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3. Stratton, J.A., Stone, S. S., Hwu, W. W. 2008. M-CUDA: An efficient implementation of CUDA kernels on multicores. IMPACT Technical Report 08-01, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (February).
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6. Stone, S.S., Yi, H., Hwu, W. W., Haldar, J.P., Sutton, B.P., Liang, Z.-P. 2007. How GPUs can improve the quality of magnetic resonance imaging. The First Workshop on General-Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units (October).
7. Stone, J.E., Phillips, J.C., Freddolino, P.L., Hardy, D.J., Trabuco, L.G., Schulten, K. 2007. Accelerating molecular modeling applications with graphics processors. Journal of Computational Chemistry 28( 16): 2618–2640; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.20829.
8. Nyland, L., Harris, M., Prins, J. 2007. Fast n-body simulation with CUDA. In GPU Gems 3. H. Nguyen, ed. Addison-Wesley.
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10. Buatois, L., Caumon, G., Lévy, B. 2007. Concurrent number cruncher: An efficient sparse linear solver on the GPU. Proceedings of the High-Performance Computation Conference (HPCC), Springer LNCS.
11. Sengupta, S., Harris, M., Zhang, Y., Owens, J.D. 2007. Scan primitives for GPU computing. In Proceedings of Graphics Hardware (August): 97–106.
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Turner, who challenged State Rep. Sean Jerguson in the July 31 Republican primary for the House District 21 seat, will seek the same seat in a January special election.
After losing his first bid to enter into state politics, Holly Springs resident Scot Turner is returning to the political scene.
Turner, who challenged State Rep. Sean Jerguson (R-Holly Springs) in the July 31 Republican primary for the state House District 21 seat, has announced his plans to run for the same seat, which will be vacated by Jerguson as he will formally qualify to run for the Senate District 21 seat.
Turner said he had "one of the greatest opportunities" during the primary race was the chance to "listen to the concerns and issues that are important to the people of Cherokee County."
"I believe our message of restoring faith in government resonated with the voters," he said. "I am now humbled and excited to have the opportunity to continue what we started just under one year ago. Given the opportunity to continue the fight to serve our area, I will again seek to earn your vote for the Georgia House of Representatives in District 21."
Jerguson defeated Turner with 58 percent of the vote for the Republican primary in the district, which covers Holly Springs, Hickory Flat, parts of Canton and southeast Cherokee County.
Turner's announcement comes on the heels of Jerguson announcing plans to run for the Senate District 21 seat, which is now vacant due to the abrupt resignation of former Senator Chip Rogers.
Turner during his primary campaign pledge to never accept a gift from a lobbyist or to accept campaign contributions from lobbyists or political action committees. He noted he plans to keep that same promise.
"I will fund my campaign only from people who live in Georgia and own businesses in Georgia," he said.
Turner works as the director of field services for Source Direct and has lived in Georgia since 1997.
He's also served in the United States Army Reserve.
Turner has served as precinct chair and member of the board of directors for the Cherokee County Republican Party. He's also served as sergeant-at-arms for both the sixth district and state Republican Party conventions.
He also help establish the social media efforts for the Canton Tea Party Patriots.
He and wife Kelly live in Holly Springs and have two children.
Monty Brewster
2:17 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
He showed his true colors after losing the first time. Who else is running? I'll vote for them.
Rob Miller
8:43 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
I thought his concession speech was the classiest one I had ever seen by any political candidate. So did everyone I spoke with about it.
6:19 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I'm excited to see Cherokee County have the opportunity to be served by both Sean Jerguson and Scot Turner. Scot is a great conservative who will champion ethical government and listen to his constituents while standing on his principles.
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6:19 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Personally, I'm glad Scot stepped up to the plate.
He's committed, and I know to expect a good, clean race from him. Having spoken with him at length on several occasions, I'm convinced that he's just the kind of fiscal conservative to set an example. He's definitely outspoken enough to make the changes in our General Assembly that conservatives like me so desperately want to see.
Jan B.
10:30 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
There is a reason why Scot did not win against a weak incumbent. He simply does not reflect the views of most conservatives. I am sure young Mr. Turner means well, but he is just too far in over his head and should stay the local youth leader of the Young Republicans. He needs a little more seasoning.
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3:04 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Scot was outspent 7 to 1 by the incumbent, yet still pulled 42% of the vote. I think that shows people DO want his type of conservative principles. "Seasoning" is how we end up with politicians that aren't accountable to the public. I don't think Rep. Caldwell, at age 23, was seasoned at all. He lost his first bid against an incumbent then the second go-round successfully won. We need leaders who don't give up and don't sacrifice principle for profit or political gain.
