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The "Where To Eat" Index Thread (Updated 2009!)
San Francisco, CA
San Diego, CA
Central California Valley, CA
Atlanta, GA
Reno, NV
Columbus, OH
Hamilton and Fairfield, OH
Las Cruces, NM; El Paso, TX; and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
New York City, NY
Minneapolis, MN
New Orleans, LA (And this thread too)
Baltimore, MD
Kansas City, KS
Philadelphia, PA
Boston, MA
Portland, OR
Chicago, IL
Spokane, WA
Seattle, WA
Boca Raton, FL
Brevard County, FL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Miami, FL
Orlando, FL
Tampa, FL
Ann Arbor, MI
New Haven, CT
Fairfield and Waterville, ME
Dallas, Denton & Fort Worth, TX
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Vancouver, BC
Glasgow, Scotland
If I forgot anything, feel free to post in this thread & I will add it to the main post.
TheRequiem says: Now that edits are gone, post your city thread link (as above) and one of us will add it to the list here. Or, just post your recommendations in a nicely formatted post and I will just link to that directly.
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Ken Stewarts Grille (downtown akron)
Lockkeepers (suburb of cleveland)
Lannings (akron)
Whiteys Booze and Burgers (richfield)
Clearview Grill (akron)
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Grandpa Motors (GM) pussrods and leafsprings
i wonder if someone could make this into a map. because i dont know where those places are, but if im going on a road trip (or even a vacation) one look at a "where to eat" index map would tell me what's close
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How about Berkeley/Albany East Bay Area? I just moved out of the city and need to start collecting some "spots"
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Boston, MA Area
The Blue Room - One Kendall Square Cambridge, MA - Cheap, Small Portions, FAST SERVICE!
Maggiano's Little Italy - 4 Columbus Ave Boston, MA - Expensive, Huge Portions
Fuji Restaurant - 698 Hancock St. Quincy, MA - Sushi (Try their Mozzarella+Onion Maki!!!!)
Tecce's - 61 N Washington St Boston, MA - Awesome seafood dishes, and I usually don't like seafood
All I can think of at the moment, but there's plenty more
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Portland, OR
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon - Depending on how much you want to spend, I'll throw out some ideas.
Portland City Grill & Bar on the 30th floor of the US Bankcorp tower. These guys are pricey, but have THE largest wine selection in oregon. The steaks rival Del Friscos (in Texas and Florida). They are amazing. Everything is gorgeous but it's hard to get into, think at least 3 weeks ahead, and their bar is amazing. Best rib-eye in the northwest. They even have sushi.
Seratto - on 21st, this trendy italian resteraunt and bar has the coolest people around. Everyone who works there is awesome. It's got a great wine selection and if you're just out on a friday night they can accomadate you. Very good pick for a nice night out. The boar is excelent here.
Caffe Mingo - two doors down from seratto, this is THE BEST ITALIAN FOOD IN DOWNTOWN. It's spendy and HARD to get into. It's not a large resteraunt and isn't as trendy as seratto, but the food is the best. The ceaser salad is the best i've ever had and very cool looking. Their pastas are all made in house and are the best in oregon. As I said it's hard to get into and their specialty of the house goes quick every night, so get your name in early and head to seratto for a drink while you wait.
Da Vincis - Right outside of Milwaukie over by the bomber there's a little mobster looking italian resteraunt called Da Vincis. If you want the 2nd best italian food at Milwaukie prices, look no further. There's only one chef and he's a 6'5 redhead who studies in italy 2 weeks a year to make sure he's up to date on everything. His veal is amazing and the seafood is the freshest anywhere. His tiramisu is the best in the city also. If you need good food at a good price, this is it. And it's not huge, so you dont have to worry about lines.
Rheinlander - One of the two largest german resteraunts in portland. They have good food in a good German atmosphere. I dont know what else to say.
Gustavs - On the west side over by washington square. It's a new German resteraunt with beautiful german food. If you're on the westside looking for somewhere to go that's casual but nice, this is your stop.
PF Changs - Chinese They're everywhere and they're always good. prepare for a loud environment though.
Marine Polis - Cheapest sushi in town, it's not bad but not anything special. If you're on a budget this is the place to go.
This will be amended but my hands are tired because i'm not on my own computer, so this is it for now.
[from user lowrizzle]
Portland - not marine polis. If you like sushi, it's arguably the worst in the area. Try Sushi Takashi on broadway and couch. They have a real train.....no, not a sushi train, a real model train, that brings the sushi around the bar.
Also great is I love sushi out in Beaverton. It's ran by Koreans and is sushi with a Korean touch, such as the Korean Chirashi.
Sushiville is heaps better than Sushiland (Marine Polis). They're not all mexicans making your sushi, and they hand-press the nigri.
For mexican, definately try Pepino's on Hawthorne (hippie district). It's fresh, awesome, and healthy.
For german, Reinlander. Gustav's is like their own little red-robin offshoot. Not "authentic" but fun.
For drinks and good food and usually terrible service, ANY mcmenimen's restaurant.
For pizza, none of it's all that great.
[from user flood]
Italian - Basta's in the Perl dist. Best restaurant I've ever been to IMO.
Does anyone still care about UID?
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Orlando, FL
Orlando, FL
Japanese - Rangetsu
Unbelievably good authentic Japanese food. Sushi, kobe steak, and a considerable amount of other Japanese dishes. Mid-high price range (~$50 per person depending on what/how much you order).
Amura sushi on Sand Lake is great too. Right next to it is a Season's 52, very nice kind of standard restaurant, steaks and fish, pastas and sandwiches, great flatbreads. I don't know how many other locations they have, they're owned by Darden.
In the Publix shopping center at Conroy and Kirkman there's a great little Italian place called Stallone's. Not very fancy, but great food and friendly people.
Sweet Tomatoes, International Drive & Universal Blvd.
Cuban Sandwiches To Go, Lee Rd, 1/2 W of I-4
Orlando Ale House, next to the Florida Mall, Sand Lake Rd
[Credit to The Stig and [BBB]Ktulu as well]
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Niagara Falls, Ontario
Mick and Angelos on Lundys Lane on the corner
- great italian eatery. Mmmm amazing mozza sticks
The Flying Saucer on Lundys Lane
- 99 cents breakfasts... get there early
Boston Pizza on Clifton Hill
- mmmm amazing pizzas
Cappachio on Lundys Lane
- haven't eaten there but brothers girlfriend says its amazing!
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Central California Valley, Cheap:
219 E Main St, Visalia, CA
-Awesome selection of microbrewed beers, and a chili-in-a-sourdough-breadbowl that can't be beat! I highly recommend their Sequoia Red and their IPA. They also make some great homeade Orange Cream Soda, if you or your companions don't drink alcohol. Top it off with live music and a great atmosphere, and you end up with a damned good dinner + fine home-brewed beers for < $25.
Tokyo Garden
3320 S Fairway St, Visalia, CA
-Good sushi, good people, good habachi chefs, and just a real nice place. The restauraunt looks kind of bland on the outside, but the interior is well designed and comfortable. There's a large eating room with a bar, multiple booths, and habachi grills, but there's a second 'new' bar in the middle and also a bunch of private dinner rooms, all with widescreen LCDs. You pay around $25 per person, and it's more than worth that.
Jasper's Saloon
E D St , Lemoore, CA
-Surprisingly good restauraunt, bar & grill, for such a small town. Good american-style foods, and a good all-you-can-eat soup & salad bar. But it's also cheap! Dinner's cost can range from $10-20 (more if you get steaks, of course), plus the cost of a beer or two.
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New Haven, CT
Frank Pepe Pizzeria - the last word in pizza. try the white clam pizza.
Yankee Doodle - fantastic burgers, small but flavorful (get 2 - 4). diner-like atmosphere.
Great Wall (inside Hong Kong Grocery) - cheap but incredible chinese food, far better than the average chain. vegetables are cooked long enough, not rush-sauteed. the rice is perfect as well.
Ann Arbor, MI
Bubble Tea Island - typical bubble tea place. expensive, good tea but i've nothing to compare it to. cozy, lots of board games etc. available
Red Hot Lovers - great dogs (of course), but also good burgers and excellent chili cheese fries (they use real melted cheddar). service can be a little slow, interior is dimly lit and kind of dodgy if you're not used to college town hole-in-the-wall establishments.
Zingerman's Deli - wonderful $12 sandwiches. it's also a great gourmet food shoppe, with a good cheese selection, perfect baguettes, imported olive oil and all manner of good foods. their gelato is sublime.
Schakolad - good hot chocolate and truffles, expensive. if you need chocolate, this is the place to go.
More Ann Arbor, MI [from pcslugster]
NYPD - Great, expensive, new york style pizza. Delish
Za's - Great, 5-6ish bux, Italian food.
Cottage In - Great deal - 1 large 1 topping with free crust - $7.41
Noodles n Co - Noodles! And some other foods.
Dollar Slice Pizza - Can be found @ Backroom Pizza and In & Out
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Boca Raton, FL
Swifty's Market and Grill.
Sorry for the lack of address but it is on Boca Raton Blvd 1 light West of Glades Road. It may be a quickie mart but it has the best Cheesteak Sub around, hands down. They take a few minutes to make to be prepared to wait, and there is only take out but it is amazing food.
Cuban Cafe 3350 NW Boca Raton Blvd # B34
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Great food and good service. Bread is an excellant appetizer. I would highly reccomend the Churrasco or Palomilla Steaks. Great food reasonably quick and good service. Staff is very knowlegeable and can explain menue items if you do not know cuban food. Meals run between 10-15 $.
Talia's Tuscan Table 4070 N Dixie Hwy
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Great small Itailian eatery and market. They sell ingrediants if you like to cook yourself. Make sure you are starving for this one, becasue while the other food is good, you go to Talia's for the huge (think football) sandwiches. Made on amazing bread, there is a vast selection. My favorite is the Caruso which is a meatball and sausage parm. Be prepared to sit next to people you don't know as seating is limited but is set up to encourage sitting with anyone.
Warehouse Pub
599 NW 1st CT
Boca Raton, FL 33432
(561) 392-3798
Looks like a dive from the outside, but has good, if somewhat greasy food on the inside. Very inexpensive as well. My reccomendation is the sliced steak wrap.
As a side note cirial's choices in Ft Lauderdale were excellent. Espcially Jacks and Peter pans.
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Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
Arlington, VA
Great view of the Ronald Reagan Natinoal Airport and best steak/service in the area. My favorite would be the lousiana seafood gumbo soup and ribeye steak oscar style (crab cake on top of the steak).
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Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles
Sushi Echigo, 12217 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Don't know the suite number, but you can't miss it on the second floor. Go here if you're a fan of the real experience. Some of the finest raw fish you can have in West LA, with a simple sushi bar with two chefs who work behind it non-stop. The cuts are great and the quality is top notch.
C & O Trattoria, 31 Washington Boulevard, Venice, CA (310) 823-9491
First off, this place has HUGE servings and I mean it. They have a "full" serving which costs only a few dollars more than the regular and it's enough for two people, or for you to have another dinner the next day. The pasta is pretty good and they have an excellent wine selection. Oh, and they have these free garlic bread balls that can come non-stop and rock the casbah. It can get packed on Fridays / Weekends.
Abbot's Pizza 1407 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, CA (310) 396-7334
This place has awesome fucking pizza. Pricer than your Pizza Hut or Dominos, but more than worth it. If you're a fan of cheese pizza, you cannot pass up the 4-way cheese pizza. Fucking awesome.
Tito's Tacos 11222 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA
It's not a sit-down place as you order from a line (expect to wait a bit) and pick it up from the same window. Some people will have the taco's for the first time and say "Eh, it was nothing special," but a week later they'll be craving Tito's Tacos. These things are seriously crack. Their burritos are also good and they offer an excellent sauce (not spicy) that's full of flavor.
Grand Lux Cafe (Beverly Center) 121 N. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
At the corner of the Beverly Center, the Grand Lux Cafe is one of my favorite places to eat. The entrees are around $12-20 ($30+ for steaks) and are very generous as far as serving sizes go. They have awesome appetizers, too, including the Asian Nachos and Stacked Chicken Quesadilla. They also have "baked to order desserts" where you order your desert early on and they bake it and it's usually done by the time you're eating. The service can be fucking spot on or sometimes a dismal miss.
[credit to Azamat]
Pizza : Big Momas and Papas Pizzeria (www.36pizza.com)
Tacos: El tapatio : Glendale, CA. Corner of Los Feliz and Glendale Ave.
Breakfast Burritos: Lucky Boy. Pasadena, CA, On Arroyo Parkway, across the street from
Trader Joe's
[credit goes to Talenos]
Best cheese steaks I've ever had in my life period!
Philadelphia Sandwiches
11112 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood, CA
Tacos are amazing, I love their corn tortilla shells and relatively cheap
Casita Taco De Carbon
11300 Magnolia Blvd # 1, North Hollywood, CA
(818) 508-8118 - close call - 2 reviews
Casita Taco De Carbon
405 N Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA
(818) 848-3242 - close call - 1 review
I also second Big Mamma's and Pappa's.
[credit to Elepants]
more for los angeles [or just below los angeles in the south bay, where i live]:
best late night - the kettle in manhattan beach. this place is always busy because it's so goddamn awesome. and the food is really good for it being a 24-hour spot. costs about $10 a person for an entree and a drink. cuisine is kind of like the chain restaurant, mimi's [faux french whatever]. i don't even like mimi's and i still like the kettle.
best izakaya - musha in torrance. an izakaya is a japanese bar that also serves a lot of small dishes to satisfy your palate while drinking. i'm not into japanese beer, but musha is delicious simply for their risotto and beef tongue. cozy and warm on the inside [the bar, not the beef tongue], good variety of meats and seafoods you can choose to grill . . . reminds me of gyu-kaku, a charcoal grilling type japanese restaurant also found throughout los angeles. about $20-25 for one person including drink.
[fruitloops adds:]
if you're in LA, eat tommy's burgers!!
tommy's FTW.
and all of california/parts of nevada should eat @ in n out
[but dyejob argues]
in terms of 24hr joints in the LA/hollywood area,
CANTER'S DELI > tommy's burgers
[MoDawg warns against:]
If you're in L.A., I'll tell you where NOT to eat. Jerry's Deli. eyuuck!
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Mr. Max. 3028 N. Beltline Rd. Irving, Tx
Good sushi, good katsudon, good tea, good atmosphere, can't go wrong
[from user buteohawker]
Byblos is a wonderful lebanese resaraunt off of north main street near northside drive.
Tunero mexican food is down north main a little farther closer to the stockyards.
[from user lannie_poo]
for a nice atmosphere and a twist on sushi, fuse... from 4-7 pm mon-sat is dollar sushi and sake
the brisket potstickers are the bomb!
or if your clueless on what to eat, head to addison "restaurant row" on beltline... every freaking chain restaurant is there
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Deanj wrote:toolonglegs wrote:Ant. wrote:5s display smoothing for me.
I done an awesome MIET through some very undulating terrain without looking at my meter at all, and it is -very- isopower'ish. I impressed myself
I have no idea what you are talking about
I was playing around with settings on the powertap computer, I'd noticed in one of Ant's posts he was talking about data smoothing so I sent him a pm a few days ago asking which he had been using.
and to complete the issue:
1. on the road, power output is highly variable, and is the first thing people notice when they see it on a bike computer for the first time (or when they inspect a power meter file)
2. there is a mathematical artefact of the way the Powertap calculates data, which exacerbates the variability in the second to second data. It isn't an accuracy problem (on average). The issue is caused by the fixed duration sampling of the torque data, which results in an effect known as "aliasing". It is more noticeable at certain cadences over others. I can explain more if anyone is interested.
3. to help reduce the "signal noise", it is useful to set the display to show a rolling average power, usually something like a 5-second rolling average tends to reduce the variability in the second to second data somewhat. over time, if you are using the meter to guide say an interval effort on the trainer, then you get pretty good at doing a running integral in your head and not concern yourself with the ups and down of the more instantaneous data but rather focus on the overall effort level.


