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Today's Birthday (10/31/13). Follow your heart creatively this year. Projects and opportunities abound. Especially when you love your work, partnerships thrive the first half of the year. Springtime romance flowers to a new level, and a career opportunity sends summer fireworks. Work may include travel. Bring your love.
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Untitled by Jacques-André Boiffard, 1930
From L'Amour fou : Photography and Surrealism (Rosalind Krauss, Jane Livingston, Dawn Ades, 1985)
"The division of the universe into subterranean hell and a perfectly pure heaven is an indelible conception, mud and darkness being the principles of evil as light and celestial space are the principles of good: with their feet in the mud but their heads somewhat approaching the light, men obstinately imagine a tide that will elevate them, never to return, into pure space. Human life entails, in fact, the rage of seeing oneself as a back and forth movement from refuse to ideal, and from the ideal to refuse - a rage that is easily directed against an organ as base as the foot."
— Georges Bataille, The Big Toe
Aux abattoirs de la Villette by Eli Lotar, 1929 (from Documents)
"For every accessible reality, in each being, you have to find the place of sacrifice, the wound. A being can only be touched at the point where it yields: a woman under her dress, a god on the throat of the animal sacrificed."
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Fox follies by Anonymous (Jacques-André Boiffard?) for Documents n. 6, 1929
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"A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but begins to give their tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. In fact, for academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or a spit."
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|Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair.
—Maxon on America Singer
|America Schreave (née Singer)
|Full Name
|America Schreave (née Singer)
| Mer (by Aspen)
Ames (by family)
Kitten (by her father)
Darling (by Maxon)
My dear (by Maxon)
| 17 (in The Selection, The Elite and The One)
19 (in The One 's extra epilogue)
37 (in The Heir)
|Maxon Schreave (husband)
| Eadlyn Schreave (daughter)
Ahren Schreave (son)
Shalom Singer (father) †
Magda Singer (mother)
Kota Singer (older brother)
Kenna Singer (older sister)
May Singer (younger sister)
Gerad Singer (younger brother)
James Orders (brother-in-law)
Astra Orders (niece)
| Singer (formerly)
Selection competitor (formerly)
Queen of Illéa (currently)
| Carolina (formerly)
Angeles (currently)
|One (formerly a Five and Three)
America Schreave (née Singer) is the protagonist and narrator of The Selection, The Elite and The One. She was a Five chosen for the Selection, and became one of the Six Elites. She was ultimately chosen by Prince Maxon and got married to him, thus becoming the Queen of Illéa, after the Southern rebels murdered Maxon's parents in The One.
America is the middle child of five children, her older siblings being Kenna and Kota, and her younger siblings being May and Gerad. She grew up living in the fifth caste in the province of Carolina. America found her trade in music, being talented at singing, piano, violin, and many other instruments.
When Kota moved out of the house, America assisted him and got to know a boy from the sixth caste named Aspen Leger. After careful glances and flirty conversations, on her fifteenth birthday, America and Aspen began dating, and had dated for two years when Aspen encouraged her to enter the Selection. As a bribe for entering, America's mother allowed her to work alone and keep half of whatever she earned. After America tried to do something heartfelt for Aspen, he realized he could never spoil her and ended the relationship, leaving her heartbroken. America gave him all her allowance money and pennies, and ordered him to leave. When he left, America noticed that one penny was stuck to the bottom of the jar.
After being chosen as one of the Selected, America saw Aspen with another girl, Brenna, who was a Six, when she was leaving for the palace. She got upset that he moved on so quickly, but had already packed the jar with the one penny to bring with her.
At the palace, America was clearly not over Aspen, but tried to let him go. While in her room that night, America began to feel trapped and ran to the door that lead to the garden. However, the two guards that were stationed there didn't allow her to proceed. Just as America was about to faint, Prince Maxon appeared and ordered the guards to let her go outside. Immediately after they opened the doors, America ran outside and went to sit on a bench. Maxon found her and spoke to her, and the two got to know each other during a brief conversation, which ultimately became an argument. The next day during their first official meeting, the two agree to a "trade:" America will find out what the other girls think of Maxon and give him advice as long as he keeps her until the very end of the competition, so that her family continues to receive the checks that the palace sends them.
Eventually, America ran into Aspen, who had been drafted and became a palace guard. Not realizing Aspen was actually America's ex, Maxon had Aspen stationed to guard her room when America revealed that they knew each other. Although they could've both gotten into serious trouble if caught, America and Aspen both had secret meetings at the palace whenever they could. America, however, was not sure whether she loved Aspen or Maxon more. Though, at the end of The Elite, when she believed that she was leaving and told Aspen that she needed time to get over the prince, she realized she wanted Maxon more than him. America did not leave, however, and instead Natalie went home because her sister was killed by rebels.
