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Nothing special. Pretty bland. There are better frittata recipes out there.
Sunny Frittata
A combination of eggs, cheddar cheese, and orange bell pepper lends the frittata a cheerful hue. Substitute red or green bell pepper, if you prefer. Stir the egg mixture while it cooks for the first two minutes to keep it from browning too much. Total time: 45 minutes.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 wedge)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 194
- Calories from fat: 37%
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated fat: 2.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2.2g
- Protein: 24.8g
- Carbohydrate: 4.6g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Cholesterol: 28mg
- Iron: 3.1mg
- Sodium: 401mg
- Calcium: 153mg
- 2 cups egg substitute
- 1/2 cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Cooking spray
- 2/3 cup (4 ounces) diced ham
- 1/2 cup diced orange bell pepper
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) reduced-fat shredded cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
- Heat a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add ham, bell pepper, and onions; sauté 2 minutes. Stir in egg mixture. Reduce heat to medium, and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally for first 2 minutes. Top mixture with cheese. Wrap handle of pan with foil; bake at 375° for 12 minutes or until center is set. Cut frittata into 4 wedges.
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- MAIN INGREDIENT: Dairy
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Autumn, Winter
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A long and narrow bedroom can be a nightmare for furniture arrangement. A great way to utilize the space is by placing the bed on a shorter wall, leaving room for furniture at the foot of the bed. Maybe even a sofa!
I've always wanted a bench at the foot of my bed, but haven't found the right one for the right price yet. I do, however, have a spare sofa that is small enough to fit perfectly at the foot of the bed. These images have me considering different options of bed and "bench" combinations.
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nothing! as i need to go around the bed from my side to get to a bathroom! & i don't want to stumble on anything!
a blanket chest!
Nothing...no room!
Nothing currently, but I want to get a narrow bench so that my throw pillows don't end up on the floor every night.
My husband's sock and underwear pile.
Nothing. Well, occasionally the ironing board.
A great big cushy ottoman with a sheepskin on it. :-) nice cozy dog bed/step up to the human bed.
I can only dream of a bedroom large enough for a cozy little loveseat or a bench at the foot of the bed...
...as it is now, it's the blanket that got kicked off in the night and the front of the dresser less than 2' away.
Ditto on my husband's sock and underwear pile! No room for a piece of furniture there, unfortunately, but I've always dreamed of having a bench.
A footboard!
The sofas pictured here don't work. It would be cozier if they are facing the bed or angled toward the bed with a little side table & lamp maybe?
A blue plastic litter box, filled with shredded paper, for my two chihuahua is at the foot of my bed.
And I, too, can only dream of having a reading nook in my BR. The only thing that fits is the king Ikea malm bed and the litterbox and food and water bowls for the chihuahuas.
A blanket chest.
the wall.
I have this neat antique chinese bench with a marble top I bought at an ABC carpet warehouse sale about 10 years ago for $100. It has been with me in 3 apartments and I always struggled to find a place for it. Our house is the first time I have room for anything at the end of the bed.
I don't really like the sofas in the pictures-I think what ever is there should be lower than the bed.
A burgundy chesterfield I found through Craigslist. One of those perfect finds.
My cats.
An old chest that holds most of the bed linens.
We have a desk at the foot of our bed. And it holds our 27" imac, which we can just flip around at night for movie and Netflix viewing.
A bench. The bed's too high for my cat's short little legs.
Nothing or I wouldn't be able to get into my dresser.
At the moment, yes a couch! I have a 2 room apartment. One room is bedroom/sitting room. The other is kitchen/ office-studio. (I work from home). I had a bed for my chihuahua, but she prefers on the furniture so I got rid of it. Space is at a premium here :)
Nothing. I own a bed similar to that one and I have curtains hanging from it.
"That one" being the bed in the first image
Two cat carriers butted up against each other cleverly disguised with blankets draping over them. People think it is a long ottoman and go to sit on them only to discover it is not an ottoman.
My dog's bed.
a chaise that I really don't have room for, but is there nonetheless. It worked well with the last two places I lived, but not here. For some reason I can't part with it. It *is* a useful surface to pile things on....
Currently, there is a really sturdy bench with a leather cushion that we found in an alley. It's not really my style, but it matched our old bedframe nicely. However, upon moving, we bought a new bed. So I'm thinking of swapping it out for an old black chest I just found. It's giant, beat up, and antique. Complete with with the wooden interior covered in worn and torn Victorian wallpaper. I think it would look really neat on the old hardwood floor in there...
The wall, unfortunately. :( I've always wanted to have a nice bench at the foot of my bed, but every apartment I've ever lived in, the head and foot of my bed touch both walls. Damn those itty, bitty "closet" bedrooms. ;)
My bookshelf. Which includes very few books! At the moment, I'm using it as a kind of extra dressing area, with sweaters, perfume, the tv, and baskets with assorted ugly stuff.
I have a bed from the 40s with this ornate footboard I don't want to cover up (or damage), so there is nothing there but rug and walking space. The matching vanity does sit about 4 feet away on the opposing wall, so the space is visually complete.
my feet?
My IKEA Expedit bookcase, on its long side. It's a bit higher than my bed, which bugs me, but there is nowhere else in my apartment it will fit, and I need it for book storage. I think whatever you have at the foot, it's important to balance it with a headboard. Which I am lacking. :( I feel like my room is getting the shaft ever since I moved. The kitchen is perfect, the living room is getting there, but my poor bedroom.
A cushy ottoman/bench with throw pillows and folded clothes.
soon to be a loveseat! plan to purchase this weekend in the sales. I agree that for pictures shown, the ones with the sofa at the foot don't make sense but it will for me when i do the same thing, lol! the rooms in the pictures seem to have so much room that it doesn't make sense for them to be that close to the bed. i have few other places to locate it in my studio
An ottoman. Technically, my room is too small for it, but I needed a place to sit while putting on shoes and socks or whatever. It also stores my workout clothes, and I can still move freely around it.
