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Les Enfants Terribles
Rating: 2.5 out of 4
Address: 209 de la Rotonde St., Nuns' Island
Phone: 514-508-6068
Website: www.terribles.ca
Open: Daily 10 a.m. to midnight
Wheelchair access: Yes
Reservations: Essential
Vegetarian-friendly: Yes
Cards: All major cards
Parking: On the street; lot nearby
Price range: Starters $7-$16; main courses $15-$26; desserts $4-$10
I avoid taking my kids to restaurants at all costs. It's not that I don't want to; heaven knows I would love to see them have fun at a restaurant. It's just that they make a face and start moaning at the slightest suggestion that we might be eating out anywhere besides our usual hamburger hot spots (Nouveau Palais, La Boulette, Anecdote). To them, restaurants are a total drag.
One of them is only willing to go as far as spaghetti carbonara on the adventuresome scale. And the other won't share or let me even suggest what to order. Seeing as their limits are actually prerequisites for restaurant review dining, I'm all too happy to leave them at home. That said, I still keep a small flame burning in hope that they will someday consider restaurants with the same unbridled enthusiasm, verging on obsession, as their mother.
So when I decided to review the new Nuns' Island outpost of a branché Outremont restaurant, I insisted they come, not only because the menu was basic enough for them to enjoy, but the name, Les Enfants Terribles, seemed to suit the situation perfectly.
Outremont's Les Enfants Terribles is easily the most happening restaurant on Bernard Ave., and in the neighbourhood I'm sure only the jumping Laurier Ave. bistro Leméac can compete. The food is steak/frites and fried calamari predictable, but let's get real here: Comfort food is what 99 per cent of the population is looking for when dining out.
Yet my guess is we are actually more critical when it comes to judging the familiar macaroni and cheese than when it comes to the unfamiliar fluke crudo with yuzu espuma (foam). I'll cut that crudo a little slack if the espuma lacks fluffiness, but heaven forbid the mac and cheese isn't better than the Martha Stewart's Creamy Mac & Cheese I've been making since 1991.
That familiarity is what makes Les Enfants Terribles so appealing. And having dined at the Outremont restaurant a few times, I can understand why it's so crowded: The food is good, the staff is friendly and the wine markups are reasonable. And let's not forget their swish outdoor terrasse.
It's important to note that the Outremont Les Enfants was reviewed in the casual column here, as main-course prices at the time of its opening hovered around the $20 mark. They still don't break into $30 territory, but the dishes range in fanciness enough to make this a special-occasion restaurant or a you-won't-catch-me-in-the-kitchen-tonight option. The Nuns' Island restaurant offers an identical menu, as well as the oh-so-appealing wine option of 600 mL carafes and many wines by the glass.
As for the décor, the Nuns' Island restaurant is newer, but it has the same emphasis on wood and glass, with schoolroom chairs and a large central bar. As with the Outremont restaurant, the crowd here seems to consist of yuppies, good-looking 40- to 50-something men, and a heck of a lot of blond women, especially surrounding the bar. As my Québécois friend pointed out, "Y'a de la drague ici," which translates roughly to, "There's some picking-up going on here." That said, there are also tables filled with couples, friends, seniors and, at my table, two kids somewhat oblivious to the scene around them.
We jumped right into a selection of four appetizers: for the kids, macaroni and cheese and Caesar salad; and for the grown-ups, cauliflower soup and crab ravioli. Though very cheesy, the mac and cheese was not much else. I like a few croutons atop my m&c, and a gratinéed topping en plus. This one was just a bowl of cheesy macaroni. OK, but certainly not Martha-worthy.
As for the Caesar — wow! The moment the mega-salad hit the table, my 8-year-old's eyes bugged right out. Made with large slices of romaine, croutons, fried pancetta, Parmesan shards and just the right amount of dressing, the salad was a huge hit. The child polished it off in record time.
Meanwhile, across the table, we were scarfing back the lovely ravioli. The Alaskan king crab was sandwiched together with two thin slices of daikon and mixed with a few herbs, apple batonnets and a honey and nutmeg emulsion. Though it all felt a bit spa-food-like, the flavours were so delicate and the textures so diverse that I relished every bite.
As for the cauliflower soup, think smooth, perfectly seasoned, zuzzed up with bacon and piping hot. Loved every spoonful.
Main courses turned up more highs and just a few lows. My 12-year-old was disappointed with the ribs, and after a few bites, I knew why. The meat was moist, verging on mushy, and the sauce was just smeared over the meat, not cooked into it. The pork flavour was also faint. After a few bites, he tossed in the towel. The hamburger he had contemplated would have been a better bet. Filled with all the fixings, the burger scored primarily because the patty was so tasty and ideally cooked just beyond medium rare. What a great burger! That said, the fries lacked crispness — no match for the fantastic frites I enjoyed at the Outremont resto.
A modern rendition of shepherd's pie arrived next, presented in a tower shape consisting of braised beef at the base, mashed potatoes on top and a corn sauce poured over it all. Alas, the corn sauce was oddly sweet and the potatoes were too thick. The braised meat was delicious, but there was just too much of it. Though the dish has potential, I think the whole thing needs to be scaled down.
As for the final main, a simple spaghetti with tomato sauce, basil and mozzarella: good, not great. The pasta was perfectly al dente, but the mouth feel wasn't lush enough. I think a shot of pasta water or cream would have done the mix a world of good, and the chunk of mozzarella placed on top might have been better served in pieces.
The thing about comfort food is that it's just so filling, so you might prefer to pass on dessert. That's understandable, and trust me, the too-light chocolate mousse and the soggy lime tart aren't worth the calories. The pouding chômeur, however, is. Hot, moist, maple heavy and topped with a dash of cream to cut through the sweetness, this dessert should not be missed.
And I think if you live in the area and are looking for a solid — and fun — dinner destination, Les Enfants Terribles should not be missed either. Our waiter was cool and competent, the crowd was equally English and French, and there was a real sense of neighbourhood to this place, with people greeting each other across the room and the hostess greeting many customers by name. If I lived here, I'd return often. And, yes, I'd bring my kids. No, the scene is not ideal for the youngster crowd, but we sat happily at one of the corner tables, noshing away.
On the way out, the 8-year-old summed up the dinner with one sentence: "You better give that restaurant more than two stars." OK, kiddo, done!
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Intel Update from Corey Goode: The Optimal Temporal Reality
One of the most important messages I got out of this update is…
"Nothing can be more important (right now) than to cultivate a loving, forgiving and peaceful attitude as we go through this, regardless of the temptations to get angry, reactive, resentful and frightened."
In Joy!
Wanderers, Elections, Super Soldiers and Our Collective Consciousness
By Corey Goode With David Wilcock
Imagine a future where we have full disclosure, and the complete removal of all control structures in our solar system. We rapidly come into contact with incredible new technologies that transform our lives in almost unimaginable ways – and meet a host of new friends in our greater galactic family.
In our last update I discussed our need as a group consciousness to choose this "Optimal Temporal Reality." This probable future is the best case scenario for humanity by far.
Right now, each one of us is deciding whether we will co-create this glorious future, or any of a number of other scenarios that could take much longer – and would be significantly less triumphant as well.
According to Tear-Eir, we can still achieve this "Optimal Temporal Reality" if we continue to wake up to the corruption and lies we have been fed our entire lives.
Not long after publishing this update, I was picked up by a blue sphere.
I was lying in bed as usual when the orb's pale blue light began to shine through my eyelids.
I immediately got out of bed and indicated that I was ready for the blue orb to take me to the intended destination. I was not expecting this visit, but I had learned to be prepared with the recent cluster of meetings that have occurred.
I was not surprised to find myself in the blue sphere once again. Raw-Tear-Eir was there to greet me in the usual manner and Gonzales was standing a short distance away.
I took the opportunity to look above me at the cosmic scene that had been changing each time I had observed it. I noticed that the other blue spheres, close enough for me to see, were now looking a bit more translucent.
As I looked closer I also noticed a rippling, water-like effect on them. It looked almost as though someone had thrown a handful of rocks into a pond. There also seemed to be pulses of this rippling effect as though a strong solar wind was blowing them.
Once my sight had adjusted to the cosmic scene all around me, I noticed a number of metallic-looking spheres appearing out of the darkness quite a distance away. I could tell they were extremely large, but I didn't have another object to use as a frame of reference.
There were nine of these spheres that I could make out. The spheres looked to be about the size of my thumbnail from a fully outstretched arm. This led me to estimate they might be about the size of Earth's Moon.
Tear-Eir suddenly glided to within ten feet of me, and began to communicate about the "300,000 ascension-ready" people that I had reported on earlier. He indicated that my delivery of that intel had caused a lot of anxiety in those who received it. These people put out a call for clarity, so Tear-Eir indicated he wanted me to deliver the information more clearly this time.
The 300,000 figure was provided after I had expressed an interest in the number of people who are ready for energetic changes (ascension.) I had also asked what percentage of "service to others" (STO) those around me and I had currently achieved in our journey.
I was more than a little bit shocked and troubled by the answers I received. Not only was I not in the 300,000, my STOpercentage was much lower than I would have guessed. I believe this is probably true of most of us on the planet right now.
Tear-Eir then communicated that at the moment I had expressed interest in this subject, the number of people ready to ascend was less than 300,000. It was further communicated that this number is in a constant flux from moment to moment, as is our temporal reality.
I then expressed concern and confusion again about the low number that I had received. I asked, "What about the millions of children on this planet?" I thought surely the innocent children of the world had to fall under some sort of "age of accountability."
Raw-Tear-Eir then communicated that some of the number given indeed included children.
However, many other children will also be moving on to higher densities as we go through the shift, even though they are not part of the 300,000 figure that was given.
