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If They Know What to Do to Fix Education, Why Not Do It?
Observe government at any level for long enough, and you're apt to have the sensation of being herded toward foregone conclusions involving more money and more concessions of power. The effect is enhanced where the service in question is more personal to people and more vital, as with education.
Such was my thought when reading this, from a Providence Journal story on Sunday's front page. The point of Jennifer Jordan's article is that "two pressing problems have emerged" as Rhode Island strives to "improve 13 of its weakest schools": "a dearth of school leaders experienced with turning around chronically struggling schools and a lack of federal money to pay for the local efforts."
Somehow it's always a lack of money from somebody, isn't it? A little more than halfway through the piece, the reader comes across this:
Mass Insight, a consulting group working with Central Falls and Providence, estimates it takes about $1 million a year for three years to turn around a persistently low-achieving school.
Pause and think about the implications of that, for a moment. A consulting group under contract (presumably) with two of RI's most-struggling cities is sufficiently confident in its turnaround estimates to proclaim a specific dollar amount. So — considering that improving results for students, especially disadvantaged students, is of paramount importance to the mission of any school — why do they not just find the money?
Providence Schools' projected revenue for FY12 was around $364 million. Nine of the schools in question are Providence schools. So, according to Mass Insight, by allocating 2.5% of its total budget, the district could turnaround all nine schools. That couldn't be impossible for such an important goal.
If that's not possible, then the elected and appointed officials who run our state's school system need to make it possible, even if it means disappointing the well-compensated adults who lock up 98% of the budget in "labor contracts, service contracts, state requirements, and health and safety requirements." At some point, the people within the establishment have to begin turning to each other to do what needs to be done, rather than teaming up in search of more and more from others.
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The dirty little secret is to truly fix these schools they need to do exactly what Fran Gallo did way back when..fire most of the staff. Most are not qualified to teach. The other dirty little secret is, I'm guessing there is more than a $1million in contracted wage and benefits increases in each of the schools. Freeze salaries and increase co-pays and you can easily find a million.
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:56:52PM +0100, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
Hello Kurt, Steve, Marcus, vendors,
a security flaw was found in the way osc, the Python language based
line client for the openSUSE build service, displayed build logs and build
status for particular build. A rogue repository server could use this flaw
modify window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite
files via a specially-crafted build log or build status output containing an
escape sequence for a terminal emulator.
[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749335
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798353
I need to conclude, I don't know how OBS repositories work (if there is a
of a rogue server being present). In any case, this issue is on the border
(pretty unlikely someone could alter content of OBS package during build --
in that case there would be more urgent issues than just particular terminal
window title change).
But strictly taken, the trust boundary is crossed in the moment, someone
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perform terminal "side" effect yet.
Marcus, please correct me if you don't agree this should get a CVE
If no one having objections and request appropriate, could you allocate one?
I am not fully convinced it needs a CVE.
It basically boils down to the old "logfile with content that might be controlled
by an attacker pasted raw to a terminal" issue.
There is some more control on the person who builds a specific package what is output
thant there usually is in logfiles though.
A rogue server is unlikely, however a malicious packager could echo "bad escape code"
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(anyone can create an account and build packages ... and asking for help is not uncommon)
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I will talk about other cases etc. later when I am not studying for a huge midterm taking place this afternoon b/c I do think that's important. But I don't even need to talk about other cases, I can give you a list of things that have happened to myself, family and friends that exhibit sexism and racism and physical, material, and/or emotional damage. We could also talk about general populations. Like for instance, why do white men currently have disproportionately high incomes, representation in government and legal system, and ownership in businesses? You could make the "inherent differences" argument. You could make the "historical reasons and we don't have any obligation to make things equal now" argument. Either way, do you honestly thing the socioeconomically different conditions of these various groups of people do not affect their experience and the way they are treated in day-to-day life?
Again, you wanna talk facts and specific examples, just not now. Now=MIDTERM
Also, as I pointed out in the other thread, I don't think you saying that the Duke case just got a lot of publicity because of the race of the people involved is terribly sophisticated of you.
There are thousands of rapes of black women by white men every year, that do not receive nearly as much publicity, or any publicity at all. Rather, I think the fact it was an accusation of gang-rape by a big-name sports team in particular played a role in making it a sensational case…
Getting screamed at is one thing. Being thwarted in one's life path is another.
Being emotionally damaged is yet another.
Ah, the sticks-and-stones argument. Racist harrassment is like sexual street harrassment–it's easy to dismiss as unimportant when you're not the one dealing with it, when you're not the one who has to expend any amount of emotional energy being aware of it and deflecting it, when you're not the one being reminded of your low status in the eyes of the majority, when you're not the one who has to spend time judging whether the harrasser is a physical threat or just a loudmouth, when you're not the one who has to put on an extra layer of readiness every time you leave your house. How lucky for you. You can take all that energy, all that thought and consciousness, and focus on other stuff. And that's what racist and sexist street harrassment takes away from the rest of us.
As to rape cases, that's not really what this thread is about. But why don't you take a stroll through the last, oh, six months of archives before you start talking about how some rape cases are more equal than others. The sad fact is that rape is a common crime. No blog is going to be able to cover all the cases. Hence most of the attention will be paid to rape cases that are unusual in some way–because they involve extremely young or extremely old people, because they're particularly violent, because they involve some particularly egregious miscarriage of justice, because they're getting a lot of press in the mainstream media. That said, Feministing does a fine job of covering sexual violence against women. Which you'd know if you did a little research in the archives.
Another fine example of the "if I don't experience it/know about it, it doesn't exist/matter" mentality.
Then I'd expect feminists to be interested in getting the folks with the big mouths–the Gang of 88 at Duke, the president, and so forth–as motivated by the current rape as they were by a non-rape. Doesn't the difference mean anything at all? Did the potbangers run out of pots?
The socioeconomic differences are a matter of what somebody whom I cannot recall described as "Historical Inertia" or "momentum".
Thomas Sowell said cultures vary and differences have consequences.
Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia are disproportionately wealthy. We had a Malaysian exchange student of ethnic Chinese descent in our area some time back. She couldn't get into a Malaysian university because they had a quota system. If they let people in on merit, there'd be too many Chinese and too few Malaysians. So she came here and got her BS Chem Eng at Ann Arbor and MS Chem Eng at U-Wis and married an American. We win, Malaysia loses.
Others have pointed out that the ethnic groups in India who are known for commercial entrepreneurial spirit are doing well as ex-pats at the job in Africa. The warrior tribes continue to be recruited by the Indian army, leaving the shopkeeping tribes to run their shops.
The Nigerian Civil War–The Biafran War–pitted two separate cultures against each other. The losers were the ones more economically sucessful, which annoyed the more numerous Hausa. In Mau Mau, the Kyukyu rebelled and the Masai didn't. Different cultures, different ways of life, different concerns. Robert Ruark did a florid fictional book called "Something of Value" about it.
For a view on the subject, see Bill Cosby. Or Mawhinney on the cracker culture of the South.
It might be a surprise, but the majority of white people have no interest whatsoever in spending any time at all figuring out ways to screw The Other. The Other isn't that important.
