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Alibi V.20 No.40 • Oct 6-12, 2011
Best of Burque Restaurants 2011
State Treasures
N.M. cuisine
Best New Mexican Restaurant
Best Red Chile: Mary & Tito's
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North Valley: 6230 Fourth Street NW • 345-5339
Northeast Heights: 15 Hotel Circle NE • 296-6940
Sadie's has held court as the queen of this category for three years running. But most impressive is that over the decades, it's gone from a humble roadside burger stand to a bowling alley café; built up a palatial dining compound and a packaged salsa empire; and most recently adopted a sister restaurant in the Heights. That's some serious New Mexican know-how.
2) Los Cuates
3) Tie: El Patio, El Pinto
Best Green Chile Cheeseburger
Owl Café
800 Eubank NE • 291-4900
Diners can't stop hooting about Owl Café's archetypal combo of beef, buns and blackened green chile. It's a New Mexico classic, and so is the Owl. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
2) Blake's Lotaburger
3) Five Star Burgers
Best Red Chile Burger
Little Red Hamburger Hut
1501 Mountain NW • 304-1819
In Albuquerque's contentious burger wars, the Little Red Hamburger Hut—seated between Downtown and Old Town—has carved out a following for doing one thing perfectly. It's all about the "little red," a simple all-beef patty topped with tangy red sauce. Get in the (usually long) line and order one today.
2) Bob's Burgers
3) Frontier
Best Green Chile
A.M.: Best Breakfast Burrito
for contact information.
Like countless others, we'll never forget the first time we slathered a breakfast burrito with a ladle of the spicy, smoky stuff from one of Frontier's boiling cauldrons. Readers can't stop pouring.
2) Tie: Duran Central Pharmacy, Sadie's
3) Garcia's
Best Red Chile
Mary & Tito's
2711 Fourth Street NW • 344-6266
We worship two Marys around these parts: La Virgen de Guadalupe and Mary Gonzales. The warm, fruity red chile at Mary & Tito's—incomparable for 48 years in its depth of flavor and color—has even earned it a James Beard Foundation America's Classics designation.
2) Duran Central Pharmacy
3) Sadie's
Best Tamales
El Modelo (landslide)
1715 Second Street SW • 242-1843
Without a doubt, the chefs in the back of this giant kitchen deserve the honor. Tucked away in an industrial zone, El Modelo cranks out some of the best and least expensive food in town. The masa lacks the telltale dryness of store-bought versions, and the chile inside is hot and full of flavor. Heck, want to make your own? El Modelo will sell you its masa in bulk.
Best Tortillas
A.M.: Best Breakfast Burrito
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Freshly made by a machine that was one of the few intergalactic remnants to escape Roswell in the '40s, Frontier's tortillas are buttery, chewy and light. There is simply nothing else like them. Wrap them around a breakfast burrito, use them as dipping fodder in your green chile stew or grab a sack to go—your friends might just mistake you for Rick Bayless at your next cookout fiesta.
2) Tie: Duran Central Pharmacy, Garcia's
3) Pro's Ranch Market
Best Sopaipillas
Tie: Los Cuates, Sadie's
Los Cuates
Midtown: 4901 Lomas NE • 255-5079
Uptown: 8700 Menaul NE • 237-2800
Best New Mexican Restaurant
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Doughy, but not gummy. Flaky on the outside, but never dry. Sweet, but not so sweet that you can't use it to scoop up extra bits of enchilada. A sopaipilla made just right is a sacred thing, and our readers pray at the alters of Los Cuates and Sadie's.
2) Garduño's
3) El Pinto
Best Enchiladas
1510 Girard NE • 262-0115
Every evening, a line of customers snakes around Padilla's front dining room to get a coveted seat and plateful of stacked blue corn enchiladas. Well, every evening except on the weekends—with this much culinary gold, Padilla's can afford to keep banking hours.
2) El Patio
3) Los Cuates
Best Chips and Salsa
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Lots of people think Sadie's salsa is the hottest in the state. Go ahead, be a skeptic. But when you swirl that light and crispy tortilla chip around in a pool of tomatoes and jalapeño seeds and bring it to your tongue, you'll experience the agony and the ecstasy that myths are made of.
2) Los Cuates
3) El Pinto
Best Green Chile Stew
A.M.: Best Breakfast Burrito
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After a hazy night on the town, there are few things more satisfying than wolfing down a bowl of Frontier's hearty meat-and-potato filled stew. And seriously, who needs a spoon when you've got one of the best tortillas in the world for a shovel? Go ahead—no one's watching.
2) Garcia's
3) Barelas Coffee House
Best Posole
Barelas Coffee House
1502 Fourth Street SW • 843-7577
The legendary posole at Barelas is much like the restaurant—a dependable, satisfying experience. It warms the heart to visit this neighborhood institution.
2) Frontier
3) El Modelo
Best Carne Adovada
Frontier / Golden Pride BBQ, Chicken & Ribs
A.M.: Best Breakfast Burrito
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Once you taste this salty, tender carne adovada—in a burrito, for breakfast with eggs and hash browns, or by the pound—you'll be back for more.
2) Mary & Tito's
3) Sadie's
Best Burrito
Frontier / Golden Pride BBQ, Chicken & Ribs
A.M.: Best Breakfast Burrito
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The next time you're waiting for your number to come up at Golden Pride or Frontier, study the people shifting their weight from foot to foot beside you. Chances are they're furtively glancing around, with one lusty eyeball on the folks who've just been served a burrito, and another protectively raking the counter for the burrito that will soon belong to them. Then it will dawn on you: You are one of those people. It's OK. The burritos make us all do funny things.
2) Dos Hermanos
3) Sophia's Place
Best Margarita
Best New Mexican Restaurant
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Sadie's big, salt-rimmed Margaritas are just the thing to take the sting off of too many chips dunked in addictively painful salsa. One begets the other, really.
2) Garduño's
3) Tie: Casa de Benavidez, Cervantes Restaurant & Lounge
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Bad experience
Now I am not usually the sort of person to go bad mouth a business based on one experience but the way I was treated in this place today really needs to be shared.
I've been in J&R several times and while not the warmest gun store in the East Bay, it wasn't unfriendly. My wife has even purchased a firearm here as I've bought accessories, targets and magazines. All of this has happened within the limits of good customer service.
All that changed today.
I've had issues with an AR I threw together for some time. Was told to bring it by. Now I'm no AR expert but when I bought my lower, it was purchased as "complete". I through an upper on it , made sure everything fit and started taking it through the paces. I've put about 800 rounds through it and never had an issue save for one. I noticed that my bolt wouldn't stay back after the last round and I'm no fan of the platform anyway so thought I'd sell it.
The first contact with the guy who "helped" me was annoyance, that set us off on the wrong foot but hey, maybe he's having a bad day. Told him my story and he seemed to become more annoyed. that's strange, I'm just asking what I need to do here but shoot, I'll grin through it. He opens the rifle up and after several condescending comments about my choice of cheek rest ("I know it looks cool in movies but you don't need this") all the way to the hardware itself ("look at this, what a piece of junk"), he finally decides to tell me what the problem is and how I need to stay away from guns and not quirt my day job because there is $10 worth of pins and springs that were not installed on the lower when I bought it.