Maxon said that as long as America was on her best behavior, his father would allow her to stay. Maxon, however, told America that while she'd had his heart from the beginning of the Selection, she did not have his trust. When America became confused, Maxon explained that even though he had told her many secrets and defended her, America acted rashly, and Maxon needed her to have faith in him. After Maxon left America to herself, America became determined to win the Selection.
King Clarkson then came to give her a talk about how if she won she would ruin centuries of work, and that Maxon better not choose her. He told her not to mention this conversation to Maxon or else. He then told her good-bye and left, as if nothing happened.
Days later, America and Maxon have contact with Northern rebels in the palace. When they go out to meet them again, America gets shot by a gang of criminals that tried to rob them. It wasn't a severe wound, however, and after stitches from her maids, she healed.
During a required ceremony known as the Convicting, where each of the remaining elite must publicly convict criminals. America's felon, however, had only stolen clothing for his family, and was assigned to her by Clarkson as a test. America can't sentence him to prison for life, and instead gives him the jewelry Maxon had recently given her and tells him to pay his debt to the king. Enraged by this offense, Clarkson gives Maxon the option to call the entire Selection off and start a new one, which Maxon ultimately refuses.
Clarkson finds out about the alliance America had forged with the Italians, and forces her to agree to film propaganda in favor of the castes; if she doesn't obey, then she must not care about the competition or Maxon. Before she can create the commercials, however, she learns that her father has died. She goes back to Carolina for his funeral, where she learns that Shalom was secretly a Northern rebel. When she returns to the palace, she finds out from Celeste that Kriss and herself are the last two girls standing, and that Maxon has invited all of the previous Selected back to the palace to celebrate.
In America's room later that night, Maxon reveals that he's bought a house for America's family near the palace, and that he's chosen her to be his wife and future queen. They begin making out and they ultimately admit their love for each other. They get undressed, almost to their underwear, with America telling him that she loves his back scars, because they are a sign of his love for her. A sudden noise in the hallway though stops them from going any further. Maxon simply sleeps next to her, both of them feeling safe and loved. In the morning, however, Maxon learns about America and Aspen's previous relationship and he accuses America of lying to him about everything. Completely heartbroken and hurt, Maxon tells her that he can't marry her after discovering this. America tries to explain the situation, but Maxon refuses to listen and leaves with Kriss.
The next day, right before Maxon is about to reveal his selection (of Kriss), the Southern rebels, having infiltrated the palace, attack, killing Celeste and Anne among many people. A rebel attempts to shoot America, but Maxon leaps toward her to save her life and gets hit below his left shoulder. Close to death, he apologizes to America for almost not choosing her, saying that he loves her to his last breath and that his heart belongs to her to "break it a thousand times if [she] like[s]." He orders Aspen to save America, not him, and Aspen obeys, taking her to a safe room with the intention of returning and saving the Prince too.
When the attack is over and the rebels are defeated, America is released and goes to the hospital where she reunites with Aspen, who is severely injured but alive. He informs her that Maxon is also alive and is now the king, as both his parents were killed by the rebels. Aspen confesses to America that he still cares a lot about her, but isn't in love with her anymore. Lucy comes in at that moment and she and Aspen kiss, with America finally realizing and approving of their relationship. When America goes to see Maxon, he tells her his decision about dissolving the castes, starting with the Eights merging with the Sevens and so on. He then gives her a beautiful engagement ring, complete with their birthstones, officially asking her to marry him. She happily accepts his proposal.
In the wedding, Aspen walks America down the aisle and gives her to Maxon, the two men now respecting each other. Maxon calls America "my dear" and they both smile, ready to exchange their wedding vows.
2 years after their wedding, during Maxon's birthday party, America announces to him that she is expecting their first child. The news made him tearfully happy and loving her even more.
Later she gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy, named Eadlyn and Ahren. Eadlyn is the heir of Illéa's crown and the narrator of the fourth book, The Heir.
Like her fiery red hair, America takes a rebellious attitude in concept. She tends to have a short temper, which she inherited from her mother. Despite saying she has no leadership skills, America isn't afraid to speak her mind. For example, when the palace was under rebel attack by the Southerners in The Selection, Silvia ordered America's maids to bring food to the Selected. America, however, told her that the girls can take care of themselves, and ordered Anne to provide food for the royal family only.
