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Number of Countries Installed
SAS has customers in 140 countries.
Total Worldwide Customer Sites
More than 70,000 business, government and university sites.
SAS Customers or their Affiliates Represent:
91 of the top 100 companies on the 2013 FORTUNE Global 500® list
Worldwide Employees
13,672 total employees
Breakdown by Geography
United States: 6,862
World Headquarters (Cary, NC): 5,232
Canada: 321
Latin America: 465
Europe, Middle East and Africa: 3,814
Asia Pacific: 2,210
Reinvestment in R&D
2013 R&D investment: 25% of revenue
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Managing Director
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Finance Director
Edwin Peters
Marketing Director
Remco Korzaan
Director Human Resources and Internal Services
SAS (pronounced "sass") once stood for "statistical analysis system," and began at North Carolina State University as a project to analyze agricultural research. As demand for such software grew, SAS was founded in 1976 to help all sorts of customers – from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities.
SAS – both the software and company – thrived throughout the next few decades. Development of the software attained new heights in the industry by being able to run across all platforms, using the multivendor architecture for which it is known today. While the scope of the company spread across the globe, the encouraging and innovative corporate culture remained the same.
Explore each era of company history through various photos and descriptions of how SAS came to be.
In 1966, there was no SAS. But there was a need for a computerized statistics program to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants.
Development of such software was critically important to members of the University Statisticians Southern Experiment Stations, a consortium of eight land-grant universities that received the majority of their research funding from the USDA. The schools came together under a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a general-purpose statistical software package to analyze all the agricultural data they were generating.
The resulting program, the Statistical Analysis System, gave SAS both the basis for its name and its corporate beginnings.
North Carolina State University, located in the capital city of Raleigh, North Carolina, became the leader in the consortium, largely because it had access to a more powerful mainframe computer than did the other universities. The project eventually found a home in the Statistics Department.
North Carolina State University faculty members Jim Goodnight and Jim Barr emerged as the project leaders - Barr creating the architecture and Goodnight implementing the features that sat on top of the architecture and expanded the system's capabilities.
When NIH discontinued funding in 1972, members of the consortium agreed to chip in $5,000 apiece each year to allow NCSU to continue developing and maintaining the system and supporting their statistical analysis needs.
During the coming years, SAS software was licensed by pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and banks, as well as by the academic community that had given birth to the project.
Jane Helwig, another Statistics Department employee at NCSU, joined the project as documentation writer, and John Sall, a graduate student and programmer, rounded out the core team.
More than 300 people attended the first SAS users conference in 1976. With a growing customer base that already numbered close to 100 academic, government and corporate entities, it was evident that success as an independent operation was possible.
Goodnight, Barr, Helwig and Sall left NCSU and formed SAS Institute Inc. - a private company "devoted to the maintenance and further development of SAS." They opened offices in a building at 2806 Hillsborough Street, across from the university.
In 1976 computers filled rooms the size of small houses, and programs and data were stored on punch cards. Base SAS, consisting of about 300,000 lines of code, would produce about 150 boxes of cards - a stack more than 40 feet high. Laid end to end, the boxes of cards would stretch more than 180 feet.
Within a year of incorporation, SAS was recognized for its outstanding software when Datamation magazine named the company to the DataPro Software Honor Roll. It continued to appear on that list for the next three years.
At the young start-up company, the business of doing business was everyone's job. To meet the company's first major challenge of viability, employees shared a variety of responsibilities, including answering technical support phone calls, teaching classes, and telemarketing and selling new service agreements.
When a shipment of users manuals arrived, everyone stopped what they were doing and formed a human chain to hoist each box, person to person, to storage space on the second floor. Anyone within reach was enlisted to pack boxes to ship the documentation to users.
Barr, Goodnight and Sall continued writing code, Helwig continued writing documentation, and the SAS staff grew as administrative assistants, sales representatives, trainers and additional programmers and documentation specialists came on board.
As the staff grew, so did the list of customers, and by 1978 there were 21 employees and 600 SAS customer sites.
From the beginning, SAS' primary focus was to meet customer needs. The company issued its first formal invitation for suggestions from customers in 1976 with the first SASware Ballot®. At every point of contact with customers, those first employees made a conscious effort to listen to customers and respond to the unique needs of each one.
The SAS software and users community grew. In 1979, the company granted its first overseas software license to Databank of New Zealand, and SAS software was adapted to run under IBM's VM/CMS system. In 1980, SAS broke new ground in the software industry with the release of SAS/GRAPH® software for information presentation graphics and SAS/ETS® software for econometric and time series analysis.
The company celebrated another milestone that year when it opened its first subsidiary, SAS Software Limited, in the United Kingdom.
Recognizing employees for their value to the company was part of the early SAS heritage. People who worked for the company during the days on Hillsborough Street tell stories of piling into Goodnight's station wagon and going down the street for pizza - with SAS picking up the tab - whenever the company added another 100 customer sites to the list.
A flexible work environment and some of the "trademarks" of the employee-friendly SAS culture - including M&M's and breakfast goodies - were born in the first months of the company's existence. The first company newsletter - in the form of typewritten sheets of paper tacked to a bulletin board - was written by Sall and published in 1978.
By 1980, the growing company had expanded beyond the capacity of the Hillsborough Street building, and SAS, with its staff of 20, moved to the site of its present headquarters offices just outside Raleigh in Cary, North Carolina.
The growth of SAS in the next decade was phenomenal: Inc. magazine named SAS one of the fastest-growing companies in America for five consecutive years.
The new headquarters campus - huge compared to the Hillsborough Street location - grew from one building with offices for 50 employees to 18 buildings, including a training center, publications warehouse and video studio.
SAS also expanded its geographic boundaries, opening new offices on four continents and its first US regional sales offices. By the end of the decade, SAS had nearly 1,500 employees worldwide.
Not only was SAS growing, the entire computer hardware and software industry was changing, with new operating systems and platforms placing new demands on software developers. One of the first steps for SAS was to adapt the software to operate on IBM's Disk Operating System (DOS).
But that was just the beginning of what would become a major effort to make the software system compatible with a wide range of operating systems. In the early 1980s, the company completely rewrote a large part of its software code to give it more portability, and the door to mini-computers was opened.
When personal computers (PCs) came out in the mid '80s, users wanted to run SAS on that new, highly accessible hardware system. With several million lines of code, SAS would stretch the capacity of almost any PC virtually to its limits. So SAS was rewritten once again, this time in the popular C language, abandoning the IBM-only PL/1 language.
Once again, SAS broke new ground in the software industry, creating a software system that would run across all platforms - the multivendor architecture that the company is known for today. Later on, the company would introduce a micro-to-mainframe link, allowing customers to link data stored on mainframes to the programs running on their PCs.
SAS software also was enhanced from the basic data management and statistics approach that displayed results in a very text- and number-centric format. Now, SAS adopted a more user-friendly approach that mirrored the graphical user interfaces of the Macintosh and Windows environments.
SAS software included full-screen spreadsheet capabilities, enhanced graphics and powerful data modeling tools to visualize analytical results. Late in the decade, the company also released JMP®, its first packaged statistical program for the increasingly popular Macintosh computer.
The software community recognized SAS for technological excellence as awards came in from Datamation, Software News, Software Business Review, InformationWeek and other industry publications. Meanwhile, customers found that SAS - with its growing analytic capabilities and its ability to run on any hardware platform they had in front of them - was critical to their success.