Millions of children and adults are ET souls or "Wanderers", and their numbers were not included in the 300,000, for reasons we will now explain.
The Law of One series is the main "revealed teaching" that the Sphere Beings have endorsed as being accurate and useful for us at this time.
It now appears that the Blue Avians are the same beings that contacted the ancient Egyptians as "Ra," the bird-headed entity. They again spoke as Ra in the Law of One series from 1981 to 83.
William Henry discovered ancient Egyptian depictions of Ra as a blue avian humanoid, as seen in Cosmic Disclosure, Season 5, Episode 3, "Blue Avians & Spheres in Ancient Art:"
This connection was unknown to any of us when my contacts began, and was a matter of great surprise to everyone when William Henry approached us with this data.
Once I finally began reading the Law of One myself, the beings began speaking to me in very similar-sounding language – further revealing their identity as the source of this material.
On a practical level, this means that studying the Law of One series can give us far greater insights into the philosophy and practices of the sphere beings.
As of 1981 in Session 12, the number of Wanderers was approximated as being close to 65 million. In Session 63, the number of Wanderers on earth was again said to be "in excess of 60 million."
By now, those numbers are significantly higher – possibly up to 300 million or more. With a population of seven billion, that would mean a little over one out of every 23 people on Earth is an ET soul.
If you are a regular reader of these updates and feel they resonate deeply with you, there is a very good chance that you are a Wanderer as well.
In Law of One terms, these souls have come in from a level significantly more advanced than the basic requirements for graduation from third to fourth-density life.
For this same reason, the vast majority of Wanderers will return to their "native density" as we go through the "quantum leap" referred to in the Law of One.
Therefore, the number of 300,000 only referred to a select group within the greater majority of people on Earth who have never lived above third-density vibration at this point in their journey.
The efforts of Wanderers are focused on helping inspire these third-density folks to become more conscious, loving and forgiving people.
The only real danger Wanderers face is by becoming "consciously unloving" to a significant-enough degree in one or more lifetimes that a multi-incarnational "karmic alleviation" is then required.
In certain rare cases, this might cause them to miss out on our soon-to-be upcoming graduation and have to repeat another 3D cycle. This is explained in various places in the Law of One, such as Session 16, Question 61, featured below.
More commonly, these karmic adjustments will appear as personality issues or health problems. Working through these issues ideally brings us back to a loving place. Questions 27 through 30 in Session 12 of the Law of One clears up the issue quite nicely:
12.27 Questioner: How many [Wanderers] are incarnate on Earth now [1981]?
Ra: I am Ra. The number is approximate due to an heavy influx of those birthed at this time due to an intensive need to lighten the planetary vibration and thus aid in harvest (ascension). The number approaches sixty-five million.
12.28 Questioner: Are most of these from the fourth density? What density do they come from?
Ra: I am Ra. Few there are of fourth density. The largest number of Wanderers, as you call them, are of the sixth density. The desire to serve must be distorted towards a great deal of purity of mind and what you may call foolhardiness or bravery, depending upon your distortion complex judgment.
The challenge/danger of the Wanderer is that it will forget its mission, become karmically involved, and thus be swept into the maelstrom from which it had incarnated to aid the destruction.
12.29 Questioner: What could one of these entities do to become karmically involved? Could you give us an example?
Ra: I am Ra. An entity which acts in a consciously unloving manner in action with other beings can become karmically involved.
12.30 Questioner: [i] thought. Do any of these Wanderers have physical ailments in this Earth situation?
Ra: I am Ra. Due to the extreme variance between the vibratory distortions of third density and those of the more dense densities, if you will, Wanderers have as a general rule some form of handicap, difficulty, or feeling of alienation which is severe.
The most common of these difficulties are alienation, the reaction against the planetary vibration by personality disorders, as you would call them, and body complex ailments indicating difficulty in adjustment to the planetary vibrations such as allergies, as you would call them.
16.61 Questioner: And if a Wanderer were to be successfully infringed upon, shall I say, by the Orion group, what would happen to this Wanderer at the harvest?
Ra: I am Ra. If the Wanderer entity demonstrated through action a negative orientation towards other-selves it would be as we have said before, caught into the planetary vibration and, when harvested, possibly repeat again the master cycle of third density as a planetary entity.
The Biblical term Harvest, such as from the Book of Matthew, is the primary term used in the Law of One for what we usually call Ascension.
The original Bible quote describes how the "wicked" will be "severed from among the just" at this time, much like a gardener pulling weeds – hence the term Harvest.
There is still some degree of mystery about exactly what will happen, and how – and some of this was cleared up in the contacts I received in this update.
In Session 34, we also hear that karma need not be seen as a huge, fearful thing. It can be absolved very quickly, as we are about to see.
In Session 65, the Earth is compared to a grocery store, where the choices we make are represented as various containers on the shelves.
This analogy was used to indicate that karmic alleviation could occur on a planetary level as well – which appears to be what they now are calling the Optimal Temporal Reality:
34.5 Questioner: If an entity develops what is called karma in an incarnation, is there then programming that sometimes occurs so that he will experience catalyst that will enable him to get to a point of forgiveness, thereby alleviating the karma?
Ra: I am Ra. This is, in general, correct. However, both self and any involved other-self may, at any time through the process of understanding, acceptance, and forgiveness, ameliorate these patterns. This is true at any point in an incarnative pattern.
Thus, one who has set in motion an action may forgive itself and never again make that error. This also brakes or stops what you call karma.
65.12 Although you have many, many items which cause distress and thus offer seeking and service opportunities [on Earth at this time], there is always one container in that store of peace, love, light, and joy. This vortex may be very small, but to turn one's back upon it is to forget the infinite possibilities of the present moment.
Could your planet polarize towards harmony in one fine, strong moment of inspiration? Yes, my friends. It is not probable; but it is ever possible.
Raw-Tear-Eir communicated that many of today's children are Wanderers, and therefore are here to help us through these times of change. This was a major relief to me.
Additionally, Tear-Eir said many adults are also Wanderers – here from soul groups that were formerly outside this planet, and from other densities that have come here on similar missions.
These people are also here to contribute to the mass consciousness and assist in the transition to a higher vibration. Humanity has been so incredibly conditioned by negative forces that they tend to cling to third-density reality. These souls are here to help us let go of the old paradigm.
I was told that the Wanderer's specific mission is to bring a loving vibration, as well as to be present during the great consciousness shift and help lead us into a new reality.
If what Ambassador Micca told me about his culture is true, once we go through this shift, we are looking at a "Conscious Renaissance" that will launch humanity into a new era – where we will refer to the times we are in now as "The Dark Ages".
Negative groups such as the Draco are only able to tamper with a planet like Earth until we reach this new level of consciousness, which the Law of One calls "social memory."
The internet has already put us well on our way towards having "all understanding/distortions available to the entities of the society," which is what we need to reach.
With a "group memory" available to all, no secrets can be kept. No lies, deceit and trickery can exist. We learn from our past and ensure that we do not repeat the negative aspects. We have full transparency in all aspects of government and society.
In the Law of One series, the Draco are referred to as the "Orion" group, or the "Crusaders" – and the Draco do have a major stronghold in Orion:
11.16 Questioner: What do the crusaders do?
Ra: I am Ra. The crusaders move in their chariots to conquer planetary mind/body/spirit social complexes before they reach the stage of achieving social memory.
11.17 Questioner: At what stage does a planet achieve social memory?
Ra: I am Ra. A mind/body/spirit social complex becomes a social memory complex when its entire group of entities are of one orientation or seeking.
The group memory lost to the individuals in the roots of the tree of mind then become[s] known to the social complex, thus creating a social memory complex.
The advantages of this complex are the relative lack of distortion in understanding the social beingness, and the relative lack of distortion in pursuing the direction of seeking, for all understanding/distortions are available to the entities of the society.
I was also shown visualizations of the merging of temporal realities known to many as the "Mandela Effect." In this merging of realities, many major historical incidents that would have already happened to us have been "edited" out of our reality.
I was shown a vision of what looked like a wall of crystal rods that were slowly turning. As these crystals turned, a prism effect occurred in which I saw events instantly change. Moreover, the people in that new reality would have no memory of the previous one.
David pointed out that this was neatly mirrored in Isaiah 65:17, which reads, "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
This quote also suggests that once we reach "social memory," our consciousness will change so dramatically that it will be almost impossible to imagine what it will be like.
I wondered if one day, after one of these mergers occurs, we will suddenly find ourselves in a reality where disclosure and the defeat of the current control structure on our planet has already occurred, and no one has memory of our current reality in which so much is being kept hidden from us.
The beings answered in the affirmative. They said this phenomenon is a major component of the shift we are going through right now. The quote from Isaiah further supports that something like this may actually happen from a scriptural standpoint.
Tear-Eir communicated to me that the co-creative consciousness of humanity was a major cause of what we are calling the "Mandela Effect."
Raw-Tear-Eir then stated that those of us working on the optimal temporal reality need to focus more on positively influencing our mass consciousness instead of fostering our current belief systems or looking to validate them.
Personally, I was told that I need to focus less on the non-terrestrial and Secret Space Program, and more on educating and empowering people about the true nature of the collective co-creative consciousness that we all contribute to.
I communicated to Raw-Tear-Eir that I am not an expert on consciousness, nor am I qualified to teach consciousness or spirituality. The response was similar to what was communicated in the past.
Raw-Tear-Eir stated that in the near future, individuals with this type of educational background would be led into my inner circle. Since that time, I have begun networking with exactly these types of people.
We then went into a deep discussion about the spiritual and emotional states of individuals who are currently in my inner circle, as well as what changes I need to make within myself. This is always a humbling experience.
