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Endogenous Progenitors Cell Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers (AMD3100)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01353937
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (Never Activated)
First Posted : May 16, 2011
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Diabetic Ulcer
|Drug: AMD3100 injection + rhPDGF-BB topical
|Phase 1
Because diabetes impairs wound healing by altering fibroblast function, promotes chronic infection and diminishes blood supply to the skin, the lifetime risk of a person with diabetes developing a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is as high as 25%. Current strategies focus independently on the fibroblast dysfunction (growth factors such as PDGF/Regranex® Gel), on the chronic infection (debridement, antibacterial dressings) or on the blood supply (VAC®).
This project is different from the other projects because we propose to combine two drugs in a dual approach to first improve the fibroblast function using PDGF/Regranex® Gel and second to induce neovascularization in DFU by recruiting progenitor cells into the wound through a combination therapy of subcutaneous AMD3100 (Plerixafor/Mozobil®) with topical PDGF/Regranex® Gel. By contrast to novel stem cell therapies where cells are extracted, processed ex vivo and engrafted into the wound (exogenous stem cell therapy), here we propose to keep the stem cells in vivo (endogenous stem cell therapy).
Specifically, the first aim of the study will be to launch a prospective evaluator-blind pilot phase I/II safety and efficacy study to evaluate the clinical effect of AMD3100 (Plerixafor/Mozobil®) treatment with topical PDGF/Regranex® Gel compared to historical controls (standard of care and PDGF). AMD3100 (240 µg/kg SC) will be administered daily for 2 weeks. Our primary endpoint will be the measure of the percentage of change in area of the wound at 4 weeks (surrogate endpoint). In a second aim, we will measure the effect of AMD3100 treatment with PDGF using a quality-of-life index dedicated to DFU (DFS-SF).
Because we are addressing the underlying physiopathology in a dual approach, because we are avoiding the need for ex vivo processing and because both drugs are FDA approved, we believe that this novel therapy yields great promise in the treatment of DFUs.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Endogenous Progenitors Cell Therapy for Diabetic Foot Ulcers
|Study Start Date :
|April 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|March 2016
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|September 2016
No Intervention: Standard of Care
All patients will be receiving the Standard of Care treatments regardless of whether or not they are receiving study drug.
Active Comparator: Novel Combination Therapy
AMD3100 (Plerixafor) injection with Regranex Gel topical application
Drug: AMD3100 injection + rhPDGF-BB topical
drug therapy to be given for the first 2 week duration given on a daily basis initiated during the first visit (Day 0).
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Becaplermin (Regranex Gel)
Topical application
Drug: AMD3100 injection + rhPDGF-BB topical
drug therapy to be given for the first 2 week duration given on a daily basis initiated during the first visit (Day 0).
Other Names:
- Rate of Wound Closure [ Time Frame: 1 year ]The safety and efficacy of AMD3100 (Plerixafor) with rhPDGF-BB (Becaplermin) compared to two historical treatments group (Beclapermin versus standard of care (SOC) treatment) for the treatment of DFUs.[21] The central hypothesis to be tested is that a novel combination therapy will significantly increase the rate of closure of DFUs as compared to historical treatments groups, while presenting no major side effect.
- Quality of Life [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]Test whether patients treated with the novel combination therapy will have an improvement in their quality of life, with higher scores on the DFS-SF than those of the historical control groups.
- Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]long-term measure of diabetes control
- capillary blood glucose (ACCUCHEK Finger Stick) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]short-term measure of diabetes control
- Transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements on wound and 1 cm-radius periphery (Radiometer adult sensor) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]non-invasive measure of skin circulation
- Ankle-brachial index (ABI, Prestige sphygmomanometer and Summit doppler probe) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]measure of peripheral vascular disease
- pain (Visual-Analog Scale) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]measure of the subjective symptom of pain
- temperature of surrounding skin in a 1 cm-radius around the DFU (TempTouch Dermal Thermometer) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]to identify increased skin temperatures, intended as an early warning of inflammation, impending infection, and possible foot ulceration.
- sensation (Nk Pressure-Specified Sensory Device) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]Quantification of sensory nerve function in patients with symptoms of, or the potential for, neurologic damage or disease
- photogrammetry (Photoshop CS3, Adobe Systems) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]used to document wound appearance
- glomerular filtration rate (GFR, estimated by 24 hr. urine creatinine measurement) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]to estimate renal function
- diabetic retinopathy (digital ophthalmologic examination) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]to evaluate for development of nonproliferative and proliferative retinopathy
- cEPCs by FACS analysis [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]to measure the extent of BM EPC mobilization into the circulation and correlate the number cEPCs to other primary and secondary endpoints
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|35 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Insulin-dependant type 2 diabetic patients
- Age between 35 and 60 years-old
- HbA1C between 6 and 12%
- Full-thickness diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers
- ≥ 2 weeks duration
- Following standard of care débridement, ulcer size must be between 1 and 6 cm2
- Adequate perfusion, defined as either transcutaneous oxygen measurements on the dorsum of the foot >30 mmHg or ankle brachial indexes 0.7<ABI<1.2, as well as toe pressure >30 mmHg.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinical infection at the studied ulcer site (bacterial and fungal)
- Clinically significant lower-extremity ischemia (as defined by an ankle/brachial index of <0.65)
- Active Charcot's foot as determined by clinical and radiographic examination
- Ulcer of a non-diabetic pathophysiology (e.g., rheumatoid, radiation-related, and vasculitis-related ulcers, and especially venous stasis ulcer)
- Significant medical conditions that would impair wound healing will also be excluded from the study. These conditions include liver disease, aplastic anemia, scleroderma and malignancy, treatment with immunosuppressive agents or steroids, myocardial infarcts, stroke, major surgery within 6 months of the study, usage of tobacco
- Subjects with cancerous or pre-cancerous lesions in the area to be treated
- Body weight > 160 kg (because of Plerixafor's pharmacokinetic limitation)
- Severe renal dysfunction (creatinine clearance < 50 ml/min)
- Severe non-proliferative or proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- Capillary blood glucose >350
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01353937
|United States, New York
|Helen L. & Martin S. Kimmel Wound Healing Center at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
|New York, New York, United States, 10003
|Principal Investigator:
|Stephen Warren, MD
|NYU Langone Health
|Responsible Party:
|NYU Langone Health
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|May 16, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2016
|Last Verified:
|March 2016
wound healing
Diabetic Foot
Foot Ulcer
Pathologic Processes
Diabetic Angiopathies
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Leg Ulcer
Skin Ulcer
Skin Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases
Diabetic Neuropathies
Foot Diseases
Plerixafor octahydrochloride
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Angiogenesis Inducing Agents
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Luther Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team holds the name of "Freya". In Norse mythology, Freya refers to the goddess of love, beauty, and war. Each fall and spring, our team attends tournaments in the Midwest, and across the country, in order to prepare ourselves for the USA Ultimate College Series which takes place in April and May.
