhubarb syrup to use on pancakes or waffles - but you'll have to wait for the syrup recipe until the next time I make pancakes. :)
With some leftover bits of cheesecake, I made two little strawberry cheesecake trifles in mason jars with the cheesecake, strawberries and whipped cream.
And with the strawberries that were left, I made a quick and simple strawberry jam with a little orange juice and zest, which we ate with fresh rhubarb muffins, which will also be in a separate post.
But, oh, that ice cream. Maybe it was the rich custard or maybe it was the freshly-picked strawberries. Or that we'd gone out and picked them ourselves in the hot Colorado sun. But it was the best strawberry ice cream I've ever tasted...
Strawberry Frozen Custard
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- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste (or seeds of 1/2 vanilla bean)
- 1/2 cup sugar, plus 2 tablespoons (divided)
- 5 egg yolks
- 2 cups fresh diced strawberries
In a large saucepan, combine the cream, milk and vanilla. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat, but don't bring it to a rapid boil. In a separate bowl, whisk together 1/2 cup sugar with the egg yolks. When the cream mixture is hot but not boiling, drizzle about 1 cup of the hot cream into the eggs and sugar mixture, whisking constantly, to temper the eggs. Pour all of the egg mixture back into the saucepan with the cream. Cook the custard gently over medium low heat, stirring constantly until thickened slightly, and the temperature reaches 170. Remove from the heat.
Pour custard through a mesh strainer into a bowl. Cover with a lid or plastic wrap, and refrigerate, preferably overnight, but at least until very well chilled. The custard will thicken quite a bit as it chills, more to the consistency of pudding.
Toss the diced strawberries with the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar; set in the refrigerator to macerate for 20 minutes. Stir strawberries into the chilled custard.
Churn custard according to the instructions on your ice cream maker, then transfer to a container and freeze until firm, 4-6 hours.
Yields about 2 quarts.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Recipe: Kale and Apple Salad from Oak at Fourteenth, Boulder
One of dining critic Bill Porter's best dishes of 2012: Oak at Fourteenth chef/owner Steven Redzikowski says the key to this salad is to use a very sharp knife and cut the kale into thin ribbons. Contrary to rumor, he does NOT give the kale leaves a massage first.
3 tablespoons candied almonds
Granulated sugar
1 honey crisp apple, cut into thin rounds
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan
1 1/2 cups finely sliced kale
1 lemon, juiced
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon togarashi chile powder
Salt to taste
For candied almonds: In a small saucepan, cover almonds with water and bring to a simmer. Strain almonds and place on a baking sheet. Dust with sugar. Place on sheet tray in a 350-degree oven and bake until the sugar is hard and caramelized. Cool and chop in quarters with a knife.
For salad: Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.


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Our reservation for Alinea (booked over two months out and acquired by luck) was what dictated the timing of our trip to Chicago in 2011. We were planning on visiting the Windy City a full month earlier, but couldn't get a reservation at this world famous center of avante garde cuisine until June 22nd at 9:15pm. We planned the rest of the trip around this meal with approximately equal days before and after to ensure that we wouldn't feel rushed or overwhelmed with settling in or packing up. The meal was an unforgettable experience and yet felt lacking. Much of the experience at Alinea relies on surprise, so only read on if you don't mind some spoilers!
We grabbed a cab from our hotel on Michigan Avenue to
, but when I told the driver we were going to Alinea, he didn't know where it was. I provided him with the address (1723 N Halsted St, Chicago, Illinois) and cross streets and off we went. When we got close, I kept my eyes open for any clues to where the restaurant might be. I had heard there wasn't a sign for the restaurant, so I was looking for house numbers or a valet or something else that would give me an indication of where the restaurant was. About half a block away, I spotted it - a podium/taxi stand outside a plain gray door. As we got closer, I saw the podium actually had a sign that said "Alinea", so the restaurant
have a sign. I attempted to tell the cab driver we were at the location already, but he kept going. About half a block later, I managed to get him to stop, I paid him, and we walked back to the restaurant.
Upon entering the grey metal door, we entered a red corridor bathed in red light. The left wall was continuous and smooth, but the right wall was broken into sections and each section was angled slightly inward as you came down the corridor giving it the appearance of both extreme length and a work of modern art. (It was so red, my camera failed to take pictures of it properly.) When we reached a point about 3/4ths of the way down the corridor, an automatic door slid open on the left allowing us to enter the restaurant.