SAS was moving toward the frontier of decision support. The company was in a unique position to give customers the ability to make sense out of mountains of data and make decisions based on those discoveries, bringing them the competitive advantage they were seeking.
For SAS, breaking new ground was not limited to technology. Faced with the prospect of losing some valuable programmers who were hesitant to return to work following maternity leave, the company opened the first on-site childcare center in the basement of one of its world headquarters buildings in 1981. This was at a time when corporate-sponsored daycare was almost unheard of.
A recreation and fitness center, health care center and a café serving gourmet meals followed the opening of the childcare facility, further enhancing a culture that had always been responsive to employees' personal as well as professional needs.
These services garnered SAS the first of many awards as a great place to work when Health and Living magazine named SAS to its list of the "Healthiest Companies to Work For" in the US.
During the 1990s, SAS would grow its work force to more than 7,000 people around the world, with employees on every continent, in every major US city and in the capitals of international commerce all over the planet.
Sales efforts moved away from telemarketing to a direct sales force with a focus on geographic territories. The company introduced its first vertical sales group with the release of SAS/PH-Clinical® software for the pharmaceutical industry. And the demand for packaged solutions, designed to address specific business needs across industries, led to the establishment of the Business Solutions division, responsible for solutions such as SAS Financial Management and SAS Human Capital Management (formerly named CFO Vision® and HR Vision®).
The company moved into new territory by developing high-quality online curriculum resources for the classroom. SAS® Curriculum Pathways® online interactive resources focus on materials difficult to convey through conventional teaching methods. The tools cover subjects through coursework that you can "do, see and listen to," providing information and encouraging insights in ways that textbooks cannot. The software enables teachers to keep students engaged and learning while fostering technology use in the classroom.
Most importantly, SAS set itself apart from the pack as a provider of decision-support software with expanded capabilities in areas such as guided data analysis and clinical trials analysis and reporting. The company introduced software for building customized executive information systems (EIS) and launched its Rapid Warehousing Program.
As the Internet became a more vital tool for the business world, the demand for Web-enabled software grew. As a result, SAS brought Web-enabled capabilities to its software, allowing customers to use SAS solutions to become even more competitive in a rapidly growing business environment.
With its powerful data mining capabilities, SAS was in a position to take the lead in an area that was more in demand than virtually any other business software offering available - customer relationship management. Now Web-enabled with new e-intelligence solutions, SAS continued to stay at the cutting edge of the business software industry.
Recognition for having quality software products continued to come from many sources around the world, including Datamation, Data Warehousing World, Software Magazine, ComputerWorld Brazil and PC Week, along with the prestigious French analyst association Yphise, and Australia's Corporate Research Foundation. In addition, the US Food and Drug Administration recognized the integrity of SAS software by selecting SAS technology as the standard for new drug applications.
SAS continued to be recognized as a great place to work, receiving awards from FORTUNE, Working Mother, BusinessWeek and Mother Jones magazines, along with prominent print and broadcast media coverage in the United States, Europe and Australia.
SAS celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2001, right on the heels of the turn of the millennium and the Y2K frenzy that seemed to engulf the world of technology. With a new logo and tagline - THE POWER TO KNOW® - in place, SAS set off to increase its visibility and global recognition.
SAS Australia was the first SAS office outside the United States to be recognized as a great place to work, beginning in 1999. Since then, the list has expanded to include SAS offices in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Portugal, Finland, China, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Sweden – the latter three named the No. 1 best place to work in 2010 and in years past.
In the United States, SAS has been named one of FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" every year since 1998, being named No. 1 on the list in 2010 and 2011. This consistent performance earned the company a place as one of 22 members of the "Hall of Fame," introduced in 2005.
SAS introduced the Information Evolution Model (IEM) in 2003, which was followed by the 2006 publication of Information Revolution, by SAS' Jim Davis, Gloria Miller and Allan Russell. The IEM describes how well a company manages and utilizes information as a strategic corporate asset. By understanding and following the IEM, companies can gain insight to better align strategies and identify critical relationships and gaps along four key company dimensions: people, process, culture and infrastructure. The book has been translated into Italian, Japanese and Spanish, with a Russian version in the works, and the company continues to use the model to open conversations with executive audiences.
World and market events drove new developments in the company's software products. The governance and regulatory compliance requirements set forth in Basel II in Europe and the USA Patriot Act led to a high demand for software products that could help financial institutions manage risk and combat money laundering and fraud. SAS answered those needs with solutions that achieved industry and analyst recognition, and further solidified SAS' position as a leading provider of solutions for the financial sector.
The company showed new strength in its outreach to executives through the acquisition of the knowledge portal BetterManagement.com in 2002. In the retail sector, SAS acquired Marketmax, and in risk management, it acquired Risk Advisory – both in 2003.
SAS effectively targets users and executives through The Premier Business Leadership Series, and the annual data mining and forecasting series (M2000 and F2000) conferences, along with numerous executive conferences throughout the world and industry sectors. The largest annual users conference, SAS Global Forum (formerly known as SAS Users Group International) continued to draw thousands of users; in 2007, the name of the annual conference was changed to SAS Global Forum to better reflect the diverse nature of the conference and its attendees.
The year 2007 ushered in a new era of globalization for SAS. With operations centralized at SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, the company looked for new ways to have consistent, global programs in areas such as sales strategy, education, publications, marketing, communications and more. Global councils and summits formed in many functional areas of the company, creating opportunities for regular communication and collaboration that established SAS as a single, global entity.
SAS embraces the evolving media world by participating in continuous, online dialogue in respective communities. Employees have been blogging since 2005, and the first external company blog appeared in 2007 (from SAS UK). By early 2008 the company had more than 300 internal bloggers, including nearly 20 executives.
Event-based blogging appeared on the scene with the SAS Global Forum 2007 blog. An external blog, sascom® voices, was promoted for the first time during that conference, as was a new external online community, sasCommunity.org.
Podcasts and Webcasts are available daily, and SAS has its own channel on YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site. The company is looking at ways to delve further into the rapidly expanding world of social media.
Sustainability has remained a top priority with SAS precisely because of its potential to deliver tremendous business value. It's not just the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
In addition to employee engagement practices, from health care to expanded job opportunities, SAS has made great progress in reducing its environmental footprint. For example, a 1-megawatt solar array at SAS global headquarters is providing clean, renewable energy to the public energy grid for the local utility.
Several construction projects at SAS offices around the world utilize low-environmental-impact design principles. Notably, SAS is pursuing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for a new conference facility and a new cloud computing facility at its global headquarters.
For more information on SAS and sustainability, check out the Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
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Narconon Graduates Coming out of the Shadows to Proclaim Victory
In the past, recovery from alcohol and drug addiction was kept under wraps. Not only drug abuse, but recovery was kept hush-hush and considered taboo. This caused a stigma that has been very difficult to overcome. Graduates of the drug rehab program Narconon Trois-Rivieres are changing that. They are coming out of the shadows to proclaim victory over drug addiction in hopes that others who battle addiction can win their own victories.
Several videos have been released, says JF Dubreuil of Narconon Trois-Rivieres and more are expected, featuring graduates of the program and the drug rehab center. These individuals are willing to step out of the shadows in order for the truth to be known. They tell, in their own words, of their own battle with drug addiction and how Narconon Trois-Rivieres offered them a new life. Their bravery at coming out into the open is exceptional and should be recognized. They admit to, even elaborate on their former addictions and also tell of their new lives and new goals.