We work hard to cultivate an open environment, and welcome new players at any skill level! Each year is spent building a strong team, learning new skills, and becoming better players and better people!
To our alumni, friends, family, and Luther administration and community, thank you for your continued support—we hope to see you all on the sidelines at some point this season.

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As is customary each year around this time, I like to offer up a list of spirits that might look good under the tree or on the holiday table.
Some of these fall into the special occasion category while others may earn a permanent, year-round place in your collection.
To say that the single malt whisky category is hot would be an understatement; single malts are on fire and the selection has never been better.
The bad news is that many standards --such as 16-year-old Lagavulin, for example--have gone up significantly as a result of single malt's popularity. Not along ago Lagavulin sold for about $60; it's now double that.
There are still some bargains to found, however. Take Talisker's 25-year-old ($275), a nice price for such a great whisky, especially when compared to many other single malts of this age. (The Macallan's 25-year-old, for instance, sells for roughly $425).
Or how about the 1958 Glen Grant at $400, compared to the 1964 Black Bowmore at $6,500? The 16-year-old Longmorn ($82) is a terrific whisky for the price, one of my favourites.
And I also have my eye on a new arrival from Balvenie, a 17-year-old Sherry Oak ($134) that promises to be a great addition to the cabinet.
I have to admit that I've never been much of a vodka fan. They pretty much all taste the same, other than the fact that the premium efforts undergo multiple pot distillations and as a result are smoother than those produced in a continuous still.
But the arrival of Hangar One vodkas in Calgary earlier this year changed all that. These premium spirits, produced in San Francisco, are almost in a league of their own.
The latest addition to the mix is the Spiced Pear ($55). It tastes like Christ-mas cake, and I mean that in a good way.
Hangar One macerates their vodkas in pure fruit and the flavours are so intense that they can easily be drunk straight, either over ice or martini-style (minus the vermouth). These exceptional spirits are now available in attractive 200-mL bottles ($18), just in time for stocking stuffers.
Many find grappa to be an acquired taste, but the key here is to stick with the premium efforts.
I recently purchased a bottle of a new grappa from Icario ($64 per 500 mL), produced in Tuscany's Montepulciano region, and it is a bargain for a spirit of this calibre. This is a barrel-aged grappa and is exceptionally smooth and full with some spice and vanilla notes, packaged as many grappas are in a really cool perfume-style bottle.
Another great choice would be either the Torcolato ($91) or Vespaiolo ($86) grappas from Jacapo Poli, one of Italy's finest producers. The bottles alone are works of art but the contents are what it is really about.
Best Cellars
Spirit: forty creek whisky double Barrel reserve
Country: canada, from Grimsby, southern ontario
Suggested retail price: $62, Gst included.
Availability: select liquor stores Tasting notes: forty creek has received numerous accolades for its whisky from experts such as the late michael Jackson, david Broom and charles cowdery, who described the regular forty creek ($30) as the only widely available, honest-to-God boutique whisky made in north america: a true craft distillery. the limited edition double barrel is aged both in sherry and bourbon casks and is distilled from rye, barley and corn. the end result is a wonderfully smooth whisky offering notes of honey, vanilla, nuts and spice with a long, mellow finish.
Poli delivers grappas that are delicate and complex; he is a master distiller in every sense of the term. Cheers!
Geoff last is a lonGtime calGary wine merchant and writer and a reGular contriButor to city palate and other puBlications. he instructs on food and wine at the cookBook company cooks.


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A catering truck, especially one which frequents blue collar places of work; generally a modded pickup truck with insulated diamond-pattern doors covering a refrigerator case and a warmer unit with attached griddle.
"Naw, we wait till the roach coach comes around at 12:15 to take our lunch breaks around here."
by firstname.lastname@example.com April 18, 2004
the newer, industrial strength roach coach is a mini-restaurant on wheels that is mounted on a truck chassis and is about the size of a UPS truck. Typical coaches have sides that open up to reveal varions snack and beverage items, in addition to an order window where the smiling Hispanic gentleman and his wife/sister or other female cook take and fill orders. Previously confined to construction sites and garages, now the roach coach prowls office parks offering secretaries a fried breakfast and lunch. The call of the wild roach coach is an obnoxious semi-musical horn that calls the willing sheep to be sheared and then fattened up on grease-laden fare.
I 'ate' at the roach coach yesterday and had the trots all night.
When people bring in roach coach food, you can smell the grease all over the building.
Roach coach cooking is the opposite of good food.
When people bring in roach coach food, you can smell the grease all over the building.
Roach coach cooking is the opposite of good food.
by adam_before_eve October 21, 2005
Roach Coaches are food service trucks, usually found making stops in industrial areas and county fairs. Some of the food can be quite good, but whatever you do, don't eat the sushi!
I had some roach coach sushi, and I havent gotten off the toilet since.
by gooberliberation February 07, 2006
A Roach Coach refers to a coach with a passionate love for one athlete, but neglects the rest of the team. This type of coach is usually from Minnesota.
by isthisthekindofdayitsgoingtobe December 17, 2019
A barf buggy. An industrial catering truck.
It's break time. Let's get a Moon Pie off the roach coach.
by Bumkicker Slade May 10, 2005
a mexican food truck or van
I got some phat tacos from the roachcoach.
by Roachin April 17, 2010
the coffee truck that arrives on the job site with cold coffee, stale rolls, and spoiled milk. sometimes if your lucky, you can meet the entire insect family on this truck.
what do you want from the roach coach? yo, let me get a buttered roll, coffee, cream, no sugar, and the baby roack sandwich.