Inside was the receiving area (more of a large hallway than a proper room) where a female staff member greeted us with either a "hello" or "good evening" (can't remember which) while servers and staff hustled through the hallway. Given the unusual entrance, we weren't sure what to do at this point, and I stood there taking in the scene (where the reservation desk was, the computer, the stairs behind the area, the servers coming down from the kitchen on the right of the hall to the left). She then said, "You can step in." in a strangely curt fashion. We complied with her command, entered, and stood in the middle of the hall. After providing my name, a server led us to our table upstairs.
The tables at Alinea are fairly large (ours was about three feet by three feet or a little larger), wood, black, and unadorned with tablecloth, decorations, or utensils. After being seated, a rolled up white cloth napkin embroidered with a fancy looking pilcrow (the paragraph symbol: ¶) was set before us. I asked about the symbol and was informed that it was a variant of the pilcrow called the alinea. The restaurant was named after this symbol which in Latin means "off the line". I suppose this meaning could work on a couple different levels: it could be a pun because we're there to eat food which comes "off the line" (line being restaurant slang for the area in the kitchen where the food is cooked) or it could be a reference to a new beginning (as in a new paragraph or thought).
Before each course, two pillows are set on the table (position varies depending on the course) with the appropriate silverware.
Before our first course arrived, I asked if a copy of the menu would be available for me to use to take notes on. We were informed that a menu would be made available to us at the end of the meal as a souvenir. They brought me a sheet of paper imprinted with the Alinea logo which I used for note taking. Just a few courses into the meal, I realized that much of the experience at Alinea is made interesting and exciting because the participant doesn't know what's coming next. Surprise is a huge factor in many of their dishes - they cover up portions of the course, hide things in tubes, cover ingredients with another ingredient, or have something that looks like one food that tastes like another food. As I mentioned earlier, if you plan on eating at Alinea and want to preserve the complete experience, it's probably best if you don't read anymore of this review.
Steelhead Roe · watermelon, kaffir lime, cucumber flower. This dish had steelhead trout roe served over a watermelon mousse with nasturtium, cucumber flower, and watermelon consomme. I found this dish to be pleasing - sweet, light and flavorful with bursts of saltiness.}?>
Hamachi · west indies spices, banana, ginger. A fried ball of banana and hamachi was served on a vanilla bean. I really liked this course because of the interplay of savory hamachi, sweet banana, spicy ginger, and saltiness (from pineapple salt). There was some uneven salting because although mine was a bit mild on the salt, Tina's was overly salted.
This course (as well as many others) was literally a single bite. Thomas Keller is famous for saying (concerning the law of diminishing returns), "The initial bite is fabulous. The second bite is great. But by the third bite - with many more to come - the flavors begin to deaden, and the diner loses interest." I do believe this is true to a certain extent, but when something tastes fabulous (like this hamachi dish), I really, really want a second bite. When there is no second bite and my brain just keeps craving the taste of the flavors one more time, it starts to become a little frustrating. By the end of the meal, I experienced this feeling of unfulfilled desire so many times that I would describe my dinner at Alinea as one of the most uniquely unsatisfying meals I have ever had. The second bite is IMPORTANT.
Oyster Leaf · mignonette. Scallop - hitachino weizen, old bay. Razor Clam - carrot, soy, daikon. The next three courses came at the same time. So that stronger flavors would not precede more subtle ones, we were advised to eat them in this order: oyster leaf, scallop, and then razor clam. The oyster leaf was served on an oyster half shell, but, in actuality, has nothing to do with oysters. It is actually the leaf from a specific type of bluebell plant. Astonishingly, the leaf tasted both briny and sweet in the same way that an oyster does.
The scallop was buttery with light hints of beer (from the foam).
The razor clam was next.
We removed the top shells to reveal a sweet and savory dish made with razor clam and root vegetable flavors.
Yuba · shrimp, miso, togarashi. Next was an interesting construction made of fried soy beancurd skin with a shrimp wrapped around the bottom half and dipped in sesame and chives. A pool of miso mayonnaise was provided but it was more for looks than dipping as you couldn't get more than a tiny bit on the end of the stick between bites. I felt that the concept was novel and I enjoyed my first bite which had the most shrimp and mayonnaise. Subsequent bites didn't work as well because the fried taste of the beancurd skin (which seems to soak up oil like a sponge) overwhelmed the rest of the flavors.