Okay, I get being annoyed by "mall ninja" crap, I get being annoyed by all the armchair gunsmiths, I get having a hard day and I get dealing with a population of know-it-alls or complete buffoons that may ruin your livelihood BUT I came in as a customer with honest questions and no ego about the fact that I didn't have the answers and I was reaching out to others who enjoy my hobby for help.
The up side may be that at some point things turned about 2 seconds shy of me losing my **** and telling this place where they can shove their attitude. I refused to engage the personal insults and the tone shifted when the manager was asked if she could sell it. The original guy even said the rifle was fine and "don't worry about it". They agreed to sell my rifle on consignment as long as there is nothing too crazy that needs repair and the gal that helped with the paperwork was fast, professional and got me out
I sincerely hope that I caught this guy on a bad day and that others are not being treated like this. I'm a volunteer with the police department, a member of the local range and have enjoyed shooting for over 20 years so it isn't like I'm the bubba off the street trying to duct tape a grenade launcher to my sks. My wife found this to be the exact environment that kept her from the hobby for so long and as she said, why she is "afraid to go in places like that because I don't want to be treated like a moron."
So to this store, I apologize for not realizing I was missing a few pins and springs that hold my buffer tube in. My experience is with soviet weapons that apparently don't need these things to keep it from blowing up in your face. I'm sorry I use a cheek rest because it is comfortable and gives a place to store a mag and sorry I use a scope because my eyes are so bad.
I decided to post this here over Yelp or Google so that other calgunners could read my experience and more importantly, the store could have the space to respond in the event that I was somehow out of line or otherwise deserved this treatment. I'm happy you offered to sell the rifle and for the fast service that got me out the door. I hope our business concludes with money in our pockets but this will likely be the last business we do together and I can't say I'll be in a rush to refer others here in the future.
I would like to apologize for the service you received in our shop. I have spoken to the person who worked with you, and I think his attitude could have been better in dealing with you.
That said, it's pretty clear the rifle you brought in was dangerous to the shooter. It was apparent that the builder of this rifle had relatively little familiarity with the AR platform. Upon inspection of the weapon, the dangerous condition of the rifle is what shocked the person you dealt with, and provoked his response to you. I agree that the response was unacceptable, but I also understand what upset him. Here is Ian's report:
My name is Ian, I worked on your rifle. Here are the issues I found.
The Taper pins on the FSB were backing out, one was loose and could be moved by hand, the other would have been like that VERY soon. This can cause the rifle to not cycle properly at best; at worst, can cause the gases to be vented onto the shooters hand(depending on grip) or vertically and possibly at the shooters face. (The chances are slim however). This more than likely would just be a PITA for the shooter, resulting in canted front sights and cycling issues.
The Lower had some assembly problems:
The buffer retainer wasn't installed at all.
The take down detent wasn't installed.
The buffer tube was installed hand tight with a rubber o-ring to, what I assume was, add tension. I tightened it to spec.
The stock screw was tightened to the point that it had passed through the stock end plate, damaging it, which allowed the screw to impact the buffer under firing conditions. Subsequently the buffer's urethane stopper is damaged (I did not replace this as I don't have just that stopper, I do however have complete A2 buffer assemblies)
I replaced the stock end plate
Installed a proper length stock screw(A1)
Tightened the pistol grip
J&R Sports Supply LLC
2558 B Old First St
Livermore CA 9550
Good on J&R for the reply/follow-up
"If he won't walk, walk him...be nice"
WTS: 870 Barrel Clamp/Railed Mount
The upside of the availability/popularity of the AR-15 platform is that just about anyone can get parts and assemble one. The downside is that not everyone knows what they are doing when they build one. Unfortunately for the OP, he wasn't/isn't familiar enough with the platform to know what to look for or how to troubleshoot it. We all start out at zero knowledge and sometimes forget that and let passion for building (and selling) something right cloud our better judgement when dealing with someone who's less familiar with what they may have.
WTB: S&W 617 4" 10 shot Pre-Lock
Hey OP good job, no matter the circumstances or parties involved, making your voice heard is the best thing you can do to warn other consumers and let business know they can't treat consumers poorly. Thanks for the heads up, better luck with your next experience!
One mind, any weapon.
My experience has been hit or miss. There's one old guy in there that I always enjoyed dealing with. Everyone else had attitude. After the last pistol I bought there I decided I would find friendlier places to spend my to my money.
One employee actually told my ex that she should probably buy a smaller caliber pistol, as the .357 was a mans gun, and too big for a girl.
I stopped in to this place fo the first time last week on the way past because their phone systems prompts were funny. I got a pretty good vibe from this place and bought some ammo in support. I reload and although pretty picked through was happy to see a shop support reloading.
Glad they responded to op and don't blame them for trying to explain the employee's reaction. They started with taking responsibility for his behavior and that's rare.
If chemistry isn't right then move on or come back another time. Trust your take on others. If they annoy you then it will only get worse.
Best to all.
I have bought a couple of guns at J&R and I I have done a couple of ppt's. I have went in just for information and other times just to buy some ammo. I really enjoy going in there. All the guys I have dealt with are my kinda guys. Good guys you could hang out and have a beer with. Just my opinion.
I've done three ppt's and purchased many accessories @J&Rs.
They also host a fantastic non-res UT/Fl/AZ ccw course.
Sorry to hear of the OP's experience, but felt compelled to share my .02, great local East Bay shop in my opinion.
Great shop, just DROS'd another pistol there yesterday. Very accommodating and patient staff, more than willing to take their time with every customer that walks in the door. I go out of my way to come here as this is one of the better LGS's in the area, not to mention that they seem to be around $100 cheaper than everyone else. Sorry for the OP's experience, but I've never had a bad experience here. Maybe he just caught someone on a bad day.
Seems all too many shops have customer service issues, whether it's 1 employee or the majority of them. That's retail in general, that all being said, J&R's apology seems hollow and half hearted, and explaining the employee's conduct almost makes it sound like it was a valid reaction. So what the lower was improperly put together, why on earth would you need to reply with condencending comments, as well as other comments about his accessories! Even if you're having a bad day, what does the cheek rest and scope have anything to do with anything.
Completely and utterly unacceptable behavior (bad day or not), and piss poor apology by J&R, especially with the "Upon inspection of the weapon, the dangerous condition of the rifle is what shocked the person you dealt with, and provoked his response to you. I agree that the response was unacceptable, but I also understand what upset him. Here is Ian's report". ARE YOU SERIOUS, how about here's Ian's apology, on your next visit ask for me and I'll take care of you! GEEZ unbelievable
OP take your wallet elsewhere, J&R isn't even half attempting to win your business back! IMHO
I take it you're not here for the alcohol or the tobacco
Thank you to the J&R staff for addressing this, I'm sorry for neglecting this thread since the posting of it. I'm disappointed to hear that the lower was assembled so poorly as I purchased it assembled by the manufacturer and could not have been aware there were these issues. I slapped an upper on a lower with a new stock and rail system, that's it. It proceeded to function and fire accurately out to 75 yards which is all I asked it to do until I became disenchanted with the platform and realized my bolt was not staying back. Then I took it in where I was treated like the village fool and insulted in front of my wife. And though I agree that the J&R reply isn't much of an apology, I appreciate Ian coming here to let me know what the exact issues were and the work he did to fix them.
