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Vegetable-and-sausage Paella
We went to LA for a three day holiday recently. Most people would be incredulous that LA is my idea of a holiday. But it is. I'm a city girl. I grew up in the midst of a thriving metropolis and feel most at home and at peace with myself when I'm around the cacophony of traffic and the hustle-n-bustle of a city. Not necessarily in the middle of it, but around it. In its absence, I feel like something is strongly missing from my life. It's the same feeling I get when I can't see the ocean too much, or smell the salty spray, only this is more intense. The two years I lived outside of an urban environment had me climbing walls. If I ever have to move out of the city, I would need to return to it often, every other day, like a swimmer surfacing for air.
LA delivers the big city like no other on the West Coast. Of course, San Francisco is prettier in its setting, but it is smaller, very definite. Step out of it and you know you're out. LA feels like it has no boundaries, one big gritty and interesting melting pot of city and 'burbs. This time I got to visit places that I haven't been to before, like the Getty Center and the Griffith Observatory, both of which offer wonderful vantage points to the sprawling behemoth that is Los Angeles. If you haven't been to LA, put both these destinations on your itinerary when you visit. The Getty Center has beautiful views and even better architecture, with beautiful courts and iridescent buildings dressed in travertine. The combined wallop of the art and architecture raised my spirits. This place radiates a contagious vitality. We had a mixture of lunch and dinner in a lovely little Mexican taqueria that served the best salsa I've eaten anywhere, that topped these delicious chicken tacos cooked in a fantastic peppery sauce. LA really has great Mexican food.
The observatory is a study in contrasts. This almost octogenarian building is gorgeous in it proportions and set on what must be one of LA's most spectacular sites. It has a wonderful planetarium that was both educational and entertaining. The views here are gorgeous in the day time. But it was at night that I had the defining experience of my visit here, probably not an intended one. The sun goes down and the lights come on, studding the cityscape with sparkling dots and dashes that twinkle through the haze that LA is wont to be covered in. The stars in the skies are outshined by the ones on Earth. Nothing else I've seen puts the extent of light pollution on our planet into stark reality so definitively, except maybe Las Vegas. Strange, isn't it? This place exists to search the skies and shed light on the mysteries of space.
Our interest in food never wanes, even on short vacations. So when a local friend told me about the Grove, the Farmers' market in downtown LA, it was put on the top of my places to visit. I've already waxed lyrical about my love for the Farmers' markets here in San Francisco. The Grove is a good Farmers' Market with some delicious food. However I thought it paled in comparison to the abundant and gorgeous produce of the Ferry Building Farmers' market or the Berkeley Bowl. Also, it didn't help that the experience kept getting interrupted by an over-zealous security guard who came up to us, several times, in the half hour we spent there. He didn't seem to want to tell us to stop taking photos but he didn't seem too happy that we were, in a vague fashion. Then apparently someone complained to him that we were taking photos. Someone.complained.we.were.taking.photos. In a public place. In LA. You would think this was one place on the planet that people with be familiar with a camera. Someone had a problem with me shooting monkey bread and pies. I can tell you it soured the Grove for us and we left it thoroughly confused and a bit miffed, leaving us with a bitter taste that overpowered the wonderful falafel we had for lunch. Made me long for home. No one cares about people with cameras in San Francisco. (I'd say the same for the rest of the world, everywhere except LA, but that would be spite. Gah!)
Anyway, the episode didn't completely ruin our trip there. The spell of the sun and gorgeous day washed away the annoyance. We also quite accidently discovered this beautiful Indian temple on our way to Malibu which was just icing on the trip. So pretty and white, all by itself, tucked away in the mountains. It quite made up for the morning. There was a serenity reigning over the compound in stark contrast to how noisy and crowded temples can be in the Bay Area.
Before we left SoCal, we had some wonderful tapas in a small California-inspired Spanish restaurant. The tapas were delicious and small, but so filling that we weren't able to satisfy our interest in the enticing paella photographed in the menu. So today, on this fairly hot San Francisco day, Amey and I decided that we'd try making our own paella, toasting to the memory of our wonderful little trip.
Neither of us is too familiar with cooking Spanish food so we turned to the Internet for explanation. What we found was that onion, garlic and tomatoes form the sofrito or base of this dish, as they often do in Spanish cooking, which put me back a bit in my comfort zone. These three form the base of many an Indian recipe as well. But then there were recipes that included parsley in the sofrito. Problem. Parsley is not one of my favourite herbs. In fact the only parsley dish I ever actually liked was some chimmichurri I had once. Mostly parsley tastes like soap to me. I've found the world around me is often divided into parsley lovers and cilantro lovers. Many a parsley lover has told me that to them, cilantro tastes like soap. Those exact words. Weird, no? But I digress..
We also found that recipes often call for all kinds of meat and seafood in the one recipe. This was another problem. Like that little kid who doesn't like his food touching other food on his plate, I don't like all kinds of meat playing along in one single dish. But Amey wanted there to be some in this dish, for a contrasting bite to the veggies, so we compromised on including two kinds of sausage instead of several meats. After agonizing over recipes, we decided we needed to make up our own, based on several variations. The result is what you see here.
Paella with sausage and veggies
Serves 3-4
Spicy Italian sausage – 1 link, cut into 1/4" rounds
Sweet basil and roasted garlic chicken sausage -1 link, cut into 1/4" rounds
Yellow onion – 1, diced
Garlic – 6 cloves, minced fine
Cilantro – handful, chopped fine
Green bell pepper- 1, cut into strips
Red bell pepper-1, cut into strips
Carrots – 2, diced
Canned whole tomatoes – 8 oz
Valencian rice – 2 cups OR Bomba rice – 1 1/2 cups
Green peas – 1 cup
Smoked paprika – 1/2 tsp
Saffron – a pinch
Olive oil – 3 tbsp
Water – 2 cups
Chicken stock – 2 cups
Salt to taste
Lemon – 1, cut into wedges
– In a large pan (the more flat surface area, the better), add the oil and the sausage cuts. Brown the sausage and then remove to a paper towel covered plate.
– Add the onion and saute for a while until it starts to caramelize. Then add the garlic and cilantro and fry some more.
– Add the pepper strips and carrots. Saute until for 5 minutes.
– Hand crush the tomatoes and add to the cooking pan. Saute the mixture until it starts to brown or caramelize.
– Fold in the rice into the tomato mixture. After completely folded in, add the water and stock. Keep stirring slowly to cook the rice gradually, about 10 minutes.
– Add the peas. Move the cooked sausage back to the pan.
– Take a few tablespoons of hot liquid out into a bowl. Soak the saffron in this for a bit and return the liquid to the pan. Mix to incorporate. Cover the pan and let cook on medium low heat until the rice is cooked through.
– When almost all the liquid has gone, turn the heat up to caramelize and toast up the bottom layer of rice.
