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A horrible accident involving a Ferrari 458 Italia Spyder occurred in Beijing, leaving the driver dead and his two passengers seriously injured — both female.
While that may not be groundbreaking news in and of itself, the Chinese government is moving quickly to censor any internet searches involving the word "Ferrari" as a result of the accident.
It's believed that the man behind the wheel of the 458 was the illegitimate son of Jia Qinglin, member of the Politburo Standing Committee (one of China's leading Communist Parties). Details of the crash are quickly being deleted from the Internet in addition to the censorship of the keyword search.
Regardless of who was behind the wheel, the wreck is devastating and we hope the passengers make a speedy recovery.
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By: Amber Eady
ALBANY, GA - A car crash at the corner of Newton Road and Lily Pond Road left a utility pole and a caution light damaged Friday, April 22 around 11 a.m.
Police say Crystal Mitchell of Albany was driving a Toyota Corolla when she pulled out after running a stop sign.
Dennis Gilbert of Leesburg who was driving a Ford Ranger swerved to avoid her and hit a utility pole, knocking down a caution light.
Both drivers were checked by EMS, but neither went to hospital. The Department of Transportation repaired the caution light.
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Very easy to work with the dough. I added some Andes Peppermint chips to make Peppermint Teacakes and dusted with powdered sugar. Delicious! Plain are great with coffee and Peppermint are terrific with hot chocolate!
Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies are the perfect backdrop for delicious flavors. Try any of the varieties that come with this recipe: Chocolate Kiss, Peanut Butter Cup, Lemon, or Lemon Thumbprint. Whichever you choose, you're guaranteed rave reviews.
Yield: Makesabout 7 dozen
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Colored sugar
- Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; add powdered and granulated sugars, beating well. Add eggs, oil, vanilla, and lemon juice, beating until blended.
- Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to sugar mixture, beating until blended.
- Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in colored sugar, and place about 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets.
- Bake, in batches, at 350° for 9 to 11 minutes or until set. (Do not brown.) Remove to wire racks to cool.
- Chocolate Kiss Cookies: Omit colored sugar. After baking, immediately place one unwrapped milk chocolate kiss in center of each cookie, and cool.
- Peanut Butter Cup Cookies: Omit colored sugar. After baking, immediately place an unwrapped miniature peanut butter cup in the center of each cookie, and cool.
- Lemon Cookies: Omit vanilla and colored sugar. Increase lemon juice to 1/4 cup, and add 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind to dough. Proceed as directed.
- Lemon Thumbprint Cookies: Prepare Lemon Cookies, and press thumb in center of each cookie to make an indentation. Bake and cool as directed. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon raspberry jam in each indentation.
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The Company provides wireless wide-area modem solutions for mobile computing. It develops and markets products that include wireless modems for mobile computers, embedded modules for OEMs and rugged vehicle-mounted modems.
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My Dad is just an ordinary man. He is not from royal blood, a town leader, a famous athlete or a movie star. He is just Dad. Three little letters that represent the world in a small child's eyes. He is a humble man at heart and completely unaware of how much goodness and strength he instilled in his children. When I was growing up, he was just a man doing whatever he could to provide for and support his family. He probably has no idea of the life lessons he has taught us without meaning to. The life lessons, we caught and understood from his daily actions. How he distinguished right from wrong and the essence of being an honorable, tolerant and forgiving human being.
Lesson One
You can do anything just because you are YOU! You have everything you need right there within you. I can remember asking my dad, "Dad do you think I could do this?" His reply was always, "Of course you can. You're a Young. You can do anything." He breathed belief into his kids by making them proud of their last name. Proud of the stock they came from. The words, "Of course you can," would flow right out of his mouth with so much sincerity and conviction, that you knew in your heart they were true. Then, he would give me an example in our lineage of why it was true. Of someone else who blazed that trail for us. Or he would tell us we could do it just because we were "Youngs." He would breath belief into us with his words and stories while simultaneously building pride and strength in us because of our lineage.
Lesson Two
People can only tear you down if you let them. Don't let them inside your mind. Like every little kid, I have come to my Dad with scrapes and bruises. Some of the hardest scrapes and scars to fix are the ones that happen in our heart, or within our mind. I would come to my Dad with those too. Being a man, sometimes my Dad would just tell me to toughen up. Mostly he would say, "Don't let them beat you. They can only win if you let them." He would tell me, "It's going to be O.K." And my favorite, "Don't worry they can't eat you. Only the IRS can eat you!" The underlying message was always the same. You can do it. Get back in the game and finish the race.
Lesson Three
See the possibilities within everyday situations. See what is possible when no one else can. My Dad worked in construction for almost 50 years. I watched him build some amazing things. He could always look at a building or piece of land and see the possibilities. I would watch in wonder as something would take shape and grow into a finished product. I learned to look at a room, home, piece of wood or plot of land and imagine how it could be different, better. Dad was the fix it man because of this skill. Frequently, he would be called in when a job had gone horribly wrong or was not going to finish in time. The big boss would call my Dad in when it was high pressure, and millions of dollars on the line if a hotel didn't open in time. Dad would always come through. He was a make a way, find a way kind of man. He would see possibilities and offer solutions when others would see only failure.
Lesson Four
No matter what, your family loves and believes in you. I am not sure how I know this. I cannot place my finger on what my parents said to make me hold this as a fact. But I know in my heart, if I had to, I could always go home. At the same time, there have been times when I have wanted to come home, lick my wounds and stay within the safe comfort of my parent's home but my dad said no. He has told me to stay, face my situation and stick with it or fight for what was right. Those were some of the hardest times for me. I know it was hard for my dad to tell me no but those situations were also growing times for me. One of those times, I was 22, pregnant, and alone in Germany. My husband was at war. I wanted to come home. I can remember calling my Dad and crying to him over the phone. Telling him, I can't do it. I can't handle being alone. I'm scared. I don't want to have this baby on my own. His reply was, "Dee Ann, you are going to have this baby. There is no going back on that." He gave a good-natured chuckle that I can still hear. "But you can do this. You need to be there in case your husband comes home." I stayed. It was hard, and it was lonely. My husband did come home. Two weeks before our little girl was born. I am thankful for his advice.