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5:57 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I'm betting most of the 42% was not voting FOR Mr. Turner, but rather against Mr. Jerguson. I don't think he'll get the same support from those folks this time, as he changed drastically after his loss in July to fit in more with the far right. Nice guy, but he doesn't believe in what he was preaching prior to July 31.
Rob Miller
8:43 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Monty- my child goes to CCA, which is both in both HD 21 and was heavily supported by Sean. The all-out effort within that school to protect Sean was key to him keeping his seat last go 'round. Many key players who I know there told me after the election that Scot's behavior during and after the race left such an impression that they were hoping to see him continue in his efforts to HD 21.
Monty Brewster
6:08 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Turner should win this election without a runoff now that what I believed to be his toughest opponent has pulled his name. I can live with Turner as Rep. As I said earlier, he's a good guy, but doesn't seem to understand one of the biggest issues in our community... Education. You can't run it like a business AND be doing what's best for the kids.


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It is believed that the human population has adapted to this slow change in environment, the current Tritonian is completely bald with a thicker layer of subcutaneous fat or blubber. Their torso is elongated and powerfully muscled while their legs and arms are shortened. Their fingers and toes are webbed and their feet in particular have long widespread toes. The Mers, as they are know by local the local void travellers, have very distinct facial features. Their eyes are large and insensitive and their nose is nearly completely gone, existing as a small bulge directly between their eyes with two closable slit nostrils. The heads of the Mers somewhat flattened and their neck connects at about a 45 degree angle which gives them a noticeable stoop when standing up but a much more comfortable position when swimming.
The Mers are supreme swimmers able to travel far in excess of the speeds of normally human swimming and with far more manoeuvrability. They mostly swim with their powerful legs and back flicking their feet vertically, their arms usually held at their sides for streamlining and their webbed hands only being deployed to stop, manoeuver or an initial push from floating. They are far more comfortable with depths than other humans and are able to hold their breaths for much longer. The seas of Triton are at least 50m deep and this is where much of their food and construction materials are gathered and they frequently spend half an hour down their between coming up for breaths and they have been known to regularly go to depths of over 250m with no protection and strong swimmers able to go to twice that depth. They are also able to sleep while floating on their face in even rough waters.
Triton is known for it's luxury foodstuff, Industrial Oils, fats, nutritional supplements and it's Abhuman Imperial guard regiments. A large fortified rig acts as their base and they train with a dizzying number of submersible, sea surface and aquatic capable aircraft. The regiments are used extensively as divers, vehicle crew and beach assault companies on many worlds with significant surface water coverage. They are known as savage and tribal society and the Imperial guard commanders prefer to encourage this in the troops allowing them to wear grisly sea creature trophies on their weapons and armour. The regiments armour and weapons has to be especially made to be neutrally boyant and able to work in conditions. As a tribal society their main weapons are spears, made from fish bones, or types of sea plant stalks with jagged bone, corral or toothed heads. They also have sharp daggers made from single teeth of giant sea creatures or the bony saw protrusions from the heads of strangely shaped fish. They often use these alongside their flack vests and Lasguns in the Imperial guard.
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I am terrible with fluff so here's gist of it: -
One of the forbidden knowledge of the Adeptus Mechanicus is the existance of a group of disputable "abhumans" prized for their void born minds.
To be blunt they have big heads, as their minds are complex and rapid even before birth (a painful and drainning process only possible with C-Section but utimately leading to the death of the mother as it's drains her vitality).
It's body is pathetic - after generations of muscle atrophe sitting on a desk within a zero gravity environment researching, observing and spilling uncomprehensible theorm - they require bionics to keep them alive and when necessary mobile. (indirectly like Augmentists, mixed with Tech-Priest and to a much larger degree Adepts).
Did I say their minds are prized? Because of their low survival rate and difficulty socialising they are sometimes perfect specimen as expedition servitors, MIUing with a ship and maybe servo-skulls. Each mind has a fasination of a particular area of science and it can be harrowing to witness it spill out copious amounts of information once it witnesses anything that catches it's interest.
Inspired from Eclipse Phase - Mentons.
Halfway on the path to Ascension, struggling at the brink of insanity, teetering on the edge of damnation, and a noogie away from death.
It also seems like, looking at the Ogryn reprint online, the example Ogryn does NOT have Unnatural Strength or Toughness, as these are listed as being aspects of his size. Now, whether or not this is a simplification of the rules remains to be seen.
It's a simplification. Remember that these rules can't include a full Talent/Trait listing, so simplifications like this are necessary.
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Writing Credits so far: The Lathe Worlds, The Lathe Worlds - The Lost Dataslate, Only War, Hammer of the Emperor, Tome of Blood, Tome of Fate, Tome of Excess, Church of the Damned.
There are no female Space Marines. Don't believe me?
