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A crabber casts a trap into the clear, lapping waves of Great Kills harbor. Half a bloody, pungent bunker is the bait for the critters.
A little farther out from Staten Island's shores, calm waters suddenly will palpitate, creating a sound that may startle the average angler. The splashing ocean surface occurs because of that same little fish, the bunker — actually, thousands of them jammed underwater in a massive school — are racing to escape vicious bluefish. Meanwhile, striped bass linger on the sidelines, waiting for an easy meal from leftover the bunker chunk.
Bunker, a colloquial name for menhaden and a member of the herring family, is at the root of our vibrant local fishing scene, used by recreational anglers as bait for a variety of line-caught fish. When the bunker leave the region, the more desirable catches follow.
"They're where the food chain starts," says John Janaskie, owner of Michael's Bait and Tackle in Great Kills.
For waters like Great Kills harbor, bunker are a natural cleanser: They filter up to four gallons of water a minute and keep algae spores and plankton under wraps.
For the commercial fisherman, bunker, odiferous and not palatable for humans, catches ultimately become cat food, used in fertilizer and vitamin supplements and as the basis for many other processed goods. Open season on the baitfish started about two weeks ago here. And with bunker harvests happening on such a grand scale there are less bunker to be caught in the area.
Bunker tonnage harvested in the New York area is brought by smaller commercial fishing boats to "mother ships" anchored about 10 to 15 miles off Staten Island.
"The little guy brings it to the bigger guy because they have no storage," notes Jerry Marroccolo, a fisherman from Eltingville.
Those vessels travel from Maryland, Massachussetts, Virginia and North Carolina, according to Janaskie, netting millions of pounds of fish. And the commercial boats offer nothing for the New York area; ships come and go, never docking on shore.
"Now's the dragging season," Janaskie explains.
"Draggers," as they are called, cast thrownets from their boats, starting from about a mile off of Staten Island, past the Shrewsbury Rocks and down to Cape May. While they're looking for bunker, they sweep up extras termed "by-catch" — striped bass, skate, bluefish, assorted sharks, an occasional tuna. The unwanted fish — or the catch that exceeds stringent government limits — gets thrown back, often dead, into the water.
"They'll take pitchforks to toss the fish overboard," said Janaskie, who said you sometimes will find acres of floating carcasses along the Jersey Shore. It's a perfectly legal practice that, unfortunately, is the result of sticking to such regulations.
The irony is that a recreational fisherman has rigid size and number limits on fish, pithy seasons for tasty seafood such as blackfish, stripers, crabs, weakfish and the like. And, standards for catches vary from state to state.
"Different states, same waters, different rules ... ridiculous," said an angler who fished on a grassy knoll in New Brighton along the Kill van Kull.
"The law is possession," he continued. "If I leave Staten Island, go to New Jersey and catch the legal limit there, I can ride back to Staten Island where New York's rules are different. And, now I've broken the law."
Or, he could "fillet and release," which means he could clean the fish on board and chuck the carcass.
"If you're a good fillet-er, you can see how big the fish was," the angler said. But that practice is not legal. Still, it's a shame to waste a good catch, he lamented.
"I'm not a biologist. I'm not an environmentalist. I'm just a retailer," says Janaskie. He says it's tough for the recreational fisherman to gas up a boat and be so restricted in what he can haul back to shore.
"If you have to go 73 miles offshore to only [be allowed] one bluefish, then that means I sell less reels, less line and make less money."
Janaskie isn't opposed to the commercial fishing industry. He just wants to see a little more empathy toward the average Joe who likes to fish, maybe cook up a meal.
"A guy with a rod and reel could never hurt the fishing population," he says, as he typically hooks only one creature at a time.
(Makes 4 servings)
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup whole or low-fat milk
1 teaspoon powdered or granulated garlic
¼ cup chopped chives
2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
Four 7-ounce fillet such as striped bass, weakfish or sea bass
8 ounces homemade or store-bought cornbread, crumbled
¼ cup olive oil
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Combine the eggs, milk, garlic, chives, Cajun seasoning, salt and pepper in a quart-size resealable plastic food storage bag. Seal and massage gently until well incorporated.
Add the fillets, seal and massage to coat evenly. Let sit at room temperature for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, crumble the corn bread into a wide, shallow bowl. Heat the oil in a large cast-iron or ovenproof skillet over medium heat, until the oil shimmers.
Working with one fillet at a time, lay each piece of fish in the crumbled corn bread and pat gently so the crumbs adhere. Turn and repeat on the second side, coating the fish evenly. Repeat with the remaining fillets. Discard the marinade and any remaining corn bread crumbs.
Place the fillets carefully in the hot skillet. Saute for about 3 minutes on each side, then transfer the skillet to the oven. Roast for 10 to 12 minutes or until the fish is cooked through.
Divide among individual plates; serve warm.
— Adapted from "Southern Ground: Recipes, Images, Lifestyle and Lore, Vol. 1," from Zac Brown and Friends (Ruffin Gillican LLC, 2009)
Staten Island fish school 101
The borough's waters are teeming with fish. Here is a brief list of seafood available to the recreational angler who stays within 10 miles of the shoreline. If you cannot fillet a fish, John Janaskie offers complimentary lessons. He can be reached at Michael's Bait and Tackle Shop 187 Mansion Ave., Great Kills; 718-984-9733.