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ITU Goes Back On Multiple Promises: Makes Play For Internet Governance With Sneaky Surprise Vote
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"The majority is with having the resolution in...The majority agreed to adopt the resolution as amended."This took a lot of people in the room by complete surprise, given that there was repeated insistence that the focus was on consensus, and not a simple majority vote. This clearly went against promises by ITU boss Hamadoun Toure. As Declan McCullagh summarizes in the article linked above:
"In the true tradition of the ITU, we will not vote on any issues," Toure told reporters over the summer. "Voting means winners and losers, and this is not simply acceptable. And we believe that we'll come to an agreement on all of the issues." Toure had said last week that the summit "is not about Internet governance."As the reality of what al Ghanim did began to set in, some delegates began to protest. Spain, in particular, noted "had we known that it was a vote, we might very well have acted differently." al Ghanim then, ridiculously, tried to pretend the vote was not a vote:
But after Spain objected, al Ghanim responded by saying, "no, it was not a vote," and that he had instead been looking for a "feel of the room."That, obviously, is completely ridiculous, since he then used "the feel of the room" to say that the resolution was adopted, despite significant concerns about it.
The folks at the Internet Society are, quite reasonably, not at all happy about the situation, and called out not just the sudden and unexpected vote, but the secrecy surrounding it as well:
The Internet Society came to this meeting in the hopes that revisions to the treaty would focus on competition, liberalization, free flow of information and independent regulation - things that have clearly worked in the field of telecommunications. Instead, these concepts seem to have been largely struck from the treaty text. Additionally, and contrary to assurances that this treaty is not about the Internet, the conference appears to have adopted, by majority, a resolution on the Internet. Amendments were apparently made to the text but were not published prior to agreement.Given that the ITU's moves here more or less confirm many of the fears that have been raised about the whole WCIT process all along, and show that Toure's statements were simply untrue, why is it that anyone believes that the ITU has any credibility on this subject any more? The whole idea that we're now allowing countries with horrid human rights records, and with little to no experience in supporting innovation-enabling technologies, to control direction of these discussions suggests that the entire ITU process is broken beyond belief.