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1307 Camp, Charleston, SC 29412
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Quick Summary
- Property ID
- 19005248
- Price
- $265,000
- Type:
- Cottage, Traditional
- Status:
- Sale
- Area:
- 1223 ft2
- Lot Size:
- 0.29 acres
- Beds:
- 3
- Baths:
- 2
- Year Built:
- 1996
- City:
- Charleston
- Neighborhood:
- Farmington
- Zip:
- 29412
- Days On Market:
- 470
- Listed by:
Property Description
First time home or Income Property or personal home on one level! This is the perfect home in a perfect location! 1223 square feet with a one car garage and in an X flood zone seems to meet the criteria for a great investment. This 3 bedroom 2 bath home may need some cosmetic work, but it has a brand NEW ROOF. The circle driveway and mature landscaping add to the homes curb appeal. Walking in the home from the covered front porch you will notice the kitchen and dining area to the right and the bedrooms to the left of the living area. The good sized kitchen and dining area are large and flow nicely to the rear patio and huge back yard with its mature trees. The backyard is your own park!The vinyl siding and freshly painted trim help to reduce maintenance costs. James Island at a great price
Property Features
- Level
- Patio
- Ceiling - Cathedral/Vaulted
- Wooded
- 0 - .5 Acre
- Porch - Front Porch
- Inside
- Ceiling - Smooth
- Fence - Wooden Enclosed
- Camp Road Estates
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- Country Club
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- Stone Edge
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Contact Agent
Jimmy was extremely patient with us. I believe we looked at every possible house in our price range over several months. Jimmy was willing to meet us any day, any time. He always had knowledge of the builder of the house and the neighborhood. When we finally found the one, Jimmy helped every step of the way, and is still willing to answer questions months after we moved in. I would recommend him to anyone.
Jimmy has been working with my wife and I on our first home purchase, including helping us with advice on getting our credit improved legitimately, mortgage information and local area home values. He's gone the extra mile to get my family into a new home and I'm very appreciative and recommend him highly to anyone looking to purchase their first or their next home.
James is an extremely knowledgeable realtor and my husband and I will definitely recommend him to anyone we know house hunting in the area! James listened to our wants and needs to help us find not only the perfect home, but the perfect neighborhood too. We are 100% satisfied with our experience with James. He was extremely attentive and always responsive when we had questions that pertained to our dream home. He is an exceptionally hard worker, and will go above and beyond what it takes to make sure his clients are happy!
James is an extremely knowledgeable realtor and my husband and I will definitely recommend him to anyone we know house hunting in the area! James listened to our wants and needs to help us find not only the perfect home, but the perfect neighborhood too. We are 100% satisfied with our experience with James. He was extremely attentive and always responsive when we had questions that pertained to our dream home. He is an exceptionally hard worker, and will go above and beyond what it takes to make sure his clients are happy!
We count our lucky stars that we found James! We had been casually looking at homes in the Charleston, SC area online from our home on Long Island, NY; we wanted an escape from the winters here. He was everything a great Real Estate Agent should be but often isn't: honest, hard-working, knowledgeable of the area, quick to respond, tenacious, friendly, and most of all, patient. Having never visited the area we had no idea of what the different neighborhoods were like - and in Charleston, there are so many to choose from. James took the time
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Guns N' Roses – Chinese Democracy (2008, Geffen)
- Chinese Democracy
- Shackler's Revenge
- Better
- Street Of Dreams
- If The World
- There Was A Time
- Catcher In The Rye
- Scraped
- Riad N' The Bedouins
- Sorry
- Madagascar
- This I Love
- Prostitute
Axl Rose – Vocals
*** There are so many different musicians that have been in an out of GnR during the last 13+ years of production and I am not going through the entire booklet. It's not the original GnR, only Axl remains from that era. Go to the GnR website to see who contributed to this record and who is in the band right now.
Produced by: Axl Rose & Caram Costanzo
Total Time = 1:11:26
Guns N' Roses official website
Guns N' Roses MySpace page
Geffen Records
Well it's finally here! After close to 14 years, Axl Rose has come out of his protective shell and delivered the most hyped Hard Rock album of all-time: CHINESE DEMOCRACY. It's the first new material from Guns N' Roses since 1991's USE YOU ILLUSION albums with a whole new cast of bandmates surrounding the enigmatic Axl. I'll be honest, I never thought that the album would be released and I have always thought that either the album will be the greatest album of all-time or the biggest flop, there will be no middle ground. The burning question is will anyone care? It's been so long since the band was at the top of the charts and the music business has changed dramatically from how artists make music, to how we buy it, to how we listen to it. Is this the time to release CHINESE DEMOCRACY or was it 10 years ago?
I never bothered to listen to any of the leaked tracks that have popped up over the years so I really didn't know what to expect. The opening title track is heavy on guitar and layered Axl vocals and it's an obvious nod to the earlier incarnation of the band. It's an aggressive song but it sounds like Axl is trying too hard to grab the older fans from the outset with a familiar APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION tone. I'm one of those fans who bought the debut before the band was huge so I got hooked right away. The exclusive single for the ROCK BAND 2 video game, 'Shackler's Revenge', starts to show some diversity in direction with elements of Hard Rock, Techno, and Industrial combining for an interesting listen. I'm not digging the deep vocal Axl puts on this but the song picks up steam with the chorus, sounding like current Hard Rock. 'Better' is the actual lead single that Geffen sent to radio and it's my favorite off the record. The song follows a melodic mid-tempo line until the chorus gets a little more aggressive and the song builds from there around the solo break. There is some good clean guitar mixed with a distorted/synth type guitar that brings the song a traditional feel while exploring different melodic tones. The first ballad arrives in 'Street Of Dreams' and I had to breathe a sigh of relief because I would have crucified this record if it was a cover of the Rainbow classic! The song follows a great piano melody and builds as the guitar joins in. Remember 'November Rain'? It may not be as over the top but 'Street Of Dreams' does have that grand feel to it, following the Guns N' Roses tradition of great ballads. Four songs in and I'm not disappointed at all. The songs have a diverse sound and both 'Better' and 'Street Of Dreams' would have easily fit on either USE YOUR ILLUSION albums.
The first low point comes with the mid-tempo 'If The World'. I'm not really sure what to make of this song because I hear the guitar and the piano leading the way but it sounds like ballad with a touch of Funk, Jazz, and Latin. It's ambitious, I wouldn't expect this kind of musical blend to be on a Guns N' Roses record. 'There Was A Time' has some interesting guitar parts but not enough to keep me interested. Add some orchestration and a dash of electronic backgrounds and the song does build up nicely, it's just that this marks the fourth song in a row that leans more to the melodic and slower side of life. I understand Axl's penchant for making grandiose epics but how many do we need in a row? We need another obviously because the almost six minute 'Catcher In The Rye' follows the same formula minus the electronics. 'Catcher' sounds almost like a cross between GNR and Elton John with only the guitar solo reminding you that this is technically a Hard Rock record.