What these individuals are doing is offering hope and trying to break the taboo of admitting past drug use. Drug addicts can and do achieve success, as proven by these and other individuals who have graduated from the Narconon Trois-Rivieres rehab center. They are not proud of their drug use, but rather appropriately laud their success at overcoming drug addiction. They offer hope and help to others who are battling drug addiction. Narconon Trois-Rivieres is more than just a rehab center, it is a means to a new and improved life.
Drug addiction only means an end to life if the drug addiction does not end. Those who make the choice to end their addiction at Narconon Trois-Rivieres greatly improve their chance at success at a drug-free life. Graduates tell about their own addictions so that others still fighting the battle can identify with their struggle. Those who are still struggling with drug addiction need to hear the stories from the graduates of Narconon Trois-Rivieres. They need to know that others have fought that battle and won. Loved ones of drug addicts also need to see that there is hope. There is a place where all of the tools are available to overcome drug addiction.
Coming out of the shadows is a major step for not only the graduates of the successful drug rehab program, but also for those who need to see that hope is possible, and available. The graduates of Narconon Trois-Rivieres should be praised for their bravery and courage in this remarkable venture for a new drug-free life.


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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - The holidays are a wonderful time of the year. But they can also be dangerous to your pets.
"Truly, the holidays are a great, joyous occasion to celebrate," said Dr. Tom Thompson, veterinarian at Thompson Animal Medical Center in La Crosse. "But it does bring a set of problems associated with our furry friends, without a question."
The good news for pet owners is most holiday accidents are preventable. Starting with holiday decorations
"If you don't have that tree secure," said Thompson. "And you can secure it pretty easily even with fishing line which is what we do, but the tree being knocked over, ornaments being broken, ornaments being potentially being inhaled or eaten."
Power cords are another big concern and should be covered or sprayed to discourage chewing.
"Man, the electrical cord," said Thompson. "You wouldn't think about it, but even with older dogs, there could be something about it being different in the house, and especially with cats and younger dogs. What we do is cover them up with throw rugs."
Cat owners should also avoid tinsel to prevent potentially life threatening complications if eaten.
But Thompson said one of the biggest holiday dangers for pets is what we humans enjoy most; the food.
"Foods," said Thompson. "You've just got to be real careful with that and let others know that too. That it's a no-no. If you're having people over, try to remind the kids that people food is not good for dogs and cats… A little bit for them is probably equal to what we would eat being a larger body."
Rich holiday foods are particularly bad for cats and dogs especially when given it in large quantities. Besides obesity and gastrointestinal problems, these foods can have potentially deadly reactions with a pet's pancreas. Some foods, such as chocolate and alcohol can be toxic in small amounts.
"Throughout the course of the year," said Thompson. "And more during the holidays, just like with other rich foods, we see more chocolate toxicity that needs to be hospitalized."
If you're having a get-together, remind guests to keep their plates and cups off the floor and away from animals. And keep in mind that having guests over and loud noises can be stressful on pets.
"If it's going to be a busy time and it makes your pet nervous," said Thompson. "Make sure that there's a private area for them."
Another commonly overlooked aspect of pet safety is toys. Make sure they are the appropriate size for your pet, and keep children's toys away from your furry friends.
The holidays can be a wonderful time for pets and their people. Above all else, use common sense and think things through.
"La Crosse has got great pet owners," said Thompson. "I just got to say that. And yet, things happen."
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Brookhaven supervisor-elect Ed Romaine will be sworn in Monday in a ceremony that will be open to the public.
The event is set for 3:30 p.m. at Town Hall in Farmingville. Romaine, who will be the 70th person to serve as supervisor, will deliver a speech with the theme "Moving Brookhaven Forward."
Romaine, R-Center Moriches, currently serves in the Suffolk County legislature representing the 1st Legislative District. He earned the GOP nomination after former supervisor Mark Lesko stepped down in September to lead Accelerate Long Island.
In November, he defeated his Democratic opponent, Brian Beedenbender, with about 57 percent of the vote.
When he was elected, Romaine – who also ran as the Conservative and Independence candidate – said one of his first priorities would be to help the town recover as quickly as possible from the storm that had ravaged Long Island just a week prior. "Particularly now, in the aftermath of this storm, we need to come together and put Brookhaven on the path to sustainable financial health and help all of our residents rebuild," he said.


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Founding members of the African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA) convened for the first of the organization's biannual board meetings in Rabat, Morocco, last week to discuss continued activity and strategy. Among its goals for this year is the commissioning of a study into the framework of business aviation in Africa that will be used to support future planning.
AfBAA also plans to host a regional symposium in the third quarter and publish a white paper in May that will "further enhance the association's commitment to advocacy through in-depth research and provision of realistic solution-based propositions."
AfBAA used the opportunity of its gathering to meet separately with Aziz Rebbah, Morocco's minister of equipment and transport, and officials from the country's civil aviation authority to discuss the business aviation landscape in Morocco. "Through advocating the importance of business aviation as an economic driver to key [regulatory authorities] we can increasingly make government bodies aware of the significance of business aviation," said AfBAA chairman Tarek Ragheb. "In this case we were able to demonstrate our committed dynamic approach and received an extremely positive response from the Moroccan authorities, who recognize the value of the community in Morocco and further afield on the continent."
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The man accused of killing his grandson and attempting to kill his daughter in May 2010 agreed to plead guilty in exchange for two consecutive life sentences.
On May 20, 2010, Lee County deputies were called to 1137 Gilbert Avenue South in Lehigh Acres for reports of a stabbing.
Once they arrived, they discovered Manuel Rosales slit the throat of his daughter Karminda Rosales and slit the throat of his grandson Josue.
Karminda survived, but Josue died from his injuries.
"Calmly, calculated and with time to reflect, the defendant held Josue in front of Karminda's face as she laid on the driveway bleeding from her neck and said, 'See? Look at what I'm doing,'" said prosecutor Anthony Kunasek.
In court, Manuel Rosales spoke about the crime.
"I tried to do the best I could. I will continue trying. I don't feel guilty about this happening. I stayed in this country to be legal, not illegal. I always tried to respect the laws of this country. I never did drugs. no record, no criminal, not used drugs. I've been a normal person. Like I said, everything that happened was a matter of witchcraft, but neither the world nor any of you understand anything about that. You only understand drugs. If a person is possessed by devil don't understand it," said Rosales.
The judge said his statement could raise insanity at the time of the offense.
"I understand everything. I'm just not being understood," Rosales said.
In May 2009, Karminda received an order of protection against her father, although the two were living together when the murder happened.
"From the moment I stepped into this place, I've been dead, not alive. I'm grateful my daughter is ok. You were the same judge who put a restriction on me. My wife was here. We were all here and it was almost a year after everything had happened with the restriction order. The only support she had was me. I gave her everything," Rosales said.
Rosales had been facing the death penalty.
"I understand everything being said, I want to go ahead. I would have preferred a lighter sentence. My attorneys have told me this is the best," said Rosales.
Karminda says she agrees with the sentence. She knows she will never have to look or talk to him again.
"My understanding is he'll serve his sentence in the state of Florida and will not be deported," Kunasek added.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - MGM Resorts International was chosen Tuesday by Springfield officials as the preferred developer for a resort casino in the state's third-largest city, beating out a competing proposal from Penn National Gaming.
MGM is seeking to build an $800 million resort casino on 14.5 acres of land in the city's South End that sustained extensive damage in a June 2011 tornado.
