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Skal Boston international held the August 21, 2014 meeting on the Bay State Cruises MV Provincetown II.
General Manager and Skal Boston Vice President Julie Doherty Pagano greeted everyone for a cocktail reception. Over 70 members and guests were in attendance. After the cocktail reception the MV Provincetown II set sail for a cruise around Boston Harbor and as stop at one of the Harbor Islands run by the National Park Service. Julie presented the ships staff and gave a brief history of the ship and the harbor. Julie also gave the Skal toast.
The Boston Board viewed our video submission for Skal Club of the Year prior to it being sent to Skal International in Spain. We will find out the winner in Mexico City during the Skal World Congress. We will show our membership the video at our September meeting which will be held at the Top of the Hub restaurant on the 52nd floor of the Prudential Tower.
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The July 17, 2014 meeting was held at the Parkman House, official residence of the Mayor of Boston. This historic home is located on historic Beacon Hill a few door down from the Massachusetts State House.
Mayor Marty Walsh welcomed our members for this evening reception. Mayor Walsh spoke about the important role that Skal International Boston plays in the growth of tourism and hospitality for the city. He wished us well in our quest to become Skal International Club of the Year.
Our members enjoyed this elegant and historic home on a beautiful summer evening.
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Skal International Boston welcomed 129 members and guests to the June meeting at the world famous Fenway Park, the home of the 2013 World Series winner, the Boston Red Sox. The Skal Boston logo was proudly displayed on the big screen in the outfield for everyone visiting the park to see. The team mascot "Wally the Green Monster" greeted members and guests. The World Series Trophy was on display and everyone got an opportunity to have their photo taken with the Trophy.
President Phil Stamm called the meeting to order and Carrie Campbell, Direct of Sales for the Boston Red Sox, and Skal Boston Treasurer, gave the Skal Toast.
15 new members have been approved and six were pinned at this meeting. Boston now has 187 members and continues to be the largest club in North America.
The Keith Staples Scholarship was awarded to two deserving students studying Hospitality and Tourism. Stephanie Colangelo, attends the Isenburg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. She is a Hospitality and Tourism Management student and will graduate in the class of 2015 and Linda Hoang who attends the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, who is working toward a Bachelor of Science degree in International Tourism Development & Planning. She is on the Deans list with High Honors. Each recipient received a $2,500 scholarship.
Phil Stamm announced the creation of the Bruce Leaver Scholarship, in honor of our Past President who sadly lost his battle to brain cancer this past May. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a student studying Hospitality and Tourism at the University of Massachusetts. 50% of our monthly raffle proceeds will go to help fund this scholarship. To launch the scholarship a special live auction package was presented that included a two night hotel stay at the Lenox Hotel with breakfast daily, Red Sox tickets, a dinner for two and a helicopter tour over Boston. The bidding reached $1,900 when the Saunders family said if the bidding reached $3,000 they would match it. The next bid was for $3,000. Because of this generosity the launch of the Bruce Leaver Scholarship started with over $7,000. This scholarship will be given along with the Keith Staples scholarship yearly.
Three generations of the Saunders family were recognized for their long service to the club. Roger Saunders is a Past President.
It was announced that Skal Boston made a donation to the Joe Neary Memorial Charity to benefit the Carmel Girls Home in Sri Lanka. This is a charity that was close to our departed member Liam Sexton.
We welcomed Stewart Rubin, Past President of the Montreal, Canada club who joined us with his son Zack. Stewart presented Phil with the Montreal club flag.
A great time was had by all.
Our July meeting will be held at the official residence of the Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh who will greet us at the Parkman House on July17, which will be an evening reception.
May 15, 2014 meeting held a the Taj Hotel
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97 Members and guests enjoyed a wonderful cocktail reception and lunch at the famous Taj Hotel across from Boston's Public Garden. Our host was Karambir Kang the hotel General Manager. He presented the Skal Toast. Five new members were pinned and four new applications were approved by the board and will be submitted to Spain for approval.
A moment of silent was held for our Past President and friend, Bruce Leaver, who lost a courageous battle to cancer. He will be missed. A moment of silent was also held for Raymond Friedrich, father of our Assistant Secretary/Treasurer, Ed Friedrich and for Raymond Martino, brother of member Peter Martino.
Next month our meeting with be held at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red.
NAASC Congress, May 1 – 4, 2014 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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President, Phil Stamm, Executive Secretary/Treasurer and SIUSA Rep, Holly Powers and SIUSA Rep, Mario Hache represented Skal Boston at the 2014 NAASC Congress in Halifax, NC, Canada
Congratulations to the Halifax Club for hosting a tremendous weekend.
The event was well attended by Skal members from the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Our team members were well received by the attendees and our club is considered a model club.
We even had an opportunity to watch two hockey playoff games with Canadian Skalleques. It worked out well that we each one a game. Of course we hope that our team goes all the way. We have invited some of our Canadian friends to visit Boston and enjoy one of our meetings.
Carlos Banks, SIUSA President awarded our Club this Presidential banner for our 75th Anniversary.
The 2015 NAASC Congress will be held in Riviera Maya, Mexico at the Occidental Hotel and 2016 will be in Boise, Idaho.
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Please click on the above links to read information you will need to apply for the 2014 Keith Staples Scholarship. Also attached is the application. This scholarship is a wonderful opportunity for a student studying Hospitality and Tourism.