Gender & Appearance
Due to the special nature of the zygotes that make up a Space Marine's geneseed, all Space Marines are male. - Deathwatch, Core Rulebook, Page 28.
So enough with the Female Marine threads…
does anyone know why they changed the ogryn character? i actually liked the first one better. thou if there are enough players i might just run both for giggles.
If death is so bad, why is he an angel?
What are the differences, out of interest?
And what are the other characters?
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There are no female Space Marines. Don't believe me?
Gender & Appearance
Due to the special nature of the zygotes that make up a Space Marine's geneseed, all Space Marines are male. - Deathwatch, Core Rulebook, Page 28.
So enough with the Female Marine threads…
On the subject of Abhumans, it's nice to see the Squats getting a shout out in the 6th Edition of 40k. It appears that GW is finally ending its ridiculous policy of pretending that they never existed. It's like GW is coming out of the closet as Squatphiles.
Furthermore, they have elaborated upon various other strands of abhuman out there…these include:-
7 sub categories of Ogryn (Homo sapians gigantus)
Ratlings (Homo sapians minimus)
Squats (Homo sapians rotundus) -yaaaaay!
Beastmen (Homo sapians variatus)
Troths (Homo sapians verdantus
Longshanks (Homo sapians elongontus)
Pelagers (Homo sapians oceanus)
Felanids (Homo sapians hirsutus)
Neanders (Homo sapians hyannothus)
The latter five are new. It occurs to me that a combination of the name and the latin scientific name can give us a clue as to what we're dealing with here:-
Troths - well according to Google Translate, there's no direct translation of "Verdantus." I'm a little lost as to what concept the writers were aiming at here - if "verdant" is the word they're aiming at, are we looking here at green skinned humans? Think the Mekon/Star Trek aliens perhaps?
Longshanks - again, there isn't a latin word for "Elongatus." However, it's not hard to see what they're up to here - Longshanks is an old English nickname for someone with long legs. So we're looking at tall abhumans - perhaps stilt like legs? Low gravity abhumans?
Pelagers - Again, not hard to see what they're trying for here. Ocean adapted abhumans - think the thing from the black lagoon, Aquaman, Namor, or Kevin Costner in Waterworld. Interestingly, Face Eater's concept of Mers from earlier in this thread matches this precisely, an example of how great minds think alike!
Felanids - Well "Hirstute" means hairy, so again it's not hard to see what the writers are doing here. Again, in an example of how tropes/concepts draw from a relatively narrow pool, one imagines that these guys aren't too dissimiliar from my "Hrukies" from earlier in this thread - even though I wrote them up as a bit of a joke! Just from the title, we can imagine these are hairy, furred abhumans.
Finally, we have the Neanders. I've no idea what hyannothus means, (again, the internet cannot help me with that) but the title "neanders" hints they're aiming at cavemen. Interestingly, this again closely matches a concept I came up with independently last week for abhuman cavemen - the write up is here. (The Kromagnan infantry) I hadn't seen 6th ed when I saw this, and obviously the writers wouldn;t have seen my concept either - it's just a weird example of how people approaching the same concept from different ends can come up with remarkably similar ideas! It's almost like convergent evolution…
I like all this new Abhuman stuff, but I do have a couple of reservations…firstly, the list of abhuman species currently active appears to be exhaustive, ie the writers are saying you ONLY have these abhumans. OK, there may be some scope for one of the many extinct subtypes to not be extinct at all, but I would have preferred a more open-ended writeup. I don't like options for creativity being closed down.
Secondly, what about the poor old Afreilis? They were originally classed as abhumans in the WD article which mentioned them for the first time, but they don;t appear on this list. Are they now deemed one of the extinct abhuman types? Does the same apply to the nightworlders? Or are Afrielis no longer classed as Abhumans? This actually is a reasonable assumption, as Afreilis didn't evolve into their current form, they were created, so they are technically different to "normal" abhumans…
Anyway, just a few thoughts!
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Lightbringer said:
On the subject of Abhumans, it's nice to see the Squats getting a shout out in the 6th Edition of 40k. It appears that GW is finally ending its ridiculous policy of pretending that they never existed. It's like GW is coming out of the closet as Squatphiles.
Furthermore, they have elaborated upon various other strands of abhuman out there…these include:-
7 sub categories of Ogryn (Homo sapians gigantus)
Ratlings (Homo sapians minimus)
Squats (Homo sapians rotundus) -yaaaaay!
Beastmen (Homo sapians variatus)
Troths (Homo sapians verdantus
Longshanks (Homo sapians elongontus)
Pelagers (Homo sapians oceanus)
Felanids (Homo sapians hirsutus)
Neanders (Homo sapians hyannothus)
Nice that they are happy to acknowledge these old references, other than the standard Ratlings and Ogryns. It's makes both them more believable if there are more than 2 abhumans and I like them because it makes the Imperium more sci-fi.