English Pea · olive oil, chamomile, green apple. This course is actually a three part dish served in a clever bowl with parts that lift away to reveal the next part.
The first portion was a warm pea soup that we both found to have a wonderful pea flavor and was very good overall (it just fell just short of excellent due to being a tad over salted).
When we finished our soup, the top part of the vessel was lifted away to reveal a nested bowl containing freeze dried peas with a pea meringue. I wasn't a big fan of the vegetal flavors of this pea preparation. I like it when the vegetal taste of peas is balanced with their natural sweetness. Here, I felt the sweetness was missing and the remaining taste was too strong for me to enjoy.
The final part of the dish was revealed when the bowl was lifted away. A fine puree of peas was frozen and served with a green apple sorbet with solid Greek yogurt. Three different sour notes piled on top of each other. I didn't enjoy it, and Tina chose not to finish it. Intellectually, I'm quite impressed that such a wide array of flavors was set before us and yet they were all distinctly English pea. However, my taste buds didn't like the flavors of any except the most traditional preparation.
Mackerel · mango, celery, juniper. This bite was skewered on a long thin wire which kept bobbing around. This was the best photograph I could get of it. The mackerel had a lot of flavor to it hitting all at once but dissipating rapidly for me. The flavors came and went so fast that I didn't really have time to acknowledge them or fully enjoy them. It's like having a really fine wine and not getting the chance to allow it to linger in the mouth to taste all of it. I continued to chew the bite of mackerel hoping to release more flavor but tasted only the slight sourness of the fish. Finally, I swallowed... wishing there was a second bite so I could truly appreciate the dish.
Wild Mushrooms · pine, sumac, ramp. I loved this dish of morels and hon shimeji mushrooms. Both were perfectly cooked so no bitterness remained but the texture was still intact and had not gone mushy. The earthy, nuttiness of the mushrooms was balanced by the lightly acidic pickled ramps and reinforced by the delicate pine nuts and pine cream. The server never mentioned the inclusion of sumac in the dish. I only found out when I read the menu that was provided at the end of the meal. Having never had sumac (it's used in only a few cuisines), I would have been interested in seeing if I could associate a flavor with that spice. All I can say is that it was masterfully used in this dish.
At this point, they brought us two bright orange flags which they set against the wall and called "table decorations". The server then added the phrase "for now... something else later" after an ominous pause.
Hot Potato · cold potato, black truffle, butter. The next dish was served in a small round wax bowl about an inch and a half in diameter. A needle was inserted from the side and skewered on it was something I couldn't see covered by a sliver of black truffle. My camera, on its table top tripod, takes pictures at a lower elevation than I normally sit (it is about chest high). From my vantage point, this literally looked like a black truffle slice hovering over a white foamy cream (with a tiny cube of what looked like butter skewered on the edge). The server declined to tell us anything about the dish except how to eat it: pull the pin, allow the mystery contents to drop into the foamy liquid, and shoot it. So, that's what we did. I pulled the pin out and something larger than I expected dropped into the bowl (I almost dropped it as it wobbled in my hand). I poured the contents into my mouth and had one of the most pleasant experiences of the evening. The majority of the mouthful was a delicious chilled potato soup, but in the middle of that was a perfectly textured warm potato ball that enhanced the flavor of the soup by warming just that little bit up in the mouth. The difference in textures was also playful and delightful. The whole interaction of flavors in the mouth was very, very cool. The flavor was of intense essence of potatoes both in the soup and the potato ball. Amazing.
For the next course they brought us a glass plate set on a wood board with a metallic design inlaid in the middle. On this plate were several different items most of which I do not remember. The menu says olives, fermented garlic, and blackberry. I believe the sauce on the left was some sort of tomato sauce, but I don't know what the white cubes are or the circle in the middle.
Short Rib · olive, fermented garlic, blackberry. They then lifted the glass plate off the wood board and had us remove the metal pieces from the board. We hooked them together to form a stand. They then draped the orange flags on our table over the stands to reveal that they were tomato pasta squares and would serve as a wrapper for short ribs which they brought to the side of the table. We were to spoon the short rib into the middle of our pasta square and add whatever toppings we desired, pull up the edges of the pasta like a sack, and eat it. The pasta was tender, but more importantly very sturdy. (I was afraid it would break, and I would make a mess.) The short ribs were phenomenally prepared and the toppings were interesting and worked really well with the rib. This was probably the most satisfying of courses we ate with three or four delicious bites.