Richard, you are not to presume to speak for the majority of white people. Or any white people besides yourself. You don't know what you're talking about.
The Other isn't important? The Other is always important. People of color may be The Other to some white folks, but that doesn't make them unimportant. Women may be The Other to some men, but that doesn't make them unimportant. Same with gays and straights, and all the variations in between.
You may not care about those who aren't like you, but kindly don't presume to speak for the rest of us. And for the record, in a lot of cases white men (particularly) don't have to figure out how to screw The Other. It's like they already have a prepared package on doing it.
Of course, you'll probably just pick some sound bite of your own to repeat and ignore the actual content of my posts, as you've done with me before.
Again, I'll get to specific facts and examples later because that will make more time. I think what the "majority" of white people want would be hard to determine. I also don't think it's terribly relevant. I don't think we have to argue in terms of "majority" to debate this idea of yours that racism and sexism doesn't exist and that "99%" of the times it is used it is bogus
Well, let me put it this way.
In all my adult life, the time I've spent listening to white people figuring out ways to screw The Other is zero. Ditto for reading.
To be more precise, The Other is not particularly important to anybody I ever met.
BTW, don't anybody here presume to speak for anybody else, any group, any community. Right? Or is it just me?
The interracial rape count is vastly in the direction of white vic, black perp. If you were concerned more about women than race, you'd be all over all rapes. But first comes the question of the racial lineup. Then, if that's right, there's outrage, or not.
See the Wichita Horror.
But, anyway, whatever you claim about your concern, you ought to be about getting the rest of society concerned. Like the Duke administration. For starters. But they're allowed to pick and choose based on the racial lineup.
The tragedy is that a disproportionate number of victims are minorities and the outrage is only for the rare cases where the perp is white-or in the lax, case, where the non-perp is white.
Hey Richard! I'm a white person, and I disagree with you! haHA!
Okay, on a more serious note:
"In all my adult life, the time I've spent listening to white people figuring out ways to screw The Other is zero. Ditto for reading."
First of all, maybe it's just me [somehow I doubt that], but your writing is making VERY little coherent sense. "Ditto for reading"? Who, reading what? Huh?
Also, Newsflash: "The Other" is a theoretical model to explain certain social phenomena. The earth revolves around the sun and (as far as we know) doesn't "think" (or "read"??) about it. Similarly, people behave in prejudiced ways and fuck each other over without (necessarily) having an oppression-planning meeting.
"In all my adult life, the time I've spent listening to white people figuring out ways to screw The Other is zero."
Why would they tell you?
You also stated previously that you don't think you know any women who have been raped, which is statistically highly unlikely. I don't think anyone else on this website would say the same; I know more than a handful of loved ones and friends. I think what it means is that you are not a good listener, or for whatever reason people don't feel comfortable disclosing these things to you.
I volunteer as a victim's advocate, which makes me think I care a heck of a lot more about victims of sexual assaults than you do (you who started out the other thread by claiming the overall rape statistics are overblown, and you don't know anyone who has been raped).
I'll attend to the rest this later…
I mean yeah, Richard, you're right. That other rape at Duke is awful. I've got my hands full though with schooling and volunteering and whatnot. Why don't you go to the administration at Duke and see if you can't crank up their resources to prevent sexual assaults and take care of victims. In my opinion, most colleges in this country do not have as many resources as they should in educating people to begin with and then in taking care of victims, and colleges are generally doing better than the country at large. Say Richard, that's a great idea! Why don't you become an activist for the rights of all rape victims! (cuz I'm fairly sure some of us can already describe ourselves that way)
Richard, I don't see what the point is in telling us that there's a different rape case at Duke that's not receiving attention, because I could comb through local newspapers and find similar ones in any city in this country. The Duke lacrosse case got attention on this site because of the media storm that surrounded it, if you want to ask someone why they focused on that case and not the other one, ask CNN or the district atttorney. We don't make the news, they do.
Furthermore, as a white girl who grew up in a black neighborhood I can tell you that racism does still exist, sometimes within the minority groups. I know I was called racial slurs, but so were the black kids who were in the talented and gifted class with me. The schools were run so incompetantly that it was nearly criminal and most children there had no access to up to date textbooks or a computer lab to use the internet. And when I moved to a majority white area, I heard people talking about being uncomfortable because (middle class) black families were moving to the county. One of my current roommates has stated "I don't think I could ever date a black man", she's white. So no, I've never been to a secret "Whites Only" meeting where we talk about how to keep all these damned minorities down, but I've seen it happen in the real world due to the ignorance of people like you who assume everyone's got a fair shot and if they aren't successful with what they're given then they're just lazy and stupid. The kids I went to elementary school near DC with did not have the same chance that kids going to elementary school in majority white western maryland did. I saw both, and the differences where enormous. So yes, there is racism and it is inherent in the system and we don't have to work at being racist because of that. We have to work at changing things to make them not racist.
I could care less. Dick Imus is an ignorant and careless person. Not only is this a racist comment but it is also degrading to all women. So listen up ladies he offened all of us. For all of the networks that cancelled this racist and sexist pig…WHOOOO!!! We can all learn from this, by shutting people like Imus down we have made one large step for mankind!!
In all my adult life, the time I've spent listening to white people figuring out ways to screw The Other is zero. Ditto for reading.
To be more precise, The Other is not particularly important to anybody I ever met.
You don't have to have secret meetings. You've got an entire socio-economic system that does it for you. You've got national cultural figures who think it's OK to call people "nappy-headed hos." You don't have to think about it; privilege is the ability to remain ignorant about racism because it doesn't affect you. Perhaps if you actually listened to and took seriously the experiences of nonwhite people in this country, you'd grasp that.
Further, I can't think of yet another way to phrase this, but: it's not about you. It's not about your experiences. White people tend not to have to experience racism. Men tend not to have to experience sexism. In other words, if you actually pay attention to what people who are not like you are saying, you just might learn something.
Shorter Richard:
"What is this "racism" and "sexism" you speak of? Since I have experienced no such oppression, it clearly does not exist."
Much shorter Richard:
"Let them eat cake!"
And Rosa Parks should have demonstrated her "strength" by smiling obligingly and saying, "Sure, I'd be glad to move. Here, have my seat!"
It would appear Richard is utterly egocentric–as per the psychological definition often associated with Jean Piaget, not the social definition meaning simply "selfish." Like a child in the early stages of cognitive development, Richard cannot comprehend the fact that his experience and perception of the world around him are different from the experiences and perceptions of others. However, since Richard is obviously not a child, I must conclude his egocentrism is entirely willful and deliberate. It is apparent that he has no interest in even entertaining the notion of a universe in which he is not the center.
He demonstrates this amply in his comments, wherein he implies that racism is just a ploy used by manipulative whiners, "professional victims" and "race-hustlers" to gain sympathy–except, of course, when it's directed at white men like him, in which case it's a vile, disgusting outrage and the very worst kind of injustice!! In Richard's world, the only "real" racism and sexism is that which is perpetrated against–wait for it–white men like him. Like a child who thinks if he covers his own eyes, no one else can see him, Richard thinks his reality defines all reality. If something outrages him, then we should all be as outraged. If something doesn't bother him, none of us should be bothered, either.