Some of this information closely mirrored what Ka-Aree had been communicating to me in recent months. Usually when we interface about these subjects it means the conversation is nearly over.
I was still curious about the metal spheres I saw when I first arrived. After some recent hasty endings to our meetings, I wanted to make sure I was able ask about what I had seen.
As usual, I didn't even have to ask the question. Tear-Eir communicated that "Other members of the Confederation are now coming in to this system to be of assistance in the near future."
In our most recent Gaia tapings where David discussed this with me, he speculated that these spheres may be used to help certain groups of people relocate to other worlds.
This is indicated in Session 10, Question 6 of the Law of One:
10.6 When there is a cycle change, those who must repeat then find a planetary sphere appropriate for this repetition.
There are also extensive discussions in the earlier sessions about how people who had evolved on Mars and on the "exploded planet" Maldek were transferred to Earth by the "Guardians."
The method of transfer was never explained, but it seems likely that these giant spheres are of sufficient size and capability to house and transport millions of people as needed.
David shares multiple insider testimonies about Earth's Moon being an ancient device of this sort in his new book The Ascension Mysteries – along with the evidence.
I was picked up by the blue sphere again and returned to my bedroom. I climbed back into bed and stared at the ceiling for a few hours, processing the experience.
No matter how many times I am brought to a blue sphere, I have the same integration and processing experience afterward.
I received a few communications from Ka-Aree over the next several weeks, mostly through what we have referred to as "the construct".
This is an area that appears to be all white, in which all I see is the two of us talking to each other.
There was a slight change in how openly she communicated with me and how she looked at me after I shared an encounter I had while on vacation in Long Beach. She had previously warned me that I might receive contact from a group known as "The Banished."
Ka-Aree had described how over the millennia, groups had been evicted from each of the inner-earth civilizations because they were interfering in human affairs in a way that was not customary or considered acceptable for these groups.
These former dwellers of the inner earth became "The Banished", and now live on the surface among us. They blend in as much as possible, striving to attain places of power in human civilizations and living in enclaves all over the world.
The encounter I had with one of these Banished was in the last week of July in our hotel room while my family was sleeping.
When I communicated this event with Ka-Aree, she showed concern and seemed as though she was observing me more closely than usual.


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In 1966, I was assigned to a new engineer battalion that was being formed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. We were deployed to Chu Lai, Vietnam. I spent 13 bloody months in country, returned to the United States in 1967 and was honorably discharged as a sergeant E-5 in 1968. That year, I joined the Indianapolis Police Department, where I worked for 32 years.
In 2009, I was offered a position as a Law Enforcement Professional (LEP) adviser to the military - a one-year commitment in Iraq and/or Afghanistan with a Marine Corps infantry battalion. The recruiter who offered me the job said if I accepted, I would help save young Marines and soldiers from being killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
I told my wife I wanted to accept the job. I told her I loved America and felt honored to be able to serve our great nation in uniform twice in one lifetime. With reservations and lots of tears, she said she would support my choice.
That year, I said goodbye to her, my kids and grandkids, and flew to Washington, D.C., for training. I was 63 years old.
After training, I received orders to report to Camp Pendleton. When I arrived, I met several other retired law enforcement officers who also had volunteered for the LEP program. Our group underwent more training at Camp Pendleton before our individual assignments were given. I was the only adviser to be assigned to a battalion at Camp Pendleton.
I hadn't kept a journal in Vietnam, and I regretted not having done so. You forget names and details over the years, so this time I made a decision to keep a journal detailing my deployment. I emailed the following entry to my wife (excerpted):
May 10, 2009 | Oceanside, Calif.
The following story I have never told to another living soul before now. I am recounting it now so my family will know my real reason for volunteering for this mission to save young Marines and soldiers from being killed by IEDs. I want you, my family, to know the real reason I volunteered for this mission in case I don't come back.
Let me go back in time. The date was Jan. 13, 1967, and I was stationed in Chu Lai, Vietnam, with the 9th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps. That morning my fire team had been assigned to a patrol area off Route 1, north of the village of Tam Ki. I was ordered to stay in camp by my company commander for some reason that I do not now remember. I do remember I asked him if I could go on this patrol and take care of my other duties when the patrol returned, but he was unyielding and ordered me to stay in camp. I went to where my buddies were loading up the truck so I could tell my guys to watch their backs and to crack a few jokes before they left. I had my camera with me and I shot the below photos as they loaded up.
My buddy Marines loaded extra ammunition on the truck and climbed aboard. I told them I couldn't go with them because the captain was making me stay in camp. In true Marine Corps fashion, they all gave me the "one-fingered salute" as noted in the below photo.
Then they drove out the front gate and toward the area they had been assigned to patrol. I busied myself with my assigned duties for the next couple hours or so until another corporal ran up to me and asked me if my fire team had left the base by truck. I said they had and he spoke words to me that I will never forget.
He said, "Their truck hit a mine buried in the road, Judd. Your whole fire team is dead."
I just stood there. I couldn't and wouldn't believe it. I told the other corporal he must be wrong. It had to be somebody else. The other corporal told me the truck was a 9th Engineer truck because it had our battalion markings on the doors. I remember walking to the motor pool where they brought in damaged vehicles. I sat on a sandbag and waited. It wasn't long before a Marine Corps flatbed trailer was pulled into the motor pool with what was left of another truck resting on the trailer. I walked up to it and saw the 9th Engineer Battalion logo on the door. I still had my camera. I took the below photos.
I sat down again on the sandbag and stared at the damage to the truck and my heart sank. The next thing I knew my captain was standing next to me. He said, "I'm sorry, Cpl. Green. I'm sorry to tell you your entire fire team was killed in that truck."
I don't have words to express how I felt. I guess I would say now that all people have defining moments in their lives that change their core being. You are just never the same as you were and you will never be what you would have otherwise been. That moment in time stood still for me and it seared my soul forever. My buddies - my fellow U.S. Marines - the guys I ate with, slept with and had laughed with, had vanished from my life and the face of this earth forever.
I want you to know who they were because I have never, ever forgotten their names or their faces or their smiles or the sparkle in their eyes:
Pvt. Jeffery Thomas Dines of Waterloo, Iowa, 19 years of age
Lance Cpl. John Patrick Eads of St. Louis, Mo., 21 years of age
Pvt. Aaron Burr Jones, Jr. of Wilmington, N.C., 18 years of age
Lance Cpl. Michael Joseph Kehoe of New York City, 20 years of age
Pfc. Leroy Pierson of Hamilton, Ohio, 20 years of age
And the NCO who took my place that day:
Sgt. Bobby Gene Jackson, Marshall, Mo., 26 years of age
... Once again, I have to go back many years. The time was summer 1966 and the place was Camp Pendleton. A bunch of young Marines were ready to ship out to Vietnam. One evening it was decided we would treat ourselves to one last great meal before we left. We drove down to a fish house overlooking the bay and got a table outside. I can't remember what any of us ate, but I can remember lots of laughs, arms around each other's necks, punches in the shoulders to see who could "really take it like a Marine" and just a great time of fellowship for a bunch of innocent young guys getting ready to go off to war. We all made a promise to each other that night. All of us would return to that place when we came back from Vietnam to have dinner and to celebrate. We couldn't admit it then, even to ourselves, because we were tough Marines, but what we would really be celebrating was our love for each other as brothers in arms.
Tonight, I was alone at a table outside on the deck of a fish house overlooking San Diego Bay. The evening was cool so no one else was eating outside, and I was glad it worked out that way. ... I looked out at the sea we had all sailed across to meet our destinies in 1966. I remembered that celebration some 43 years ago and the promise we had all made. I raised my glass and toasted to those brave young heroes, six pieces of my heart torn out so many years ago. I was the only one to make it back. It was my duty to them to keep the promise.
. ... I have made a silent promise to the young Marines in my battalion to do all I can to help save their lives and to help them return safely to their families. God willing, I will keep that promise, too.
Dec. 20, 2009 | Al Asad, Iraq
May 3, 2010 | Indianapolis
Today the last of the Marines from my battalion returned home after our deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. ... They all came back home safe.
Second promise kept.


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By the year 2071, robot fighting has become the most popular sport in the world, with huge dedicated arenas in future metropolitan centres such as London, Las Vegas and New York. Enter the fray with a mech of your own, sending enemies to the scrapheap and earning cash to finance repairs and make modifications.
There are a dizzying range of new body parts and weapons to spend your moolah on, with more than a million variants possible. Mod your mech into an unstoppable killing machine then take it into the online arena. Up to eight players can fight, with four players battling head-to-head at one time and new players joining the carnage as soon as others are defeated.
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Have you been feeling down? Is the cold weather and season giving you a reason to frown? Have no fear for I am here and we will take that thought and toss it!! Change your perspective. Each day, hour, minute that passes is one closer to Spring, Summer and sunshine. There are a million things to be happy about. Each day is a new day and you have new thoughts and new things come into your life. Be happy about that. I never know from one day to the next what will come up in this online diary. It is exciting for me to write my thoughts down, the memories are what keeps me going. Pictures of the beach and me make me smile too.
change your perspective
Labels: Bondi Beach, boobs, Surf, winter
"don't want all this cold cold shit "
..'sing it now' this just came on my tunes and oh, how I love this song."Throw off your shirt and let's get, Hot hot hot. We've never been, we've never been to the bridge, throw off your skirt and let's begin the rock. I've been to all the places on the block(you can believe it, believe it or not) i like to rock , rock! i like to rock, rock!. Jump right in and in too deep. Throw off your towel and let's get wet wet wet. Bermuda shorts are comin back to town throw off your pants and let's begin the dance. I've been to i've been to all the beaches on the strip and you better believe this shit. I like to dip, dip (x2)
Labels: Bondi Beach, hot chip, music, summer
the batch in new zealand. you don't say?