Leather flip top storage bench. (It's where I sit to put on my socks and where the cats lurk part of the time...)
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It's not clear why the regime hides places like the dusty, potholed neighborhood, which is just a mile or so from the center of town, across the trolley tracks and just off Tongil Street.
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In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together the egg, egg whites, oil, buttermilk, Greek yogurt or sour cream, and vanilla.
Sift the cake mix over the wet ingredients, and stir on low for 30 seconds, then beat on medium for 2 minutes.
Pour half of the cake batter into another bowl and set aside.
Take the remaining cake batter, and divide it among the baking cups (each should be filled about a third of the way).
Stir the coffee into the reserved cake batter just until evenly combined. Spoon it on top of the white cake in the baking cups.
Bake for 16 to 18 minutes. When done, let the cupcakes cool in the tins for 5 to 10 minutes, then remove and let cool completely on cooling racks.
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Remove the center of each cupcake (see this blog for 3 different methods). Place the mascarpone cheese filling in a pastry bag fitted with a medium round tip and pipe some of the filling into each cupcake.
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Whisk on medium speed until smooth, then whisk in the vanilla. Turn the mixer speed to low and gradually add the heavy cream. Once the cream is fully incorporated, turn the speed to medium-high (around speed 6 on a KitchenAid) and whip until stiff peaks form.
Place the icing in a pastry bag fitted with a large round tip and pipe onto each cupcake.
Store cupcakes in the refrigerator. Just before serving, sift cocoa powder over top of the icing.
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Dude, have you ever the watched the previous wow cinematics? do they tell any story?
heck, i dont understand what story a dwarf hunter, night elf druid, undead warlock, some random tauren, orc warrior, human mage, draenei paladin, blood elf priest or a troll raptor rider might be telling you
well maybe they depict a war between alliance and the horde, but thats a small part of the world of warcraft story, the actual war is against the qiraji (silithids), burning legion, scourge etc.
well i dont think the wrath cinematic told any story but neither did the old ones, and well as for villains , isnt arthas a villain? heck hes the biggest bad ass in the game, i hate those other villains they introduced like the creepy bug dude yogg saron and those retarded titan constucts or whatever thats gonna come in ulduar patch
well as a matter of fact even i didnt like the new cinematic as much as the old ones, but it doesnt suck as you claim, i rather preferred illidan shouting "you are not prepared" like a crazy homeless person
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So I watched "Welcome to the Rileys" today and I'm sad because I feel like it deserved so much better than Kristen Stewart. The other two leads were wonderful, but I spent most of it being like STOP GETTING PAID SO MUCH K-STEW.
She has this weird voodoo effect over me in every movie because I try to like her and I start to think "maybe she is actually good in this? Maybe this is a good role for her?" and I begin to question my life, belief system etc. But then she says a line like this ^ and I am just so aware of her acting. I think if this was the first movie I'd ever seen her in, then I might believe she is a good actress. I try to like her because there's no such thing as a good Twilight script and Bella is such a bland character that I don't think she would be any different in the hands of someone else. Em in Adventureland is seemingly supposed to be as apathetic as she comes across. But there is so much to this movie and this role and if this is her acting her ass off in an independent/ project movie, then sorry, but I'm not sorry that I think there are more talented people that could've done it justice. Ditto for Into the Wild- just didn't buy anything about the vulnerable/ agressive thing.
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Been waiting for this for ages... but wait what is this!? Premium! Sorry, but I am not paying more for something that should have been included for free many years ago. I understand paying for optional things like pets or mounts, especially when part goes to charity, but not being able to play with our friends which are already paying customers is insane. We pay for the xpacs, we pay the monthly subscription, we pay for character re customization (which is free in many other MMOs...) and many of us pay for remote AH. Enough is enough, I really hope you backtrack on this premium idea.
I love that you've been "waiting for ages" on this, like you had your nerdrage all prepared on a Word file somewhere on your hard drive. The problem with this group of people is, they don't even know WHAT the features are, how much it costs, or ANYTHING and they're ALREADY whining whining whining. Clearly you weren't going to give it a chance, even if it's only $0.25 a month, it delivers a free pizza to your house once a month, and comes with the option to see all the female characters naked.
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"I am not paying more for something that should have been included for free many years ago"
The dungeon finder itself hasn't been around for "many years" yet, so how could Blizzard have possibly made that possible?
"Hey, they gotta make up for the profit shortfall from losing 5% of its userbase."
True...except there wasn't a profit shortfall this quarter. They actually made MORE money, despite losing customers. Perhaps you refer to a future shortfall? That's sure possible.
I don't think it's fair to say we should have had it "many years ago." As was mentione, Dungeon Finder itself is fairly recent and it was only extremely recently that Blizzard was able to expand that beyond Battlegroups. It's certainly a difficult feature to implement and it's awesome they are trying to get it in. Far as I know, it's pretty rare in any sort of game to be able to play with friends who are on a whole different server.
"True...except there wasn't a profit shortfall this quarter. They actually made MORE money, despite losing customers. Perhaps you refer to a future shortfall? That's sure possible."
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it:
Blizzard left somewhere in the neighborhood of $9M on the table for ONE month (600k players * $15/month). Whether you count that as a shortfall in profit or not is up to you, but they clearly didn't get as much money as they could have.
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Chapter 7
Chapter 7-In Her Human Form
It was about midnight and the Yasha gang had stopped and decided to rest at a nearby village. As they entered the village Kagome sensed a jewel shard. Anusti had the powder on her so Inuyasha couldn't smell her. As they entered the village they split up to look for any demon or human that may have the jewel. Unfortunately for Anusti, who had paid a villager to saddle up her horse, was entering the stables when she ran in to Miroku. Now, when Anusti was in her human form, she was a beautiful woman with dark brown hair. Miroku would be the last person she would want to run into right now. When Miroku saw her he ran up to her and took her hands in his and said.
"My lady do you know there is a demon here?"
Anusti was a human right now so she pretended to be terrified. "Oh my, that's horrible!" She lied.