Did your alien leaders forget to send you the empathy upgrade, Richard? However do you manage? Do you spend so much time commenting on blogs because real people just don't seem to like you? Maybe if you bothered to pull your head out of your own ass once in a while, you'd notice there are other people in the world besides you.
I am in agreement with Charity. If reading Feministing comes to mean sifting through cluttered threads wherein Richard waxes pedantic about The World According to Richard to the occlusion of all other discussion, then there will be no reason for me to bother reading Feministing at all. Ben Franklin is dead, and I have no interest in hearing what this "Poor Richard" has to say.
Vervain, you are on such a roll lately. Lovely.
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Vervain, that was hilarious, and I really needed that today.
Vervain (& others).
The reason I talk about my experiences has to do with probability theory. To put it without the math:
The likely thing to happen is the likely thing that will happen. So if something happens, it's likely that it's the likely thing. Things are likely in proportion to their numerical proportion.
So, what has happened to me in my adult life, which is likely more than some of you in your lives, possibly by a factor of 1.5 or 2, is the most likely thing to happen.
It's unlikely that the unlikely thing will happen.
Always keeping in mind that, while it is unlikely, the opposite could be true once in a while, (but that's not the way to bet).
Still, the existence of racism is not my point. My point is that the accusation of racism, and sexism are almost certainly bogus.
I don't have or participate in a blog or group patting myself on the back as a rape opposer. Those who do ought to understand that if they have double standards, people won't take them seriously.
Yeah, I understand the Duke lax case was the media's perfect storm. That doesn't explain the huge number of people slamming the non-perps against increasing evidence that they didn't do it.
You wanna assume you've been perfectly in tune with the world and people have expressed to you their most innermost secrets, then fine. Let's do probability.
You have me, EG, Vervain, and at least a couple of other people who have experienced and seen overt racism and/or sexism in our lives, such that it affected people's physical, material, and emotional well-being. Now, you take our average age (I don't quite know really, but I'd guess 25 at least) and multiply that times all these women telling you about their experiences (specifically that in their experience, the the application of the terms racism and sexism is not bogus 99% of the time), and the probability we're right is larger than the probability you're right. So there!
Nina. You're not going to like this.
But I don't trust activists' numbers.
The Duke study which elevated groping to rape is just one reason.
The NEED for such things to happen influence perception.
When I was a kid, women used to wear strange things on their heads loosely called "hats", on formal occasions. It was a standing joke how insecure many of them were about what the stupid things looked like. So, says the gestalt psych prof, using this as an example, when a woman wearing this confection on her head is walking down the street and hears laughter, she is inclined to think it's about her hat. The process is measured in the Thematic Apperception Test.
So, even if you do not deliberately make up numbers, I do not trust your percepton of ambiguous situations.
For the record: My wife was assaulted in an earlier century on a subway in Spain. Being 5'8″, she was bigger than most Spaniards and shoved the guy away. My daughter was assaulted, but, unhappily for your point, it was by another girl.
My daughter and daughter in law both faced serious obstacles in their career paths, at the hands of dishonest and incompetent educrats who were…women.
Now, let me discriminate here. The occurrence of unpleasant happenings is one thing. The insistence that each of them is wounding in the extreme is another and I don't believe the latter. If it is true for an individual, I would suggest that person seek help.
"My daughter was assaulted, but, unhappily for your point, it was by another girl."
How is that unhappy for my point? When did I ever say women don't sometimes assault other women? My father was sexually abused as a young boy by a man he didn't know. That doesn't change the fact that sexual assault is overwhelmingly a male against female crime, and that our society which in many instances OKs the idea women's sexuality is not their own and low-level violence (harassment, groping) of women is okay. Incidentally, in surveys the men most likely to report that they have forced a sex act on someone are /conservate males who believe in traditional gender roles/. My grandmother was frequently beaten by her husband, and I'm fairly sure she had no sexual rights in her marriage, either. My best friend (quite small in stature) was sexually assaulted twice by her college boyfriend. Another friend was born physically disabled and assaulted by a stranger as a girl. Another friend was raped by her high school boyfriend. I have experienced plenty of harassment both verbal and physical since the age of 12 or 13, in addition to a boyfriend who was constantly trying to push my sexual boundaries (and I pushed back, and broke up with him, and think I'm generally ok).
"The occurrence of unpleasant happenings is one thing. The insistence that each of them is wounding in the extreme is another and I don't believe the latter. If it is true for an individual, I would suggest that person seek help."
Victims of rape often do seek help, but if you are for an instant suggesting that b/c this a common crime people need to stop complaining about it or work on getting over it (and bloody effing hell, do you not think people don't /want/ to get over their trauma? whether it be from harassment or from physical violence, people don't sit around moping just to annoy /old white men like yourself/. many people struggle for years trying to get over things -or simply to acknowledge to themself that it really happened) I want you off this effing forum.
Dear bloGod, I do not usually pray but this is getting to be too much. Please deliver us before you lose feministing readers…
OK, the Thematic Apperception Test…that's golden, I mean pure golden comedy now. And "gestalt psych." That's sheer gold. What's next, another complete mischaracterization and misapplication of something you heard about once 30 years ago? How about "accusations of racism are like a Skinner box…" Or "claims of violence against women are the Jungian mandala of today." "If you think there's really an Other, have I got a Lewin's field theory for you!!"
Shorter Richard: What's happened to me is what's most likely to happen to ANYONE else. Because I'm…older. {Richard's inner dialogue: Wait. That doesn't even make sense to ME anymore. Hats. Say something about hats!!)
Other shorter Richard: I'm not saying that racism isn't real, but *accusations of racism* are not real! It may exist, but not in a way that can be *identified* or *talked about*! Wait, psychedelic again! I can totally like, taste what you're saying Richard! I think time just folded in on itself!
Shortest Richard: I've just proven Vervain's point without a TRACE of irony or self-awareness! Brilliant.
(Yet another) Shorter Richard: If blacks and women would just stop complaining about their insignificant problems, then there wouldn't be any problems. At least for me.
*chokes on Dr. Pepper*
LOL, Charity. I was going to say something, but I figured it would just sound smug, coming from me. Thanks.
I do have to say Charity,
maybe it's my latent flower-child-wannabe tendencies, but I think I heart you.
Without having read through all this stuff: Jeez, this is going on WAY too long. I hope you guys have boring office jobs where there's nothing to do but mess around on the internet, because this [by which I mean Richard, who has probably given us around 50,000 of his words by now, very few of which make much sense] is not worth missing or being late to anything important (like I almost was earlier). Wow.
heh. I am currently in my least favorite class. It happens to consist completely of reading the original texts of the last 300 years worth of famous, very culturally conservative, well-off white male political philosophers.
(After actually reading all this) — I was going to post something but I see that Charity has pretty much already done it for me.
I did want to add something though:
For the record: My wife was assaulted in an earlier century on a subway in Spain. Being 5'8″, she was bigger than most Spaniards and shoved the guy away. My daughter was assaulted, but, unhappily for your point, it was by another girl… The occurrence of unpleasant happenings is one thing. The insistence that each of them is wounding in the extreme is another and I don't believe the latter.