I'm watching the Bachelor, well listening to it while I do things around the house. Anyhow, one of the destinations for the show that is on next episode is New Zealand. Looks to me like they are in the beautiful and warm North Island where they take a helicopter flight over the massive hill ranges followed by a bungy jump, Possibly in Taupo? I watched Dad bungy jump there when I was 12. I wanted to do it so bad. You had to be 13. I'm still upset about it. Most of my family lives in New Zealand and they are cool. I have Canadian & New Zealand citizenship which is very lucky, thanks to Mum & Dad!! If you are looking for the best trip of your life and a way to show yourself how awake and alive you are, get moving and plan a trip to the Land of Plenty!!
1996 Universal Music NZ Ltd.
Labels: bachelor, Beauty, new zealand, travel
oh god, giving feels so good!!
I was more than glad to help out a friend when he told me about Networking for a Cause in December 2008. Daniel and friends raised over $3,000 in only 30 days to help families in need buy Christmas presents for their family through the Hospice of Peel Charity organization. This event was the first of a tradition that he is starting and I look forward to helping out again next year. Daniel is a very inspiring individual involved in social media & networking. Daniel is sure to shine in 2009!!
Labels: Daniel Patricio, give the gift of giving, Giving, holidays
for pigeons sake!!
I'm more afraid of the pesky little dirt birds than I ever imagined. They are scary with their beady little black eyes and dusty, dirty feathers. OMG. I was feeling triumphant and unstoppable today...now, I feel like I'm about to have a little (or not so little) bird perch on my shoulder or even worse...on my head!!
There are PIGEONS in my office.
We have a big loft and they are flying around.
secret postsecret favorite mine
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[Intro: Hittman]
Question is - can I get some? Know what I'm saying?
Ack-rite, bitch
When I see you in the spot, you just act right, you know what I'm saying?
When I yank you by the fuckin' arm
Don't be looking at a nigga crazy
Just give up the digits and be the fuck out, you know what I'm saying?
Let me break it down for y'all
[Verse 1: Hittman]
It was just one of those days
When I wanted to catch sunrays
It`s fun to gitt blunted on a Sunday afternoon
Nigga Bathed & got groomed, grabbed the gat for misbehavors
And the chocolate flavored boom, lost in hip-hop tunes
Zoom-zoom like the Commodores
Wonder will we have drama or, end up clowning whores
Round up four good-to-go girls
Like them Barbary Coast girls, riding shotgun, baby
I be postin all-world in the ride
Sipping 151 done gave me too much pride to back down
Soon as we get to The Beach I'mma put my fuckin mack down
I'm playin lead, not the background
It's time to put Bronson on the map now
Walk with my hand on my Johnson, crack a smile
Cuties peep my style, if I don't get some ackrite
I'mma have to ack-wild
[Hook: Hittman]
Blunt in my left hand, drink in my right
Strap by my waistline, cause niggas don't fight
Sucker free for life, so you better think twice
(Aight? And a give a nig' some ackrite)
I'm the type of nigga playa-haters don't like
Snatchin' up your honey for some late night hype
And snobby-ass bitches get slapped out of spite
(Aight? So give a nig' some ackrite, right)
Uhhhhh.. drink kicking in, I'm stimulated
For those that don't know big words: I'm FUCKIN FADED
Eighty-three degrees, ease to a shaded spot
Our first spot was cool till some gangsters made it hot
Now we plot and pose
Plus we watchin hoes, with lots of flesh exposed
Getting swarmed by those type of niggas
With no game but brown-nose
So I impose only like pros can
"Yo, is this your man?" "No."
Grab the bitch's hand, "I'm Hittman."
Bling! Gold chain gleam
"You're very eligible for my summer league team."
Maybe too extreme cause the sister got steamed
Then Miss Thing tried to scream on my brethren
I got mad, spit phlegm on the name
Stefan, tattooed on her arm
Ho you ain't the bomb, must be a dyke
Gitcho' lips swoll, or give a nig' some ackrite
[Hook: Hittman]
Blunt in my left hand, drink in my right
Strap by my waistline, cause niggas don't fight
Sucker free for life, so you better think twice
(And a give a nig' some ackrite)
I'm the type of nigga playa-haters don't like
Snatchin' up your honey for some late night hype
And snobby-ass bitches get slapped out of spite
(So give a nig' some ackrite, right)
Fronting on the ack-rite, causing me to act up
Good Samaritans save that ho from getting slapped up
My homies crack up at the scene I made
Yo my actions ain't serene when a nigga's on fade
If it wasn't for the one-time brigade
I woulda sprayed at the hooker tramp
As cops parade I'm afraid it's time to break camp
Make tracks, where else can we go to take hoes
From fake macks? {*CAR HORN*} Aiyyo, chase them girls
In that black Maxima, the passenger, almost fractured her
Neckbone, looking back at us
Plus, they on the dick cause the Caddy's plush
They blush, I bumrush the huss, with the largest crush
Try to swing an ep tonight so I don't have to keep in touch
Keep it on hush without the tippin`
Macking interrupted by some niggas set-tripping
Clip in the strap, I showed these niggas how to act
[Hook: Hittman]
In the vein of "High Powered" from The Chronic, this is a Dr. Dre joint that doesn't feature Dr. Dre. Instead it showcases Hittman, who was to 2001 what Snoop Dogg was to The Chronic – that is, ON EVERY DAMN TRACK
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The Serious Eats Book: Our Favorite Stories From the Road (And At Home)
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Just three weeks left until the Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are hits bookstores (and e-bookstores!) near you. You can get your copy on November 1st, but you can pre-order right now!
Writing this book took an awful lot of traveling, cooking, and—no surprise—eating. Extreme eating. (Yes, more extreme than usual.) Today, we're sharing some of our favorite tales from the road and from the kitchen.
Race Across Wisconsin
This day started with an early morning drive from Chicago to Madison. We met some old friends, who grow the most amazing tomatoes and berries. They then took us to Batch, an unassuming but terrific bakery in a residential neighborhood. From there we went to the Dane County farmer's market, which was teeming with Badger fans on their way to a University of Wisconsin home football game. What we ate: tacky but oh-so-delicious cheesy bread, a walking artisanal cheese course, bread made by a baker who grows and mills his own wheat, and... I can't even remember what else. We had a cheeseburger and fries from Graze that was the equal of any I have had in the past year. (It tasted even better because we ate the burger and fries in a bus stop that we commandeered.)
We were still in Madison, and it was 1:45—and Carey was insistent we go Jake's, a Milwaukee delicatessen she'd heard incredible things about. Problem was? It closed at 3pm. And we were 80 miles away. So Carey grabbed the keys and we tore across Wisconsin, making it to Jake's at 2:57. Worth the trip. Jake's makes a hand-carved corned beef sandwich on rye good enough to have me thinking about moving to Milwaukee. It's in a neighborhood that used to be Jewish and is now predominantly African-American, and place was packed. (It happened to be Yom Kippur, and I was insistent that no self-respecting deli would be serving during the day on Yom Kippur; but now I think I get it.) From there, Solly's, North Point, Leon's, Maria's Pizza... Just another day of eating with the Serious Eats crew. —Ed Levine
Barbecue All-Nighters
Real barbecued ribs take a good four hours to tenderize. Brisket, up to eight. A pulled pork shoulder takes about six. With a single kettle grill to work with and at least a dozen iterations per recipe, this meant a whole lot of time devoted to babysitting meat on a grill to develop recipes for the barbecue chapter. The craziest day of book testing was when Dumpling and I clocked in 36 hours of straight barbecuing on my friend's deck, taking the occasional cat naps on the deck furniture but waking up every hour to log temperatures and baste. Yes, it was worth it in the end. —J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Eating Portland
The research trip I joined was something like boot camp--or hazing--just before I joined the team full time. I was thrilled to bring the Serious Eats crew to my hometown for a little food touring, but didn't plan on how much room we'd need for leftovers in the back of our tiny car. Our first day in Portland, we had a reasonable schedule: just a breakfast platter or four, a doughnut (well, a box of them), followed by one of the most impressive breakfasts I've ever tasted. Then some macarons, and as the rain started to fall, we huddled under the shelter at a food car pod to share a breakfast wrap, a meatball sub, and a chickpea fritter sandwich. After a detour for an afternoon beer break, we weren't exactly hungry by the time we got to Le Pigeon to nab their super-juicy monster burger, but somehow we managed to devour every sloppy mouthful. Of course, we didn't want to slack off, so all this was followed up by a second dinner at another pod of food trucks as the sun went down. Only Erin (the oatmeal maven) was hungry for an oatmeal breakfast the next morning. —Maggie Hoffman
Day Trip To... New Orleans?
"I flew to New Orleans and stayed there for just eight hours to eat a bunch of sandwiches." When I told people this, the response was usually, "What?" and then, "Huh?" But, surprisingly, it worked. Erin, Carey, Ed, and I managed to try po-boys (about 25 of 'em), beignets, fried chicken, and more from ten places in the span of a regular work day thanks to the help of Ed's friend and food expert Pableaux Johnson. It being the first day trip I took for book research, it set a precedent for all subsequent trips, that precedent being, "YOU CAN EAT EVERYTHING IF YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, or, more helpfully, if you make a good itinerary and have a knowledgable chauffeur." —Robyn Lee
12 Hours, 22 Eateries
It had already been a hectic week.
Y'know, the kind when workdays involve a 4am wake-up call in New York, two plane flights to get to Denver, renting a car, eating at four spots in Boulder and half a dozen in Denver before driving an hour and a half to Sedalia, CO, for a single burger, and then breaking all kinds of laws speeding back to the airport to hop one last plane and land in San Francisco at midnight local time.