To serve, plate some rice including some from the bottom of the pan. Serve with lemon wedges for squeezing over.
Cook's notes:
Traditionally, the Spanish use a paellera; a flat, shallow pan took make paella. I don't own one so I went with the largest shallow pan I had. You can substitute arborio rice for the traditionally used Bomba or Valencian rice (we got ours from The Spanish Table in Berkeley) but paella does is supposed to have separate, distinct grains, different from the texture of risotto. At any rate, do not use a long-grain rice like Basmati. It will probably turn to mush. The two kinds of sausage were amazing in this recipe, infusing their flavours into the oil. Even so, I think a vegetarian version would be pretty good too. Just leave out the sausage and use veggie stock.
Several recipes said that food colour is substituted because saffron is expensive, but that saffron is the heart of the dish. Every bite had an almost-floral afternote because of the saffron. I would not substitute it with anything else. Saffron is pricey, but so strong that hardly any recipe calls for more than a pinch at a time. If you store it well, tightly capped in a cool, dry and dark place, it has a long shelf life.
We decided to substitute the parsley we read about in some recipes with cilantro. I'm guessing this isn't quite authentic, nevertheless, it worked brilliantly. This rice dish was piquant and satisfying at the same time, the twist of lemon at the end giving it a fabulous tang. I think the only thing I might try the next time I make it would be to use fresh tomatoes instead of canned ones. It did seem to have an excess of tomato, never a bad thing in my book, but it did tend to overpower the other flavours a bit, so you had to hunt for them. And remember to dish out a bit of the toasted rice in each helping. It really adds to the flavour of the meal. Anyone who has had caramelised onions on a biryani would understand. It is a similar layer of flavour.
The sunshine in San Francisco today echoed the intense heat in LA from our trip there and paella was a culmination of sunshine on our plates. I raise my glass to the West Coast. Right now, warm plate in hand, gazing at an azure sky, I'm exactly where I want to be.

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Obituraries for Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, July 11, 2010
Raymond Fischer, Alice T. Heilig, Lottie N. Ignash, Mildred D. Kramer, Casimer "Cass" Lamke, Harry A. Lenda, John T. Maurer, Dolores Ann Perry
Raymond Fischer
Raymond Fischer, 99, of Lincoln Township, died Sunday, July 11, 2010 at his home.
He was born Aug. 30, 1910 in Grindstone, son of the late Alex and Katherine (Miller) Fisher. He married Agnes Yaroch on Feb. 3, 1940. She preceded him in death July 6, 1967. He then married Maxcine (Williams) Smith on May 29, 1975. He retired from Detroit Broach in Rochester after 33 years. He was a member of St. Felix Catholic Church in Pinnebog, the Caseville Golf Course, and several square dance clubs. He enjoyed his grandchildren, golfing, square dancing and reading.
Ray is survived by his wife, Maxcine; his children, Mary (Steve) Treadway of Oxford, Annette (Guy) Nightingale of Shelby Township, Geraldine Horger of North Branch, Colleen Fischer of Jackson, Lawrence (Laura) Fischer of Mancelona, Anthony (Debbie) Fischer of Mancelona, Sandra (James) Fobear of Saginaw, Carol (Dewey) Lovaas of Harbor Beach, Connie (Frank) Muma of Caseville, Karen (Richard) Warchuck of Ruth, Bonnie Lewis of Elkton, Rodney (Peggy) Smith of Lake Orion and Mitchell (Patty) Smith of Elkton; 33 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-grandchild. Ray also is survived by two brothers, Bob (Deloris) Fisher of Zephyrhills, Fla. and Clarence Fisher of Filion; two sisters, Virginia (Gene) Coats of Zephyrhills, Fla. and Bernice (Mack) McRay of Walled Lake.
Ray was preceded in death by his son, Roger Smith; his brothers and sisters, Irene Yaroch, Rosie Fisher, John Fisher, Dorothy Helewski, Stanley Fisher, Tom Fisher, Beuncy Fisher, Alex Fisher and Deloris Zelkowski.
Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at St. Felix Catholic Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be on from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 9 to 10:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Knoblock Funeral Home in Kinde. There will be a Vigil at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Alice T. Heilig
Alice T. Heilig, 86, of Southfield, formerly of the Kinde area, passed away Sunday, July 11, 2010 at Providence Hospital in Southfield.
She was born Feb. 6, 1924 near Kinde, to the late Michael and Mary Byarski. She was married to Bernard Heilig and he has preceded her in death.
Alice enjoyed playing bingo and spending time with her family and friends.
She is survived by her son, Gary Heilig, and his wife, Elizabeth, of Commerce Township; her daughter Diana Bodner of Bad Axe; five grandchildren, Tammy, James, Deanna, Courtney and Robert; five great-grandchildren, Nickolas, Jessica, Miranda, Jessie and Michael; great-great-grandchildren, twin boys, Thomas and Jaden; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard; a grandchild, Thomas; son in-law, Louis Bodner; four brothers, Floyd, Benjamin, John Byarski and Eddie Strozeski; and two sisters, Martha Lerash and Cecila Gwisdalla.
Funeral Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at MacAlpine Mac Chapel in Bad Axe. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kinde.
Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 10 a.m. until time of service Wednesday at the chapel.
Memorials maybe offered to the Family Discretionary Fund.
Lottie N. Ignash
Lottie N. Ignash, 91, of Bad Axe, passed away Sunday, July 11, 2010 at Covenant-Harrison Hospital, Saginaw.
She was born Oct. 21, 1918 in Dwight Township, to the late Floyd and Christine (Lerash) Koroleski.
Lottie Koroleski and Harry Ignash were united in marriage on June 18, 1936. They made their home on their farm in Dwight Township.
She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Kinde. Lottie was employed for several years at Sunny Acres Nursing Home in the dietary and housekeeping departments. She enjoyed playing the Michigan lottery and loved to cook and bake fresh bread. She enjoyed spending time with family and friends. The last 2 1/2 years, Lottie lived at Courtney Manor in Bad Axe. She had many friends there and enjoyed spending her time playing euchre and bingo.
She is survived by four daughters, Janice (Richard) Prezzato of St. Charles, Patricia (Roger) Case of Kinde, Carolyn (Gary) Kapa of Manchester and Diane (Steve) Errer of Filion; one daughter in-law, Elaine Ignash of Saginaw; 13 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry; one son, Edward; one set of twin great-grandchildren; a brother, Phil Koroleski; and three sisters, Theresa Rice, Irene Bouverette and Florence Reynolds.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 15, 2010 at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dwight Township, with burial in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Dwight.
Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at MacAlpine - Gage Chapel in Kinde, and 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Memorials may be offered to St. Mary's Catholic Church or Courtney Manor Nursing Home.
Mildred D. Kramer
Mrs. Mildred D. Kramer, 84, of Ruth, passed away Saturday, July 10, 2010 at Courtney Manor in Bad Axe while under hospice care with her family by her side.