Mayor Domenic Sarno announced that he had negotiated a host community agreement with the company that would include annual payments to the city of more than $25 million a year, if the casino is built.
The agreement must be approved by the Springfield City Council and by city voters. City officials said they are aiming to hold a referendum on July 16.
The state's 2011 gambling law allows for up to three regional resort casinos, including one in western Massachusetts. The state's gambling commission will make the final determination, likely in early 2014.
"We feel very strongly that we have the best location to offer in western Massachusetts, if not the state," Sarno said of the MGM proposal.
Hard Rock International has proposed a casino in West Springfield and Mohegan Sun has a plan in the town of Palmer.
The proposal offered by Penn National Gaming - in partnership with Peter Pan Bus Lines chairman Peter Picknelly - called for a casino and hotel project on a 13.4-acre parcel in the North End that is now home to a newspaper and a bus terminal.
Sarno said he never seriously considered negotiating host community agreements with both companies, though that was an option for the mayor.
"We need to move forward together as one," he said.
The mayor said he called executives of both companies to deliver the news, and thanked Penn National for their investment.
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I did this as a bard to bypass the riddle:
Step 1: Levi and Speed buff (I used a levi clicky and selos)
Step 2: Get to highest point of one of the two temples near the riddle door
Step 3: Zoom in, and look up, then zoom back out so you can see where you're going
Step 4: Run at the riddle door and clicky-illusion-trick through (I just clicked AoN while running and I popped through instantly)
Step 5: Keep running and aim for the top of the nearby cliff
Step 6: Once you're over the cliff, you're done. Careful, though. There are see-invis on the top of the cliff, so be ready to fight if you can't lose agro.


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If a woman ever tells me she is irreplaceable, I will know right then that she is indeed, replaceable.Did you read the article? She's talking about a point where there was a clothing line designed around her. For the purposes of that campaign, she was irreplaceable because she was an integral part of the product, which gave her negotiating power. How is that vapid?
I don't care what you look like. Vapid is, as vapid does.
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Hurricane blows into stock market history
Sandy prompts the first unplanned multiday trading shutdown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
When the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq announce they're closing and don't know when they'll open again, that's when you know Hurricane Sandy has made it in New York.
Both markets were closed Monday in anticipation of the storm and will be closed Tuesday, as well, according to Reuters.
The bond markets have already closed early, leaving only the folks in commodities to weather the storm. That puts Sandy in some pretty rare company when it comes to market-shuttering mayhem.
While the New York Stock Exchange has kept impromptu closures to a minimum since Aug. 8, 1885 -- when it honored President Ulysses S. Grant's funeral with its first special closure -- they're not a completely abnormal occurrence.
The last event that resulted in an unplanned multiple-day shutdown was the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, which closed the market from Sept. 11 until Sept. 14. Weather, however, hasn't halted trading since Feb. 11, 1994, when a snowstorm closed the market at 2:30 p.m. Storms haven't closed the market completely since Hurricane Gloria blew into town on Sept. 27, 1985, and haven't kept it shut for any length of time since the Blizzard of 1888 erased two days of trading.
That's remarkable hardiness, considering the market of the supposedly tough, gritty New York of the late '60s and early '70s either closed early or delayed opening because of weather-related issues 10 times. Markets closed for a full day only once in that stretch -- when heavy snow kept traders away on Feb. 10, 1969 -- but were scared into a 3 p.m. closure on Aug. 9, 1976, just for a hurricane watch.
Before you jump all over those New Yorkers for shutting financial institutions in the face of stiff wind and flurries, keep in mind that the market's history is riddled with far more frivolous closures. Back in 1889, it closed for three days to celebrate the 100th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration. It took a whopping four days off in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage. It's also closed or delayed openings at various points for a two-day parade for Admiral George Dewey after the Spanish-American war (1899), the coronation of the King of England (1902), an eclipse of the sun (1925), a parade for transatlantic flyer Charles Lindbergh (1927), a parade for General Douglas MacArthur (1951) and the first moon landing (1969).
The market has since tightened its closure policy and restricts full-day observances to the deaths of former presidents, while allowing occasional emergency closures for weather, computer glitches, utility outages and other unforseeable circumstances. Multi-day market closures are now almost unheard of. Before Sept. 11, the last time the market closed several days in a row was during the two-day V-J Day celebration marking the end of World War II in 1945.
As a market-stopping event, however, Sandy would be small potatoes even if it wiped out trading into Wednesday. Even under the most dire circumstance, Sandy's market impact couldn't come close to matching that of World War I. The hostilities in Europe closed the markets from July 31 through Nov. 27 in 1914 and restricted share prices until spring 1915. The markets subsequently closed for two days to let folks register for the draft, three days to turn off the heat and conserve fuel for the war effort, and another three days to celebrate the war's end and the return of American troops.
Call Sandy a perfect storm or Frankenstorm, but unless it's The Storm to End All Storms, the markets will move on.
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Hey guys I have over 1500 pieces of text in lowercase letter and I want to make them all uppercase.
Is there a easy and quick way to do this?
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Solved! by Jeff_M. See the answer in context.
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Sorry, but there is no native way to do this with multiple objects at the same time.
However, I would suggest posting this on the AutoCAD forums, as there may be someone over that that has created a custom LISP or something to do what you are looking for. Similar topics have been covered in the past, so that is probably your best route.
Looks like there is an Express Tool for it under Modify Text.
Express Tools TCASE
And it works on multiple objects.
Thanks Guys. You know more then the AutoDesk employees!!!!
Wow, I totally missed that one. Thanks for pointing it out!
Bing a Civil3d forum and you being a Civil3d specialist I can understand why you thought what you though We wont pick on you
Highlight the text, hold down "shift" "ctrl" and press "u" and "l". this should change the text to upper or lower case.


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"We've been dating off and on for the past four years. We had so many years of history prior to him coming to work on the show, and I think someone taking a job and moving their life across the country to show you how much they care is pretty much the most romantic gesture that a person could make." - Sophia Bush
Life imitating art. Brulians storyline is pretty much a mirror of Auphia! LOVE IT!
Life imitating art. Brulians storyline is pretty much a mirror of Auphia!
I Love that Austin and Sophia make an effort to match their outfits.
Tres cute!
One of my favourite scenes in the finale! I heart Brulian!
Julian: Everyone says that the next thing I do, the next choice I make, is going to define me in my career, my life. Well, the next thing I want to do is ask you to be my wife and tell you how much I love you and how nothing else matters. When I look into your eyes Brooke, I see the rest of my life. I see it with you. Marry me, Brooke Davis.
One Tree Hill 7.22 - Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You.
I'm enjoying the process of reading all the LOST related posts on tumblr. My fave has been the survey that is circulating, seen here by my friend JohnFredrie. But I decided to change it up and make it an OTH survey. So check it:
1. The first character I fell in love with: Definitely Lucas. Chad Michael Murray was in his prime (Gilmore Girls, Dawson's Creek, Freaky Friday & Cinderella Story), and Lucas had that cute, brooding/artistic/disheveled/underdog thing going.