"Do not worry my lady I will protect you." Anusti was now in BIG trouble. "I have a question to ask you..." He began. "Will you bear my child?" Ok, so Anusti is only human (well part human) and this freaked her out.
She gave Miroku the biggest smack on the face and he fell over. Luckily for him, she didn't have her demonic powers at the moment...
'Just wait until sunrise...' She thought as she stomped into the stables. She mounted onto Myoujou and galloped out of the stables and out of the village, Miharu on her tail.
Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Shippo and Kirara all met at the head of the stables to see Miroku flat on the ground, a big hand print on his face.
Sango sighed.
"The jewel shard is farther away." Kagome said.
"Lets go then." Inuyasha told them and they began after the shard.
~~With Anusti~~
'Of all the times to be human!' She thought. There was a less then an hour until sunrise.
Anusti kept Myoujou at a gallop as they entered another forest.
~~With the Yasha Gang~~
"It's still moving." Kagome told the group as they chased Anusti (they didn't know it was her). The group stopped. Inuyasha could smell a demon.
'Shit.' He thought as the demon came through the trees. "Kouga! What the hell are you doing here?!" Inuyasha screamed at Kouga, pulling out Tessaiga.
Kouga is a wolf demon who is a leader of a wolf tribe. He looks like a human and has long, black hair. He wears a brown bandana and plate armour on his chest. He has brown fur covering his shoulders, a fur wristband on his right wrist and a fur rap on his left arm that goes from his wrist to his elbow. He has fur around his waist that goes to his thigh, fur that looks like a belt (which sometimes holds a sword), and a tail. He also wears fur wraps that go from his knee to his ankle. He has two jewel shards in his legs which makes him extremely fast. (He has two minions named Hakkaku and Ginta, but I don't want to describe them.)
"I've come to get MY woman!" Kouga said as Hakkaku and Ginta ran up behind him. Ok, Kouga thinks Kagome is HIS woman. Poor Kagome.
"Kagome is not YOUR woman." Inuyasha yelled at Kouga.
"We'll keep going after it." Kagome told Inuyasha as she, Sango and Shippo jumped on Kirara's back and continued after the jewel shard.
Anusti was not very far ahead of Kagome and Sango.
'Shit! They're catching up!' She thought. The sun was only a few minutes from coming over the horizon.
"Hyah!" (A/N-I think that's how you spell it.) Anusti called to Myoujou as she kicked him in the sides. 'Come on sun! Hurry up!'
"We're almost there." Kagome told Sango. They could see a cloaked figure with long brown hair riding through the forest. "There's the jewel shard!" Kirara dived down towards the figure.
'Oh shit!' Anusti thought 'They're right there!' She lowered herself deeply in the saddle and kicked Myoujou's sides and he sped up a bit. Sango threw her Hiraikotsu at Anusti.
'Ok here it comes.' Anusti pulled on Myoujou's reins hard and he swerved to the side. The Hiraikotsu slammed into the ground where Myoujou had been.
"She has more then one shard!" Kagome yelled to Sango over the wind as the Hiraikotsu came back to her and she caught it. Shippo was hanging on to Kirara.
"Alright!" Sango yelled back as she threw Hiraikotsu again.
'Alright...' Anusti thought 'Now!' She pulled Myoujou to the side and once again Sango's Hiraikotsu hit where they had been.
'She's good.' Sango thought as she caught Hiraikotsu again. Sango was about to throw it again when something flew up and hit Kirara. Kirara fell to the ground, hitting it hard. Sango and Kagome fell off and landed a few feet away. Shippo landed next to Kirara. A black bat demon with huge ears and fangs landed near by, hissing at them. Sango ran over to Kagome.
"Kagome are you alright?" Sango asked.
"I'm fine, Sango." Kagome told her as she got up. Kirara tried to get up but couldn't. Kagome and Sango ran over to Kirara and Shippo. Kirara was struggling trying to get up and Shippo was trying to help her. The bat demon hissed at them and started towards them.
Anusti had stopped Myoujou and turned him to where Kirara fell. She looked at the horizon.
'The sun is coming up.' She thought 'If I help them now they may see my human form and know when I loose my powers.' Myoujou neighed; he wanted her to help them. 'Alright.' She kicked Myoujou and he galloped towards them.
~~Back with Inuyasha and Kouga~~
Inuyasha and Kouga had been exchanging blows ever since Kagome and Sango left. Inuyasha was getting tired.
"Tired mutt?!" Kouga said as he charged. Before he got to Inuyasha they heard a scream.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as he ran towards the noise, Miroku and Kouga not fair behind and Hakkaku and Ginta very far behind.
~~Back with the girls~~
Sango threw Hiraikotsu at the bat demon but it knocked it away with its wing. It came closer and closer to the girls and was about to strike when...
"Hey you! Weakling! Come over here and fight me!" Yelled a female voice from the forest. The bat demon turned around to see a woman in a green cloak, with brown hair, glare at him. She had a hand on a hilt of a sword. "Yes idiot! I'm talking to you!" The bat demon hissed and opened its wings.
'Who is that?' Kagome wondered. The woman looked on as the bat demon came towards her. The sun was just coming over the horizon. At the last second the woman pulled out her sword and jumped up and brought it down, slicing off the demon's ear.
"Ahhhhh!" The demon wailed as blood oozed from its ear. The woman tore off her cloak to reveal a blue battle suit, silver scales, wings, and a tail. Kagome stared on in wonder.
"Is that Anusti?" Sango thought aloud. She was as confused as Kagome was.
"She IS a half-demon!" Kagome told Sango.
"What is this?" The bat demon asked hissing again.
"This is your doom." Anusti said as she charged at the bat demon. Hotaru had transformed as she leaped. The bat demon charged at her. Anusti tucked her wings into her sides and dove right threw the demon. The demon fell over, dead.


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Are There Any Wine Bars in Boston?
- WineAG Jan 28, 2009 08:26 AM
This post came out of a discussion on another thread. I made the statement that "Boston was not a wine town" and to reinforce the point mentioned that there's not even one real wine bar... does anyone think there are any?
