A new restaurant serving kangaroo kebabs and quirky cocktails is set to open in Princes Avenue.
The Crooked Skewer and The Safehouse will open in the building that used to be home to Aunt Bibby's Smokehouse and Street, which shut unexpectedly in August last year.
According to signs on the building, the lease was "forfeited", resulting in the closure of the restaurant. However, new owners Jamie Del Grosso and Aminul Choudhury have been working to bring the venue back to life.
As well as work going on inside the premises, a tyre advertising The Crooked Skewer has appeared in the smoking area with the pair looking to build up anticipation ahead of the launch of the two businesses.
Mr Del Grosso has revealed The Crooked Skewer will serve international kebabs and grills with unusual meats such as alligator and kangaroo set to appear on the menu.
The Safehouse will be a prohibition-themed bar selling fancy cocktails in a bid to mirror the style and ambience of the Roaring Twenties.
Mr Del Grosso said: "We took it on just over a month ago and since then we've been stripping it out, cleaning it and getting it ready for its new purpose.
"With The Crooked Skewer we wanted to create something that was a little bit more casual and relaxed so that we could let people choose how they wanted to eat.
"We want to serve international kebabs because when people think of kebabs they think of donor meat but we are doing everything from sirloin kebabs to even having alligator and kangaroo on the menu.
Mr Del Grosso and Mr Choudhury, who runs Yo! Tuk Tuk inside the Windmill Inn pub in Beverley, have been teasing elements of The Crooked Skewer on its Facebook page during the past few weeks.
However, until now, no clues have been announced as to what customers can expect from The Safehouse.
Mr Del Grosso says the bar will serve cocktails and cask ales with mixologists hired to create sparkling and luxurious concoctions similar to those you would expect at The Alchemist.
Explaining the concept in more depth, Mr Del Grosso said: "We are trying to create a story. The focus from the start is not 'come in and get food and drink'.
"We want to create an experience – something that people can get immersed in so they can get their food and then find out about the history of the building. That is a real focus for us.
"We have been drip-feeding information and we have taken a lot of influence and experience from cocktail bars like The Alchemist.
During the past year, there has been a high turnover of restaurants and bars in Princes Avenue. Lucca, The Tiffin Box, Jumeriah, Zara's and Bait have all shut up shop in the past 12 months with four out of those five premises now filled by a different venture.
However, Mr Del Grosso believes the two businesses will offer customers an experience they will not be able to find anywhere else in the city and he thinks it can help to make Princes Avenue more of a brand.
He said: "People have to travel out or go to Leeds so we are trying to bring something to Princes Avenue that is not in the city at the moment.
Are you excited about the launch of The Crooked Skewer and The Safehouse?
Mr Del Grosso said he is already in conversation with bars to try and create a membership scheme where people can enjoy discounts in multiple venues down the street.
"We want to make Princes Avenue more of a destination," he said. "Places down Humber Street have pushed the Humber Street brand and the area has done very well.
"Princes Avenue has a lot to offer but it has go the point where people are looking for something new and different and we want to offer that.
Mr Del Grosso said he aims to launch The Crooked Skewer and The Safehouse in April 2019.


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Tempo – October 2009
Huddersfield, Town Hall: John Pickard's "Agamemnon's Tomb"
'I'm not a miniaturist', admitted John Pickard in a pre-concert talk before the first performance of his new piece commissioned by the Huddersfield Choral Society. This is something of an understatement. He has written two of the most convincing large-scale symphonic works of recent years with his 40-minute Third Symphony (1997) and hour-long Gaia Symphony for brass band (2004), and even his works for reduced forces are wide-ranging in scope. However, one never feels that Pickard is deliberately taking the path to Gargantua out of some innate megalomania: he instinctively writes in broad paragraphs ripe for large-scale development and long-term working, which inexorably lead to compositions on a substantial scale, or, at least, with an unmistakably 'epic' quality.