She was born Sept. 14, 1925 in Harbor Beach to the late Charles and Irma (Sageman) Hanson. She married Herbert Kramer on Nov. 23, 1946 at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Ruth. He preceded her in death Dec. 28, 2009.
Mildred was an eighth-grade graduate of the Sigel No. 6 School. She was an assistant clerk for the U.S. Postal Service for four years. She worked for 15 years in child care. She was a seamstress for many years and was a quilt maker for 55 years. She was a parishioner of SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Ruth, where she was a past president of Christian Mothers for seven years and a member for 25 years. Mildred has been a member of the Parisville V.F.W. Auxiliary Post 5740 for 60 years. She enjoyed playing euchre. Her travels took her across the United States, including Alaska, Australia, Europe and New Zealand. She truly enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and friends.
Mildred is survived by her daughter, Angela Roth and her husband, Larry, of Ubly; three grandchildren, Sheryl Burk and her husband, Steven, of Frankenmuth, Michael Roth of Saginaw, Kara Zastrow and her husband, Leroy, of Midland; nine grandchildren, Rachel, Randy and Lindsay Burk, Benjamin, Annie and Jonah Roth, Kramer "Ryder" Zastrow, Zachary and Nathaniel Zastrow; two brothers, Warren Hanson and his wife, Edna, of Saginaw, Gerald Hanson and his wife, Ardith, of Harbor Beach; two sisters, Doris Schultz of Roseville, Ardene Bowron and her husband, Donald, of Bradenton, Fla.; two sisters-in-law, Mary Kramer of Harbor Beach and Evelyn Kramer of Ruth.
She was preceded in death by an infant son, one brother and his wife, Calvin (Evelyn) Hanson, one sister, Florence Gornowich and one brother-in-law, William Schultz.
The funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Ruth. The Rev. Peter Nwokoye, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 2:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Zinger-Smigielski Funeral Home in Ubly and from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. There will be a service by the Parisville V.F.W. Auxiliary at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. There will be a Christian Mothers rosary at 4 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, as well. All services will be at the funeral home.
Casimer Lamke
Casimer "Cass" Lamke, 84, of Bad Axe, passed away Sunday, July 11, 2010 at Huron Medical Care Facility in Bad Axe, surrounded by his family.
He was born March 3, 1926, in Parisville, son of the late Lawrence and Theresa (O'Parka) Lamke.
He married Ruby M. Bouverette on June 6, 1953 in St. Edwards Catholic Church in Kinde. She preceded him in death Nov. 18, 2006.
Cass was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bad Axe. He enjoyed the accordion and antique car collectibles.
He is survived by one son, Ronald (Marilyn) Lamke of Bad Axe; one daughter, Pamela (Terry) McMullen of Bad Axe; three grandchildren, Kimberly Lamke and her husband, David Brown, of Evanston, Ill., Ken Lamke of Bad Axe, Nicole (Gregory) Turner of Saginaw; two great-grandchildren, Breanna and Braden Turner of Sagiaw, three brothers, Elmer Lamke of Ubly, Eugene (Mildred) Lamke of Parisville, Richard (Barbara) Lamke of Ubly; two sisters, Evelyn Susalla of Ubly and Arlene (Jerry) Longuski of Ubly.
He was predeceased by two brothers, Ervin Lemke, Raymond Lamke; one sister, Marie Peruski.
Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bad Axe. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Kaufman Funeral Home in Bad Axe or from 9 until 10 a.m. on Wednesday at the church. A scripture service will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Harry A. Lenda
Harry A. Lenda, 82, of Owendale, died unexpectedly Sunday, July 11, 2010 in Hills & Dales General Hospital, Cass City.
He was born Nov. 20, 1927 at home in Huron County to Walter and Cecilia (Stopynski) Lenda. He married Mabel Mary McIlhargie June 9, 1956 in St. Felix Catholic Church, Pinnebog.
Harry served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He worked for A & P Grocery store in Pigeon and then as a relief manager before buying the IGA in Cass City. Harry owned and operated the IGA Grocery Store in Cass City for more than 40 years until his retirement. Harry was a member of St. Agatha Catholic Church in Gagetown, where he served as a lector, council member and Eucharistic Minister. He was a member of the Cass City/Gagetown Knights of Columbus No. 8892 and a former member of the Cass City Chamber of Commerce. Harry was pitcher on his blooper softball team and a former Little League coach. He enjoyed golfing, pheasant and deer hunting, working in his yard and garden, and watching Detroit Tiger baseball.
Harry is survived by his wife, Mabel; children, Gregory (Cathy) Lenda of Millington, Deborah (Kevin) Israelson of Cass City; grandchildren, Brett Lenda, Matt Lenda, Joe Lenda, Chelsea Israelson, Cole Israelson; siblings, Ann Lenda of Caro, Welda (Darl) Gilbert of Warren, Bernard Lenda of Caro, Irene Krug of Bad Axe.
He was preceded in death by his infant daughter; siblings, Edmond Lenda, Josephine Schwartz, George Lenda, Genevieve Schwartz, Peter Lenda, John Lenda and infant twin sisters.
Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 15, 2010 in St. Agatha Catholic Church, Gagetown, with The Rev. Donald Eppenbrock and Sr. Dorothy Ann Blasko officiating. Interment will be in St. Agatha Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Kranz Funeral Home of Cass City and from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the church.
There will be a Knights of Columbus Rosary at 7 p.m. Tuesday and a 7:30 p.m. vigil Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to St. Agatha Catholic Church. Family and friends may share memories, prayers and stories with the family at www.kranzfuneralhome.com.
John T. Maurer
Mr. John T. Maurer, 90, of Ubly, passed away Friday, July 9 , 2010 at the Huron Medical Center in Bad Axe after a short illness.
He was born Aug. 17, 1919 in Ubly, son of the late John P. and Emma (Heilig) Maurer. He was a graduate of Maurer Country School. On Oct. 29, 1947, he married Helen Weltin at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Smith Corners. She preceded him in death Aug. 6, 1986. He married Joan Gornowich on Aug. 18, 1990 at Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic Church in Harbor Beach.
John was a lifelong parishioner at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Smith Corners, where he was a former member of the Holy Name Society, sexton and usher. He lived his entire life on the family farm, which he loved. In addition to farming, he founded Maurer Slaughterhouse in 1965, retiring in 1984. He enjoyed draft horses, was an expert winemaker and loved flowers and antiques. He was a self-taught accordion player and his music was enjoyed by many.