Lesson Five
Sometimes people do not like you when you make them stretch and grow out of their comfort zone. Growing up I thought my dad was wonderful. He was kind and loving. Who wouldn't like him? I remember visiting one of my Dad's jobs in Vail, Colorado. He was building a hotel. It was a big beautiful hotel located right at the base of the mountain. Skiers would be able to ski down the slope right to their hotel room. In my eyes, it was a big deal and my Dad was making it a possible. On every job site the only bathroom was a Port-a-potty. Not a big deal. This time, I went into the Port-a-potty and came out with an education. Written on the inside walls of the Port-a-potty people had written what they thought of my Dad. Using four letter words and vocabulary I really shouldn't have understood. I ran out, "Dad, Dad, you won't believe what it says about you on the walls of the Port-a-potty. It's not nice!" My dad just laughed. He walked with me, slowing his gate to match my smaller stride. "Dee Ann, sometimes people don't want to hear that they have to do it again or do it right. They get upset when I tell them to fix things. Don't worry about it." He brushed his huge hand across my head. Laughed and walked away to an elevator shaft with his voice booming out commands. I watched as my dad, older than any man on his crew, hip that wouldn't bend right, climbed up in that shaft, and helped put in the elevator. Two workers were standing behind me watching. I heard one state to the other; there was no way he would get up in there, too dangerous. I held my breath as I watched and waited. Listening to the men and my Dad figure out how to make that elevator work. My Dad and his crew kept at it till it worked. Now I realize, of course my Dad knew what was written in that port-a-potty. He used it everyday. Even knowing what was written he worked along side his men and completed that job. He made sure that job was completed, on time, and finished right the first time.
Lesson Six
Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Even the little jobs, the ones you think don't matter. Those jobs are the most important because YOU will know if you did it right or not. All of us kids have helped on my dad's jobs. I was always on clean up crew or in the office. No job was too small to my Dad. Every job was important and his kids started with the grunt work and worked their way up. Grunt work was my specialty when I was younger. My dad handed me a broom or vacuum, a rag and a razor blade and told me to get to work. Use the razor blade to get any excess caulk or paint off the windows. Clean up and make sure the job shines. He would inspect behind me, telling me just like everyone else where to fix and how to do it better. My vacuum, I named Freddy, and I became very close and I learned to pay attention to details. I went home at night just exhausted. I kept at it under my Dad's watchful eye. Rolling my eyes at how unimportant my job was. Who would really notice if there was a little paint on the windows? Until the day my Dad's boss walked through the job. He praised me on how great everything looked and what a great job I was doing. My dad smiled and said that's my daughter. The boss laughed, "Of course she is Dale. I should have known." I felt my dad's pride in me at that moment. I learned how important it is to do your best. How different that memory would be if I didn't give it my best, if my dad didn't inspect what he expected from me.
Lesson Seven
Be truthful and honest with people. Even when you know it is something they don't want to hear. Even if it will hurt the one's you love. People always know where they stand with Dad. He will tell you if you are "messed up". I remember hearing stories of how Dad would be called into a meeting with the big bosses. He would walk with his distinctive gait into a fancy boardroom in his work boots, faded Levis, and work shirt over his white t-shirt. His hip didn't bend, so he would sit crooked in his chair, slightly angled back. The boss would ask questions and the heads of the other jobs would want to please their boss so usually they would give him the answer he wanted. Dad would pretty much remain quiet. Until the boss would say, "So what do you think Dale?" My Dad never minced words. He would say it how he saw it, whether it was what the boss wanted to hear or not. He knew it was what the Boss needed to hear to get that job accomplished. Because of that, the Boss came to realize he could trust Dad.
As a kid, I learned to never call Dad unless you wanted the bare truth. He would always be truthful with you and if you wanted things sugar coated he was not the one to ask. In exchange, I value his opinion. I know he will tell it to me straight and then I can make my own decision with his input.
Lesson Eight
Always have a place to think. Dad always had his garage to go to if he needed to get away and have time to himself or time to think. He would head to his garage. It was his domain and his world. A place where he could contemplate or just be. It was there I could go to him to talk out my problems. Full of childish self-importance, I would tell him what I thought in both everyday and world events. He never criticized. He would say, "You think so, Dee Ann?" Then he would state how he felt. He didn't argue his point. He let me come to my conclusion on my own. He made everyday of life a learning lesson. Some of my problems were easy and he could help me solve them quickly.
As time went on and I grew into an adult, I had adult decisions to make. Then my Dad started to say; "I can't answer that for you. You will have to make that decision on your own." He knew that I would have to live with the consequences of my decisions. I remember when I wanted to join the military. My mother cried. My dad looked up and down at me, assessed me and addressed me as an adult, eye to eye. "It is up to you. Only you can make that decision. Just know, once made it's a done deal." I learned you have to make your own decision in life, good or bad, and stand by your decision. Once you have made up your mind, do not second-guess or question yourself, move forward.
Lesson Nine
Never speak badly about your spouse and never allow your children to speak badly about their mother to you. When my dad spoke the words, "To love, honor and cherish. Till death do us part." He meant those words. He made a sacred oath to his wife, himself and to God. He showed me if you love someone you love all of them, even the good and the bad. I could come to my dad about anything, except to criticize my mother. I remember coming to my dad once in my teen years full of anger, and self importance. Telling him how wrong my mother was. How she didn't know anything. He shut me down mid sentence. He didn't have time for that kind of talk. He sent me on my way, my ears ringing from the heat in his words. My dad isn't a man of many words until it comes to defending his wife. My parents were and still are a united front, a team. I learned that marriage is a team effort with give and take on both sides. My parents just celebrated their 50th Anniversary.
Lesson Ten
The greatest lesson I learned is perseverance. If you fall, get back up and get back in the game. My dad had Perthes Disease as a child. It was noticed when he was in the third grade. He missed the last two weeks of the third grade. Spent almost his whole 4th grade year with his left leg in a cast. The bones in his hip dissolved and in his 5th grade year he had an operation in which the doctors chipped part of the bone out of his right leg and placed it with a pin in his left hip. Once he left the hospital he spent a year in a body cast. His mother used to take old irons and hang them off his foot to help straighten his legs. It was a total of two years he was out of school. His mother home schooled him and a teacher came in to give him tests. Dr. Hall fondly remembered my dad as the patient who never complained.
When my dad was thirteen he was sitting on the couch talking with his father. His father had just returned from a visit with the doctor and had come home to change before going back to the hospital for more tests. In the middle of their conversation his father had what looked like a massive stroke. A blood clot had worked its way up to his brain. His father passed away before help could come.
When I was in 5th grade my dad was working on a construction site unloading sheetrock from a truck. The wind caught the sheet rock and slammed it against my dad's head and neck. My dad was partly paralyzed on the right side. He had a wife and five children to support. He subsidized his income by trucking water until he regained control of the movement on his right side.
I have never heard my dad complain. He always says, "That's just the way it was." As tough as he was on the men on his job, many of them followed him from one job to the next, even if it was out of state or in Canada. I have always found comfort in walking with my dad. His slowed gate, the way his body sways. My dad walks with a limp and today his foot has completely turned inward so that he walks on the outside of his foot instead of the bottom. He sends his work boots out to be built up to enable him to walk. He always shows me his 'spiffy' new shoes.