Seems we are somewhat ahead of the game. But i can't really claim it was a massive leap of logic. I was thinking of adding a note about some red or blue humans (mostly because of a love of Rogue Trooper) but it's a simple enough sci-fi explanation that certain suns promote certain pigments. I wonder if the Verdantus are actually green, or a collective name for any weird coloured dudes. The populous of Dreah in the Calixis sector could actually count here. Was also thinking about some tall, low grav humans, but I couldn't actually think of any characteristics beyond that.
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as humans colonized the stars, some unlucky few found their way to planets with such efficient predators that the population was wiped out. however on the world of Pi-Alpha IV the survivors developed several interesting adaptations. first the regression in the gnome to a earlier form, with only minamal regression of the mind. these feral abhumans, only the males, appeared to be normal humans. standing tall and watching us from a distance. however when we tried to approach they fled into the trees. this is when the mutations became apparent. their feet had regressed back to hands as well as them forming long, prehensiel tails. we spent several more days on Pi-Alpha cataloging the predators for sale to the beast house, when we found our way into one of their villages. suspended from the canopy, their huts were attached to one another not with bridges but vines. we also observed a very large portion of the population was children. this mystery was soon answered when one of the genators noted one of the females. possessing 6 breasts she was suckling 5 children, all appearing to be the same age. the priest of mars postulated that this was another adaptation to the world where the population had litters instead of single births due to the high death rate of both children and adults. this makes sense, because on this trip we lost 47 guards, porters, and other assorted personel to that planet.
excerpt from the log of Dorian Austin
The new 40k rulebook adds in quite a few abhumans, and brought Squats back.
I've converted Dark Heresy to the Only War system. Please take a look!
Plushy said:
The new 40k rulebook adds in quite a few abhumans, and brought Squats back.
Squats never actually really left, it's just the vast majority were wiped out by Tyranids. Nothing in the new 6th Ed book states that this is no longer true.
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Wasn't better known.. She was beautiful, had a great voice and in some ways stole the show here, but she was cast as the annoyingly pretty kid. Had she been cast just a bit older instead of the proverbial "barely 18" things might have worked out better, but when air head is written into your lines it dooms it from the start not to mention the credits just list her as 'night club singer' with as many lines throughout the movie. They could have given her a name in the credits other than night club singer.
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Lots Of Talent
I was disappointed after a lively start, and with a very good cast, that I could understand maybe two-thirds of the snappy dialog in this character driven drama/comedy. Pat O'Brien (The Front Page, The World Gone Mad), playing the lead as a crusading attorney, was always a soft spoken, fast talking actor, but I had trouble understanding even his business partner, Broderick Crawford, among others. Maybe it's just me.
The movie stayed lively throughout. It had to. It's an off-the-shelf corruption story with a murder mystery plot serviced mostly by light comic scenes until the final act.
Ruth Terry was fine as the nightclub singer/pest/love interest, but there was no spark between her and O'Brien. Eve Arden (That Uncertain Feeling, Letter of Introduction) was good, as usual, here as O'Brien's sharp-tongued secretary. I wish her part had been bigger. Edward Arnold (Eyes in the Night ), Douglas Fowley (Arson Inc.), and Douglass Dumbrille did well in their roles. Willie Best (Dangerous Money, Road Show) had a small, less racist and humiliating comic part.
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Movies must have been much more fun to make before computer effects...
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It's a murder-comedy crafted on the style of the "Thin Man" and it's not as good, but that's pretty much chemistry and hard to duplicate.
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"Ask three Placitans what they like best about living in Placitas and…
one will say it is being so far from everything, another, being so close to everything–and both will be right."
- The Placitas Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce not withstanding, the distance from Placitas to fabulous gourmet restaurants has spanned both great mileage and the healing passage of time for residents. When hungry, the mileage between Placitas and either Santa Fe or Albuquerque has seemed interminable. When fondly recalling a glorious meal within its doors, time has been the sole comforter for residents still missing their beloved Cafe De Las Placitas, a magnificent shooting star which faded away much too quickly but left an indelible afterglow. Most residents will agree the distance to fine restaurant dining is a small price to pay when you live in an idyllic haven back-dropped by the reddish Sandias and surrounded by panoramic views of hills dotted with dessert flora, weather-worn mesas and verdured mountains. Compared to its bustling, burgeoning, boisterous neighbors, Placitas is a serene harbor of refuge and respite.