It was a long day.
But that was nothing compared to two days later. The book was due in a week. And we hadn't made it to Utah. And I needed to correct that in as little time as possible. I flew to Salt Lake Sunday night and woke up at the crack of dawn on Monday to canvas the city with former intern Alison Herzog. Thanks to her local knowledge and champion stomach, we hit 22 places that day. Pretty sure it's an all-time Serious Eats record.
French pastries followed by more pastries, and more pastries, and breakfast, and breakfasts #2 and #3, and doughnuts. Sandwiches and Belgian fries and sandwiches... and sandwiches. Gelato, ice cream, pizza, sandwiches, ice cream, garlic burgers, pastrami burgers, garlic burgers... The details escape me a year later. I do remember getting a pastrami burger around "dinnertime" and staring it down for a good few minutes before I managed to take a bite.
My Foursquare was linked to my Twitter, which was probably a bad idea. I had ten people unfollow me that day.
Alison rushed me to SLC by 11pm to hop a 3-hour red-eye (I didn't know red-eyes could be so short) back to JFK, where I was straight back to the office. Needless to say, I wasn't hungry for breakfast. —Carey Jones
Beef on Weck Journey
Have you ever traveled 214 miles for a sandwich? Technically it was three sandwiches and some wings. We were already in Pittsburgh eating pancakes (and sandwiches and hot dogs, and there were those two pizzas), so what was another 214 miles to Buffalo?
This is the kind of rationale that shaped most book-research journeys. "Well, if we're already in X, what's another Y-hundred miles to Z?" It's a grand ol' country we live in and in order to cover as many pockets of it as possible, we sucked it up, rented cars and/or convinced friends to play hooky from work and drive us, and wound up with many doggie bags and boxes in the process.
Pittsburgh's itinerary was ambitious, as they all were: pancakes from Pamela's, french-fry-topped sandwiches from Primanti's, hot dogs from the Original Hot Dog Shop, a colossal fried fish sandwich from Wholey's, mung bean pancakes from the vendor outside, frozen custard from Glen's, pizza from Il Pizzaiolo, Mineo's and Vincent's Pizza Park. And that was just one day. And we were able to squeeze in a Penguins game that night!
Then off Carey and I drove to Buffalo... in a car quite fragrant of leftover pizza. (Ed had requested we save the extra bites.. it'd only be 36 hours before they reached the office). We looked out the window at a lot of Western Pennsylvania (a lot), waved to Erie, listened to everything from Katy Perry to Springsteen on the radio (heard some songs twice, as you do over 214 miles), and finally made it to our first Beef on Weck at Schwabl's. Then three more.
Thankfully, some of them were really good. Book-worthy good. Most memorable was the carved-to-order roast beef on a salt-encrusted kummelweck bun with nose-twitchy horseradish and all that savory beefy jus at Charley the Butcher. It's the sandwich you finish even after you're three sandwiches deep. (And there were those two Buffalo wing stops, not to mention the airport's mini Anchor Bar).
Going through security that afternoon at Buffalo Niagara Airport was fun. In addition to our normal person carry-on we had a plastic bag of wings, sauce on the side, leftover sandwich quarters, and remember that Pittsburgh pizza? The next morning at the office, Ed was ready for his breakfast. —Erin Zimmer
Read all about the tasty results of our travels (and cooking experiments) in Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are!
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Starting the semester and naming names
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How to begin? According to scary statistics that are always quoted by my university's Centre for Teaching, students are frighteningly quick to make up their minds about a course --and make their first impressions of the first quarter-hour of the first class bear heavy evidentiary weight. That is not the only reason to steer clear of the defeatism that Arthur Lovejoy models in one passage in his "The Discriminations of Romanticism" essay (1924): "When a man [sic!] is asked, as I have had the honor of being asked, to discuss Romanticism, it is impossible to know what ideas or tendencies, he is to talk about, when they are supposed to have flourished, or in whom they are supposed to be chiefly exemplified." Competing definitions of the "Romantic" are arcane material with which to begin the academic year, but doing a Lovejoy, so to speak, and throwing up our hands in despair isn't an attractive option either. So we have to say *something* about why (as in my case this past week) the course we are embarking on is entitled, e.g. "Romantic Poetry and Prose."
It is embarrassing to admit this--but it took me years of teaching before I began remembering in my inaugural comments to take into account what it is that "romantic" (in the lowercase) connotes in everyday contexts. It turns out, I've learned, that it's generally worth saying outright in the opening class that, whereas Romantic poetry and prose might include love poetry and love stories (though it doesn't very often), it is not limited to love poetry and love stories. It's also worth acknowledging how easy it is for this nomenclature for a literary period and/or movement to mislead (if not the students who've actually signed up for that class--no one in that group has ever actually admitted to me to ever having been misled-- then the "friends" or the "parents" who have taken an interest in their course selections). Even the Wikipedia entry on Romanticism doesn't engage the relation between what is upper-case Romantic and what is lower-case romantic! Still, I think that acknowledgment can provide a really great starting off point for a course.
One way to begin might be with this wonderfully suggestive comment by Elizabeth Fay, introducing an edition of Romantic Circles: "Romantic poets, at least those of the canon, do not make love to women in their passionate pleas, but instead make love to nature and natural objects." (Fay was introducing here a collection of essays that, as subsequent events showed, managed to put passion back on the scholarly agenda of Romanticists.) I've been taking a different tack lately and have often begun my Romantics courses by having the students think with me about how the Victorians' retroactive identification of an earlier period as "Romantic" built upon the meanings that had previously been attached to "romance" in that prior era of romance revival. Keats's apostrophizing of romance as "Queen of far away" in the sonnet on reading King Lear speaks volumes as well as speaking for and to volumes--and I've often made this little phrase serve as a kind of notional epigraph for the semester. Or there's this fabulous moment from Wordsworth's Prelude that I'm gearing up to discuss on Wednesday--introduced onto the syllabus as a bit of necessary leavening of our discussion of Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, and the Revolution Controversy:
O times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Of custom, law, and statute took at once
The attraction of a Country in Romance
This is a long way of directing the scary question with which I began at YOU. How do other teachers of the romantic-period survey BEGIN?


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When the Nintendo 3DS is looking for an AR Card to start a game, it isn't searching for or recognizing its specific image-it's recognizing a color, and then spawning whatever comes next off of that. To prove this, AR enthusiast Super Jezmerelda created cards with the question-box design cut out, then framed certain colors within that window.
It doesn't have to be an exact or even solid match. The key seems to be the black frame to provide a high contrast for the camera as it goes looking for the color. So, presto, a canopy of green from surrounding trees brings out Link. Red and blue from a blanket gave rise to Mario. And a stack of greyish-pink bricks summoned Kirby. It doesn't have to be a perfect color match, either. Greenish-yellow was enough to start the targets/dragon game. You can see all these tricks and more at the link.
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Susan Ungaro, President of the James Beard Foundation, raised a glass to toast the guests of honor at 2012 Chefs & Champagne festivities at Wolffer Estate Vineyards honoring the great stars of the culinary world in its 20th year. On this especially exciting day, we celebrated the TV star and host of "Chopped:" Ted Allen, a great and generous friend of the Foundation.
Chefs & Champagne, in Susan's words, "is a party with a purpose." The host of participants helped raise funds for the mission to nurture and preserve America's diverse culinary heritage and to help educate our future chefs and winemakers. Since 1991, the Foundation has awarded over $4 million in financial aid. This year's scholarship recipient for the Christian Wolffer Award went to Eliza Martin of New York who will be attending the Institute of Culinary Education. Last year's scholarship went to Mercedes Wilby who graduated with distinction from the French Culinary Institute Pastry Arts program. Another past Wolffer recipient and local Sagaponack student, Christina Cassel graduated from Johnson and Wales.
The talented chefs, from both New York and the North and South Forks, created a sensation with their beguiling tastes for the happy crowd. BLT Prime offered rare steak slices with roasted sweet pepper, and Mads Refslund showcased eggs whipped with cauliflower foam and Parmesan and served in an eggshell – fascinating. Fresno's local striped bass with peach puree and sriracha was a sweet/hot balanced delight. Eleven Madison Park served up a strawberry gazpacho with guanciale for a twist on the classic, The minimalist lobster roll from the Lobster Roll was exactly that, 100% lobster on a buttery toasted roll, bit of mayo and lemon butter. My sweet tooth was more than satisfied with The Modern's caramel milk chocolate trifle with mango passion jelly and caramel tuile.
The support of several vineyards, including Wolffer Estate, and the Foundation's exclusive sponsor Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte made the event taste and feel like a real celebration, which it was.
Serves 8
8 ripe tomatoes
2 peeled, seeded and sliced hot house cucumbers
3 cups cubed seedless watermelon
1 Spanish onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, trimmed, seeded and diced
3 cups cubed country bread, crusts removed, soaked in 2 cups tomato juice
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 tablespoons sherry vinegar
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Crab Salad garnish
1/2 pound crabmeat
1/2 cup mayonnaise
4 shallots, finely diced
4 tablespoons chopped parsley
Zest of 1 lemon
1. Sliced tomatoes in half and using a perforated hotel pan smoke the tomatoes with apple wood chips for 10 minutes. (Or place on a rack in a roasting pan with chips and an inch of water in base of pan. Cover with foil and smoke over medium heat for 15 minutes.). Transfer tomatoes to a blender or processor and add remaining ingredients. Pass through a fine sieve and season to taste. Refrigerate overnight and serve chilled with crab garnish, about 1 tablespoon per serving.