Okay, let me get this straight: Are you seriously saying that you don't believe that the assaults of your own wife and daughter were "wounding"? Do they have email addresses? I'd like to send them a copy of this.
Right in one, in my case. Office job. Boring. And I have two more hours to kill before I can go home, so…
Nina — Fun! I've spent the past few weeks in a class in which I argue with my professor about how soulless and evil I think Machiavelli is (which ultimately comes down to how retarded I think Thrasymachus's argument in Plato's Republic is). My professor, a Straussian, disagrees. Woohoo.
Thank you for inquiring about my wife and daughter.
Both are getting along quite well.
The thing that bothers my daughter, still, considerably more, and took her longer to get over, was the mistreatment by a bunch of soulless educrats who damned near stopped her career as an alternative to doing the minimum in their jobs. In addition to putting an obstacle in her way, they added documentation referring to her inadequacy, which were bogus.
While she was out of school, she got a job working the desk at a motel. The state police had a meeting there, one was rude and so she complained to the state police. The guy got fired. So, even when emotionally down, she had strength. I am proud of her, but what she has is not impossible for others. Which is why I think whining about being Imused is silly, bogus or not.
No, I wasn't talking about rape victims. I was talking about people complaining of having been Imused.
We are unfree to the extent that others have unwanted power to influence us. Being more free is better than being less free, which means it is a positive thing to work toward not worrying what some clown says. If you can't do that by yourself, you should seek help.
I fully expect advocate/activist types to misrepresent what is said by someone they don't like to another party who has no idea what was said. I don't get how the math works out when people misrepresent what a person said to the person himself. I think we can presume the person who said whatever it was knows what he said. I don't see the benefit. Is this supposed to mislead somebody about what they said?
When I was in college, I worked at Rust College, in Holly Springs, MS in a combined civil rights/education program in the mid-Sixties. The second summer, my partner was a fabulously beaufitul young woman, not in the Audrey Hepburn mode beautiful, I should say.
Though warm and friendly with friends, her public self-presentation was "don't even think it", which seemed to succeed. I asked her years later when the group was pondering a reunion if she'd been harassed by any of our male colleagues. Nope, she said. So there we were, in what amounted to a diving bell for isolation and the most likely prospect for harassment said nothing had happened. We had never had anything social going on, but were on a could-talk basis and we discussed more difficult subjects than that,so I am confident she told me the truth.
From this I take the lesson that she'd been sufficiently harassed in her life to put on a kind of armor. But that was for public purposes. (Certain writers have said that a purposeful demeanor deters assault, compared to wimpy bearing.) She was not, as far as I could determine, wounded in any way.
And if Imus, in any of his other nonsense, had made a stupid remark about, say, blondes, she wouldn't have given it a second thought.
jeez, how did the troll get through? sorry, folks.
did you get rid of him, Jessica?
I'm apparently always snarky so why should this time be any different?
Richard, man, you have totally blown my mind with the truth you are speaking. Re: your daughter:
"While she was out of school, she got a job working the desk at a motel. The state police had a meeting there, one was rude and so she complained to the state police. The guy got fired. So, even when emotionally down, she had strength. I am proud of her, but what she has is not impossible for others."
Your daughter complaining about a jerk and getting them fired was an example of her "strength" even when "emotionally down." People complaining about Imus and getting him fired, on the other hand, is not a demonstration of strength, but rather, of "silly" "whining." *I totally get it. Dude, I'm so with you…and I'm like seeing the head of a WOLF and it's like, wearing a raincoat I can smell YELLOW.*
But no, seriously now, this is the most excellent thing I've ever read, anywhere, hands down:
"I fully expect advocate/activist types to misrepresent what is said by someone they don't like to another party who has no idea what was said. I don't get how the math works out when people misrepresent what a person said to the person himself. I think we can presume the person who said whatever it was knows what he said. I don't see the benefit. Is this supposed to mislead somebody about what they said?"
*Totally, Richard. This is like, you read my fucking mind, man. We need to get this word out right away. I will let Grand Funk Railroad know, and have you ever rubbed yourself in this cool, brown moss? It's amazing, man.*
I totally get it. Dude, I'm so with you…and I'm like seeing the head of a WOLF and it's like, wearing a raincoat I can smell YELLOW.
Hahahahaha. That was a particularly gorgeous bit of Richard-ean logic: "My daughter is strong because she complained about a guy being rude and he got fired. Anyone can do that. Therefore, these women who complained about a guy being rude, leading to his firing, are whiners." I actually said out loud "What the fuck?" when I read that.
Must. Fight. Urge. To. Argue. With. Crazy.
Also, what's with this "math" motif? I think this might be one of those guys who gets high and starts rambling about how the golden ratio contains the secrets of the universe, or how "it's like, NUMBERS, man! They've, like, GOT your NUMBERS."
My point is that the accusation of racism, and sexism are almost certainly bogus.
My wife was assaulted in an earlier century
The second summer, my partner was a fabulously beaufitul young woman, not in the Audrey Hepburn mode beautiful, I should say.
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Tyler Follis ended the regular season with a .412 batting average and his offensive output helped the Bemidji baseball team post a .292 team average on way to a 12-8 record. Follis played in all 20 games and led the Jacks in at-bats (68), runs (18), hits (28), doubles (seven) and total bases (38). BHS has four other players hitting over .300 including Cody Rutledge who sports a .345 average, Tyler Tatro who is at .333, Jeremiah Graves who is hitting .310 and Collin Leif who stands at .306. Rutledge has 20 hits while Leif has 19 and Mitch Hendricks 18.
After eliminating Monticello 11-10 Wednesday the Bemidji softball team is one of four teams in the hunt for the Section 8AAA championship. The Lumberjacks will continue their quest for a state tournament berth noon Monday when they tangle with Big Lake in Brainerd. BHS will also play at 2 p.m. Monday, either in the winner's bracket or in the loser's division. If Bemidji wins at least one game Monday it will return to action Wednesday. "Big Lake has beaten some very good teams and we're going to have our hands full," said Jacks coach Brad Takkunen.
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The Bemidji baseball team received the sixth seed in the Section 8AAA field and will open its tournament schedule noon Monday in Moorhead against No. 11 St. Cloud Apollo. If the Lumberjacks win that game they will advance to the second round and a 3 p.m. contest against Moorhead which was ranked third. Brainerd earned the top seed while St. Michael-Albertville was second, Big Lake fourth and Sartell fifth. In addition to the Bemidji-Apollo game, other first-round action Monday sees No. 8 Sauk Rapids tangling with No. 9 St. Cloud Tech and No. 7 Monticello battling No.
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Falls short of bribery or treason, eh?I remember way back around the 2008 campaign there was a clear incident of bribery, something to do with the Obammunist´s buying a Senate seat - a Jack Cashill story IIRC.And treason? Look no further than Benghazi.Prudent is writing foolishness here.
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Sorry, Pruden - autocorrect bites again...