Blades' Bistro, which opened on March 19th, 2009, has greatly narrowed the distance to fine-dining for Placitas residents while rekindling fond memories of fabulous gourmet experiences at the long defunct Cafe De Las Placitas. For diners who frequent the former, comparisons to the latter will be inevitable–and they will be favorable. In fact, Blades' Bistro might soon be a standard by which restaurant greatness will be measured–not just in Placitas, but throughout northern New Mexico. It's that good!
The village of Placitas (in Spanish, literally "small places") was formed by the San Antonio de las Huertas (Saint Anthony of the Gardens) Spanish land grant in 1745. While many descendants of the original land-grant families still reside in Placitas, it has in recent years blossomed as an affluent bedroom community for residents employed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Fewer than a dozen non-realty businesses call Placitas home, most of them ensconced in the Homestead Village shopping center, home of Blades' Bistro.
Within a week after Blades' opened, an excited Bruce Schor, a long-time friend of this blog, shared the news of its launch with me. "My first impression was I'm not in Placitas any more," he related. "It has a sophisticated ambiance, very big city feel and the food is terrific." Bruce's glowing descriptions of what he ate were the inspired impetus for our first visit. Ive since had the great fortune to have met Bruce and his aptly named better half Grace at Blades. It remains one of their very favorite restaurants.
Had it not been for Bruce, we might have thought the name "Blades" had to do with Rio Rancho's multiplex arena by that name expanding into Placitas and into the restaurant business. Apparently several people have made that mistaken assumption. Blades' Bistro is actually named for brothers Michael and Kevin Bladergroen. Their name is Dutch, while their restaurant is a veritable melting pot of European and American culinary influences.
An exhibition kitchen is the domain in which Kevin Bladergroen plies his chef trade as he has now for three and a half decades. After years of opening, working in and managing the kitchens of several restaurants in Europe and America, he has set down roots in Placitas. No stranger to New Mexico, he started his professional career in 1975 at Casa Vieja, a Corrales institution. He has also worked at the Prairie Star and before partnering with his brother and wife Anja to launch Blades' Bistro, was executive chef at the innovative Standard Diner. Anja runs the front of the house. She is as charming and gracious a hostess as there is in New Mexico.
Chef Bladergroen is classically trained, having attended the prestigious "La Varenne" cooking school in Paris. His curriculum vitae also includes a unique professional odyssey by motor home. To broaden his culinary edification, he and Anja traveled across the country to work in several restaurants with chefs he admired. The journey included stops at a small coastal resort town in Maine; Aspen, Colorado, the glitzy playground for the rich and famous; and Pebble Beach, California, home of the national pro-am, one of golf's most important events.
Chef Bladergroen's menu is a culmination of his vast culinary training and experience. His cooking philosophy centers around using high quality ingredients to create a "melting pot of taste" with an innovative yet surprisingly unpretentious and simple menu influenced by the European and American culinary cultures from which he learned. Some facets–moderately priced culinary fare and pleasant service–of Blades' are true to the Parisian bistro concept, however, it could be debated that the setting is not exactly casual. It's very well appointed and stylish, certainly more upscale than your typical bistro (albeit without being overweening). It's a restaurant in which you'll feel right at home and have fun while being inspired to be on your best behavior.
Although the bistro doesn't have a formal "chef's table" per se, you can still feel like like a VIP by sitting in an area directly adjacent to the exhibition kitchen. Only a plexiglass sneeze guard and an extended countertop separate you from the kitchen. You'll be close enough to converse with the chef, an amicable gentleman with a quick wit. Chef Bladergroen is very well organized and purposeful in every motion. He is a treat to watch.
As enlightening and inspiring as sitting in close proximity to the kitchen might be, even better are the intoxicating aromas emanating from the panoply of pots and pans perpetually sitting atop high flames. Watching every appetizer and entree in every phase of its preparation, unfortunately doesn't make it any easier to decide what you want to eat. Everything looks and smells absolutely fabulous. My advice–let the chef pick something for you. Don't even let him tell you what it is so you can be surprised when it arrives at your table. That's what I'm happy to have done.
Blades' array of appetizers is impressive, but not because of sheer numbers. Including daily specials there are only about a half dozen appetizers available, but if our inaugural choices are any indication, they are of four-star quality. Fans of fleshy and fabulous fungi will fawn over baked mushrooms served escargot style. Blanketed by a light, flaky puff pastry, rich, mellow mushrooms are baked in a light white wine broth with garlic herb butter and parmesan. Mushrooms, it turns out, are the ideal vehicle for soaking up all the buttery goodness (which even Gourmet magazine believes is the best best part of escargot).
It's not easy to sop up any remaining broth with the hard-crusted crostini which accompanies the mushroom dish, but the crostini is lightly toasted and provides a nice counterpoint to the starring attraction's richness. As do several of the best fine dining restaurants in the Duke City area, Blades' Bistro acquires its staff of life offerings from Albuquerque's Fano Bakery which specializes in artisan-style rustic and specialty breads. Characteristics of baguettes from Fano, a hard-crust complements a soft, airy texture on other breads served during meals at Blades'.