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I am very sorry and saddened to inform you of the passing of our dear Skalleague and friend, Liam Sexton this past Tuesday, February 18th, 2014. Liam was a past President of the Boston Skal Club and served for many years as our SIUSA Rep and EST. Liam also served as SIUSA Region 1 VP.
Liam was the beloved husband of the late Frances M. (Gracella) Sexton. Survived by many nieces and nephews in Ireland and in the United States. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Saint Elizabeth Church, Reedsdale Rd. at Randolph Ave, Milton, MA, Monday, February 24 at 10:00AM. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Visiting hours at Dolan Funeral Home, 460 Granite Ave., East Milton, MA, Sunday 4 – 7PM.
Liam is the late owner of Milton Travel. In lieu of flowers contributions in Liam's name may be made to The Keith Staples Fund. SKAL International Boston, c/o Dana Vannesse, 36 Brae Burn Lane, Ashland, MA 01721.
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On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Skal International Boston celebrated its 75th Anniversary and Installation of Officers. The Boston club may be the second oldest Skal Club in North American (New York is 3 months older) but we are the largest and most active.
We were excited to host Lou Conkling, Director of Skal International, Frank Klare, Skal International Auditor, Martha McClintock, SIUSA Vice President and Ed Davis, SIUSA Region 1 Vice President. International President, Karine Coulanges send a letter of congratulations which was read by Lou Conkling.
The event, hosted by the Hyatt Regency Downtown, had a Cuban Style in theme, decor, food and music. Highlights of the event included a cigar rolling station, a Mariachi Band and a fantastic photo booth which showcased our members next to a 57 Cadillac driven by the outgoing President, Mario Hache. After the luncheon our members and guests enjoyed a desert room and warmed themselves on the patio by a fire pit and helped themselves to Chestnuts that were roasted on an open fire.
Mario Hache addressed the audience and thanked everyone for helping to make his Presidency one he will long remember. He presented Bob Lawler, his Past Presidents Chain and presented Holly Powers with the Presidents Award. Mario was presented a set of sterling cuff links from his board.
Lou Conkling pinned the incoming officers and board and with the assistance of Holly Powers and Bob Lawler transferred the chain of office from Mario Hache to Phil Staff.
Phil Stamm addressed the audience and outlined his goals for 2014, stating that making Boston the International Club of the Year was his first goal. He also announced the location and dates of the upcoming meeting locations.
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Today's Featured Hike: Lukla to Everest Base Camp
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When to Go: Pre-monsoon (March or April) gives you the rhododendrons in bloom and lots of climber action, but post-monsoon (November) gives you drier weather. Go with guide services that use local Sherpa guides, cooks, and porters—it's part of the experience.
Arguably the greatest of all high-mountain journeys, this stroll through Nepal's Khumbu district lets you see three of the highest peaks on Earth (Everest, Lhotse, and Lhotse Sar) in one glance—and dozens more Himalayan giants along the way. A favorite is the view from Thyangboche, called by renowned mountain explorer W.H. Tillman the "greatest view in the world." But it's the deep immersion in the Sherpas' Buddhist culture that will bring you back for the friendly villages, the monasteries, and the polyglot scene of world travelers who come for the high-octane pilgrimage to Everest.
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The Cathedral of Praise in Evansville has now added a PayPal link on their facebook page, so now you can donate directly through their page.
The Cathedral of Praise Church wants to build a new gym for the kids in the community.
"We had kids cramped everywhere in the sanctuary," said Pastor Bret Myers.
Pastor Myers's church has grown a lot in the past 13 years.
The seats in the sanctuary fill up every Sunday, but it's in this cramped building next door where everything else happens.
"Sunday school, our children's ministry, and our youth ministries," said Cathy Myers, Pastor's Wife.
Every Wednesday and Sunday, Bret and other church members bus in at least 60 kids.
"Many of the children that come in here are coming in from homes where they're not getting the basic necessities. They're coming in hungry," said Pastor Myers.
The Myers say they need a new facility not only to expand their food and clothing program, but also to give these kids a space of their own.
"We have great grounds in the back, but it's hard to keep them in a centralized location," said Cathy Myers.
"A gym is just an additive to bring them together. Take basketball leagues for example," said Pastor Myers.
Pastor Myers says the church has needed a gym for a while now, but this past week one of his members took initiative.
"Sam and Kyle looked and said how about a Facebook page," he said. "We can start a cause, where everybody who likes it can send in a dollar," said Pastor Myers.
If you want to help all you have to do is go on the Evansville Cathedral of Praise Facebook page.
The pastor says he is also working on setting up a Paypal account so you can donate online, but for now you can just mail the money to the church.