I further appreciate the support of those who have had similar as well as different experiences here. Like I said in the original post, I'd had indifferent to friendly interactions up until that day. I wrestled with my desire to give the benefit of the doubt and my desire to write hateful reviews all over the internet because of one terrible interaction. So I came here first to try and satisfy both sides of me, HA!
I have yet to receive a call from staff letting me know if they wanted me to take the rifle back or were able to sell it. If there is any other resolution needed in this matter, please feel free to PM me (you also have all my contact info) and we can settle this in a less public forum.
Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. I will gladly post a follow up when all is said and done.
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This was about as an easy fix as retail comes, reiterate a sincere apology and simply just tell the op he'll be taken care of on his next visit and you'll notify him when his gun sells, WOW that was hard. The manager (or whom ever replied) never even said the employee was reprimanded nor was he going to be, that's something you want the CG community to know, J&R doesn't tolerate such behavior from it's staff. It's as if nothing would've happened had this not been made public. The op states "I was treated like the village fool and insulted in front of my wife", he posted this thread on 5/13/13, 2 months later (7/6/13) nobody has called him or pm'd him regarding status of the situation, WHAT AM I MISSING?!
As for you Ian, I absolutely wasn't bad mouthing you, you clearly weren't the original employee who replied on behalf of J&R regarding this complaint. I felt his response was utterly meaningless because of the way this was handled. Where I mentioned your name, I was just saying that the original responding employee should've said "here's so and so's apology" instead of "here's Ians report". I put your name their and I apologize, kudos for you for showing interest in solving the issue and displaying customer service aptitude.
I take it you're not here for the alcohol or the tobacco
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Pension planning 'inadequate' among over 50s
Many over 50s are "sleepwalking into their old age", a pensions group says, as research suggests people are over-optimistic about retirement income.
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) said people must conduct a healthcheck of their workplace pension.
This view comes after an Institute for Fiscal Studies report said that people may live for longer than they expected.
The report suggested that people's pension provisions were inadequate compared with their expectations.
The report, which was partially funded by the NAPF, claimed that women were underestimating their life expectancy by four years, and men by two years.
It found that one in four people aged between 50 and 64 needed to save an additional £60,000 before retirement to gain the income that they might expect.
Nearly 60% said they had not thought about the number of years of retirement that they might need to finance.
About 32% of those aged 52 to 64 could not offer a rough estimate of what their private pension retirement income might be.
"Fortunately, people are going to live longer than they think, but they are not planning for it, so they might find their savings and pension do not stretch far enough," said Joanne Segars, chief executive of the NAPF.
"Millions of people are within a decade of their state pension but have still not thought about how long their retirement might last. It is worrying that so many over 50s are sleepwalking into their old age and are expecting to be better off than they will be."
She urged people to shop around for an annuity - a pension income for the rest of their life - which is bought with their pension pot.
"It does not help that the annuity market has become so tough," she added.
There has been a consistent fall in annuity rates since 2007.
Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Generally investors underestimate their life expectancy in retirement and, in order to receive the income they would like, investors need substantially more money in their pensions."
This meant better communication was needed to manage pension investors' expectations. They also needed to be encouraged to take better decisions about retirement saving earlier in their working lives, he added.


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At RIT you'll live and study with more than 2,600 international students from 100 countries. In addition, more than 3,000 students of color have elected to study at RIT, embodying our commitment to diversity. Adding a social and educational dynamic not found at any other university are more than 1,200 deaf and hard-of-hearing students supported by RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
The variety of backgrounds and perspectives represented in the RIT community enriches the learning experience for all. As you interact on team-based projects, in residences halls, and in day-to-day activities, we believe you will be enriched and better prepared for the opportunities and challenges of global interdependence.
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Usually the phrase "abandoned sewage treatment plant" doesn't conjure up attractive images, but this plant in northwest Germany is rusting quite gracefully. Years of neglect have done little to detract from the beauty of the original industrial architecture.
kosmograddotnet took all these photos, many of which are composite images. This plant, built in the early 20th century, once regulated the flow between a nearby river and the city drain system. Now it's a draw for urban explorers looking to study the building's architectural details.
You can see more photos of the plant on kosmograddotnet's Flickr account and the blog District Noir.
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Wanda Mendez, Region 13 vice president for the Pennsylvania Parent Teacher Association, called it the "people's convention" as local organizer for this year's state PTA convention, held April 19-21 in Tannersville.
Wanda Mendez, Region 13 vice president for the Pennsylvania Parent Teacher Association, called it the "people's convention" as local organizer for this year's state PTA convention, held April 19-21 in Tannersville.
It opened the evening of April 19 with a flag ceremony led by Boy Scouts from Troop 100 in Marshalls Creek and patriotic tributes sung by the Dingman Delaware Middle School Chorus and the J.T. Lambert Intermediate Cavalier Voices. "Doc" Armand Martinelli, mayor of East Stroudsburg, delivered the welcoming address.
Providing entertainment throughout the weekend were local student groups, including the East Stroudsburg High School South Step Team and a Saxophone Quartet from the ESHS South Band. Cub Scouts from Pack 100 carried out the colors during a closing ceremony.
Mendez said the convention is funded through ads and business donations.
What it means to be part of a PTA
Not all PTAs or PTSAs (Parent Teacher Student Associations) hail from a school; some are part of a church or community. Not every school has a PTA, which is part of the state and national PTA, and therefore a portion of member dues go to support the organization's larger goals, educationally and sometimes politically. For this reason, some parent-teacher organizations opt to operate independently as a Parent Teacher Organization instead. Being part of a PTA allows each member unit to receive program support.
Mendez, who previously served as president for the J.T. Lambert Intermediate and East Stroudsburg High School South PTSA, said the PTSA is part of the PTA.
"PTA goes into Harrisburg and has face-to-face meetings on certain issues with the appropriate (state legislator). No other group does that that I've seen. That makes PTA different. That PTA representative carries (to Harrisburg) the voice of every county. That carries more weight than a picket sign."
Mendez said it's not tied to political affiliation. "You're voicing your opinion on what is best for the children," she said.
During the convention, elections were held for state level PTA officers, and for bylaws and procedures. Mendez was re-elected to her position as Region 13 director. Debbie Grant, who is president of the PTSA at J.T. Lambert and South high school, was elected Region 13 vice president and will train and oversee 14 PTAs in the region of which East Stroudsburg PTSA is a member.
"We get to meet and communicate with people from all over the state, to make it better for the students and the parents. Every time I come," said Grant about the "special" weekend.
For the first time in Pennsylvania, this year's convention featured a town hall meeting.