Beauteous, blood-red beets roasted so they retain a soft inside and a firm exterior are the center point of a second appetizer, roasted red beets with toasted goat cheese and a Balsamic glaze drizzle on a bed of Arugula and Radicchio. The fresh red beets are moist and tangy, a flavor complement to the smooth, creamy texture and mild flavor of the goat cheese and both are a perfect counterbalance to the savory salt and pepper flavors of the Arugula and Radicchio salad. Red Beets are unique for their high levels of anti-carcinogens and their very high carotenoid content. It's also heartening that they're so delicious especially at the hands of a skilled chef.
The only sane reason for which you should forgo an appetizer is if you're going to luxuriate in one of the chef's wondrous soups. The borscht (described below in the brunch section of this review) is one of several soups on the winter soup rotation, an elixir both the elegant Anja and I wish was offered with more regularity. The French onion soup is among the most aesthetically appealing and delicious of its genre in New Mexico. Served in a traditional two-tone soup crock, it arrives at your table steaming hot with the cheese brown and bubbling over the top of the crock. The aroma of onions is intoxicating and the broth is thicker than most French onion soups. The onions are cut larger, too, imparting the wonderful sweet flavor of perfectly prepared onions. You'll risk the molten cheese and sacrifice the roof of your mouth to dig into this soup right away.
Ask any New England transplant to New Mexico what soup they miss most and invariably the answer will be clam chowder (chowdah to Bob of the Village People), the thick, hearty, soul-warming favorite of folks from Maine to Connecticut. Expats will also lament the absence of good clam chowder in the Land of Enchantment. Blades' rendition is the best we've had since vacationing in Massachusetts in 2009. It's creamy and thick, but not overly so. The potatoes are perfectly prepared and the clams are plentiful –a nice ratio of potatoes to clams. Best, they were neither tough nor chewy. It would have been interesting to see Chef Bladergroen attempt oyster crackers.
The entree chef Bladergroen prepared for me during our inaugural visit is a dish he started preparing while serving as chef in a Fort Pierce, Florida restaurant overlooking an Atlantic waterfront. It's Shrimp Milanaise, an entree named for the Italian city of Milan. For the most part I've equated breaded shrimp with disdained restaurant chains that tend to serve them in all-you-can-choke-down quantities. I had also assumed initially that the breading would be similar to the breading used on steak Milanesa, a Mexican favorite. Blades' Bistro has forever changed those conceptions.
The breading is light and very well seasoned, adhering like a second skin to the perfectly prepared, sweet and succulent shrimp without dominating their native sea born flavors. Appropriately–being this entree is prepared by a chef of Dutch heritage–the shrimp are served with dollops of smooth and creamy Hollandaise sauce which imparts a rich, buttery flavor with a mild tang. Also served with the dish are rice and carrots, green beans and fennel served al dente. There are only two things wrong with the entree: it doesn't come with a dozen or more of the crusty crustaceans and it's not on the daily menu.
Seafood lovers in land-locked New Mexico have rarely had the quality of succulent shellfish and mollusks available in one dish–Blades' Bistro's Con Frutti de Mar, literally fruit of the sea. This entree features shrimp, scallops and lobster with a white wine garlic sauce over linguini. It's an inspired entree in which the richness of the sauce is a concordant marriage for the sweetness of the seafood. It will not only sate your lust for protein and carbs, it may leaving you swooning in appreciation. In its annual food and wine issue for 2011, Albuquerque The Magazine awarded the Frutti de Mar entree a "Hot Plate Award" as the hot entree Albuquerque diners can't do without.
There are entrees a plenty for landlubbers, too, including some not attempted by other restaurants in the Duke City area. The seasonal menu for winter 2012 includes two such rarities, veal sweetbreads and rabbit (if Anja has her way, these two stick around longer, especially the rabbit, her absolute favorite). Sweetbreads are one of those words which demonstrate English is a crazy language. They're neither sweet nor bread. They're in the offal (animal entrails and internal organs) family, though many would spell it "awful." They're also an acquired taste and one of the most misunderstood entrees–being mistaken for everything from bull's testicles to liver–on any restaurant's menu. Sweetbreads come from two organs–the thymus (sometimes called the throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (sometimes called the stomach sweetbread). Of all offal meat, sweetbreads are the most prized thanks to their mild flavor and color and their velvety, rich texture. Veal sweetbreads are the most popular.