'Scraped' redeems my faith that Axl can make solid Hard Rock. This is an overdue guitar driven rocker that Axl shrieks all over. It's more modern than what old GNR is like but it's pretty cool, the intro needs to be dumped though. Same thing goes for 'Riad N' The Bedouins', lose the 45 second instrumental intro and kick right into the song because it kicks things up a notch! There is more experimental guitar sounds surrounding the traditional guitar but it's a fast tempo and there's a tasty solo in the middle. That Axl shriek is carried over from 'Scraped' as well as a driving drum sound. Obviously this band can still rock so it's a total mystery why ANOTHER mid-tempo/ballad type song has to be offered with 'Sorry'. The song is totally experimental, Axl channelling his inner Pink Floyd to create a soundscape that sounds so out of place and outer space! I'll give the guy his due for creating something so out of the box but if I want to hear DARK SIDE OF THE MOON I'll put it on! There is another Industrial/Electronic influence on 'I.R.S.' albeit a small one. 'I.R.S.' is following the same formula as all the other slower songs on CHINESE DEMOCRACY: follow a simple mid-pace rhythm and build to the chorus, repeat and build to the solo. Same thing goes for 'Madagascar', another of these type of songs. I think trying to recreate the success of 'Don't Cry' and/or 'November Rain' with similar epic just isn't what the doctor ordered. I could also do without all the sampled audio during the solo too.
'This I Love' is a piano ballad with orchestration and not much else. The vocals are pretty good but I'm so disappointed with the lack of power on this record that it's a small consolation. The lone bright spot on this song is the Scorpions style power ballad guitar solo. This song is just over five and a half minutes and it's way too long. My hope was hinged on 'Prostitute', a sleazy Hard Rock song title to be sure! Unfortunately, it's another song that follows the epic formula with a piano lead, orchestration and guitars that only seem to appear when the chorus hits. At this point, I don't need a six minute song that sounds like the rest of the album.
Bottom Line:
It's been 14 years in the making, with millions of dollars spent on production, and CHINESE DEMOCRACY is as overblown as the hype surrounding it. The album started off promising with the first four songs but, with the exception of 'Scraped' and 'Riad N' The Bedouins', the rest of the album sounds like different variations of the huge classic hit 'November Rain'. Maybe I was wrong to think that a new Guns N' Roses album would rock because only 4 out of 14 actually do. It's as if Axl and his band are trying to recreate the USE YOUR ILLUSION era of diversity but the problem is that there were some kick ass rockers on those albums. You can only have so many epics, ballads, and mid-tempo songs before it all sounds the same. I was expecting GNR to go for the throat with at least half of the songs but only a few break out. I'm not saying that CHINESE DEMOCRACY is a bad album, it's just not as good as it should be after the years put in and I'm disappointed.
Favorite Songs: 'Better', 'Street Of Dreams', 'Shackler's Revenge', 'Chinese Democracy', 'Scraped', 'Riad N' The Bedouins'


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BONE DETECTIVE (Feb, 1950)
By Alfred Eris
AN EGYPTIAN!" The FBI agent drew back, startled. "But, Doctor Stewart," he protested, "This hand was found in Oklahoma!" He waited for the slim, bespectacled Smithsonian scientist to switch his diagnosis.
Doctor Stewart just looked at him, quietly. "I know. Still, it's Egyptian!"
The Federal man stared hard at the shriveled hand partially wrapped in moldy fabric, then sighed. "Do you mind if we quote you?"
The scientist nodded assent.
The result was precisely what the FBI man anticipated. Midwestern newspapers had a field day gibing at the Smithsonian "expert" who confused the hand of an honest Oklahoman with the mitt of an ancient Egyptian. Eventually, the furore and hilarity came to the ears of a rural citizen who promptly claimed the mysterious hand, and silenced the merriment by announcing that it was, without question, Egyptian. Furthermore, there was more than just a hand; there was all of the rest of a mummified Middle-Eastern gentleman brought home by a family globe-trotter. Some playful children or household pets had probably dragged the appendage from an attic into the open, where it was brought to the attention of startled local sleuths, who hurriedly called in the FBI.
Episodes like this explain why FBI men call about once a month on Dr. T. Dale Stewart in his office at the near-by Smithsonian Institution. Formally known as curator of physical anthropology, Doctor Stewart is surrounded by more skeletons than any other man in America. Exactly how many, no one knows; the counting stopped when files bulged with over 20,000 separate specimens.
Day after day bones pour in from all over the nation, in paper bags or cardboard boxes, from the pit dug by a murderer or from Indian burial graves centuries old. Each bone is carefully lettered and neatly filed away in its appropriate group. Every bit of space in the offices of the physical anthropology section is so crammed that new arrivals now are stored in filing drawers stacked up some 10 feet high in the corridor.
From years of study of all these bones, Doctor Stewart has garnered a knowledge of our skeletal make-up rivaled by few. Given a few bones, he will quickly paint an astonishingly accurate portrait of the body that once surrounded them. Such data is invaluable to law-enforcement officers.
A few years ago, the federal men brought to Doctor Stewart some bones found in an abandoned well in Quantico, Va., by trembling workmen. After careful scrutiny, Doctor Stewart quietly announced that the body was that of a young, white man, 26 to 28 years old, five feet eight inches in height and of medium build. Then, he added casually that the victim had been suffering from pyorrhea and had been left-handed.
Investigators hurriedly went to work. Soon, in checking Marine Corps records at the giant Quantico base, they found that John Bradford Ellison, a left-handed Marine, had disappeared in 1928. Later, enough circumstantial evidence was gathered to convict Raymond "Scissors" Saunders for a murder committed 17 years previous to his arrest! Doctor Stewart, though, was far from elated; he was off a full 1/2 inch in his estimation of the Marine's height, and Ellison had been 29 instead of 26 to 28.
In appearance, Dr. T. Dale Stewart is a typical scientist, quiet-mannered, high-browed and with a slightly preoccupied air. It seems a bit farfetched to connect this mustached, soft-spoken, unassuming man with unsolved murders, grisly crimes and such. But the federal men have come to regard him as an important, if unsung, "aide." Time after time he has clinched cases for the state with his testimony.
