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Hi, my name is Sarah. I don't work in any particular medium, I just enjoy making things. Looking around though, I would say I'm most interested in beading and home decor projects. I'm also interested in making jewelry out of recycled, vintage parts. I'm also starting an Etsy based jewelry supply business to feed my supply fetish. Glad to be here!
Paula here. I'm mostly a knitter, even though I do crochet and sew sometimes. Since I live in Texas sweaters, hats and mittens have limited use here. :) I've knitted a lot of different things. Lately, I've done quite a few toys for my kids, their cousins and other relatives.
I've been thinking I need to get in on the uterus knitting project, but I don't have a lot of spare time. I guess I can't paste a link here, but if you do a search for "knit a uterus" you can find out what that's all about.
Hi all,
Just recently found AN and it dawned on me that there must be a knitting forum on here! I'm k2me on ravelry (look me up), on a number of groups too. Knitting for many years and am thinking about becoming a master knitter if nothing else but to expand my skills. Have done some felting and dabbled in crochet and just last week discovered that I HATE lace weight yarn. Oh my name is Mary btw, such a strange name for an atheist, don't you think? ;-)
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|System: PS3, PC, X360
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: IO Interactive
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Eidos Interactive
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: August 17, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1 (2+ Online)
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
The games more responsive controls also help to improve upon its frantic pacing and feel, having a few new tricks of their own. The basic A.I. commands have been dropped (probably a good thing since Kane seems fine on his own anyway), but you can use the D-pad to locate downed enemy weapons via on-screen icons.
Taking a page from Call of Duty, players are also given a second chance to kill an opponent if you take enough damage to fall down. Intuitively, from this position, you can get back up and automatically into cover, a helpful strategic maneuver. Scattered fuel cans and other projectiles can also be thrown into a crowd of enemies and shot automatically by firing your weapon. If you need to beat a hasty retreat, Lynch has unlimited sprinting stamina, though the jarring effects of the shaky cam while doing so may make some gamers nauseated (it did me in, and Ive never gotten motion sickness from a game before).
Maneuvering their way through a series of back alleys, construction sites, and city streets, Dog Days captures the grit of Shanghais underbelly well. Much like the first game, the demo consisted mainly of a series of blazing shootouts in varied locales. , Despite some non-reactions from either Kane or Lynch to shooting civilians, the overall level of detail thats been shown by Dog Days development is impressive. Shanghai is a harshly lit, fluorescent nightmare, and even outside of the games visual filters and imperfections, the character and level modeling and detail far outstrips the original games. One particularly memorable scene involves a shootout against the Shanghai police in a small video store, characterized by its hard light and shelves full of DVDs flying off their racks and lying strewn on the ground.
Aside from getting a taste of the single-player campaign, which ends just before the two men get to Xius apartment, the Xbox 360 demo also lets you play the games expanded multiplayer modes, as well a new arcade mode. Theyre all variations on a heist theme, in which a gang of Kane and Lynchs criminals (it remains to be seen if you can play as the titular anti-heroes in the final game) pulls a smash and grab job worth $4 four million dollars. Fragile Alliance is a team-based mode, where you work together to kill whomevers protecting the cash, grab as much as you can, and make it to the getaway vehicle under time restrictions.
You can play this mode both online as well as in arcade mode, which runs the scenario over a number of times while increasing the difficulty of the opposition a la Gears of War 2s horde mode. However, this also ups the chances that one or more of your teammates will turn on you to get more cash. On the other hand, you can also double-cross your friends and take their cash, but doing so will make you very unpopular, so tread carefully. Playing as a randomly selected character, you still have control of your loadout, and each level has various paths through which to achieve your objective. With the shaky cam dialed down slightly, this mode was surprisingly fun, and should prove to be a good addition to the single-player game. The other two multiplayer modes were cops and robbers, in which an eight-person team is split on either sides of the law, and Undercover Cop, where one randomly selected person on a team has to thwart the heist from taking place.
Being a far more ambitious undertaking, Dog Days is shaping up to be a promising (and intense) sequel. The only thing that has me concerned is the shaky cam. Although IO has promised the full game will have an option to turn it off, it was conspicuously absent from the demo. If for some reason this isnt actually addressed in the retail version, it could be disastrous for many gamers. In fact, after about ten minutes of gameplay, I felt like I was going to throw up, a disconcerting and sobering thought to say the least. Hopefully, theyll be able to make adjustments to the camera without sacrificing the games stylistic integrity. Still, Kane & Lynch fans are going to be thrilled with the across-the-board improvements IO has made in Dog Days.
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Funeral services for Marjorie Jean Whipple, 86, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 26, in the Ardmore Seventh Day Adventist Church, 828 Locust St., with Pastor David Resendes officiating.
Marjorie was born on February 15, 1926, in Battle Creek, Michigan, to Charles M. and Zella Andrews Sellors Whipple.
Her love of nursing began very early in life. She worked at both the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, while in high school, and graduated from Battle Creek Academy in 1944. She attended Washington Missionary College, now Columbia Union College in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1947 with her two year degree in Pre-Nursing. She completed three years of training in 1950 at Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nursing, Glendale, California, to become a Registered Nurse.
Following graduation, Marj came through Ardmore to visit friends on her way home to Michigan. While in Ardmore, she was offered a surgical position at Hardy Sanitarium, where she worked for one year, followed by five years at Von Keller Hospital.
Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma was nearing completion in 1955, and Marjorie was one of six department heads hired before the opening of the hospital to develop their respective departments. She remained as Clinical Director of Surgical Nursing at Memorial Hospital for 30 years. Upon her retirement in 1985, in addition to her 30 year pin, she was given a star in the universe named for her and registered in the Library of Congress, which she particularly treasured.
With the opening of Day Surgery, she continued to work an additional 16 years before finally retiring from nursing in 2001.
She is survived by several cousins, including Jeanne Witte and her husband, Rick, and their sons Jason, Nathan and Adam of Carrollton, Texas, and Ken Alford and his wife, Janine of Georgetown, Texas; and her many coworkers and friends.