John is survived by his wife of 19 years, Joan of Ubly; his children, Benedict of Ubly, Marcus (Tanya) of Homer, James (Jeannie) of Ruth, Marian (Gene) Holdwick of Harbor Beach, John II (Diane) of Plymouth, Theresa (Michael) Mazure of Port Austin, Lucille (August) Recker of Ubly, Stephen (Carlin) of Bad Axe, Joseph of Ubly, Ann of Fort Myers, Fla., Glen (Melissa) of Chesterfield Township, Carol (Moises) Pinto of Allen Park, Margaret of Midland, Gary (Karrie) of Rockford; one son-in-law, William Herford of Elkton; four sisters-in-law, Claire Grifka of Ubly, Ilene (Carl) Franzel of Ubly, Irene Fodo of Caro, Betty Maurer of Ubly; 29 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; his step-children, Kim (Dennis) Clark of Harbor Beach, Blaire (Marilyn) Gornowich of Harbor Beach, Reneen Gornowich of Longwood, Calif., Jody Gornowich of Harbor Beach; nine step-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Helen; daughters, Janice Shemka and Pauline Herford; one son-in-law, John Shemka; his siblings, Katherine True, Helen O'Berski, Clara Polk, Raymond Maurer, Edward Maurer, Anthony Maurer, Frederick Maurer, Neil Maurer, Emma Mazure and Elmer Maurer.
The funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Smith Corners. The Rev. Robert Howe, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday, from 1 to 9 p.m. Monday and from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Zinger-Smigielski Funeral Home in Ubly. There will be a parish vigil service at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Memorials are requested to the Holy Trinity Cemetery Fund.
Dolores Ann Perry
Dolores Ann Perry, 83, of Caseville passed away on June 26, 2010 with her loving family by her side.
Dolores was born in Detroit on March 26, 1927 to John E. and Sophia L. (Bevier) Drouillard. She was a member of St. David Catholic Church in Detroit for more than 50 years, where she attended school (graduating in 1944), married Thomas F. Perry on Oct. 23, 1948, and raised their large family.
She was employed by the National Bank of Detroit for 25 years and retired in 1989, when they made Caseville their home.
She enjoyed bowling, golfing, card playing, and reading. She loved her family, family get-togethers and kept in close contact by "texting" her children, and grandchildren.
Dolores had countless friends and will be remembered by all for her kindness, her thoughtfulness, her laughter and her smile; but most of all for her wonderful sense of humor.
Dolores is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 61 years, Thomas; children, Dianne (the late Jon) Hevelhorst, Patrick (Claudia) Perry, Bruce (Melisa) Perry, Janis (Neal) VanAken, Mary Beth Frisch, Michelle (John) Kewish, and Timothy Perry; 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by children, Thomas Girard Perry and Michael John Perry.
A memorial service will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 17, 2010 at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church, the St. Germain Campus, 28301 Little Mack, St. Clair Shores.
An additional memorial will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 19, 2010 at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church, Pigeon.
Memorial gifts may be made to The American Heart Association, Saginaw/Flint/Midland/Bay City Region, 24445 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, MI 48075. Memorial gifts may also be made on-line at https://donate.americanheart.org.


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Ash's Note to Stephen
April 14, 2008
Do not open these note books or look at anything therein. Seriously. You might think that this is some manner of cool super-spy-top-secret adventure I've left behind, but I'll tell you right now that it's not, and that knowing about it will just make your life difficult and unpleasant. I think I can trust you by now to know what's in your best interests and to act rationally when I tell you there are things you don't want to know.
Now that I'm presumably dead, take these books and deliver them to Eugene Wright, editor in chief at the Daily Dirge. He will know how to handle them. Don't stick around or try to chat up Mr. Wright while you're at it. Once more, it's just a load of stupidity that you don't want to get involved in. If Mr. Wright is completely unavailable, drop these off at the Commandant's House down off of Evans Street in Manhattan - sometime during the day. Then never go back there again.
I know I can trust you with this one. Don't make me look stupid posthumously.
- Ash Gently.
- Go to the Documents Page
- Go to The Last Will and Testament of Ash Gently


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Animals >>
Chinstrap Penguin
Chinstrap Penguin Facts
Five groups that classify all living things
A group of animals within the animal kingdom
A group of animals within a pylum
A group of animals within a class
A group of animals within an order
A group of animals within a family
|Scientific Name:
Comprised of the genus followed by the species
|Pygoscelis Antarcticus
The animal group that the species belongs to
What kind of foods the animal eats
|Size (H):
How long (L) or tall (H) the animal is
|60cm - 68cm (24in - 27in)
The measurement of how heavy the animal is
|3kg - 6kg (6.6lbs - 13lbs)
|Life Span:
How long the animal lives for
|15 - 20 years
Whether the animal is solitary or sociable
|Conservation Status:
The likelihood of the animal becoming extinct
|Least Concern
The colour of the animal's coat or markings
|Black, White, Grey
|Skin Type:
The protective layer of the animal
|Favourite Food:
The specific area where the animal lives
|Rocky Antarctic Islands
|Average Litter Size:
The average number of babies born at once
|Main Prey:
|Krill, Fish, Shrimp
Other animals that hunt and eat the animal
|Leopard Seal, Killer Whale, Sea Birds
|Distinctive Features:
Characteristics unique to the animal
|White face and thin, black line that runs under the chin
Chinstrap Penguin Location
Chinstrap PenguinThe chinstrap penguin is a small species of penguin which is found in habiting the rocky land and islands of the Antarctic Ocean. The chinstrap penguins name derives from the narrow black band under their heads.
Chinstrap penguins are one of the most easily identifiable of all of the penguin species, mainly due to the marking on their chins. Chinstrap penguins are also known to congregate together in their millions on small Antarctic islands. There are believed to be more than 7 million breeding pairs of chinstrap penguins.
Chinstrap penguins spend their lives hunting for krill and small fish and crustaceans in the surrounding waters, coming onto land to breed, rest and to escape the large ocean predators.
Chinstrap penguins are carnivorous birds, and catch numerous species of fish,, crabs, shrimp, squid and krill in their strong beaks. Parents hunt for food in the ocean to take back to their chicks on the land.
Due to the fact that there are few large animals inhabiting the frozen South Pole, the chinstrap penguin has few natural predators. Leopard seals, killer whales and the occasional passing shark are the main predators of the chinstrap penguin.
Female chinstrap penguins lay 2 eggs in a nest made out of stones on one of the rocky Antarctic islands, in November or December. The male chinstrap penguin and the female chinstrap penguin both take it in turns to keep the eggs warm, with the eggs hatching after about a month. The chicks stay in the nest until they are about a month old and are fed by both the female chinstrap penguin and the male chinstrap penguin.
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Chinstrap Penguin
Pygoscelis antarctica
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Ogrličasti pingvin
Állszíjas pingvin
Pygoscelis antarctica
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Since I have Afterlife, Everdark, & Eventide,
Black Fallen would be my choice if I win.
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The Shadow's Heir sounds intriguing so count me in for that one.