It came as no great surprise, then, that Agamemnon's Tomb (composed between 2005 and 2007) proved to be an ambitious, powerful and imposing 50-minute oratorio for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, large chorus, semi-chorus and large orchestra, including three percussion players, harp and organ. It sets substantial sections of Sacheverell Sitwell's 1933 poem, of the same name: the title refers to the tomb at Mycenae, dating from around the 12th century BC, thought by its discoverer Schliemann to contain King Agamemnon's remains. Throughout, the chorus sets the scene, presenting the text's main themes; the soprano represents the voice of compassion, the tenor that of the poet encountering the tomb for the first time and the bass the embodiment of harsh reality. The orchestra, meanwhile, develops the musical argument on a symphonic canvas. Though subtitled 'A Requiem', it is not a religious work, as the text focuses on mortality and the memorializing of the dead.
There are two parts, the first involving images of death and entombment, particularly the physical experience of dying, the ultimate degradation of human remains (realities which the tomb is accused of trying to hide), and the horrors of dying while asleep or alone. Mercifully the second part lightens the tone, dealing with descriptions of the simple splendour of Agamemnon's Tomb. The concluding chorus summarizes the work's argument ('We are the world and it will end with us …'). But the composer decided to end the work by countering this nihilistic, arrogant assertion with a tentative reference to Nature's restorative force, as expressed in the poem a few lines earlier ('Listen, listen, listen to the voice of the water…').
Pickard introduces the work's source material and establishes the mood in a sombre orchestral prelude, dark-hued and full of a sense of epic grandeur and scale. Eloquent woodwind phrases, a feature of the score throughout, arch over the solemn, processional tread of regular timpani strokes, funereal and threnodic. In these opening paragraphs, Pickard succeeds in the difficult but necessary task of evoking a sense of place without resorting to toe-curling cliches.
The style is bravely eclectic, taking in Expressionist flutter-tongued flutes in the baritone solo: 'This may be worst of all … ', recalling the barbarous central moment of the first movement of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the brutal tutti hammer blows of the chorus's 'Knock, knock, knock, these are the nails of the coffin. They go in easy …'. As well as a narrative, almost cinematic style at the tenor's 'In mist tossed, and shaken, in a sea of wrack', hints of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe during the chorus 'All is degradation …'; and yet Pickard's own distinctive voice always prevails.
Agamemnon's Tomb is consciously in the English choral tradition of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. However, despite its grand scale and heroic sweep, it is also a deeply personal work. Dedicated to the memory of the composer's father, its focus on those left behind after death, as articulated by the soloists, brings a profound humanity to the piece. The overwhelming impression left by the world premiere performance is one of tremendously sombre intensity, confronting the terrors of death head on from a non-religious or humanist rather than anti-religious viewpoint, essentially concerned with this world rather than the next. In the closing paragraphs where the semi-chorus entreats us, tentatively, to 'Listen to the voice of the water …', Pickard wanted consciously to write beautiful music, something he has not striven for in previous works, and the results were wonderfully ethereal in the spirit of Holst's Betelgeuse or 'Neptune' from The Planets and extremely poignant in this context, setting the seal on a genuinely elegiac work.
All the performers made a strong impression, but Martyn Brabbins deserves special mention for keeping his large forces tightly together and maintaining an impressive, structural hold. His keen understanding of Pickard's music was a great asset, and this is also evident in the wonderful results he gets from the Norkõpping Symphony Orchestra on a new disc of Pickard's orchestral music (BIC CD 1578).
The CD opens with The Flight of Icarus (1990), premiered in Cardiff in January 1991; it gained wider currency when played at the Proms five years later, helping to establish Pickard's reputation. It takes the form of a 20-minute tone poem conceived in one unbroken arc, but divisible into three distinct sections. Whilst not strictly programmatic, the work's narrative structure is influenced by the Greek myth of Icarus, with reference to the disasters of early space exploration; the underlying message behind the piece is the catastrophe that human endeavour generates. A ceaseless rhythmic drive creates considerable energy, and this is coupled with a ravishing array of orchestral colours and a profusion of striking ideas. The large forces are deployed with skill and imagination, with key roles for tuba and timpani, who together introduce an important motto theme right at the start of the work. Thick sonorities of multi-layered density as catastrophe strikes are offset by gentle, translucent textures evoking the sea and graceful, soaring episodes capturing the feeling of flight. In a gripping performance such as the one captured on this disc, it is easy to see why this dramatic, superbly-scored piece remains the composer's most celebrated and often played work for orchestra.