She is very stubborn and persistent at times, and may jump to conclusions a lot. She can also be hypocritical, but always apologizes if she is proven wrong. America's greatest fear when entering the Selection was losing her individuality, something the other Selected girls would even give up to take over the throne. Overall, America is a very courageous person that, at the end of the day, will always realize the mistakes she might have caused and will do anything to make things right. She is always afraid of losing someones love.
She usually defends people who are mistreated when her stubbornness doesn't blind her from the truth. She doesn't hesitate to think that the modern caste system is absurd and unfair, as shown in The Elite. America had personally thought that she would never have had a shot in the competition, which was proven otherwise when her relationship with Prince Maxon grew. In addition, America is not the girly type, as at first she didn't react well when she had to wear a dress instead of her usual wear of pants, and even requested pants from the prince at the palace in a bet. She often lacked self-esteem and tended to compare herself to the other Selected girls, Queen Amberly, and others, feeling inadequate to become a queen or to make Maxon or even Aspen like her. Thus, she almost never tried to be "sensual" hand flirty. Her only attempt to seduce Maxon resulted in a comical situation, as he laughingly pointed out that she was not being herself.
America has fiery, "brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together" and blue eyes "like the morning sky." She thought that she was not as beautiful or classy as the other Selected girls, as opposed to the opinion of almost everyone else around her. She found even her body plain, with non-noticeable curves. Maxon, however, during their first meeting, described her like this: "I was absolutely floored the first time I finally, truly saw her... As if it weren't enough that she was willing to stand up to me and clearly unafraid to be herself, she was dazzlingly beautiful. Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair. Her cheeks were smooth and slightly blushed from crying. And her lips, soft and pink, slightly parted as she studied our hands." He reassured her that "she is too beautiful for her own good." The king, however, thought she was just average and therefore unremarkable. He compared her to the other girls and said that she was very plain.
- "Maxon Schreave is the epitome of all things good. He is going to be a phenomenal king. He lets girls who are supposed to be wearing dresses wear jeans and doesn't get mad when someone who doesn't know him clearly mislabels him... Whoever he marries will be a lucky girl. And whatever happens to me, I will be honored to be his subject." — America Singer to Gavril Fadaye about Maxon Schreave
- "...I hope you find someone you can't live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them." — America Singer to Maxon Schreave
- "...True love is usually the most inconvenient kind." — America Singer to Maxon Schreave
- "It's you... I don't want to leave you." — America Singer to Maxon Schreave
- "Maxon, some of those marks are on your back so they wouldn't be on mine and I love you for them." — America Singer to Maxon Schreave
- "I'm not choosing him. Or you. I'm choosing me." — America Singer to Aspen Leger
- America was the former name of the country Illéa. Her mother had named her that supposedly because she kicked and fought her way out of her mother, just like America did to fight off China; however, it may have also been because her father, Shalom, was a Northern rebel.
- America's birthday is February 26.
- America is a multi-instrumentalist.
- She was her husband's first kiss in The Selection.
- Her surname, Singer, matches her last occupation before she entered the Selection.
- Queen Amberly, during a fun day in the Women's Room, said that America could call her "Mom" if the Selection ended the way she (Queen Amberly) thought it would.
- America, due to a misunderstanding, kicked Maxon in the groin during their first date.


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Arundo donax – Versicolor
August 22, 2014
Arundo donax is tall perennial cane that grows up to 6 m tall, but can grow even taller in optimal conditions with enough moisture and as much sun as possible. It grows in all kinds of soil types, can tolerate dry and wet soil, withstands polluted waste water contaminated soil and soil salinity.Arundo donax "Versicolor" is a bit smaller, less aggressive version with striped leaves. It's a bit less cold hardy and lacks original Arundo's vigor, but in temperate climate, cold hardiness doesn't really count as long as underground rhizomes survive the winter. In warm climates without freezing temperatures, canes remain green and stop growing at low temperatures. When spring arrives with warmer weather, canes start growing again, pushing out branches from original stem. In colder climate, everything above ground turns brown, but the canes usually survive and can also branch out in the spring. Usually all the canes are removed during the late winter or early spring, because fresh growth looks much more attractive.
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Chili
July 8, 2014
Trinidad moruga scorpion (Capsicum chinense) is one of the hottest chili peppers in the world. I'm not sure if I want to taste it, but it's nice to have such a powerful plant around.
It originates from Trinidad and Tobago. In warm places without freezing temperatures during the winter, it can grow as perennial, but even the lightest frost can completely kill it, so it's usually acting as an annual plant in temperate climate. Perhaps I'll try to place it into large pot during autumn and winter and try to keep it alive during the cold part of the year.