Serving as Pallbearers will be Jim Read, Harrison Read, Hunter Read and Gary White.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Alzheimers program or a charity of choice.
Memorial tributes may be made online at www.hdouglasfuneralhome.com.
Services entrusted to Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home and Crematory.
Marjorie J. Whipple
Funeral services for Marjorie Jean Whipple, 86, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 26, in the Ardmore Seventh Day Adventist Church, 828 Locust St., with Pastor David Resendes officiating.


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3 Who Died in Highway Crash Didn't Use Seat Belts
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eight people died in crashes on Minnesota roads over the weekend, making it the deadliest weekend of 2013.
The Minnesota State Patrol says three of those victims died in a Sunday crash on Interstate 94 in Minneapolis when some minor contact between three vehicles caused a minivan driver to lose control and rollover. Five others in the minivan were injured.
The names of the victims who died in that crash have not been released. But authorities say they are an 80-year-old woman, a 44-year-old woman, and a 16-year-old male. They were not wearing seat belts.
The weekend's fatalities also include a motorcyclist who ran a red light in Brooklyn Park, hitting another vehicle.
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Simon Baker: Shirtless Beach Day with the Family!
Simon Baker goes shirtless as he spends the day at Bondi Beach with his family on Sunday afternoon (December 15) in Sydney, Australia.
The 44-year-old The Mentalist actor was joined by his wife Rebecca Rigg and their sons Claude, 15, and Harry, 12.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Simon Baker
Simon and the family were seen arriving at the airport in Sydney earlier that day after flying in from Los Angeles.
The Mentalist will return with new episodes after the holiday break on January 5 on CBS.
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SAN LUIS, Peru (BP) -- Josh Murphree doesn't live at the ends of the earth, but he says can see it from his back porch.
The Alabama native grins when he says this, but it does take some expert driving to get to San Luis in the Ancash region of Peru, where he lives with his wife Crystal and their two children, Ella and Isaac. Driving to the town deep in the Conchucos Valley from Peru's capital of Lima entails crossing a mountain range on perilous roads and traversing a 16,043-foot pass.
Like the overwhelming obstacles the mountains can be, Murphree says that life in this remote mountain setting has had its share of struggles.
"It's been tough to home school. We have been very lonely at times. We're eight hours away from an ATM or restaurant that won't make us sick," Murphree, an IMB missionary, explains. "It's been tough but very rewarding at the same time. We realize we're right in the middle of where God wants us to be -- even if it's not the safest place or the easiest place."
Murphree has hiked over mountains, taken hours-long bus rides and crossed some fairly sketchy bridges to reach villages that need the Gospel.
The Northern Conchucos Quechua live in this geographically demanding area that provides plenty of obstacles that hamper the spread of the Gospel. There, Catholicism has been fused with indigenous animistic beliefs. Biblically-based evangelical believers are much harder to find.
In 2012, student researchers for the Ancash Quechua team -- of which the Murphrees are a part -- discovered a cluster of five small Baptist churches in the remote Huánuco region. Team leader John Grady learned that these fellowships may date back to a Foreign Mission Board missionary who traveled into the area by horseback about 20 years ago and led several people to Christ. In the intervening years the fellowships stayed true to God's Word, in part because some members in the congregation could read the Bible, which they had in Spanish.
Grady says these five churches are some of the few that have not slipped into heresy.
"A lot of pastors can't read the Bible and have dismissed it as old news," he says.
On the edge of the rainy season later that year, Grady, Murphree and another colleague made a trip into Huánuco to teach and train there. They traveled in a four-wheel drive truck instead of on horseback, as the earlier missionary had done before roads were built in the area. The villages were seemingly cut off from the outside world in the rugged terrain high above the Marañón River, Murphree says.
"It was amazing to experience a culture that did not depend on outside trade but only from their own crops," he says. "At the elevation where we stayed most of the people grew potatoes and cold-weather crops, but it was possible on clear days to turn around and see snow in the mountains right behind us."
When they arrived, Murphree says, there were believers there "with 20 years of questions in the making." For six days they met with the churches, first in the main town of Huacrachuco, and then journeyed to outlying villages to teach in other fellowships, some of which could only be reached on foot. Many came into the villages from even further out in the mountains in spite of the rains. Several times the missionaries spoke to packed houses. In one village without electricity, they taught into the night by lantern light.
"We were able to spend some time with leaders in the churches, teaching oral means of sharing the Gospel in Quechua through stories," Murphree explains. "The leaders in the churches were thrilled to learn how to take stories from the Bible in Spanish and craft stories in their own heart language to be shared with those who only speak Quechua."
The Ancash Quechua team is now working with nationals to craft stories from the Bible into Quechua to meet the need for God's Word in the lives of these and other believers in the mountains. This also will enable believers to share the truths of the Bible in the heart language of the Quechua people.
"So we realize we've got to put a lot of our effort into Bible storying, whether it's teaching the stories to outreach groups and house churches, helping them to multiply our efforts," Murphree says. The leaders of these small groups have become excited about this way of teaching.
"Rather than preaching on a few verses they said, 'I'm going to learn these stories and tell people what the Bible says. I want to tell people what God's Word says. They'll understand it this way.'"
Elaine Gaston writes for WMU and IMB. The Murphrees were featured in the 2013 International Mission Study on Peru, published by Woman's Mission Union. To learn more about the study, go to wmu.com/peru. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).