Came out of the Sensing at the Fairmont thread...
re: Pegmeister
As many know, I think Troquet is the best wine restaurant in town... I even list it on my CH favorite restaurant list. There is true wine dedication there... but it's not a wine bar. It's a restaurant with a great wine program.
Ask the owner, Chris, and I think he'd agree that they think of themselves as more of a restaurant. Great place though and probably the closest thing we have in town.
re: WineAG
I guess, then I've never had a true wine bar experience. Can you give us more of a description?
re: Pegmeister
I think I'm sort of on board with Boston not having (m)any "true" wine bars, rather a few restaurants that focus on wine and, sometimes, particularly wines by the glass.
When I think wine bar: food should be present and should be good but not large, heavy, or the primary focus. Staff should be well-educated and wine-focused. Tria in Philadelphia comes to mind. Wines, beers, cheeses, and delicious small plates, all of which are prepared without a formal kitchen.
Bin 26 came to mind, but it would be wonderful to have a wine bar version of Drink.
re: WineAG
by all the criteria, looks like bin26 matches the "classic wine bar" setting in this article from my brief visit.
why are people stuck on comparing boston to new york.? there is no comparison. i'm not saying boston is worse than new york at all. i'm saying we can't compare the two. you may be able to compare 2 or 3 neigborhoods in nyc to boston, that may be fair.
Bin 26 is the closest thing, but it doesn't begin to compare with the great wine bars in NYC or SF. It is, IMO, one of the biggest holes in the local scene.
what about les zygomates, whose address (not that it proves anything) is www.winebar.com?
re: smooncakes
i definitely cant speak of les zygomates as i haven't been but would love to hear others opinions. however i am starting to understand that boston isn't a "wine town"
i was in a restaurant (not to be mentioned) when i heard a woman next to me asking the bartender "why are there no california chardonnays" on the list when the place had a decidedly non-american wine list. don't people get it?
re: smooncakes
Les Zygomates is a bistro/nightclub that has a wine focus. Any place that does weddings, will host your corporate event, and seat 150 people is not a wine bar. Haven't been there in years. They may be good at what they do, but its not a wine bar. It has a following and it has introduced people to wine in this town. The fact that this place is what many DO consider a wine bar is another good example of why Boston is not a wine town. Also doesn't help things that they say bistro/wine bar in their logo.
You're exactly right... they do have a fantastic URL.
re: WineAG
ha!! wineag great point. maybe it will come off my short list of places to visit for wine
re: cockscomb
Les Zyg has a great French wine selection and their other place next door Sorriso has a great Italian wine selection. Overall I have found the food and wine to be excellent at both. I wouldn't kill them off your list unless you are looking only for a "true wine bar experience" whatever that may be.
re: WineAG
I actually think the bar area of Les Zygomates has a nice winebar (very uncorporate) feel. They are very knowledgeable and offer over 50 wines by the glass. I would never consider it a "nightclub." I do agree that if you're looking for a small, intimate place, this may not be your best choice. However, I prefer it over Bin 26, which seems more trendy than authentic and recommend people give it a try and decide for themselves.
Isnt there one in Brookline? Dalia's or something? I haven't been, though Ive been meaning to, but they advertise as a wine bar
I'll echo what the existing posts are already implying: unfortunately, there is nowhere in town I'd tag as a bona fide wine bar.
A few ideas that at least come close in certain ways:
On the Boston side of the river, I agree that Troquet, Bin 26, and Les Zygomates all have some wine bar elements.
In the North End, Prezza has about 40 wines by the glass, mostly from Italy and CA, as well as a really impressive list of bottles. But it's a (delicious) full-service restaurant with a large, usually very busy, bar.
I haven't been to Meritage, but as you'd expect from the name, it seems at least to have a number of wine bar attributes: a few dozen wines by the glass, an encyclopedic tome of a by-the-bottle list, and a purported assortment of small plates in addition to the larger ones.
In Cambridge, I quite like the wine program at Upstairs on the Square, and their Monday Club Bar is a great place to sample around 15 wines by the glass usually including, oddly enough for Boston, a few credible domestic choices. I also happen to love the chow there, especially the smaller plates and desserts (although NB I have been consistently underwhelmed by the more formal Soiree Room upstairs).
re: finlero
Les Zygomates has been running weekly wine tastings lately. I've only been to one of them, but I was VERY impressed, with both the wine and the food, and how much attention and personal service we got. I would go for another one of their wine tastings in a heartbeat.
re: finlero
troquet definitely identifies as a restaurant first. that owner, as well as the owner of prezza, are both passionate in their love of the grape, and it shows in their lists.
les zyg lost some of its luster when lorenzo left, but its offerings are solid, i love the front area near the bar and it executes bistro food very well; same for its sister next door.
meritage has a very serious program, but is a fine-dining restaurant, lol.
although pricey, the lists at mistral and sorrelina are thoughtful and interesting. apps and an off-beat bottle won't break the bank.
eastern standard, neptune oyster, estragon, taberna del haro and le voile all have very creative lists too.
bin 26 is most definitely a wine bar. "enoteca" is not some made-up word. bina osteria has a very imaginative list, with plenty of selections under $40, as well as reasonably priced small plates.
can you swing a dead cat and hit a wine bar at every block ? nope. but the climate here has improved dramatically over even 10 years ago. our diners are more savvy too.
i get sick of people complaining and comparing boston to nyc or san francisco. for pete's sake, go live there if you find boston so dismal and provincial.
re: hotoynoodle
The benifits of growing older may be debatable but the one that I've found, personally, most rewarding is giving complements more readily were they are due. I can intimidate, purposely or no, the average beer/ale Hound. but your coverage on this board of all thing oenophile are beyond reproach. I've always eagerly look forward to any of your comments on this subject . Once again you've taken all of the air out of theroom on this post and "swung a dead cat" as well. Perfect!