One morning, in 1946, federal men drove over from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Smithsonian, carrying eight small fragments of charred bone found in Arkansas. If they were human, a murderer would hang. Several minutes after the bundle was deposited on Doctor Stewart's desk, the scientist looked up and nodded —"Yes, they're human."
"How can you tell?" the FBI agent asked.
"You see this tiny bit of charred tissue clinging to this bit of bone?" Doctor Stewart pointed out. "Undeniably human." He indicated a suture of the joints on a bit of human skull. "These joints don't grow together until a person is over 35," he explained. "The victim was at least that age!" Incredible is the word for the lengths to which a murderer will go to conceal his crime. In this instance, Leon Merrow had, after killing his wife, put her body on a fire and stoked it for three days and three nights.
At the trial, the conviction hinged on Doctor Stewart's testimony as to whether or not the few bones found were those of an Indian, cremated decades ago, or those of the accused's wife. Stewart,
himself, had admitted that the bones resembled those he had seen taken from Indian funeral pyres. The courtroom was tense as the defense attorney tried to get the expert to testify that they were Indian. Doctor Stewart shook his head and pointed out that a small piece of tissue was still attached to one of the pieces of bone. The tissue was leathery and had obviously been subjected to great heat, but it would have disintegrated in time—and could not possibly have come from an old Indian grave. The defense collapsed.
This confusion of Indian remains with the victims of mayhem is a very frequent source of bother to Doctor Stewart. Only recently, a skull, complete with barnacles, was dredged from the mouth of the Mississippi by fishermen who were certain that here was genuine proof of a very foul deed on a dark night. Doctor Stewart took one look at the skull which he instantly recognized as that of a good Indian brave who went to the happy hunting grounds many years ago, and counseled—"Forget it."
Law-enforcement men have inquiring minds and Doctor Stewart marvels at the amount of chicken and duck bone they unearth and offer for his inspection. He must scrutinize said bones carefully, however, and decide on the few scraps available, whether the remains are those of a cow, sheep or a taxpayer.
At times, the relentless concentration of the police on human remains infects Doctor Stewart. When they brought in a few bones believed to be those from a human hand, the expert announced firmly that the hand could not be human. He suggested a chimpanzee or near-relation. Federal men went to the mammalogists, where they soon learned that their "hand" was really the tailbone of a horse!
As a scientist, Stewart welcomes police . calls as another field for exploration. But, as a law-abiding citizen, he is shocked by the number of remains which never do seem to become finally identified. His reaction to modern crime is compounded of surprise and mild bewilderment. "There seem to be lots of bodies around," he says.
The young Mr. Stewart, really didn't mean to stay very long when he first arrived at the Smithsonian in 1927 from York County, in Pennsylvania. He "substituted" for a sick friend who died. Now, after 20 years, it looks like a lifetime job.
Criminals and their doings take up only part of Doctor Stewart's time. Most of his mysteries are more complex. Among his most fascinating riddles: "Why do American Indians diminish in size according to their geographical location?" Anthropologists have found that an Illinois Indian skeleton is usually larger than that of a Texan Indian and that the skeletons of the Mexican tribes will be smaller still. During one of Doctor Stewart's jaunts to South America, he discovered that his 12-year-old daughter, with him, was as tall as any Guatemalan Indian.
The condition of Indians' teeth is another puzzler to the scientists. Does a diet of corn mean good teeth, or bad? Are shellfish superior to corn as a staple item in Indians' diet? These questions, in turn, are linked to the vital issue of soil quality. Fresh soil, all agree, produces more nutritious food, while depleted earth will yield considerably less valuable foods.
Every GI who has done a stint in the United Kingdom has noted how much shorter the average Scot, Welsh or English citizen is by comparison with Americans. Yet, these same peoples, emigrating to Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the United States, will produce progeny appreciably taller than their forefathers. Doctor Stewart finds these items more difficult to solve than the cases the law officers regularly turn over to him.
Doctor Stewart refuses to admit to rivaling the famed Sherlock Holmes even with his impressive record. Ever cautious, he will admit only that if he has a number of bones, and if the skull is available, his guess will be "90 percent correct." Before FBI men can receive his nod, they must satisfy his most conservative and scholarly instincts. In Iowa, recently, another killer went to extremes to dispose of the evidence. He broke all the bones and scattered them over a field. The investigators found some bones without a great deal of trouble, but they were returned with the notation that positive identification was impossible. Doctor Stewart kept them at their task, digging and scratching at the earth, until they had literally sifted the field. Finally, enough bits were found to satisfy the Smithsonian's judge. Receiving his assurance that the fragments were human, they confronted the accused with the bones and with Doctor Stewart's report. He broke down, confessed—and another killer went behind bars.
One of the first questions the federal men often ask Doctor Stewart is — "how long has the victim been dead?" This is, again, a very difficult problem, Doctor Stewart points out. Much depends on the condition of the ground, its moisture content, the acidity of the soil, the temperature, etc. Not very long ago, two bodies, presumed to be those of mountain climbers, were found high up on Mount Shasta, but it was impossible to determine, because they were so well preserved, how long they had been dead. And, here were two more of the "lots of bodies" Doctor Stewart referred to which were not readily identified.
Doctor Stewart is apt to be most elated over a tooth, sent in by a friend rummaging about in an Indian grave. Some of these specimens have been found inlaid with a precious metal or "beautified" by running a file across it. South American Indians used to "wow" members of the opposite sex by mutilating their teeth with any one of 36 patterns, or by the judicious use of gold, silver or jade inlays, and such teeth are now "collectors' items." To date, he hasn't found any of these rare specimens on his South American jaunts—but he's still hoping.
Doctor Stewart seems to have a genius for attracting bones, as would seem from the circumstances surrounding a prize collection he snared recently for the Smithsonian. While lecturing in Missouri, he made friends with a radiologist whose hobby was digging in the Indian ruins near his Illinois home. One day, his friend moaned plaintively about the lack of public interest in bodies sans flesh. It seemed that he had garnered some 400 choice Indian skeletons, which no one seemed particularly anxious to have—even for free. Naturally, Doctor Stewart snapped at this offer immediately, making the Smithsonian's 20,000-odd skeletons some 400 richer.