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Fordham's Chad Aldis was a guest on Good Mornings with Chris Oaks yesterday, talking
Common Core in Ohio
. (WFIN-AM, Findlay)
Common Core is also on the mind of public radio reporter Bill Rice in Cleveland, whose interview subjects seem pretty sure that
attempts to turn back the new standards in Ohio will fail
. (IdeaStream, Cleveland)
Editors in Akron
opine against
the sausage-making exercise that is the budget process in Ohio, more specifically, the recent mid-biennium budget review bill. (Akron Beacon Journal)
I know I'm going to regret fudging my rule against clipping letters to the editor, but seriously, when
the CEO of White Hat Management writes in to take the PD to task
, it's probably worth a read. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Aw man. What did I tell you? Slippery slope. Here's another letter to the editor of the PD from
a high school student who doesn't like the Common Core
. Her conclusion: "Even though the idea of the Common Core sounds great, the cost of implementation and limitation on classroom freedoms is not worth it." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Back to "hard news" now: The PD parses out
winners and losers in the teacher evaluation changes
contained in the education MBR. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Ten years ago, the Ohio Coalition for Open Government and dozens of media organizations across the state performed their own "audit" of public entities (counties, cities, utilities, school districts, etc.) in regard to
ease of access of public records
. The gang felt it was time to repeat the effort, and so they did. The results were decidedly mixed around the state. Clipped in full below is the piece published in the
Dayton Daily News
. Other papers reporting on this today include the
Columbus Dispatch
, the
Toledo Blade
, and the
Cincinnati Enquirer
. The latter is, of course, of interest to us due to the ongoing legal action against Cincinnati Public Schools for just this sort of thing. Personally, I think CPS got a softball from the Enquirer.
Every bit of
today's Education Insider column
is worth reading (more on the Reynoldsburg teacher contract negotiations will certainly be forthcoming), but what struck me most is that in just 450 words, the Dispatch E-Team tells us about bad actors in a school district (alleged gambling on the job!), a private school (bullying teacher/negligent principal!), and a charter school (alleged signature forging!). Is this what we call equity? Stop stealing education from children people!!!! (Columbus Dispatch)
We've been following this story for a while, and just because Horizon Science Academy in Downtown Toledo was defeated in its efforts to buy the YMCA building for an expansion (and subsequently closed its doors) doesn't mean the story is over.
Toledo Public Schools got its Head Start grant
, and plans are moving forward that include – of course – buying that YMCA building for preK classrooms. However, TPS must share its funding with an out-of-state for-profit group which will run a sizeable operation in the city as well. (Toledo Blade)
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The WIAA baseball tournament begins today around the state and for many teams it means a chance to start over. For teams that struggled or underachieved the slate is wiped clean...and in a "one and done" tournament atmosphere who knows what can happen if a team gets hot. For many teams though this will be the end of the line...and for many of the seniors the end of their organized sports careers. They started when they were young...6 or 7 in some cases. Some played several sports while many started specializing early hoping to grab the lottery prize of a college sports scholarship. For most that dream did not come to pass...but the years they spent in the locker rooms and the buses and the on the fields of play will stay with them forever. And it doesnt just come from the sporting arena. That same kind of camaraderie can also be found in the band room...and on the stage...and in many of the other extra-curricular activities that a school system provides. It's easy to cut programs like this when it comes to budget crunch time...but what is never calculated by the bean counters when that happens is what is lost. When I was in school at Wausau East (granted a long time ago) there was not the specialization you see today. There were many students, me included, that participated in many extra-curriculars. I played sports...but I also was in the band(right next to some of the top athletes in the school)...I was in the school plays (my sophomore basketball coach called me Burt Lancaster when I would have to leave practice early)...and I wouldnt have traded those experiences for anything. I don't see that today. Kids are pigeon-holed too much. Too their detriment. I can guarantee you that 30 or 40 years down the road, most of the stories swapped, will not be about algebra class or what grade you got in English...or even about the score of a particular game. The stories will be about the bus rides...and the practices...and the coaches...and the thrill you felt when you put that uniform on and competed. For those who are moving on...Congratulations for putting in the time and effort it takes...for those coming back...enjoy every minute, it goes by in the blink of an eye.
We have a couple of high school games tonight on Foxsports AM 1390 & FM 93.9. First DC Everest will host Rhinelander at 4:45...that will be followed by the Woodchucks game and then we will have the Wausau East at Merrill game in its entireity. Botth high school games will be available afterwards as podcasts on foxsportswausau.com
For those of you wondering where the Woodchucks game was last night on Foxsports Radio...our play-by-play announcer Sean Kellerman was injured when he struck his head on a stadium beam at Copeland Park and had to be taken to the hospital. With no available replacement on the road trip we had to cancel the broadcast. Hopefully he will be recovered for tonight's game. The Chucks won 5-3 in 11 innings. CJ Chatham and Ryan Donovan hit solo homers in the 11th for the win. They play in La Crosse again tonight.
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Neutron Dance-Pointer Sisters (1984) first appearing on their album 'Break Out", it became a hit on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack
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I went to the dentist Friday morning and got my tooth drilled. My head was numb from the Novocain. I needed a place to hide where nobody would notice.
I found it: Detroit city hall!
What an outrageous piece of numbskull theater was going on there. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing presented his budget to the city council. He recommended more cops, more paramedics and less city council. He should have done that when he still had power.
But remember the mayor and the council have been neutered under Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. They can't even use the can without his permission, much less make a budget.
It was meaningless. They were faking it. And the public knew it. By my count only 14 citizens showed up. On the other hand there were 43 politicos and 20 media types. So tell me who's smarter?
How much did we spend on lights and toilet paper and bottled water for this fiasco? And how come no popcorn?
The scene was like an election in the Soviet Union, where members of the Politburo got elected with 102 percent of the vote but wielded no power. The media dutifully reported the results as though they were important in some way. And down below, in the streets, the people suffered.
Hey! A ruble's a ruble.