"It's not a political thing; it's about working together," said Mendez, as she said state representatives Mario Scavello and Rosemary Brown spoke along with Ron Cowell, president of the Education Policy Leadership Center that seeks funds for public education.
Convention attendees could choose several from 20 workshops presented by educators and PTA members from across the state, with topics ranging from the fiscal challenges of school boards in today's economy, to bullying prevention, to improving mental health outcomes in schools.
Right to Know about superintendent, board
Two presenters were East Stroudsburg district Superintendent Sharon Laverdure and South high school Principal Michael Catrillo.
Laverdure's workshop — "Demystifying the Role of Your Superintendent" — covered changes to Pennsylvania laws regarding education and how to access information through the Right to Know Law. In particular, she explained the intent of Act 141, effective Sept. 10, 2012, to provide transparency and accountability.
Laverdure told conference attendees from districts in Erie, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as well as more rural areas and Monroe County, "Some of you may not realize your superintendent's contract is online. Contracts were kind of loose, with not a lot of real defined pieces — not good for a school district and not good for the superintendent either. A clearly defined contract protects both. Objective performance standards are measurable and mutually agreed upon. Test results can be part of that. Graduation rates can be part of that, too."
The information is online as "School Profile" data, formerly called School Report Card. Contract details should be posted on a district's website and include post-retirement benefits that are part of the contract as well as buy-out limits and severance pay.
Superintendents must have an annual formal, written Performance Assessment, including the date of annual review and whether or not goals are met, done by the school board.
"I'm in the first year of this," said Laverdure, noting that she will retire at the end of her three-year contract. "I'm going to recommend that the board goes into executive session, and then that the president discusses with me. The school board role is a very, very important job and a difficult job."
Laverdure said she's "a little concerned, because I tied in specific Keystone and PSSA results. We have a very transient school district. We have typically 1,000 students moving in and out of our district yearly, and the state doesn't care about that.
"Our Keystone test results were not as strong as I would have liked, especially biology. We were a pilot school, with teacher representatives (contributing to content to be covered on the tests), and it was a very challenging test, which is OK. It's good to have high standards. "� I think we need a certain amount of pressure on superintendents."
Laverdure also explained the vastly different needs of schools across the state and changing laws.
"One of our elementary schools (in ESASD) is over 60 percent economically disadvantaged," she said. "Do you understand how diverse Pennsylvania is? "� It is such a huge state with so many different, wonderful people in it. As legislation occurs, keep in mind, somewhere in the state, someone needed something and it may be reflecting that."
Reaching students with positive behavior
ESHS South principal Michael Catrillo's workshop shared ways in which the South high school lives its "Cav Core" and emphasized the need to continue positive behavior support with students in their high school years.
"The best educational reform "� is the power of being positive," Catrillo said. "Make interpersonal connections with struggling students. Make it known you care to (students and parents). I could Common Core you to death, but if you don't do that, it doesn't matter."
South's mission and mantra is "Success for All," evident around the school on banners and in classrooms, and most students can tell you the Cav Core values, he said. Catrillo emphasized the importance of adapting to change and the motivational value of having fun as a school.
Catrillo drove home his point by playing South's recent Lip Dub event, a live-recorded action music video that was led by teams of students and involved the entire school, featured as a cover story in a mid-March issue of this publication.
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Olga Gelb
Born: January 26, 1925
Khust, Czechoslovakia
Olga was born to religious Jewish parents in a small city in Ruthenia. The country's easternmost province, Ruthenia had been ruled by Hungary until 1918. One of eight children, Olga grew up in a prosperous home in which both Yiddish and Hungarian were spoken. Her father worked as a wholesale leather merchant. Olga attended both public school and a Hebrew girls' school.
1933-39: Under Czech rule I could be religious and not face discrimination at school. My parents were pleased when Ruthenia became a province of Hungary in March 1939; they passed out cigars to the Hungarians. But I was saddened when Hungarians replaced my Czech teachers. To avoid the antisemitism of the Hungarian teachers, I quit school when I was 14. Before a year passed, my father was forced to sell his business to a Hungarian.
1940-44: Deported to Auschwitz in 1944, I was put to work assembling grenades. My girlfriends and I engaged in sabotage by allowing defective hand grenades to go through. Our haughty, beautiful Kapo delighted her SS boyfriend by beating us while he watched. One Sunday while she was lying in the sun near the barracks, we covered her with a blanket, stomped on her head and pounded her with stones. Her murder went unpunished--to the Nazis, she was just a Jew, and since she'd had sexual relations with a German, a criminal.
Olga was transferred to Ravensbrueck in January 1945 and was finally liberated near Berlin by Soviet troops in April 1945. She immigrated to the United States in 1949.


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For many, it is difficult to watch a New Year approaching without taking a stab at a few resolutions. Sometimes there are bad habits we intend to break. Behaviors we are determined to improve. Goals we are committed to achieve. In any case, every approaching New Year brings with it an awareness of our human shortcomings and it makes us feel better to think that this will be the year we actually make the changes.
Sadly, our resolutions as a New Year dawns are often the same ones we lost sight of the year before. Often, our most determined New Year's resolve weakens, usually by St. Patrick's Day, into nothing more promising than high hopes and good intentions. Meanwhile, the years keep ticking by. Shouldn't feel too badly about that, no one is alone. For the long run, keeping resolutions takes more effort than many of us can manage.
I once made a New Year's Resolution to keep all my New Year's Resolutions. That seemed like the epitome of commitment. Then. whoa.I pondered the concept more deeply, and discovered an unclosed circle within a concentric one, each circle eating the other. It warped my psyche, tied my Chi into knots, and sent my inner child reeling. I quickly abandoned this ridiculous resolution for the sake of my own peace of mind. After all (and first of all), we must be good to ourselves, right?
Worthwhile resolutions require strength, willingness and commitment. After so many years of making resolutions and failing, I think I've finally learned how to make this work. I have grown strong. I have learned to be willing. And many people suggest I should certainly be committed.
This year, all my resolutions have a boating context. (That may or may not have something to do with the fact that I write for a boating magazine, and occasionally should submit a column with a purely nautical theme.) So here they are, in no particular order of priority or relevance-Thompson's Nautical Resolutions for the New Year.
Resolved: To learn to tie a sheepshank knot. The truth is, I don't know why a sheepshank knot would ever be needed, nor the slightest idea how to tie one, but I've heard a good boater should know. I figured I could learn to do it sitting down, perhaps on the bow of the boat, maybe over coffee and cigarettes. Always start out easy with this resolution stuff. Baby steps.
Resolved: As Captain of this boat, I resolve to be the best skipper I can be. This is actually just a matter of picking the right flat, smooth stones. Then it's all in the wrist.
Resolved: To swim more, perhaps every time we take the boat out. The exercise will be good for me. While considering this resolution, I asked myself, "What if sometimes I just don't feel like swimming?" If that happens, I figure I can let Sugar swim. She's a Jack Russell with boundless energy. Just watching her circling the boat in the cove for hours makes me tired, so there must be some aerobic benefit. "Swim, Sugar, swim! No pain, no gain. You go, girl!"