2. Combine ingredients for crab garnish in a mixing bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
The Todd English Blue Point Oyster is harvested from the pristine waters of Todd's private oyster farm in Westport, Connecticut.
Makes 8 individual appetizer servings
4 Todd English Blue Point Oysters
3 Tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon minced garlic
4 tablespoons chopped parsley
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons toasted bread crumbs
1. Have the fishmonger open the oysters and discard top half of the shell. Have the oysters placed in a container with the oyster juice. Have shells wrapped separately. Refrigerate and prepare within one day.
2. In a small bowl, mix butter, garlic and parsley. Pack mixture on top of the oysters.
3. Place oysters on grill (or in broiler). When butter is melted and oyster is slightly cooked (about 3-4 minutes) remove from heat. Top with bread crumbs, cheese and serve.
From Executive Chef/owner Richard Sandoval's Raymi's Peruvian Kitchen.
Leche de Tigre (tigers milk)
2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic
1 tablespoon finely chopped white onion
1 tablespoon diced celery
Thin slice ginger
3/4 cup fresh lime juice
Pinch habanero pepper
2 tablespoons white fish scraps from bass trimmings
1/3 cup ice
3/4 cup fish stock
Salt to taste
Combine all of the ingredients for the tigers milk and pulse mixture in a blender, then strain through a fine strainer. Reserve the liquid and refrigerate.
For the ceviche
1 medium sweet potato
1 small red onion, thinly shaved
1 teaspoon diced habanero
1 teaspoon cilantro leaves
1/2 pound fresh local striped bass, trimmed
1/2 cup tigre de leche
1. Combine the ingredients for the leche de tigre and pulse mixture in a blender.
Strain into a bowl through a fine strainer. Reserve liquid and refrigerate.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F. Bake sweet potato on a bed of salt about 1 hour until
tender. Cool, peel and cut into cubes and reserve for garnish.
3. Shock red onion in ice water for 30 seconds, drain well. Split habanero in half
and remove seeds and veins, then cut into fine dice. Be sure to use gloves when handling habanero.
4. When all the ingredients are prepped place them in individual small containers for do-ahead preparation and refrigerate until ready to use.
5. To prepare the ceviche, cut the fish into 1/2-inch cubes and refrigerate in a stainless steel bowl set over ice. Lightly season the fish with salt and a squeeze of fresh lime. The fish must be very cold when ready to serve. Add habanero, cilantro and shaved red onions. Toss to mix well, then add enough leche de tigre to coat, and mix again. Adjust seasoning with salt. Refrigerate a serving bowl and put the ceviche in along with the juices. Garnish with cubed sweet potatoes.
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Arcata Marsh overview
The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant is responsible for the treatment of the sewage for the city of Arcata. The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary is a part of the system that cleans our waste in preparation to be released back into the water cycle. The system as a whole is the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant personnel maintain 11 wastewater pump stations as well as all of the equipment, motors, and pumps associated with the plant. They also are responsible for the operation and maintenance, of the 55 acres of oxidation ponds and 154 acres of treatment and enhancement marshes. The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary is a constructed wetland and is part of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant. This use of constructed wetlands is what separates the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant from other Wastewater Treatment Plants. The first treatment plant was built in 1946 and discharged unchlorinated primary treated wastewater into the bay.
Location[edit | edit source]
The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, which is an integral part of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant is located in Arcata, CaliforniaW. Arcata is a town of roughly 17,300[1]people and is located on the northern part of Humboldt Bay. Arcata is the home of Humboldt State University and is in the heart of the Redwoods of Humboldt County.
Purpose[edit | edit source]
The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant is responsible for the treatment of the sewage for the city of Arcata. The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary is a part of the system that cleans our waste in preparation to be released back into the water cycle. The system as a whole is the wastewater treatment plant (WWTPW). The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant personnel maintain 11 wastewater pump stations as well as all of the equipment, motors, and pumps associated with the plant. They also are responsible for the operation and maintenance, of the 55 acres of oxidation ponds and 154 acres of treatment and enhancement marshes.[2]
The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary is a constructed wetland and is part of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant. This use of constructed wetlands is what separates the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant from other Wastewater Treatment Plants. The first treatment plant was built in 1946 and discharged unchlorinated primary treated wastewater into the bay.[3]Since then, the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant has undergone expansions and improvements due to governmental mandates and population growth.
Components[edit | edit source]
The functions of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant can be split into three major categories:
- Primary Treatment
- Primary treatment consists of the pre-filtering methods in the headworks. Large and settable debris are removed from the wastewater.
- Bar screens, grit removal, and sedimentation are physical processes used to remove solids.
- Secondary Treatment
- Secondary wastewater treatment uses biological processes to break down the organic matter in the wastewater.
- Oxidation ponds and treatment wetlands are utilized to encourage bacterial activity.
- Tertiary Treatment
- In Tertiary wastewater treatment, the wastewater is filtered for particulate matter, nutrients are removed, and the wastewater is disinfected.
- The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant utilizes enhancement marshes and chlorination.
Primary Treatment[edit | edit source]
Headworks[edit | edit source]
Raw sewage from the city enters the plant at this point. Two Archimedes' screwW pumps lift the sewage fifteen feet from the influent lines to the headworks where processing begins. From the screw pumps the raw wastewater is passed through bar screens which eliminate large debris to keep the system running smoothly. After the bar screens the wastewater is passed through a Parshall flume for the purpose of measuring inflow. Finally the wastewater is run through grit separators before entering the clarifiers. The grit separators remove particles such as sand, pebbles, and small pieces of glass.
Clarifier[edit | edit source]
The clarifier is the component that is responsible for settling out any suspended material that remains after the headworks. Heavier solids settle to the bottom of the tank and are removed. These settled solids are pumped to the digesters. Solids that cannot be settled are removed by the skimmer and deposited into a dumpster. The skimmer typically removes floating solids and oils. The wastewater that passes through the clarifier is pumped into the oxidation ponds.
Digesters[edit | edit source]
The digesters (Figure 4.) utilize anaerobic bacteriaW to break down the solid waste from the clarifiers. Anaerobic digestion not only breaks down the sewage sludge most effectively, it also reduces the issue of odor. The anaerobic bacteria also produce methane which is used to heat the primary digestor.[4]Two digesters are utilized at the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant before the sludge is pumped into the drying beds. Figure 4 shows the primary heated digester on the upper left, and the smaller secondary unheated digester on the bottom right.
Drying Beds[edit | edit source]
Sludge processed in the digesters is pumped into one of two covered drying beds (Figure 5.) where it sits for up to six months. The drying beds are rectangular and about four feet deep at the center. One roof covers both drying beds. The floors are sloped down toward the center of each bed to allow water to collect. There is one drain at the center of the bed to assist in dewatering. The purpose of drying the sludge is to make it easier to transport as well as allowing for better composting. The sludge often looks solid due to its stagnant state, however its ratio of solid to liquid varies over the year.
Compost[edit | edit source]
When the sludge is completely dried, it is removed from the drying beds and transported to the compost area. The dried sludge is mixed with other organic matter and is left in long piles to continue its decomposition. A vertical auger mixer is used to aerate and mix the compost. Temperatures inside the pile can reach 60 Celsius (140 Fahrenheit).[5]After the composting process is complete, the composted waste is considered a Class A- Exceptional Quality biosolid[6] and is used in city parks as fertilizer.
Secondary Treatment[edit | edit source]
Oxidation Ponds[edit | edit source]
After the clarifiers separate the sludge from the wastewater, the wastewater is pumped to the first in a series of oxidation ponds. These ponds are responsible for further settlement of solids as well as the reduction of Biological Oxygen Demand (BODW). The ponds cover about 55 acres and are about five feet deep. Having this large surface area allows for algal growth that introduces oxygen into the water. This oxygen boost allows aerobic bacteriaW at the surface to break down the organic matter in the wastewater. Toward the bottom of the ponds where there is less oxygen, anaerobic bacteria break down the settled material in a similar fashion to the digesters. The flora in the oxidation ponds helps to extract nitrogen and phosphorus.
Treatment Wetlands[edit | edit source]
The treatment wetlands of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant are responsible for filtering out suspended solids, nutrients, organic matter, and metals. This is done using wetlands that cover approximately 7.5 acres and average 2 feet in depth.[7]These wetlands are completely covered in aquatic plants that both slow the flow of the water as well as assist in the absorption of the nutrients, metals, and organic compounds in the water.
Tertiary Treatment[edit | edit source]
enhancement ponds[edit | edit source]
The enhancement marshes of the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant are responsible for removing some of the pollutants that remain from the other secondary treatment systems. Biological processes remove some levels of nitrogen, phosphorous, and heavy metals. By using enhancement marshes, the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant is able to forgo the use of machines and chemicals that would normally have to be used to achieve the same result.
Pipes[edit | edit source]
Two pipes carry water to and from the enhancement marshes. The pipe attached to the bottom side of the footbridge (Figure 12.) carries water to the enhancement marshes. The lower one, seen south of the bridge, carries water from the enhancement marshes to the chlorination facility. In Figure 12, the return pipe can be seen as a lighter line to the bottom left of the bridge. During a low tide the pipes can be seen under the bridge.
Disinfection[edit | edit source]
Disinfection[edit | edit source]
The disinfection process is responsible for killing off any bacteria from the treated sewage before it is discharged into Humboldt Bay.The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant uses chlorineW to disinfect the treated water. Precautions must be made to ensure that the chlorine infused to the water does not create any by-product chemicals that would cause harm in the ecosystem after being discharged. Any chlorine remaining in the effluent wastewater after 60 minutes is removed using sulfur dioxideW.[8]Any wastewater that is run through the treatment marshes must be disinfected before it can be discharged.