Orr's spokesman told me in the hallway that the Unelected Man in Charge had no input into Bing's bogus budget document whatsoever.
What we did learn was Detroit's deficit will climb to nearly $400 million by June. Or as Jack Martin, Bing's handpicked $220,000-a-year chief financial officer put it: "The deficit is increasing at a decreasing rate."
Why does he still have a job? Why do any of them?
I'm never going back. At least the dentist numbs you up.
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A couple of years ago Linton Hopkins made a bold move. He deep-sixed the traditional appetizer-entree format of the menu at Restaurant Eugene and redrew it by food group. Fish down one column of the tri-fold list, vegetables on another and meat and game on a third. Not only that, the menu held dozens of offerings, most of them small plates.
Today the menu strikes a happy medium. There are more entrees and far fewer appetizers, but the tripartite formula remains, and it focuses your attention on the ingredients, where they come from and — bear with me — what they mean.
In the six years since Hopkins and his wife, Gina, opened Eugene (named for his grandfather), he has emerged as one of the great thinkers about Southern food. The current president of the Southern Foodways Alliance and a founder of the Peachtree Road Farmers Market, Hopkins cooks with a nod to history and tradition as much as to the community of farmers, artisans, foragers and general face-stuffers who are remaking Southern food for today's consumer. He's a smart Snickerdoodle, that one.
Over the years Eugene has grown less formal, exchanging its elaborated logo for a slick sans-serif one in the process. Even though an older, dressier crowd still comes early, it attracts a later crowd and has more of a bar scene (with terrific cocktails that rival those at his casual pub across the porte-cochère, Holeman & Finch Public House).
The menu changes with the local provender, and Hopkins and his chef de cuisine Jason Paolini aren't afraid to take chances. For that reason, Eugene can be an inconsistent restaurant. You can have a strangely not good dish here. You can have a strangely not good meal. But you can also have a fantastic one.
If Bacchanalia is the kind of restaurant I best like for a romantic meal, Eugene is great for a double date, so you can better explore Gina Hopkins' excellent if expensive wine list and pass around extremely interesting food.
A bottle of Vilmart & Cie. Grand Cellier d'Or champagne ($106) is a "grower champagne," i.e., produced by the estate that owns the vineyard. It has that quiet, unfolding power that primes your palate for engagement. It's a champagne that makes your tongue go, "Bring it."
Four of us send plates around the table — first appetizers, then entrees — some eliciting raves, and some pursed smiles.
The aahs: "A plate of Rashid's greens" ($10) from local grower Rashid Nuri. On a turnip-buttermilk puree sits a compressed disc of beet greens with smoked onions, and on top of that is a wild mound of mustard greens sweetened with blackberry juice. You're not sure you like it, then you love it, then you can't believe it.
Next comes a quivering slab of hot seared foie gras ($19) with parsnip puree, pickled sunchoke and a brilliant potlikker consommé — rich, resonant, zingy.
The hmms: Agnolotti (stuffed pasta) with a coarse English pea filling ($12), a too-buttery and unseasoned lobster sauce, a couple of tasteless crawfish and a section of preserved tangerine that makes you shudder from the sharpness. A huge portion of sweetbreads ($16) with a lot of connective tissue holding the lobes together and a sweet orange brown butter sauce. A tender fillet of American red snapper ($34) with all kinds of stuff (ham powder, smoked serranos, daikon radish, morels) that don't add up to much. Good fish, though.
The ewws: Gluey wild mushroom and sesame gnocchi ($15) bouncing around a mushroom broth with celery and dill. The most bizarre duck entree ($38) I've ever encountered. Somehow the menu description didn't prepare us for a kind of ball of springy forcemeat about the color and shape of a human heart that had been cut in two and placed on stripes of root beer marshmallow and carrot puree. Talk about that frosty mug taste, there was no missing the root beer flavor.
And then the tasting of spring vegetables ($22) hit the table and any thoughts of A&W went out the window. Hot vegetables snuggled into a gorgeous metal casserole, and our forks madly darted from golden beet puree with balsamic sorghum walnuts to creamed kohlrabi, to baby carrots, to braised Vidalia onion stems, to creamy cranberry beans, to the greens-and-fennel salad served alongside. I've never had a more brilliant vegetable plate.
The staff, under the watchful eye of maitre d' Jeff Hagley, are always happy to swoop in and share their own thoughts and insights into the food. There's a sense of joy in this dining room.
Pastry chef Aaron Russell ends things on a very upbeat note, with his chocolate soufflé ($10) presented like a sandwich cookie with chocolate cognac cream and walnut milk sorbet.
Eugene also offers the option of a five-course ($75) and seven-course ($95) tasting menu. I return for the menu to see what the kitchen has in store. Some restaurants show off their nerviest stuff with the tasting menus. Others conduct a little interview and adjust each tasting menu to the likes of the party. But many opt for the gracious plenty, and offer a progression of courses no one will complain about.
Eugene seems to go the latter route, and I can't help but wonder if it's because Chef Hopkins is so often absent from service. The menu we were served was nice, but it's not the way to fathom this kitchen's strange brilliance.