I feel better already.
Resolved: To eat smarter. Something about the fresh lake air and summer sunshine amplifies the appetite, and as I get older, all those fine gas-grilled delectables are taking their toll. So I resolve to eat smarter, at least during our boat outings. At least during some of them. At least when I'm not real hungry. That's the least I can do.
While lounging around with a plateful of barbecue ribs, baked beans, coleslaw and butter-slathered corn-on-the-cob, too often I am engaged with some mystery novel or adventure story. Changing my casual lunchtime reading to something more educational will be a fundamental step toward self-improvement. The Myth About Carbs, perhaps. Or Cholesterol: Is It Really So Bad? (I can't find anything at Amazon.com about the benefits of grilled red meat, but I resolve to keep looking.)
Resolved: To get my "Notes from the Stern" columns in sooner, and quit pushing deadlines so closely. Yes, dear editors, you should dare to dream, for that's what the New Year is all about-renewing our hopes. Rediscovering our dreams. Making wishes in one hand.
I may keep all these resolutions. I may keep some of them. But I hereby resolve to not make resolutions about keeping any of them. I've already been that route, and it didn't work for me.
As for you, my hope is that the New Year brings all the peace you need, all the joy you deserve, and all the laughter you can handle. First of all (and after all), be good to yourselves.
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There's a road in Prairie County, Arkansas that's almost too slick to drive on. But neither rain nor sleet nor black oil spill has infested the roadway. It's, ugh, caterpillar guts.
This year, almost every farmer in the Delta has heard a horror story or two of a freakish insect invasion. None is weirder than that told by Arkansas Extension plant pathologist Rick Cartwright.
Cartwright says that saltmarsh caterpillars were so bad in Prairie County that a farmer used a roller to crush worms crawling across a road between fields, causing a slick road surface. He said in Clay County a road became slick where vehicles were running over worms.
Saltmarsh caterpillars, grasshoppers, sugar cane beetles and armyworms are a few of the pests showing up in high numbers in Mid-South fields, entomologists report.
Mike Williams, Extension entomologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss., describes this year's insect situation as "weirder and weirder."
The likely reason for the unusually high insect pressure, he says, is the weather. "Weather patterns are the major factor in pest development. In fact, weather conditions determine about 99 percent of our insect populations this time of year. If we could ever understand the weather patterns we could be a lot better at predicting insect populations."
While many Deltans expected the cold winter temperatures to, at the very least, lessen the number of pests making their home here this spring, Williams says that isn't always the way it works. If spring comes on warm and early, it gives insects time to build large populations on alternate hosts. That, he says, is the case this year.
"This has really been a different kind of year," he says. "Things have started off a little weirdly. We have a lot of pests like saltmarsh caterpillars and grasshoppers, that we have every year, but are being found in unusually high, damaging numbers this year."
Williams says he is receiving a higher number of calls than usual reporting saltmarsh caterpillar infestations in soybeans and cotton. He's also received reports of early season armyworm damage in rice fields. In addition, the reports of crop damage by bean leaf beetles and thrips are increasing.
"Because of the dry weather a lot of the alternative, or main, host plants for pests are drying up and the insects are moving to what's green — and that's neighboring crops," he says. "The recent rains moving across the area should kick both soybeans and cotton in the butt, making the crops less susceptible to these early season insects."
One bright spot of 2001, Williams says, is the documented ten-fold reduction in boll weevil trap counts over last year. "We are catching a few weevils in traps, but the overall reduction in weevil numbers is a testament to the success of the eradication program."
Ralph Bagwell, entomologist at the Scott Research and Extension Center in Winnsboro, La., says growers in his state are facing a menagerie of early season insects.
"We've had a lot of what I call trash insects due to late burndown treatments. Because the cotton emerged almost immediately after the weeds died off, a lot of those insects feeding on the weeds in the fields moved onto the cotton and started feeding on it."
Quite a lot of treatments have gone out for early season insects, according to Bagwell. "The problem is that there's no single magic bullet available that will control every pest out there," he says.
Like its neighboring states, Louisiana is being overrun in some areas by the sometimes difficult to control saltmarsh caterpillars that are migrating from wheat into neighboring cotton and soybean fields.
In addition, farmers in Louisiana are reporting heavy infestations of thrips in cotton. "The difficulty there is even if you had a systemic insecticide out at planting, you may still seeing a lot of feeding injury. The early treatment is causing the thrips to die after feeding, but not before they damage the cotton plant," Bagwell says.
Insect pressure is also heavy in Mississippi, primarily due to warm early spring temperatures, according to area Extension agent Tommy Baird in Indianola, Miss.
"We're usually seeing second generation insects in crop fields by about the first of June. This year, we were probably already into the second generation of insects by the middle of April," he says. "The early temperature warm-up may have sped up the insects' reproduction cycles, which produced a second generation of insects a little earlier and a little heavier than usual."
While farmers across the state are reporting higher populations of almost every type of insect, Baird says populations of armyworms and saltmarsh caterpillars are especially high. In one instance, he says, a grower was forced to replant 200 acres of milo due to armyworm damage.
"Farmers can expect higher populations of most everything we deal with," Baird says. "We're going to continue to have insect problems until we have a couple of winters in a row with extremely cold temperatures. The ground is going to have to freeze at least six- to eight-inches deep each year for several years."
Arkansas' Cartwright said farmers have been using insecticide rates lower than Extension recommends for heavy infestations of early season insects and haven't gotten good control. He said some farmers have had to re-treat fields.
"Farmers have had a difficult time finding methyl parathion, which is probably one of the better insecticides. Supplies seem to be low, and some people don't have the proper license to purchase it and get it to farmers."
One of the worst armyworm infestations in many years has wheat farmers scrambling to buy insecticides, according to William Johnson, wheat specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service, University of Arkansas. So far, farmers have sprayed about 60 to 65 percent of the state's 1.1 million-acre wheat crop.
If left unchecked, armyworms can decimate wheat, cutting off the heads containing grain. "The treatment level is about five or six armyworms per square foot," Johnson said. "We're seeing 60 to 70 per square foot. The ground just moves because there are so many worms."
Johnson said entomologists had hoped cold weather in December would reduce the pest's numbers. However, the ground apparently didn't freeze deeply enough to hurt armyworms in their overwintering stage.
The explosion of armyworms was not unexpected. Armyworm numbers have been building up in Arkansas over the past two or three years.
Insecticide treatments are a cost that wheat farmers don't need. Johnson said the demand for wheat is poor and the market price is disappointing, about $2.50 a bushel. "There's really no profit in wheat this year," he said.
Some worms have been dying of disease, and Extension experts expect a decline in worm populations soon if the trend continues.
Meanwhile, Johnson is estimating that the statewide average wheat yield will be about 50 to 52 bushels an acre, compared to last year's state record average of 56 bushels.
The sugar cane beetle has caused serious damage to corn in Tennessee in several counties. Corn planted into sod or old pastures suffer the most damage. In Fayette county, one producer suffered a loss of 40 percent plus in stand.