My dad is an extra-ordinary man. An extraordinary man, who kept moving forward no matter what life dealt him. To me he is a king, the leader of our family, an athlete who conquered injuries, and a movie star! He recently celebrated his seventy-second birthday. I realize how extremely blessed I am to be able to pick up a phone and call him. Just yesterday he told me, "I love you, Dee Ann" when we ended our conversation. Three simple words that warm a heart. Lesson Eleven Always tell your children I love you before you say goodbye…and the learning continues.
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Housing Mess Attacked
$40 million renovation program underway
Some one third of East St. Louis' 40,000 residents live in public housing. There is a waiting list of over 2,000. A third of the public housing is vacant, including at least 200 units in the senior citizen highrise Lansdowne Towers. Of the units not occupied, half are not fit for occupancy.
The East St. Louis Housing Authority is being operated by Quadel Consulting Corp. of Washington, D.C., for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which took over the authority in 1985, declaring a breach of contract by the local housing authority. The previous executive directors are "serving time," according to Ruth A. O'Sullivan of Quadel, who helped oversee the project here for two years and now makes frequent inspections here.
The authority operates three programs: rental housing, generally in projects; a home ownership program of "turnkey" housing in which the occupants eventually own their homes and Section 8 housing rentals. The authority is allocated 250 certificates or vouchers that families can take to find their own private sector housing, with HUD helping with the rent payments. This housing must meet HUD guidelines and is inspected by the authority. With the exception of Section 8 housing, none pays real estate taxes.
The Housing Authority is supposed to reimburse the city for city services. The county, spurred by Township Supervisor Will McGaughy, found the authority had not been doing that, asked $800,000 in back payments, and according O'Sullivan, collected a negotiated settlement more like $300,000. However, she said these are no t in lieu of taxes, but are for services, and East St. Louis supplies few. Consequently, that settlement may be the last the city receives until it at least provides garbage pickup. However, she adds, the authority is giving the city "tons of money for construction permits."
As of Sept. 1, there had been an agreement to settle, as yet unannounced, the Land of Lincoln suit regarding the home ownership program affecting 580 units. The settlement is occupant-oriented, O'Sullivan said, with long-time tenants given ample credit toward ownership. It was not an easy problem because of the lack of adequate records. The authority has no way of knowing how much many of the tenants have paid toward home ownership, she said. Not only are records missing but whole houses were "lost" in the transfer of housing from the St. Clair County Housing Authority to the East St. Louis Housing Authority when the latter was created in 1954. She said the settlement provides procedures for settling cases where records are missing, all very much in favor of the homeowners. "Most of those people unfortunately have not been able to get anything from us, because it was in the lawsuit and we had no way to settle."
Buyers made payments into a reserve fund for maintenance. If they were able to maintain the property, make repairs like a new roof themselves, they could draw money for materials from the reserve; excess could help them pay off the units earlier. If they could not, the housing authority could tap the reserve to maintain the buildings for them. The system sought to encourage "sweat equity."
"We're still the owner of the property," she said. "It is the responsibility of the home owner but the authority too. The location shows negligence in the initial purchase, a total lack of management. Years went by and no one looked at those houses or responded to tenants who were responsible enough to call and say there was a problem that needed fixing and they didn't have the ability to fix it. You had to know somebody to get work done. As a result - and this is why the lawsuit - this went on for 15 to 20 years, people living in horrible circumstances, and they still are in some cases. All we have been able to do is a lot of bandaid."
We have very strict rent collection policies, very strict lease enforcement policies; we educate the tenants from day one what we will do. We've gotten to the point where tenants will tell other tenants 'You'd better be good, better pay your rent because they will kick you out.' People generally have fallen in line."
The vacancies primarily are among the elderly units in Lansdowne, built in the late '50s and early '60s. "We've done a marketing study and found we don't have a market." East St. Louisans old enough to meet HUD standards (62 or over or handicapped) tend to be the frail elderly who require care rather than just housing. "We provide some level of services, the emergency bells, some social service programs, nutrition programs, but we are not a nursing home or intermediate care facility; people have to live somewhat independently." Quadel has lowered the age limits to the "near elderly" -- 50 and older -- to attract more people, and it is working but "we have several hundred units to fill, and this is a town in which people are leaving, anybody who can is leaving." Are tenants frightened? " Crime is a problem throughout the city." No worse there than anywhere else? "I would think not." Is Lansdowne the worst neighborhood? "It keeps shifting. For awhile it was the Villa Griffin project, which is right next to Lansdowne Towers, so it is from that the (senior citizen) high rises get affected. We have brought in the state police who are very effective there, and that moved it over to the John DeShields. We keep chasing it back and forth."
O'Sullivan praised the East St. Louis Police Department. "They really try." She said this is one service the city is providing to the authority and meeting its obligations.
"We have a number of other agencies in the community providing services, providing drug treatment programs and providing educational opportunities, but when people are afraid to walk out their front door, they're not helping anybody."
Are they afraid in the daytime?
"Yes, but it is easing. There's a visible difference. Violence does occur. It's heavier at night, no question, but during the day one of our employees was shot in broad daylight, working on a vacant unit. He was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight.
"That's what tenants are afraid of, crime within our property. It is almost always not our tenants. The people who are victimized are our tenants. When people are afraid of becoming victims, we wonder what they are involved in.
"We have improved evicting people, left and right, when we identify them as involved in drug activity. We have won every single case. We are very happy to have a court that will cooperate with us.
"Since April (four months), when state police came on board, there have been 55 arrests. We've evicted 15 families, many more are in process, and 10 moved out once they were notified of the eviction procedure. People are starting to get the message. Our message is that if you want to keep your house, get those people (into drugs) out of your house, take control of your family.
Orr Weathers is scheduled for various work items, elevator work, rewiring, replaced boilers on hot water heaters, but not comprehensive rehab. Two of the high rises are vacant, two in operation. The two vacant ones have been boarded up for the fifth time, but people steal the boards. This time the replacements are welded in. "It has been a frustration, a lot of money has gone down the drain from that. With the elevator shafts, the buildings are a tremendous liability too. We have to keep people out."
The authority is prohibited by federal law from tearing down any units without replacing them. So the two will stay boarded up.
It does not have to replace, however, units sold to occupants as in the home buyer program.
There is all kinds of housing here, she said. it would be silly to build more public housing. The replacement units may be smaller apartment houses, maybe some single family.
There are several HUD-subsidized Section 8 apartment projects around the area. One sizeable one is in Alta Sita, but it has deteriorated and the housing authority has canceled it as an option for its certificate holders.