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A love untamed by Pamela Palmer
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I would either choose A Love Untamed or Blood-Kissed Sky
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I'm torn between GILDED and TOUCH OF THE DEMON! I'll have a coin ready to flip & my fingers crossed for this giveaway! 🙂
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Hum not sure, i'm tempted by pamela palmer series, diana pharaoh francis one and the one by es moore so i will choose if i win ^^
thank you a lot like always
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I'd like "Forbidden" by Kelly Armstrong. And Happy New Year!!!
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I'd choose A Soul so Wicked since I've actually read that series.
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I'd choose the new Steve Perry, one of my favorite authors!
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I haven't read any Gena Showalter books yet so Last Kiss Goodnight sounds wonderful.
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I would love Last Kiss Goodnight for my Kindle. Have a great New Year!
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Blood-Kissed Sky would be my choice though any of them this month are on my wishlist.
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Pick just one? Ummm. Either the otherworld novella since Elana and Clayton are beloved characters. i also welcome one and all to surprise me with a suggestion. Love your books, all Patricia Briggs. Tolkien, Harry potter, guild hunter, night huntress by frost,early DeLint, Kate Daniels series by Andrews…help! I need more series that are not too dark, relationships work out eventually, not kinky graphic. Sigh. Fantasy changed since I picked up my first sf book in 1960.. Your weavings of reality and magic, truth and tales are wonderful.
I would love Gena Showalter's new book last kiss goodnight. She's awesome 🙂 Thanks Suzanne…hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great New Years.
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tough choice this week as several look good, think I'll go with Demon's Curse (Imnada Brotherhood #1), by Alexa Egan 🙂 Happy New Year to everyone 🙂
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This week I would like to win The trouble with fate.
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I am going to have to chase some of these series down. The Trouble With Fate by Leigh Evans is my pick though.
Hmmm.. good choices. I think I'd choose The Shadow's Heir. 🙂
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Would love The Shadow's Heir, thanks for the giveaway.
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I would so love Last Kiss Goodnight!! Thanks for the chance to win
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I'd like a copy of Gilded (The St. Croix Chronicles #2), by Karina Cooper pls.
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I would like Gates of Rapture.
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Blood-Kissed Sky.
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I'd love to win The Trouble with Fate (Mystwalker #1), by Leigh Evans.
I would pick Last Kiss Goodnight by Gena Showalter, what a terrific cover! 🙂
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I ead the first four in French but I would love to continue now with Touch of the Demon (Kara Gillian #5) by Diana Rowland. thank you!
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I am dying to read Forbidden by my favorite author Kelley Armstrong. Thank you.
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Are all the January 1st books going on next week's Reader's Choice? Dying for the Essence by Kimberly Derting.
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Last Kiss Goodnight would be lovely.
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Blood-Kissed Sky (Darkness Before Dawn #2), by J.A. London
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I would love to win Blood Kissed Sky. Thanks!
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I think I'd like The Shadow's Heir by K.J. Taylor.
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Blood Winter or Battle!
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Ooh, Blood Winter! The Horngate Witches series is so good.
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So many great new books! I want to start the series by Caris Roane please.
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I would probably pick Gena Showalter new series
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I'd pick Last Kiss Goodnight.
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OMG, I have been so out of it! There are a lot of books I need to get. It a toss up between Caris Roane, Elle Jasper, Sharie Kohler and Pamela Palmer. If I'm picked I will just have to decide then. 🙂
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How to add Multiple user profiles in Chrome
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Google Chrome's latest versions has come up with a new feature which enables you to add multiple user profiles, similar to multiple user accounts in Windows. Chrome introduced this feature in its version 16.
Creating a new user profile in Google Chrome creates a separate file in the user directory and keeps passwords, history and other data in the folder. You can create separate user profiles for individual users of your system.


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June 12, 2009
Biochemist Emil L. Smith dead at 97
Emil L. Smith, a biochemist who led the first U.S. scientific delegation to China, has died in Los Angeles. He was 97.
Smith died May 31 from complications following a heart attack, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.Smith chaired the University of California, Los Angeles department of biological chemistry and was picked by President Richard Nixon to lead the first U.S. scientific delegation to China in 1973, the Times reported.
Smith pioneered the process of determining the structure of proteins, his work proving
instrumental in providing some of the earliest evidence for Darwinian evolution of proteins, said Ralph Bradshaw, a biochemist at the University of California, Irvine.
Smith, born in New York to Russian immigrants, received his bachelor's degree in 1931 and his doctorate in chemistry in 1936, both degrees from Columbia University.
In 1963, Smith was named chair of UCLA's department of biological chemistry and in 1965 he founded UCLA's Molecular Biology Institute.
Smith, a widower, was survived by two sons, J. Donald Smith of Cambridge, Mass., and Jeffrey Smith of Santa Monica, Calif., both of whom followed him into research.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Dec 2011 21:50 UTC
Fascinating, this. As a Windows Phone 7 user, I can attest that it is every bit as good as iOS and Android - heck, in my experience, it is more polished, more consistent, smoother, and faster than either of those two. Yet, despite raving reviews and glowing user comments all over the web, Windows Phone 7 simply isn't selling. Former Windows Phone 7 general manager Charlie Kindel believes it's because neither carriers nor device makers like the control Microsoft exerts over the platform.
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As a consumer, I finally have a choice, and these choices are equally on-par (in contrast with the home computer world, where Windows is on everything, Mac is stupid-expensive, and for the longest time, Linux was not a realistic option for users who dont wanna bother with command-line hackery).
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February 28, 2016 -
Silk Labs recently debuted its new smart home hub, called Sense, with a Kickstarter campaign.
The hub communicates with other smart home devices via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and according to the product's Kickstarter page, works with a variety of connected smart home products. The device features a camera that allows it to determine who is in the room at any time and can distinguish between animals and humans and learn the patterns and movements of household pets.
According to a report by Springwise, Sense runs on a powerful platform called Silk for digitally connected devices. It operates an artificial intelligence program that can detect a user's presence, voice and gestures, and learn their behaviors and habits. Sense learns what lights and music users want turned on. It will also learn who is in the house using facial recognition, and react accordingly. Sense adds a secure remote video feed for users' home and only allows trusted smartphones to connect to it.
Sense is different from other household programs as it runs locally, rather than in the cloud, which the founders believe makes the product more secure and private. The device comes from the creators of Firefox OS, and its Silk program, based on JavaScript, is designed to be developer-friendly, enabling coders and programmers to create custom apps.
Silk Labs plans to begin shipping the device in December 2016. Sense costs $249 on Kickstarter and, at the time of publication, the device had raised $158,857 USD, surpassing its $100,000 goal with 17 days left to go in its campaign.


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What does larva mean?
Definitions for larvaˈlɑr və; -vi
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word larva.
Princeton's WordNet
the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and ressemble fish.
An animal in the aforementioned stage.
A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
Origin: From larva.
Webster Dictionary
any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc
the early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape
Origin: [L. larva ghost, specter, mask.]