Another common process is UV disinfection which kills bacteria using ultraviolet lightW. The Arcata Wastewater Treatment Plant is in the process of conducting a study to determine if UV filtration is appropriate for their system.
Discharge[edit | edit source]
After Chlorination, treated wastewater is discharged into Humboldt BayW. Discharged water must have concentrations lower than 30 mg/L for Biological Oxygen Demand (BODW) and 30 mg/L for Total Suspended Solids (TSSW) to comply with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDESW) standards. It is important for these regulations to be met for this location as this water flows through the bay. On the journey through the bay this water will pass oyster farms and the Humboldt Bay Marina.
During a low tide the pipe that discharges the treated water can be seen emptying into the slough.
Diagram of flow[edit | edit source]
This diagram illustrates the flow that wastewater makes through the Arcata marsh system.
Map[edit | edit source]
<display_points type="hybrid" center="40.853959,-124.090319" zoom="15" width="600" height="600"> 40.85602, -124.090249|Primary anerobic digestor 40.855679, -124.089793|Sludge drying beds 40.855878, -124.090598|Archimedes screw pumps|Raw sewage enters the treatment plant at this point. 40.855768, -124.090624|Headworks|Primary filtration 40.85548, -124.090415|Clarification 40.851581, -124.08519|Arcata Salt Marsh|In 1981, these marshes were re-opened to tidal action. These marshes are characteristic of the salt water habitat around Humboldt Bay. 40.852879, -124.091424|Wastewater Aquaculture Project|Fish hatchery and ponds where salmon, trout, and other fish are raised in and return to a mixture of wastewater and sea water. 40.850891, -124.089117|Oxidation Ponds|These 49 acres of ponds, built in the late 1950's, treat Arcata's wastewater with time, water, plants, bacteria, and fungi to secondary standards. 40.853179, -124.089503|Treatment Marshes|These three, two-acre marshes were completed between 1987-1990 40.855127, -124.09519|Franklin Klopp Lake|This brackish lake is now popular for shorebird observation and sports fishing. Originally it was a leachate (drainage) basin for the landfill. 40.858568, -124.093323|George Allen Marsh|Completed in 1981, this marsh was built on an abandoned log deck. 40.860077, -124.095318|Robert Gearheart Marsh|Completed in 1981, this marsh was pasture land. 40.858113, -124.090544|Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center|600 S G St Arcata, CA 95521 - (707) 826-2359 40.858941, -124.089847|Parking 40.85589, -124.098258|Parking and Boat Ramp 40.857448, -124.097292|Dan Hauser Marsh|This is the final marsh irrigated with treated wastewater. From here the water is returned to the treatment plant. 40.856279, -124.097872|Final point of wastewater marshes, notice the high concentration of cattail and bulrush. 40.857058, -124.094589|Mount Trashmore|This grassy hill is a sealed sanitary landfill (garbage dump) that operated during the 1960's and 1970's. 40.862381, -124.090834|Butcher's Slough (lower end of Jolly Giant Creek)|This area was restored in 1985-6. The pilings once supported a plywood mill. 40.854904, -124.09056|Discharge to the bay|At low tides, the 24" bay discharge pipe is visible in the inlet west of the chlorination facility. 40.852709, -124.093151|Humboldt Bay|Produces more than half of the oysters grown in California and is home to a variety of other aquatic plants and animals. 40.854908, -124.090351|Chlorinating Facility|Chlorination and dechlorination (with sulfur dioxide) before discharge to public access and again to Humboldt Bay. 40.85395, -124.088184|Marsh Pilot Project|These ten 20' x 200' marshes were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of wetlands for treating wastewater. 40.854466, -124.088554|Composting </display_points>
See also[edit | edit source]
- Category:Arcata Marsh
- Arcata marsh History of the Land
- Arcata marsh influent
- Arcata marsh headworks
- Clarifier
- Arcata marsh digester
- Arcata marsh compost
- Arcata Treatment Wetlands
- Wastewater Secondary treatment
- Arcata Marsh Saltwater Marshes
- Arcata Marsh tertiary treatment
- Chlorination
- Wastewater treatment effluent
External links[edit | edit source]
- Humboldt State University - Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary
- City of Arcata - Arcata Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary
- Tour of a Washington state sewage plant written by an employee
- TIME Magazine - Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/FS_DATA/STAT-ABS/documents/B4.xls
- ↑ http://www.arcatacityhall.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=53#wastewater
- ↑ Arcata Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary - Map and Guide, April 1994
- ↑ http://www.monsal.com/pages.asp?ContentID=1
- ↑ http://www.transformcompost.com/Enviro-Processor.htm
- ↑ http://www.epa.gov/owm/mtb/biosolids/genqa.htm
- ↑ http://www.humboldt.edu/~ere_dept/marsh/flow3b.html
- ↑ A Natural System for Wastewater Reclamation and Resource Enhancement, Arcata, CA


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Equity futures are up strongly this morning:
The dollar is down sharply for obvious reasons plus Australlia RAISED interest rates by .25%. Bonds are down, oil is up, and gold is up sharply, reaching $1,038 an ounce.
Indeed, McHugh believes that we have begun the final leg up, wave 5 up (actually labeled 'E' because it's against the primary direction - down) of c up of B up. Yes, he had earlier thought that we had begun this wave, but now concludes that was a part of wave 4…
Yesterday we learned that the White House is going to keep flooding stimulus into the system via lengthening unemployment benefits, lengthening first time homebuyer credits, transportation spending, etc., BUT, not to worry because it doesn't really amount to a "second stimulus." Ha, ha, you have to love the jokers (spin masters) who are both high on drugs while at the same time pushing drugs onto American addicts. The end result of this system (withdrawal) will be very painful indeed.
Bloomberg is talking up third quarter profits, saying that JPM and Goldman profits are going to be breathing life back into the system! What a joke! Two of the world's most leveraged and toxic filled institutions in the history of the planet, who are now marking their "assets" to fantasy get to lead us – again – into recovery? RIIIIGHT… in the same exact manner that Enron did, only this time the government and media are complicit.
And then there's this… it is the exact thing that Chalmers Johnson warned about, and yet it may be even more sinister in where it is all leading. I have been saying for quite some time that our monetary system is going to change, we are seeing the throws of that now:
Dollar Falls on Report Gulf States May Stop Using Greenback
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell the most in two weeks against the euro after the Independent newspaper said Arab states may switch to a basket of assets including the euro, yen and gold for oil trading.
The dollar declined against 15 of its 16 most-traded counterparts as Asian stocks rallied and the Independent reported Persian Gulf states along with Japan and China are discussing dropping the greenback for oil trades, citing unnamed sources. The yen rose after Japan's finance minister said he told Group of Seven leaders that weak-currency policies were undesirable. Australia's dollar surged after the nation's central bank unexpectedly raised benchmark interest rates.
"Eventually there will be a move to non-dollar commodity contracts, and it may be the next big risk for the dollar," said Ben Simpfendorfer, chief China economist for Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in Hong Kong. "At the same time, I don't want to overplay the importance of the story. There's no credible sources there."
The dollar dropped 0.6 percent to $1.4738 per euro at 7:28 a.m. in London, the biggest decline since Sept. 22, from $1.4648 in New York yesterday. The U.S. currency also fell 0.6 percent to 89.01 yen, the most since Sept. 25, from 89.53 yen. The 16- nation euro was little changed at 131.06 yen.
Oil-producing nations are seeking to move to a basket of assets, including the yen, yuan, euro and gold to settle transactions, the U.K.-based Independent said, citing Middle Eastern and Chinese banking officials it didn't name.
'Undermining the Dollar'
Meetings to discuss the transition have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors from Russia, China, Japan and Brazil, the newspaper reported.
"The very fact that such an idea is being entertained is undermining the dollar," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist at SJS Markets Ltd. in Hong Kong.
Denominating in a basket of currencies would be a "recipe for confusion" among the oil-producing Gulf Cooperation Council and its customers, said John Vautrain, senior vice president at oil industry consultants Purvin & Gertz Inc. in Singapore.
"If the GCC did, that would just be very messy," Vautrain said. "If you do something that makes your buyers unhappy they will reduce your price. And that's not in anybody's interest in the GCC."
The greenback pared losses after Saudi Central Bank Governor Muhammad al-Jasser said his nation hasn't held talks with other oil producers and consumers on shifting away from the dollar.
Rising Stocks
The euro climbed as Asian stocks rose and before a report forecast to show German factory orders advanced for a sixth month in August. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index of regional shares gained 1.2 percent, weakening demand for safe-haven currencies.
"Evidence suggests the global economy is recovering," said Greg Gibbs, a Sydney-based currency strategist with Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. "Certainly, strong equities enforce that trend."
The yen gained against the dollar after Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said he told officials from the Group of Seven nations meeting in Istanbul last weekend that governments shouldn't pursue policies that seek to devalue their currencies.
"I made the point that it's undesirable for individual nations to take a weak-currency policy," Fujii said at a news conference in Tokyo today. "Currency devaluation policies back in the 1930s had an adverse impact on the global economy and politics."
Yen Concerns
Fujii said after taking office last month he didn't support a weak currency. Last weekend in Istanbul, he said that Japan would "take action" if currencies show excessive moves. The yen has gained 14 percent against the dollar in the past year, hurting earnings for export-dependent Japanese companies.
"The market is interpreting his latest comments as signs the government will let the yen keep rising," said Yoh Nihei, trading group manager at Tokai Tokyo Securities Co. in Tokyo. "The yen is benefiting from that."
Sony Corp. Vice Chairman Ryoji Chubachi said the rising yen may undermine the company's ability to compete against overseas electronics makers as it faces falling television prices and a weak U.S. economy.