The Spindle of Necessity (1998), based on Plato's description of the workings of the universe and his model of the afterlife, is a one-movement concerto for trombone accompanied by strings and percussion, also lasting about 20 minutes. It's a calm, reflective work in which the solo lines domi¬nate, though often supported by richly divided, inventively deployed strings studded with delicate percussion. The opening and closing sections have something of the feel of a soliloquy for the soloist and Christian Lindberg rises to the challenge with both technical prowess and eloquent lyricism.
The CD saves the best until last with Channel Firing (1993), dedicated to the memory of Pickard's composition teacher, William Matthias, who commissioned it for the 1993 North Wales Music Festival. It was inspired by a Thomas Hardy poem, written just before the Great War, set in a churchyard on the south coast of England at night as gunfire causes the dead to rise up, thinking it is the last judgement. (The poem itself was famously set by Gerald Finzi.) Like The Flight of Icarus, this symphonic poem is connected with the sea, but the tone is infinitely darker, with the character of a solemn, processional, whose progress is brutally disrupted in the faster cen¬tral section. A fateful chord taken from Wagner's Gotterdämmerung permeates the work. Though not as technically virtuosic as The Flight of Icarus, Channel Firing is more diverse in character, more rigorous in its thematic development and more emotionally engaging. It is one of Pickard's most English-sounding scores: the brass writing in the central skirmishes is not far removed from that of Havergal Brian and the deeply affecting aftermath recalls the visionary post-nuclear laments of Vaughan Williams' Sixth and Ninth Symphonies: these associations, together with a scrupulous working-out of the material, prompts the feeling that Channel Firing is less a tone poem and more a one-movement symphony, and a particularly fine example.
Brabbins and his Swedish players make the best possible case for these works, with dynamic but polished performances in splendid sound from BIS. It is good news that a further Pickard disc is planned from the same sources, featuring the first in his seascape trilogy, Sea Change (1989), the Piano Concerto of 2000 and a new orchestral piece to be premiered in September 2009. It is to be hoped recordings of his fiercely compelling Second and Third symphonies will follow in due course.

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Travertine is a compacted form of limestone that forms in rivers and hot springs. Water, especially river water, has a lot of minerals in it. Sometimes these minerals become deposited on the river bed. These wet minerals then dry out, and combine in compositions at the chemical level. When the minerals deposited are calcium and carbon, sometimes they form a stone that is known as travertine. The chemical composition of travertine is CaCO3 which means that there is one part calcium for every three.
Travertine is known for having bands of vibrant color running through it. This is caused by chemicals becoming caught in this structure of the stone as it forms, usually iron… These colors often appear as bands or lines in the face of the stone. The variations in the stone are numerous and it comes in a huge number of colors. The other common names for these stones are calcareous Tufa, and occasionally onyx. It can be solid or semi transparent. It is most often used in floors or counter tops due to its hard surface, ease of cleaning, and beautiful colors. It is also used in many home furnishings and out door applications. Certain chemicals are often used on the stone to seal it from gaining dirt deposits. These chemicals also tend to bring out the color in the stone. These chemicals are known as sealers or finishers. A slightly less effective way to treat travertine is to use olive oil to finish its surface.
This was historically a very important stone for ancient architecture. Travertine today can be quarried in turkey, china, the U.S. and europe.


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HomeDenmarkDanish Government will continue significant contribution to the fight against ISIL
Danish Government will continue significant contribution to the fight against ISIL
Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen says:
"The fight against ISIL is one my – and the Danish Government's – top foreign policy priorities. We must combat ISIL and their ilk militarily and economically, while also fighting and shifting their narrative. And we must ensure that the peoples of liberated areas are quickly helped back on their feet. I am extremely proud of the significant efforts made by Denmark and stationed Danes thus far.