2. The character I never expected to love as much I do now: Nathan Scott. I absolutely hated him in the first few episodes in Season 1. Then I was too overwhelmed by the Brucas storyline to really care about him through Seasons 1 & 2. But seeing him hurt and vulnerable in Season 3 (when Hayley came back) absolutely killed me and I have loved him (and the Nalmie (Nathan + Hayley + Jamie) storyline) ever since.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Lindsay. I don't think that I hate her as much as I hate the fact that Lucas didn't wait for Peyton. And how he proposed at 19. And the fact that his proposal was a disguised ultimatum. And the fact that he's a whore.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Peyton. I get that she's mean and snarky and stole Lucas away from Brooke. But seriously, Hilarie Burton has the BEST scenes in Season 5. That scene where she screams at Luke whilst throwing the books at him absolutely KILL ME! "You said I was great! You said I could be great! You said we were destined to be together! You said it to the world, you said it to me and I wish you never had because you did not mean any of it!" Argh, I die.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Brooke. Seasons 1-3, her character development was one of the best I've seen written in the teen shows. She ended up being the most complicated, kind, impulsive, frustrating and fiercely loyal characters. I still love her when I watch old seasons, but the lack of good material for Sophia Bush has been killing me Seasons 4-7.
6. The character I would date anytime: Nathan Scott. Actually, I not only would date him, I'd marry him and have his babies.
7. The character I want to be like: Hayley. I love her selflessness. She's stuck by Nathan through so much whilst sill maintaining everything about her and still striving to achieve her dreams.
8. The character I'd slap: Tie between Dan Scott & Alex Dupre
9. A pairing that I love: Naley! Need I say more?
10. A pairing that I hate: I hated all the pairings in between Brucas in Season 3 till Brulian in Season 7.
11. Favourite character: Season 1-3: Brooke, Season 4: Naley, Season 5-6: Jamie, Season 7: Nathan
12. My ten favourite characters: Nathan Scott, Hayley James Scott, James Lucas Scott, Brooke Davis, Peyton Sawyer, Julian Baker, Jake Jegleski, Keith Scott, Antwon Skills, Rachel Gatina
13. My five least favourite characters: Dan Scott, Deb Scott, Mouth, Alex, Katie
14. Which character I am most like: I wish I could say Hayley, strong, loving, nuturing and patient. But it would probably be Brooke, impulsive, fierce, childish and a little nuts.
Julian: I don't want high school Brooke. I'm sorry the breakdown hurt your feelings, it was meant to describe who the character was before anyone got to know the real person. That's a breakdown describing the Brooke Davis I'm looking for.
Brooke: Gorgeous brunette with an amazing energy and smile. Funny. Intelligent. Kind-hearted. Strong-headed. Simple. Complicated. Motherly. Childish. Tough. Sensitive. Beautiful. Way coolerthan she was in high school.
Julian: That girl has been nearly impossible to find, but worth every second of the wait.
Brooke: Are you going to make sure Missy knows this?
Julian: I'm going to make sure everyone knows.
brooke davis, julian baker (one tree hill) © credit
Julian: Brooke, what the hell happened today?
Brooke: I thought you slept with Alex.
Julian: So, basically, you still don't trust me?
Brooke: No. Basically, I got jealous because I'm in love with you, Julian, and I always will be. And that's gonna make me do stupid things sometimes because love is crazy and I've been crazy, I know. First I thought you were falling for Alex and then last night I went to your hotel, and I thought you fell for Alex, I'm sorry.
*they kiss*
Julian: You think too much, Brooke Davis.
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The 10 Craziest Ways People Have Tried to Get High
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1. Sea Bream Heads The idea that you can get high from eating the heads of sea bream might sound fishy, but it's true—just ask the two Frenchmen who tripped out after a seafood dinner in 2006. One of them, aged 90, suffered auditory hallucinations and terrifying nightmares for the next two nights, while his 40-year-old companion saw horrible sights for 36 straight hours. The pair had been hit by a grave case of icthyoallyeinotoxism—the technical term for getting high off fish. The ancient Romans, as you'd expect, used to do sarpa salpa heads recreationally. But don't plan your psychedelic fishing trip just yet. The effects come from indole, a substance found in the algae and plankton in the sarpa salpa's diet, and which accumulates in its head. The levels of hallucinogens present vary greatly. Which means you could chew on fish heads for hours and still not see a single tiny winged devil .
2. Colorado River Toad Licking toads is one of those timeless urban legends that we've all heard—maybe you saw it on The Simpsons. But as with many things Homer does, you probably shouldn't copy him. Firstly, it's gross. Secondly, all toads are toxic. Thirdly, only one specific type of toad can get you high—and chances are the toad you just found isn't it. The whole "licking toads" rumor apparently began when someone saw some hippies chasing the warty amphibians through the woods. But the "proper" way to get high off them is hardly more appetizing: You have to hold your toad, gently massaging the soft venom sacks on the sides of its head and "milk" its viscous white venom onto a piece of glass. Dry, scrape and smoke—but not too often. Even though most of the poisonous bufotenin is burned off, the buildup from repeated toad-toking can kill you.
3. Nutmeg Suburban kids needn't look further than the spice rack for this high—yet the feds still haven't scheduled it. Perhaps that's because it keeps you high-but-nauseous for about 24 hours, leaves you with an incapacitating flu-like hangover for days and tastes absolutely awful—but even knowing that might not stop most enterprising teens. Almost all discussion about the over-the-kitchen-counter drug consists of strategies on how to make it taste less revolting, usually by mixing it into various liquids like milk or water a la Malcolm X tea. Online searches also reveal futile tips on how to mitigate the dreaded cotton mouth and dry eyes that users suffer. Despite all this awfulness, nutmeg's sheer accessibility keeps it popular.
4. I-Dosing Gullible teenagers looking for a high are a ripe market, but substances tend to draw the ire of their elders. Enter "I-Dosing"—digital "drug" recordings that claim to use the power of sound to alter your state of mind. For a dollar or two a pop, you can close your eyes, put on your headphones and trip out on "marijuana" or "cocaine" with zero side effects. At one point, I-Dosing caused a moral panic: the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics even put out a wire to parents about how their kids were getting twisted on MP3s. But reports from tech bloggers and The Fix indicate that it is not, in fact, possible to get a chemical high from these sounds. It's really just unscientific binarual beat therapy repackaged to con kids out of a few bucks (but don't tell that to these true believers). Hey, at least it keeps them off the real stuff.
5. Smoking Twix No, this isn't teen slang for some nefarious new drug; we are actually talking about the candy bar. Twix-smoking is a trend that—thanks to social media—just won't quite fizzle out. The Fix was taught the simple technique by some young people last year: Bite off both ends, put one end in your mouth, hold a lighter at the other end (because it ain't gonna stay lit) and inhale. Reports of the ensuing "trip" range from "It tastes like s'mores" to "And now there's melted chocolate all over my lap." It's fairly obvious that breathing burning chocolate through the porous biscuit inside a candy bar won't get you high. Somehow that doesn't seem to dampen the attraction.
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Lady Gaga doesn't often respond to disses by other performers, but she couldn't let one particular one pass -- in fact, she's taken to Facebook to tell off the offending parties.
The South African rap group Die Antwoord features a Gaga lookalike it its latest video, "Fatty Boom Boom." In the clip, a man, dressed as Gaga in blonde wig, sunglasses and a "meat dress," is shown giving birth to a disgusting alien creature. Then, she gets eaten by a lion.
So, what did Gaga do to deserve such a diss? Apparently, she simply invited Die Antwoord to open for her in South Africa. They turned her down. In fact, in another part of the video, the Gaga lookalike is driving through Johannesburg when she spots two members of the group performing. "They should open for me," says the fake Gaga.
Now, Gaga's written a note on her Facebook page addressing the rappers, referencing a song of their called "I Fink U Freeky."