This would seem like a tremendous amount, but Doctor Stewart makes no bones about the fact that a collection of this sort can never have "too much." It seems, he admitted, that some very interesting (from an anthropologist's point of view) skeletons have been arriving at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington minus skulls, which is equivalent to strawberry shortcake lacking whipped cream and strawberries. Naturally, this has been impeding the march of science and vexing anthropologists a good bit. So, if you have a little skull in your home, which has been storing ashes or serving as a letter rack for longer than is decent, you can aid U. S. science by returning the skull to its rightful skeleton, most likely in Washington.
The natives of Guam have long since accepted with resignation the penchant of Americans for collecting souvenirs; so have the denizens of other lands like Persia India, etc. Not so—Dr. T. Dale Stewart He expresses gently, but firmly, the hope that Americans will collect Picasso, silver china or most anything—but will kindly leave his skulls alone.


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The Secretary of Defense intends to order a physical security and access review of all military installations worldwide in the wake of a deadly shooting at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard Monday, according to a senior Pentagon official.
The Secretary is gathering input from senior leaders today to define the parameters of the review, the official said.
Earlier today a Navy official said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus had ordered two reviews of Navy and Marine Corps facilities -- a quick look at the installations to ensure that the physical security standards are being properly maintained, and a second broader examination of physical security policy.
Monday authorities said IT contractor and former sailor Aaron Alexis shot and killed 12 people at the Navy Yard before being he was gunned down in a firefight with police.
Another Navy official told ABC News Alexis apparently had a security card to get on the base and had legal access to the building in which the shooting occurred. A defense official said Alexis was granted Secret security clearance, the lowest of three clearances, in 2008, a year after joining the Navy Reserves. His clearance carried over into his civilian life after leaving the Navy in 2011 with an honorable discharge.
READ: Navy Yard Shooter Angry, Frustrated, Vengeful
Mabus' order came hours after the Navy said it had reviewed the findings of a Pentagon Inspector General report, long in progress before the shooting, which reportedly rapped the service for lax security for contractors at its various installations.
PHOTOS: Washington Navy Yard Shooting
Late Monday TIME.com wrote that the IG report revealed the Navy, in an attempt to cut costs, "did not effectively mitigate access-control risks associated with contractor-installation access" at the Navy Yard and other facilities. TIME also cited the report when saying that 52 "convicted felons received routine unauthorized installation access, placing military personnel, attendants, civilians in installations at an increased security risk."
However, a Navy official told ABC News that the Pentagon report focused on one access system, the Navy Commercial Access Control System [NCACS], and that was not the one used by Alexis to get into the Navy Yard. Instead, the official said Alexis used his "common access card," or CAC, which part of a separate system and is actually more difficult to obtain.
The official said if there are faults in the NCACS system, the Navy would investigate, but according to the official, there is "no correlation" between the Pentagon IG's report and Alexis' ability to gain access to the Navy Yard.
Still, Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., acknowledged today he had received a copy of the IG report from the IG's office, saying it "details critical flaws in the practice of contracting access control for military installations to non-governmental personnel," and the committee has scheduled briefings for its members. This afternoon the Pentagon IG published a public version of the report.
DOCUMENT: Inspector General's Report Says NCACS Did Not Effectively Mitigate Access Control Risks
Police and military records show Alexis had multiple brushes with the law, including prior incidents involving guns, before to Monday's shooting.
ABC News' Martha Raddatz and John Parkinson contributed to this report.


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my 14 year old brother and dad got a better view. A rather large perhaps as long as a football field, Cigar/oblong shaped, silver, flashing lights. Loud humming/mechanical sound just enough to wake one but not too noisy or loud
Contact..a mixture of things just to talk about..
Saw a large, diamond shaped craft flying in a very straight line, at a very low altitude and at about 40 to 50 miles per hour. It had a large dome on top of it that would glow from dark red to orange then to yellow and almost white and then back to dark red. From each of it's of it's points it had laser-like beams of light shooting out at different angles.
Light in the sky maybe max 5 meters in front of me and my best friend. only eyewitness testomony is what i can offer. unfortunately .


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QC Prêt-à-Porter || Le Beaujolais Est Arrivé!
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A weekend to sip red wine…from a flask:
GANT by Michael Bastian Donegal blazer
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This weekend I've definitely got plenty to keep me busy. I'll be putting the finishing touches on my (top secret) Halloween costume, heading uptown for a bit of fine arts and antiques at the Park Avenue Armory, celebrating a friend's very special birthday and trying to figure out how to mull wine (any guidance would be welcomed). With the changeable weather New York has been having, I bet I'll be layering up and down all weekend while I run around the city.
You might have noticed that I am sort of obsessed with shades of burgundy these days. The obsession has made it all the way to my nails, which have been sporting Chanel Vamp lately. Color crazes aside, it's such a nostalgic color for me. It was the very first expensive nail lacquer I ever purchased for myself, and to my barely-in-high-school self, it really couldn't get much more luxurious than a $15 bottle of nail polish in the "it color" of 1994. Thank goodness they've re-released it — even though I'm less than thrilled at the $10 increase in price.
Have a lovely weekend!
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§ 4 Responses to QC Prêt-à-Porter || Le Beaujolais Est Arrivé!
I love Chanel vamp too! Great picks.
Can't wait to find out what your Halloween costume is going to be! This weekend I'm walk/running a 5K (emphasis on WALK), attending a sorority event, making Christmas cards, and attending our church's Oktoberfest.