The beetle operates just below the soil surface eating into the sides of corn plants. The plants first symptoms show dying of the center leaves then fall over and dry up.
Lawrence, Dyer and Fayette counties report damage from the pest. The beetle is black in color with strong legs and coarse spines adapted for digging. The back of the beetle has numerous pits or punctures. The larvae are C-Shaped white grubs and dirty white in color.
There are also reports of heavy grasshopper infestations in west Tennessee.
Armyworms are on the march across much of southern Missouri. "It looks like a million of them when they cross the blacktop highway," said Dwight Holmes, Extension small farm educational assistant at Alton, Mo., near the Arkansas border in south central Missouri.
"It's the worst I've ever seen. Pastures have been eaten to bare ground in some locations forcing cattle owners to sell their herds."
Tom Hansen, regional extension agronomist at Springfield, Mo., said the armyworms are moving from fescue hayfields, after eating all of the vegetation, into nearby cornfields. "They eat everything, right down into the ground. There's nothing left to come back," Hansen said.


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TORONTO — Sex-killer Russell Williams has reached an out-of-court settlement with some of his victims.
The lawyer for one of Williams' sexual assault victims and the family of one of Williams' murder victims says financial settlements have been resolved "to the mutual satisfaction of all parties."
Michael Pretsell says in a statement that the lawsuits on behalf of Williams' first sexual assault victim, "Jane Doe," and the family of murder victim Jessica Lloyd are now settled.
Pretsell's clients had also sued Williams' wife, Mary Elizabeth Harriman, alleging Williams secretly and fraudulently transferred assets to his wife in March 2010 after he was criminally charged, including their house in Ottawa.
She had vigorously denied those claims and Pretsell says the lawsuits against Harriman have now been dismissed.
Williams, once a rising star in the Canadian Forces at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, was sentenced to life in prison in October 2010 after pleading guilty to the murders of Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau.
Lawyers for Williams and the victims could not be reached for comment on Monday night. Harriman's lawyer is on vacation, but her office said she had no comment on the suits against her client being dismissed.
Another lawsuit against Williams by sexual assault victim Laurie Massicotte remains active.
Massicotte, who has chosen to reveal her identity and speak publicly about her ordeal, filed a nearly $7-million lawsuit against Williams. In her claim she says the attack left her fearful, humiliated, depressed, suicidal, unable to function in society and she will require extensive therapy.


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The time has come once again to explore a bevy of belfies. If you recall, belfies are a lovely portmanteau that is a combination of the word booty and selfies. And they're exactly that: a bunch of selfies in which lovely girls show off the junk in their trunks.
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A few more blogroll additions
A couple more links are added to the blogroll.
First, the definitive healpriest guide is a forum link — and if it ever disappears a lot of us are going to cry, a lot. Nightshroud's Lux et Umbra. I've included a separate link to the google spreadsheet she has created. Though not as complex as the one created for the shadow side, I reference it frequently both for posts and for other decisions.
One of my regular commenters, Galadria, has a blog page called The Holy Light. I do not agree 100% with her decisions – for that matter, I don't think any of us agree 100% with the rest of us – but I'll state based on her posts I'd ask her to be my healpriest for my non-healers any time. Good priest.


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The royal visit
Till early yesterday morning, I thought I felt generally indifferent to the prospect of the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland. I knew it was a good and necessary step in the relations between these two countries, but not something I found myself emotionally involved in one way or other, just as the recent royal wedding was just another new event.
But then as I was at home, I started watching, and properly felt why it mattered. That Eamon Gilmore was there to greet her at Baldonnel, as our Minister for Foreign Affairs would with any visiting head of state. Our governments have worked closely at various levels, certainly since the 1950s, when they jointly negotiated entry to the European Communities. Eventually from 1985 with the Anglo-Irish Agreement, they acknowledged the joint interest in Northern Ireland and have worked together up the present day, with the Downing Street Declaration in 1993, the Belfast Agreement in 1998 and the St Andrew's Agreement in 2006.
So this should have been possible before now, but because of the nature of the monarchy and its hereditary link with centuries of the past, it was naturally more sensitive. It may be customary for a visiting head of state to acknowledge our history by visiting the Garden of Remembrance, but it is of a different order for the head of state of the country from whom we won independence to do so. For Elizabeth to lay a wreath there as she did today is one of further steps in the reconciliation between our countries, continued today with her visit to one of the most notorious sites of British military outrage on the people in this part of the country, when she visits the site of Bloody Sunday ninety years ago in Croke Park.
Her visit to Trinity College, while not explicitly alluded to, should remind us of how our countries are entwined in cultural as well as political history. While two of the constituent universities of the National University of Ireland, UCC and NUIG, were originally Queen's Colleges, established under royal charter of Victoria in 1845, as a college which in its long title¹ still refers to its foundation by her namesake in 1592, Trinity was an obvious stop on her visit. Though English-speaking Irish culture is clearly distinct from that of Britain, the influences from one to the other are undeniably strong. True too of course of American culture, but proximity naturally affects the degree. And of course as with any country, we should be particularly proud of our native culture, we should promote the distinctiveness of Gaelic culture, and its continued vibrancy, without it being seen in competition with acknowledging our links across the Irish Sea. From a personal level, it was nice to see the Hist represented there as one the few student bodies within college.
We should also be mindful of this visit with an eye to the longer-term political project in this country. In the words of the amended Article 3, "It is the firm will of the Irish Nation, in harmony and friendship, to unite all the people who share the territory of the island of Ireland, in all the diversity of their identities and traditions". For the Unionist community, Elizabeth is their queen. That our president and government would welcome her can only serve to bring the people of this island closer. I hope that there will come a day when Northern Ireland will become part of this state. While that would mean that Unionists would lose the political connection with the British monarchy, it will be important that they would not feel that the cultural ties would thereby be lost. In this way, the visit is not just about how the two states themselves relate, but about all the people of Ireland.
Of course, the visit necessitated a major shutdown of activity in the capital. This will be a small temporary setback for those working there, and of course it would be better if Elizabeth weren't presented with a ghost town. We won't know how much of this was truly necessary, but from the scenes of the small numbers of violent protestors, some of whom who could find no more suitable attire than a British football jersey, there clearly had to be something measure of this. They constitute a miniscule proportion of the population, and cannot even claim to represent more than that, and in what little impact they have, in what small way they are ultimately counter-productive in achieving their stated aims, this will be overshadowed by the wider welcome she has received.
¹ College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin


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With generous funding from the MAVA trust, A Rocha Lebanon and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL) in cooperation with the Birdlife International, have concluded the 3 year science and community conservation project that aimed at identifying and conserving new Important Bird Areas in Lebanon.