Chili was growing slow at first, but got quite vigorous when sun got a bit higher in the late spring. It liked baking in full sun at high temperature, but it also needed a lot of water. I've made a mistake and kept it inside the same pot for too long, which resulted in strong and a bit congested root system. When I planted it outside, it took quite some time to actually start growing again – I'm not sure if it was low temperature and excessive rainfall or the fact that it got root bound while still inside it's pot.
June 8, 2014
I decided to try growing Eucalyptus gunii and Eucalyptus globulus. The first is supposed to be hardy enough to survive our winters and will eventually go out. Eucalyptus globulus gets damaged when exposed to even moderate frost which makes it indoor plant.
More to come as this little project evolves..
Bamboo shoots
June 1, 2014
Each spring or early summer, bamboos start shooting. It's favourite time of the year for most of Bamboo growers, that anticipate the new season with curiosity.
Many bamboo varieties look similar if not almost identical when they are mature, but most of them, if not all, have unique shoots. To successfully identify a bamboo, we usually depend on unique characteristics – mature shoot appearance offers just that.
I'm growing several different bamboos and I decided to take shoot photos and try to capture their uniqueness.
Borinda fungosa is the first bamboo I owned. I had grown it from seed in 2011.
Shoots are a bit different from other bamboos, because of extremely large culm sheaths of Borinda genus. As they emerge, they seem completely hollow. After a while, they start to look more like other bamboos, when stem starts elongating and fills the empty space inside the shoot.
Borinda is a late shooter, it usually shoots around mid May. It usually (always so far) sets another round of shoots around September which get killed during the winter.
Hibanobambusa tranquillans 'Shiroshima' is thought to be a natural hybrid between Phyllostachys nigra 'Henonis' and Sasa veitchii. It's variegation and large leaves make it look spectacular.
Shoots often appear completely pink or white and then, after they get exposed to light, turn into light green, with cream white stripes and pink tanned sheath blades.
Fargesia Murieale is clumping bamboo that shoots early. Usually first shoots emerge in early to mid March.
Dense hair on the shoot offer good protection from pest that wakes up early in the spring, like slugs for example.
Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'
May 31, 2014
Houttuynia cordata should come with a warning, according to many gardeners that allowed it to grow freely around the garden. It produces underground rhizomes that "travel" into all directions, creating dense groundcover. In time it can loose it's colorful variegation and turn back into less attractive mostly green variety.
The plant just loves water. It thrives in moist or even wet soil, with roots occasionally submerged in water. It's a bit slower in dry conditions, but it tolerates drought as well. Its colors look best in full sun, but it doesn't mind growing in complete shade as well.
The plant have very strong smell that resembles smell of fish. Plants are edible and were used as herbs in Chinese medicine.
Bambusa ventricosa
May 18, 2014
Not so cold hardy addition – Buddha's Belly
|Basic information:
|Height: up to 15 m
Culm diameter: 5 cm
Hardiness: -6 °C
Characteristics: cold sensitive, vigorous, clumping bamboo,
forms swollen internodes when kept in containers or in dry
Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Spectabilis'
May 16, 2014
|Basic information:
|Height: 10 m
Culm diameter: 5 cm
Hardiness: -24 °C
Characteristics: very cold hardy, vigorous, running bamboo,
culms are bright yellow with green sulcus
young culms turn red when exposed to sun
they frequently genuflect, making zig-zag pattern at the base of the culm
some of the leaves have white stripe
It's one of most cold-hardy bamboos that grows to decent size and can be extremely vigorous, especially in warmer climates.
Phyllostachys aurea
May 16, 2014
|Basic information:
|Height: 4 to 8 m
Culm diameter: 3 cm
Hardiness: -18 °C
Characteristics: cold hardy, vigorous, running bamboo,
they frequently have compressed internodes at the base
Spring 2014
March 25, 2014
With warm weather, dormancy ended and new growth cycle started.
I stored weak Arundo donax Variegata divisions from last year in heated place without enough light. They survived, but not without casualties. Plants ended up even weaker and hopefully they will recover when I finally plant them outside. I learned my lesson to never store Arundo donax inside during the winter again. Most of the unvariegated clones I got by layering ended badly. Only two plants remain alive above ground, many died below the soil level as well. Heat, low light level and wet soil with minimal oxygen capacity did their worst. I left one clone outside and it froze and thawed continuously until spring, now it's also waking up. It may end up the best.
One variegated shoot already decided it's about time to break free.