Perhaps this should be a new thread, but I'll toss it into the mix here. There are some places besides those mentioned here where I find mentors willing to share with me some of what they have learned about wine. As a student of the grape, I treasure these people and their lists.
One example is Rendezvous Central Square. I find myself hunting down the wines I enjoy there to add to my own collection. Nicole is always willing to make suggestions backed with what she knows about the wine and why it might be right for your meal. I leave there knowing a bit more about wine.
We were at Neptune Oyster yesterday and find that the staff there really know a lot about wine, and they often introduce us to new grapes, new producers, or unexpected pairings. They also have a reserve wine list-- "The Pearls" that you can ask about.
Central Kitchen used to have a reserve list as well. I haven't checked on it lately, but they have had bartenders with good wine knowledge, and we've often walked out of there talking about the wine as much as the food.
Troquet has a wonderful selection and maybe we'll have to trying engaging the staff a bit more skillfully because we seem to get more "hard sell" than mentoring when we're there. To me, part of a great wine or cheese program is the willingness to share what you know with those who want to learn.
I hope the new restaurant at the Boston Harbor Hotel (if the plans to replace Intrigue are still in place) will take advantage of that incredible wine program. That could be the place for a serious wine bar.
Does anyone else remember the little wine bar that was on a second floor at Quincy Market. It came up in an interview I did with Howie Ruben of Bauer Wines last year.
And, their was Back Bay Bistro on Boylston at Copley Square. That was one of the first wine bars can remember.
re: BostonZest
i enjoy all these that you've listed. central kitchen has a very modest mark-up too. i don't venture to cambridge as much as i ought, but blue room has always had a thoughtful list, which is where nicole from rendez-vous first got the vino bug.
anybody remember zinc? a wine bar that was ahead of its time. it was on the block where 33 and stix now reside.
and tyvm for your kind words, harp00n!


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Taking guitar music lessons can cost a lot of money and making sure you are getting your money's worth is necessary. Learning a new instrument like guitar or taking vocal lessons will benefit you or your child but here are some tips on how to ensure you are getting the most out of your lessons.
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I lived my days apart,
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Mission to Iceland
An INCB mission visited Iceland from 25 to 27 March 2014. The mission was conducted by the First Vice-President of the Board, Dr. Galina Korchagina, accompanied by Ms. Beate Hammond of the INCB Secretariat. The purpose of the mission was to discuss specific issues related to the country's implementation of the three international drug control conventions, to which it is party. This was the first mission of the Board to Iceland.
The mission met with senior officials from the Ministry of Welfare, the Directorate of Health, the Icelandic Medicines Agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Ministry of Interior, the Directorate of Customs and the Metropolitan Police. The mission also had the opportunity to visit Vogur Hospital which is managed by SAA, the National Centre of Addiction Medicine. Meetings were also held with representatives from the Icelandic Red Cross as well as FRÆ, the Center of Drug and Alcohol Prevention.
Deliberations focused on recent developments in drug trafficking and abuse in Iceland, the Government's cooperation with INCB, measures taken by the Government to control narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and the chemicals needed for their illicit manufacture and policies to reduce the demand for illicit drugs and to treat and rehabilitate drug users. The consumption of methylphenidate in Iceland was also discussed with the national authorities.
The findings of the mission will be reviewed by the Board at its forthcoming session in May 2014 and will be reflected in the INCB Annual Report for 2014, which will be published in early 2015.
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The President of the International Narcotics Control Board, Mr. Raymond Yans, and the Secretary of the Board, Mr. Andrés Finguerut, visited the Vatican on 28 to 29 January 2014, as part of INCB's ongoing cooperation with Parties to the international drug control conventions.
The INCB President and Secretary met with Monsignor Antoine Camilleri, Undersecretary for Relations with States, to exchange views on the world drug situation and drug control policy of the Holy See. A meeting with Monsignor Zygmunt Zimowski, President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, provided an opportunity to discuss the issue of prevention, particularly among youth, and access to pain medications and psychotropic substances, including through the Church's vast network of health care facilities. The critical situation regarding access to controlled medicines in some regions of the world, e.g., in Africa, was also highlighted.
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THE Cenozoic, the last of the geologic eras, includes two periods of geologic timethe Tertiary period (the age of mammals) and the Quaternary period (the age of man).
Many years ago the groups of sedimentary rocks were named in order from oldest to youngestPrimary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. The last two names have survived, but the first two are no longer used as names of geologic periods.
The rocks of Tertiary age in America are chiefly of upland or non-marine origin and contain relatively few fossils, but Tertiary sediments that accumulated in sea water near the ancient margin of the continent contain great numbers of fossils. In fact, at some places the Tertiary rocks consist almost wholly of shells. A slab of rock containing such shells led to an incident which, although it occurred several years ago, still remains fixed in my memory.
Language of the Rocks
I was looking at material in the fossil room of the National Museum when a man and a boy entered and leisurely began to examine the curiosities.
They stopped before a slab of rock like that pictured in Plate XLVI, which contained many fossil shells, some of them standing out plainly, others deeply imbedded in the rock.
"Dad! What are these things?" inquired the boy, pointing to the fossils.
"Words," replied the man, "Those are all words."
I looked up in surprise, prepared to correct the statement. But I did not correct it. Something in the expression of the man kept me from interfering.
The boy seemed to be less surprised than I was. To him the museum was a house of wonders. Everything was strange. Nothing was beyond belief. He had not yet developed the "critical mind of wisdom." Instead of showing surprise he innocently asked, "Is this another Egyptian tablet like the one we saw in the other room?"
"Something like that," replied the man, "except that this language is much older than the Egyptian." "Do you remember," he asked, drawing a piece of paper from his pocket on which were some curious characters, "what these words are?"
"Yes," replied the boy, interested at once. And then the lesson in Egyptology was rehearsed.
"Very good! Now, the words of this other language are not more difficult than the Egyptian." "This word," continued the man, pointing to a coiled shell, "is gastropod. The one near it is pelecypod. For the present you may say snail and clam. Some day you may learn that these words tell a story about animals that lived long ago."