Prior to the project, four sites were internationally designated as Important Bird areas by SPNL and Birdlife International in 1994. These sites were; Ehden Forest Nature Reserve, Palm Islands Nature Reserve, Aammiq Wetland, and the Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve. Due to Lebanon's importance for migrating birds and species with a restricted regional or global range coupled with the intense, largely indiscriminate hunting in the country, it was essential to identify sites important for:
n roosting soaring birds where these birds fly low and are therefore vulnerable
n over wintering raptors and water birds
n breeding, over wintering and passage of species with limited regional or global distribution e.g. Syrian Serin
From March 2005 to February 2008, thirty one sites were surveyed throughout the country through a complete yearly cycle and repeated visits during the main migration period. A total of 320 site visits were conducted by teams of researchers, totaling over 3000 hours of observations, generating thousands of individual records, representing tens of thousands of birds. All data collected have matched to BirdLife IBA criteria.
Following submission to Birdlife International, 9 new sites were designated as Global IBAs:
Newly designated global IBA Site
Birdlife Global IBA Criteria met
Hima Aanjar / Kfar Zabad
Lake Qaraaoun
Riim / SannineMountain
A.3 and A.4.iv
Tannourine Cedars Nature Reserve
A.1 and A.4.iv
Hima Ebel es-Saqi
A.1, A.3, and A.4.iv
Semi Deserts of Ras Baalbek
Beirut RiverValley
Upper Mountains of Akkar-Donnieh
Jabal MoussaMountain
Relevant Birdlife Global IBA criteria:
A1. Species of global conservation concern:
The site regularly holds significant numbers of a globally threatened species, or other species of global conservation concern.
A2. Restricted-range species:
The site is known or thought to hold a significant component of the restricted-range species whose breeding distributions define an Endemic Bird Area (EBA) or Secondary Area (SA).
A3. Biome-restricted species:
The site is known or thought to hold a significant assemblage of the species whose breeding distributions are largely or wholly confined to one biome.
A4. Congregations:
iv The site is known or thought to be a 'bottleneck' site where at least 20,000 storks (Ciconiidae), raptors (Accipitriformes and Falconiformes) or cranes (Gruidae) regularly pass during spring or autumn migration.
Following submission to Birdlife International, 2 new sites were designated as regional IBAs
Newly designated regional IBA Site
Birdlife Regional IBA Criteria met
Bentael Forest Nature Reserve
Ramlieh Valley
Relevant Birdlife Regional IBA criteria
B.1.iv The site is a 'bottleneck' site where over 5,000 storks, or over 3,000 raptors or cranes regularly pass on spring or autumn migration.
Of the 11 sites declared, 2 are government declared nature reserves, 2 are conserved by SPNL in collaboration with local communities through the Hima approach, 3 have active conservation NGOs and 4 have no current protection. During the scientific field assessments, contacts with interested individuals from the community were established. Upon the official declaration of the new IBAs, these contacts were approached, asking them to nominate representatives from their sites to attend the IBA community workshop and form a site support group. Four, two day workshops were completed during the project:
· First day: an introduction on birds, their importance, bird ecology and bird identification skills.
· Second day: covered an explanation of the IBA programme, international criteria, conservation and monitoring procedures.
Site management committees were formed for sites with no protected area status, with representatives from the municipal council and community leaders in the region. The main role of these committees is the setting of a management plan for the conservation of the IBA. To help set priorities for the committees, the project produced site management statements for each site.
The Project marks the beginning in the conservation process for these sites, future plans include:
• Publishing simple, basic educational and training materials for bird identification training and IBA monitoring.
• Building up the national capacity for bird identification, research, and bird watching.
• Strengthening the scientific capacity of research staff at A Rocha and. SPNL
• Concluding the national census for IBAs in country (several sites were not surveyed due to the 2006 war and security concerns).
• Developing monitoring schemes at each site and networking of the IBAs in country.
• Initiate conservation projects for the declared IBAs in collaboration with the local communities through the Hima concept.
• Monitor national development plans and advocate for the protection of the declared IBAs.


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What started as a fishing trip for one, turned into the catch of a lifetime for another.
The Broussard family from Greensboro, Ala., chartered a trip aboard The Tailhooker with Capt. Scott Provow on Sunday off Grayton Beach in hopes that the son, 14-year-old Joe, would catch a big fish.
But when it was all said and done, his younger sister, 12-year-old SueEllen, was the one holding the rod with a 50-plus pound wahoo on the other end.
"We went because mom wanted my brother to catch something big," said SueEllen from her home in Greensboro on Wednesday afternoon.
Provow said they boarded the boat at 6 a.m. Sunday and headed out for a morning of snapper fishing.
"We caught plenty of snapper," SueEllen told The Sun, noting everybody got their two.
About 9:30 a.m. the weather started to look bad, Provow said.
"Larry Pentel had made a call on the radio that he was heading in and we should all think about getting our boats on the shore," Provow said in an email to The Sun.
"I had everyone drop their lines one more time, and SueEllen got hooked up on a nice snapper and was fighting it in fine style when all of a sudden, something grabbed the fish she was reeling in. It swam so quickly I didn't have time to get everyone else to reel up their lines," he said. "I had to just take off and follow this fish as she was rapidly running out of line."
"It was hard," SueEllen said. "The wahoo was pulling us all over.�
Her Mom was holding on to the pole at one point, while her brother helped to reel.
"We chased it for about 10 minutes," she said.
Finally they got it to the boat.
"My arms were all red � I was tired," SueEllen said.
Provow said she caught the fish on a 4/0 reel � "not a reel you go out trying to catch blue water fish like marlin."
"However what she had steal her red snapper was later to become our trophy fish," he said.
Provow said they were fishing about five miles south of Grayton on the bottom in 80-feet of water.
"The catch was a very rare catch, but even rarer was the fact that SueEllen had never (gulf) fished before and was having to hold the pole and reel as fast as she could as I chased the fish down," he said.
Once the fish was onboard The Tailhooker, they headed in as the black clouds started to roll in.
"The waves were huge," SueEllen said.
However the waves were not bigger than the smiles on the Broussard family as they posed for photos with the catch once their feet were firmly planted on the beach.
Prior to Sunday's wahoo, the biggest thing SueEllen had ever caught was a 2- or 3-pound bass.
She said they halved the wahoo with Capt. Scott and took the rest of it home.
"We cooked it back at the condo that day � it tasted like steak," she said.
But there is still plenty to go around.
"It's a lot of meat," SueEllen said. "We still have like 10 packages of meat in the freezer."


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Is there any?
Literature-wise, I mean.
Fantasy writing seems kind of ripe for formal or political radicalism - strong association with 60's counterculture, very open ended remit, links in to magick / hyperstition, obvious psychedelic potential, free reign to explore alternative modes of politics or thought. But while science fiction gets the Burroughs - Ballard axis of boundary pushing radicalism, fantasy is (afaict) so moribund that China Mieville is considered to be shoving his radical socialism down your throat by, erm, having a vaguely corrupt government / evil capitalists worldview that's been pretty mainstream in SF for about thirty years.
So what's going on that I don't know about?
If nothing, why not? Is it all Tolkein's fault - causing anything remotely modernist to be reclassified as science fiction? Or what?


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After the Civil Service Employees Association in August took legal action against Ontario County —claiming that the process in which the county has pursued selling its nursing home is illegal — its petition has been dismissed in New York State Supreme Court.