O'Sullivan said the mayor and other. public officials get a lot of press, but "there's a core of people, black people" committed to this town who, for whatever reason, love, loyalty or whatever it might be, are working very hard here to get this town to turn around. I don't know whether they will be successful. I admire them tremendously for being committed because I would have walked years ago.
She said there is a consortium of social service agencies that meets monthly to serve the elderly, a variety of folks from the town, not with government in any shape or form. It is "one of the reasons we feel very good about what we are doing, it is not a hopeless cause or effort.
"The tenants make our lives worthwhile," O'Sullivan said. "The kids really get to you. The kids are the ones who will come out of this somehow. The kids are a joy, the kids are what really get you going. Their parents are helpless, but there are a lot of people struggling to get ahead, going to school, working a couple of jobs, trying to make a life for themselves and their kids.
"For that reason, we hope to stay three more years, a total of seven years. We have no promises from HUD. We'd like to stay until it is time to turn the authority back to the city, and the city is ready to have it turned back. HUD doesn't want to continue to operate the program, but it doesn't want to see it slide back once it has gotten it straightened out, either."
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Kobe Bryant has really been active on Facebook. That was a great sight to see as he posted pictures and status updates during the 2012 Olympics in London. With the NBA season opening tonight, the media was speculating if Kobe would play or not due to his foot injury. As the LA Times pointed out, Kobe posted on his Facebook to give the media something true to talk about. The Black Mamba stated, Getting stronger. Not sure what it means for tomorrow night just yet but it's much better than it was a week ago when I could barely walk. I hate not practicing. It drives me crazy! The training staff has been great. Mr. Laker, Gary Vitti, and the great Judy Seto (the first female trainer in the NBA) have been working their magic. So there's that. The Lakers play at home against the Dallas Mavericks. If this was the NBA Playoffs, there would not be any doubt that Kobe would suit up and play. Given that this is the start of the season, he can afford missing a game or two. The Mavs are also short-handed so as long as the Lakers keep their game together, they can come out with a win. The best option for Kobe is just to sit out and just play later this week against a fully-loaded Los Angeles Clippers team. Then again, this is Kobe Bryant who is known to be stubborn and plays through injuries.
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Movies You Should Not Watch With Your Family, 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, The Human Centipede, perks of being a wallflower, Only God Forgives, Prisoners, Blue is the Warmest Color, Antichrist, Oldboy, Shame, Before Midnight
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One of the ways you can tell 'Spring Breakers' truly hit the satirical target it aimed for is by watching how completely it has been rejected by the generation it perfectly captures. It is a brutally ugly movie wrapped in the brightest candy-colored cover possible, and while the cover might look like a fun James Franco spring break comedy, be warned that you are likely to kill older family members outright by the time they get to Franco fellating his own gun or the world's most surreal and oddly broken-hearted Britney Spears homage of all time. The deceptive marketing is part of the point, but don't get fooled into what would surely be an apocalyptic family viewing.
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blanks12 Years us a true and vert painful part of history that some people would like to forget. I would not take very young children to see this movie, however it is a movie that both black and white families should see. Everyone wants to talk about and see movies about the Holocaust, but Salvery was for real and it happened in the United States of America. Close to home for over 244 years. Let's finally have a real conversation about salvery. We were not happy slaves. The fact that one man thought it right to own another man like a dog or cow and beat him at will is shameful. We should never ever forget. It is one of the most reprehensible behavior. Slave owners used the Bible to justify that constant brutality.December 2, 2013 at 1:50PM ESTReply to CommentLike (11)Latest Likes:11 Anonymous
NateAEveryone should know about the awful parts of history, but I see absolutely zero value in forcing people to watch such horrible acts. It isn't bad enough that it did happen, but we need a front row seat?
People don't need these images engrained in their brains for an eternity to understand how horrible things people have done in the past are. Reading and learning should be enough.
I don't care if it's Passion of the Christ, Schindler's List, or Twelve Years a Slave. Why do people need to be exposed to such horrible images? If you want to - fine. I do not think it is necessary to plague my mind with such imagery because it will stay in my brain *forever*; it will even linger on an unconscious level.
This does not mean I deny history. It merely means I want a clean mind because I choose to have one and absolutely nobody is going to convince me the alternative is a good thing or mentally healthy.
I respect your opinion, but I completely disagree that it needs to be re-enacted and witnessed.December 25, 2013 at 11:28PM EST
MJThe reason you should be reminded is so these acts hopefully not repeated. Telling someone about theses horrific acts is good. However, if you were to take it a step further and show it, gets the point out even better. Did you think the same thing about Roots? The problem is that a lot of people in particular, whites, say "it was a long time ago get over it". Yes but should you forget it? No. Lastly, your comment about " The Passion " is definitely off. The whole reason of the Bible is to tell the world of God. Today a real Christian's job is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is the death, burial and resurrection. That is one of the main reasons you should be going to churchDecember 28, 2013 at 9:06AM EST
frankc#1 - A Serbian Film
watched it with my parents two years ago and they haven't spoke to me sinceDecember 2, 2013 at 3:20PM ESTReply to CommentLike (12)Latest Likes:12 Anonymous
StevenIt's funny, I actually did see "Django Unchained" with my family.December 2, 2013 at 11:02PM ESTReply to Comment
GriezzIf you are just focusing on recent films, then two names to be added to the list are the previously-mentioned A SERBIAN FILM as well as the 2008 horror film, MARTYRS.
However, if you include older films, you would need to include the infamous SWEET MOVIE (1974) as well as the generally banned MALADOLESCENZA (1977).
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JenniferI'm pretty sure that Salo should be on this list...and Irreversible. I can never unsee certain scenes in those movies.December 25, 2013 at 10:31PM ESTReply to CommentLike (3)Latest Likes:3 Anonymous
EjAnyone who gets angry or upset about django and 12 years a slave has their own issues to deal with. It was real and it happened. Not being comfortable should make you question your mindset white or black.December 26, 2013 at 3:47AM ESTReply to CommentLike (3)Latest Likes:3 Anonymous
she sheAt natea everyone should read it see it all that if you feel some type of way that's your own issues but no it should not be kept a secret hide away in a book you sound ridiculous and uncomfortable it happened and we should always no see and hear about to truly understand how far we've actually came but some don't wanna broadcast it cause they to uncomfortable well baby its out thereDecember 26, 2013 at 11:37PM ESTReply to Comment
MelFlowers of war is also a movie you should NOT watch with your family.January 10, 2014 at 6:25PM ESTReply to Comment
Roger KJBe specific! What about Perks makes it inappropriate to watch with your family? Vague allusions don't help us understand this movie on your list if we haven't seen the movie (or even if you have seen it, like the writer's 'one friend' and me). Just spell out your point!