Blue claw crabs
Tiny ones should be tossed back. Find them around jetties, docks and structures they can cling to. Cook with garlic butter or in a seasoned tomato sauce for a crab sauce ladled over bucatini or spaghetti.
Toothy critter that has a strong, fishy flavor. The dark gray meat can be made into patties, hash or fish balls for soup.
A rather stinky fish not palatable to humans. But crabs and bluefish love it: It is an ideal baitfish.
Bony and spiny with a small flake. Oven-roast a whole one with thin-sliced carrots, fresh thyme and a little butter or olive oil.
Looks like a sea robin but has sweet, super white meat and a big flake. The fish is similar to grouper in texture.
No limits on catches. This ray-like fish has a smooth belly but a sandpaper-ish top that can shred open skin making it prone to infection, so it's best to handle skate with gloves.
A baby blue fish. These are less than a year old and haven't developed a dark, oily flesh. To cook, coat in flour with salt and pepper. Pan fry in vegetable oil.
Striped bass
Must be scaled. The edible, silver-and-black-striped skin is rich with Omega-3. A great eating fish, striped bass has a meaty texture and can be filleted or, after gutting, cooked whole.
Weakfish or Sea Trout
A white, sweet-fleshed fish that is best filleted. Once hooked, these creatures sport a beautiful iridescent skin.


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GE talks center on money, ability to compete
It's about money.
For GE Transportation, its plan to eliminate 950 union jobs in Erie is about cutting costs and closing what it says is a 20 percent productivity gap compared to the company's new plant in Fort Worth, Texas.
It's also about what company officials see as an emerging reality -- that GE Transportation's days as the uncontested leader in the freight locomotive business could be in jeopardy.
And it's also about the fact that its chief rival, Caterpillar Inc., is advertising for help at its locomotive plant in Muncie, Ind. -- for workers at $12 an hour and $14 for welders.
Money is also on the minds of about 3,500 members of Local 506 of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, who thought two years ago this week that they had agreed on a four-year contract that would guarantee them rising wages for the next four years, but are now being asked to consider wage concessions for new employees.
And for union members, it's also about reconciling their own value at a GE business that earned more than $1 billion in 2012 and was named General Electric's Business of the Year.
And finally, for the union, it's about wondering what's changed -- why reinvent a company that's been providing both good wages and big profits?
The company, citing the confidential bargaining process, has been hesitant to speak to those issues.
But Barbara Chaffee, president of the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership, has offered some thoughts about what's changed as GE Transportation faces a capable and well-funded competitor in Caterpillar, which now owns locomotive builder Electro-Motive Diesel, or EMD.
GE has won accolades and awards for its fuel-saving Evolution locomotives.
But in recent months, Chaffee said, Caterpillar has won important contracts that GE Transportation had hoped to win.
"Let's say Company A sells a locomotive for X, and Company B sells it for $200,000 less. If you are a railroad company, you are going to buy the one that is less," Chaffee said. "You would be crazy not to."
She acknowledged that the paychecks of GE Transportation workers, who earn an average of more than $30 an hour, have been good for Erie.
But she also argues that the world has changed and so has GE Transportation's place in the marketplace.
"What worked yesterday or before that doesn't work for today, and what works today may not work for tomorrow," she said. "Global competition, technology revolution, and an ever-evolving marketplace means both the company and labor have to be willing to change, be nimble, make adjustments for survival and to thrive."
Like Chaffee, Erie County Executive Barry Grossman said Friday that he's hopeful that union leadership takes the long view and approaches the decision bargaining process, now in its final days, as "a team player."
"I think that is going to go a long way toward pushing the company one way or another. But I don't mean giving away everything (the union has) earned," Grossman said.
Grossman was careful on one point two months ago when he talked to Lorenzo Simonelli, chief executive of GE Transportation.
Grossman said he wasn't going out on a limb to urge the union to negotiate if the outcome of the process was a foregone conclusion. Simonelli, he said, was open to the possibility of substantially reducing the number of jobs that would be lost.
With just a week left in the negotiating process, Grossman said assurances from the company give him reason to be hopeful some good will come of nearly two months spent at the bargaining table.
Neither the union nor the company is saying much about those talks.
In a statement Friday, GE Transportation spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said, "We offered a proposal to the union that helps us remain competitive and saves a significant number of jobs, and we hope they will work productively with us in negotiations to achieve the best outcome for the business, our employees and the community."
And while union President Scott Duke typically refrains from commenting on negotiations, the union's positions have been reaching the public through regular newsletter updates.
A union newsletter released Friday said the company has asked for a two-tier wage structure for new employees and is asking the union to agree to mandatory overtime, job consolidations and restrictions on job movement and bidding.
The union's reaction was not ambiguous.
Friday's newsletter called the proposal, "totally unacceptable."
In the newsletter Scott said that the proposal is "not good for us, and it's not good for the community."
He went on to say, "GE still seems intent on moving most of the 950 jobs."