My friend Larry McGoldrick, the professor with the perspicacious palate, is a sweetbread savant, enjoying them so much he once had them every other week for six straight months at Chicago's La Grenouille. When he compared Blades' version to the one he enjoyed so much in the Windy City, I knew I had to try them, gout be damned (purine rich sweetbreads top the list of things gout sufferers should avoid). What's a little joint pain and threat of kidney stones compared to the decadent deliciousness of great sweetbreads. Blades' sweetbreads are outstanding–pan-seared, fork-tender veal sweetbreads in a rich, creamy Calvados brandy sauce perfumed ever so slightly with sweet, delicate apples. Texturally they're absolutely perfect and flavor-wise, they're incomparable. The sweetbreads are served with mashed potatoes and a salad of julienned carrots and red cabbage, a good counterpoint to the richness of the sweetbreads.
Another entree any carnivorous landlubber will lust after is a ten- to twelve-ounce rib eye steak which can be prepared with either a green chile or a crimini mushroom demiglace. The steak is prepared to your exacting specifications and arrives at your table surrounded by a rich, glossy pool of pure deliciousness. Unadorned it's an excellent steak. The crimini mushroom demiglace with its discernible red wine influence elevates it to another level. Served with asparagus spears and one grilled tomato, it's a terrific entree.
In 2010, Blades' Bistro began serving lunch on Friday and Saturday from 10AM to 2PM and brunch on Sundays during those same hours. Brunch is the best of two worlds–not quite breakfast and not quite lunch, but the very best of both. It's a leisurely weekend repast which makes you feel you're getting away with something, almost as if you're defying your mom's mandate not to have dessert before your main entree. Brunch in Placitas has the additional feel of going out-of-town, away from the maddening traffic and crowds to a more sedate and tranquil paced haven.
While the menu has an enticing array of appetizers, soups (French onion soup topped with Gruyere cheese and a soup-of-the-day) and salads with which to begin your brunch experience, if the soup du jour gracing the menu is Borscht, contemplate the rest no further (unless it's to have Borscht and another starter). The Borscht, one of several soups on the chef's winter soup rotation, is excellent. Deep reddish-purple in color courtesy of beetroot, it is redolent with tomato, potatoes, beef, sour cream, garlic and dill. Borscht, a veritable culinary treasure in Eastern and Central Europe, is one of those dishes for which there is no one universal recipe. Cultural differences (Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, etc.) account for variations in ingredients and preparation. There are also seasonal variations that include serving it as a cold soup or a hot soup. Blades' version is served steaming hot and it's terrific!
Perhaps the most sinfully rich brunch entree (on a menu which includes a Croque Monsieur made with Gruyere cheese topped with a cheese bechamel sauce) is the Fettuccini alla Carbonara, pasta tossed with cream, eggs, bacon and Parmesan. This version is more cheesy than it is creamy and it's thicker (though not clumpy and sticky) than some Carbonara dishes. Carbonara, an Italian pasta dish with its genesis in Rome, is best made with al dente pasta and while Blades' rendition is certainly not al dente, it's so good and so rich you won't–you can't–stop eating it. Besides that, every spoonful includes bacon and you can't go wrong with that. This dish is so rich, it should be served with a side of angioplasty.
During our inaugural brunch visit, we lucked upon a special-of-the-day offering called Mongolian Ribs, a veritable tower of meaty ribs glazed with a ginger-sesame sauce. The plating of the ribs is tower-like, indeed. At least six ribs are stacked atop one another, buttressed by a mound of coleslaw and a phalanx of sweet potato fries. The ginger-sesame sauce is practically shellacked onto the ribs, but if that description leaves you dubious based on similarly described Chinese rib dishes, fear not. Unlike some Chinese ribs, these are not candied meat lollipops. The ginger-sesame sauce complements the beef ribs; it does not overwhelm them. Did I mention these ribs are meaty? Though they're not quite Flintstonian in size, they will appease any a carnivore. The accompanying coleslaw is tangy and delicious, made with Fuji apples and julienne carrots on a bed of greens.
What many will love most is dessert and Blades' Bistro doesn't disappoint here either. An outstanding option sure to please one and all is the tiramisu. Blades' rendition is served in a large goblet but the cake's component parts are certainly present: ladyfinger biscuits dipped in espresso layered in a whipped mixture of mascarpone, sugar, egg yolks topped with cocoa. The distinct addition of a liqueur is also discernible. It is a phenomenal dessert and that's selling it short. Along with the incomparable offering at Torinos @ Home, this rendition is at the top of my list of my very favorite tiramisu desserts in New Mexico, a Tuscan treat so good I'd eschew my other favorite (if it was on the menu) dessert–bread pudding.