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"Independent of where you live, your skincare regimen needs to change with the seasons," says Dr. Ava Shamban, a dermatologist and author of "Heal Your Skin," a book that lays out regimens for improving complexions.
"The most common complaint people have about their skincare in the winter is that it's no longer doing its job," she says.
Beauty products: An article in the Jan. 27 Image section about beauty products for winter said that Wakaya Perfection can be combined with other ingredients to become a facial scrub. The combination becomes a body scrub. —
Experts say that just as the contents of a wardrobe shift to accommodate the change in weather, so should what's on the bathroom shelf. Making it easier, many beauty lines have unveiled specific seasonal products — lipid-rich creams, hydrating serums and nourishing lip salves.
Some of the new products serve multiple purposes. Garnier's Triple Nutrition Miracle Dry Oil ($5.99) works on hair, face and body, using fruit oils to soften dry skin and take care of frizzy hair. LeAine Dehmer Clinical Skin Care's 14-Day Recovery Balme ($125 to $395) has ginseng and lotus for lips, hands, elbows and cuticles. Derma E's Skin Cracked Skin Relief Creme, $13.50, contains bay leaf oil, clove, arnica and aloe vera for allover use.
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Fight frizz with Rusk Designer Collection's W8Less Multi 12-in-1 Miracle Leave-In Treatment ($4.95 to $14).
Verb Ghost Oil uses argan and moringa oils to prevent breakage ($14).
Black cumin seeds and soy amino acids in glo-essentials' Moisture Enhance Hydrating Shampoo and Conditioner lock in moisture ($25 to $27).
Nexxus Hydra-Light's new range of products moisturize hair without silicones ($9.99 to $14.99).
Volume from Brazilian Blowout is a four-product collection that plumps and conditions flyaway hair ($28 to $38).
Modena Moisturizing Shampoo and Conditioner from Borghese has vitamin B5 and aloe to add life to winter-worn tresses ($13).
Tata Harper's new Lip Treatments contain lavender, comfrey and acai oil to keep lips nourished ($24 to $28).
First Aid Beauty's Ultra Repair Lip Therapy has colloidal oatmeal and antioxidants to nourish, moisturize and protect ($12).
Lush's fun new Popcorn Lip Scrub exfoliates dry skin on the lips with sugar and salt ($8.95).
Honey-Myrrh Lip Repair from Osmia Organics is a rich, fragrant salve meant to heal cracked lips ($22).
Beauty cultists have discovered Wakaya Perfection, a potent organic Fijian ginger powder, that can be combined with lime and geranium oil, crystallized sugar and coconut oil for a restorative facial scrub ($24).
Banish dry patches with an at-home facial using Michael Todd True Organics Avocado and Mango Mask ($34).
Hydrate, new from Obagi Medical, moisturizes with shea and mango butters and avocado ($45).
Arcona's Overnight Cellular Repair Cream has jojoba and raspberry leaf wax to deeply nourish the skin ($58).
Vitamin E and copper complex are among the ingredients in Airelle's Berrimatrix Intense Repair Complex, designed to rescue very dry skin ($116).
Sun protection remains an important consideration, even in cooler months. La Roche-Posay's Roaliac UV cream also guards against redness and irritation ($37.95).
Serums are crucial to the season, too. Joanna Vargas' Daily Serum ($85) has clorophyllin-copper that protects against harsh environmental factors while moisturizing, brightening and toning skin ($85).
For the dry under eye area, ReVive's Intensite Les Yeux is packed with peptides to moisturize and repair tissue ($190).
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Hand & Nail Repair Cream from GM Collin uses botanicals to soothe chapped hands and cuticles ($24).
The popular Yes To line has a range of Super Rich Body Butters loaded with Dead Sea minerals and beta carotene to moisturize and nourish skin ($12.99).
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A.J. Clemente got his big break for the Bismarck (as in North Dakota) NBC affiliate KFYR on Sunday. He took to Twitter to inform his followers that the station's News Director and GM were reviewing his tapes to determine whether or not he was ready to anchor the news on camera. SPOILER ALERT: He's not.
Clemente's came out of the gate for his first broadcast with an emphatic, "f***in' sh**." It sounds like he might have even thrown a "gay" in there for good measure. Yeah, he's been suspended.
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I've been trying all day to solve the problem with export of data using SSIS and keep encountering this error: "OLE DB provider 'STREAM' for linked server '(null)' returned invalid data for column '[!BulkInsert].{column_name}'.
It seems that data in that column is invalid so I've tried to add validation to my source OLEDB source. I've created a dataflow to filter all records that have bad data and redirect it to a file. To do this in the query of my source OLEDB I've add the following condition: WHERE isnumeric(convert(varchar(250), coalesce([{column_name}],0))) = 0 then put the results in the file IDs and etc, but I removed the {column_name} to prevent errors.
I now have the IDs of bad data and will try to some fixes before do the import.


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Trend Report: Metallic & Mirrored Silver
Super shine in silvertone was one of the design stories this year at ICFF - taking pieces of all shapes and sizes and giving them a blast of future facing fantastic-ness by envisioning them in shiny silver (or aluminum or platinum). From mirror-bright OTT shine to more subtle metallic glows, here are ten examples that illustrate how this look works overtime, style-wise:
Shown above, top row, left to right:
• Council
• Mario Sabljak
• Tom Dixon
• MASH Studios
• Espacio Sami Hayek
Bottom row, left to right:
• John Houshmand
• Jaime Hayon for Baccarat
• Jamie Harris Studio
• George Sacaris Studio
• HK-Stool by Chun Chun - Pratt Student Exhibition
Do you have metallic pieces in your home? Like the look enough to give it a try? Let us know in the comments...
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HI, I have a lovely relationship, two years, he has asked me to move in.
But there are a few obstacles to us moving on. I am 60 and dont want to be alone for ever but my boyfriend lives in an old house which needs much tlc, has no washing machine, I do his washing and ironing.All okay with me BUT he has a young woman lodger, has been there 20 years! She pays very little rent doesn't pay any other households bills and is supposed to clean but washing up gets left piled up. Also has 4 dogs. Only works part time and spends rest of time with dogs. My boyfriend basically supports her lifestyle, while I'm alone all week and manage by myself. It's a real issue, which I struggle with. He always sticks up for her, and I'm wondering if he has feelings,although he denies this. I see no future in this, I can't live in a house where another woman rules the roost, I feel we can't be a normal couple together there. I wish I'd stopped this two years ago but I dont know whether to continue to live alone till seeing him weekends. (Carry on as usual)or stop the relationship altogether or put up that she will always be there with her dogs!