Our five-course menu starts with a couple of gifts from the kitchen (as does that of our neighbors; I checked). A single Wellfleet oyster with clabber cream and Georgia Hackleback caviar precedes a tasty mini-quenelle of trout tartare. The English pea agnolotti return, this time with a piece of butter-poached lobster. We then get a cube of tasty grouper with clams and cauliflower, and then a couple of slices of Painted Hills ribeye steak with potatoes and mushrooms. A bit of tangy, creamy Bonne Bouche goat's milk cheese and a lemon pound cake with buttermilk sorbet finish us off.
I like everything, but I prefer to take my chances with the standing menu, root beer and all.
Restaurant Eugene: 2277 Peachtree Road, Atlanta; 404-355-0321.
April 28th, 2011
10:28 am
I've been to Eugene 3 times. The first time I had an amazing meal. The last two times my entire meal was puzzlingly mediocre. I won't go back.
April 28th, 2011
10:45 am
Pretty weak Kessler. This sounded like a 3 star review the whole way through. What happened? Couldn't stand to give this "fine"-dining restaurant reality check? Just pointing out that you had the word ewww in your review and they are on the same level as Bacchanalia? Oh I forgot, you faulted them for being modern in their technique and presentation…makes total sense.
April 28th, 2011
11:12 am
So, this is like getting a B-, right?
And it's nice to hear you justifying your ethics by checking other diners' breadbaskets. Weird.
April 28th, 2011
11:17 am
I would still give it a 4-star rating; the other night a flounder special was wonderful, as was the fois gras. Snapper was so-so. This
wine list is not excellent, certainly no match for Bacchanalia, Canoe, Bones, and Paces 88. But you can usually find something interesting. I actually find the atmosphere at Eugene at least as "romantic" as the industrial-looking Bacchanalia.
April 28th, 2011
12:38 pm
"Eugene can be an inconsistent restaurant. You can have a strangely not good dish here. You can have a strangely not good meal"
Yet you give them 4 stars????????????????? Just goes to show you that food critics are obsolete. How in the world can you justify your rating vs. your critiscm of the place???????
Total BULLS&^#!.
April 28th, 2011
4:23 pm
4 stars John you have lost the plot
how is this a 4 star review
can we please get a food critic with a pair please
April 28th, 2011
6:55 pm
I agree with Jake and WTF! This is not a 4 star review and the technical mishaps that were described do not warrant a 3 star review. It seems Kessler's objectivity is way off. But I guess his admiration for Linton Hopkins makes up for the sloppy mistakes that happen when he is not there.
April 28th, 2011
7:10 pm
@Puzzled Indeed, it seems as though the sytem is completely corrupt, while it's fine to slam the little unknown places and give them 1 star ratings for being "hit or miss" Eugene gets a pass? Mr. Hopkins is barely ever in his kitchen, as he is too busy courting James Beard for an award. As I said before fewer and fewer people take food critics seriously these days, as everyone and their mother is onluine blogging. They will go the way of the dinosaurs.
April 28th, 2011
11:56 pm
Just ridiculous………………..The AJC just lost all credibility when it comes to assessing star ratings to restaurants.
May 4th, 2011
5:09 pm
Jesus, what a bunch of d*ckhead commentators on here. If you do not like the review fine, but there is no reason to be all high and mighty, ubercritical of the reviewer. Get lives.


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Videk lives in a big family with four older brothers and sisters and a very busy mother. In fact, his mother is so busy, she doesn't even have time to make him a new shirt.
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The True Cause of the American Civil War
Hello Tedsters, I'm a student of an Advanced Placement United States History Class or APUSH in short. Recently for the class, we had to write an essay about the Civil War, and it's inevitability due to extremism and failure of leadership. We discussed how the cause for the Civil War was not merely slavery and definitely not only slavery. Our teacher also emphasized that we should "DIG DEEPER". One of the few examples she gave us was; the riots of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry led to the South's nervousness and responded to Lincoln's victory in the Election of 1860 by establishing the Confederacy and proposing secession.
One of my arguments was that the South wanted economic freedom to continue their agricultural lives, practice of slavery and trade with Britain. I agreed with a comment stating this was a Second Revolutionary War, due to the South desiring to escape the economic restrictions from the North (such as the Tariffs), like how the colonies did from Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
Now when I look back to the regular history classes I've taken in the past years, I thought to myself, why isn't this taught in basic classes? Must a student be eligible to be in an AP class or wait till College just to realize history isn't that vague, and everything taught in the textbooks isn't exactly true but merely one of the many perspectives on a single issue? So I have two main questions:
Why isn't this concept of thinking taught in basic classes in middle school or high school? Is it because there's a fear that students can't learn or understand such concepts? Isn't it a bit problematic that while I can argue a couple of deep causes to the Civil War, a few of my friends believe and only believe the true cause is slavery?
My second question is:
What do you think the true cause of the Civil War was? If you're going to say without an explanation, slavery and only slavery, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to dig deeper or at least explain why.
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Jan 8 2013: On the issue of certain lessons being taught or not taught in early classes or in basic classes, I disappointingly realized, perhaps students truly aren't capable of learning such anomaly. There are many factors to why lessons taught in AP classes or College aren't taught in earlier classes, such as their determination and interest to learn the subject, their capability of comprehending certain amount of knowledge and the text books themselves, which dictate what should or should not be taught.