A petition was filed by the CSEA and Brenda King, an employee at the nursing home, against the county, the county Board of Supervisors, board Chairman Jack Marren, Garvey and the Centers for Specialty Care Group LLC. According to the petition, the CSEA — the state's largest public employees union — and King seek "overturning and annulling as illegal the resolution authorizing the illegal sale of the Ontario County Health Facility on the basis that it is 'determined to be unnecessary for public use.'"
In April, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution to declare the county's 98-bed nursing home in Hopewell, as well as the approximately 7 acres of land it is situated on, as surplus. According to the resolution, the board must determine that the property is no longer necessary for public use prior to any possible transfer to the private sector.
On Aug. 1, the board approved a resolution to accept a bid of $2 million for the facility from the Centers for Specialty Care Group — a private firm that operates more than 20 nursing homes and other health care facilities in New York and New Jersey.
According to the court's decision, " … the fact that the facility is going to be maintained as a skilled nursing facility is an indication that it is no longer necessary for the county to operate the skilled nursing facility for public use. In other words, it is no longer necessary that the county operate OCHF as a skilled nursing facility because there is a private entity willing to provide that service."


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Everton are prepared for a second bid from Manchester United for their left-back Leighton Baines having completed the first signing of the Roberto Martínez era in Arouna Koné.
The Premier League champions had an offer in the region of £10m rejected for Baines last month and there has been no further contact between David Moyes's present and past clubs. United, however, are believed to be close to making an improved offer for the England international, albeit one that remains way below Everton's £20m valuation of the 28-year-old.
Martínez wants to extend Baines's contract rather than cash in on a defender with only two years remaining on his deal at Goodison Park, and has the backing of the Everton chairman Bill Kenwright to resist any approaches from United. Moyes refused to be drawn on transfer matters at the announcement of United's new £8m-a-year partnership with the Russian airline Aeroflot at Old Trafford on Monday.
The Everton manager completed his first signing at Goodison when Koné moved from Martínez's former club Wigan Athletic on a three-year contract. Everton and Newcastle United were keen on the 29-year-old, who scored 13 goals for the relegated FA Cup winners last season and has cost £5m. Koné said a reunion with Martínez was a key factor in his decision: "For me it's an honour to be back working with the manager once again. Last season he really helped me a lot. For my first season I did the absolute best I could but I think that joining up with him at this club is like another dimension for me and I hope that I'm going to continue to improve alongside him."
The Ivory Coast international added: "It is like moving up a level. Every player dreams of playing for a bigger club, and coming here is a big step up. I hope to be able to fulfil all my dreams and get as far as I can through hard work. I want to give my very best for this team and help them to achieve all their targets this season. I really believe in this team and I think we will have a great campaign and I can't wait to make my debut for this club."
Koné will not be involved in Everton's pre-season training camp in Austria later this week, having been on international duty at the end of last season, but is due to join the squad at the end of the month. Another former Wigan player, the Paraguay international defender Antolín Alcaraz, is also wanted by Martínez after his contract expired at the DW Stadium.
The former Everton striker Dave Hickson has died aged 83. Known as the Cannonball Kid, Hickson was one of only eight players in Everton's history to have scored over 100 goals for the club. He also played for Liverpool and Tranmere.


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Slow Food BU's Katie Enzer and Julia Sementelli demonstrated how to make and preserve cranberry jelly on Wednesday October 27th. Using local cranberries, honey, and pectin makes this recipe an easy way to preserve the fall harvest.
Orange and Ginger Spiced Cranberry Jelly
*Adapted from Pomona's Universal Pectin Cranberry Jelly Recipe
Ingredients (makes about 35oz)
24oz fresh cranberries
3 cups water
1/2 cup lime juice
2 teaspoons calcium water
3 teaspoons pectin stirred into 1 cup honey
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons fresh orange zest (about 1/2 orange)
1. Wash jars and lids in hot, soapy water, then put them into a large pot of water. Bring water to a boil, then lower to simmering.
2. Rinse and drain cranberries. Add to a second large pot of water. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until cranberries burst and soften.
3. Meanwhile, prepare rest of ingredients:
a. Add pectin to honey
b. Juice limes
c. Zest orange
d. Peel and chop ginger
4. When cranberries are fully cooked, remove from heat and strain to remove skins.
5. Combine 4 cups of pulpy cranberry juice with calcium water and lime juice. Stir to combine and bring to a boil.
6. Add pectin/honey mixture, orange zest, and ginger. Stir immediately and vigorously for 1-2 minutes until pectin completely dissolves.
7. Add sugar. Stir to dissolve.
8. Bring mixture to a boil. Remove jars from boil water and fill with jam leaving 1/2 inch empty at the top. Wipe the rim of each jar with a wet paper towel, and quickly top with a lid (NOTE: be careful in this step because the jars will be very hot!).
9. When all jars have been filled, begin processing: Place jars in a large pot and fill with water to cover jars. Cover pot and boil for 10 minutes. Remove jars from pot with canning tongs.
10. Allow jars to sit and cool until the lids seal and the jam sets.
Local cranberries gave the jelly great flavor and color.
Slow foodies enjoyed samples of the jam on New England Night bread, filled with pecans and cranberries, from Clear Flour Bread.
Sterile and safe canning practices are important.
Thank you to everyone who attended the demonstration! Canning is a great way to enjoy seasonal produce year round. We encourage you to try this recipe while local cranberries are still available. Check out the Federation of Massachusetts Farmers Markets to find a place to buy cranberries or other local jamming produce.
Special thanks to Emily Jones for taking some great photos!


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Overgrowth is a game still in early alpha, but it is easily one of the most amazing games I've seen in a while.
It's an action adventure game with mostly melee combat and parkour style platforming but is already shaping up to be amazing. Watch the video to see if it might interest you.
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A new blog: the 1967 Chicago White Sox
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Nell, you seem to be the old time guru on here so I'll ask you, why was it the Sox could never come up with the hitting they needed? Didn't want to pay for it? bad minor league development?
Down through the years the team was built for the vast dimensions of old Comiskey Park, pitching, defense and small ball was the name of the game. Until Bill Melton came along no White Sox player had ever hit more than 29 HRs. The ball was not the lively one that we have now and it's hard to say how much a guy like Mickey Mantle would have fared in Comiskey for 77 games a season. There is no way a guy like Ernie Banks would have hit over 500 homers playing in Comiskey for his whole career.
Management tried some big boppers like trading for Roy Sievers in 1960 but we never could catch the Yankees, they also had pitching and defense but could always beat you with the long ball.
The Sox had a pretty a pretty good farm system in those years, we had rookie of the years with Aparicio, Gary Peters and Tommy Agee. Some other damn good players came up through the system, Landis, Callison, Denny McLain, Horlen, Earl Battey, Don Buford, Carlos May and Melton.
The Comiskey family never had a vast amount of money, if they had, Comiskey Park might still be with us but they were never able to pour money into the park like PK Wrigley did with The Friendly Confines.
Maybe if they had more money they could have had an even better farm system and might have produced a Mantle or Kaline.
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