Black Truffle · explosion, romaine, parmesan. For this dish, we were told to place the whole ravioli in our mouths and be sure not to open our mouths as we bit down on it. I inserted the ravioli, bit down, and much to my dismay found the ravioli burst on the opposite end from what I had hoped and expected. Instead of the contents flowing into the center of my mouth, I found it squirting towards the region between my teeth and my lips. I tried to keep it all inside my mouth, but a few drops dribbled out. The flavor was awesome: liquid concentrated black truffles - there's no mistaking it and there might not be a better way to enjoy the flavor. I only wish I could have a do over.
Agneau · sauce choron, pomme de terre noisette. For this course, the silverware and plating was traditional instead of contemporary. Chef Achatz (by all accounts in the media) has been obsessed with Escoffier and is reviving many of the recipes from
Le Guide Culinaire
at his new restaurant,
. This course was inspired by a few (short) recipes from Escoffier. I say "inspired" because Escoffier's recipes are so short and lacking concrete instructions that the same recipe in the hands of two different chefs could yield very different results. In Chef Achatz and his able kitchen's hands, the sauce choron (recipe 90 - bearnaise sauce finished with tomato paste), pomme de terre noisette (recipe 4218 - potatoes cut into balls the size of hazelnuts and fried in butter), and the lamb served on a crispy crouton, topped with artichoke filled with sauce and an asparagus tip (closest I could manage to find was recipe 2866 - lamb cutlets shallow fried in butter, served with croutons fried in clarified butter, artichoke bottoms willed with a puree of foie gras and sauce allemande and truffles) were excellent. The sauces were strongly flavored and matched well with the lamb and sweet artichoke. The crunchy crouton complimented the tenderness of the lamb wonderfully.
Octopus · eggplant, coriander, red wine. This dish was presented in a small bowl without a flat base. Until the fork with the food was removed, it would not sit on the table, so the server graciously held the bowl as still as he could while I tried to quickly take a picture. Unfortunately, it was still a little blurry, but you get the idea what it looks like. A small cube of charred eggplant sits on the fork with a little bit of octopus and coriander microgreens. The bite was flavorful.
Snow · yuzu. This course separated our savory courses from our desserts. The fine, powdery deposition (frost) was very light and had an ephemeral quality. It was a fun and effective palate cleanser.
Strawberry · jasmine, basil, balsamic. This was one of Tina's favorite courses. Strawberries were the main theme taking the shape of cubes (cut strawberries, gelees) and squares (leathers). Cubes of basil flavored jelly and jasmine scented sauce enhanced the strawberry flavor and sensation. Aside from the final course of the evening, this dessert was the largest course we had (in terms of number of bites).
Lemongrass · dragonfruit, cilantro, cucumber. We had to suck the liquid contents out of this tube which was capped on both ends by a clear jelly. It was hard to judge just how hard to suck before the plug comes out, and, when it did, we had to be ready to receive the entire tube's worth of liquid. It was light and refreshing. Tina found it quite awkward.
Chocolate · blueberry, honey, peanut. The final course of the evening is treated as a grand finale. Over the course of several minutes, the table is prepared. A large sheet of gray silicone is draped over the table and smoothed, small bowl after small bowl of what looks like nougats, sauces, cookie crumbs, and herbs are set neatly on the side of the table by servers. Then a chef arrives and begins to paint. The artistry that occurred during the five minutes he was working at the table is best seen in video form below.
At one point (around the 2:33 mark), I noticed that the chocolate sauce was forming rectangular drops on the table instead of round ones. I asked how this was accomplished and the chef responded with, "It's actually difficult to explain, it's like trying to explain a math equation. You don't want to hear it, trust me." No... actually, I really do. When I persisted, he said it had to do with the temperature and viscosity of the chocolate. I'm still not sure how it works, but I now suspect that it is mainly a function of the way the silicone mat is manufactured with some liquids flowing differently when they are at different temperatures. As far as I could tell, this isn't addressed in the
Alinea cookbook
Armed with only a spoon each, we ate as much of the chocolate dessert as we could. As the frozen chocolate mousse melted, it became more and more difficult to spoon it up. Even though we wanted to eat as much of it as possible (we weren't full from the meal), there's only so much you can pick up using a spoon on a rigid flat surface. The flavors were okay, nothing spectacular. I was extremely disappointed in both the texture and flavor of the creme brulee (it was very loose and tasted weak and strangely tangy lacking the rich eggy flavor and velvety texture that makes creme brulee so decadent).