"I fink u freaky but you don't have a hit. hundred thousand tickets sold in SA. #thatmysh*t," she writes. "i guess its not a good idea to tell someone you're a fan. never mind! we get it, you're not a little monster. WE GOT IT."
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^^^^^ could not have said it better, leave the personal stuff out, no reason to put another members name in the thread unless you are asking them a legit question, and not something that leads to a personal attack.
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michaeljohn wrote:she is going to perform like any rookie in nascar, its not going to be great, its a learning experience, but look how much she improved in the NW series compared to last yr,i hope she will improve more next year, she has talent, regardless if people want to admit that,
i dont think it will reflect on ryan's team, and if it does affect his team, well than it doesnt say much about the personal on that team.
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Dr. Martin Luther King once said Life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?
Americans across the country including Savannah celebrated today by serving others.
They say it's something Martin Luther King would be proud of.
Savannah feed the hungry let their light shine by holding a community dinner for the homeless and working poor.
People from all walks of life also received clothing.
"We still have so many people that are working poor that don't have jobs and so our focus today is just trying to equip those that are hurting and still hungry and still need a helping hand," says Carl Gilliard of Savannah Feed The Hungry.
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Are you satisfied with your life? Do you think its fair?
Simple question stated as above (ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THIS WORLD)
other question
if you are not, what aren't you satisfied with?
if you are, what ARE you satisfied with?
If anything could happen what would you like to happen?
If everything could be changed, what would you like to change?
Im on the point of deciding what to do with my life
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Nov 8 2012: Dear fritzie
Yes I do believe that most people out there are wanting to push for "reducing suffering" as I don't see why any one would purposefully want another person to suffer
Which Is also what I believe most If not all of the traditional religious beliefs are all talking about making and finding and teaching the ultimate happiness no matter if its heaven or nirvana or what ever it may be
But what I am truly getting to is
Something impossible impractical
I want yo turn our world over I want people to stop living in the past stop lining in their mistakes and suffering for the mistakes that other people made
I want our world to move on and everyone to give each other a second chance everyone to give themselv a second chance
I hope our world can destroy boundaries
National boundaries
Cultural boundaries
Racial boundaries
Gender boundaries
And cooperate to live in this country that I know as earth
I am setting this as my goal in life
I know it sound dumb and stupid impractical as it obviously looks
But I believe
I believe that you. Can believe
I believe that every single person in this community an believe
But first
I need to idemtify the source of problems and the things that people generally view as reasonable
To me it's not keeping good and kicking bad
That's too subjective
I'm looking for something objective
And in order to do so
We need to learn to control but not to remove our emotions
As to me emotions is a double edge blade
It can make impossible happen in both good and bad ways
So pretty much in total
I would like to seek advise or is it advice
I need help
I need support
Indeed criticism
I need evidence
I need everything I can fet my hands on but in the end
It's not about me but about you and the future of our humanity
Whether we could make it a better place
I could always choose to just live my own life and ignore this
But I care for crying out loud
I are
I believe
I trust in that human beings are capable of performing at their best if given a chance
Nov 8 2012: I don't think it is impractical to work toward these ends along with the millions who work toward these and similar ends, though you may find that you will be more effective working in one or a couple of areas that you can come to understand well rather than on all problems.
In terms of data with respect to poverty, hardship, infant mortality, illiteracy, and so forth, one place with great data available easily online that displays these measures for almost all countries is the World Bank.
Maybe I am thinking of the United Nations data base.
Have you visited those websites?
I do not know the best resource for data about environmental degradation.
If you are interested in starting to work on these issues other than by talking to peers and so forth about your emerging philosophy and goals, there are a few interesting websites that may allow you to start working collaboratively with others on concrete problems. I like OpenIDEO for the way they bring hundreds of people into generating options for making progress on real issues.
Another site, which is more oriented to sharing what people are doing and advising each other than to specific collaborative action is the Human Centered Design community.
There are many other options as well, but these might make a good entry point for you if you are interested in action.
Nov 8 2012: Thank you Fritzie
Yes I understand my concept is a bit TOO ... "liquid, it has no substance as of yet, and I am trying to SEEK substance to apply to my concept"
What i mean is.. like a chinese proverb "you are curing the stem but not the root" for example you cut a grass... and it will grow back later
I understand the problems with poverty, hardship, infant mortality, illiterac
OK, let me give you an example...
Do you think it is true "charity" to be feeding the poor people in Africa?
I will leave this as an open ended question.. but let me address this point
If you keep feeding people, they will become dependent on you
Is... "trash recycling" a true "JOB?"
"WHY cant they grow their own food?"
"WHY is their country in such beat up shape? ... are they BORN to be like that?"
Other than this... I would like to share what I have concluded.. or not concluded but reached an analysis on...
a big problem with our world... once again "THE DOUBLE EDGE BLADE"
one word
Though I'm not christian but if everyone in the world was in the same faith then
"What is prohibited in Deuteronomy 15:1-7 and Deuteronomy 23 is interest on any loan, in any form, that has been extended to a poor brother in the faith. It is perfectly all right to lend at interest to someone not in the faith."
"The Mosaic law prohibited interest on a narrow class of loans: charitable loans "
Ok, no more talking about the bible and for some modern day concepts,
PEOPLE LIVE ON DEBT and that is a fact, people depend on it, our world wouldn't work without it
But, as i read somewhere, the only place without interest payment loans is in native cultures?
Ok, if that is so.... just CONCEPTUALLY
is it possible to
1st UNITE OUR WORLD
2nd "REDISTRIBUTE LAND" (i will talk about this further in the future)
3rd MAKE "SMALL tribes... SOCIAL tribes..."
4th.. I DONT KNOW
THIS is where I am stuck at
of course i would like to support the "Green movement" I would like to go against "child labor"
Nov 9 2012: I understand, Fermi, that you are at the point of educating yourself rather than wanting to mobilize for action. You are trying to understand better both the world as it is and the reasons and history of how it has become what it has become before you decide what you would like to do, except that you believe at this point that a lasting solution probably includes a reduction in conflict among people (a very popular aim!), changes in land use or ownership, and subdivisions of people into small social tribes. You support education (another almost universally popular aim!), not exploiting children (also an issue most people support aggressively!), and being environmentally conscious (very popular but not universal, as some people believe there is a trade-off between environmental protection and reduction of poverty).
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- Address:
28 E. Center Ave
Lake Bluff, IL 60044Neighborhood:
Lake Bluff
- Cuisine:
Contemporary AmericanPrice: $30 and under
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://inovasi.us/
- Phone: 8472951000x
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:30-1:30
Dinner: Monday - Saturday: 5:00 - Close
Closed Sunday
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Contemporary American
- Executive Chef: John des Rosiers
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Entertainment, Farm to Table, Fireplace, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
- Entertainment: We feature live local musicians in our bar area every Wednesday evening from 6:00-9:00pm.
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Casual. Contemporary. American. Chef/Owner John des Rosiers' vision comes to life at Inovasi with its relaxed setting and world class cuisine located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago in Lake Bluff.Continued
Chef des Rosiers commits to personally searching for the finest quality ingredients by working with local and sustainable farms, including Elawa Farms in neighboring Lake Forest, Illinois. From his very own family recipes like Mom's Sausage Gravy & Croquettes to the spontaneously put together, hand caught seafood dish Straight Out of the Sea, each full-flavored dish is served in an interesting way with rare and unique ingredients grown specifically for Inovasi.