Grossman offered a ray of hope, however, saying that his sources close to the negotiations said Friday that the tone of the negotiations seemed to be improving.
"I feel better than I did a week or two ago, because my sources are saying that now the company is at least negotiating about jobs," he said. "Before that it was not on the table."
But time is running out.
The bargaining process -- and an opportunity for the union and the company to come to terms -- ends Saturday.
JIM MARTIN can be reached at 870-1668 or by e-mail.


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When you have close to a million sports cards stored at home, getting rid of a few by opening a business sounds like a decent idea.
Although Gary Massey's massive card collection wasn't the sole force driving him to open C&G Gifts and Collectables, the stockpile is one good way to keep merchandise numbers high.
"I have roughly 965,000 sports cards at home,'' Massey said. "I'm constantly going through them, seeing what's in there that I've forgotten about. I came across a (Cal) Ripken rookie (card) the other night. It's kind of like a kid at Christmas; I forget what I had in there.''
C&G Gifts and Collectables, named after Gary and his wife, Cindy - the "brains'' of the operation, Gary said - has been in the Western Plaza Mall for just over a year. Before that, the pair sold their wares at the flea market.
Keeping it unique
One of the best things about C&G Gifts, according to Gary Massey, is that the business strives to offer the most unique sports memorabilia items available - especially when it comes to racing.
"My dad raced when he was alive, so I have to stay with it,'' he said. "My son and son-in-law race out at Route 66 (Motor Speedway).''
Massey strives to keep up with the hot drivers and to find items others may not carry. Right now, the Earnhardt family is the most popular, he said.
"I've got a neat lamp over there that I've never seen anywhere else,'' he said. "I had an actual tire signed by Dale Earnhardt Jr. It was on display maybe an hour before someone bought it.''
Unlike some other race memorabilia shops around the country, Massey said he has not attempted to profit from Dale Earnhardt's death.
"When he died, I didn't go up on the price of his items,'' Massey said. "I'm not going to take advantage of stuff like that. I try to keep my prices reasonable; as low as I can.''
A place to visit
Gary Massey envisions C&G Gifts as an Amarillo version of Floyd's Barbershop from The Andy Griffith Show.
"People come in, and they don't always buy, but they just stop by to see how we're doing,'' Massey said. "We're not so big that we're not going to talk to you. You can come in and visit with us anytime.''
C&G Gifts and Collectables is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. On Saturdays, the store also opens at 10 a.m., but remains open until "no one comes in anymore.''
Massey said the later hours are to accommodate customers who like to stop by following a night of racing at Route 66 Motor Speedway.
"I've been here, had the lights off and ready to go, and ended up staying 40-45 more minutes,'' he said. "And that's fine with me.''
C&G is closed on Sundays.
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Date Night in D.C. 2012
Whether it's your first date or your 10th anniversary, there's always a good reason to wine and dine the object of your affection. Here, we offer up five top restaurants for date night -- and a bonus, if you're lucky.
New Heights
For a first date in a classic (and totally unstuffy) setting, New Heights is your spot. And with more 50 types of gin on offer, you can ease into a fun night with someone new or take the edge off if it's not going so well.
Co Co. Sala
Co Co Sala is romantic to its core -- just the place to go for cocktails and chocolate-infused dining. Consider it your deal closer.
Grand Cru Wine Bar and Bistro
Dubbed a "candy store for grown ups," this is the spot to impress your wine-loving love interest. And with its cozy wine bar/shop/restaurant vibe, Grand Cru is romantic without laying it on too thick.
Palena Fine Dining
A serious special occasion spot, your best bet is to go for "Tonight's Proposed Meal," which means you'll let Chef Frank Ruta and team do their thing (and masterfully at that).
Billy Martin's Tavern LLC
All the single ladies: If you're looking to drop a subtle hint, bring your date to this spot, which is rich with romantic history. Booth number three is where JFK proposed to Jackie.
Cafe Bonaparte
If the date went well, then you should end up here for brunch -- the perfect spot to commemorate the night before over crepes or eggs benedict.


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Prepare cake batter as normally done. Place the batter in a microwave proof 'pyrex' type glass dish. Cover it with cling wrap foil only. Do not cover with the glass lid/aluminium foil. Microwave on 'high' for 8 minutes if it is a 900 watts oven. Allow the cooked cake to cool down within the oven for about five minutes. Serve
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what is a cling wrap foil.
I tried to bake a cake but covered with glass lid. My cake was a rock cake sadly.
by cling wrap foil do you mean the thin transperent foil placed on dishes before serving them or something else.
I shall be gratefull if you could give me enough inputs to bake a nice spongy cake
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hi divya - ur right, cling wrap is the transparent plastic kind of paper that they cover food with, if you dont have cling wrap also its ok, just pour the batter in the dish and cook on full power for about 4 mins, let it cool for a min. and u will have a great sponge cake ready. try this recipe. powder 100 gms sugar and mix well with 100 gms soft ****er till soft and fluffy. mix 1 level tsp baking soda well in 100-125 gms maida. add 1-1 1/2 tsp cocoa powder (depending on how chocolatey u want it) and some walnuts (if you like) - mix well with the ****er sugar mixture. add about 3 tbsp warm milk. mix well and put in a greased glass bowl and cook on high power for 4 mins. it will turn out well. try it and let me know. all the best!!!