"That must be a strange language," ventured the boy, with a questioning glance to see if his father was really in earnest.
"Yes, to many it is a strange language, but to those who know it, its meaning is very clear.
"It is the language of creation. This slab of rock is a page from the story of the ancient inhabitants of the earth. The fossil-words may seem strange to you now, but later you will learn that the language may be translated and that it tells many a fascinating story."
The boy seemed skeptical, and the father, accepting his challenge to read this particular story, said:
"Notice first that this is a thin layer of rock, split away from other layers that once lay above and below it. They were piled up, one above another, like the leaves in a story book. This leaf tells among other things that the part of the story of the earth which it contains is near the end, just as page 200 in a book tells you that its part of the story is near the end.
"This slab of fossils comes from high up in the pile of leaves. The fossil words tell that it is from the part of the story which is called Tertiary and from the chapter known as Miocene. The fossils say that about the middle of the time known to geologists as the Tertiary period shallow sea water covered the part of Virginia where this rock was found. In the water of this sea lived many snails and clams. Their shells were buried in the mud, and in time this mud hardened to rock.
"Long afterward the sea bottom was raised out of the water and became land. The rain and the streams wore away the softer parts of the rock, leaving the harder parts standing as hills and bluffs."
"Dad," inquired the lad, who was naturally more interested in the fossils than he was in the story, which he could only half understand, "are many of the rocks covered with fossils like this one?"
"No! Few of them are so plainly marked. But there are many places in river bluffs where specimens just as good might be found."
"Say, Dad!" exclaimed the boy with enthusiasm, "Let's go after some of our own. I want to spring this on Bob and Skinny. I'll bet they never heard a story like this."
Then I received another mild shock, for, instead of rebuking the boy for harboring an unworthy motive, his father promised to show him where he could find the shells and to help him in framing a story for his boy friends.
Here was the university professor of the future receiving his early training. For what is a teacher except one who delights in telling the "Bobs" and the "Skinnies" and all other comers about things that interest him?
Bryce Canyon
The Tertiary rocks, like those of each of the older systems, are represented in a national park, or what will some day be a national park. Bryce Canyon (Plate XXX) was made a national monument by presidential proclamation in 1923, and during the following year Congress provided that it shall become a national park when all the land within its borders shall be the property of the Government.
Bryce Canyon is a bowl-shaped cavity that is eroded to a depth of nearly 1,000 feet into one of the high plateaus of Utah. The bowl is about three miles long and two miles wide and is open at one end. The brilliantly colored Tertiary rocks in which it is formed are eroded into a wilderness of pinnacles and spires and monuments, all carved in a profusion of ornamental designs. Some are graceful, others are grotesque; some are beautiful and impressive, others are bizarre. But all are intensely fascinating.
Bryce Canyon contains an astonishing array of startling beauty and grotesque grandeur. Those who enjoy flights of fancy can see here castles and cathedrals, Greek temples and Chinese pagodas, mosques and minarets and monuments in endless, bewildering variety. Those who would look beneath the superficial form may discover here an impressive exhibition of one of the processes by which highlands are torn down and carried to the sea. The sedimentary rocks that were built up layer on layer throughout the long ages of early Tertiary time are now being reduced to fragments and washed into Colorado River for transportation to the sea.
In geologic history, as in human history, a system built up laboriously in one age is torn down in a succeeding age and replaced by another system.
In general it may be said that the Tertiary period was ushered in by a world-wide revolution. Seas changed places and mountains arose where sea water had been. Whole races of animals were obliterated and new races took their places. Whole floras or groups of plants disappeared and new floras appeared.
It was this revolution that eventually ended the dominance of reptiles and introduced mammals as the rulers of the earth. The reptiles did not at once disappear, nor did the mammals at once spring into prominence. Indeed, the reptiles have not yet disappeared, nor have the mammals yet developed beyond the possibility of improvement. Nevertheless the Tertiary is known as the age of mammals.
At the beginning of the Tertiary period great geographic changes occurred in western America. The sea that had covered the central part of the continent was expelled at the end of Cretaceous time. Mountains arose in its place and plateaus were lifted out of the sea. However, some parts of the West remained low, and on them gathered the sand and clay derived from the newly formed highlands.
The marine life of the region was destroyed. The great "sea serpents"the mosasaursdisappeared, as did also the peculiar toothed birds and flying dragons. But some of the forms of land life persisted with relatively little change. Some dinosaurs remained, but not the particular species that had lived in Cretaceous time. The plants, too, underwent a change. The unrecorded interval of time between the two periods, although short in a geologic sense, was long enough to permit the removal by erosion of many thousands of feet of rock from the newly made mountains.
An Age of Violence
The geologist thinks of the Tertiary period as one of tumultuous earth action. Earthquakes were then doubtless violent, and volcanic eruptions were numerous. Apparently the slow-moving dinosaurs found life too strenuous for endurance, for they disappeared forever soon after the beginning of the Tertiary period. Several explanations have been offered for their extinction. Some have held that the bulky creatures were not able to endure the earthquake shocks. Others have maintained that their disappearance was due to the prevalence of volcanic dust, which choked them. Still others believe that their eggs were eaten by the increasing swarms of diminutive mammals. The explanations thus offered are all somewhat fanciful, and there seems to be no more reason for seeking a special explanation of the disappearance of the dinosaurs than of that of the mammoth or of any other of the thousands of species of animals that flourished for a time and then became extinct.
In the plateau country the earth's activities were somewhat different from those in the Rocky Mountains. There were great crustal movements and a general rise of land. But this rise produced table-lands rather than mountain ranges.
However, several small groups of mountains were formed, in which molten rock seeking a way of escape from the interior failed to reach the surface, but became lodged between subsurface beds. These intrusions raised the rocks above them until they looked like huge blisters. Instead of pouring from some opening in the crust of the earth and spreading over the surface, the molten matter lifted the layers of rock near the surface into great domes, beneath which it gathered, cooled, and solidified. These once molten cores of the mountains are known to geologists as laccoliths. Erosion has removed the domed strata and exposed some of these laccoliths, but the upbowed sedimentary rocks in others, as in Navajo Mountain, in southern Utah, still conceal the igneous rocks which domed them.