In the June, 2010 edition of New Mexico Magazine celebrating "New Mexico's Best Eats," a three person panel of culinary experts of which I was a part, selected as the Land of Enchantment's best uptown dessert, the red chile soup at La Casa Sena. Studded with Chimayo chile that enlivens the chocolate, it is one of my favorite desserts. In the Chocolate Chili Pot, Blades' Bistro may have one-upped La Casa Sena. The chocolate chili (sic) pot is a ramekin brimming with dark chocolate pots du creme with toasted Chimayo chili. Its consistency is reminiscent of a very thick frosting served cold, but it certainly doesn't taste like the topping for a cake. The adult chocolate is made even more flavorful with the infusion of Chimayo chile (better, by the way, than Hatch chile). It's topped with whipped cream studded with blueberries.
Even in winter, savvy restaurateurs will serve cold dishes, perhaps figuring that frozen desserts are good any time of year. That's certainly the case with Blades' trio of sorbets, a refreshing, teeth-chattering bowl of flavor explosions. This housemade triumvirate is as good a chilly dessert as there is in the Land of Enchantment. As with all excellent sorbets, each truly captures the essence of the flavors they represent. The pear sorbet tastes like fresh-picked pears (only served ice cold). The pineapple-mint sorbet blends two distinctive flavors into a composite of what's good about both. The blackberry-cantaloupe sorbet is similarly fruity and delicious.
Besides sweetbreads, another addiction my friend Larry McGoldrick and I share is for bread pudding. It's our catnip and kryptonite–practically bringing us to our knees in gratitude to the bread pudding gods when it's made right. Blades' bread pudding made Larry's Bread Pudding Hall of Fame, an indication of its rarefied greatness. It's at or near the top of my list, too. Unlike the soggy, custard-like bread pudding that relies on cloying sauces for flavor, this is a firm yet spongy bread pudding with a texture that's absolutely spot-on. In terms of taste, it's an eye-opener with the pronounced flavor of banana and rum, the latter cutting the sweetness of the former. It's a winning combination.
In under two years, Placitas has become a dining destination frequented not only by local loyalists, but by diners from throughout the state and beyond. In 2011, Blades' Bistro was selected by readers of Local IQ as the Duke City area's best romantic restaurant, best fine-dining restaurant and for having the area's best bartender. The operative term here is "best," a term that has become synonymous with this stand-out restaurant.
Blades´ Bistro
221 Highway 165 Suite L
Placitas, New Mexico
505) 771-0695
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LATEST VISIT: 23 February 2012
1st VISIT: 31 March 2009
BEST BET: Baked Mushrooms (escargot style), Roasted Fresh Beets with toasted Goat Cheese @ Balsamic Glace Drizzle, Con Frutti de Mar, Shrimp Melanaise, Tiramisu, Trio of Sorbets, Chocolate Chili Pot, Mongolian Ribs, Borscht, Fettuccinni alla Carbonara, Banana Rum Bread Pudding, Veal Sweetbreads, Rib Eye with Mushroom Demiglace


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"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar,' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar.' It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men's place in the history books? …I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They're not all saints, they're not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."
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Jan. 17
Beat the Winter Blues $15 ticketed event
Enjoy lunch and entertainment to lift your spirits during the winter months. NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. Ensure your reservation by purchasing your ticket through the LLL program from Charlene (978-659-1225) or Rita LaBella/Kathy Bresnahan at Haverhill C.O.A. (978-374-2390) or Darlene Sutton at Bethany (978-374-2165) Entertainment by Larry Lee Lewis Doors open at noon.
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What Did You Say? Stop Mumbling presented by Pat Shea Digital Hearing
Over the years we have found that people are often confused about their specific hearing issues. This seminar answers your questions and addresses your hearing concerns in a safe environment. Do family members accuse you of mumbling because they can't hear you? Be sure to ask them to come along with you.
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"America the Beautiful" presented by Tom Vartabedian
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April 11
Cuba Trip for all of our arm chair travelers by Gradon McCormick
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Singing & Swinging with Julie Zielski
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April 25
The Theater of the 1930′s, 1940′s, and 1950′s performed by Stephen Collins
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May 2
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May 9
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May 16
Zip & Doo Dah presented by Barbara Skofield & Paul Gosselin
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Classical Concert by Archi Richards
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July 11
Bread and Roses Part II by Tom Gradzewicz
If you missed Part I be sure not to miss Part II. Join Tom for the continuation of the strike.
July 18
The Fabulous Duo of Jan Clevesy & Toni Ronsivalli
Join the Life Long Learning group for an eafternnon of surprices. If you know Jan & Toni you must know that you won't be disapointed by their performance and lots of tricks to make you smile.
July 25
The Flip Side featuring Dolores Bourque, Marty Kriegsman & Don Harvey
The talented Dolores on fiddle, Marty on guitar and Don on base will make for a fun afternoon of entertainment.