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I guess,according to Pruden and his ilk,Obama needs to decapitate a baby on national TV to be impeached. Aiding and abetting a silent invasion of this country means nothing.It´ll create 1000´s of bilingual teachers,medical aids etc. if nothing else. Already overcrowd prisons can always make room for new illegal criminals.They could even release old criminal aliensto makeroom.Ooops,Obama has already done that.What aboutinterferringin the internalafars of othersoverign cuntries,such as demanding Mubarak leave offce and bombing the dog snotout of Gadiffi who was ahalfway decent world player at the time.What abut the gross negligence on ISIS formulating over 2 years without a single stern letter from Obama.Of curse the lists goes on and on,lust like having Holder shake banks down with fines for doing exactly what they were forced to do by community activists like Obama. Obama was a party to a CITIbank lawsuit to pressure them into making for foolish subprime loans.
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Hey Wesley, I think the threat is worth the effort. The sign I hold is "Fish rot from the head, Impeach Obama". The reaction I get is very satisfying. MA will elect a lot more Republicans this Fall.
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Anyone who hates what the Tea Party wants and what Sarah Palin is fighting for is an enemy of our nation and any hope for the prosperity of United States of America.....or what it was and could be again. I do not trust anyone who makes up charges against those who are fighting for restoration of our nation and our freedoms. That IS the bottom line.
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I understand the thinking (including by some on this forum) that pushing for impeachment prior to the critical November election may be counter-productive. However, if Obama isn´t considered impeach-worthy then nobody is or ever will be.Seriously, has anyone ever so brazenly acted in such an unconstitutional manner? Why split legal hairs trying to ascertain whether he has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" when almost everything he does is unconstitutional and is a textbook definition of a dictator ?Our founders would be shocked that our Congress and our Supreme Court have not yet stopped him. He is precisely what our founders sought to avoid, and ultimately remove, with the constitution they created.And stop with the reminders that the Democrat-controlled Senate wouldn´t vote to remove him from office. The only question that´s relevant is has he repeatedly disobeyed and subverted the constitution that he took an oath to defend. And the answer is clearly and unequivocally, yes. Impeach.
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How long does the CEO of a corporation get to destroy the company he works for? Obama works for U.S. And I think he´s destroyed enough. Get Him Out! Impeach!
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High Crimes means crimes which can only be committed by the holder of a high office. It refers to their maladministration and shredding the constitution as Obama is doing. The crimes of Obama affect everybody while other crimes only affect the person being killed and their family. This is not an ordinary crime that anyone can commit like murder! Obama is transforming the country as he promised which is a high crime. He is transforming it from a prosperous world power to a third world tin pot dictatorship. It is a disaster for every citizen. Should we all ignore this because Eric the Holder will say we are all racists? We proved we were not racist by electing Obama the first time but we failed to prove we were not fools by electing him the second time.
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You point is well taken, #6, but it is also true that the founders never envisioned a country in which half the population, the Congress and the judiciary would be in thrall to a twisted, collectivist ideology which, for them, overrides all principles of law, republicanism and self-government.That grim reality tends to complicate things.
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I´d settle for a final showdown with the long-form Birth Certificate w/official seal on it. Either put up or shove off.And he hasn´t got it, so GET OUT!!
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True, #9, in addition to a complicit, cheerleading media.
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Your member of Congress needs to be on the record with an impeachment vote. Their job is to vote on the important issues of the day; if they don´t want to do that they should go home and stay home. Tell them!
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So Obama is totally allowed to ruin this nation and nothing can be done about it because he is black? Rubbish. Donations to the Republicans are down because they are meekly accepting what ever Obama orders, few are fighting back. Meanwhile Americans are appalled daily over the deliberate destruction of our healthcare, our military, our borders and the dimming future for our children and grandchildren. If Obama can´t be impeached then we might as well strike impeachment out of the Constitution because it is meaningless.
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You guys don´t get it. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer will block any attempt at impeachment. Say what you will, but there is nothing Republicans can do other than taking a symbolic vote. As Pruden points out, the Dems win the battle and damage Republicans´ attempt to take control of the Senate.So give it a rest. Purity will do nothing for the Republicans. Things could be different with a Republican controlled Senate. Republicans must play a long game. It has worked very well for the Democrats over the years. Have Republicans learned nothing?
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A futile gesture such as preparing a doomed bill of impeachment accomplishes nothing but to make us feel good. While we´re getting warm fuzzies, we´re diverting attention from the urgent crises, wasting energy, time and money. The only route to reclaiming the country is at the voting booth, beginning in November.Vote!
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Even if O´bammy was impeached I doubt if he would step down - he´d consider it an unconstitutional move and ignore it. Who would stop him? I can´t believe after all this clown has done that he will leave office without the stain of impeachment on him. Clinton, after all, was impeached for lying about an airstart in the oval office. Ah, the good old days. We have fallen so far so fast in such a short time.....
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#13, It probably is meaningless in a practical sense. As Pruden points out, it´s never worked historically. Obama would be acquitted by the senate, and, like Clinton, he´d probably become more popular.This is the worse kind of symbolic gesture, because it would not only be doomed, but it would be destructive to conservative interests.
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# 14 - Reid and Schumer are in the Senate. The House does not need their vote to impeach nor can they cast a vote for impeachment. The House can impeach. The spineless Senate dominated by DEMS and RINOs most likely won´t Convict and throw him out of office.If one believes in obama´s story of his birth, researchers have indicated he is half white, 6-1/3% BLACK and 43-2/3s ARAB. Let´s impeach the White/Arab make-up of him.
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THE costly fantasy was ELECTING Obama.
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The reasons and evidence to impeach Zipw0n are clear. Many times over. The ability and the will are not there at all. The resident has been given a clear message that there is nothing he can´t do, and nothing he does will cause his impeachment. We are living the tyranny of that decision. It can´t get better with meaningless threats being bantered about.At last, his own party is starting to resist him. Our only hope lies in that direction, not with the Repubs.
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This reminds me of trying to have a discussion with a college kid. In trying to appear wise, they consider every possible angle and nuance, to the point that the original question gets clouded or lost.Original question...Has the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors? If yes, has any other remedy (such as congressional action) stopped the behavior?See? We make things way too complicated.
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There are many posts here on the theme this is not the right time to fight, fight next time. I heard that before. I think it was when the balanced budget amendment was discussed but the GOP strategists said they would fight on the debt ceiling. Remember that! The GOP and many posters here are actually quite consistent in sticking to their principles. Lets fight next time! They are saying it now and when next time comes these strategic geniuses will say the same.
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North End Grill - Now Open!
- Cheeryvisage Jan 9, 2012 03:53 PM
Danny Meyer's seafood-oriented restaurant in Battery Park City, North End Grill, is now open for lunch according to Eater. It'll begin serving dinner in another few weeks. Wondering if anyone has tried / will be trying it out?
North End Grill's lunch menu: http://ny.eater.com/archives/2012/01/...
Chef Floyd Cardoz's menu looks very appealing to me. I hope to get to this place for dinner in the near future.
Article on the restaurant on WWD.com with photos of the interior: http://www.wwd.com/eye/food/feast-for... . I like how there's counter seating right in front of the kitchen.