After our silicone table covering was folded up and taken away, they provided us with copies of the menu and the bill ($428 for two before tax and tip without alcohol; we don't usually order alcohol at expensive meals because we find that after the first few courses we are unable to identify flavors or recall the taste memory later). The menu, like the food served at the restaurant, is a functional work of art. The fuzzy circles dividing the main ingredient from the supporting ingredients on each line show the size and nature of each course. The larger the circle, the larger the portion. Circles placed further left designate more savory dishes, while sweeter dishes have circles positioned to the right.
I asked if it was possible to visit the kitchens, and they said they would take us back there once we were ready.
Alinea's kitchen is different than most other kitchens I've been in. The rows of stainless steel working surfaces dominate the room (during service, water baths, induction burners, and other apparatus are out and in use) making the central working area very flexible. The floor is covered with carpeted rugs instead of rubber mats as if in defiance of Murphy's Law (the corrollary involving drips and spills). There is no massive oven or salamander taking over the view of the room.
Overall, our experience at Alinea was more interesting and intellectual than satisfying. We left in a state short of content, requiring us to eat whatever we could find in our hotel room when we returned. This was the first time we had ever eaten fine dining and left semi-hungry. (I've had friends complain about going to a fancy restaurant to eat dinner and leaving hungry, but it hasn't happened to me before this meal.) In general, I'm not able to appreciate modern art in the same way that other people might. I can see that something is artistic and appreciate it on a certain level, but I don't feel a strong emotional response or satisfaction in viewing art. When I eat, I'm more focused on flavor and texture - the essential components of how food tastes - and that is where I derive most of the pleasure from eating a meal. Many of the dishes at Alinea did have excellent flavor, but many also felt as if how the food tasted played a secondary part to the artistic nature of the meal (both in terms of the visual as well as the performance art - surprise and tabletop art creation). I'm glad I experienced it, but I can't say I was particularly fond of this meal.
For ease of navigation and to keep the page sizes down, I've split the trip report and reviews into multiple pages:
Chicago 2011 Part 1a - Overview
Chicago 2011 Part 1b - Overview
Chicago 2011 Part 2 - Shui Wah, Santa Anna Bakery
Chicago 2011 Part 3 - Pizzeria Uno, Giordano's
Chicago 2011 Part 4 - Gibson's Bar & Steakhouse
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - Frontera Grill, Xoco
Chicago 2011 Part 6 - Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi, Frontera Fresco, Marc Burger
Chicago 2011 Part 7 - Alinea
(this page)
Chicago 2011 Part 8 - Vienna Beef Factory
Chicago 2011 Part 9 - Girl and the Goat
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Patrick and Laura Cayemberg Sr. nee Laurent were my husband's paternal grandparents. I'm posting them together because they died within days of each other. I always found the story so touching and incredible. One of those stories that I just had to verify the information again with my husband before posting this.
The last part of Laura's life was spent in a nursing home due to Alzheimer's disease. Patrick had always said that it was his goal to live only one day longer than Laura so he could take care of her. She died on January 18, 1997.
When Patrick Sr. went up to view Laura for the last time he said, "OK. I'm done." Did he mean that he was done with the viewing, or that his job was done? We don't know for sure, but those were some of the last words he spoke. Shortly after that, he collapsed. He was brought to a chair to rest and soon after, to the hospital where he died. Patrick fulfilled his promise. All the preparations for Laura were complete and he could be with his wife again. Patrick died on January 21, 1997.
A touching story to be sure, but it must have been incredibly hard on the family to lose them both so close together.
Laura Mary Laurent
Born - 4 August 1907 in Luxemburg, Kewaunee, WI
Died - 19 January 1997 in Green Bay, Brown, WI
15 November 1928
Luxemburg, Kewaunee, WI
Patrick Henry Cayemberg Sr.
Born 15 September 1909 in Brussels Township, Door, WI
Died - 21 January 1997 in Green Bay, Brown, WI
Buried at Shrine of the Good Shepherd Mausoleum, Green Bay, Brown, WI