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CuriousMovie43 was excluded from this list...why? lolMay 27, 2014 at 9:52PM ESTReply to Comment
a3eyedstormHappiness?July 27, 2014 at 10:51AM ESTReply to Comment
MichaelThis list sucks. Half the movies are NC-17, which are automatic givens. And what's wrong with Perks of Being a Wallflower? Tamer than most movies I've watched with my parents.
FAIL.August 1, 2014 at 1:27AM ESTReply to Comment
emmaNot as gross-out as some of these, but I took my mother to see Bad Lieutenant (the Harvey Keitel version, natch) and squirmed almost all the way through it.August 11, 2014 at 2:21AM ESTReply to Comment
ZachOr, you know, Wolf of Wall Street opening with Leo sucking cocaine out of a girl's asshole. Needless to say, awkward Christmas movie to see in theaters with my Mom.August 13, 2014 at 1:54PM ESTReply to Comment


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When I look at how well Ron Paul did on the MSNBC poll I am very encouraged. Ron Paul is a true civil libertarian conservative. And, I am saying that after July 2006 when I left the G.O.P. to become a Democrat.
In short we need new people in government. Now if the democrats can get out of the Illuminati Hillary camp perhaps we the people can take the country back. How about Obama, Kucinich, or a new leader.
Let's get out of the box people, let's think for ourselves for once.
When I look at the photo associated with this article, all I see is two Republican party poster children for corruption and racism blathering their continual feelgood, lying screed! I recommend all republicans currently holding office in the nation's capitol to take as many photo-op sessions as possible and to start building their memorabilia albums. In years to come these albums will become quite valuable because it will the last known images of an extinct political species known as Homo sapiens predatorus republicanus… :))
Edwards is right. Democrats should give Bush what is called "Hobson's choice". Either take the bill or get nothing.
The top ten have failed to show any reason for voting for them next November. Fred Thompson is just another man running under the cross of the religious right. Another vote for the prohibitions as well as facism and bigotry grows under this political party.
This morning we learned that 13 more of our soldiers were killed while Bush is planning a "white tie" event for the Queen.
When will he learn that we are fighting a war against an illusion while sacrificing our guys for nothing. Somebody must tell him to stop or be forced to get out of the White House before we lose any more. The man must have no conscience in his empty head.
These dumb stupid f**king morons that think this surge shit is going to save the day for bushidiot in Iraq. God what stupid idiots these people are. An extra thirty thousand troops, many of them support not trigger pullers is not going to change shit except get more GIs killed.
Their are a thousand times that many arabs that are willing to fight against bushmoron. Congress you are a bunch stupid f**king idiots especially the Repubs. I did not vote for bushasshole either time, I new from the start he was a LOOSER. You dam f**king fools that voted for him are gettting just what you deserve and because of him this nation will collapse.
Of course their are other reasons this nation has gone to hell. All I can say is good, I live to see the day when americans have to eat the shit they have created. I am sorry for those who were not apart of creating this insanity.
…John Boehner consistently has a nice tan! Other than that, the republicans will spew their thoughts out loud for Americans to hear, but will go back inside the building and will say and do the opposite of what they just said.
I trust republicans like I trust a fox to guard a hen house, because if you think about it, will these same republicans after the investigations are done and the White House members are found guilty…will they impeach any of them? Nope! They would much rather have the "difficult task" of saying that they're disappointed with Bush.
*rolling eyes at the cowards*
How long is it going to take for everyone to realize that the "Surge" has already failed? Don't tell me that we are going to have to wait for the malingering media to announce this? Hell, it took them 4 months to realize that there really was a "Civil" War going on in Iraq! How many more American lives will be wasted while we play rhetorical games?
Bring the troops home and end the murders. If Bush and Cheney are so in favor of a war and staying in Iraq, send them there. I can just see the cartoon now: Cheney is bent over hiding his head in the sand and Bush is bent over kissing his ass. Then let the two of them be our fighters for democracy in the middle east. What a pair of pathetic imbeciles they make as they loot the treasury of the USA. How could two such disgusting monsters ever have been elected to any office, no less the ones they hopefully temporarily occupy.
Impeach and save the lives of our troops.
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I had originally posted this game during the fall of 2000, but it was never submitted via the Portal. I want to submit it this way so that it is easier for users to find in association with my user account.
This game was inspired by the Republican National Convention, which came to Philly in 2000. We saw the police beat up on a lot of relatively peaceful protestors during that time, so this game is basically a mockery of the whole mess.
I was playing around with my digital camera a lot at the time, so you'll see all my friends in here. The game was featured in Philly's "City Paper", whos staff appreciated my use of their newspaper dispenser along the sidewalk. :)
Fun power-up items include a machine gun and bombs (which can even blow up the cars!).
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Um well it was pretty lame and not much to the game apart from moving left or right. :S
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it something to pass the time
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very funny
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Pyromelter said...
"Greatmother Geyah... I believe the most influential Orc in history -- influential in that she affected others without directly causing events"
I think you're trying too hard to reach here Matthew. "Out-thinking the room" so to speak. I think it's great to do a lore article on Geyah, but to call her the "most influential orc" feels like you are trying to outsmart us. Ner'zhul is by far the most "influential" orc - he quite literally influenced and changed 2 whole planets. If you're looking for a positive force for orc-kind, there is only one orc you can talk about, and that is Thrall.
Anyway I was just kind of disappointed that you went there with Geyah as opposed to Ner'Zhul or Gul'Dan or any number of highly important orcs in orc history.
" -- influential in that she affected others without directly causing events"
He did quantify his statement. I would have to agree that she is the most influential without directly causing events orc that either planet has ever seen.
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Horror out of Texas today. A little girl, around 4 years old, was found dead in the middle of the street. She was under a tarp in a suburban neighborhood outside of Fort Worth. Her hands and feet had been bound. She was naked except for purple underwear. She had a plastic bag over her head. And she was only a baby. The horror boggles. Police are interviewing her parents and trying to determine what happened. How. Why. Who. And is a sick, twisted killer still out there?!
Police say that the girl's parents had reported her missing -- but it's unclear if they did before or after her body was discovered only half a mile from where she lived. Teens had been playing outside when their parents told them to clean up a tarp that was lying in the street at an intersection.
They saw something underneath the plastic tarp and thought it was "rubber stuff," but getting even closer, they saw hair. And then they realized it was a little girl. The boy, 18, who found the murdered girl said he "dropped to [his] knees and just started crying."
Neighbors said that around 8 p.m., the father of the girl began knocking on neighbors' doors, asking if anyone had seen his daughter. But her body was found at 7:30 p.m.
Why would she be alone? Had she slipped out of the house? Or, as of course minds are going to wonder, are her parents suspects? Authorities say they are being interviewed, their home searched. But that is standard.