Near the western edge of the plateau country sedimentary rocks ranging in geologic age from Cambrian to early Tertiary are found in full thickness. Originally these rocks extended beyond their present limit, but how much beyond no one can tell. They were eroded away after the upheaval in the early part of the Tertiary period. Over large areas sedimentary rocks thousands of feet thick were stripped from the underlying crystalline rocks. On the newly formed floor of ancient rocks were piled mountainous masses of lava. These early lavas formed light-colored varieties of igneous rock called andesite and rhyolite (Plate XXXI).
At some time during the Tertiary period the earth's crust in the plateau country was broken into huge blocks, and these blocks were lifted, tilted, and generally disturbed. Doubtless these disturbances extended over thousands of centuries. Doubtless also they were accompanied by violent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, for in the canyon country there are volcanic rocks of many different epochs.
This elevation of the plateaus and the erosion following it produced much of the natural scenery for which western America is famous.
Tertiary Animals
The Tertiary period was a time of rapid change in the form and habits of living creatures as well as change in the physical aspects of the country. The reptiles that were dominant in the preceding age became subordinate in Tertiary time. Soon after the beginning of this period the great dinosaurs disappeared and mammals took their place as rulers of the earth.
Among the reptiles of early Tertiary time were three peculiar formsthe great carnivorous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurusa name expressive of his ferocious appearance; Triceratops, the three-horned dinosaur; and Anchylosaurus, an armored creature that has been called an animated fortress.
In the first of these monsters, known as Tyrannosaurus rex (Plate XXXII, A), the king of tyrant lizards, the flesh eaters reached their apex, for rex was 47 feet long and stood nearly 20 feet high. His head was 4 feet 3 inches long and his powerful jaws were armed with teeth 3 to 6 inches long and an inch thick. The sharp claws that terminated his enormous toes were 6 to 8 inches long and were curved like the talons of an eagle. The forearms were so small as to indicate that rex must have walked entirely on his powerful hind legs. A nearly perfect skull of this creature is exhibited in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. It is with a feeling of awe that the observer stands before this huge head and contemplates a beast of such terrible ferocity.
Rex had several contemporaries that were scarcely less formidable than himself. One called Albertosaurus, which lived in Canada, is said to have rivaled rex in both size and ferocious appearance. Against the weapons of such adversaries as Tyrannosaurus and Albertosaurus the enormous horns of Triceratops and the heavy protective armor of Anchylosaurus seem to have been necessary for mere existence.
An Animated Fortress
Anchylosaurus was a beaked dinosaur related to the older armored dinosaur Stegosaurus, which had flourished in the same region several millions of years earlier. Like his ancient ancestor, Anchylosaurus was a vegetable eater of peaceful nature, without fighting tusks or aggressive armament of any kind. He was a contemporary of the tyrant lizards and therefore needed protective covering. His entire back was covered with flat bony plates. He was low in stature, had a short, blunt head, and carried on the end of his thick, heavy tail a large triangular bony club. His eye was protected by a cup-like bony shutter, like the visor of a helmet, which he could close over the eyeball.
All the vulnerable parts of this animated fortress were protected by bony armor. The legs were short, massive, and straight, ending probably in elephant-like feet. The "horned toad," one of the small modern lizards of the western plains, is not very different in external appearance from the armored dinosaur except in size.
Another modern armored lizard, the moloch, found in Australia, resembles Anchylosaurus in repulsive ugliness and in the possession of elaborate protective armor.
Like the modern banded armadillo, Anchylosaurus maintained a secure existence behind his protective covering. He has been called the most ponderous animated citadel the world has ever seen, and he evidently presented a defensive exterior that was proof against the attacks of his contemporary, the tyrant king, who did not exterminate the race. Some of the bones of these animals of demoniacal appearance have been found in the Hell Creek beds of Montana; others have been found in rocks of about the same age in Alberta. They evidently roamed over a large part of the western interior of North America.
Fall of Reptilian Imperialism
Here we may profitably note that the most perfectly armed and most powerfully equipped natural fighters that the world has ever known lived side by side with the most perfectly armored and the most completely protected creatures that imagination can picture. Perhaps those who are today advocating the disarmament of nations have read the lesson that geology teaches so plainly and are trying to apply nature's remedy, for Tyrannosaurus, the militant king, and Anchylosaurus, the animated fortress, were "scrapped" and fossilized together.
It may further be pointed out that these most powerful fighters and most perfectly armored beings were the last of their race. Reptilian nature had done its bestor worstin both offensive and defensive armament, and as if recognizing the futility of further endeavor these reptiles perished from the face of the earth.
Bones of the dinosaur Triceratops (three-horned-face), so named in allusion to the three horns on the head (Plate XXXII, B), are found also in rocks of early Tertiary age. Over each eye was a long, massive horn, directed forward and terminating in a sharp point, and the nose usually bore a third but smaller horn. A mounted skeleton of a Triceratops in the National Museum at Washington, D. C., is about 20 feet long and stands 8 feet high at the hips. Some skulls measure more than 8 feet, over a third the length of the animal. This great length of head is due largely to the remarkable bony frill, which projects backward over the neck like a fireman's helmet.
That Triceratops, although a plant eater, was a fighter and often engaged in combat appears to be shown by its broken and healed bones. A dinosaur horn in the National Museum bears witness to such an encounter. It was broken during the life of the animal and healed to a rounded stump. Although Triceratops had an enormous head it had a smaller brain in proportion to its size than the least intelligent land animal of the present time. Fossil impressions of the skin show that it was covered with hexagonal scales.
As the dinosaurs retired from the stage of action creatures of higher intelligence and more supple movement, capable of adapting themselves to the rapidly changing physical conditions of Tertiary time, took their places.