I am pleased that the Foreign Policy Committee supports Denmark's new contribution to the coalition, which increases our training contribution to about 150 people.
Today we also informed the Committee that in 2017 the Government will continue its existing contributions to the coalition, while bringing our aircraft contribution back to Denmark as planned."
Minister of Defence Claus Hjort Frederiksen says:
"The Government is now laying the groundwork to expand the Danish training efforts in Iraq by adding much needed capabilities in the form of an engineering and construction team. The team will train Iraqi forces in demining and support our current training contributions. As planned, we will also be bringing our fighter jets and transport aircraft home, so I would like to thank our stationed Danish personnel for their vital contributions, which have made a great difference in the coalition's overall effort."
In mid-December, the Danish fighter jets and the Danish transport aircraft will return to Denmark as planned. After the withdrawal of the two aircraft contributions, Denmark will continue to provide significant military contributions to support the fight against ISIL.
Significant progress has been made in the past year in the fight against ISIL, but it is necessary for the coalition to continue exerting significant military pressure on the terrorist organisation in Iraq and Syria. As efforts progress, the coalition will continue to adapt its efforts to optimally support the overall objective of the military campaign: To defeat ISIL.
Today the Danish Government consulted with the Danish Parliament's Foreign Policy Committee regarding the expansion of Denmark's contribution to the education and training of Iraqi security forces, in the form of a new engineering and construction team. The expansion will increase the Danish contribution's capacity to educate and train the Iraqi security forces in areas such as handling improvised explosive and field-related engineering services.
From January 2017, Denmark's military contribution to the fight against ISIL will consist of a radar contribution of up to approximately 30 people, a capacity building contribution in Iraq of up to approximately 150 soldiers, a contingent of special operations forces of up to approximately 60 people and up to approximately 20 staff officers working with the coalition's headquarters.
In addition to military contributions to the coalition's fight against ISIL, Denmark is also providing significant civilian support in the form of stabilisation and basic reconstruction of the liberated areas of Iraq and opposition-controlled areas of Syria. This support is channelled through the new, DKK 332.5m regional stabilisation programme for Syria and Iraq launched in October 2016. The programme objectives include supporting the Free Syrian Police and the Syrian Civil Defence, known as "White Helmets", as well as helping to restore basic services to the beleaguered civilian population after ISIL is dislodged from Iraq. In addition, DKK 28.5m has been allocated in 2016-2017 for the coalition's efforts to curb the influx of foreign fighters, which includes preventing radicalisation in local populations in Jordan and Lebanon, cutting off ISIL's cash flows, and countering ISIL propaganda. Jens Madsen, former head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, is participating in the coalition's efforts to counter the financing of terrorism.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark: Press Advisor Lars Peter Levy, tel. (+45) 41904124
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Unisys Blogs / Cloud Computing / Container Technologies – Just Pack Up What You Need
Container Technologies – Just Pack Up What You Need
Greg FischerCloud Computing4 minutes readApr 3rd, 2015
Experienced road warriors and backpackers share a common goal when preparing for travel. Just pack what you need… no more, no less. For simple reasons like less weight to lug around and more portability. You can head right to the airport TSA line or depart the plane without the hassle of checking or retrieving your luggage. There's a reason we use the phrase "less baggage" to quickly communicate these traits.
When dealing with the lifecycle of software applications we all can benefit from the less baggage metaphor in even more ways than our backpacker. What if we could stuff everything we needed into a container for our software development, testing and production phases of the application lifecycle? We certainly could accomplish this today utilizing virtual machine (VM) images as containers but they are pretty heavy weight. Including the whole operating system just to run your application is the equivalent of packing everything including the kitchen sink!
A much lighter approach has been gathering widespread adoption in the DevOp communities. It is a technology defined by combining Linux containers (Libcontainer) with the Docker management toolkit. Together these allow you to pack up just the application dependencies into a self-contained image that is independent of hardware and hosting environment. The result represents a much smaller footprint than a VM image, is more portable and easily replicated. It combines a copy-on-write file system, where the majority of the files are shared in a read-only manner and the Docker engine for shared runtime resources in an environment available on Linux and even Microsoft Windows hosts.