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Only Josh Pastner could utter the word "Lamborghini" on the occasion of his contract extension and a pay raise that likely pushed his annual salary north of $2 million and come across as grateful, gleeful and humble.
"I'm very proud to call him my head coach," University of Memphis athletic director Tom Bowen said at the Wednesday, March 27, press conference inside the Penny Hardaway Hall of Fame building.
The short list of reasons for this pride: The Tigers just won 31 games and reached the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament; 10 of Pastner's players are on pace to graduate before the end of the year; and the nation's No. 2-ranked recruiting class is on the way.
Memphis head coach Josh Pastner is all smiles now that he has received a contract extension. Pastner will now try to capitalize on this season's success, which included 31 wins and an NCAA tournament win, and next season's No. 2-ranked recruiting class. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, Pastner lives out the motto that, as he likes to say, "Memphis isn't a handshake city, it's a hug city."
Quick history lesson: The way the Josh Pastner Era started here four years ago did not promise any of this. Or to use another one of the coach's pet phrases, success is not a "birthright." In fact, with John Calipari in the wind to Kentucky, then-athletic director R.C. Johnson was desperate. He offered the Tigers' basketball job to just about everyone who had ever worn a whistle around his neck. Everyone turned him down.
So Johnson called the young assistant who was packing up to join Calipari in Lexington. Pastner not only wasn't driving a Lamborghini, he was driving a borrowed Toyota Corolla when Johnson called to basically make Pastner the winner of the college basketball version of "American Idol."
"Nobody wanted the job and it kind of fell in my lap just by chance," Pastner said. "You have a 31-year-old taking the car keys to a Lamborghini, a 31-year-old that's never driven before."
Yes, there has been and will continue to be spirited debate among the members of Tiger Nation over whether Pastner has overachieved or underachieved or landed somewhere in between. But at least everyone ought to be able to agree that the coach has not taken the program to either extreme. He didn't run the Lamborghini off the road by getting in trouble with the NCAA or leave it to rust on the side of the road.
"I give you my word," he said. "We will always have good players."
Of course, to borrow from the coach's own favorite family of metaphors, the Tigers have not won the Daytona 500 (the NCAA National Championship). But he is clear on that possibility too.
"That's the one thing that hasn't been done," he said. "That is a goal. That can be done here."
Details of Pastner's new contract probably won't be known for two to six weeks, according to U of M associate athletic director Bob Winn. Pastner was making $1.7 million annually and presumably the new contract moves him at least five years forward from now and at minimum raises his annual pay to $2 million.
The Tigers had barely stopped smarting from the beat-down administered by Michigan State in the Round of 32 when Pastner's name began to surface in connection to the USC job (quite believable) and the UCLA job after Ben Howland was fired (less plausible, but not impossible).
Without specifically referring to either of the aforementioned jobs, Pastner made a point to repeatedly thank media for front-and-center coverage and to note that it's not like this everywhere. Consider, for example, the USC basketball program. It would barely hit the radar in Los Angeles, trailing the two NBA teams, two MLB teams, the USC football program, and both the UCLA basketball and football programs.
Pastner overreached, as he still has a tendency to do, when he called U of M basketball one of the nation's "blue bloods, one of the five best in the country." Pressed later to name the other four, Pastner backed off and settled for calling Memphis an "elite" program. That, too, might be an overstatement.
But, like Pastner's assertion that a national championship is possible here, sustained elite status is also possible. It's also not – wait for it – a birthright just because the coach is a swell guy and has a new contract extension.
The road ahead, in a new and tougher conference, has more twists and turns and the desired destination points – Elite Eight, Final Four, National Championship – are more easily found on a map than in reality.
"Of course, there are higher expectations," the coach said with a grin. "I embrace them."
He is, after all, a hugger.
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Picking Up Chicks Is Hard, When Your Car Is A BMX Review
Did you get a kick out of the title of this game? Read it again, crack a grin, and then move on, because the game itself is a poorly-made, frustrating mess.
Though we featured Picking Up Chicks Is Hard, When Your Car Is A BMX in a recent indie games round-up, it wasn't our intention to endorse it. The game is a simple high-score survival game, which you've probably played dozens of. In fact, Picking Up Chicks was made using Canabalt's freely available source code.
The difference here is that you're on a bike, you can perform tricks, and you can pick up "chicks" to throw them at targets. That's the entire game, and it's not very fun at all.
Picking up chicks is even harder if you break all your bones flubbing a trick.
The trick system is particularly messy, since you have to swipe once to perform a trick and swipe in the same direction again to get back into your riding stance. If you land in the middle of a trick, it's game over.
The problem is that it can be difficult to start and stop tricks, all while managing your speed and position by tilting the phone and tapping to jump over gaps. We'd prefer if the tricks landed automatically, so we could focus on biking. The other gameplay element, picking up chicks, is pretty silly, but not very challenging or fun.
Tying together this cumbersome control system is a bleak, low-res background that repeats endlessly. The chiptune music is pretty decent, and you can find some of those tracks available for download online.
Throw in the fact that this high-score game doesn't have any online high-scores, and you've got no reason at all to buy it. Don't pick this game up, even if it does have a funny name.


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For some reason the holiday months make me crave NUTS like crazy?! And apparently I'm not the only one because I see huge displays of them in every grocery store, I see gift packs carrying varieties I've never heard of or seen before and even Parents magazine had a couple of items about nuts in their December (online) issue.
This first one is about the seriousness of nut allergies and making sure you know what a nut really looks like once it's shelled.
This next image is of a Nutella advertisement. I have not had the pleasure (ever) of eating a Nutella sandwich or on toast but I do enjoy the Whole Foods brands such as Justin's Nut Butter, especially the Chocolate Hazelnut!
I might have to give Nutella a try soon but if you love nuts and live by a Whole Foods PLEASE, PLEASE try my absolutely FAVORITE new nut product – Albina City Nuts – that I found before Thanksgiving and have been pleasantly addicted to ever since! I adore their Sweet & Spicy Hazelnuts… you must try them!!


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Battleship the video game not like the board game
Battleship! Is it a board game, a movie or a video game? Well, it's all three.
The Hasbro board game originally produced by Milton Bradley in 1943 has launched yet another first person shooter video game, available for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii on May 15. The movie, a sci-fi action flick, was released in the U.S. on May 18. Obviously, the operative phrase this month is, "Prepare for battle."
For those of us who spent significant childhood hours placing red and white pegs in our Battleship board games and shouting, "You sunk my battleship," and who now spend just as many adult hours collecting the same pieces off the floor prior to vacuuming so as not to suck the teeniest of board game pieces into oblivion, there's a feeling of nostalgia and, for me, a joy that there is a first-person shooter game to which I can relate. Almost.
Thinking I would man my battleships – you know, carriers, frigates, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and the legendary USS Missouri battleship – to win the war, I anticipated seeing my fleet. Instead I assumed the persona of Cole Mathis, a bomb disposal expert with the U.S. Navy on land. We find Mathis on a training mission in the Hawaiian Islands when none other than … duh ta duh … the aliens attack. Aliens again? I shot aliens last week in Mass Effect 3. I was hoping to attack and shoot other battleships, like the game, envisioning "B-10" followed by a "hit," type scenario. But this video game is based on the new sci-fi movie of the same name, more than the board game.Here we guide Mathis on the beach where he attacks aliens. We take him from one tropical and beautiful, although dark, Hawaiian island to shoot human-like aliens until they stop moving. Mathis commands battleships – bloody ones, I might add – deploying them here, there and yonder, and he blows things up, being the explosives expert and all. There are some other weapons in the arsenal including a pistol, carbine and shotgun, and then two alien weapons that can be picked up off the dead enemies.
Battleship the board game has a strategy. First, you want to place your battleships as randomly as possible so that it takes your opponent a long time to locate and sink them. Second, you want to identify where your opponent has placed his/her ships and sink them quicker than they sink yours. There's strategy in placing your ships and in identifying possible targets of your opponent's ships. You want to try and think like your opponent while masking your ships' locations.
It stands to reason that a shooter video game named after the board game would also include some strategy or likeness to the game. Not so. There is no strategy. You seek, shoot and destroy aliens. Opportunities arise to gain Wild Cards, which give you more armor and fire power. But as far as strategy goes, there is none.
One thematic likeness to the board game exists, however. While you (Mathis) are island hopping and shooting on land-based missions, you can bring up a map by pushing the left shoulder button and call up your ships to come in and target enemy ships. You also have to ensure these ships don't get blocked in by the enemy fleet. So there's the connection between the board game and the video game. And it's an exciting likeness. Commanding ships is fun and does allow a break from the monotony of shooting that other shooter games don't have.Battleship the video game is rated "T" for Teen. It's fairly violent and bloody, including "kills" at close range. It also includes multiple expletives, although not the big bad ones that would require an "M" rating for mature. Game play from beginning to end is five to six hours. The cost is $39.
Not sure I'd sink dollars or time into Battleship, the video game. The storyline is less than explosive, the strategy bombs, and the electronic board game is available for endless play.


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Week 13's Theme; The Biggest and the Best.
Week 12's Theme; Everywhere but Here.
Week 11's Theme; Keystone XtraLarge.
Santa Trump came early (or a little bit late depending on how you look at it), and Little Baby Trudeau couldn't help but take a sneak peak at his gifts. "Oh boy! What could it be?" he exclaimed as he tore open the first box to reveal… "Brand new pipelines! Thanks Santa!"
Week 10's Theme; Training Sessions.
"Icky and gross, same-sex marriage is," Master Sessions whispered into Donald's ear. "Makes me uncomfortable, it does!"
"But tell me why you can't…"
"No, no. There is no why," the Master exclaimed. "Nothing more will I teach you today. Clear your mind of questions."
Week 9's theme; Forbidden Love.
While Mama and Papa CIA sleep, Little Donny sneaks out to see dreamboat, and local bad boy, Putin. But what will Vladimir's girlfriend, Jinping, think of this?
Week 8's theme; Pick and Choose.
Week 7's theme; Science Fair.


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Brad Pitt has been wearing a lot of hats recently and now you can too!
As part of the New Orleans Make it Right project that Brad is supporting, the organization will sell items "selected by Brad and the MIR team to reflect the MIR mission. Our goal is to offer forward-thinking, green products. All proceeds will be allocated exclusively to building Make It Right homes."
Hats are a big part of the selection Brad has chosen and certainly reflect his fashion sense. The merchandise includes various "newsboy" caps that he frequently wears similar to the one pictured in the photo. (Taken during the Beowulf Premiere.) Other caps, shirts and bags complete the clothing line. Click HERE to see Brad model the clothing and support the cause!
In case you missed it, Brad & Angelina popped into the high-profile Mayweather-Hatton boxing match last weekend. What a fight! (And yup, he wore a newsboy cap to the fight as well!)