Physical Records
The fossil remains of great numbers of these early mammals have been collected in museums and their significance has been pointed out. But although fossils are excellent records of geologic events they are not the only records. The attitude of the sedimentary rockswhether upturned or flat-lyingthe canyons, the peaks, and the plains all tell their story.
Two general types of sedimentary beds of Tertiary age occur in North Americathose near the borders of the continent, formed wholly or partly in the sea, and those in the interior of the continent, consisting of rock débris deposited chiefly by streams. The Rocky Mountains of Colorado and other ranges farther west, which began to rise at the beginning of the Tertiary period and continued to rise intermittently during that period, furnished this material. The streams that drained these newly made mountains carried the material to the lower lands and spread it out in broad sheets.
On the plains, near the meandering streams, lived a great variety of mammals. The ever-changing physical conditions of the region, brought about by the repeated rise of the mountains, the volcanic disturbances, and the shifting of the streams, forced changes in the habits of these animals. Those that could adapt themselves to the new conditions survived; those that could not do so perished.
The Tertiary was a period of physical change and of rapid evolution of life. It was the schooling time during which animal life reached the high degree of perfection that culminated in man. It is evident that the improvement in the race of animals was effected through struggle with a constantly varying succession of difficulties. The relative tranquillity that prevailed during most of the Cretaceous period was followed by great changes.
Activity was the order in Tertiary time. Nature was busy reconstructing continents, building mountains, and generally changing the complexion of the face of the earth. The inhabitants of the earth had to adapt themselves to the changing conditions or perish. The old order was replaced by the new. The revolution that introduced the Tertiary period was the "world war" of geology. The following period, during which all things became new, was a time of reconstruction, of advancement and rapid evolution, a time when the life of the world was greatly improved.
The Tertiary period has been subdivided into four epochs. These epochs, named in order from oldest to youngest, are the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene. The Eocene epoch was very long, and by many geologists it is subdivided into Eocene proper and an older epoch called Paleocene. The Paleocene saw the extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of the primitive mammals. The Eocene proper saw the great development of the larger mammals.
Some of the Eocene mammals had a generalized structurethat is, they possessed capability of development along different lines. One of the early mammals, for example, was an ancestor of flesh-eating creatures through one line of descent and of herb-eaters through another line. Many of these first mammals were curious looking creatures, such as Eobasileus, the Loxolophodon referred to in the verses quoted beyond. This great giant had a curiously shaped, long head with two pairs of bony protuberances resembling horns, one pair at the posterior end of the skull and one midway. A smaller single protuberance adorned the nose, and a pair of great tusks extended downward from the upper jaw.
Ancient Mammals
The skull of Eobasileus and the skulls of some of his associates seem to indicate clearly why many of the prehistoric monsters did not survive. These extinct giants, although as large as elephants, had brains that were ridiculously small. Their intelligence seems to have been inferior even to that of the modern rhinoceros. Judging from their small brain capacity it would seem that these early Tertiary monsters scarcely knew enough to take care of themselves. They perished. There were no asylums in Tertiary time for the weak minded.
One of the enemies of Eobasileus was the creodont, a wolf-like creature, one of the first flesh-eating mammals.
But other kinds of Tertiary mammals were able to meet the requirements of their age. Very early in the age of mammals there lived a group of creatures called the Condylarthra. These were probably the ancestors of such modern hoofed animals as the horse, the tapir, and the rhinoceros. They had five toes on each foot and each toe was tipped with a small hoof, such as is seen on each toe of some modern animals; others had claws.
These beings gave rise to several races, and each race followed its own particular line of development. One race retained all five hoofed toes on each foot; another lost all but two and developed into the split-hoofed animals, such as sheep and cattle; still another race lost all but one toe, thus producing the horse and other single-hoofed animals.
The First Horse
The earliest known direct ancestor of the horse yet found is Eohippus, a little creature about the size of a fox, which had four functional toes on each forefoot and three on each hind foot. Other toes were only vestiges or were wholly missing. But Eohippus had possibilities of development. Through growth and change and evolutionary development there appeared Orohippus, then Miohippus and Pliohippus, and finally Equus, the modern horse.
The Tertiary period was one during which broad, grassy upland plains were formed in western America. Doubtless then, as now, animals that lived in the open, without the protection of forests in which to conceal themselves, must have been able either to defend themselves when attacked or to flee from their enemies. The ancestral horse was not a fighter, but it had the capacity of developing speed, and the history of the horse through the geologic epochs, as well as through the period of human history, shows improvement in the mechanism that makes for swift movement and great endurance.
Apparently, as time went on, ancestral horses found increasing need for speed, and in striving for greater agility they rose more and more on to the ends of the toes, as the modern dancer rises for the same purpose. As evolution progressed the horse depended more and more on the middle toe, which was gradually developed at the expense of the side toes, and these in time became mere vestiges and at last disappeared, leaving only the middle toe.
Poetical Paleontology
The development of Eohippus into the modern horse was made the subject of the following verses by Charlotte Perkins Stetson.1
There was once a little animal
These verses differ rather sharply from some attempts to incorporate scientific material in popular writing, for in them no distortion of fact lurks under poetic license. Dinoceras and Coryphodon (Plate XXXIV, A) were contemporaries of the ancestral horse, and the middle fingernail on these animals corresponds to the hoof of the horse. It may be noted that the argument of the small-brained Loxolophodon relative to possibilities of self-improvement has a strangely familiar sound.
Although rocks of later Tertiary age are not found in the canyon country, those rocks contain records that lead up to events that are an essential part of the story of the canyon country. At some places near the borders of the North American continent Tertiary sediments were being laid down in water to form records such as those illustrated in Plate XLVI, which shows a variety of fossil shells preserved in great perfection.
In the western interior of the continent sediments from the recently formed highlands were spread out over the broad upland plains and entombed the bones of innumerable animals, such as Titanotherium and Protoceros, the American rhinoceros, the four-horned deer, and several kinds of camels.
These were some of the ancient inhabitants of North America in Tertiary time before the high plateaus and their canyons came into being.
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