Borinda fungosa seedling that got fried when temperatures dropped to around -10°C is regenerating. First branch buds are pale green, some of them almost white. Pale leaves that are starting to form have that distinctive pinkish tan like many other variegated bamboos. It doesn't seem to be variegated though, no true leaves are fully formed yet.
After prolonged sun exposure, even the newest shoots began to turn color from green to shiny dark brown. Culms get their specific color and they have a glossy look, just as they were polished. Young culms with wax coating take longer to change color. Culms with old, partly degraded remains of culm sheaths, can be totally brown, but beneath the straw colored sheath remnants, culms are green. During the spring, there are almost no leaves on fungosa, which means there's a lot of light.
One of the last plants that started growing was cold hardy Hibiscus Hibiscus moscheutos. It was started from seed year ago and I can only speculate if it's label was actually correct. Color of it's flowers also remains a mystery.
December 5, 2013
Cold weather ends the growing season sooner or later, this year it was rather soon. With no snow insulation, cold can induce more damage that with thick layer of snow insulation. This year, despite all the cold, we are yet to see the first snow.
Borinda fungosa seedling was holding on very well down to -5°C. Soon night temperature dropped down to -7°C and many of the leaves got damaged. Leaves that remained undamaged, surprisingly remained unfolded even during sunny and windy weather. It did loose all the shoots from this autumn, as it did last winter, but this time, some of them remained tall, only loosing their fragile top. Perhaps in the spring, they will begin the branching process. Cold weather persisted for around two weeks, daily highs were slightly above or below freezing, it was sunny and windy most of the time. Morning low temperatures were between -5°C and -8°C. This is it's second winter outside, I'll see how it resists cold. Last year when it was covered in thick layer of snow most of the winter, it managed to keep most of the leaves intact.
Well, the problem with all that snow insulation was weight. Heavy wet snow broke all the taller culms and only a couple of old tiny ones remained. Dead shoots that grew in late fall were not all dead, one of them managed to grow branches around the lowest node, that was buried under thick layer of mulch.
After almost a month of very cold weather, with fog persisting through most of the day, with day temperature slightly below freezing, leafs managed to unfold, showing the damage. It looks like most, if not all, leaves were completely killed or badly damaged. Culms and branches are showing their dark brown color and they seem to be alive even after prolonged period of cold weather. Hopefully in 4 months we'll get some warm weather for it to recover.
Phyllostachys pubescens 'Moso' seedling that escaped it's pot is showing moderate leaf damage. It's evident, that there's almost no damage on the escaped part of bamboo that ran out of the pot two seasons ago. Leaves that were pale during the summer and showed some kind of stress, wilted after first heavy frost. Dark green leaves mostly remained undamaged, but they do tend to wilt when exposed to sun. Wilting is normal, because soil already got frozen on top and bamboo have to save water inside it's leaves.
The part that escaped managed to put out numerous runners and a couple of shoots that barely poked out through the mulch. They are most likely whip shoots that missed their growing season. So far they haven't got soft and are most likely alive, waiting to resume in the spring. Last year, pot ended up as home of mice family that stayed there throughout the winter. They didn't do much damage, but there were holes all around the pot and I'm sure there was some root damage. Well, better mice than voles! They can devastate whole bamboo clumps.
Umbrella palm seedlings, planted around the garden and inside the pond didn't take the cold well. First hard frost killed everything above the soil/water level, and most likely, rhizomes as well. We'll see if it restarts in the spring, if not, I still have one large seedling kept safely inside.
At first dark green damaged leaves turned into straw color. They've kept their appearance as they would still be alive. Dry clumps of umbrella papyrus are looking quite good. I'm going to keep them for a while, if rain or snow doesn't make them look ugly that is.


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Using scenarios to design complex technology-enhanced learning environments
- Ton de Jong,
- Armin Weinberger,
- Isabelle Girault,
- Anders Kluge,
- Ard W. Lazonder,
- Margus Pedaste,
- Sten Ludvigsen,
- Muriel Ney,
- Barbara Wasson,
- Astrid Wichmann,
- Caspar Geraedts,
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- Wouter R. van Joolingen,
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Science Created by You (SCY) learning environments are computer-based environments in which students learn about science topics in the context of addressing a socio-scientific problem. Along their way to a solution for this problem students produce many types of intermediate products or learning objects. SCY learning environments center the entire learning process around creating, sharing, discussing, and re-using these learning objects. This instructional approach requires dedicated instructional designs, which are supplied in the form of what are called pedagogical scenarios. A SCY pedagogical scenario presents the learning process as an organized assembly of elementary learning processes, each associated with a specific learning object and a tool for creating this learning object. Designing a SCY learning environment is basically a two-step procedure: the first step is to select one of the available scenarios, and the second step is to define the domain content. The SCY technical infrastructure then handles the instantiation of the scenario as a SCY computer-based learning environment. In this article we describe the SCY pedagogical design scenarios and report on our experiences in designing four different SCY learning environments.