But what new capabilities does this represent? Does this replace VM's? No, you still require a minimal Docker enabled host environment running on bare metal or within a virtual machine. However, immediate advantages can be realized in typical development and test scenarios. This is an operating system level virtualization where you share a kernel with separate name spaces and results in extremely fast boot, minimal additional disk and memory expansion and low CPU overhead. This enables you to fire up 10's to even over 100 instantiations of an environment on a laptop for development or test scenarios with identical configurations and run them in parallel. The copy-on-write file system provides each instance their own pristine copy of the data for testing. No restoring a VM or reloading a database to start the test over again. You can snapshot, roll back or commit the state of image container.
The advantages extend into the deployment realm of Operations as well. A container allows developers to configure and tune it for the application allowing Operations to focus on just running containers. This supports a DevOps collaboration model and lowers those situations where an application runs fine in development, but fails in the deployment environment.
The less baggage benefits of container technology enables hybrid IT cloud adoption and continuous application deployment with its efficient portability. Many recognizable names in the industry have embraced the technology. AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware to name just a few. Interest has exploded in the past two years with over 750 community contributors, 75,000 registered "Dockerized" applications and over 100 million Docker engine downloads. The ecosystem is expanding through projects like Flocker for stateful Docker cluster management; Apache Mesos cluster management to launch Docker images; and Openstack integration to enable host management running hundreds of containers. Google open sourced a version of their container orchestration software known as Kubernetes. This is what they used to launch 2 billion+ container instances weekly that service their Apps, Maps, Gmail and Search applications.
As you would expect, there is always room for improvement. CoreOS, an early adopter of the Docker container approach, developed a stripped down version of the Linux operating system specifically designed to run containers. More recently they've focused on improving the security, container composition and runtime with the release of Rocket.
The net of all this is that we now have the ability to combine "just what you need" containers for any process that runs on a computer with a secure and svelte runtime engine infrastructure. You can readily envision a very scalable application distribution system across a very large and heterogeneous environment and that's exactly what is taking place.
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Are you at risk to develop spider veins? Here are a few factors that will help you know.
Story From Tennessee Vein Center: Are you at risk to develop spider veins? Here are a few factors that will help you know.
How to tell if you are at risk for developing spider veins. Some easy ways to tell and where to get treatment.
Many people get spider veins, especially as one ages, but the truth is they can happen at any age. An estimated 30% to 60% of adults have varicose veins or spider veins (a smaller, usually less painful type of varicose veins). We mostly think of these twisty, turning, purple, red and/or blue veins affecting the legs, but they can also appear on your face and/or chest.
For the most part spider veins are a cosmetic issue and although it is OK to leave them alone if you are not experiencing any pain or swelling, cosmetic and medical treatment is a very simple process at the Tennessee Vein Center, a comprehensive vein treatment center with multiple locations near Knoxville.
There are several different elements that contribute to the development of spider veins.
Another group at risk are those who experience a lot of exposure to the sun's harmful rays. We all know that sun exposure can lead to sunburn and other serious issues such as skin cancer, it can also worsen conditions like spider veins (especially in the face and chest areas), and even cause new venous issues altogether.
Are you at risk? Do you fit one or more of the following categories?
Obesity: Being overweight puts added pressure on your joints and veins. This in conjunction with any of the other factors is one of the greatest indicators for the development of spider veins.
Gender: Women are more likely to develop this condition than men. Female hormones can relax vein walls increasing the likelihood of spider and varicose veins. Taking hormone replacement therapy or birth control pills may also heighten your chances for developing spider veins. There are a number of different causes as to why this is including; hormonal changes during pre-menstruation, menopause, or pregnancy.
Age: The risk of varicose veins increases with age. As you get older your veins lose elasticity causing wear and tear on the valves in your veins that help regulate blood flow. The valves in your veins become weak allowing some blood to flow back into your veins where it collects instead of flowing up to your heart.