Chef des Rosiers commits to personally searching for the finest quality ingredients by working with local and sustainable farms, including Elawa Farms in neighboring Lake Forest, Illinois. From his very own family recipes like Mom's Sausage Gravy & Croquettes to the spontaneously put together, hand caught seafood dish Straight Out of the Sea, each full-flavored dish is served in an interesting way with rare and unique ingredients grown specifically for Inovasi.
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64 reviews since June 3, 2014
- Food4Service4.2
- Ambiance3.9Noise LevelModerate
neighborhood gem (48)fit for foodies (41)great for outdoor dining (30)special occasion (24)notable wine list (19)vibrant bar scene (13)kid-friendly (12)great for lunch (11)romantic (11)hot spot (11)good for groups (10)great for brunch (7)scenic view (5)late-night find (5)Show More
- food4meDined on 7/26/2014This is a neighborhood place that has incredible innovative food, lovely service, casual but not sloppy.Special Features:
- DisappointingCentralOtago4VIPDined on 7/26/2014We did expect more from this restaurant after reading some of the reviews. It was a hit or miss on the food, ordered the ceviche which didn't look or taste like a ceviche. A few pieces of whole shrimp and fish with a very odd tasting citrus flavor. The Noodle bowl and mussels were good, beet salad very bland. Spinach and tomato salad nothing special. Probably won't be going back anytime soon.Special Features:
- neighborhood placejsf1VIPDined on 7/24/2014I've been coming to this restaurant for many years- since it's opening. At times, I've found the food to be terrific. At other times, the Chef's experiments are not successful. The Chef is a good chef, but he has been slow to learn that he must give his customers what they want instead of pushing them to accept his experiments, as the norm, though many of his creatively driven dishes were quite good. The menu is currently a nice mix of both. I enjoy this place being in town. Business seems brisk.Special Features:
- Variety of FlavorspjlgdineDined on 7/23/2014We enjoyed the variety of flavors in the various dishes. The truffle fries are great. The fish dish with berry and fresh peas purees was colorful and tasty. We enjoy the variety of salad and soup choices from beet salad to arugula to Kale soup. The chicken with plantains and mango puree was a nice combination. We loved the honey cake with ricotta cheese.Special Features:
- Highly creative menuWillyDined on 7/21/2014As their name suggests, the menu is extremely creative. Better yet, is that they deliver a meal that is outstanding. Each of the selections of small plates we ordered was absolutely delicious. We tried the hot pot, the veal dish, the ravioli, and arugala salad, and gelato desert. All fabulous.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- VinnyDined on 7/21/2014I come to Inovasi often, both for business meals and personally. This is my favorite restaurant in the area. I really enjoy the tasting menu.Special Features:
- Best North Shore RestaurantKixsombutVIPDined on 7/19/2014You can't go wrong with Inovasi. Chef John is constantly changing his menu to what's fresh and available locally. Inovasi provides foodie-worthy high quality and tasty dishes, without the snobbery. I highly recommend the chicken liver pate. It is one of the "lightest" more flavorful pates you will have. The ceviche was fresh and delicate. My out of the sea dish was Ahi tuna on a bed of polenta, garnished with fresh cherries and herbs. Burgers with truffled fries were equally filling and juicy. Slow roasted veal was good, only problem was you wanted more. If you haven't tried it, go to Inovasi. They also have weekday specials, that make it easier on the wallet.Special Features:
- Good placeLizzyDined on 7/19/2014The food was good. Out waiter kept forgetting about us. When we first sat down he did not notice we were there for about 10 minutes. During dinner we ordered a side of mustard to go with our burger. He brought it at the end when our food was gone. I think if we had a different waiter it would have been a better experience.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Wonderful findFree2bDined on 7/17/2014The food and service were outstanding. The menu was somewhat limited, but all our choices were excellent. I will definitely return.Special Features:
- not as good as usualLEP25VIPDined on 7/16/2014Definitely not as good when the chef/owner is not there. The chicken was extremely dry and the fish and chips....the fish was over fried and a sharp knife was needed to cut it.Special Features:
- Service was inexcusableLBdinerDined on 7/5/2014I have never experienced such an inattentive wait staff. It ruined the evening. The food was okay but didn't make up for the 15 minutes we waited for anyone to come by after being seated or the 15 minutes we waited for someone to come back to take our order. We were given desert menus and never saw the waiter again. We left.
- Always excellent & GF NirvanaTamarapVIPDined on 7/3/2014I have lived in the area 2 years and this is one of the first places we went. I have returned many times for both lunch & dinner; with friends, the kids and with out of town visitors. It never disappoints. The food is fresh and locally sourced. The cocktails are great. You can order a real meal for the kids (steak & veg) or the usual suspects (a burger)and know the ingredients are quality. The menu changes with whats available and I like that, you know its in season. I love that the menu highlights which dishes are Gluten Free, something that makes dining a breeze for me and negates the 47 trips back to the kitchen to check whats in every dish, something I really don't enjoy. Inovasi is a local gem and makes me wish I lived in Lake Bluff!Special Features:
- Lucky to Live in Lake Bluff!eat2liveDined on 6/28/2014This neighborhood gem is one of my most favorite restaurants anywhere on the North Shore and it just happens to be within walking distance from my house! My husband and I embrace a Whole-food, plant-based diet and we never fail to find fresh, local, offerings on John's ever-changing menu. On this visit I had the wild salmon with pickled radish and red quinoa and it was divine. Sat outside on a beautiful summer evening, sipped a delicious Pinot Noir and was in heaven...Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Friendly and accessibleOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 6/21/2014I think Inovasi is a great North Shore find. The cuisine is elevated above the usual burger and Mexican fare without feeling really super formal. The chef combines ingredients in flavorful and creative fashion and the portions are not tiny but not huge either. The wine list is a little puzzling however. Most of the wines are pretty obscure.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Don't miss InovasiDennisSVIPDined on 6/6/2014This was our third visit to Inovasi in the past year and each time our expectations have been exceeded. The food selections are varied and great for small plate dinners. The appetizer sampler was outstanding with a variety of tasty options. The soft shell crab special this evening was the best I have ever tasted. Our server was friendly, professional, and knowledgeable of the menu items and wide array of wine selections. You can tell that each dish is prepared with freshness and care, as well as presentation.Special Features:
- GeffVIPDined on 6/6/2014always great food and great staff. Congrats on 5 years, John and Elkin RULESpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A nice place in a nice neighborhoodCandEonthetownDined on 6/6/2014Lake Bluff can boast of a small but vibrant downtown scene and Inovasi is a main player in the mix. The food and wine are just upscale enough to make it interesting but not so eclectic as to scare away the casual foodie. We had mussels and shepards pie and both were delicious. The creamed rutabega over the pie was a delicate taste to savor. The honey cake for dessert was a sweet way to top it off. The wine list was acceptable -- we started with a woody chardonnay and ended with a bottle of pinot noir - which we were able to cork and take with us - a nice change in the law that does not encourage patrons to finish the bottle before we leave. The outdoor seating is close to the road, but the neighborhood traffic is not bad at all - do it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Trying to be trendy, but not goodEatoutalotVIPDined on 6/6/2014We had steak frites and salmon. The salmon was over cooked and dry. The steak was way too salty. We arrived at 5 with reservations before a show at the Genesee. Although we were seated in the far east room with no other diners, the hostess refused to seat our party of four at a window table. We asked twice and she just repeated that we were given the table assigned. We chose not to make a fuss, but we will never go back. Our waiter was ok.