Since the body was smack in the middle of the street, police think maybe it was being transported somewhere and then fell out. But how? Why would anyone have a door open or a trunk open with a dead little girl inside? Wouldn't you notice it fall out?
Or did a killer dump her in the middle of the neighborhood on purpose -- to send the town into sheer terror? Serial killers do stuff like that. Leave a body where everyone can find it. See it. Serial killers like to brag about their victims and leaving them in plain sight is one way to do it.
Answers will come. And soon. And someone will pay.
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not another syory about a dead child... THIS TIME LOOK AT THE PARENTS TOO!!!!!
so sad and sick why hurt innocent children .
I just hope this doesnt turn into another Casey Anthony type of case!
Poor wee girl and poor teenagers. I found my neighbour murdered in his home two years ago. Those kids will need a lot of therapy. The parents may have done it. Or she could have been snatched from her own backyard by a pig who likes to hurt little girls. There are enough pedophiles out there that it is possible. I'd have to havemore facts. Before coming to any conclusion.
That's so sickening and disturbing. My heart breaks for that poor baby girl.


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- Analisas mom Aug 5, 2008 04:30 AM
A lot of the Restaurants have started early this year would love to hear your reviews. We have had good and bad experiences with this so haven't made reservations yet. We are thinking about trying Fuse and Sullivans . Any early reviews would be great.
re: MarcusB
fyi, Central 214 recently lost their chef too.
re: ieatdallas
I wonder if this is where Casey Thompson will end up?
Tom Fleming counts as well known, dont you think?
re: sike101
When did Casey leave? We just ate there about 3 weeks ago it was fantastic but I thought I saw Casey in the kitchen
re: Analisas mom
It sounds like within the last week or so.
re: sike101
Tom Fleming definitely counts as well known.
214 would seem to be a lateral at best move for Casey Thompson but we'll see.
re: MarcusB
This is a great time to go to Fuse. The chef that left was the corporate chef, but Robbie Lewis is still the exec. chef of Fuse. He has been at the helm of the kitchen for around a year now.
re: MarcusB
I haven't been to Fuse, but have heard two negative first-hand reports from RW.
Last night we made very last minute reservations at Lavendou, as I've been wanting to try their lavender creme brulee since I read their RW menu.
The fiance and I both started with the seafood crepe, which was exactly as rich as you'd expect it to be at a seafood restaurant. It was completely too rich to be a 1st course, but I loved it. Then we had the mahi mahi with cucumber relish. It was tasty, and the relish made it feel like a light dish, which was welcome after the heavy crepe. And finally - for dessert I had the much anticipated lavender creme broulee and my fiance had the raspberry souffle. His was perfectly light and airy, but since I am not a huge raspberry fan, my focus was on my creme broulee. My main fear was that the lavender taste would be too faint to be noticed, but no - this is one of the best desserts I've tasted. I very nearly licked the plate and though so full I felt I might burst, I would have eaten a second serving of it had I been given the choice. Absolutely perfect.
The service was great and we didn't feel we were treated any different than the other patrons. I'd recommend Lavendou for RW very highly.
My friend and I ate at Craft last night for RW. It was delicious, and a fantastic bargain at $35 - in part, because we got a ton of food. Serving the sides family-style meant that there was substantially more food than if the sides were pre-portioned on our plates. Also, the dishes were simple but very well executed - I could find very few flaws in the preparation. Here's what we had:
round 1:
fresh greens (ie, lettuce) with sherry vinaigrette and goat cheese
heirloom tomato salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
salmon rillette with black pepper crackers
round 2:
entrees were skate wing with roasted lemon - "roasted lemon" turned out to be a sweet lemon sauce, streaked judiciously on the plate. This dish was beautifully prepared - the skate was moist inside, and crisp along the edges. In addition to the sauce, it came with a few slices of sweet radish pickle that complemented the skate nicely. Very nice, although skate is not terribly flavorful. I think our other entree was better - scallops with mushroom jus. The scallops had a beautiful seared crust on the outside and were just this side of raw inside. Mushroom jus was understated, but tasty. These came with the following sides (all delicious):
roasted baby vegetables (carrots, turnips, zucchini, broccolini, cippoline onions and asparagus and Jerusalem artichokes)
roasted mushrooms (shiitake, oyster, porcini, maybe others?)
potato gratin
round 3: the Central Market 4th course
crab risotto – this was the least impressive dish. If you're limited in coupons, you might want to save them for another restaurant. The flavor of tarragon (not my favorite herb) was a bit overwhelming, and the flavor of crab was almost undetectable. Generous portion, though.
round 4: dessert
Berry shortcake (blue, rasp, black, goose and currants)
Ice cream: one scoop of malt, and one scoop of strawberry & cream
Cookies: chocolate/peanut butter sandwich (great with the malt ice cream), chocolate hazelnut biscotti, white chocolate macadamia nut, brownies
round 5: caramel-coated popcorn with cashews.
It was a lot of food, and almost all delicious. I thought a couple of things may have been too heavily salted for some people… but I liked it. The service was also top-notch – they were clearly running around like crazy, but there were no mistakes.
re: gavlist
Thanks for the great review we would love to hear others.
re: gavlist
Just wanted to add that I went to Craft last night and had a tremendous meal. The food was good, though the fourth course and the dessert was different from what gavlist had the night before. The service was excellent. We were there for almost two hours and had some really great food and an excellent bottle of wine. I've been wanting to try Craft for ages and I will most certainly be back.
re: gavlist
There were 6 of us at Craft Monday night. Two in our party ordered the scallops and when the entrees were served there was a plate with 4 scallops ( two per person). My husband was one of the ones who ordered the scallops so I got to taste them. They were delicious, but 2 scallops seemed a little dinky for an entree portion. I had the braised short rib and it was also delicious. I was the only one who ordered that so there wasn't any question about how many servings were in that dish. Two in our party had the hanger steak andt they said that it was good but not great. The 6th person had the scate.
As mentioned above, everything was served family style and we felt that the portions for 6 were not as generous as we expected. The portions they delivered to our table would have been more adequate for 4. One of the people in our party asked for more vegetables and our server was very nice and brought more.
When we were ordering our server said that we should only give them 2 coupons since the portion of the crab risotto was large enough and that we should save our coupons for other restaurants. We gave him 3 coupons. The serving probably was the same size as if we had given him 2 coupons.
The service was great and we were there about 2-21/2 hours and were not rushed.
With all of the dishes we were served we were all pretty full- although we had room for the delicious caramel corn delivered at the end of our meal !
re: gavlist
We went to Craft tonight and Abacus last night.