A larva is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The larva's appearance is generally very different from the adult form. A larva often has unique structures and organs that do not occur in the adult form, and may have a considerably different diet. Larvae are frequently adapted to environments separate from adults. For example, some larvae such as tadpoles live exclusively in aquatic environments, but can live outside water as adult frogs. By living in a distinct environment, larvae may be given shelter from predators and reduce competition for resources with the adult population. Animals in the larval stage will consume food to fuel their transition into the adult form. Some species such as barnacles are immobile as adults, and use their mobile larval form to distribute themselves. The larvae of some species can become pubescent and not further develop into the adult form. This is a type of neoteny. It is a misunderstanding that the larval form always reflects the group's evolutionary history. This could be the case, but often the larval stage has evolved secondarily, as in insects. In these cases the larval form may differ more than the adult form from the group's common origin.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
lär′va, n. an insect in its first stage after issuing from the egg—i.e. in the caterpillar state: a ghost, spectre:—pl. Larvæ (lär′vē).—adjs. Lar′val; Lar′vate, -d, clothed as with a mask; Lar′viform; Larvip′arous, producing young in a larva-form. [L. larva, a spectre, a mask.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Wormlike or grublike stage, following the egg in the life cycle of insects, worms, and other metamorphosing animals.
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The numerical value of larva in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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Senators to wait longer for Sh300m to monitor governors
Friday February 19 2016
Senators will have to wait longer to get the Sh300 million to monitor and evaluate what governors are doing in the counties as the Treasury is still reviewing regulations to guide how the allocation will be spent.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said that his ministry had not finished fine-tuning the regulations for the fund when he appeared before the Senate Finance Committee.
"We have seen some regulations given to us. We are studying them to ensure that the oversight role is done within the legal framework provided by the PFM law. We have faced challenges in just creating funds and allocating to legislators," he told the committee on Wednesday.
Senators have been promised they will get Sh332 million through a supplementary budget to be brought for approval in Parliament.
The CS, however, did not indicate when the additional budget would be tabled in the National Assembly.
Once the regulations are in place, the senators will get an allocation for the role every financial year.
Senators have been pushing for the allocation saying they were not able to perform their roles as indicated in Article 96 of the Constitution because of lack of adequate facilitation.
An attempt to given them Sh1 billion this financial year was dropped by MPs and they have had to make do without.
Mr Rotich said the Treasury wanted to be more careful so as not to face legal challenges like the Affirmative Action Fund for the 47 women representatives that has been challenged in court.
"Funds for the affirmative action have been stopped by the judiciary and we are now reviewing again its regulations. The CDF has faced challenges too. So we want to look at the draft regulations to ensure that we don't run into problems," said the CS.
Despite the delay in the drafting of proper regulations, the CS promised the senators that they will finally get the money so as to be able to watch over the billions sent to the governors every financial year.
The lawmakers have argued that it did not make sense to send governors billions of shillings and then deny Senate oversight money to look after the billions.
"We want to finalise the regulations and see if we can adjust the supplementary budget and allocate the money for oversight. It makes sense that the Senate is involved in playing oversight the funds that go the counties," he added.
During a retreat for Senate leadership in Mombasa last weekend, the lawmakers said the Sh332 million they were to receive before June was inadequate and requested that they be given Sh1 billion.
Nominated senators have also asked to be included in the fund.
"We have had discussions on this oversight fund since last year. By and large, we want to see how to provide this in this financial year. We want to see how to adjust the budget of Parliament to provide for this and going forward we need to ensure that this is provided every financial year.
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Osama bin Laden shooter recounts the kill
Updated 11:10 pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Above the compound, the Shooter could hear only his helo pilot in the flight noise.
"Dash 1 going around" meant the other chopper was circling back around. I thought they'd taken fire and were just moving. I didn't realize they crashed right then. But our pilot did. He put our five perimeter guys out, went up, and went right back down outside the compound, so we knew something was wrong. We weren't sure what it was.
We opened the doors, and I looked out.
The area looked different than where we trained because we're in Pakistan now. There are the lights, the city. There's a golf course. And we're, This is some serious Navy SEAL s- we're going to do. This is so badass. I don't care if I die right now. This is so awesome. There was concern, but no fear.
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I was carrying a big-ass sledgehammer to blow through a wall if we had to. There was a gate on the northeast corner and we went right to that. We put a breaching charge on it, clacked it (blew it up), and the door peeled like a tin can. But it was a fake gate with a wall behind it. That was good, because we knew that someone was defending themselves. There's something good here.
We walked down the main long wall to get to the driveway to breach the door there. We were about to blow that next door on the north end when one of the guys from the bird that crashed came around the other side and opened it.
So we were moving down the driveway and I looked to the left. The compound was exactly the same. The mock-up had been dead-on. To actually be there and see the house with the three stories, the blacked-out windows, high walls and barbed wire - and I'm actually in that security driveway with the carport, just like the satellite photos.
While we were in the carport, I heard gunfire from two different places nearby.
In one flurry, a SEAL shot Abrar al-Kuwaiti, the brother of Osama bin Laden's courier, and his wife, Bushra.
One of our guys involved told me, "Jesus, these women are jumping in front of these guys. They're trying to martyr themselves. Another sign that this is a serious place. Even if bin Laden isn't here, someone important is."
We crossed to the south side of the main building.
There, the Shooter ran into another team member, who told him: "Hey, man, I just shot a woman." He was worried. I told him not to be. We should be thinking about the mission, not about going to jail.
'The only door'
When we entered the main building, there was a hallway with rooms off to the side. Dead ahead is the door to go upstairs. There were women screaming downstairs. They saw the others get shot, so they were upset. I saw a girl, about 5, crying in the corner, first room on the right as we were going in. I went, picked her up, and brought her to another woman in the room on the left so she didn't have to be just with us. She seemed too out of it to be scared. There had to be 15 people downstairs, all sleeping together in that one room. Two dead bodies were also in there.
Normally, the SEALs have a support or communications guy who watches the women and children. But this was a pared-down mission intended strictly for an assault, without that extra help. We didn't really have anyone that could stay back.
So we're looking down the hallway at the door to the stairwell. I figured this was the only door to get upstairs, which means the people upstairs can't get down. If there had been another way up, we would have found it by then.
Right then, I heard one of the guys talking about something, blah, blah, blah, the helo crashed. I asked, "What helo crashed?" He said it was in the yard. And I said, "Bull-! We're never getting out of here now. We have to kill this guy." I thought we'd have to steal cars and drive to Islamabad. Because the other option was to stick around and wait for the Pakistani military to show up. Hopefully, we don't shoot it out with them. We're going to end up in prison here, with someone negotiating for us, and that's just bad. That's when I got concerned.
The breacher had to blast the door twice for it to open. We started rolling up.
Last line of security
Team members didn't need much communication, or any orders, once they were on line. We're reading each other every second.