Family history: If there is a history of varicose or spider veins within your family than there is greater chance that you will also develop the condition.
Standing (or sitting) for long periods. Standing or sitting for long periods. Your blood doesn't flow as well if you're in the same position for significant amounts of time.
Ulcers. Painful ulcers may form on your skin near varicose veins, especially near your ankles. Ulcers are caused by long-term fluid buildup in these tissues due to an increased pressure of blood within those veins.
Blood clots. Sometimes, veins deep within your legs can develop clots and your leg may swell considerably. Sudden leg swelling warrants immediate medical attention.
Bleeding. Occasionally, veins close to your skin may burst. This usually causes only minor bleeding but, any bleeding should merit medical attention.
The staff at the Tennessee Vein Center are fully equipped to treat even the most complicated cases of vein disease, including stubborn spider veins. They even offer comprehensive medical consultations.
During your consultation you can expect a wide-ranging exam and evaluation by a qualified physician concerning your symptoms. The medical consultation also includes a screening examination with duplex ultrasound, an explanation of findings regarding any possible vein disease and treatment options, and an opportunity to ask questions so you fully understand your choices pertaining to treatment. You can also count on an insurance expert working with you, so you can understand what benefits are applicable and how you can maximize your benefit options.
To find out your options for treatment contact the Tennessee Vein Center today.


This site is dedicated to the memory of my father Walther Lefeldt (1897 - 1981) and his artistic work. It presents a selection of his water paintings and photographies of my own property.
The water paintings (landscapes and still lifes) are divided into two chronological sorted groups. Almost all are signed and dated as well as titled. Mostly black and white photos were used as origin, but many pictures were painted or scetched outside in nature, so there are several versions of the same motives.
The black and white photo negatives used for the digital processing were mainly well preserved, but unfortunately undated, so a provisional dating was made by my own memory, by location-specific criteria or in allocation to the water paintings, which originated after photographs. A comprehensive evaluation of the extensive negative material and the color slides is being prepared.
Among the photos especially the photos of the old "Gängeviertel" in Hamburg deserve closer attention, which originated just before the demolition, respectively before the final renovation of this quarter at the beginning of the 1930s.
The landscape shots indicate a preference for atmospheric back light motives, which have an artistic equivalent in an impressionistic painting technique. But this technique is hardly surpassing the local colors and never uses spontaneous painting resources, which is typical for the water color style, such as effects of flowing colors into one another or the wet-on-wet painting technique. But there is a cautiously calculated overlaying of transparent color coatings and a differentiated natural color modulation, which results in a fascinated combination of impressionistic and realistic effects.
Walther Lefeldt was born in Hamburg in 1897. He worked full-time for almost 50 years as employee and at last as executive director for the "Neue Sparcasse von 1864" ("Neuspar"), merged with the "Hamburger Sparcasse von 1827" in 1972). Besides he was busy with photography and painting and was counted among the pioneers of the Leica-photography in 1920s. At the beginning of the second world war he was dismissed by the Nazis, but he worked along as freelance artist, especially with portrait photography. Due to the denazification he was reemployed by the English occupying power in 1945 and intrusted with the task of social reintegration of the saving bank, in whose economic success he had a high share until his retirement in 1968.


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With new Dottir restaurant, Icelandic hotel KEX brings taste of Reykjavik to Portland
Dottir restaurant at KEX hotel Portland
By Michael Russell | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming about a trip to Iceland? We have. Especially after Icelandair added their seasonal nonstop from Portland to Reykjavík five years ago, and our Instagram timelines began to be dappled each summer with friends bragging about the famous lamb hot dogs, the elevated dining at Dill and the turquoise waters at the Blue Lagoon spa.
Northeast Portland's KEX, the hip Reykjavík hostel's just-opened second location, isn't hiding a geothermal lagoon in its basement (though there is a 12-person sauna). But the so-called "social hotel," a blend of hotel and hostel, with both private rooms and bunks, does bring plenty of Icelandic flavors to Oregon via its new restaurant and bar, Dóttir.