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Volume 60, Issue 5 , pp 883-901
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- 10.1007/s11423-012-9258-1
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Triangle Restaurant Week, May 12-18
So this Baltimore/DC Hound is in town for the weekend visiting Mom, and saw a card for the first Triangle Restaurant Week coming up this next week. More info at www.trirestaurantweek.com. I'm excited for Raleigh that one of my favorite Baltimore traditions is giving it a go here. 3 course, prix fixe menus (appetizer, entree, and dessert) for $15 lunch or $25 dinner at a number of restaurants (I think only some of these restaurants would find this price structure to actually be a good deal). Sounds like a nice selection of places (if you can get reservations) -- and I hope it grows in popularity like it has in other cities. The Mint, Glenwood Grill, Frazier's... all participating. I'd love to see reports back from anyone who checks it out to see if the menus the chefs are offering are any good, whether they're special choices not typically on the menu, whether you even have a choice between a few entrees, etc.
Doesn't seem very Triangle-y since every restaurant is in Raleigh, other than one in Cary and one in Apex. Nothing in Durham or Chapel Hill.
FYI, the Flash website links work only if you use Internet Explorer, apparently (and turn your speakers down because the music is LOUD).
Hmmm. The majority of the participating restaurants are in Raleigh. Not very Triangle, is it? Then again, I do see a prominent advert for the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitor Bureau on the home page. Let's not beat around the bush here. It's really a Raleigh promotional event.
re: Chow Penguin
I'm not sure why everyone's got their knickers in a twist about the restaurants being Raleigh-centric. It's not like Raleigh is soooo far away from Durham/Chapel Hill and the OP didn't seem to indicate that Raleigh was a problem.
Anyhow, for the OP I'd recommend two things. Search this board for mentions of the restaurants that interest you. Many have been reported on extensively. Most also have online menus. Which leads me to my second recommendation. Check those menus first. For many of the participating restaurants the $15/$25 menu represents a real savings to the diner. For some others that price doesn't reflect much of a difference from their regular pricing and the diner isn't getting much extra in the way of added value. Those restaurants are most likely in it for whatever extra advertising they can get.
re: rockycat
its not that its far away...its the fact that it is not the only City in the triangle. why not just call it Raleigh restaurant Week?
re: rockycat
To me, driving 30 minutes for dinner is too far. I realize a lot of people don't feel that way though. But I think the main point is that they shouldn't call it Triangle if it really is only Raleigh.
re: LulusMom
I had grandiose plans to visit 5 restaurants during RW...however I only made it to 3 and actually only got the RW special menu at one place. I had a great 3 days of eating, nevertheless!
Im a little disappointed there hasnt been more about in on here or anywhere else Ive searched...
Im not sure a link to my blog would be appropriate, so I will paste my expeiences here:
Ive been a fan of Fraziers since I moved to Raleigh to attend NCSU and discovered this little bistro tucked among the pizza joints, bookstores and college bars of Hillsborough Street.
In the eight years Ive been here, Fraziers has evolved into a sophisticated urban paradise for foodies--setting the bar in terms of service, culinary innovation and atmosphere very high indeed--and the Jennings' second project, Porters City Tavern opened next door and assumed the neighborhood bistro role. Yet Fraziers has maintained an intimate neighborhood accessibility and I am very glad they are in my neighborhood!
I was able to make my reservation with OpenTable without incident and was seated immediately upon arrival. Id asked for both the Restaurant Week and the regular seasonal menu. The RW menu looked good, but offered no options: mussels and orzo, saffron broth; roasted salmon with fennel (and something else, I should have written it down); chocolate tres leches cake, mango sorbet.
I hadnt eaten there since fall, so naturally my head swam with all the possibilities of the regular menu and the $25 menu was quickly discarded. I have to admit that menus are my porn. I love food with a passion that is sometimes shocking to me and I will often ask to keep menus to look at as Im eating so I can indulge in fantasies about what the other ten things I wanted to order would feel and smell and taste like.