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by soft ****er do u mean melted ****er. please tell me even i am looking out for a microwave cake recipe.
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hi bhuvana, soft ****er means ****er kept at room temp. leave it out for a few hours and it gets soft and spreadable. if its frozen hard put it in the microwave for say 10-15 secs. on high and use it.
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how do we get good results with the microwave oven set in convection mode? Are there any adjustments required in the cooking time etc as compared to a regular oven?
I tried making brownies using the convection setting, but was not very satisfied with the results...
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LG microwaves are good.. :) i have used to for baking cake until now, mine's 54Litres big One..without GRILLING option!!! still working gr8 even after 4 yrs.. :) ..
Can anyone please post more recipes of CAKES? :) i really wanna learn it (cuz thought it'd b easier to bake cake here in Microwaves..)
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I have a 28 lit Panasonic micrwave oven - convection type.
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Lauri Bonacorsi and Travis Mager
Lauri Bonacorsi and Travis Mager won the novice dance title at the 2009 U. S. Nationals in their first season together and are now competing in juniors.
"We set goals for the season and reassess as we go along," Mager said. "This year, we would love to go to Junior Worlds. We don't have any explicit long-term goals. We just want to go as far as we can with each other."
"We went into Nationals with no expectations last year," Mager said. "We did great competition-wise but it was really a growing year."
The dancers won the bronze medal at their first ISU Junior Grand Prix in Lake Placid, NY in September 2009 and placed ninth at the ISU JGP in Dresden, Germany, their first competition overseas.
"We had a lot of success last season," Bonacorsi noted, "and we were hoping to get a Junior Grand Prix, so we were very happy to get two. Dresden was our first time overseas and it was a great learning experience for us."
"It's hard to face disappointments, but we learned to just trust ourselves and concentrate on our skating," Mager added. "If you know that you and your partner are trained and let your performances sing, that's all you can ask for."
"We try to give our all in practice," he continued. "But we learned to give something extra when you think you can't give any more. Nothing is too small to not get noticed by the judges."
Mager, 19, began skating at the age of nine. "I did gymnastics until I was six," he recalled. "The gym was next to the skating rink. After I finished gymnastics, I was still tumbling everywhere because I had a lot of excess energy and I needed to find an outlet. Scott Smith's father was the headmaster at my school and every year they had a skating party. I liked it and begged my mom to let me learn to skate."
"I passed my levels really quickly," he said. "I had a private coach within a year and worked with Denise Cahill from intermediate until I had my double Axel. But I had one failing. I liked to share the spotlight."
"There weren't any pairs at my rink, but I had been taking edge classes with Genrikh Sretenski to improve my skating and he matched me with Lauren Ely for dance. We lived across the street and had grown up skating together. But she was involved in school and was a drum major in the band. When she moved away after high school to go to college, I wanted to continue working with Greg Maddalone so I stayed. Greg started coaching me when my former coach moved to California."
Ely and Mager couple were fifth in juvenile dance in 2006, fourth in intermediate in 2007, and ninth in novice in 2008.
"I started looking for a partner on icepartnersearch.com," he continued. "I wanted to find a girl who was willing to move and would have some longevity. Age was a factor since I wanted someone with the same amount of eligibility for Junior Grand Prixs."
"We had a tryout in February 2008 and things sort of fell into place," he noted. "We decided to skate together in April, but Lauri had to finish school in Texas. Then she moved to Maryland in the summer.
Bonacorsi, who is 16, started skating when she was four. "My brother was playing hockey and I was always at the rink," she said. "I skated about two times a week until I was eleven. I also did gymnastics, tennis, swimming, field hockey, basketball, soccer, baseball, and ballet. My parents believed in exposing me to all kinds of sports, and letting my choose my passion, and when I was 11, I decided I wanted to pursue ice dance."
"I've always liked to dance since I was little," she added. "I did a little bit of ice dancing when I was younger. I started out doing freestyle and did that recreationally for several years and competed in some local competitions, but when I started taking ice dance lessons is when I fell in love with the sport. I tested through my gold dances and really enjoyed it."
Greg Maddalone, Robbie Kaine, and Genrikh Sretenski coach the dancers who train in Laurel, MD. "We train from three to four hours a day, then often do an hour of off ice ballet or ballroom or strength and core training," Bonacorsi said.
Genrikh Sretenski choreographed the dancers' programs for the 2009-10 season. His wife, Julia, works with the couple on refining the dance once it has been choreographed.
For the original dance, the couple is doing an Italian folk dance to "Tarantella Medley" by Al Ciaola.
"I found the original dance music," Mager said. "We spent a lot of time thinking about it. We bounced around a lot of ideas — a Mexican hat dance, Jewish folk, Bollywood and Latin. When we decided on the Italian folk dance, we brought in dozens from iTunes. At first I didn't like it, but Genrikh said that it's 2:35 without being cut and we kept going back to it."