"We don't have a moment to breathe," Chubachi said in an interview today at the CEATEC trade fair in Chiba, near Tokyo. "It is a tough environment."
The Australian dollar jumped 1.1 percent to 88.71 U.S. cents after the country's central bank became the first among the Group of 20 nation's to raise benchmark interest rates since the start of the financial crisis…
The market may like a weak dollar now, but the hangover will be tremendous. This is exactly what Chalmers was warning about. All the debt eventually catches up as all debt gets repaid, with interest, in one way or the other! The dollar falling is one of the other ways, and it is going to be much, much more costly!
Light economic releases today, tons more debt auctions, however. Keep at it Geithner and Bernanke, we know exactly where it's leading…
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Cutler shakes off injury, Bears beat Lions 13-7
Jay Cutler's been seeing this all season, a rerun on an endless loop, and he's not ready to change the channel.
Not when the defense is performing like this. And not when the wins keep piling up.
''Unbelievable,'' Cutler said.
Actually, it's the norm this season.
Cutler returned after bruising his ribs, and Brian Urlacher made a key fumble recovery to help the Chicago Bears beat the Detroit Lions 13-7 Monday night for their fourth straight win.
''Those guys are playing so well, flying to the ball, stopping the run,'' Cutler said. ''They're tough against the pass, they're tough down at the goal line. You can't say enough about the way they're coming together.''
It was certainly not an easy night for the NFC North leaders, particularly their quarterback, but they came away with the win after a week off and possibly buried Detroit (2-4) in the process despite getting a major scare along the way.
That happened in the second quarter when Cutler was sacked by Ndamukong Suh and wound up going to the locker room to have his ribs examined.
Cutler came back to start the second half and was 16 of 31 with 150 yards and a touchdown in the game, and although he said he was feeling ''all right'' afterward, he acknowledged he wasn't at full strength during the game.
''But we had to fight through it,'' he added.
They did just that, and with the defense locking down the Lions, the Bears (5-1) prevailed. It was a huge blow for last-place Detroit, a team many expected to contend for the division championship after making the playoffs last year for the first time in more than a decade.
''It's tough,'' Calvin Johnson said. ''We had a great week of practice last week and it just didn't translate. It just didn't translate to the field today.''
Even when the Lions had chances, they blew them, turning the ball over four times. The biggest came early in the third quarter, when Joique Bell fumbled at the goal line with the Bears leading 13-0.
Urlacher recovered and Chicago hung on from there, sending Detroit to its fourth loss in five games.
Brandon Marshall caught six passes for 81 yards and scored a touchdown on Chicago's first possession. Matt Forte ran for 96 yards, and with the defense doing its part again, Chicago never really was threatened in this one.
It was a rough night for the Lions, with Matthew Stafford going 28 of 46 for 261 yards after leading the late charge in last week's win over Philadelphia. Johnson had trouble shaking the Bears' Charles Tillman and finished with three catches for 34 yards. He dropped a deep pass over the middle on the game's first possession even though he was wide open.
''Calvin is one of the best players in the league,'' Bears coach Lovie Smith said. ''It's hard for Detroit to win games without him being productive. That's why you need a guy like Charles Tillman that can match up on him. It made them go look at other ways to get the ball down field. That's going to lead up to wins most of the time, when we can get that kind of effort out of Charles.''
The Lions lost receiver Nate Burleson for the remainder of the season to a broken right leg in the third quarter on a hit by Tim Jennings after a catch, another blow for a team that's reeling again after pulling out a dramatic win.
''There is a lot of season left,'' Stafford said. ''We got a chance to play back home next week and play a tough Seattle team. It's a short week for us but honestly I'm glad it's a short week. I don't want to be sitting around thinking about this one too much longer.''
There weren't many scares for the Bears, with one big exception. They were leading 10-0 in the second quarter and had just taken over at their 26 when Cutler, who had his helmet ripped off on a hit by Suh after a run last year at Soldier Field, got driven to the turf by him on an 8-yard sack. He came up kneeling and holding his head as trainers tended to him, then ran to the sideline.
Jason Campbell came in for one play, but Cutler returned right after that and threw an incomplete pass on third down before Chicago punted. But after Julius Peppers recovered a fumble by Mikel Leshoure to stop a Lions threat, Campbell was behind center while Cutler was having his ribs examined.
Marshall apparently took issue with the hit even though Smith and Cutler did not, posting on Twitter, ''A Suh. What u did to Jay wasn't cool. Great players don't have to do that.''
Cutler, like Smith, thought it was clean. When he trotted onto the field to start the second half, some fans cheered.
They were really roaring moments later when Stefan Logan fumbled trying to catch Adam Podlesh's punt. Zack Bowman recovered it for Chicago at the 27, and that led to a 21-yard field goal by Robbie Gould to make it 13-0.
The Lions lost Burleson after a 16-yard catch near midfield on the next possession but drove all the way to the 1 before Bell turned it over, keeping the shutout going. D.J. Moore extended it when he picked off Stafford near the goal line in the closing minutes. The Lions spoiled the shutout when Stafford connected with Ryan Broyles on a 12-yarder with 30 seconds left, but it was another big game from a defense that's been dominating all season.
Notes: The Bears were in line for their first shutout since they beat Miami 16-0 on Nov. 18, 2010, until Broyles' TD. ... The Lions signed CB Justin Miller and released LB Doug Hogue before the game. ... Detroit actually had more yards than Chicago - 340 to 296.
Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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Anatomy of a Smorgasburg Pop Up: A New York State of Ramen
Editor's note: What's it like to be a vendor at Brooklyn's popular—and competitive—outdoor market Smorgasburg? Here's Sun Noodle's Ramen Lab.
Don't let the frenzy created by Keizo Shimamoto's ramen burger distract you from Sun Noodle Lab's core mission of spreading the gospel of ramen at Smorgasburg. The stand, as we explored in a previous column, functions as an incubator for aspiring ramen-yas looking to open up their own shop. But in their push to introduce Americans to a greater variety of ramen styles, they're exploring what regional ramen identity means here in New York, and finding the place where Japanese noodles and mozzarella whey converge. (See our tour of their LA facility here.)
In our conversations, Noodle Lab's Kenshiro Uki stressed the importance of local ingredients to ramen, and how integral they proved to popularizing the comfort food in Japan. Like with any other food, what is popular in one neck of the nation may be deemed inauthentic in another. So while New Yorkers are now accustomed to southern Japan's tonkatsu, or pork broth, they're less familiar with the use of cheese, often blended with miso, or shaved Parmigiano as a topping in Hokkaido. Down south, Kenshiro says, the use of cheese "is not really accepted."
Embracing the regionalism of ramen, though, means adopting it to the local culture.
Earlier this summer, Noodle Lab introduced a cold mazeman made with whey from Hoboken pizza parlor Dozzino Pizza that was, in a nod back to Japan, blended with miso. This dish, more than any other, gets to the essence of what Kenshiro and chef Makomora are accomplishing. It's throwing off the shackles of authenticity, and not mimicking the food as it is produced in the homeland, while staying true to ramen's origins. It's creating a ramen for New York, informed by Japan but tied up in the history and character of our city by way of our most iconic food: pizza.
Kenshiro credited Smorgasburg with allowing his team to experiment with these kinds of dishes, offering an environment where they can try new things and play with ingredients without having to worry too much about success or failure. That's not to say there aren't hurdles, namely that, for many Americans, their first introduction to ramen came by way of those .25 cent instant sodium bombs.
Over the phone, we talked about how the dishes came about.
"We did a pop-up in Hoboken, where we were supposed to use local ingredients, support the farmers and suppliers. The cheese water only happened because this local pizza parlor makes their own cheese, and they have this leftover whey that they were always throwing away," Kenshiro explained. "We thought the whey would add an interesting flavor to the dish, so we asked them to bring it over and blended it with miso, because in northern Japan cheese and miso are thought to go together. We were playing around with that, and it just so happened to be really good when chilled."
"It's a bit different than what you'd see in Hokkaido," Kenshiro continued, "where they'd put Parmigiano on top of their ramen, but the concept is the same. We're using local ingredients to make a great bowl of ramen."
A ramen fit for New York.
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Betancourt's son alerts staff of closer's appendicitis
DENVER -- Almost every day is "Bring Your Child to Work Day" for Rockies closer Rafael Betancourt. And it was good that his son, Rafael, was in the Coors Field clubhouse Friday afternoon.
Betancourt was sick Thursday night, but figured he could tough it out and show up for Friday's game against the Cubs. Fortunately for him, his 10-year-old son told on him to the Rockies' medical staff. Not long thereafter, Betancourt underwent an appendectomy, apparently just in time, and the Rockies placed him on the 15-day disabled list.
"Actually his son came in and said, 'Hey, my dad was sick last night,'" Rockies head athletic trainer Keith Dugger said. "Raffy was stubborn, didn't want to come in to see me. But he said he got sick multiple times the night before, but felt better. He was actually working out, so I said, 'Let's take a look at you.'
"We looked at him. Scotty [Gehret, the assistant trainer] looked at him. He was sore on the lower right quadrant. For us, that's a key sign of a possible appendicitis."
Recovery time is not as long as it was before modern surgery. It's possible Betancourt could be ready in two to three weeks. Left-hander Rex Brothers will take over as closer, righty Matt Belisle will be the primary setup man, and righty Mitchell Boggs was called up from Double-A Tulsa. The former Cardinals setup man and closer could quickly find himself in a key role.
It's the second DL trip this season for Betancourt, who missed 25 games in June with a right groin strain. He is 2-3 with 15 saves in 16 opportunities with a 3.16 ERA.