On another note, we are sadly in a society in which students are categorized and separated as "honor" students or as an average student, rather than a place where all students are pushed to be inspired to become successfully smart and to actually care about what they're doing. Now when most teachers or adults view students who don't care about school, or don't bother to take that extra step to pass with a better grade than just a passing grade, they disregard them and walk away saying "let it be." I do not believe it's always the teachers fault, or the school systems fault, but the students and their parents. If only parents would encourage their children and get them determined, then perhaps they would actually care to attempt to learn, to comprehend or to understand the lessons behind every class. It's depressing that the students give such little devotion and care.
Before I begin to get non sequitur, I'll conclude that there is simply many faults in education, pertaining to the dictating and restrictive textbooks to the careless students who don't have the determination or capability to excel and learn something more than "basic education" (although basic education has already been dumbed down.)
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At "Thien Nhai Tu" temple, a young sadi with the name Tran Tu Tam (Nghe Si Minh Canh) led a peaceful, carefree life of a monk. One cloudy day, a girl called Nhuoc Thuy (Nghe Si Phuong Lien?) came out of nowhere and gave him a letter which told of a horrendous murder that took place 20 years ago that involved the deaths of Tran Tu Tam's parents. He learned that his folks were brutally killed 20 years ago by a traitor in their group and that Tran Tu Tam was lucky enough to escape with the help of a kind man named Du Phong (Nghe Si Thanh Sang) who ran off with him and left him in the temple to be raise by the head monk. The letter also stated that now was the time for Tran Tu Tam to resume a layperson life and seek revenge for his parents.Amid this revelation, appeared a beautiful girl named Bach Thien Nga (Nghe Si Le Thuy), whom upon seeing the innocent sadi, began to tease him mercilessly. Unbeknown to them both that this accidental meeting would mark a blossom, loving relationship later on. Subsequently came Nghe Si Hong Nga in the role of To Tu Trinh. She was originally married to Du Phong, but after Du Phong was chased off by Chu Thien Cac (Nghe Si Diep Lang), she forced herself to marry Chu Thien Cac because she thought Du Phong has been dead and she was already pregnant with his son at that time. She knew that she needed to stay alive for her unborn son & to seek revenge for her husband later on. And nobody, except her, knew of the fact that Khac Kiet (Nghe Si Minh Vuong) was Du Phong's son and not of Chu Thien Cac. Well, from her conversation with the character Tuong Hiep (Nghe Si Hung Minh), we learn that Chu Thien Cac at that time has been injured and was trying to recuperate in a hidden cave somewhere. To Tu Trinh & Tuong Hiep planned to overthrow Chu Thien Cac and put up her son, Khac Kiet, to be the new leader.Then appeared Han (Nghe Si Thanh Kim Hue) at the scene. She was the daughter of the first wife that Chu Thien Cac neglected & threw over when he remarried To Tu Trinh. Before Han's mother passed away, she beseeched Han to seek vengence on the other woman for her. Thus, Han was searching and wanting to kill To Tu Trinh to pay back for the neglected life she & her mother had to endure. As they were fighting, sadi Tran Tu Tam ran out and tried to stop. Because of his interference, To Tu Trinh injured Han and the latter passed out. They both thought that she was dead. Tran Tu Tam was then overriden with guilts. He went and confessed to the head monk, his teacher, that he had ignorantly killed a girl and had committed one of the serious Buddhist precepts. Feeling too unworthy live in the temple any longer, he kowtoed his teacher and left the life of a sadi.For the next several years, Tran Tu Tam learned martial arts from Chu Thien Cac, and didn't know that Chu Thien Cac was the culprit who killed his parents. Also here that he met Bach Thien Nga again and their relationship blossomed. Unfortunately, To Tu Trinh, who raised Bach Thien Nga since she was small, had other plan. She wanted Bach Thien Nga to marry Khac Kiet on the night when he accept the leadership role. Chu Khac Kiet was very much in love with Bach Thien Nga but as we know, the latter already fell in love with Tran Tu Tam. As if that wasn't problematic enough, Han, the girl whom Khac Kiet's mother tried to kill before, fell in love with Khac Kiet, but he only loved Bach Thien Nga. Then came in Du Phong, confronting his ex-wife and being told by her that Khac Kiet was his son and not of Chu Thien Cac.... So what will happen now?Well, Tran Tu Tam asked Khac Kiet to meet up for a duel to resolve his dad's misdeeds for he thought that Khac Kiet was Chu Thien Cac's real son. Hearing this, Du Phong came in place of his son and unknowingly Tran Tu Tam injured him. When Khac Kiet came, Tran Tu Tam then realized of his mistake but it was too late. Then Chu Thien Cac came. To settle old debt and spare the young people of more problems, Du Phong and Chu Thien Cac started fighting and they both died. Before they did, they asked that the young people should go on with their lives and forgot about revenge stuffs. Tran Tu Tam then blessed the marriage between Bach Thien Nga and Chu Khac Kiet and he went back to Thien Nhai Tu temple, resumed the life of a monk.


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Another nail-biter for Blue
HAMILTON — From dominant to desperate in one game, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers again needed a last-minute miracle Thursday.
And once again they found one, driving 94 yards in the final 100 seconds of the game for a two-yard touchdown catch from Nic Grigsby with no time left on the clock to power a 27-26 CFL win over the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
The game was played in Ron Joyce Stadium on the campus of McMaster University in the west part of the city, since the Tabbies' new facility, Tim Hortons Field, is not yet complete.