I was about five guys back on the stairway when I saw the point man holding up. He'd seen Khalid, bin Laden's (23-year-old) son. I heard him whisper, "Khalid ... come here ..." in Arabic, then in Pashto. He used his name. That confused Khalid. He's probably thinking, "I just heard s- Arabic and s- Pashto. Who the f- is this?" He leaned out, armed with an AK, and he got blasted by the point man. That call-out was one of the best combat moves I've ever seen. Khalid was the last line of security.
I remember thinking then: I wish we could live through this night, because this is amazing.
The point man moved past doors on the second floor and the four or five guys in front of me started to peel off to clear those rooms, which is always how the flow works. We're just clearing as we go, watching our backs.
They step over and past Khalid, who's dead on the stairs.
The point man, at that time, saw a guy on the third floor, peeking around a curtain in front of the hallway.
Bin Laden was the only adult male left to find.
The point man took a shot, maybe two, and the man upstairs disappeared back into a room. I didn't see that because I was looking back.
I don't think he hit him. He thinks he might have.
So there's the point man on the stairs, waiting for someone to move into the No. 2 position. Originally, I was five or six man, but the train flowed off to clear the second floor. So I roll up behind him. On the third floor, there were two chicks yelling at us and the point man was yelling at them and he said to me, "Hey, we need to get moving. These bitches is getting truculent." I remember saying to myself, Truculent? Really? Love that word.
By then we realized we weren't getting more guys. We had to move, because bin Laden is now going to be grabbing some weapon because he's getting shot at. I had my hand on the point man's shoulder and squeezed, a signal to go. The two of us went up. On the third floor, he tackled the two women in the hallway right outside the first door on the right, moving them past it just enough. He thought he was going to absorb the blast of suicide vests; he was going to kill himself so I could get the shot. It was the most heroic thing I've ever seen.
I rolled past him into the room, just inside the doorway.
There was bin Laden standing there. He had his hands on a woman's shoulders, pushing her ahead, not exactly toward me but by me, in the direction of the hallway commotion. It was his youngest wife, Amal.
The SEALs had night scopes, but it was coal-black for bin Laden and the other residents.
He can hear but he can't see.
The kill
He looked confused, and way taller than I was expecting. He had a cap on and didn't appear to be hit. I can't tell you 100 percent, but he was standing and moving. He was holding her in front of him. Maybe as a shield, I don't know.
For me, it was a snapshot of a target ID, definitely him. Even in our kill houses where we train, there are targets with his face on them. This was repetition and muscle memory.
I'm just looking at him from right here (he moves his hand out from his face about 10 inches). He's got a gun on a shelf right there, the short AK he's famous for. And he's moving forward. I don't know if she's got a vest and she's being pushed to martyr them both. He's got a gun within reach. He's a threat. I need to get a head shot so he won't have a chance to clack himself off (blow himself up).
In that second, I shot him, two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as he's going down. He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again, Bap! Same place. That time I used my EOTech red-dot holo sight. He was dead. Not moving. His tongue was out. I watched him take his last breaths, just a reflex breath.
And I remember as I watched him breathe out the last part of air, I thought: Is this the best thing I've ever done or the worst thing I've ever done?
Everybody wanted him dead, but nobody wanted to say, "Hey, you're going to kill this guy." It was just sort of understood that's what we wanted to do.
Back at the Jalalabad base, we pulled bin Laden out of the bag to show (Joint Special Operations Command commander Adm. William H.) McRaven and the CIA. While they were still checking the body, I brought the agency woman over. We looked down, and I asked, "Is that your guy?" She was crying. That's when I took my magazine out of my gun and gave it to her as a souvenir. Twenty-seven bullets left in it. "I hope you have room in your backpack for this." That was the last time I saw her.
In Thursday's Chronicle: The Shooter leaves the military as a SEAL and struggles in civilian life.
For the first time, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden tells about the May 2011 raid on the terrorist's residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The Shooter requested and was given anonymity for several reasons, including fears for his family's safety.
Phil Bronstein is the former editor of The San Francisco Chronicle and currently serves as executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
This story is the second of three parts. Each is excerpted from a longer story Bronstein wrote for Esquire, a Hearst magazine, in cooperation with CIR. It can be read in its entirety at www.esquire.com.
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Red Sox lose again, 14-13, in 4-hour, 34-minute marathon
Before batting practice Thursday, the Red Sox gathered in front of the Green Monster for their annual team photo. Neither principal owner John Henry nor chairman Tom Werner were present.
Can you blame them?
This isn't a Red Sox season worth remembering, at least not for any good reason. Years from now, nobody will look back at that yellowed, creased picture and think, "Those were the good, old days." Instead, it will only conjure memories of an underperforming, injury-riddled and largely unlikeable team that was embroiled in one drama-filled saga after another.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse ...
Against all odds, the Red Sox sank to a new low -- or at least an appropriately comparable one -- in a 14-13 loss Thursday night at Fenway Park against the Los Angeles Angels, not exactly a team filled with overachievers.
The Sox flubbed a cushy six-run lead in the third inning, then rallied for a two-run advantage in the eighth only to see closer Alfredo Aceves cough it up by allowing three runs in the ninth. And even after Cody Ross tied the game again with a towering solo homer in the bottom of the ninth, the Angels went ahead again in the 10th on the might of Kendrys Morales' leadoff homer off Aceves and Vernon Wells' RBI double against lefty Craig Breslow, the Red Sox' eighth pitcher.
For good measure, the Sox rallied in the bottom of the 10th, even scoring a run on Dustin Pedroia's fourth hit, an RBI single. Ultimately, though, the Angels ended the 4-hour, 34-minute misery, clinching a three-game sweep and the Red Sox' 15th loss in 21 games, including 9-of-12 at Fenway. And rather than using this month to launch the long winning streak they needed to climb back into the playoff race, they have plummeted closer to worst-in-the-league Minnesota than to wild-card frontunners Tampa Bay and Oakland.
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Let's see, there's calamari, calamari salad, calamari tacos, squid sushi, squid burgers . . . Indeed, locals should demand anyone serving the mollusks to lower their prices considering the number of giant squid being pulled out of our waters. It's the law of supply and demand, baby. Call it squid pro quo.
Humboldt squid, some up to 60 pounds and 4 feet long, were first caught
Thursday afternoon off the Orange County coast, and anglers began making twilight expeditions
Friday night to catch the nocturnal sea creatures that spend daylight close to the ground and rise to the surface at night.
In fact, they can be lured with lights hitting the dark waters. "The light causes the plankton (consisting of drifting organisms) the squid fee on to shine, which causes the squid to rise to the surface to feed; making them easier to catch," said Capt. Corey Lieser of Dana Wharf Sportfishing in Dana Point, where anglers reeled in more than 200 slimy beasties Saturday night.
"We had our limits within two hours–the giant squid were everywhere" said Lieser.
"The fishing was squidtastic!" said San Clemente's Michael Gannon, who was aboard a Dana Wharf boat Sunday night. "My arms are about to fall off because the squid are so huge and put up such a fight."