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Last week Channel 9, with camera in tow, paid a visit to the IE Team. In the first video I talk far too long at the start before we walk the hallways and meet a few members of the team. In the second video we chat with Max Stevens on user experience. The third video is with the RSS team where we discuss the new RSS support in IE7. In the final video we meet Eric Lawrence and Katya Sedova and discuss networking. As you can tell from the videos we had a lot of fun doing them and hope to have the Channel 9 camera over again in the future to discuss the next version of IE.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
From the Office of the County Clerk: G102 - Astros v. Pirates
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Ok seriously I love your site but enough is enough. Stop complaining about the loses. Do you not understand that Luhnow has explained HE WILL NOT CHASE MAJOR FREE AGENTS UNTIL THE FARM SYSTEM IS BACK AT THE TOP. DO you really want to win 10-20 more games this year even though we all know WE ARE NOT MAKING THE PLAYOFFS??? So you'd rather be where the Phillies are? Currently sitting at the 8th worst record. Also enough with the "Where's Wallace" talk. Bottom line is we want to lose as many games to secure the number one spot in the draft. Get your heads out of your @$$es and learn how baseball works. Follow the plan!!!!. I love your site but seriously grown up and learn how it works
- July 29, 2012 at 2:48 AM
Jeff, seriously, we had no idea YOU were THE baseball guru of Houston sports and are the ONLY one that knows how baseball works! We bow down to Your Loftiness and hope you will be kinder to us initiates in the future even as we strive to attain more knowledge. Seriously!
- July 29, 2012 at 8:01 AM
It's not a list of complaints, it's a recap of last night's game. Bullpen happens, Jeff! You can't blame AC for that.
- July 29, 2012 at 9:04 AM
I suspect Jeff's comment isn't highly disguised sarcasm, but it would make more sense if it where. In fact, call me a fool, but I actually do want to win more games. That is the nature of sports and competition.
Btw, the success of the club in the long term is not a factor of whether they have the 1st or the 3rd pick. Only a shortsighted and naive fool would claim that.
- July 29, 2012 at 10:19 AM
unless you can secure possible game changers like Bryce Harper or Starsburg..just saying.
- July 29, 2012 at 10:47 AM
I get your point, but by all reports, there is no game changer like that next year.
If Luhnow is really tanking it, he should stop paying lip service to the idea that learning how to win and compete is important for young players. I've heard that a number of times from him this year and it is an concept with a lot of merit.
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Tom Boyd: 1971 Ford BroncoPosted in Ultimate Adventure: 2010 on November 1, 2010
1971 Ford Bronco
Driver: Tom Boyd
Co-driver: Dave Chappell
If there was one guy on the UA who nobody will ever forget, it's Tom Boyd! He's the court jester of UA and the comic relief for the weeklong event. Tom was on the first Ultimate Adventure and part of the old cronies crew, which comes back for more year after year. After all, this is the world's greatest four-wheeling event.
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- Transmission: TH400
- Transfer Case: Klune-V, Atlas II
- Front Axle: High-pinion Dana 44, Detroit Locker, 4.10 gears, CTM U-joints
- Rear Axle: Ford 9-inch, Detroit Locker, 4.10 gears
- Front: Custom 3- link, King coilovers
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- Tires & Wheels: 37x12.50R17 Goodyear Wrangler MT/Rs on 17x91/2 Spyderlock beadlocks
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Suzanne M. "Sue" Lynch
HILLSDALE � Suzanne M. "Sue" Lynch of Hillsdale passed away Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at her home under the loving care of her family and Hospice of Hillsdale County. She was born Nov. 16, 1947 in Hillsdale the daughter of Kenneth R. and Phyllis M. (Maine) Alley.
She is survived by her husband, Verlyn Lynch, whom she married on Sept. 5, 1964; four children, Bion (Shellie) Lynch, Tammy (Tim) Rhoades, Heather (Jason) Brink and Shane Lynch all of North Adams; eight grandchildren, Chelsea, Jessie and Alley Lynch, Taylor, Regan and Kacey Rhoades and Caleb and Jace Brink; parents, Kenny and Phyllis Alley of Jerome; two sisters, Sandy (Larry) Rogers and Kenda (Jim McCormick) Alley; one brother Barry (Connie) Alley all of Jerome and several nieces and nephews and many friends.
Sue enjoyed working as an office manager at the Lynch Brothers Insurance Agency in North Adams for over 25 years and loved dealing with the people in the community. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Michigan Bear Hunters Association and was also a Cub Scout Leader for several years.
Sue was an avid reader who enjoyed the outdoors and spending time with her family and friends. She loved to attend sporting events and any school activities of her children and grandchildren. She also loved being in the U.P. with her family and friends and especially enjoyed hunting, fishing and four wheeling.
A funeral service to honor the life of Mrs. Suzanne M. "Sue" Lynch will be held at the Hampton-Kurtz Funeral Home in Hillsdale on Wednesday, Jan. 9 beginning at 11 a.m. with Pastor Clyde Wonders officiating. Interment will take place in the Northlawn Cemetery in North Adams. The family will receive friends for visitation on Tuesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home in Hillsdale. Friends who wish may make memorial contributions to the North Adams-Jerome Band or to a charity of your choice.
Hampton-Kurtz Funeral Home � Hillsdale 517-437-0605.


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Thanksgiving Safety Tips for Pets
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Thanksgiving is an amazing time of year where we take the time to appreciate and give thanks for the important things in our life. As you gather around the table with your friends and family this…
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After former Gen. David Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA in the wake of an extramarital affair, he said in a statementthat he had shown "extremely poor judgment."
Petraeus is hardly the first high-profile person to engage in such behavior. He's in dubious company among a number of corporate leaders who have recently been caught in compromising circumstances.
The world of business has been the source of numerous powerful and highly placed individuals who put their marriages, careers and good standing at risk – all for an extramarital dalliance. CNBC.com presents a list of powerful figures from the world of business who went outside of their marriages to seek romance, physical gratification or simple companionship.
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by Bob Previdi
Chestnut Hill is a great neighborhood, but like so much of the nation, it is suffering economically. Yet, while the country is facing one of the worst economic downturns since the depression of the 1930s, we have been presented with some major economic development projects. Unfortunately we have lost two out of these three projects and are in danger of jeopardizing the third if we don't speak up.
Too often we undermine our development review process and allow bullies and naysayers to take control. It is time for our community and our community leaders to take charge and speak up about the future of Chestnut Hill development.