'Cardoz studies his menu, which holds offerings like Cod Throats Meuniére, slow-poached egg with California caviar, a grilled clam pizza and a bacon-shrimp burger with spice-dusted fries. "It's going to be seasonal, it's going to change," Cardoz continues. "Yesterday I had snapper on the menu, today I have black bass. Whatever my fish guy tells me, 'I got this today, it's great,' I use it. I'm not cooking on high heat, which is what for the most part we do [in the U.S.]: high heat, sear it, get a thick crust, get a char on it and that's it. I'm going gentler, easier, you know, make the ingredients speak for themselves." '
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
My SO (who calls all the restaurant shots) also liked that lunch menu a lot, and is planning on strolling over for lunch sometime soon (we live in BPC). I'm wondering whether the menu and the Danny Meyer name will be enough to attract diners from outside the area; heck, even from Tribeca? I assume that, like at the now-shuttered Grill Room in the WFC, most of the biz will be weekday, expense account meals from Goldman, Cadwalader, et al. Will the prices be a turn off for neighborhood folks? The soon-to-open adjoining Conrad Hotel should help fill the room, but tourists and business meals don't necessarily add up to destination dining...
It doesn't look like it's going to be an expense-account kind of place, at least not based on the lunch menu. Pricier than average, sure, but not a splurge. We'll see what the dinner menu looks like.
As far as it becoming a destination restaurant, being near WTC helps I suppose as far as bringing tourists in. But like SHO, I suspect they're going to have a hard time getting the locals down there with any regularity. I'll be checking it out - I love Cardoz' food - but being in an area where there simply isn't anything else to do before / after your meal is a major drawback.
re: Cheeryvisage
Great! I have to try this place. Good to have a new place in that area
We had dinner at North End Grill on Monday. I started with the foie gras torchon, and Mr. R. began with the tuna tartare topped with an egg. Both were delicious. For our main, we had the Poulet Rouge for two, which can easily feed four. Fabulous! Crispy skin and meat that was very flavorful and juicy. We ate about half and took the rest home. For dessert, I had one of my favorites, sticky toffee pudding -- a superb version. Mr. R. finished with excellent ice creams. He was extremely pleased with the wine pairings suggested by the wine director.
We couldn't have asked for better service. No surprise, of course, since this is a Danny Meyer restaurant.
It's a huge space but nicely divided. In the front area, there's a capacious bar and a very spacious, open kitchen fronted by a long counter with seating where one can dine while watching the kitchen staff in action. The dining room, around the corner in the rear, has very attractive contemporary decor and comfortable seating.
We will definitely be back!
North End Grill photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11863391...
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
re: RGR
Ooooh, tuna tartare with fried egg! That caught my eye when I was scanning the menu. Glad to know it was excellent. That poulet rouge looked marvelous and huge!
As an egg lover (at all times of the day), I'm happy to see an egg section all by itself on both the lunch and dinner menus. I need to get myself down there to try dinner one of these days.
Thanks for the great photos and the report, as always. :)
re: Cheeryvisage
You're welcome! And thanks for the compliment re: the photos. :) The lighting level in North End's dining room was pretty bright (though not harsh), so even a point and shoot would produce good photos. In any case, I've gotten used to my new camerathe camera and have been pleased with the results in all kinds of lighting situations.
Yes, a whole section devoted to dishes with eggs that are not breakfast foods is an unusual addition to a menu. It's not really my thing, but there are lots of folks like you who will certainly find that appealing.
Next time, we want to try the whole turbot.
re: RGR
Another great photo essay from RGR! Very timely for me since we booked for dinner next week. The turbot does sound very tempting. Tried this at Marea recently and thought it excellent.
I've been pondering the menu for days and for the life of me cannot figure out the derivation of "risoato."
re: erica
Thanks for the compliment, erica! :)
I'm sure whatever you decide to have , it will be delicious!
P.S. Re: "risoato." I didnn't notice it, so I didn't ask. Perhaps, risotto-related?
re: RGR
RGR: Mystery solved! The "Risoato" is a play on risotto as we guessed, but made with OATS instead of rice!
I could not muster up enthusiasm based on the description, but I did have two good meals here this week. I noticed that chicken on the grill and it was calling my name, but could not convince my dining companions to share. ("$52 for chicken??")
Standouts of the one lunch and one dinner here were:
Cod throats (had this twice; lightly dusted with semolina, served with light sauce that incorporates veal stock, these are superb. Anyone know where to buy these retail?)
Calamari salad. Very interesting and unusual version based on strips of lightly grilled calamari with a marvelous smokey tinge from the grill. Two terrific accompanying sauces, one with preserved lemon)
Torchon of Foie Gras with membrillo served on toasted brioche. Simply divine.
Grilled Louisiana Shrimp with fennel/radish salad. Loved these babies, served with their heads (yes, you must suck the heads!) and encased in a spice "paste"...appetizer at dinner and main course on the lunch menu. About 7/8 to a portion if I'm remembering correctly.
Chocolate pecan Layer Cake. Served with a lovely scoop of pecan-chocolate chip cream,crunchy and creamy. (Salted caramel ice cream=adore the flavor but the ice cream could have been more creamy; I like the ABC Kitchen version better=small quibble)
Packed at lunch and dinner with mostly what appeared to be after-work diners; the dining room quiets down by 8pm when (older) folks drifted in. Service excellent.
Bustling bar scene after work. One entire menu of scotches. Interesting wines by the glass including selections from Greece, Hungary, Spain along with the expected countries, and Long Island. And oh, that open kitchen!
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
re: erica
Aha! The "oat" in "risoato." :)
The chicken is not an ordinary variety; it's a specially-raised "Poulet Rouge." So, $26pp is not that expensive for a bird of such high quality. A whole chicken was too much for the two of us to finish, so we got a dinner at home from it, making it more cost-effective.
Happy to hear that the food you had was terrific, though it doesn't surprise me since Floyd Cardoz is a wonderful chef.
Looking forward to another meal there very soon. We will be the older folks drifting in (with a reservation) after 8 p.m. when the dining room quiets down. :)
re: RGR
RGR: I tried to convince my fellow diners by telling them it was a well-regarded breed. At Union Square Greenmarket, Violet Hill sells either these or a very similar breed (they call them Belle Rouge) and they are quite pricey.
And here you do not even have to fuss with cooking and dirtying your kitchen!
When you drift in at 8pm, look for the oldest diners in the room, who will probably be finishing up dinner by the time you arrive. Wave and say hello!
Sgordon: Thanks for that info. I did quiz one of the chefs a bit about the "cod throats," and he indicated more or less what you wrote above. But I have a question: In Spain there is a seafood item that turns up restaurant menus, hake cheeks. It is written "kokotxa" in Basque and cococha in Castillano. Years ago I had this in the excellent San Sebastian restaurant named: "Kokotxa"
Here is a photo, from the website of that same restaurant:
Is the the hake version of what we are calling "throats?"
BTW: These morsels are frozen by NEG's purveyor. Because of the collagen (which imparts the lusciious texture) they freeze very well, as you might imagine.
re: erica
Fish cheeks are actually what they sound like. If you ever roast a whole fish, you'll find a little dollop of flesh hiding in the cheek - they're kind of like the "oysters" on a chicken, precious little jewels, only two to a critter.
Esca has halibut cheeks in their Fritto, and I'm sure I've seen them elsewhere - cod and maybe monkfish - just can't remember where else off the top of my head. Maybe one of Batali's other places, IIRC he's a big fan of the cheek meat.