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Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise has launched a new shuttle service to transfer tourists between the mall and select Fort Lauderdale Beach hotels, mall representatives announced Thursday.
The shuttle — offered as a convenience for visitors — costs $15 one-way or $25 round trip per person. It'll operate three times daily between 9 a.m.-to-8 p.m., except Sunday when it will run 10 a.m.-to-9 p.m.
Pick-up hotels include The Atlantic Resort & Spa, B Ocean, Harbor Beach Marriott and Pelican Grand Beach Resort.


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Very true. But, in this case, that is not what happened.Phoenix1991 wrote: All weapons can potenially be sold illegally and get into the wrong hands. So can and do Glock pistols (among other cases there was a big scandal a few years ago about Glock pistols being present in big quantities on the black market in Iraq).
"Loughner cleared a federal background check and bought the pistol at a big-box sports store near his home on Nov. 30 — two months after the college suspended him. He customized the weapon with an extended ammunition clip, which would have been illegal six years ago."
Again, I just had to see if that was what happened in this case. If there is the idea that criminals must have gotten a weapon illegally, well that just isn't true.
Good that you don't have to work there. Good luck in your search!
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|Last weekend's Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally in Washington drew quite a crowd -- in the estimates of Stephen Colbert, 'over six billion people.' More reality-based estimates were somewhat less. Crowd-counting is a difficult task to take on, with event organizers obviously hoping to put the largest possible spin on the numbers. We'll talk about techniques used to get more accurate estimates of crowd sizes. Can you think of a better way to count? Can crowdsourcing help? Post your suggestions below.


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WASTEWATER: Plant issues reach boiling point for S. Whitley
SOUTH WHITLEY — Intense rainfall has been a concern for residents across the county this summer, but when heavy rains create flooding at the newly constructed wastewater treatment plant in South Whitley, town leaders start to get heated.After the $3 million project was completed, a storm that came through the town Aug. 2 came with such intensity that it blew off two manhole covers, spilling water overflow into the Eel River. The concern for Town Council members was that the amount of rain received, although it was considerable, still fell below the maximum amount the system should have been able to handle.This is the second time during the summer months that manhole covers have not withstood the pressure. Engineering representative Dave Harvey and Plant Supervisor Kent Slater were at Tuesday's council meeting to shed some light on the flooding concern."In the Aug. 2 storm, 3.4 inches fell over a six-hour period," Slater said. "Two of the manhole covers weren't bolted down properly and they blew. A month or so ago, we had the covers redone and I thought we went through and corrected this problem."Through conversation with Slater and Harvey, the council determined that the contractor for the project, Gerig-ottenweller Contracting, LLC, was responsible for installing the manholes and the covers. According to Harvey, the contractor did not install the manholes correctly and he was not made aware of the error until after the faulty covers leaked.To read the rest of this story, see the Aug. 15 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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The Grand Island Chamber of Commerce will honor Beverly Kinney and Jim Watz on Thursday, April 25, as Citizens of the Year.
Watz will receive the Performing Arts Award, while Kinney will receive the Community Service Award.
The awards honor those who have made Grand Island a better place to live. The ceremony will be held at the Holiday Inn Grand Island with WIVB-TV Channel 4 Luke Moretti serving as master of ceremonies.
Jim Watz
Watz is founder and president of the Grand Island Community Chorus. Under the direction of Carolyn Lokken and accompanied by Kathy DeGlopper, the chorus gives three concerts each year, including a concert last spring with the Buffalo State College Philharmonia orchestra and student choral groups. The group also regularly performs at health care facilities and at civic, charitable, and community events such as the town tree lighting, inaugural ceremony, Veterans Day and Memorial Day observances, and the Thanksgiving Ecumenical Service.
Each year the chorus awards a scholarship to a graduating Grand Island High School senior who plans to pursue choral music in college.
Watz graduated from Canisius College and Boston College Law School, and served as a captain in the U.S. Army and associate professor of law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. During his legal career with Phillips Lytle LLP, he was active in professional and pro bono work and was an adjunct instructor of business law at the University at Buffalo.
Watz has served on the St. Stephen R.C. Church Parish Council, School Advisory Board and School Finance Committee, and is a member of the Grand Island Historical Society and Friends of the Library. He enjoys being a tour guide and volunteer at Old Fort Niagara, and participates in fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Western New York.
Watz was chairman of the board of the Christian Foundation for the Performing Arts (Festival Chorus under Doug Wendt).
Beverly A. Kinney
Kinney has worked in the Grand Island community in many capacities for more than 20 years. She is well known on Grand Island for activities connected with the Grand Island Chamber, where she has held offices for 14 years. She has served on the executive board in the roles of chamber president, vice president, second vice president, secretary and director.
She has also helped the chamber by serving on committees such as budget, telephone book, Youth Ambassador, chamber scholarship, Island, Happenings, KidBiz, marketing and membership, the Sesquicentennial Ball, co-chair of economic development and chamber's Relay For Life team. Her background is in marketing and she has used these skills in organizing and developing the marketing programs that make events successful.
The chamber presented her with a plaque of appreciation for outstanding leadership as chamber president from 2005-07. At the Citizen of the Year Awards dinner in 2010, Kinney was presented with a special award on behalf of the entire board of directors for her outstanding leadership by Chamber President Eric Fiebelkorn. "She is one of those incredible people that make Grand Island a wonderful community to live in," he said.
She was presented with proclamations and citations from Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Erie County Executive Chris Collins, Erie County Legislator Michele M. Iannello, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt and the Grand Island Town Board for outstanding leadership in 2008.
Kinney was awarded the Grand Island Business and Professional Women Chapter's ORT Inc. Award for Women in business, Effective Leadership Award 2007-08. She is a member of the Grand Island Business and Professional Women Board and is currently its treasurer.
Kinney sits on the board for the PROI Foundation Inc., which funds research in cancer, provides money for women who wish to attend medical school for an M.D. or medical Ph.D., and money for those who could otherwise not afford to have chemo sensitivity and resistance testing, founded by Sherry Bradford.
Kinney was appointed by the Grand Island Town Board to the Economic Development Advisory Board and served for more than nine years, including five years as co-chair. She currently serves as secretary of EDAB. She was instrumental in developing marketing tools for the Town of Grand Island.
She serves on the board for Dollars for Scholars, which raises funds for scholarships for Grand Island residents. The Dollars for Scholars organization works with participating colleges nationwide to secure matching funds for many of the scholarship recipients.
Kinney has been a renter/operator of her own business, operating out of Carol Ann's Hair Fashion for 20 years. This is her 46th year as a working hairdresser. Carol Ann's Hair Fashion has been sponsor of many community events for the last 14 years. Kinney is a Variety Club member and has been actively involved with raising funds with Carol Ann's owner, Maria Liaros, and staff, Pat, Kathy and Angie, raising more than $30,000 for the Variety Club, which supports the Woman & Children's Hospital and SABAH, to name two.
Kinney actively supports MercyFlight, which she feels is vital to Grand Island in emergency situations that require immediate travel to a trauma hospital. She also is a member of the Charles N. DeGlopper VFW Post Woman's Auxiliary.
Kinney is a longtime Island resident and a graduate of Grand Island High School. She comes from a large extended family, of five brothers: Jim, John, Mike, Ray and Sean; and two sisters: Lori and Mary Ann; two nieces: Savannah and Briana; four nephews: John Paul, Eric, Josh and Derek. She is the proud mother of a son, Wayne, who resides in Orlando with his wife Dianne and two children, Sebastian and Grant.
She misses her mom, longtime Island resident Betty Brinda, who passed away this past year. "I love you Mom and miss you more than words can say," Kinney said.
Tickets to the Citizen of the Year Awards Ceremony are $45 and are available to purchase at the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce Office, located at 2257 Grand Island Blvd., or by calling in a reservation to 716-773-3651.
The chamber thanked the following businesses for supporting the event: platinum sponsors the Holiday Inn Grand Island and Niagara Frontier Publications; gold sponsor Life Technologies; silver sponsors Toshiba Business Solutions and Key Bank; bronze sponsors Aceti's Wine and Spirits, Sam Long Landscaping and Excavating, Liz Wilbert of Realty USA, Creative Leather Concepts and Island Ship Center, McMahon's Family Restaurant, Mr. Best Wrench, Riverside Federal Credit Union, Citizens Bank, SNAP Fitness, First Niagara Bank, Grand Island Optical and Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, and Elderwood Health Care at Riverwood.
If a business would like to join these businesses in supporting the Citizen of the Year Awards Ceremony with a platinum sponsorship of $2,000, gold sponsorship of $1,000, silver sponsorship of $500 or a bronze sponsorship of $300, it can contact the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce at 716-773-3651.
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Mercedes' Evolving Story
Name: Mercedes
Location: Capitol Hill — Washington DC
My aim is for the things in our home to tell a story about us — whether it's the desk my great-grandfather made, the artwork from friends or the rugs brought home from Afghanistan and Turkey.
My biggest challenge is always editing — I inherited a bunch of family pieces and shortly thereafter my boyfriend moved in. At one point we actually had three dining room tables and figuring out how to mix and match pieces is an ongoing challenge.
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Friday Links: A Day in Dublin With Conor McGregor, Dana White Hoping for Ronda vs. Gina in December, Kids Swearing in Movies + More
(It's Ireland. You gotta have at least one pikey-fight. Screen-cap via MMAMania; be sure to come back to CagePotato tomorrow 3 p.m. ET/noon PT for our liveblog of UFC Fight Night Dublin: McGregor vs. Brandao.)
Some must-see highlights from our friends around the Internet…
A Day in Dublin With Conor McGregor (MMAFighting)
The McGregor vs. Brandao Weigh-In Staredown Was Pretty Intense (gfycat)
Pat Barry Is Losing His Mind Without Rose Namajunas in His Life (MiddleEasy)
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The Most Outrageous Body Modifications You've Ever Seen (EveryJoe)
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Charlie Sheen is Completely Wasted Walking Through Taco Bell Drive-Thru (PopHangover)
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From Dear John Letter to HAPPY CAR DAYS
Ever since men went off to war and women stayed behind, the most dreaded wound a man could receive at the front was a Dear John Letter. So it was with Richard Sacchetti, except that the sweetheart he lost was his beloved 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire. It was a car he longed for since the first day he laid eyes on it in the early 1960s. It was the car he left at his Pawtucket home when he went off to Vietnam in 1967, believing it would still be there when he came back in a year. Imagine his heartbreak when he got a letter from his family telling him they sold the car.
"My father is the baby of six [children] and his mother was 47 when he was born," explained Peter Sacchetti. "His dad was so sad when he [Richard] was overseas and the sight of his beloved '62 Starfire brought his father to tears every time he saw it."
Thinking of sparing the constant reminder of his son off doing battle in a foreign land, Peter's aunts decided to sell the Starfire so that Peter's grandfather was not so sad all the time.
"But my father, on the other hand, was not so happy when he received his Dear John Letter telling him so," said Peter.
Fortunately, Richard returned from Vietnam and, even without his beloved Starfire, made a life for himself selling insurance and buying classic cars. It was only natural that Richard Sacchetti would offer insurance for classic and specialty vehicles through his broader based agency at 845 Post Road in Warwick.
"It allowed us to meet other people who loved cars and, because we are collectors ourselves, we know how our clients feel about their cars," said Peter.
So, the Sacchetti family kept its heart close to the classic car business and managed to indulge their passion for classic cars and endear themselves to other "car guys," a generic and gender-neutral term to describe people who care more than they should about four wheels, a motor and driving fast. Fortunately, the Sacchetti women shared their passion, at least to a point.
"My mother loves cars too," Peter said, "but she also realized that she could have a few new living room sets" that came around the same time as a new classic.
So, now it's 1991 and Richard Sacchetti is making a good living selling insurance and his painful memory of getting that Dear John Letter in Vietnam is fading when he gets a call from an old friend, a friend who knew how much Richard loved that Starfire.
"His friend, Lenny Azevedo, called him and told him he found my father's Starfire in Arizona," said Peter. "Not the same car but one exactly like it, with all the options of the first one. My father bought it, sight unseen."
The red 1962 Oldsmobile is kept in a Warwick garage, along with other automobile restorations that have been done, are being done or will be done, including a convertible version of the '62 Starfire. A look under the hood of the Starfire goes a long way toward explaining why a young car guy would regard it with near worship.
The '62 Oldsmobile Starfire featured a V8 that churned out 345, which, combined with a relatively light body, makes it a precursor of the "muscle cars" that would come later in the decade. The styling is Jetsons elegant, with a sleekness that echoed the lines of the Lockheed F-94 fighter of the same name and signified the start of America's space age. The outside styling featured brushed-aluminum trim with elegant chrome details on the taillights and door handles over a generally swept-back posture that practically urged you to speed. The coupe was priced at $4,131. The Starfire convertible was priced at $4,744. The Sacchettis have both models and consider the cars precious beyond price, but it is the coupe that has become almost a totem.
"That car is as important to him as my sister and I are," said Peter. "It's part of our family and business now."
Also part of the business and the hobby are several notable cars that are in various stages of reconstruction in their Warwick garage. One especially beautiful project is the low-mileage 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan that the Sacchettis bought from a collector in Governor Francis Farms.
"It still had the 'suicide doors,'" said Peter, as he demonstrated.
The doors are hinged to the front and rear and open in the middle like French doors, exposing a generous space inside that few new luxury cars offer. It was as if Lincoln wanted the world to see that the same industrial might that saw the world through the World War was also capable of creating beautiful objects to be enjoyed in peace.
"The car is in almost perfect condition," said Peter. "The only thing my father intends to do is replace the original fabric on the seats."
The Lincoln is lushly refined and the Cosmopolitan is considered by many to be the "real Lincoln" of 1951, when other Lincoln models were based on the same chassis as the Mercury and Ford. It had a 125-inch wheelbase and cost around $3,900, which was a year's salary for the average American at that time. Several sources say only 857 were made that year, a number far too small for a major automaker to conceive of today.
Another pet project is the 1967 Austin Healey 3000 roadster that is getting a ground up restoration, including a rebuilt original engine, new soundproofing and a refreshed paint job in Ice Blue, the color this particular car left the factory with. By an odd coincidence, Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," an online television show, features Seinfeld and British comedian Ricky Gervais bravely battling New York traffic in the very same year, model and color Healey that the Sacchettis hope to roll out this spring.
For people who are looking for some signs of generational discord between Peter and Richard, they are wasting their time. These guys agree on their business model and share the same passion for cars. There must have been many an envious classmate at Shea High School in Pawtucket when Peter came to school in a 1978 Corvette and the Corvette remains a favorite of Peter's to this day. He currently drives a 1971 Corvette he says is all-original and, like most collectors, he has mixed feelings about restoring it.
"Many people like a car to show its history, the scars and the time they've come through," he said. "But there will come a time when I have to fix it but, as they say, 'It's only original once.'"
Needless to say, the Sacchettis have learned a lot about classic cars by working on them, so when their national affiliate, American Modern Insurance Group, decided to do a build in Cincinnati, Peter was a perfect fit to participate in its social media project called "The Build." It's a crowd-sourced rebuild of a classic 1965 Chevelle Malibu SS featured on Facebook and YouTube.
"It was great," he said. "For years, you talk to people on the phone and get to know them but when you meet them in person and do a project like that, it makes it a lot of fun."
Peter readily admits that he was not very enthusiastic about going into the insurance business with his father, which seemed
much too boring work for the young man.
"I don't think I would have stayed in the business if my father didn't start doing the classics insurance," he said. "That part of the business is fun. You are dealing with people who are happy to see you, people who are getting insurance so they can take their toys out and play."