While some in the community are fortunate enough not to feel the pain of this economy, the reality is that Chestnut Hill needs to reinvent itself to stay relevant in a 21st-century global economy. We can do this by supporting development opportunities such as Woodmere, Greylock, Chestnut Hill College, the former Magarity site and the Good Food Market. Such multimillion-dollar projects can benefit the entire community. While the views of the near neighbors are important to consider, they must not completely derail and defeat progress.
As the former executive director of the Business Improvement District and the Business Association and a former board member of the CHCA, I have seen projects consistently mishandled publicly and have watched vitriolic hostility – instead of facts – control the discussion. I have seen neighbors employ bully tactics and threaten lawsuits, and scream and shout at meetings like children. It's uncivil and should not be tolerated. We need not be our own worst enemies.
At City Council meetings the pubic is often invited to speak at certain points, particularly during budget season. Each person has to register to speak and is given three minutes to express his or her views. The reason for this is simple: Government is a democracy, and the minority should not be allowed to overrule the majority. Unfortunately, in Chestnut Hill the vocal minority view wins all too often.
Take, for example, the Woodmere Art Museum expansion project. This project was stalled by near neighbors in such a protracted legal action that even though Woodmere won the lawsuit, it lost its will and its funding, and thus Chestnut Hill lost this $11 million dollar project.
In 2009 the Good Food Market was supported through the CHCA process, only to be undermined at the zoning board downtown (the zoning process in the city requires a developer to get community input from the CHCA).
Just recently, the Green Woods Charter School was proposing a $12 million dollar re-investment in a crumbling old mansion. The project would have populated this old building with one of the best science and environmentally focused schools in the city, and now Green Woods is looking elsewhere in the Northwest. The school and the parents of potentially 675 children – who would have spent money on Germantown Avenue – are now gone from our future.
Now, the naysayers have vociferously set their sights on defeating Chestnut Hill College's SugarLoaf plan, which calls for investing $300 to $500 million in our community. Is our local economy doing so well that we can afford to lose this, too?
I asked local businessman Enzo Mandarano, of Cosimo's Pizza, what he thought about the college's expansion.
"Chestnut Hill is a fabulous community, but I'm concerned that not enough is being done to promote business on the Avenue," he said. "I sure hope they can work things out between the community and the college. They have to meet in the middle. It certainly wouldn't hurt to have more business at my door."
I know that most of us are working hard simply trying to take care of our families, and we have little time to spend reviewing all that has been written and said about this expansion. That is why we have a community association – to vet the plans and provide a forum for discussion and compromise. But rumors spread by the opposition would have you believe that the college has been underhanded in this effort. Nothing could be farther from the truth: In fact, the college has come to the table and sacrificed a great deal in an effort to be good neighbors.
Since first proposing the project nearly two years ago, Sister Carol Jean Vale, the college president, has changed the design based on near-neighbor input. When the approval process was stalled, a separate task force, with representatives from the college, the CHCA, and near neighbors, was formed to negotiate a solution for all sides.
This group has been meeting for over 18 months, redesigning the project to concentrate development in the middle of the property and preserving open space around the perimeter.
In addition, the College has spent more than $500,000 providing technical support to this task force in the form of architects, engineers, and environmental designers. Still, the near neighbors continue to badmouth the college and fail to give any credit for this gesture. Instead, they spread false rumors and half-truths to scare people into thinking that this half-billion-dollar project is a bad thing for the community.
For instance, a full-page advertisement taken out by a few near neighbors in the May 12 edition of the Chestnut Hill Local stated emphatically that a parking garage is going to face Germantown Avenue. But what they conveniently left out is that the garage has been reduced by 150 spaces, has been moved underground and is 350 feet into the property and away from Germantown Avenue. That is larger then a football field away. Nobody will see this parking garage through the trees.
In this same ad, the public was invited to attend an open community meeting to "join us for a discussion of the issues" at St. Paul's Church on May 16. According to a story in the May 18 issue of the Chestnut Hill Local, members of the negotiating group who attended the meeting were not allowed to speak by those who organized the meeting. If this is true, it should raise a huge red flag to everyone in the community about the near neighbors' true motives.
While I don't think it is reasonable for anyone to expect to get 100 percent approval on every aspect of this development from all near neighbors, after 18 months and a half million dollars spent on design changes, the college deserves our support – made loud and clear.
Instead of arguing about the merits of such things as the appropriateness of the BigBelly solar trash and recycling cans on Germantown Avenue, the community and the Community Association should be focused on real issues related to this and other developments that speak to our economic viability.
If we want a better Chestnut Hill – one that preserves the essence of Chestnut Hill but keeps it growing in a rational manner – then we must do more to show our support. Call the CHCA, call City Council and our elected officials, send an email or letter, any way you can, let your opinion be recorded – it matters.
Carefully thought-out development, such as the one the college has produced with near-neighbor input, needs our full support. We must keep Chestnut Hill economically viable by allowing sensible growth to occur. Preserving our community does not mean that we should treat the Hill like some museum piece.
Bob Previdi is the former executive director of the Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District and the Chestnut Hill Business Association.