I thought the mushrooms at Craft were very good. The scallops and roasted veggies were good, too. My companion enjoyed the hunger steak (though I think he should've ordered the short rib.)
We weren't impressed with salmon rillette at all. The appetizers were better at Abacus--they had a great crab cake with smoked bacon and their scallop was good, too. The bread was also better at Abacus.
The main dishes, dessert and service were better at Craft and overall, we would go back to Craft, but not to Abacus.
I'm posting my reviews on the Dallas Eats blog.. there are other too--both under the Preview Week blog entry and the more recent entry re: reviews.
We did Bijoux last night and were thouroughly impressed.
Firstly, an amuse bouche of cucumber, goat cheese and watermelon. sweet, salty, and savory at the same time. Perfect beginning to the meal.
A young lady came around and offered different types of bread and fresh churned butter.
My date and I chose different appetizers. He doesn't eat much meat beyond fish, so he chose the melon carpaciio....throughout our meal he kept commenting on how great it was. For myself, I chose the crispy pork belly. It was the size of a golf ball, sitting utop cooked carrots and baby bok choy in a sweet/spicey asian style sauce. The meat was tender, perfectly cooked. The sauce gave the dish an extra kick. It melted in your mouth.
We both chose to add the smoked prawns for a $9 upcharge (if you didn't have the central market certificate). 4 medium sized prawns sitting on top of heirloom tomatoes and pickled onion with a small amount of chorizo. I usually HATE raw tomato, but this, I ate. They were so sweet, complimented the spicy-hot chorizo and prawns wonderfully. We both enjoyed this dish immenselty.
Main courses arrived almost immediately after the appetizer plates were cleared. He chose the truffled risotto. I have had an almost impossible time finding a place that cooks risotto correctly....Bijoux does. A generous amount of risotto with an even more generous amount of black truffle shavings on top. I had to steal a spoonfull and was NOT disappointed. I chose the New York Strip..cooked to medium with a generous helping of potato , carrots and pearl onion.The steak was drizzled with a wonderful sauce...I enjoyed it VERY much.
After the dinner plates were cleared (and another round of bread was offered) we each received a small scoop of house made sorbet. Peach for me and blueberry for him. Perfect palate cleanser.
For dessert we both chose the chocolate mousse. In some other reviews, most people have been sorely disappointed by the dessert's they received. Not here. a large square of mousse on a dallop of passion fruit sauce, covered in gold shavings alongside vanilla bean icecream. I was trying to bribe one of the waitstaff to smuggle some out the door and deliver it to my house, it was that good. We paired it with a port wine...balanced the chocolate out exceptionally well.
You would think the meal would be over, but nooo. Along came a plate of bite sized deserts. Strawberry gelee, tirimisu, blueberry muffin, chocolate truffle, shortbread....tiny bites almost too small to share (and we didn't want to share!)
Service was extraordinary. Not once were we made to feel like "discount diners". We appreciated Scott Gottlich checking to see if all was well with our meal, as well. It was a very personal type service, you felt like a special customer, even if you were in a room full of people all getting the same treatment. We will definitely go back.
re: FoodieDiva
I agree with FoodieDiva as I ate almost the same menu last night, but my one dissapointment was the timing. We arrived at 8:30 and were not out of there until 11. I think they were completely overbooked and couldn't handle the number of people. We sometimes had to wait 20 minutes between courses. I was fine with this because I was with friends, but as it near 11 I was getting a tired. And the bread lady came by one.
So, I'm not totally in agreement with extraordinary service, but the food was good.
re: simply_victoria
Fromy my understanding, Bijoux reached a RECORD number of diners last night...We were seated around 8pm and were done within an hour and a half or so, but I know as we dined there were several large tables (5+ people) sat around the same time, that probably slowed the kitchen down....
re: FoodieDiva
Well, and yesterday morning my head kept thinking something was wrong about that dinner and then it hit me, why did we have the palate cleanser between dinner and dessert and why was the sorbet blueberry. I questioned friends of mine and we all agreed that was funny. It was tasty, but yet very funny timing and flavor for the sorbet.
Anyway, went to Salum last night and it blew Bijoux out of the water. The food was fantastic. I had a serrano capprese salad to start. I wanted something delicious that looked healthy. We will just not pay attention to all the cheese. The home-made pesto was excellent.
My next course was the ahi tuna. A nice big chunk of tuna was served, as rare as possible per my request. Very nice combination of flavors on the plate.
Dessert, I at first was a bit put out by. You couldn't pick. They just said you were getting a dessert trio, then it arrived. It was three full servings of bread pudding, creme brulle and a chocolate caramel confection (have to admit I didn't pay attention to that because my two favorite desserts are bread pudding and creme brulle). It was soooo good. I waddled out of there as happy as I could possibly be.
I keep forgetting about Salum. I'm glad we went last night. I need to put them back on my list!
re: buck
I agree, I went to Lanny's on Wednesday night, the dinner and wine pairings were absolutely wonderful. Our service was good except that my water never got refilled...a pet peeve...the food was amazing although I would have liked one more entree choice as duck is not a favorite. The poblano risotto was delicious however!
re: kristi47
We had a great meal last night at Fearings. It is in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and interestingly, if you are eating at Fearings the valet parking is free. The lobby of the hotel is beautiful and although it is an upscale hotel, it is elegant but not stuffy. There was a server in the lobby serving Guacamole on corn chips. It was some of the best Guacamole I had ever had so I knew that we were in for a delicious meal that night.
When we were seated at our table there was a personalized birthday card signed by Dean Fearing on our table. The wait staff were all extremely friendly and welcoming even though we were there for Restaurant Week instead of for ordering off of the regular menu. The Restaurant Week Menu choices were:
Choice of:
Dean's Tortilla Soup with South of the Border Flavors or
Caesar Salad with Smoky Red Chili Dressing, Grilled Radicchio, Baby Romaine, San Pedro Cheese.
Choice of :
Mesquite Grilled Wild Salmon Glazed with Apricot Barbecue Sauce, Black=Eyed Peas and Living Watercress Salad
Chili Braised Short Ribs with Queso Fresco Whipped Potatoes and Crispy Tobacco Onions
Ancho/Orange Brined Pork Tenderloin on Smoky Poblano Puree and Heirloom Tomato/Avocado Relish
Dark Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Mousse
RW wine choices were Anabella Chardonnay or Nugan Cabernet Sauvignon or you could order Sapphire Sangria made with Blueberry-Infused Bombay Sapphire, Disaronno Amaretto, Spanish Rioja.The Restaurant Week menu offered the wine and Sangria for $7.00 per glass or $26.00 for the bottle (or pitcher of Sangria). We had the Cabernet and it was very nice.