The dramatic finish boosted the Bombers to 5-1 to start the season, only the second time that's happened since 1987.
They have won three out of three on the road so far, including a nail-biter of a one-point win in Montreal in Week 3.
Hamilton, with three tight defeats of four points or less now this season, dropped to 1-4.
The telling moment
With second and goal from the Hamilton two, down 26-20, the Bombers walked to the line of scrimmage as the fourth-quarter clock ran out.
With the snap and one shot at glory, quarterback Drew Willy turned his attention to the left sideline and lofted a soft ball that running back Grigsby caught. Lirim Hajrullahu's extra point then ended the game.
"It was man coverage and it was a designed play," said Grigsby, who rushed for a 16-yard major in the third quarter. "Willy was supposed to put the ball right on me but the defender went underneath us so he put it over the top.
"(The defender) tried to undercut the ball and Willy, he played great all game, he saw the back come underneath and he just put it over the top and I'm just like, there's nobody back here, just please let me be in bounds. And it landed right in my hands.
"It was too good to be true but it was in the air too long. I didn't know if there was somebody behind me or what but I didn't want to jump. I just followed it all the way to the last moment and it landed in my hands."
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The last play was everything, and Willy said he had two options to the far left sideline.
"I was looking at Denny (Clarence Denmark) in the corner and I knew I had Grigsby in the flat," Willy said. "I saw them both covered and I just wanted to give enough air so one of those guys could go up and make a play. Luckily Grigsby came away with the ball. I'm not going to say it was a skillful play because it wasn't. It was just one of those ones — we practise it all the time and we just made a play."
Almost got away
The Bombers controlled the first half (245-22 in offensive yards) and surged to a 20-3 lead with Grigsby's touchdown run on their first possession of the second half.
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The teams then traded possessions until Winnipeg took over at its own 16 with 1:40 to go.
"We've been in this situation before so I think they were more prepared to handle it," said head coach Mike O'Shea. "Going a little deeper, they trusted each other, they rely on their teammates and guys made plays down the stretch when they had to to allow us to win.
"It was a great last drive, no time on the clock. It's a good win for us. We don't want to keep having to do it that way, that's for sure. We recognize that we made some mistakes and it cost us and it looked like Hamilton was ready to take it but these guys just believed in each other and no one gave up.
"When you get guys who are going to stick with their teammates and stick together, it's a great thing."
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East Hamilton's hitters were perplexed but relieved after Monday's 4-3 baseball win over Red Bank. They were still puzzled after getting just four hits Tuesday but left Red Bank feeling pretty good after adding a 7-1 victory over the Lions.
It was a pivotal sweep for the Hurricanes, who positioned themselves nicely to win the District 6-AA championship. Although they entered the night tied with Central with 8-1 district records, the Hurricanes hold the tiebreaker against the Purple Pounders.
East Hamilton will be heavily favored in its remaining series against Tyner and Brainerd.
Red Bank still has a series remaining with Central in two weeks, and coach Trey Hicks will try to solve the Lions' hitting and pitching woes. They took care of the defense after Monday's seven-error performance, but the pitching lapsed and they got just two hits off the East Hamilton combination of Chris Moore and Matty Henshaw.
Moore went 5 2/3 innings, allowing two hits and one run (unearned), and Henshaw got the last four outs without giving up a hit.
"Thank goodness for good pitching," East Hamilton coach Steve Garland said after his club committed five errors.
The Hurricanes scored all of their runs in the second inning on five walks, three hit batsmen and two hits.
"We took advantage of what they gave," Garland said. "It was an outstanding pitching performance by Chris Moore and Matty, and their guy, who's a good pitcher, struggled."
Lions starter Gage Winton faced four batters in the first inning but then struggled mightily with his control, and when he did flirt with the corners he couldn't get the call he wanted badly. He retired just one batter while walking four and hitting two and giving up a two-run single to Patrick Parris before being lifted.
"Gage was 4-0 going in. He just had a tough night," Hicks offered. "We fought back. We had baserunners. We just didn't get the big hit at the right time."
The Lions left two runners on in the second, third, fourth and sixth innings and were 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position.
Garland wasn't overly concerned with the lack of defense or hitting, although he did say both were issues that would be addressed in practice.
"Our approach is to try and not do too much and stick with what we've done. We have hit the ball pretty well this year," he said. "We played a lot of games over the weekend and then we had two tough games with these guys. This was a win we needed to get, and I'm proud of the guys for getting it."
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Teachers should get tough.
In the recent WSJ Saturday Essay Joanne Lipman broaches a controversial idea for improving public education. To prompt you to read her essay here are her talking points: 1) A little pain is good for you. 2) Drill baby, drill. 3)Failure is an option. 4) Strict is better than nice. 5) Creativity can be learned. 6) Grit trumps talent. 7) Praise makes you weak. 8) Stress makes you strong.
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Spencer HillOct 5 2013: Thanks for sharing the WSJ article. The author for the most part I agree with. Tough but fair is how any teacher, coach, mentor, or boss should be. They should always be challenging the student to rise to a higher level of achievement, performance, or greatness.
I disagree with creativity can be taught. Our current education system seems to kill creativity in most students just by simple conformity to school "rules", peer pressure, or societal norms. What a teacher or mentor, et al. can do is to stimulate or draw creativity out of someone.