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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - What Iraqis Really Think. Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What Iraqis Really Think. Goto page 1, 2 Next Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:17 pm Post subject: What Iraqis Really Think. On June, 2003 a poll was conducted in Bagdad showing that a 65% of the Iraqis did not want the United States to leave their country until an interium government was established while only 17% insisted that all foreign troops should leave Iraq. In July, 2003, the number of Iraqis insisting that US and other foreign troops leave Iraq dropped to 13%. Below is another interesting survey by Karl Zinsmeister on what the Iraqis really think. This survey was conducted in August, 2003 in Iraq, and the findings are very favorable toward the United States. I think that it's important that people learn to listen to the Iraqis. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Karl Zinsmeister on What Iraqis Really Think?" Posted by Cinnamon Stillwell Sunday, September 14, 2003 Karl Zinsmeister, writing for OpinionJournal.com, bypasses the media's quagmire reporting, with the results of a poll conducted in Iraq. And guess what? It turns out that the Iraqis don't hate us after all, and that they're much more optimistic than is typically portrayed. You can bet that this is one poll the liberal media won't be pushing. America, some say, is hobbled in its policies toward Iraq by not knowing much about what Iraqis really think. Are they on the side of radical Islamists? What kind of government would they like? What is their attitude toward the U.S.? Do the Shiites hate us? Could Iraq become another Iran under the ayatollahs? Are the people in the Sunni triangle the real problem? Up to now we've only been able to guess. We've relied on anecdotal temperature-takings of the Iraqi public, and have been at the mercy of images presented to us by the press. We all know that journalists have a bad-news bias: 10,000 schools being rehabbed isn't news; one school blowing up is a weeklong feeding frenzy. And some of us who have spent time recently in Iraq--I was an embedded reporter during the war--have been puzzled by the postwar news and media imagery, which is much more negative than what many individuals involved in reconstructing Iraq have been telling us. Well, finally we have some evidence of where the truth may lie. Working with Zogby International survey researchers, The American Enterprise magazine has conducted the first scientific poll of the Iraqi public. Given the state of the country, this was not easy. Security problems delayed our intrepid fieldworkers several times. We labored at careful translations, regional samplings and survey methods to make sure our results would accurately reflect the views of Iraq's multifarious, long-suffering people. We consulted Eastern European pollsters about the best way to elicit honest answers from those conditioned to repress their true sentiments. Conducted in August, our survey was necessarily limited in scope, but it reflects a nationally representative sample of Iraqi views, as captured in four disparate cities: Basra (Iraq's second largest, home to 1.7 million people, in the far south), Mosul (third largest, far north), Kirkuk (Kurdish-influenced oil city, fourth largest) and Ramadi (a resistance hotbed in the Sunni triangle). The results show that the Iraqi public is more sensible, stable and moderate than commonly portrayed, and that Iraq is not so fanatical, or resentful of the U.S., after all. Iraqis are optimistic. Seven out of 10 say they expect their country and their personal lives will be better five years from now. On both fronts, 32% say things will become much better. The toughest part of reconstructing their nation, Iraqis say by 3 to 1, will be politics, not economics. They are nervous about democracy. Asked which is closer to their own view--''Democracy can work well in Iraq,'' or ''Democracy is a Western way of doing things''--five out of 10 said democracy is Western and won't work in Iraq. One in 10 wasn't sure. And four out of 10 said democracy can work in Iraq. There were interesting divergences. Sunnis were negative on democracy by more than 2 to 1; but, critically, the majority Shiites were as likely to say democracy would work for Iraqis as not. People age 18-29 are much more rosy about democracy than other Iraqis, and women are significantly more positive than men. Asked to name one country they would most like Iraq to model its new government on from five possibilities--neighboring, Baathist Syria; neighbor and Islamic monarchy Saudi Arabia; neighbor and Islamist republic Iran; Arab lodestar Egypt; or the U.S.--the most popular model by far was the U.S. The U.S. was preferred as a model by 37% of Iraqis selecting from those five--more than Syria, Iran and Egypt put together. Saudi Arabia was in second place at 28%. Again, there were important demographic splits. Younger adults are especially favorable toward the U.S., and Shiites are more admiring than Sunnis. Interestingly, Iraqi Shiites, coreligionists with Iranians, do not admire Iran's Islamist government; the U.S. is six times as popular with them as a model for governance. Our interviewers inquired whether Iraq should have an Islamic government, or instead let all people practice their own religion. Only 33% want an Islamic government; a solid 60% say no. A vital detail: Shiites (whom Western reporters frequently portray as self-flagellating maniacs) are least receptive to the idea of an Islamic government, saying no by 66% to 27%. It is only among the minority Sunnis that there is interest in a religious state, and they are split evenly on the question. Perhaps the strongest indication that an Islamic government won't be part of Iraq's future: The nation is thoroughly secularized. We asked how often our respondents had attended the Friday prayer over the previous month. Fully 43% said ''never.'' It's time to scratch ''Khomeini II'' from the list of morbid fears. You can also cross out ''Osama II'': 57% of Iraqis with an opinion have an unfavorable view of Osama bin Laden, with 41% of those saying it is a very unfavorable view. (Women are especially down on him.) Except in the Sunni triangle (where the limited support that exists for bin Laden is heavily concentrated), negative views of the al Qaeda supremo are actually quite lopsided in all parts of the country. And those opinions were collected before Iraqi police announced it was al Qaeda members who killed worshipers with a truck bomb in Najaf. And you can write off the possibility of a Baath revival. We asked ''Should Baath Party leaders who committed crimes in the past be punished, or should past actions be put behind us?'' A thoroughly unforgiving Iraqi public stated by 74% to 18% that Saddam's henchmen should be punished. This new evidence on Iraqi opinion suggests the country is manageable. If the small number of militants conducting sabotage and murder inside the country can gradually be eliminated by American troops (this is already happening), then the mass of citizens living along the Tigris-Euphrates Valley are likely to make reasonably sensible use of their new freedom. ''We will not forget it was the U.S. soldiers who liberated us from Saddam,'' said Abid Ali, an auto repair shop owner in Sadr City last month--and our research shows that he's not unrepresentative. Perhaps the ultimate indication of how comfortable Iraqis are with America's aims in their region came when we asked how long they would like to see American and British forces remain in their country: Six months? One year? Two years or more? Two thirds of those with an opinion urged that the coalition troops should stick around for at least another year. We're making headway in a benighted part of the world. Hang in there, America. Mr. Zinsmeister, editor in chief of The American Enterprise magazine and holder of the J.B. Fuqua chair at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of "Boots on the Ground: A Month With the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq," just out from St. Martin's Press. http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4203&catcode=10 Back to top HalaJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 20 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:24 pm Post subject: And what about American think???? Why Bush wants to help Iraq while the homeless and jobless increase every day at America???? Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:13 am Post subject: Economy Slowly Recovering. Well, according to the news report, economists are saying that the US economy is recovering, but it's recovering at a very SLOW pace. One of the good news is that the Labor Department report that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week after rising in the three previous weeks in August. Naturally, jobs are usually the last ones to pick up when the economy starts to recover. As more people feel the economy getting stronger, then employment usually kicks, according to many economists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 18, 5:07 PM EDT Economy Shows More Signs of Recovery By ADAM GELLER AP Business Writer Stovall says with a strengthening economy, it stands to reason that earnings should be improving. (Audio) NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's long-stagnant economy again showed signs of recovery in August, though the job market continued to be a damper, according to a closely watched gauge of future business activity. The Conference Board reported Thursday that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.4 percent in August to 113.3, in line with analysts' expectations. The rise in the August reading followed a revised 0.6 percent increase in July. But the improvement in the economic outlook was tempered by stagnation in the board's reading of the current business climate, weighed down by continued weakness in the job market. Analysts said the report points to an economic recovery that continues to strengthen, albeit one where the lack of job creation is a problem. "Everything is showing us growth except for employment and it's the one area where we're having a little trouble seeing recovery," said Gina Martin, an economist with Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, N.C. Latest News Dow Ends Down 151, Nasdaq Closes Down 58 Big Movers in the Stock Market Monday's Wall Street Glance Investors Gain Confidence in Tech Stocks Even with that drag, the Conference Board's reading is a sign of a business environment that should improve in coming months, economists said. "The economy is improving, although the road will remain bumpy," board economist Ken Goldstein said. "With export growth still months away, the growth burden remains on consumer spending and business investment." Stocks were higher following release of the two reports. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 113 points to close at 9,659. The Nasdaq gained 27 points to finish at 1,910. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 14 points to 1,040. The leading index measures where the overall U.S. economy is headed in the next three to six months. It stood at 100 in 1996, its base year. Four of the 10 components of the leading index rose in August, including improvements in the interest rate spread, vendor performance, real money supply and building permits. The coincident index, which measures current economic conditions, was flat in August, although three of its four indicators increased. The lagging index was also unchanged. Meanwhile, the latest snapshot of the labor markets was slightly better than economists were expecting. The Labor Department report Thursday that the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits declined last week after rising in the three previous weeks. The government said that for the work week ending Sept. 13, new claims for jobless benefits fell by a seasonally adjusted 29,000 to 399,000. Last week's level of claims was not only the lowest since the week ending Aug. 23 but also marked the first time since then that claims dipped below the 400,000 mark. Analysts were forecasting claims to fall no lower than 410,000 in the latest week. The more stable four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out week to week fluctuations, however, rose last week to 410,750, an increase of 2,000 from the previous week, and the highest level since the middle of July. Although other parts of the economy are improving, the labor market is expected to be the last to heal. Some economists believe that by the end of the year, businesses will begin to step up hiring. Others don't think that will happen until next year. http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME Back to top ilyaJoined: 01 Apr 2003Posts: 74 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:29 am Post subject: It`s difficult to say now what will be with economy of USA. Yeah, there is a good economics growth - about 2% GIP per year, but there is a very big level of unemployment (actually it goes down if economics grows because new working places appear on developing plants). But what George W. Bush does? He rises a shortage of budget by increasing military expenses for Iraq. Deficit of budget is a very large barrier for economics growth. So, I wonder what he really wants. He wanted to fight with terrorists in order american citizens won`t be killed by terrorists. But what we have now in Iraq? If he wants his economy to grow, so why he increase expenses knowing that is bad. Evil is everywhere around the world, so may be you will give money there too. As i said he is very, very cool guy. But president of the most powerful country affected to every country now is ........ Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:16 am Post subject: So far, it has been two years since the September 11th attacks, and there haven't been any major attacks on US soil. According to some of the news I've read, terrorists cells have also been broken up inside the US and terrorists trying to enter the US have been turned away due to the policies of homeland security. I think the US armed forces in Iraq are capable of handling the terrorists. They've already captured many of them that the terrorists are now attacking innocent civilians such as the humanitarian workers at the UN building. The best thing for the US to do is to quickly establish an Iraqi government as soon as possible, train and equip their army and law enforcers, and leave the country. Back to top sunking814Joined: 06 Oct 2003Posts: 30Location: Jacksonville, Florida, USA Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: Hi Diana, and Ilya and Hala! I've seen this topic before, Diana! While some people tout the might and technological strength of the US military. always remember that throughout history, the mighty have been felled at the hands of the meek. The Mujahadeen, with help from the CIA, made the USSR suffer and drove them from Afganistan. The experience was not much different for the US during the Vietnam War. Did not the poorly equipped and trained American revolutionaries defeat the might of the British Empire? Sometimes "low-tech" can defeat "high-tech", especially when defending one's own homeland against an invader from overseas. The victory may not be won in direct battle...but through the infliction of small but costly defeats, prolonging the conflict and the need to keep a long and costly supply line going...that and the effect on those back home...the families and the politicians. There are many weapons in warfare. Pres. Bush probably hopes that there will be more jobs due to the arms and supplies used up in the war in Iraq. However, more and more jobs are going to other countries, like India, where there is an educated and skilled worker base. Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:47 am Post subject: ilya wrote: It`s difficult to say now what will be with economy of USA. Yeah, there is a good economics growth - about 2% GIP per year, but there is a very big level of unemployment (actually it goes down if economics grows because new working places appear on developing plants). But what George W. Bush does? He rises a shortage of budget by increasing military expenses for Iraq. Deficit of budget is a very large barrier for economics growth. So, I wonder what he really wants. He wanted to fight with terrorists in order american citizens won`t be killed by terrorists. But what we have now in Iraq? If he wants his economy to grow, so why he increase expenses knowing that is bad. Evil is everywhere around the world, so may be you will give money there too. As i said he is very, very cool guy. But president of the most powerful country affected to every country now is ........ The economy is not growing as fast as most Americans want, Ilya, but as you say the unemployment goes down when the economy gets better. Unemployment is usually the last to recover. America is also either going to have to entice their business companies into staying in America or compete with China and India. Ilya, your country and mine have both done good and bad things in the past. Okay, so the Americans helped the Afghans fight against the Russians. Well, you Russians helped the North Vietnamese fight against the Americans when we were involved in Vietnam. So, that makes us even. Back to top waslordJoined: 23 Sep 2003Posts: 26 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:03 am Post subject: Hello Girls! I think Bush i the s****** and the f******* man on the world Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:28 pm Post subject: And I suppose Saddam was a better man? Perhaps, you also support Kim Jung II? Back to top rigi_bbiJoined: 08 Oct 2003Posts: 24 Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject: who was Kim Jung II? Back to top ilyaJoined: 01 Apr 2003Posts: 74 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: Diana, thinking about USA i don`t recall what happent in Afganistan and Vietnam 20-30 years ago, what relationships were between USA and USSR. Why? USSR was completly another country, and if you think that russians still think in sovet way, you are mistaken. In my opinion, Bush, jr. is a very bad president. He acted like a cowboy on the Wild West. Terrorism is bad, we know that, tyranny is bad we know that. We (Russia) have some tyrants amoung neighbours in Turkmenistan, Belarusy, but we haven`t bombed them. Why people must die because of one man? We make them to develop in democratic way. But i`m not happy with speed of that activities. Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:56 am Post subject: Ruthless tyrants and dictators will always want power. Ilya, the Soviets and Americans were arch-enemies during the Cold War. We have interfered too much into each other's affairs mainly because we didn't trust each other. You and I agree that terrorism is bad. I know about the Chechens that your people is fighting. I also know that it was the Chechen terrorists who started the bombing after Russia first withdrew from Chenchya. I don't want to get into another argument with you about World War II, but understand this, we both were fighting on the same side but against different axis powers. The Russians fought against the Germans while my people who were not even American citizens at that time were being massacred by Japan. If there is one thing we learned from World War II is that there is only one way to get rid of a ruthless tyrant and that is NOT to ask him politely to give up his crown and throne and allow his country to become democratic. No dictator would do that. In my opinion, the less dictators we have in this world, the safer this world would be. Also, if you had read my previous comments I did say that I had hoped that it would be the United Nations (not the US) to take out Saddam. It is the UN's job to do that. The recent report by David Kay showed that even in 2002 Saddam was still deceiving the UN. The UN had suspected all along that Saddam was being deceitful, and David Kay's three month report only confirmed it. Yet, the UN still wanted to give Saddam more chances, which in my opinion doesn't make any sense. For 12 years, it was Saddam who made the UN look weak and ineffective. Back to top BGJoined: 21 Oct 2003Posts: 6Location: IN FRONT OF MY COMPUTER Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:57 pm Post subject: DIANA...COULD YOU PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH AND STOP YOUR LONG BORING POSTS. Back to top DianaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 494Location: Guam, USA Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:27 am Post subject: DUH!!!! BG, you don't have to read my post if you find it too long and boring! DUH!!!! I guess you've never heard of Freedom of speech! JEEZ!! Back to top NemesisJoined: 18 Jul 2003Posts: 21 Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:48 pm Post subject: Diana. Look up cogent, pithy, concise, precise, to the point. Diana, what could American taxpayers done with their tax money being spent in Iraq? [and paid to Halliburton, Brown and Root, etc] And please give us in 25 words or less, why young American soldiers should go to a foreign country unprovoked to die for people they don't know and who didn't ask them to come? 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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1874. [Letter of thanks to the Entomological Society of France]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (Ser. 5) 4: xlvi.
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2011. RN1
NOTE: With grateful thanks to Rosemary Clarkson of the Darwin Correspondence Project for calling this letter to our attention. It was discovered by Yves Carton, Vice President of the French Entomological Society.
Down Beckenham, Kent, 4 March 1874.
I beg leave to thank you for your very obliging letter of the 27th ult., in which you announce to me that the Entomological Society of France has conferred on me the distinguished honour of electing me, one of their Honorary Members.
I hope that you will express to the Society on my part, my most sincere acknowledgments.
This honour is particularly gratifying to me, as during former years I collected insects with much ardour both in England and South America.
Although not a special student of entomology, I have always felt the keenest interest in the subject; believing that it is admirably fitted for throwing light on many general problems in Biology.
I have the pleasure, according to your request, of enclosing my photograph; and I have directed Messieurs Williams and Norgate to send the French translations of my Origin of Species, and Descent of Man, to the Society, thinking that these would be the most acceptable.
I have the honour to remain with high respect,
Sir, your obliged and obedient servant,
Charles Darwin.
In response to a 27 February 1874 letter (Calendar 9320) from the secretary of the society, Eugène Desmarest (1816-1889). The French translation has not been transcribed but can be seen in the image view along with the title page of the journal.
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You have to be in pretty good shape to make it up the myriad stairs leading to the main dining room at the Ellicott Mills Brewing Company. But once there – above the din of the street level bar – you'll be glad you made the effort. The spacious 120-seat area is nicely laid out. That, and the menu, promise the opportunity to enjoy good food and conversation with your companions.
This historical building at 8308 Main Street is all brick and stone and hard wood, bespeaking the solid foundations upon which this 19th century mill and railroad town were built. The ceilings are very high in this room, painted black, but with exposed brick-orange industrial piping and burlap pennants hanging among them.
Where there's no brick, the walls are painted brick red, and hung with black-and-white photos and old magazine illustrations invoking the ambience that Ellicott City used to have, back when. In keeping with the "industrial" theme, bare-top tables are covered with sturdy copper. (Kudos to those on the staff who have to look after them.) And the tables boasts little votive lights, for additional ambience.