We had the Tortilla Soup and the presentation was really nice. First the servers brought us large bowls and in the bowls were diced smoked chicken breast, cheese, diced avocado and shredded cheese. Then another server came with a pitcher of broth and poured the broth into the bowl The soup was very tasty. There was a little bit of a bite to it, but not overly spicy.
We both had the Braised Short Ribs and they were very tasty (I liked the Short Rib at Craft better, but my husband liked the Short Rib at Fearings better). Everything was delicious.
Before the dessert came they brought me a piece of wonderful Chocolate Cake with a Dark Chocolate Mousse and decorated with little chocolate covered balls which were like chocolate covered rice crispy balls. There was a candle on it. We were told that they call it their Birthday Cake and it is only served to people with Birthdays. If we go back, not matter what time of year, it will be my Birthday :-) . Then they brought the regular dessert and it was delicious, too.
During dinner Dean Fearing came to our table to wish me a Happy Birthday and he talked with us for a few minutes.
The service was great, the dining room we were in (The Gallery) was beautiful and the food delicious. We definitely plan to go back.
All in all it was a great Birthday meal.
re: kristi47
Hmmm... We went to Lanny's last night (8/19) and were somewhat disappointed. We hadn't been before and had hoped to see more of the usual types of menu options. Just seems like everything was more mundane, without a real Mexican twist. We chose the optional 4th course which was sea scallops wrapped in chorizo with israeli cous-cous. They were perfect. The options for appetizer were a corn soup (which was delicious) or an ahi salad. Mains were rack of lamb (the only remotely mexican hint was the cheese in the potato mash) and halibut (had a spicy sauce with homemade noodles that were almost asian in texture). Desserts were the most disappointing. The chocolate "pound cake" had the texture and look of an airy cupcake. The sauce on top was good, as was the peanut butter ice cream along side. The creme brulee was boring and needed to be warmed - kind of a strange, "how long has this been sitting out" kind of temperature. We may try Lanny's at another time to check out the regular menu, but the Restaurant Week version was lacking...
Had a lackluster meal at Abacus Saturday night. I can attribute the sloppy kitchen errors and the bare-bones service to Restaurant Week exhaustion and overload, but choice of certain ingredients (smaller scallops) and no-choice, unimpressive dessert sampler (which probably oohs and ahhs the inexperienced diner with "variety") seem to indicate that Abacus is tailoring its Restaurant Week menu to patrons that they don't anticipate will return during regular times.
My starter was the seared diver scallop with Meyer lemon risotto and white asparagus in shellfish butter sauce. For the sake that it was Restaurant Week, I won't dwell on the fact that this was one of the smallest scallops I've seen in a fine dining restaurant in… well, ever. Portion size issues aside, the scallop was almost burnt to a crisp on top. Once you start working that addictively rich shellfish butter sauce with the food, though, you could almost forget the unfortunate texture of the scallop. Risotto was perfectly creamy with the occasional crunch of the white asparagus.
My companion had the buffalo-shiitake potstickers. When they came out, the delicate skins on half of the potstickers were broken (on the bottom). Additionally, the skin was limp and slimy, and thus had a greasy-like mouthfeel. A generous streak of too-sweet plum sauce topped the potstickers and overwhelmed the flavor of the filling. When you scrape off the plum sauce topping, the flavor of the buffalo and shiitake combination comes through as smokey but balanced.
Pan seared cod with parsnip puree and artichoke in a tomato butter sauce was a winning combination in terms of flavor combination, though the fish fillet was barely holding it together by the time it arrived at the table.
Braise beef short rib was a small, but deliciously tender and moist, serving. Port wine sauce that topped the short rib and mushrooms was a little light on port flavor but unified the dish nicely.
Dessert sampler was not memorable at all.
Link to full review with photos: http://donnacooks.wordpress.com/2008/...
re: donnaaries
We ate at Bijoux and were underwhelmed. The food was ok but not great. We thought that the wine pairing option at $35.00 was expensive for a Restaurant Week Menu. Maybe we were spoiled by Fearings where they offered reasonable wine choices ($7.00 per glass or 27.00 per bottle of wine or pitcher of Sangria) for RW to encourage more people to add the wine. We ended up ordering a glass of wine each.
We all enjoyed amuse bouche of cucumber, goat cheese and watermelon.
Three in our party had the pork belly appetizer and I had the corn coconut chowder. The three who had the pork belly thought that it was fatty and tasteless. We had tried pork belly at a restaurant in Portland a while back and it was delicious there and the pork belly at Bijoux didn't compare.
We had the 4th course coupons and had given them to our waiter when we ordered. Instead of bringing out our shrimp 4th course they brought our entrees next. When we asked where our shrimp dish was they said it was coming after the entrees. It was obvious that they had forgotten to bring them and were trying for a "save". We weren't happy campers.
Three of us ordered the Risotto and the fourth person in our party ordered the steak. I thought that the Risotto was very tasty, although we all thought that the cheese on top should have been added at the table. The steak was OK (we all got a taste), but not great. We all thought it tasted like super market grade beef.
After our entrees they brought our smoked shrimp dish. The dish was as described in the post above, but we only had 3 half shrimp in our servings. It was very tasty, though.
After the shrimp dish we were served a small serving of green apple sorbet. Three at our table thought it was delicious. Green apple isn't my favorite, so I didn't enjoy it as much.
Three of us ordered the chocolate mousse and it was very good. My husband ordered the blue cheese dessert and it was a little strange. We thought that because it was a dessert it should have come with fruit instead of carrot mousse. Also, there was no cracker or bread served with the Blue Cheese. We were never asked if we wanted coffee with dessert.
re: donnaaries
A follow up to Fearings. Yesterday we received a thank you note from our server thanking us for having dinner at their restaurant and for supporting Restaurant Week.
Went to Central 214 on Sat of RW. Food/Service was excellent as usual, however, the chairs had changed since the opening (at least from what remember) and it was the most uncomfortable I had been in a long time. Until they get new chairs i am not going back.
So far we have eaten at Salum and Al Biernat's. Salum was fantastic, the service was outstanding. We were in a group of six and not one of us had a bad meal. Really you cannot go wrong with any of their main course options, and dessert is a sampler platter that is outstanding.
Al Biernat's was more disappointing, the menu was a bit boring, and although the waiters were fabulous...the food was blah.
Consequently, I am glad the person above had a great time at Lavendou. My fiance and I recently went for the first time, and our waiter was horrendous. Seriously, it wasn't even restaurant week, and it was clear he hated his job and us. He took our order, and then we flagged him down once for drinks, which seemed to really annoy him. We will go back because the food was great, but by no means will we ever have him as a waiter again.
re: reillygrrl
FYI, this is the 2008 thread. These reviews are one year old.
re: dalcook
I have a 2009 thread here:


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