"We wanted something different," Bonacorsi said. "We wanted to be as authentic as we could with the music and the costumes and the execution. It was really difficult at first, but now it's fun and more comfortable."
Their free dance is "The River Flows in You" by Yiruma and "I Giorni" by Ludovico Einaudi.
"That's our favorite style," Bonacorsi said. "It's more comfortable for us. Greg's wife, Sarah, found the music for us. Itís from 'Twilight' and I loved it. Travis wasnít so sure about it when he heard it was from the movie. But he loved the music from the start, and eventually saw the movie and really liked it."
Bonacorsi, who used to play the piano, loves to listen to music. "I like fun music I can dance to or sing along with," she said.
"We make each other CDs," Mager noted. "I like jazz, mash ups, and indy. I like ABBA and I listen to Debussy when I'm studying. I'm not a big fan of the top 40 but I listen to my friends' music. I can't workout or run without my iPod."
Both of the dancers are honor students. Bonacorsi is a junior at River Hill High School in Clarksville, Maryland. She plans to apply to colleges nearby to study business or law. Mager is a sophomore at the University of Maryland studying art history. He lives on campus and takes a full load of classes.
"It's my way into the art world without being talented," Mager said. "I love museums and all kinds of art. I'm very visually inclined.
Off ice, she likes to be with her friends and family, make soap, read, dance, write and take photographs.
She also volunteers on Sundays at a thrift shop that raises funds to provide business attire to underprivileged and unemployed women to help them get back into the work force. Mager helps coach Learn to Skate classes when he can.


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Always have a custom hot/cold packs available to help sooth sore muscles. Filled with non-toxic colored gel beads, this hot/cold pack will show of your logo when in use.
Protect your eyes and promote your company logo around the workplace with these over the glass promotional safety glasses.
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Safety programs are a great way to protect your workforce, and safety program promotional products can help you make sure the message of safety doesn't go away once safety training is over.


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According to Kotaku, it is going to suck.
Anybody got news on the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings? I'm pretty excited about it.
According to Kotaku, it is going to suck.
What about it is going to make it suck. Sounds like to be its got Bully/Godfathers punching system which enjoyable. Looks like its going to be a decent action game for the Wii.
My Wifi games (ASK ME FOR MY CODES)
Rock Band 2,Call of Duty W@W,Mario Kart,Nights,Tetris Party,Dr.Mario,WWE Smackdown VS Raw 09,Battalion Wars 2,Mario Strikers,Smash Bros Brawl,Quantum of Solace,Medal of Honor Heroes,Excitebots,The Conduit,and Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Most other previews have seemed quite encouraging, with the game sounding like it will control in a similar way to EA's The Godfather. With the full version of Fate of Atlantis as an unlockable extra this game should offer good value too.
For gameplay details this is all I've heard so far:
Motion controls for punching/whip.
Vehicles - Biplane, tank, elephant, river raft.
Co-op mode.
4 player versus mode (biplane or tank combat).
Prompted quicktime gesture events.
The Fate of Atlantis full unlockable game.
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Wii games - SMG, Zelda TP, Mario Kart, SSBB, Wii Sports, Wii Play, Endless Ocean, Blue World, Wii Fit, Super Monkeyball, Rogue Trooper, Shaun White, NMH, NMH2, GH: WT, Aerosmith, Zack&Wiki, Okami, RE4, Force Unleashed, Clone Wars, Scarface, PES, Tenchu, Trauma Centre NB, Madworld, Rune Factory, Wii Sports Resort, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Muramasa, COD Reflex, Obscure, Silent Hill, Rabbids Go Home, NSMB, Bully, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Red Steel 2, Monster Hunter Tri
Well I hope this game does well. We need a great action/adventure title.


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THE YEAR WAS 1972, AND NEW SEVENTH grader Regina Taylor had just set foot in Muskogee, Oklahoma's Alice Robertson Junior High. As one of the first wave of blacks integrating the previously all-white school, "I was feeling like this idealistic child of Martin Luther King," says Taylor. Then, she recalls, "I sat down, and this little white girl next to me stood up and said, 'I do not want to sit next to this nigger'—it's what she said exactly, and she said it with such utter hatred. I thought, 'How can she hate me when she doesn't know me?' "
Today, gazing out from her sparsely furnished 22nd-floor apartment in Atlanta's fashionable Buckhead section, Taylor still feels the memory's sting. Life, in fact, never lets her forget it. "I go places even today, even in New York, where I know my presence isn't welcome," she says. "Progress has been made, but still there are the silences."
Taylor eloquently puts both the pain and the silences to use each week when she creates the character Lilly in NBC's acclaimed drama I'll Fly Away, which is back on the air after a time-slot shuffle. The series is set in the fictional Southern town of Bryland on the eve of the civil rights movement and filmed in and around Atlanta. Taylor, 30ish, plays a maid in the home of a white prosecutor (Sam Waterston)—whose wife has been confined to a mental institution—and his three children. Taylor sees the outwardly impassive but inwardly questing Lilly as a way to "deconstruct the whole Mammy myth" and shed light on the quieter acts of courage in the civil rights movement. Her personal connection with the character came to light in her victorious final audition for NBC brass in March 1991. Recalls series executive producer John Falsey: "She talked about her mother, who had told her how devastating it was to be a black woman at that time, and she said she felt Lilly was someone she understood."