Stress, or better challenge, is necessary to get anyone to a new plateau of the performance, desire or goals.
As a nation (USA) we have become "fat & happy" while the rest of the world has caught up with us and surpassed us in some areas. Grit and determination is what made this country. We need a lot more of it. It seems our legislative bodies are confusing grit with ill-tempered actions of a 5 year old (both sides).
Oct 5 2013: Good observations Spencer. Thanks for a fresh perspective about these qualities not being applicable to teachers only, but to everyone in authority. My take on the author's position on creativity being a learned trait is that so many young people are told that creativity is something some are born with and others are not. If you are in the latter group you cannot learn to be creative.That is just wrong. Creativity can be learned. Do you see that point-of-view?
Oct 5 2013: I think everyone has creativity, it just has to be coaxed out of them. Some fear to show it because they can't take the criticism (part of being tough and having grit). Others find it when they need it.
Reply to Edward Long below: Yes all people have the capacity to be creative. Most just don't exercise it. Its like muscle if you don't use it , you lose it, it atrophies to where it is worthless.
Oct 5 2013: So you are not saying creativity cannot be learned. You are saying creativity need not be learned because everyone has it. It follows then that you think it is wrong to teach children that some people have creativity and some don't and there is nothing that can be done to make a person who does not have it be creative. I think I understand your take on the matter. Every young person should be encouraged to be creative.
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Given the fact one of the first posts I submitted for this blog was titled, "Why Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Is Worth At Least $650," I couldn't help but question a recent article saying Apple won't hit $700 again. While it's true my original post was from January of 2012, I figured roughly a year later is as good a time as any to revisit my original conclusion. In the article called, "4 Reasons Why Apple Won't See $700 Again," the author makes four points to show why Apple won't reach its prior levels.
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"Growth in phones is slowing as competition increases." Since the iPhone lineup makes up 56% of Apple's total revenue, a slowdown could cause the company's revenue and earnings growth to change dramatically. However, when it comes to the mobile phone market, Apple is actually gaining market share on a global basis.
According to recent research, total mobile phone sales worldwide show Samsung in the lead with 22.7% market share, Nokia in second place with 18%, and Apple in third place with 9.2%. Nokia surrendered 5.4% of market share, and this drop was absorbed by Samsung taking 3.1%, and Apple taking almost all of the rest at 1.8%. In addition, ABI research expects 44% growth in smartphones for 2013. Though Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system outsells the iOS, the smartphone race is really between Samsung and Apple.
With Apple growing global market share, and the smartphone market growing quickly, this concern about competition doesn't appear based in fact. If there is a smaller player in the smartphone market that may benefit, it could be Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). This same ABI research shows that Windows Phone may take third place with as much as 3% of the smartphone market by the end of this year.
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The author suggests that Apple's margins are shrinking because customers are choosing the cheaper iPhone 4 and 4S models over the iPhone 5. In addition, the iPad Mini is cannibalizing sales of the full sized iPad. One of these issues is real, the other is not.
The iPad Mini is cannibalizing sales of the full sized iPad. This makes sense because Apple is offering the "full iPad experience," but at a starting price of $329. So its profit margin shrinks as the average iPad selling price declines. In theory, though, Apple will gain in the end by addressing the previously untapped lower end of the tablet market. Without the Mini, these sales would go to Google's Nexus tablets, Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Note, or Amazon's Kindle lineup. Since the previously mentioned ABI study expects 125% growth in tablet sales for 2013, the additional revenue from the low end of the market should more than offset the cannibalization of the full-sized iPad.
What is not a real concern is the sale of older iPhones at cheaper prices. Older iPhone models have cheaper components, which in turn help Apple to protect its margin. Carrier subsidies do the rest. What is more of a realistic reason for lower margins is, the company has only been producing the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini for a short time. As sales increase, the company can improve production efficiency and improve margins.
Apple Is A Blue Chip And That's A Problem How?
I won't address the article's third issue, which was the loss of Steve Jobs, because it is what it is. No one can argue Steve Jobs was a brilliant mind, but nothing said about this would be productive. Instead, let's look at the claim that Apple is becoming a blue chip stock and not a growth story. He worries that this would be a "blow to Apple and the cultists who worship the company."
If being a blue chip stock means generating cash flow then Apple is doing this like neither of their large competitors. In the last six months, Microsoft grew its cash and investments by 3.05%, and Google grew their cash and investments by 5.92%. In the same six month period, Apple showed a 13.08% increase in cash and investments. In fact, Apple's cash and investments now represent over 31% of the company's market cap. Considering Apple added over $15 billion in the last three months to the balance sheet, this seems almost ridiculously high.
The author seems to assume that a fast growing company can't pay a dividend or buy back shares. The truth is, Apple is being treated much worse than a blue chip stock. Some would argue that Microsoft is a blue chip, and the company's shares have a PEG ratio of 1.15. Others might argue that Google is a different type of blue chip stock, and yet their shares carry a PEG of 1.30. Apple on the other hand, has a PEG ratio of 0.56. If Apple merits being called a blue chip, the shares should carry a PEG ratio of at least 1. Many other blue chips like Coca-Cola or McDonald's carry PEG ratios of near 2 or more. At a PEG of 1, with the current expected growth rate, the author is right shares wouldn't trade for $700. Using these assumptions, the appropriate price for Apple's shares would be closer to $850.
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