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Throughout the 1950s and 60s, the definition of chic fashion, and with that fashion photography, was constantly changing at a frantic pace. Different photographers attempted to capture the American beauty in all her glory, but many of them resorted to clichés and traditional methods. One young photographer however attempted to change all that and brought in a whole new level of creativity and vision to fashion photography. He was Richard Avedon, and for over fifty years, his dynamic and expressive photography influenced every magazine and editorial publication in the US and the rest of the world.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Richard Avedon: American Beauty
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Cecil Beaton: High Society
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World Wars when the definition of chic and style were in flux, but glamour was unquestioned. And whenever glamour was there, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton was there.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Men on the Street by August Sander
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Scot Schuman of The Sartorialist blog is noted today for singling out extraordinary men and women on the street with the aim of showing off their fashion creativity. Almost a century ago, someone else was doing something similar, although he took pictures of men on the streets, soldiers on rural foot paths and children on farm roads, all in order to document a whole generation on the photographic medium. His name is August Sander and he is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's finest portrait photographers of the early 20th century.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman
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Some of the best fashion photography events happen not only in studios, but also out in the streets of the city. Through photographer Scott Schuman's lens, the dapper designs of ordinary people which would ordinarily go unnoticed are captured for posterity and presented on The Sartorialist blog.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Edward Steichen: Fashion and Function
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A couple of weeks ago, Edward Steichen's photograph The Pond-Moonlight was featured as one of the most expensive photographs ever sold. While the image itself is worth the attention, much of the photographer's work actually involved more than just picturesque landscapes. Indeed, Steichen was one of the 20th century's leading fashion photographers, helping to revolutionize the function of photography and elevating it to the highest levels of artistic expression.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Stolen Scream:The Face of Noam Galai
Posted by Jay at 10:32 AM
Having Richard Prince steal, or rather appropriate your photos into his own "artwork" is one thing, but having the whole world copy, edit, share and even sell your original photograph is another thing. It can be both flattering and frustrating, especially if you happen to be a budding photographer. A perfect example to illustrate this case is the photographer Noam Galai and his Stolen Scream.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Richard Prince: Genius or Thief?
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How would you feel if somebody sees a photograph you took, rephotographs and edits it slightly, and sells it for hundreds of thousands of dollars? What if he then defends his actions by saying that it's art and his work is protected by the fair use principle? That's exactly what artist Richard Prince has been doing for the last few years.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold!
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What would you do if you had $1 million? Buy a house? Splurge on a sportscar? For some people, they spend it all on a photograph. In some cases, they spend over $3 million for a single print. If you want to find out more about these multi-million dollar pictures, keep reading to see the world's most expensive photographs ever sold.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Barron Claiborne: Saints, Beauties and Goddesses
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It's not easy to create a great photograph. Even when you're lucky enough to get celebrities to sit for you, you still have to get the right combination of equipment, lighting and concept that is suitable for your subject. When you have all of those, you get a good picture, but when you add another layer of creativity, you get a really great photograph. That last layer seems to be what photographer Barron Claiborne always has in his portraiture work.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Platon: The Power of the Portrait
Posted by Jay at 5:21 PM
Just like the previously featured photographer, today's post is all about beautiful portraits and close-ups. While Chuck Close's daguerreotypes are much more well-known in the art world, the photographs in this post have enjoyed commercial success in America and around the world, having graced numerous publications and magazines. These are the powerful and beautiful portraits of the photographer Platon.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Chuck Close: Not So Typical Daguerreotypes
Posted by Jay at 5:16 PM
Sometimes, the old methods work best for certain occasions. This is what the legendary portrait artist Chuck Close proved when he created these beautiful photographic portraits using the more than 150 year old process of the daguerreotype.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Shirin Aliabadi and the Iranian Girls
Posted by Jay at 12:45 PM
The previous post on Jodi Bieber's portrait of Aisha Bibi might make you think that all women in the Middle East are oppressed. However these portraits from artist Shirin Aliabadi and her project on modern and outgoing fashion girls in Iran dubbed Miss Hybrid will make you think otherwise.
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DCF: There Was No Evidence Of Abuse
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Department of Children and Families said it learned in November that a convicted sex offender accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl was staying with the girl's family. He and a second man were arrested earlier this month on charges of molesting the child.
The agency said someone reported that 51-year-old Robert Young was molesting the girl, but after thorough interviews, DCF said it didn't have any evidence to go on.
"The parents said it was a friend of the family, and because, when talking to people who knew this family, the family checked out, and the children said there was nothing unusual going on," DCF spokesman John Harrell said. "It had been 20 years since (Young's) conviction."
According to DCF investigators, the girl's parents, Christopher and Mary Perry, knew of the abuse and didn't protect their daughter. They said the girl's grandmother, Patricia Woloszynowski, also knew of the abuse.
"They knew what was going on and didn't report it," Harrell said. "This is very deeply disturbing."
DCF said it told the family that Young shouldn't be in the house with their children. DCF also had the parents and Young sign a "safety plan" agreeing Young wouldn't have unsupervised contact with the children.
In the months to follow, new reports surfaced.
When a DCF investigator interviewed the girl, she told them she was sexually abused "on many occasions over the past several years," according to DCF.
When asked if the "safety plan" was enough to protect the girl and if more could have been done, Harrell said, "This is an ongoing investigation, and we will be reviewing this case to see if the appropriate measures were taken, if there is anything else that could have been done to ensure the children's safety."
Cynthia Isaac, Young's 23-year-old daughter, said her father stayed at her house when he was kicked out of the Perrys' home.
"He acted like a sex offender, if you want to know the truth," Isaac said. "Actually, he told us about it. He was like, 'I'm going to go to jail,' and I was like, 'For what?' And he said, 'Messing with this little 9-year-old little girl.'"
Isaac said she found a picture of the girl under her dad's mattress.
"They shouldn't have let him stay there if they knew something was going to go on," Isaac said of the girl's parents. "Obviously, they knew something was going to go on, because apparently they let him sleep in the bed with him and he told me he was sleeping in the bed with her."
On March 4, Young was arrested and charged with three counts of capital sexual battery, one count of lewd and lascivious molestation and distribution of obscene materials to a minor.
Young isn't the only person suspected of abusing the victim. According to Jacksonville police, the boyfriend of the victim's grandmother, 39-year-old Michael Halveland, is also accused of molesting the girl. He was arrested Feb. 17 and charged with one count of lewd and lascivious molestation.
As DCF investigates whether it took harsh enough measures, the victim's mother, father, grandmother, grandmother's boyfriend and the family friend all face charges in connection with not protecting the girl.
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We already know that the worst people ever live in Texas. But Miami has its share of oblivious adults too! Like this guy. Norichika Aoki flipped a ball into the stands, presumably on a vector toward of the two precious youngsters leaning over the dugout, their little hearts riding on that priceless little sphere. Polo dude boxes her out, she pouts, he celebrates. Scene.
I'm not insensitive to the dynamics here. Strict natural selection dictates that the stronger, faster man, with his superior hand-eye coordination, has every right to that ball if he can procure it fairly. He paid just as much for those seats as the freeloader child's parents did. Doesn't matter how cute the kid is—if you can get the ball, and live with the derision of the internet, more power to you.
But it seems we must once again refer to the handy "Do you deserve that ball" flowchart. Let's follow along. Polo guy caught the ball himself. On a toss. And is not between the ages of two and 13. Ooh, so sorry. Of course, "deserving" and "getting" a ball are two very different things.