Though Regina's mother, Nell, was not a domestic, she does provide an apt model for Lilly, who is also the single parent of a daughter. A social worker in the Social Security Administration, Nell bore her only child in Dallas and was transferred to Oklahoma when Regina was in the second grade. (Of her father, Regina says firmly, "This is not an area I am willing to go into.")
Regina's talent appeared early. "I developed an active imagination very young," she says, "and was always writing plays and musicals." Then, as now, Nell Taylor was her inspiration: "She taught me never to set limits on who I could be."
When she enrolled at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Regina, who wanted to be a writer, planned to study journalism, but an acting class rekindled the early fire, and she switched to theater. At SMU she got her first break when she was spotted by a casting agent for a TV movie, Crisis at Central High, about the landmark integration of the famous Little Rock, Ark., school.
New York City, where she moved after graduation (and still calls home), was liberating despite lean living. "I shared a two-room apartment with three other people," she says, "and we tossed to see who would get the bed, which was these stacked milk cartons with foam over it. But I fell in love with the city. I wanted to be the Leontyne Price of classical theater." To pay the bills, Taylor worked as a housekeeper and later helped refurbish houses. After endless auditions and scattered stage work, Hollywood took notice: Taylor showed her range by playing a recovering crack addict in the 1989 feature Lean on Me, then a district attorney in the TV movie Howard Beach: Making the Case for Murder.
Unwilling to discuss her romantic interests, she clings to a tight circle of friends. "She loves to laugh," says longtime confidant David Caldwell, a producer of corporate and civic special events in Manhattan, "but it's a hearty, deep laugh she doesn't give away freely." Taylor's colleagues are frankly admiring. "After you've spent time with her," says Sam Waterston, "you somehow feel improved."
Building on her Fly Away success, Taylor may soon have a play produced off-Broadway and hopes to one day publish the poetry and children's books that she writes. The attention she has been accorded from fans startles her, but, she admits, "I have to say I sort of like it—so far." Don't expect a house in Malibu to follow. "It's hard for me to give up my bohemian status," she says. "Ten years from now, I'll still be exploring."
GAIL WESCOTT in Atlanta
A Matter of Character
updated 03/23/1992 AT 01:00 AM EST
•originally published 03/23/1992 AT 01:00 AM EST


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The Pantry Pest Trap (Safer Brand) 05140
The Pantry Pest Trap (Safer Brand) uses a powerful attractant that has a strong effect on certain moths. It has been used in commercial pest control applications to trap a variety of pantry moths. These include many different species of pantry moths; Indian Meal Moths, Seed moths, Raisin moths, Almond moths and Tobacco moths. All these pantry moths are small and narrow (3/8" to 1/2" ). They vary in color from a coppery brown to a mottled gray. These pantry pests are found world wide around dried goods and foods, including, wheat, cornmeal, dried fruits, seeds, crackers, biscuits, nuts, powdered milk, dried pet food, bird seed, chocolate, red peppers, tobacco, and cocoa beans.
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Place the trap near the problem area, generally where dried foodstuffs are stored. Possible locations include the basement, pantry, kitchen or garage. Choose a location where the trap will get the most air circulation, but where it will not be damaged by swinging doors or traffic.
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I compared these with Revenge and Pheronet brands. Pheronet is said to last 2 months and these are said to last 3 months. They did not catch as many moths but they did last longer. If they fill w/ moths quickly or get dusty I have removed the bait and put it in an empty glue trap. The Pheronets have no bait (its imbedded in the glue) so they are easier to load but cannot be reused once they fill. Pheronets worked well too. Revenge did NOT work well in my comparison.
- These are some of the best pheromone traps on the market.
These traps are very effective at reducing the number of male grain moths. Never use more than two per household at a time though. I had a customer who put no less than fifty of these traps out and infested her house with every horny male moth in five blocks. I usually check each week and mark the number down with a marker on the front. That way you know when there is no longer a problem.
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To the Editor;
Amid all the apparent rush to build a downtown stadium, and spend many millions of state (more accurately called "our") dollars, I may have missed the conversation, but I have yet to hear voices asking one single question: "Why not put a retractable roof on the Dome?"
If SU is bent on more academic space, spread to downtown Syracuse where substantial SU presence is already located on West Fayette.
The mayor is correct in seeking answers to her questions. Surely, our city's water department recognizes the magnitude of the state of our infrastructure that is 100 years old. Those pipes may be less glamorous, but certainly essential to the upkeep of our city.
One more thing: Some years ago when focus groups named walking/biking trails a very high priority on the wish list, it is great news in the Jan. 30 Post-Standard to read that there is $3 million to complete the Lake Loop trail around Onondaga Lake. Our YMCA Folksmarchers will plan to do that 10 miler when it's completed.
Thank you.