The "Brewing Company" part of this restaurant's name is no whimsy. Indeed, the 15-year-old establishment was the first (there are still only two) brew pub in the county. On tap every day are four regular beers brewed here. And four more that tend to reflect seasonal beer styles. Pumpkin ale, for instance, and a dark bock beer, right now. Come January and into the depths of winter, you'll be able to quaff Jack Frost beer or a sturdy stout.
Beer go-withs
Only one of our company wanted beer that recent Friday evening. Our server, knowledgeable, friendly and efficient, recommended the Marzen (put an umlaut over the "a") when he requested his usual Yuengling. He pronounced it a more-than-satisfactory substitute. There are signature Margaritas on the menu, too. Another of our number tried one — to good effect, if you will.
But of course, the four of us were more focused on the food. The menu here still features some of the dishes we remember from our last visit, at least a decade ago. Alligator as an appetizer. (Not bad, as we recall.) And venison steak as an entrée. But there have been changes as this brew pub has moved into the 21st century. So now, sesame ahi tuna appears in the "starter" section, along with pork potstickers and coconut shrimp. Plus a pulled pork or a grilled portabella among the sandwich selections. And for entrees, you'll find Brazilian rubbed salmon fillet and Creole penne pasta.
The menu is fairly complete in itself — that is, featuring something for just about any eating style. But there's also a separate hand-out titled "Chef's Selections," which changes weekly, and seasonally, and which allows executive chef (and part owner) Richard Winter to strut his stuff. On this particular evening, the soup du jour was crab and lobster chowder, while appetizers included oysters on the half shell and chicken quesadilla. Plus nine yummy sounding entrees and German chocolate cake for dessert.
In keeping with the season, sauerbraten was available, along with wild boar stew, a shrimp and, since this is Maryland after all, crab mac and cheese, and crab and shrimp etouffee.
As soon as you order, your server will bring out some chewy-tender French bread rolls and butter. So it behooves you to get decisive. Which we did.
The cup of crab and lobster "chowder" ($5), offered as a Chef's Selection was somewhat disappointing. Granted it had a semi-thick, relatively comforting, seafood flavored base, but this was more a bisque than a chowder, and contained very little seafood. In short, not the New England style "chowder," that we'd been expecting.
On the other hand, we also opted for the "classic" Buffalo wings ($6.99/8 sections), which were among the best we've tried in a while. Big, meaty, tender, moist, with just the right tang. (A "discussion ensued over whether the wings needed more spice; this taster didn't think so.) Served on leafy green lettuce, with a creamy, well-balanced blue cheese dunk.
A side salad ($3.50) served as an appetizer (one of our number was trying to lose weight before an impending trip). Ample, very fresh dark greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, red cabbage, croutons (not house made) and blue cheese on the side.
Going "21st century," we also sampled pork potstickers ($9.99). Six large, homemade-looking dumplings were chock-a-block full of tender ground pork, veggies and scallions. Crisp, non-oily outside, hearty inside. With a perky Thai style sweet chili sauce for dunking.
Meat of the matter
Our dieter ordered the now-classic-most-everywhere Chesapeake chicken ($21.99) from the regular menu. A generous serving, this version featured a plump, moist boneless chicken breast topped with lump crab meat, which was laved with a sherry/Old Bay/cream sauce. The chicken was tender, the crab was lumpy and sweet, the sauce was on the scant side and didn't do enough to complement the other elements in the dish. (Ah well, this was our dieter, so the less sauce, the better.) Her side dish of garlic mashed red potatoes was pronounced "sturdy and comforting."
One traditionalist opted for a traditional pub favorite, baby back ribs ($19.99/full rack). The kitchen handled these very nicely. Meaty, tender, fall-off-the-bone finger food that had been marinated in beer, which imparted a mellow flavor to the ribs, coordinating well with the beer-infused barbecue sauce that was thickly applied at the finish. A housemade slaw was amply provided – crisp with cabbage and carrots, with a well-balanced tangy-creamy dressing.
Also from the regular menu we sampled the ribeye steak and crab cake combo ($19.99). The kitchen here must have a really good set of knives and someone who wields them with expertise. The rib eye steak couldn't have been more than one-fourth inch thick. And while it was properly cooked, and beefy tasting, and chewy-tender, its appearance didn't make much of an impression. The (small) crab cake, on the other hand, was lumpy, sweet, virtually filler free and could take its place among the "best" we've ever tried. Housemade fries were hot, crisp, tender, welcome.
The same knife wielder may have had his/her way with an item on the Chef's Selections hand-out. The ($20.99) wienerscnitzel (sic) comprised a pair of very, very thin pork cutlets that had been breaded and fried to golden tenderness. Now, wienerschnitzel — so-named because it allegedly originated in Vienna (Wien, to natives) — is traditionally made of veal, but in these PC days, we are all hesitant to serve or eat little baby beef, so… Anyway, although the serving was generous (two schnitzels), and the flavor impressively mild, perhaps the also-traditional habit of garnishing these cutlets with anchovies and a fried egg might make this offering more fun. Or the use of panko crumbs to make the cutlets a bit more crunchy. On the other hand, the schnitzels were served with lemon wedges, which is also traditional with this dish, one that's certain to please the — ah — least complicated eaters among us.
No dessert this evening. That diet, of course. But despite the fact that some of the dishes weren't quite what we had expected (and that's not the kitchen's fault), they were all tasty and there wasn't a whole lot of doggie bag booty to take home.
Ellicott Mills Brewing Company, (410-313-8141), 8308 Main St., Ellicott City. Great setting for a brew pub. Serving nicely conceived, well-executed food at relatively reasonable prices. Ample choices from regular menu and weekly Chef's Selections. Attractively served. Attentive, knowledgeable, patient, friendly service. Worth a visit, or more.
Open seven days for lunch and dinner. Reservations Sunday through Thursday for smaller groups. Friday and Saturday, reservations for six or more only. Special occasion opportunities in main dining room, and/or downstairs (below street level) in the rathskellar. Visit http://www.ellicottmillsbrewing.com


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