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I'm four days into my New Zealand Film Festival experience and I haven't encountered a dud movie yet. My timetable is delivering a perfectly calibrated succession of thrills and emotional highs.
I've managed to reconnect with the glory of The Civic, and every film session I've attended has been impressively populated, reflecting the 10 per cent jump in ticket sales over the same time last year reported by festival director Bill Gosden at the opening night gala screening last Thursday evening.
The film his speech preceded, Beasts of the Southern Wild, was as dynamic and unique an experience anyone could ever wish to have at a film festival, and a perfect opening night selection.
It tells the fable-like story of a small wetland community that digs in and refuses to leave when the flood waters rise. Young Quvenzhané Wallis gives one of the most heartbreaking debut performances ever as Hushpuppy, a tiny little force of nature struggling to deal with the change around her.
The film is an indescribable wonder (Sci-fi? Allegory? Fairy tale?) that requires a commitment from the viewer, but it is a commitment that is richly rewarded. It may be a little too convincingly grimy at times, but the magic that drifts off the screen is unlike any I've experienced in a movie theatre before.
Beasts is currently enjoying breakout success on a limited release in arthouse theatres in America, but you can see it at the second Auckland screening on the afternoon of Thursday, July 26.
After such a mind-expanding opening film, I was looking forward to engaging in something a little more genre-leaning in the form of Aussie drama Wish You Were Here, which I saw on Friday morning.
The film was preceded by Ten Thousand Days, a lively and funny short from local director Michael Duignan (Go Girls) starring Benedict Wall as a fatalistic paramour wooing the increasingly underwhelmed Morgana O'Reilly. It was pretty nifty.
Featuring rising actors like Joel Edgerton (Warrior), Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four) and NZ's own Antony Starr (Outrageous Fortune), Wish You Were Here details a holiday trip to South East Asia from which one of four friends fails to return.
As the truth slowly and deliberately reveals itself through hazy flashbacks, the film does a great job of getting into the heads of the characters and underpins the drama with a (admittedly stereotypically) nightmarish view of what could go wrong on a South East Asian holiday.
Next up I was back to The Civic for Danish drama The Hunt on Friday afternoon. As a big fan of rising Scandinavian actor Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, A Royal Affair), I was eager to see the performance that recently garnered him the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
As a divorced kindergarten teacher whose small town community turns on him when he is (falsely) accused of child abuse, Mikkelsen is devastatingly effective. The incomprehension of a man whose life is crumbling before him comes across in every expression.
The Hunt asks difficult questions about the way adults should deal with children who aren't their own, but it offers little in the way of tangible solutions. It was chilling, plausible and exquisitely put together by director Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration).
Later that evening I was back in The Civic for the hotly anticipated screening of The Cabin In The Woods. Turning up in the Incredibly Strange section of the Film Festival following fan outcry over the decision to not release it theatrically in New Zealand, The Cabin In The Woods enticed a large and dedicated crowd to The Civic late on Friday, creating an atmosphere dense with fanboyistic enthusiasm.
The genre-bending film couldn't have gone down better, and I was wholly captivated by its witty script and twist-laden Twilight Zone-ish plot. It's the kind of film you'll enjoy more the less you know going in, but WOW does it deliver. This is my new favourite movie.
With The Cabin In The Woods, you could argue that producer/co-writer Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard have rendered an entire section of genre cinema obsolete. With gusto.
The cast was uniformly excellent, but doing the best work was local hero Anna Hutchison (Go Girls, Underbelly), who was present to introduce the film and further charmed the crowd with a Q&A session following the screening.
If there was any doubt beforehand, The Cabin In The Woods proves definitively that Hutchison has something tangible and uniquely New Zealand-ish to offer mainstream Hollywood cinema. She is awesome.
If you missed The Cabin In The Woods' first Auckland screening, don't miss the second: It's playing Tuesday, July 24 at 4.15pm at The Civic.
Saturday night saw me take in the enticing documentary The Imposter, which detailed with Errol Morris-esque artistry the fascinating tale of a 23-year-old Frenchman who managed to convince a Texan family that he was their teenage son who had disappeared three years earlier aged 13.
Hearing this unbelievable tale from both the man who both perpetrated it and the family that bought into it was ceaselessly gripping, and brought to mind the still-underseen Facebook doco Catfish.
Judging by the high quality of all the films on display in the Nga Whanaunga Maori Pasifika Shorts collection, which I attended Sunday lunchtime, the decision this year to instigate a dedicated Maori and Pasifika short film collection is long overdue.
Particularly impressive was Hamish Bennett's hilarious and affecting The Dump, which stars the irrepressible Orlando Stewart (Wayne Anderson: Singer of Songs) as a divorced dad due a little respect. Simultaneously subtle and powerful, The Dump did a fantastic job of manipulating the audience.
For my second screening on a very film festival-friendly Sunday afternoon (ie, wet and miserable outside), I took in the restored print of the 1926 Norwegian silent film The Flight of the Airship Norge over the Artic Ocean.
Accompanied by a piano soundtrack performed on stage and live, spoken translations of the Norwegian intertitles, this film chronicles a combined Italian/Norwegian expedition to the North Pole in an enormous airship/blimp.
The film tracks the airship across various stops in Europe to the Artic ocean and eventually the North Pole. It's an fascinating snapshot of the world as it was almost a hundred years ago, and many of the images presented look like something beamed in from an alternate universe.
I never got used to the sheer scale of what was on display, and the adventurous spirit that drove the enterprise comes through loud and clear. The promise of airship-driven future transport is celebrated prematurely, lending the film a wistful quality. The audience winced at anachronistic portrayals of walrus and polar bear hunts, but these moments served to locate the film in an alien time and place.
Seeing The Flight of the Airship Norge over the Artic Ocean on the big screen was a truly singular experience, and probably my highlight of the festival so far. Apart maybe from The Cabin In The Woods. That movie freaking ruled.
But the festival has only just started, and there's plenty more awesome to come. See you back here for further discussion.
* What have you seen so far at the film festival? Any of the above? Thoughts? Comment below!
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Growing up in wartime Germany shaped Klaus Schwab's life. The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1937, just before the Second World War broke out.
He has said he is interested in "reconciliation" and "dialogue" and strongly believes the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a force for good.
The Forum's annual get-togethers in Davos, started in 1971, have been widely criticized as a week-long party for the rich and powerful. But Schwab believes that a world without dialogue would be a selfish one, and says businesses and governments should work together with civil society.
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And while some of the participants primarily travel to the Swiss ski resort to network, catch up with peers, and ski, many also engage in debates about how to improve healthcare and education across the globe.
"There's a very practical and pragmatic reason to go," David Jones, CEO of advertising group Havas said. "Pretty much every single person you will want to meet with in your field is there." He added that meetings are also "incredibly focused" as everybody has a busy schedule.
Starbucks' recent experience in the U.K. serves as a potent reminder of the importance of corporate social responsibility. News that the American chain had only paid $13.8 million in corporate tax since it launched in the country over a decade ago led to a public outcry.
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"From 2010 there have been mass movements against companies that behave in the wrong way," Jones said.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) now actively take part in the debates held at Davos, and initiatives such as the U.N.'s 'Refugee Run,' in which participants are invited to "experience" life in a refugee camp, are no longer seen as gimmicks.
In addition, the Forum has tried to tackle issues such as gender inequality by introducing a quota requiring its "strategic partners" -- comprising many of the world's top firms -- to include one woman among their five delegates.
Barbara Stocking, chief executive of U.K.-based charity Oxfam, will be attending the meetings in Davos, and said it's her job to represent the interests of the millions of poor people her organization works for.
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"Poverty is about power and politics. For me, meeting world leaders, economic thinkers, and heads of the world's very biggest corporations, means a fleeting chance to influence the path of global development," she said.
"The private sector especially has a vital role to play in tackling the injustice of poverty, from regulations on land grabs and commodity markets to empowering small holder farmers in their supply chains."
Marco Magnani, a Senior Fellow at Harvard University, agreed the focus at the gathering has shifted more toward socially responsible business in recent years.
"There are lots of people with a lot of power and a lot of money. That's human. That happens everywhere," he said. "But it's a great thermometer of the world."