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re: sgordon
So fish have both throats and cheeks!
Who knew!? Are they both similar in taste/texture?
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re: erica
I don't know about throats and cheeks, but cod and hake are in the same fish family along with haddock. They have all have the same type of texture and taste similar to me. I used to buy hake all the time years ago, but for some reason, rarely see it these days.
re: RGR
When fishing for cod, you catch smaller fish called whiting and ling. Whiting are delicious. Italians make them pickled sometimes and refer to them as merluzzo.
whiting are called silver hake. Ling is truly a garbage fish. when you cut them open to gut them, they stink so bad. i'm not sure if they have scales or not , but they remind me more of catfish than codfish. Although, supposedly they are in the same family as cod. Fried whiting taste great. Also good baked in with tomatoes and onions. Whiting have al lot more flavor than bigger cod fish.This is the season for these fish. December to March.
Thanks for the report...the menu looks great, and while i'm not usually in that area, i have a few friends who work down there, so it might be a fun place to meet them for dinner...
i was a little worried when i saw on the website that the chef is from Tabla, as i despised Tabla, but all the reports and photos seem strong enough that i'm willing to forget about the Tabla connection.
Question: what are their hours?...the website doesn't state them...
re: Cheeryvisage
i don't see the hours listed on Opentable...i see that you can choose a random date and time and see if there is a table (including times like 4am, when i seriously doubt that they open), but no link to actual hours that they *are* open...am i missing something?
re: Cheeryvisage
Thanks!...not sure how i missed it -- i thought i clicked on anything that might show the hours...i was especially curious about weekend dinner hours, as i have a friend who sometimes works through the weekend on Wall St and it sounds like a perfect place to take her for a snack...
re: Simon
The menu Floyd Cardoz has put together at North End Grill is contemporary American with, perhaps, only a very spotty inclusion of any Indian spices. Based on our first experience, the food doesn't bare any resemblance to Tabla's cuisine.
re: RGR
I forgot to mention the excellent French fries which do betray an Indian connection in the masala spicing. Several dishes incorporate preserved lemon, and there are at least two desserts (versions of Eccles cake and sticky toffee pudding) that appear to derive, perhaps in name only, from Britain, so I guess the influences are from all over the map. Bottarga, chorizo, membrillo...it's all good!
re: gracegiamo
Depends how long you take with a "relaxing" dinner.
Also, the subway would more than likely be faster to the TD that time of evening, what with traffic and all. Maybe 15 mins to the 42nd St. stop on the A or 2/3, right nearby. In a cab, you'd be risking hitting traffic, which could double that time.
But to answer the question: 5:00 yes. 5:30 I might feel rushed at the end.
re: sgordon
Good idea about taking the subway. That's what we'll do. I think we'll change our reservation to 5:00 just to give us a little extra time. Thanks!
AWFUL meal here tonight, foodwise...(the service was perfectly lovely and Danny Meyer-ish)...full review to follow...but my dining companion and i both swore we'd never ever eat there again, except for raw oysters...
re: Simon
ok: back at the laptop: here's my review...ugh...
Foodwise, this was simply an awful meal. My friend (who loves everything from street food to ultra high-end places, and has been to most all of the upscale places frequently noted on Chowhound) thought it was easily the worst-cooked meal that she's ever had at an upscale restaurant in NYC. Not sure i'd go quite as far, but i can only think of three or so other upscale meals in NYC that were in the same ballpark of bad.
It started off well enough. We got to our 9:45 reservation and were given a nice comfy table at the corner of the banquet, by the window. We were very hungry and very thirsty and excited to try the place. We ordered a 2006 Meursault Rouge (reasonably priced at 95 dollars) which was delicious. The sommelier Mia was charming. We ordered a whole mess of dishes to share and told our friendly waiter to bring them in whatever order he thought best. Here's what we got:
-- a half dozen oysters...perfectly fine
-- the pumpkin soup w/ crab...decent, not worth 14 bucks..and, for that price, backfin crabmeat would have been nice instead of the dry claw meat that they use.
-- tuna tartar...sub-mediocre...the finely diced tuna was somewhat tough, the seaweed didn't really fit the dish as there was little seasoning of any kind, and the tiny croutons were bland filler...i eat tuna tartar all over town, and this was one of the poorest versions i've had in NY: simply ill-conceived in terms of the combo (tough tuna + croutons + seaweed + no seasoning + a random quail egg = fail)...but at least it was edible: the rest of the meal was far worse.
-- the cod throats were what we both were most excited to try...there were three on the plate: heavily breaded/crusted...i ate one bite: inedibly salty, just foul...my friend ate half of one...i saw her pause, but we were in the middle of a fun conversation unrelated to food...she ate the rest of the cod throat while we were talking, then she looked at me and said: "God, why did i eat the rest of that? It's disgusting. I should have stopped like you did after one bite." Me: "Yeah, it's like a half-salt crust, covering fishy mush. It's vile"...i'm not exaggerating when i say that this was probably the worst single bite of food i've tasted at any restaurant within the past year (and i'm a very easy sell for fried fish: i'll enjoy anything from the lightest finest tempura to cheap frozen fish&chips at a pub).
As fate would have it, the chef Floyd Cardoz was making his rounds of the tables and heard or intuited a little of this from a table nearby. Like everyone at North End Grill, he was incredibly nice: he's an intensely likeable fellow with a wonderful smile. He could tell by our expressions that we hated the dish, so we told him the salt problem. He seemed very surprised and told us that they actually aren't supposed to be salty at all (?! which means his kitchen has real communication problems, as these were literally like eating a teaspoon of salt mixed w/ greasy breadcrumb-covered slime -- clearly no one is watching what's being prepared in this kitchen). We politely complimented him on the soup and oysters. He whisked away the remaining cod throats and offered to make us another batch himself, but the thought of eating another bite of these was nauseating so we declined.
-- brussels sprouts hash: a bowl of shredded sprouts mixed w/ some fish sauce (?) and little else: tasted like a cross between confetti and garbage: we both love brussels sprouts but it was painful to even swallow a single bite of these.
-- the halibut came next: bland and overcooked, and also too salty...it was edible, but by this point, we'd totally lost our appetite...we ate a couple bites, but couldn't continue.
The manager (again, ultra-nice) came over and apologized...he also took the food that was too awful to eat (the halibut, sprouts, and cod throats) off the bill...note: we had not complained about the food: we just hadn't eaten the food, and offered comments only when the waiter asked -- because we were in a jaunty mood that night (and were determined to enjoy our fun evening and our great wine in spite of the terrible cooking)...we told them we loved our wine and oysters and thanked the staff for being so nice: we took a "win some, lose some" attitude toward this dinner.
But we will never eat there again. I'd like to say it was just an off-night for the kitchen, but the ill-conceived dishes and the sheer incompetence in terms of overcooking and oversalting was really a disgrace. And, while we really appreciated their hospitality, cooking this bad does not deserve a second chance. I'm advising everyone i know to avoid North End Grill at all costs.