Walt Price
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Redis Lua Security Update
Last week a security update to Redis was released due to a sandbox breakout vulnerability which could give an attacker the ability to execute code on the host running Redis. The following day we performed an emergency maintenance to bring all RTG instances up the latest Redis (2.8.21 for those running 2.x and 3.0.2 for those running 3.0.x) to ensure RedisToGo users were not vulnerable. Read on to understand more of the vulnerability, what your risk of exposure was, and why we took the actions we did.
First, the vulnerability. The details are described in a blog post by Ben Murphy. Essentially, if properly crafted an attacker could execute system commands or custom C code on the host. Like all vulnerabilities it has preconditions. The first, and most important of which, is the attacker already has to have the ability to run commands on your Redis instance – more specifically they must have your password.
This dramatically limits the risk for your RTG instances because we require your instances have a password. As such we don't have any reason to believe any instances were exploited, and indeed we have no evidence of them having been exploited either.


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Top Flite Sierra Build or Finish
I bought an unfinished kit over Christmas. It's a Top Flight Sierra. I will post some pictures in a little while. But first I have a question. The guy that was building this was not a flyer or a builder so I am going over it to make sure it is all tight. Look at the picture below and tell me how big of a desl that the web does not touch the wing rib. Both wings are just like this and while I am looking at it, if I need to fix it I want to fix it,
So check the plans out, I'd bet the web is right where it calls for... but definatey check the joints out.. if they're loose, a shot of CA should shore them up fine. Good luck with your build.
Thanks. I just know from looking at the rest of the build that the guy did not know what he was doing. I am not knocking him because I know he was doing the best he could. He made check marks on the instructions as he did things.
Thanks again for the info.... I will take a look at the plans and see if shows them. But I think you are right about them not touching the ribs.
I agree with DGrant, they dont need to touch the ribs to be effective. I have built several that didnt touch myself. If it bother you though, you could fill the gaps from behind, touching the rib & back of the web, with small strips, but i dont think its necessary.....Gene
I only ever patch shear webbing when there is a significant portion missing. I've never been a stickler over cutting shear webs to perfect length, and I've never had a mechanical failure due to my lack of precision in that matter.
Short answer: no biggie.
I have only built one other plane and I know the webs touched the ribs. I can see the added stability if they do, but I think I am going to go with the "no biggie" idea. I can see that he put the ribs in the slots on the leading edge and there are large gaps in the webs, but it seems pretty strong.
The tail had been covered, but it looked like a patchwork quilt. The control surfaces had also been covered and they also looked bad. I stripped the tail down as you can see from the pic below.
I worked on the wings last night. The sheeting was sitting on top of everything. He missed the part where it needed to all be flush so it could be covered. I cut it loose and dropped it in flush.
Its a good thing he stopped covering when he did. Not the first piece of this thing had been sanded. The tabs were sticking out and the wood had rough spots in it. The wings were the same way, stuff sticking out everywhere. If he had covered it, it would have looked like he covered a handful of dice!
The firewall was not seated all the way and it looked like it was glued in with CA. I backed it up with triangle pieces and filled the gaps with epoxy. It was only touching the sides where the tabs stuck out. I think that should hold it.
Should be a nice little plane when I get it done.
The way ribs are cut with grain going front to back, there is no I-beam strength in that space. The question you have to ask is how much strength is enough strength. Making sure that the webs cover a majority of the span between ribs is only going to take a little bit of strength out of the structure versus making sure they span exactly between the ribs.
In truth, the shear webs shouldn't be attached to the front or back of the spar, they should be placed in between the spars and perfectly cut to fit in that space, they should also be continuous across the span of the wing and front and back ribs should be employed instead of the notched ribs we all know... there's a lot you can do to make planes stronger.
Here is a pic of the tail section as I was removing the old covering. I hope to start on recovering the plane today while I am off.
Gene it's kinda what I do. Most of the models that I have were salvaged to some extent. My everyday flyer is a Hanger 9 Solo Sport that I got from a friend and rebuilt. See the picture below of the blue plane.
I got some more work done on the Sierra today. I covered all of the control surfaces and part of the tail. The control surfaces took forever. I may redo the rudder. I did it first and it took me a little while to remember what to do. It's been a while since I have done any covering.
I guess you remind me of when i was a kid. I couldnt afford any models on my own, so i used to repair planes others were getting rid of or didnt want to repair. It tought me how to build & repair & appreciate them once they were finished. Great job! Keep it up....Gene
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The easement is located on two properties, one on Linden Lane, the other on Pine Street. The easement is for walkers and connects Horseshoe Drive/Linden Lane and Pine Street, permitting people from that area to access Cougar Field in one direction and the High School in the other direction.
About 55 members of the public attended the meeting, most of them because of the proposed ordinance, when the hearing ended at 10:35, most of the crowd left. The hearing went on for about two hours, with some speakers vehemently opposing the ordinance and others passionately supporting it.
Members took the advice of their former Township Attorney Carl Woodward, who said, "My suggestion is to consider the comments" made by residents on both sides of the issue "and carry it for two weeks."
Woodward said he had been heavily involved in a two week trial and had not been able to do the necessary research on the legal issues involved in vacating a public easement of this sort. He added, "Actually, this is a fascinating legal case."
Check back tomorrow for a more detailed report and photos from the meeting.