I ended up ordering:
half portion of yukon gold gnocchi with duck confit, tomato jam, napa, celebrity dairy goat cheese and beurre noisette
wasabi-pea crusted halibut with spring pea and melted leek risotto, pea shoots and tomato coulis
single-origin Colombian chocolate and hazelnut mousse, fleur de sel palmier
2 glasses of Orvieto
Total bill was $60 plus tip. It was money well spent on one of the best meals Ive had in a long time. I could have laid down in the gnocchi and taken a bath, it was that good. The halibut was every flavor of spring bursting against my tongue and Im afraid the mousse has spoiled me from mangeant de la mousse de chocolat ordinaire toujours encore.
Ill be back this week to sit at the bar with a glass of the Orvieto and a book. Oh, and a whole portion of that ethereal gnocchi.
Friday night brought me to SONO, a recently opened Japanese/sushi restaurant in the Hudson condo building on Fayetteville St. Id hoped to be able to walk downtown (its about a mile and a half), but the weather was most uncooperative, with the same crazy early-evening thunderstorm pattern weve been having here for the past week.
I arrived right on time for my booking and was seated immediately after some confusion about the number of people in my party--one, not seven. The hostess was initally suspicious of this. Who makes a reservation for a party of one at 8 pm on a Friday? Me, thats who!
I go out to eat alone quite frequently and dont find it odd at all. I get to go where I want at the time I want, get to order what I want and stay as long as I want without compromise over someone elses tastes or schedule. (Im sure the error was simply a clerical transposition of the 1 and 7 on numerical keyboard vs. cell phone keypad.)
The interior is a sleek, contemporary urban space: backlit bar up front and visible from the streetfront, dining room in the center and sushi bar along the back wall. A red, black and bamboo color scheme is dominated by a huge photographic mural of a beautiful woman in a red cheongsam, lounging on the floor with one shoe fallen behind her as she contemplates a flower. Get a little bit of this, indeed!
I asked for both the Restaurant Week and the standard menus. The RW menu offered choices of 4-5 different appetizers and entrees, with dessert selection from the regular dessert menu. One of the entree options was any two specialty rolls--so this was an easy choice from a cost perspective. I generally prefer nigiri or chirashi to rolls, but this was a good deal.
I ordered:
stuffed calamari appetizer
Sono and Screaming O rolls
Key lime calypso dessert
250 ml bottle of Zipang sake
The stuffed calamari was a tube, stuffed with what tasted like a very spicy ebi shumai filling, fried and topped with a spicy sauce that tasted a lot like the sauce they serve on the firecracker shrimp at Mura, their restaurant across from my gym in North Hills.
I liked the Sono (tuna, red snapper, salmon, blue crab, wasabi and masako wrapped in nori and daikon) and I loved the Screaming O (spicy tuna, tempura shrimp and avocado with seared tuna outside).
The Key Lime Calypso was a very light and refreshing Key lime mousse with vanilla bean, wrapped in a dark and white chocolate tuile.
The Zipang was something I just had to try, since its the must-have beverage of the summer. It was different--Id describe it as a cross between sake and champagne, err, sparkling wine. Light and refreshing, it paired well with the spicy food.
It was a nice dinner, and a great atmosphere. Ill be back over the summer to work the chefs eat at the sushi bar or sit at the front bar for a cocktail or some more Zipang if Im feeling bubbly!
Located in uber-hot North Hills in Midtown Raleigh, Vivace is another successful concept by the Urban Food Group. I am obsessed with this place. From the gorgeous patio with mocha-umbrellaed tables, rattan chairs, indoor-outdoor bar and romantic fountain to the marble bar and curved and curtained sofa dividing the lounge from the dining room decorated in shades of cream and espresso...everything about this place is just my style. When I become wealthy and famous, Id like the architect and interior designer to design my home!
The modern trattoria concept is brilliant. Bustling, informal and vibrant, it just feels like an authentic neighborhood restaurant in Rome or Tuscany. I love the seasonal, regionally focused menu. I love the filtered tap water served in large glass bottles. I love that wines are offered by the quartino and organized by region. I love that a mid-afternoon intermedio menu is offered. I love sitting at the chefs bar overlooking the open kitchen. And I really love the cocktail menu based on homemade cellos and sangrias.
Okay, on to Restaurant Week! Upon arriving for my booking, the hostess asked if Id prefer a table or to be seated at the chefs bar. Chefs bar, please! I was thrilled to find it open on a Saturday night! I asked for both the RW and the regular menus and settled in with a mojito with house-made limecello to consider my options.
The Restaurant Week menu had more offerings than the single choices presented at Fraziers, 2-3 options each for appetizer, entree and dessert. I thought Id decided when the striped grouper on the regular menu caught my eye.