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
re: Simon
I'm so sorry to hear about your experience there Simon as I was also dining there on Saturday but much earlier- a last minute 6:00 pm reservation where I even saw Floyd in the kitchen. Although I must agree on the Cod Throats being off putting (But not in a salty way) I thought the rest of the meal was quite wonderful.
My Saturday night review:
There were so many things on the menu that looked delicious I had a little trouble ordering. I knew I would want to try a little of everyone's dish so I ordered two appetizers for my meal so I would have room for sampling. My first appetizer was the Raw Fluke with bacon, apples and lime. This was a zesty dish with the bright acidity of lime playing off the salty bacon bits on top. It was a somewhat safe choice whereas my husband went with something completely new to him Cod Throats Meuniere.
The fish definitely had a southern flare to it even with the brown butter sauce on the bottom. I liked the flavor of the fish but I didn't enjoy the texture. The crispy outside and warm somewhat stringy inside just turned me off. For my other appetizer I ordered off the Egg portion of the menu and got the Tuna Tartare with Fried Quail Egg and Crispy Shallots. What's not to love about this dish- tuna and quail egg together are a match made in heaven. Here I absolutely loved the texture of everything and thought the crispy shallots really brought a normal tartare to a new level.
My husband ordered the Norwegian Steelhead Salmon with Maple Roasted Kabocha. I couldn't try the salmon because of my allergy to the fish but I loved the roasted Kabocha. I might even try making this at home. The parents both ordered the Nova Scotia Halibut with Pine Nuts, Green Raisins and Clams. The fish was cooked perfectly but I was very surprised to taste all the spices in the broth. This was definitely Cardoza bringing his Indian flare over from Tabla to here.
That is certainly the case with the Thrice- Fried Spiced Fries. They had a ton of flavor but unfortunately they were no where near as crispy as I would have expected from Thrice- Fried. Check out the Breslin fries- those are thrice fried perfection.
Onto my favorite portion of the night a little macchiato and then desserts! My husband ordered the Butterscotch Pot de Crème with chocolate streusel and single "Maltmellows". I absolutely loved the presentation of the dessert it was so playful. The "maltmellows" were perfect for dipping into the crème and dusting with some delicious chocolaty streusel. It was an awesome dessert but I have to say mine was even better. The Sticky Toffee Pudding. This one was out of this world with an insanely moist cake, perfect sauce and ultra creamy ice cream. This is the kind of dessert you dream of for days to come after. I love Sticky Toffee Pudding. I really enjoyed my meal at North End and my husband and the parents were quite pleased as well. Pictures below:
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
re: roze
We recently tried:
Torchon of Foie Gras with Quince Paste and Grilled Brioche
Coddled Egg with Peekytoe Crab, Bacon and Grits
Grilled Clam Pizza
Raw Fluke with Bacon, Apples and Lime
Sticky Toffee Puding
Everything was quite good, particularly the foie gras and the fluke. The pizza was a bit too salty but the other dishes didn't have that problem. I plan to return soon.
North End Grill
104 North End Ave, New York, NY 10282
re: roze
Thanks for the report, Roze.
Interesting take on the cod throats. I did not find them to be stringy but perhaps each batch is different(???)
Kabocha with maple syrup seems to be a popular combination right now. If you are interested in making this at home you can use part (omit the ricotta..or not) of this recipe from ABC Kitchen, which does a fantastic rendition of squash/ricotta toast:
re: roze
Two stars from the Times; Wells is negative on the cod throats!
re: erica
Thanks for the link!
I don't get the fuss he made over crossing the West Side Highway. There are two pedestrian bridges over the highway at Chambers Street and Albany Street. The Chambers Street bridge is especially a easy 2- minute walk from the 1/2/3 subway station. Way to over-blow the restaurant's "inconvenient" location.
re: Cheeryvisage
Wait 'til you read this one!
re: Cheeryvisage
I think its highly inconvenient. Even when I met my friend at her Wall St office, it was a cold windy unpleasant walk to get there. And worse on the way back, as there were no cabs around for blocks.
re: Bob Martinez
true...but if this is as good as BPC gets foodwise, i hope to never live there :)
re: Cheeryvisage
I don't think Wells meant that crossing the WSH business literally but was using it as a metaphor for his opinion that this neighborhood sucks, and why would anyone want to go down there to eat? -- overlooking, of course, the fact that it's got a large and rapidly growing population that will welcome this restaurant. Still, he liked most of the food, and based on our one dinner there, I think his two-star rating was appropriate.
Platt's review is more evidence of what a total jerk he is!
re: RGR
I think the restaurant will be lovely in the summer actually! It's perfect for a pre or post-dinner stroll along the Hudson River, especially since the river-front Rockefeller Park is only a few steps away.
Beautiful sunset, glittering water, summery breeze, and a lovely meal at North End Grill, sounds like a great date night out!
re: Cheeryvisage
....and on those cod throats....
VV review: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-1...
re: kdminty
Can you elaborate some more?
In my experiences eating the bar menu at North End Grill, I was very unhappy with meals I had there a few times. Tonite I sat at the chef counter and had a delicious Lamb Loin served with baby carrots, turnips and Italian apricot jus. It was cooked to perfection.They grill it on low heat, it took 30 minutes to cook. The wait was quite worth it. I had a fantastic side order , but as an appetizer to occupy me while i waited for the lamb.
The Grilled Teviso with balsamic, bacon and ginger is an amazing dish. I may have licked my plate clean, it was so good. The bitter, sweet , sour and smokiness all meshed together so well. Great dish. The staff seemed to work well together. The service was excellent. I like their equipment, especially that grill they have where they lower and raise it for different heat ranges. Maybe most places have that ,This one I noticed since it was in front of me. The dessert was perfect and simple. Grilled pineapple, cashew butter, and vanilla bean frozen yogurt. A great blend of flavors and textures. Fruity, salty, sweet, sour, nutty. all together was great.The raw bar chef would bend over on occasion and moon me (unintentionally of course) , but it added to an interesting evening. I was not a fan of North End Grill. Now I am a fan. They take great care in their dishes. They check the dish before you get it, to make sure it was prepared the way you want it. If not they cook it again, not waiting for the diner to return it. The pea shoots are growing in front of you and they cut them fresh. Great place.
North End Grill is continuing Chef Cardoz's tradition of serving a Passover meal (something he did at Tabla, although it was a full communal Seder). I'm stating this publicly: his was the best brisket I have ever eaten anywhere. And his matzo ball soup was alllllmost as good as mine! :-) He's also offering an Easter menu. Details:
Monday, March 25 -- Monday, April 1
Throughout this week, we will be offering a multi-course family-style Passover menu for $65 per person featuring Chef Cardoz's innovative take on delicious classics such as Matzoh Ball Soup and Beef Sirloin & Brisket.
Throughout Passover they also have a specialty cocktail-- "Passover Fizz," that's garnished with a matzo-salted rim and lemon twist. Inventive as always!
Sunday, March 31st
Join us for a festive holiday that the whole family will enjoy! Chef Cardoz has created a special 3-course Easter brunch menu with 5 choices per course at $65 per person.


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- How to Turn a Dresser Into a Pet Bed and Nightstand (from DIY Network)
- How to Turn a Wagon into a Rocketship For Halloween (from DIY Network)