Ólafur "Óli" Ágústsson, who helped Kex's sister restaurant Dill earn Iceland's first Michelin star in 2017, is Dóttir's culinary director, though day-to-day operations fall to Alex Jackson, an Alaska native and former Portland cook who most recently cooked at San Francisco's own Michelin-starred Sons & Daughters. Together, the duo draw inspiration from both Nordic and Pacific Northwest cuisines. In other words, they can pickle that. Still, this is a hotel. There's no dung-smoked meat, and you won't find any fermented shark.
"We don't want it to be strictly Icelandic," Jackson says. "It's more of an attitude that Northerners have toward ingredients and cooking style. Your sourcing has to be really great, your attention to detail really sharp, but the ingredients are very minimal."
And so Jackson brines his salt and vinegar French fries overnight, then serves them alongside a dipping sauce made from vibrantly green parsley oil and skyr, the Icelandic yogurt. The burger comes with two house pork sausage patties, lacto-fermented pickles and melted Bergkäse, a gruyere-style cheese made by Hillsboro's Helvetia Creamery. Seafood will be at home here, with the bay shrimp smorrebrod (an open-faced sandwich, of which there are several on the lunch menu), the warm scallops in a foamy horseradish milk and a whole roasted trout.
For a country that has more sheep than people, it shouldn't be surprising that lamb plays a major role on Dóttir's menu. Jackson, who plans to join members of the KEX Portland team on his first trip to Iceland next year, serves a Cattail Creek lamb platter designed for sharing, with roasted loin, flank rolled into a roulade, braised shoulder and sausage, plus spiced lentils and creamed kale. But the early must-order dish is a bit more humble: cabbage seared hard in brown butter, roasted with apple cider vinegar and served with bread crumbs, dill oil and a caramelized whey sauce over celery root puree.
The Roasted Cabbage at Dottir, the Icelandic restaurant at the new KEX hotel in Northeast Portland.Dave Killen
As far as long-awaited projects go, Dóttir is a doozy. Ágústsson and KEX owner Kristinn "Kiddi" Vilbergsson first visited Portland seven years ago, and decided this would be the place for their first U.S. location. They quickly partnered with ChefStable's Kurt Huffman, but through the years, one space after the other fell through, including the current homes of both the Hoxton and a ChefStable-backed beer bar, Loyal Legion. Eventually, they landed at the former Vivian Apartments, a three-story building at the corner of East Burnside Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard that was being redeveloped by Green Light Development.
With about 100 seats, including 26 at an elliptic bar near the center, Dóttir resembles the layout of the original KEX, down to the design from Halfdan "Dáni" Pedersen, who scoured the world for found and refurbished materials. Those include hardwood floors from an old train depot at Fort Vancouver, bamboo underneath the shallow-backed banquettes that once served as a conveyor belt and patisserie-style windows framing the kitchen pass salvaged from an Egyptian bakery.
KEX has assembled something of an all-star team for the restaurant. Jackson is joined in the kitchen by sous chefs Sam Gilman and Bjorn Jacobse, both of whom spent time at the Minneapolis-area's well-regarded Bellecour. Former Le Pigeon general manager Sean O'Connor oversees the hotel and restaurant as well as managing the beer and wine lists; he and wife, Jessica Silverman, are also partners in the project. Kate Berman, formerly of St. Jack and The Hoxton hotel's restaurants, is Dóttir's general manager; she tapped rising star bartender (and fellow Hoxton alum) Lydia McLuen to run the bar.
McLuen, who also spent time at Bar Casa Vale and Palomar, has developed a lively drinks list for the white-and-tan-tiled bar, with everything from aquavit flights to draft cosmos -- they're back, people! -- to raspberry-infused vodka (pair with a raspberry White Claw for a "Razzmatazz" boilermaker). My favorite cocktail so far is the Lady of the Mountain, a cloudy, creamy cocktail with that raspberry vodka, hazelnut orgeat, lemon and skyr (a nonalcoholic creamsicle cocktail has a similar profile). O'Connor, meanwhile, is tapping into his wine industry connections for Dóttir's impressive list of all-kegged wines, which currently includes glass pours from Cameron, St. Reginald Parish and a pinot noir blanc that Ovum plans to turn into a sparkler. Several of the bar's 12 draft beers come from KEX's own Southeast Portland brewery.