My dinner:
buffalo bocconcini, arugula, strawberry sauce amuse-bouche
bucatini all' amatriciana con gambieri
pan-roasted grouper, grilled radicchio, fingerling potatoes, saffron brodo, bitter herb salad
honey-almond gelato, almond bric tuile
quartino of orvieto
The amuse-bouche was tangy and creamy, offset by the sweetness of the strawberry sauce. The house-made pasta was perfectly cooked and had the just the right amount of spicy sauce with smoked pancetta, red pepper and tender shrimp. The fish was fresh off the Carolina coast, moist and sweet, balanced by the bitterness of the warm radicchio and cool herb salad.
I only managed a third of my entree, packing the rest for home, but I cannot resist an opportunity to linger over coffee and dessert...so I ordered cappucino and the house made honey-almond gelato that Id watched being paddled up before me all night.
I think Ill be back with a 12-oz to go container from work and gladly pay whatever it costs to pack it with more of that creamy, honeyed silkiness. All Id need then is a pool boy to spoon it into my mouth.
re: Melusina54
Thanks for the great reports! My schedule didn't allow me to take advantage of Restaurant Week this year. I'm really looking forward to it next year, especially if their plan to expand into other Triangle cities is successful.
Your descriptions leave me with cravings my refrigerator can not satisfy...


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Kyle Connery made it three wins on the year and moved back into second place in the F2000 Championship Series standings, leading all 18 laps from pole at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Connery, driving the #91 Van Diemen, separated himself from the pack and held off the competition from a 28-car field on a mid-race restart to take his third win in eight races.
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After our unit on De/Meaning Sex and Gender, I knew I wanted to focus my web event on intersexuality. It's a form of biological diversity of sex which most people don't hear about until college, and many not even then.
So I started thinking—when would it make sense for students to first be introduced to intersexuality in an academic setting? I thought back to my own education in biology and the answer, to me, was middle school. In my middle school we had a unit in biology class which was basically "puberty education," although I don't remember what its official title was. We learned about the physical changes that male and female bodies go through in puberty—in other words, the changes our own bodies were going through right then. This would have been the perfect time to mention that not everyone would exactly fit into one pattern or another—that chromosomal sex, primary sex characteristics, and secondary sex characteristics don't always match up. But this was never covered—not in middle school, high school or beyond.
I know that not everyone is given information about sex characteristics or the reproductive system in middle school, or even later. But to me the timing felt right.
I included the permission slip because I think that for many schools this would be part of the process of giving such a lecture.
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Thousand Oaks Vigil Held in Alleged NY Nanny Murders
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (KTLA) -- A candlelight vigil was held in Thousand Oaks Sunday to remember two children stabbed to death in New York, allegedly by their nanny.
Police say Yoselyn Ortega, 50, repeatedly stabbed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and her 2-year-old brother Leo on the evening of Oct. 25 before wounding herself.
The children's mother, who had been out with a third child, returned home to find the bodies in the bathtub.
The father of the children, Kevin Krim, played football at Thousand Oaks High School, and his father still lives in Camarillo.
Friends of the Krim family gathered Sunday evening outside St. Paschal Baylon Church to offer their support and condolences.
"We just wanted to show our love and support and we felt that sometimes words just aren't enough," said organizer Kimberly Mutolo.
"We wanted to be there just to show our light and our support as a group and as a whole," she said.
Ortega, who had worked for the Krim family for two years, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder.
She had recovered from her wounds enough to be interviewed by police on Saturday.
Friends and family say she had been struggling financially, but there still isn't a clear motive for the stabbings.Copyright © 2014, The Baltimore Sun


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Earth and Environmental Science > Earth Sciences Series. Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
Earth Sciences Series. Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
Welcome to the homepage of Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, a comprehensive reference work from Springer.
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Daisy by Ben Torode
i want a relationship like this <3
Most are -.- It looks great! It looks great! Here it comes! And it falls apart.
This raccoon never left the side of a cat who was dying of a tumor. The cat was comforted for the final hours of her life by her long time friend.
iTS STROKING IT
i got a cat yesterday but i think he's broken


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Environmental Group Breaks the Silence on Population Control
Major American environmental groups have dodged the subject of population control for decades, wary of getting caught up in the bruising politics of reproductive health.
Yet, virtually alone, the Center for Biological Diversity is breaking the taboo by directly tying population growth to environmental problems through efforts like giving away condoms in colorful packages depicting endangered animals. The idea is to start a debate about how overpopulation crowds out species and hastens climate change — just when the world is welcoming Baby No. 7 Billion.
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