There's a coda to this story, and it's maybe a happy one. Little Emily ended up going home with two balls of her own, courtesy of some sympathetic stadium personnel. The flow chart doesn't address this, but two balls just for being a sad child might be overkill. And if you're this guy? Well, he probably doesn't have a lot of sympathy for you, little girl.


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Culinary melting pot
Jerusalem, a holy city for three major religions, has always had a diverse food culture. Four restaurants reflect the city's new gourmet enthusiasm.
This was the land of Canaan, where milk and honey flowed. That was all a very long time ago, of course, but milk and honey still form the basis of Jerusalem's cuisine: It's a class of
its own, mystical and incredibly diverse – with recipes as old as the Bible. The city is a melting pot, and so is its cuisine. There are a couple of things you can always be sure of, though: Breakfast is bountiful, lunch is generally eaten with friends and the Sabbath is spent quietly. Then there are restaurants that break with such certainties and experiment across all religions and traditions. Until now, Tel Aviv was considered the city of good food, but Jerusalem is stepping to the fore.
The Azura at Mahane-yehuda-market
What a wonderful smell! Isn't that…? There's just so much in there, too much – my nose can't cope with this explosion of aromas. What is it? The family tells me it's an oxtail stew that has been simmering on the fire since three o'clock this morning. Beside it are several other vats of food. It's the house specialty that shares its name, azura, with the restaurant – eggplant stuffed with ground meat in a cinnamon sauce with pine nuts. It's a Turkish-inspired recipe that the mother used to make. And there you have the basic formula at Azura: Food is a family affair. They cook what tastes familiar. Or what has become a familiar taste. Father Ezra immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 1948 and learned his trade from a Spanish chef. This mix makes all the difference. The ingredients at Azura are always fresh and simple, but the composition is multicultural, with Mediterranean, Iraqi and Turkish influences. The small restaurant is situated in a rear courtyard on Ha-Eshkol Street 4 in the Iraqi section of giant Mahane Yehuda market. It's never quiet here. Despite Azura's popularity, it has managed to maintain its original charm. The loud voices of the market criers resound across the square, where a few old men are playing endless rounds of backgammon in one corner, and laundry is drying over balconies. Azura is run in the third generation by Papa Ezra's five sons and four daughters, a proud dynasty. Ezra himself, 82, only stops by occasionally and is not here today. Moshe Shrefler, one of his sons, assures me: "He will come, believe me. Our family was raised with a passion for good food." You believe him and leave, your hunger satisfied.
The Cardo in the Legacy Hotel
Johnny Goric is many things: Aramean, Christian, Arab, Palestinian; the winner of numerous international cooking awards; and a member of the jury of the popular Israeli cooking show "Masterchef." Perhaps that's why the food he cooks is so special. Perhaps that's how he manages to harmonize the abundant ingredients passed down from his many ancestors. Everyone in Jerusalem knows Master Goric, and the fusion food he conjures up at his restaurant, the Cardo, is extremely popular. His "cappuccino" made of lentils, for instance, which is actually a soup topped with garlic froth and a sprinkling of cumin. "A piece of art," the master says with great humility, "simple ingredients put together in a unique way." Or his lamb kebab, which consists of spicy ground meat wrapped around a cinnamon stick. Goric has a deep affinity with the spices and ingredients of his homeland. He has a small herb garden in front of the four-star East Jerusalem hotel in which his restaurant is located, far from the noise of the main thoroughfare, Dereikh Shekhem. He grows four kinds of thyme, red basil, sage and verbena. And tomatoes. There's no getting around tomatoes in Jerusalem. Goric adds tomatoes and red beets to his hummus, turning the beige paste an enticing red. He also makes a variation of classic hummus with dill and basil pesto. Sitting on the fifth floor looking at the old town bathed in the colors of sunset, you might think there's nothing comparable anywhere else, but you'd be wrong. Goric has opened another restaurant in Nazareth, runs his own cooking academy in Ramallah, and spreads magic wherever he goes.
The Eucalyptus on Hativat Yerushalayim street
When Moshe Basson talks about his dishes, he always recounts ancient stories of Jerusalem, because the two are related. "Take a bundle of hyssop and dip it in the blood … and apply some … to the lintel and the two doorposts," Moses, Exodus 12. This excerpt from the Book of Exodus is the part where Moses prepares the Israelites for their escape from slavery in Egypt. It's also one of many that has inspired Basson's cooking.
Moshe Basson won the couscous world championship three times in a row
Bibilical hyssop, actually marjoram, is something he likes to experiment with. Tomato sauce with marjoram, lamb with marjoram, marjoram pesto, fish rubbed in marjoram. And then there's couscous. It was already popular in biblical times, but was called "semolina with herbs and oil" and taken to the temple as a sacrifice. Basson's version won the couscous world championship three times in succession. Today, his exclusive restaurant is located in an old villa in an artist colony outside the old town, but his first restaurant was built around a eucalyptus tree that he planted as a child after fleeing from Iraq. That's where the name comes from.
The Machneyuda on Beit Ya'akov Street
The music carries right into the street. People stand smoking, drinking and laughing in the doorway. This has to be the Machneyehuda, Jerusalem's hottest, hippest and wildest location that is not so much a restaurant as a happening that serves delicious food. A hedonist temple close to Mahane Yehuda market. "We wanted food that would make people happy and call forth emotions," says Uri Navon, his eyes glowing. He is one of two chefs. The other is Assaf Granit, TV chef and successful businessman. Together, within a very short time, they founded a food empire with four restaurants in Jerusalem and two restaurants in London. The Machneyuda is the oldest and most famous, the engine for what followed. The mayor eats here and top model Bar Refaeli is a regular, but mere mortals have no chance without a reservation. "We play with the ingredients," Navon says. "We take the food that our grandmothers cooked – from Poland, Morocco, Romania – and make things no one has eaten before." He and Granit were the first to further develop Jerusalem's culinary heritage, to come up with a creamy, delicate polenta refined with green asparagus, truffle oil, parmesan and mushrooms, served with Druze-style braised lamb. "It's damn delicious," says Navon – it would be contrary to object because there's no denying it. The Balkan music mix grows louder and louder. It won't be long now before the first guests start dancing – on the tables. That's not a break with convention at the Machneyuda, it's normal here.
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