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AP This is not a good time to be a duck with a fatty liver in California, though better times lie just ahead.Chefs are loading their high-end menus with duck liver: terrine de foie gras, seared foie gras with mango chutney, foie gras salad and sweet foie gras for dessert. And they are keeping secret the locatio
stanley canada ns of their multi-course dinners to avoid protesters as a July 1 ban looms in California, the only state to outlaw foie gras.Demand for the delicacy created by force-feeding ducks through funnel-like tubes has never been higher as diners sate their palates with a product that soon will be banned for production and sale in the Golden State. The price has doubled. People are finding it hard to get it because the demand is so high, said Tracy Lee of the San Jose-b
stanley italia ased traveling dining service Dishcrawl, which has organized a series of 15 secret, sold-out foie gras dinners. Her last one is Thursday.Calif. chefs seek repeal of looming foie gras ban While gourmands stockpile foie gras at $60 a pound, others are stomaching the frenetic food fest with disdain. High-end foodies and chefs stuffing down their throats excessive amounts of fatty liver from force-fed ducks in the run-up to the ban paint a pretty ironic picture, said Jennifer Fearing of the Hu
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It may look like a movie frame showing an Evil Mad Scientist lair, but it just a one-minute exposure photograph of Lick Observatory, as seen from Kepler Peak. It part of a series of outstanding shots of this beautiful place by Laurie Hatch. I asked Laurie to tell us about herself and show us her work. My academic and career background is in music and art. Many of the photographs are associated with high mountains a
stanley tumbler nd astronomy; my professional photography career began in the early 1990 when I fell in love with an astronomer and moved to Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton in California, which overlooks Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay area. I lived there for 18 years. During that time I was invited by University of California Observatories to photograph W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Island of Hawai驶i. Several years ago my husband and I moved to the Eastern Sierra near Mt. Whitney, although Mt. Hamilton and Lick Observato
stanley cup ry will always be home ; as well. Coincidentally, I was intrigued to learn there is an astronomy connection between Lick Observatory and Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states at 14,505 ft / 4,421 meters. The stone Smithsonian Hut Shelter on Mt. Whitney summit was constructed to support the 1909 Lick Observat
stanley cup website ory / Smithsonian expedition. One more thing: A controversy is brewing within the University of California about their potential closure of Lick Observatory. UC administrator