The restaurant was originally called Vivian, in a nod to its previous occupant, but after confusion with the similarly named Vivienne restaurant in Northeast Portland's Hollywood neighborhood, KEX decided to adopt the name they had planned to use for their upcoming rooftop bar. Speaking of which, Jackson says he's already tinkering with an Icelandic-style lamb hot dog, which could debut alongside the now nameless bar sometime next spring.
Visit Dóttir from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday to Thursday; and 7 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday; 100 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.; 971-346-2992; kexhotels.com
-- Michael Russell


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Emma Gonzales' Coughing Fit At School Underlines Why It's So Important For Both Staff & Parents To Be On The Same Page About School Medication Policies
By Jaime Lutz
Dealing with medicine at school can be a complicated matter — but the story of a 9-year-old girl in Utah who was denied her inhaler after a coughing fit at school drives home why it's so important for everyone to be on the same page about school policies. According to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, fourth grader Emma Gonzales had just recieved an inhaler over the weekend after going to the emergency room for a coughing fit. When she started coughing in class, she took the inhaler out; however, because her school, Columbia Elementary, was not aware that Gonzales had been prescribed the inhaler, the girl's teacher sent her with it to the office, where staff took it. School district officials said that the staff were required to verify that the inhaler was Gonzales' for safety purposes.
"When I get into the coughing fit, I kind of hurtle up on the ground, can't breathe and then I start to kind of feel a little nauseous," Gonzales told Fox 13. She says that this coughing episode got so bad that she threw up on her pants.
Fox 13 reported that officials for the school district said that staff had been correct in taking the inhaler; they needed to make sure that it was Gonzales', not another student's. The inhaler did not have her name on it, and Gonzales's parent had not yet filled out the paperwork documenting it as hers that the school's medication policy requires. "There could be all sorts of problems if children were just allowed to take any medication and we didn't have that verification. Again, this is for the student's safety," said district spokeswoman Sandy Riesgraf.
Gonzales' parents believe that the school should have rethought the medication policy when their daughter began throwing up; said Britney Badger, Gonzales' mother, to Fox 13, "When a child is puking all over themselves and they can't breathe, you know you kind of have to take action right then and there." School officials state that they monitored Gonzales carefully, and that if she had been in serious jeopardy, they would have called 911. Gonzales' parents are keeping her out of school for the moment.
I understand the school's reasoning; safety is important, as is proper documentation, especially in the case of minors. At the same time, though, an inhaler is not a particularly dangerous drug. If I were an administrator, I probably would have concluded that it was more dangerous not to let the child take the medicine.
In any event, what the story illustrates the most is the importance of everyone — parents, staff, and all — being aware of what a school's policies are to avoid such incidents happening in the first place.
Image: Aerial M./Flickr


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Writer: Feargus Woods Dunlop
Theatres across the country are oozing with Pantomimes galore. While also housing a Pantomime the Lichfield Garrick have collaborated with New Old Friends to bring a brand new comic gem to their Studio space.
The story loosely follows Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None but instead of 10 Little Drummer Boys it has a festive spin by using the Twelve Days of Christmas. The story follows Art Detective Mr Artridge, played by a Feargus Woods Dunlop as he recalls a Christmas experience he certainly hasn't forgotten about. Dunlop is a very strong anchor to the production and keeps the focus and concentration through what could have been a production filled it with chaos.
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Set within the small and intimate Garrick Theatre Studio, the scenery by Carl Davis is inventive and works as a splendid and sinister backdrop to the production. Paul Dodgson's score works at balancing the upbeat undertones while not detracting away from the murderous and drama filled production. Liz Porrett's lighting also works well to snap away from the action to focus on Artridge's thoughts.
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