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Peter Schmitt died on the job. The Nassau Legislature's presiding officer was in the county executive's office last Wednesday morning, working on next year's budget, when he suffered a massive heart attack.
Schmitt, a Republican, was known in political circles as a tough advocate for his party's positions, especially the need for government to spend less and to keep residents' property tax bills from getting any higher.
These were hard choices to make. Youth and counseling-service budgets that depend on county funds to provide residents with desperately needed help were on the chopping block. To cut services, to oppose tax increases, were decisions that won Schmitt no friends from those who advocate for more government help. But he held firm.
One of the great frustrations that people in public life must experience is that casual observers, the press and even many constituents, who know an elected official only from board meetings or public events, form judgments without knowing much about that official's life — his or her relationships, motivations and community involvement. We all have a tendency to say, "Oh, he's just a politician," or "She's a Republican," or "He's a Democrat," as though those neat phrases sum up all anyone needs to know about a fellow human being.
It's a great tribute to Schmitt that since his death, prominent people have praised the whole man, noting his steadfast political positions but also praising his genuine love for his family and his community and his numerous leadership and supportive roles in so many aspects of life here on Long Island.
There will now be concerns about the 9-to-9 divide in the normally 19-member Legislature, and what's to be done about the county budget and other long-unfinished business. More than ever, it's time the two parties identify and act on areas of agreement so that progress can be made. Legislators must find common ground, compromise on vital issues and put aside the "my way or no way" attitude that leaves the process stalemated and the electorate dissatisfied with all of them. Voters must look carefully at how their representatives act in this critically important time, and remember their performance when they run for re-election.
For now, we join with so many others in thanking Schmitt's family for sharing him with the public, and offering our condolences.