- innovative inovasi!WindyCityLoVIPDined on 6/4/2014We treked to Lake Bluff to hear a friend perform her music (Paula Lipson - guitar & vocals) & were told the place was charming & the food good. She was right! She packed the bar area for her performance so the noise level was a bit "off the charts" & even made it hard to hear music but the energy in the room was terrific. The menu is SO creative & the presentation artistic & impeccable. I think all the flavors could have been boosted up a notch or two as it was more satisfying for the eye than the mouth; but nothing was "not good", not by any means; just no stand-outs. Plus, we happened to be there during the week of the 5th anniversary and everything was 50% off; quite an amazing and generous promotion. Wish them many more!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Thank you for cust appreciation wkmaddymadVIPDined on 6/4/2014My husband and I normally come on Wed evenings and we were so happy to be a part of the celebration this week. The restaurant was packed and I was amazed at how wonderfully prepared the host staff and the servers were. My husband and I love to share the small plates and we asked the server to stagger them and he did a great job. The salads were outstanding and we always enjoy the cheese plate. My husband decided to try one of the creative cocktails, something with rum and basil... he loved it! On such a busy night, we never felt rushed and the kitchen delivered at an unhurried pace. Perfect night.Special Features:
- Outstanding ServiceKixsombutVIPDined on 6/3/2014Inovasi is usually my favorite and love everything. Chef John's menu is constantly changing, pending fresh local ingredients. Tonight, some dishes were off. Maybe John's being too creative. The best for the night was the chicken pate, "a light, fluffy, delicious butter". The tomato vegetable stew was decent but too tangy and had a slightly odd taste to it. Calamari was fried and flavored perfectly. Steak frites plate had too much flavoring and was quite salty, with very soggy fries. We had to scrape off most of the rub and au jus. Out of the Ocean plate was good and bad: fish was grilled perfectly, but the sauce underneath with red wheat berries and sugar snap peas were also too salty (even the peas were salty). Cookie dessert was okay.Special Features:
- Consistently Good Food and Service.EnjoyedDined on 6/3/2014Great Food served by staff who show their appreciation to the diners! Fortunate to have this restaurant on the Northshore.Special Features:
- I'll be back!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 6/3/2014The quality and preparation of the food is outstanding. Our server Chris was knowledgable of our food choices and wines! Our guest from Colorado thought it was the best calamari he'd ever had. He'll be back to Chicago and make Inovasi his 1st choice restaurant!Special Features:
- Always a TreatAcerbicaDined on 6/3/2014We save nights out at Inovasi when we want a treat. Burger night on Tuesday is always great; as selective omnivores, we can eat meat in very few restaurants. Inovasi & its associated restaurants use only humane, organic meat, and have a great focus on sustainable, local, organic food. We've occasionally not loved a dish, but by-and-large, most everything is fantastic and really has an element of surprise.Special Features:
- The following 758 reviews are from the Inovasi reviews archive.
- Great lunch!bkpknDined on 5/30/2014Service was very friendly and food was great, especially the fries.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DisappointingZenjiDined on 5/16/2014My first experience was exceptional outstanding food and ambience. This evening was our 28 wedding anniversary. White table cloths are gone. Noisy, a couple sat 2 feet from us as sitting was in a row, we heard their conversation, they heard ours. Not an inexpensive place to dine, but ambience overall was noth much different than any chain dinner. Would not return.
- Hamburger NightCucinaBella22VIPDined on 5/13/2014Ended up here on a Tuesday evening, which is also their hamburger night, which was a pleasant surprise because I like a good hamburger and the burgers were great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Wonderful ChefFoodie123Dined on 5/10/2014I am a big Fan of Chef John Des Rosiers and frequently buy his Wisma products at his store and at our local grocery store. This was our first time at Inovasi after wanting to go for months. The food at the restaurant was good. The only downside is the noise. We were there on a Saturday night and the place was full. We sat at a table for 4 and we could barely hear each other and even had a hard time talking with the waiter. There are a few tables for outside dining as the weather gets warmer. I think it would be great to eat outside, be able to talk to the people you came with and enjoy the wonderful food. I will try that next time.Special Features:
- Repeat customerPartyof5Dined on 5/10/2014We have been there several times. Love the food! Good wine. Reasonable prices for the quality that you get.Special Features:
- SchlepskiDined on 5/7/2014Never disappointed!! Love the food and the ambience. The service is always great and you never know who you're going to run into.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great serviceOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 5/5/2014Outstanding menu and great service. Not that busy surprisingly.I would recommend this to a friend.
- Bright SpotJohnnyRacDined on 5/3/2014Great open space atmosphere with windows on the street scene, but intimate small table settings in dining room in cozy center of Lake Bluff village. Celebrated a Birthday on Saturday night.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Smoked veal!GrapesVIPDined on 4/25/2014So tender and delicious! Let Inovasi do the smoked meat!Special Features:
- Burger Night at InovasiOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 4/22/2014idea of having a burger night is smart. There were 6-7 different burgers; all appeared tasty and innovative. I had the lamb burger, and i tasted the "bring the heat" burger and the truffle burger. the lamb burger was the best. i paired it with a porter, and had a great meal. i will say that the fries are good, but nothing special. the sweet potato spread that was served with the bread before the meal was also very pleasing. service was A+, the lamb burger and porter were A. i tasted the truffle burger and give it a B. a very good burger, but not as distinct in flavor as the lamb burger. i would also give the fries a B; very tasty, but not distinctive. Overall, i'd rate it an A-, but close to an A because the service was so outstanding.Special Features:
- Tables too close....food just OK.estbtDined on 4/12/2014The tables were too crowded. Every time the server went past, he bummed my chair. We could touch elbows with the group behind us. As server is taking another order, his rear end is in our face. We felt crowed on three sides. Service was slow. We decided that we would not be back within 10 minutes. Hoping the food would be so good we would change our mind...it wasn't. I left feeling hungry.
- Wonderful foodie find, bit of noisejazklavierDined on 4/11/2014A menu of interesting flavors matching the sophistication of more-expensive Chicago high-end restaurants but at what both of us thought was a more reasonable price point. Loved the four-course tasting menu averaging two decent-sized dishes per course and got quite full. Overall sound level is on the higher end and the bar area is a bit louder than the dining room. Eating early helped us beat the Friday-night crowd. Definitely coming back -- soon!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The use of fresh local ingredientsOpenTable Diner Since 2007Dined on 4/10/2014The use of fresh local ingredients is always important in my restaurant selections and Inovasi's chief strives to do just that. Delicious and enjoyable. The only negative is the selection and volume of the background music. A little light low volume classical (instead of the loud brash selection we heard during our recent lunch) would go a long way in earning that priced 5 star rating).I would recommend this to a friend.
- decent but expensivebizsimpsonDined on 4/8/2014I really like it here but find that it is very expensive. They serve small plates which I like but for a price. Also, their wines and mixed drinks are priced very high. Make sure you are specific if you dont want top shelfSpecial Features:
- As Good As It Gets....TheblindhomerVIPDined on 4/5/2014on the North Shore. Run, don't walk to get to this place. Scratch that, driving would be quicker! Everything is always wonderful and when it isn't, they make it right.Special Features:
- Generally, a very nice restaurantOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 3/17/2014Generally, a very nice restaurant with an interesting menu that changes seasonally.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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