Squid have been showing up in local waters since 1983, but no one can predict when in the season they will arrive, how long they'll stay and how many of them there will be. Dana Wharf is running Special Squid Trips departing at 5:30 nightly "as long as these giant squid swim in our local waters."
"They're here!" boasts Davey's Locker Sportsfishing in Newport Beach. "Now's your chance to get 'em."
The more these jumbos have been pulled out of the water this weekend past, the more there have seemed to be. Forty-eight anglers aboard Davey's Western Pride caught 625 squid on Sunday. More than 300 were hauled in from the same boat the evening before, and 225 the night before that. And that's just one of two Davey boats hauling them in.
Newport Landing Sportfishing reported 400 squid caught on its boats between Friday and Sunday nights.
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The first cracks in that stability showed up during the war, when a lot of fathers were away fighting and a lot of mothers were working in war plants. Some Brooklynites had been shocked at the revelation about Murder, Incorporated, the brutal Brooklyn-based Jewish-Italian mob whose members killed for money. But when the teenage gangs started roving Brooklyn during the war, then some citizens thought the end was near (you could abide Murder, Inc., of course, if your other institutionsfamily, church, jobsremained stable). In Bedford-Stuyvesant, the first black gangs, the Bishops and the Robins, began to assemble down on Sands Street; the Navy Yard Boys were already rolling sailors and shipyard workers; the Red Hook Boys came out of the first projects and the side streets around the Gowanus Canal; the Garfield Boys, from Garfield Place in South Brooklyn, expanded into the South Brooklyn Boys, and became the training ground for many of the soldiers who are now in the Brooklyn chapters of the Mafia. In my neighborhood, the Shamrock Boys became the Tigers, and they fought the South Brooklyn Boys with an expertise in urban guerrilla warfare (on both sides) that the Black Panthers would be advised to study. I don't know if there ever really was a gang called the Amboy Dukes (I am told by buffs that there was), but Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes became the bible for a lot of these kids; they studied the sayings of Crazy Shack the way the motorcycle gangs later studied Lee Marvin and Brando in The Wild One.
The gangs were wild, often brutal; there were more than a few knifings and gang rapes, and a number of killings, especially after the war, when veterans started bringing home guns as souvenirs; in shop classes in the high schools, students spent more time making zip guns out of pieces of pipe than they did making bookcases or pieces of sinks. The gunespecially if it was a real gunbecame a thing of awe. The first time I ever saw Joe Gallo (they called him Joe the Blond in those days) he was in the Ace Pool Room upstairs from his father's luncheonette on Church Avenue; someone, I think it was an old friend named Johnny Rose, whispered to me. "Don't ever say nuthin' about him: he's packin'."
"When the gangs started roving Brooklyn during World War II, many citizens thought the end was near."
The gangs started breaking up in the '50s. First, the Korean War took most of the survivors away, all of those kids who had been too young for the Second World War. By the time they came home they were sick of fighting; they married, and some of them moved away. But while they were gone, something else had arrived in Brooklyn: drugs. What the Youth Board and the cops had not been able to do, heroin did. More of them died from O.D.'s than ever died in the gang wars. Prison took a lot of them, and for some odd reason, the ones who had managed to escape arrests and habits became cops. Only two really new gangs started in the '50s: the Jokers and a gang from my neighborhood which called itself Skid Row. The Jokers lost a lot of members to drugs, and a few of them were involved in a brutal stomp-killing. I still see some of the Skid Row kids around. My brother Tommy was a member for a while; by the time he was in CCNY, three of the gang were already dead from heroin.
The whole terrible period of the gangs, followed by the introduction of heroin, changed a lot of citizens' attitudes about Brooklyn. Those who had escaped the Lower East Side now started talking about escaping Brooklyn. Events seemed to have moved beyond their control. You could do the best you were capable of doing: work hard, hold two jobs, get bigger and better television sets for the living room, watch steam heat replace kerosene stoves, see the old coal stoves in the kitchens dragged out to be replaced by modern gas ovens, and still people in their teens were found dead in the shrubs of Prospect Park, their arms as scarred as school desks. "We gotta get outa Brooklyn." You heard it over and over in those days. It wasn't a matter of moving from one neighborhood to the next; the transportation system was too good for all that; it was out "to the island" or to California or Rockland County. The idea was to get out.
Leaving was made easier by four central factors in the period of postwar decline in Brooklyn. All, in their special ways, were emotional. The four factors: 1) the folding of the Brooklyn Eagle; 2) the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers for California; 3) the long years of insecurity and the final folding of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; 4) the migration of southern Negroes, most of whom settled in Brooklyn, not Manhattan.


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LB: What key personal characteristics do you see in yourself that you've found especially critical in achieving success?
CG: I'm extremely action-oriented. As far as I'm concerned, there is way too much talking in this world and too little doing. I am all about doing. I believe in making shit happen.
I also believe that the only person who can make things happen for you is you. At the end of the day, it's not about networking, contacts, connections. It's about you, and your determination to make what you want to happen, happen.
Every obstacle I encounter, every person who tells me what I'm doing will never work, just makes me all the more determined to succeed. My biggest motivating dynamic can best be characterized as -- forgive the expletive -- 'I'm going to fucking well show you.' I wholeheartedly subscribe to the saying, 'Those people who say it can't be done, should get out of the way of those people doing it.'
LB: What, if any, distinct traits have you seen fellow female coworkers bring to the workplace? Do you yourself exhibit them?
CG: Women work differently than men. Women tend to be more focused on collaboration and consensus (versus the male tendency to want to 'win') -- while still being utterly business-minded. I remember, years ago in advertising, we had a tough and highly unpleasant situation to thrash out. The team from both sides that met to do that accidentally ended up being all-female. It was one of the best meetings I had on that business. We not only sorted it out, but worked quickly and easily. For that reason, I would love to see much more valuation and appreciation of how women do business.
Also, several years ago a research study on women in the US workplace identified, unsurprisingly, that women who do what comes naturally to them in the office are seen as weak, feminine, ineffectual; women who emulate the men are seen as domineering, aggressive bitches. This leads to a very difficult balance for us in the workplace. The study was titled, 'Damned If You Do; Doomed If You Don't', and the New York Times covering the study said, 'Women can't win.'
We can't, and so my advice to women in this situation is 'Be the bitch.' Not literally, obviously -- there is never any excuse for aggressive unpleasant behavior in the workplace, whatever your gender -- but what I mean is, if it comes down to it, risking being seen as the bitch is the lesser of two evils. It'll get you more places and more of what you want than receding into the background as a 'weak woman'.


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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of The Skies Belong to Us pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Over the ensuing years, their madcap adventures on the lam would involve exiled Black Panthers, African despots, and French movie stars.
Yet The Skies Belong to Us is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent, and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.