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Vt's Haunted Highways offers tourists ghost stories, lodging
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Tourists can explore Vermont this fall with a few ghostly adventures.
The Vermont Department of Tourism has launched Haunted Highways, a vacation package focused on ghost stories and lodging.
The department says tourist can travel from the "Bennington Triangle" in the southwestern part of the state where a number of hikers mysteriously disappeared between 1920 and 1950 to Lake Memphremagog on the northern border where the ghost of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne has been spotted walking across the top of the lake.
Officials say there are many mysterious places in between.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — The mayor of a Connecticut community roiled by allegations of police discrimination against Hispanics is under fire for saying he "might have tacos" as a way to do something for those minorities.
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo initially defended his response Tuesday to a reporter's question and said it was being unfairly twisted. He later apologized, saying he'd had a long day of interviews after the FBI arrested four of his town's police officers on charges of depriving Latinos of their constitutional rights.
The "taco" comment came as Maturo was being interviewed by New York's WPIX-TV about alleged anti-Hispanic bias in East Haven, a shoreline town bordering New Haven and the subject of a federal civil rights probe that was launched in 2009.
The four officers arrested Tuesday are charged with depriving the civil rights of Latinos and their supporters, including by unlawfully searching Latino businesses and intimidating people who tried to investigate or report alleged misconduct.
Maturo was interviewed on video Tuesday by WPIX reporter Mario Diaz, who asked, "What are you doing for the Latino community today?"
Maturo's response: "I might have tacos when I go home; I'm not quite sure yet."
Diaz then said: "You realize that's not really the comment to say right now, you 'might have tacos tonight'?"
Maturo, who is of Italian heritage, then said he might have spaghetti or any other kind of ethnic food.
Growing increasingly angry, he added he does not believe the anti-Latino bias allegations are "a systemic problem within our police department or within our community" and told Diaz to "go for it, take your best shot" to make the "taco" comment seem to imply something he did not intend.
He released a statement Wednesday to express his "sincerest apologies" to East Haven and its Latino residents and business owners, asking residents to "have faith in me and our community as we address the challenges arising out of the past days' events."
"Unfortunately, I let the stress of the situation get the best of me and inflamed what is already a serious and unfortunate situation," he said in his written statement. "I regret my insensitive comment and realize that it is my job to lead by example."
Maturo, a Republican, has been drawing fire for his comments from several high-ranking Connecticut Democratic officials, including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who called the comments "repugnant."
"They represent either a horrible lack of judgment or worse, an underlying insensitivity to our Latino community that is unacceptable," Malloy said Wednesday. "Being tired is no excuse. He owes an apology to the community, and more importantly, he needs to show what he's going to do to repair the damage he's done. And he needs to do it today."
East Haven's Democratic Town Committee chairman is calling on Maturo to resign. The local Republican Party chairman told the New Haven Register on Wednesday that he might address the situation publicly later in the day, but had no immediate comment.
Also Wednesday morning, Maturo told WLPR radio's "Chaz & AJ in the Morning" show that the quip was "stupid" and provided ammunition to "people who want to make matters worse."
"This is going to be the first and only interview I give today. I think I had enough yesterday, and I got myself in enough hot water yesterday," said Maturo, a lifelong East Haven resident and Republican who was mayor from 1997 to 2007 and re-elected again last fall.
He told the radio hosts Wednesday that he realized Tuesday night that the quip was a "dumb, off the cuff, stupid remark" and that he had given more than a dozen interviews in the preceding hours.
"I gave them a reason to make matters worse with a 'gotcha,' and an insensitive and stupid answer to something I should have never said," Maturo said, adding he had done more than a dozen interviews in the previous hours.
"In all that time, I made one mistake — and it's gone viral," he said.
The four East Haven officers are each charged with conspiracy against rights, which carries a maximum prison term of 10 years. Some also face charges including deprivation of rights, obstruction of justice and use of unreasonable force.
All four defendants pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, and three were released on bond.


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Lions, Gators and Bears! The Best of the 'Jaws' Rip-offs
Welcome to Jaws Week! When it was announced that Steven Spielberg's Jaws was arriving on Blu-ray, we thought it'd be perfect to dedicate an entire week to the movie that created the summer blockbuster. Every day this week we'll be posting an assortment of really fun features tied to the film, its production, its legacy, its fans, its merchandise and so much more.
We all know that virtually everyone loves Jaws, and here's some cinematic proof of that assertion. Steven Spielberg's film was a huge hit, obviously, and you know what a huge hit means, right? Rip-offs, knockoffs, copycats, retreads and wannabes!
But not all Jaws-inspired movies are cobbled together equally, and these are the flicks that manage to be sort of entertaining in their own right. They're nowhere near as good as Jaws, but then, what copycat movie ever is?
Grizzly (1976) -- Jaws hit theaters on June 20, 1975, and this blatant-yet-adorable rip-off was in theaters by May of 1976. Now that's how you do a knock-off! Also known as Claws, this William Girdler horror flick is pretty much the same as Jaws, only with a bear instead of a shark, but it has some outrageously nasty kills for a PG-rated movie. It also offers Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel, and if you know who those actors are, then you've probably already seen Grizzly. They're hardly a Scheider-Shaw-Dreyfuss trio, but in the realm of low-budget knockoff cinema, one takes what one can get.
Day of the Animals (1977) -- Before his untimely death in a 1978 helicopter accident, director William Girdler went back to the Jaws pool once more, only this time he brought a whole menagerie of unhappy beasts. This one reunites Christopher George with Richard Jaeckel, but the cast also includes Leslie Neilsen, Lynda Day George, Andrew Stevens and Susan Backlinie. (She was the first victim in Jaws.) Plot? Try this: a hole in the ozone layer causes all of the animals above a certain elevation to get all crazy and murderous. And of course there are a bunch of campers around. Points for simple silliness, and extra credit to the writers for predicting the "ozone layer" issue, even if they did do it in relatively silly fashion.
Orca (1977) -- This patently absurd but undeniably entertaining De Laurentiis production features Richard Harris as a rather stupid whaler, Charlotte Rampling as a biologist who spews nonsense, Will Sampson as a noble native, and Bo Derek as a pretty woman who gets her leg bitten off. The opening tragedy, in which Harris performs an unintentional abortion on a pregnant whale, mortified an entire generation of young movie watchers, but there's some fun to be had up to and including a wacky finale involving a fluke, a dummy and a glacier. Moral of the story: leave whales alone, especially pregnant ones with angry mates.
Jaws 2 (1978) -- Universal was in this for the money, but give it up to director Jeannot Szwarc for turning in a perfectly serviceable sequel to Jaws -- even if Jaws 2 never comes close to copying the wit, cleverness and intensity of Steven Spielberg's original. Little more than a fancy slasher flick dressed up as a sequel, it's about a group of fun-loving teens who decide to go sailing just as another ravenous shark invades the waters of Amity Island. The premise stretches credibility, but fortunately Roy Scheider is back to lend some legitimacy to this sequel. (Note: Jaws 3 and Jaws 4 are absolutely terrible, even on the rip-off/sequel scale. Don't watch them.)
Alligator (1980) -- Probably the funniest of all the Jaws knockoffs, thanks mainly to the screenplay by a young John Sayles, this flick asserts that if you flush a baby gator down the toilet it could, in theory, feast on genetic waste material and blossom into a beast the size of a stretch limo. The actors, particularly Robert Forster and Henry Silva, bring a welcome sense of humor to the now-familiar proceedings, but director Lewis Teague is still smart enough to throw in some gooey gore and some memorable murders. (I had nightmares about the swimming pool scene as a kid, and I bet some of you did, too.)
Great White (1981) - And, fine, no article on this topic would be complete without at least a mention of the infamous Italian flick Great White, which was so much of a Jaws rip-off that Universal actually sued the distributor, and won the case. True story! Aside from its very brief initial theatrical release, Great White has never officially reappeared in America in any form. (Now you really wanna see it!)
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DeKALB – As a student at St. Mary School in DeKalb, Bob Faivre and his fellow students used to wander through the tunnels under the school.
That is, until the students got caught and were forced by their nun teachers to write 1,500 word essays explaining their behavior.
Bob, a 1968 St. Mary graduate, told this story to his grandaughter, Ansley Faivre, 7, for the first time Sunday as they walked through the former St. Mary School at the corner of Fourth Street and Fisk Avenue.
Memories of forming friendships, lasting educational lessons and getting into trouble filled the former St. Mary School on Sunday as around 400 people attended the school's centennial celebration and the kickoff to Catholic Schools Week.
"It's fun to be in such a building that resonates with so many people," Centennial Committee Chair Alicia Schatteman said.
The school opened in 1913 with 90 students in first through sixth grade. The first graduating class in 1914 had 12 students. The school later expanded and included kindergarten through eighth grade. The original school was used until 1996 when St. Mary bought the former Notre Dame School on Gurler Road.
All parents and alumni were invited to attend the celebration Sunday. They also were asked to record a video message containing some of their memories. A videographer sponsored by the local chapter of Catholic Daughters of the Americas was on site to record the memories, which will be compiled into one video and debut at the annual Lancer Legacy Ball in April.
Harold Russie carried with him a bag of memorabilia from his time at St. Mary, including a toy graduation cap with class of 1958 printed across it. Russie, who serves as the organist for St. Mary Church, recalled rehearsals for the spring piano recitals decades ago.
"Sister would always be so nervous for each of us as we went out to practice," Russie said.
Several students reconnected with Joan Hoffman, who taught first grade at the school from 1963 to 1991. Hoffman nearly felt overwhelmed by the amount of memories that came rushing back as she walked through the former classrooms, including the one she used to call her own.
"I think there was great potential in the children," Hoffman said. "Hopefully I was able to get the very best out of them that I could."
Her first class contained 47 students and desks were bolted to the floor, a far cry from the classrooms of today, she said.
Aside from the oral history of the school, an array of artifacts were on display. The basement of the school contained tables covered in school memorabilia. Lisa Holiday and Dave Steimel, who were in first grade at St. Mary in 1972, laughed as they found their class picture.
They didn't quite see the resemblance between themselves and the black and white images captures in the 70's, but when it came to the school, they felt as if it had been frozen in time.
"This place is a time capsule," Steimel said. "It hasn't changed a bit."