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The Bankster : A Book Review
by Radhika Kuldeep
I was quite excited to read the new book 'The Bankster' by Ravi Subramanian as I had not read any fiction for a long time. The fact that it is a crime novel based in India made it even more appealing. I havent read any other books by the author before.
The Book:
The Bankster is about a CIA Agent conducting an arms deal in Israel, Africa etc. in exchange of blood diamonds, the Greater Boston Global Bank [GB2], and the locals in Kerala protesting against the Nuclear Power Plant. There is money laundering, bank staff being murdered in and out of India for being inquisitive and no one knows who is behind all of this. It is all solved by an ex employee who is currently training to be a crime investigator with one of the country's top most newspaper.
The Review:
The story and the initial chapters move quite slowly. The story shuttle between the three places of Mumbai, Kerala and Vienna and initially is rather confusing. But the pace quickens once you are through with one third of the book. The story has quite a few characters in it, some of which have appeared in the author's previous book but I didn't realize that till much later. Most of the main characters are well fleshed out. He has narrated the complexities of an international bank quite effortlessly and the politics that go hand in hand. While the main plot of the story appears to be money laundering, we later realize that it is just a front for something far more sinister. There are quite a few sub-plots woven into the story, for eg: the nuclear plant in Kerala, the ivory smuggling case, the affairs between senior staff of the bank, some of which seem unnecessary. But the story all comes together when the ex employee is sitting with his team piecing together clues [in a boardroom, in total filmy style]. While we understand how it is all connected, some parts seem a tad bit stretched . For Eg: an iPhone connects automatically to the cloud via wifi and uploads images [in Vienna] that were simultaneously downloaded on the iPad [in Mumbai] which is solid evidence against the murderer. This seems possible but slightly stretched. But overall, it is an enjoyable experience. The dramatic reveal of the Bankster, is almost out of a hollywood film and provides a gripping climax to the narrative.
One of my biggest grouse was about the language. The author has used Hinglish throughout the book. I quite understand that it is probably to appeal to the masses that speak similarly everyday. But as someone who has grown-up reading the classics of Tom Sawyer and Oliver Twist, it is a put-off. Also the way we read is never the way we speak and vice-versa.
Having said that, I would recommend this book to all those who like fiction and murder mysteries and want to read something by an Indian Author in that genre.
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Finding the There There
For the Phoenix area, a plan to bring out the best in a postindustrial
By Allen Freeman
We know Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale as an endless ooze of strip
malls, subdivisions, and gated communities. But if you look a little
deeper and keep an open mind about cultural landscapes, you'll find
interesting pockets in these 645 square miles of Sonoran Desert.
Consider, for instance, the traces of irrigation canals built by
the Hohokam, who arrived here in the first century a.d. and mysteriously
disappeared in the fifteenth. And consider the roughly 130 miles
of contemporary concrete-lined canals that divert water from the
Colorado River in northern Arizona for irrigation, drinking, and
generating the electricity that, along with affordable automobiles
and cheap gas, has fed the Salt River Valley's building boom over
the past 50 years. Canals are the backbone on which the valley has
supported human habitation for nearly two centuries. To adapt what
Gertrude Stein said about her native city of Oakland, California,
the Phoenix area canals are the there there.
If a small, 11-year-old, Phoenix-based nonprofit, the Papago Salado,
has its way, an 11-mile trail will form a loop along the paths of
four twentieth-century canals through portions of Phoenix, Tempe,
and Scottsdale. Although it's a modest concept for a relatively
small, defined area within the broad swath of Phoenix sprawl, the
loop will address shortcomings of America's archetypal urban landscape
developed in the postindustrial era and give Phoenix and vicinity
a more positive identity and more places for people to walk (see
"Creating a 'There' There," April 2002). The area encompassed by
the loop includes public parks, notably the large Papago Park with
towering rock formations, and public golf courses, greenbelts, and
lagoons. The large loop and smaller loops within link historic and
prehistoric cultural landmarks, including the Pueblo Grande Museum,
located on 1,500-year-old Hohokam village ruins. The system of trails
will traverse suburban districts and industrial sections and put
electric power infrastructure on view.
Last spring, the Papago Salado AssociationPapago
is the name sixteenth-century Spanish explorers gave natives in
the region, and salado is Spanish for saltyheld
an ambitious competition to select a design team to master plan
the trail. Largely underwritten by the National Endowment for the
Arts, the competition awarded a total of $85,000 in prizes. From
46 initial responses to a nationwide call for submissions, four
teams were selected and awarded funds to develop detailed proposals.
In the end, the competition jurors selected a submission called "Portals + Loops," produced by a team whose leaders are a pair of Phoenix-based architects, Christopher Alt and Dan Hoffman, assisted by Maine-based landscape architect Michael Boucher, ASLA. The other finalist teams were Singer/el dorado, led by sculptor and landscape artist Michael Singer and David Dowell of el dorado inc; Olin Partnership/Rick Joy Architects led by Susan K. Weiler, ASLA; and StoSS landscape urbanism/Office dA/James Carpenter, led by Chris Reed, ASLA. The Papago Salado Association retains rights to the content in all four finalists' submissions.
Ron McCoy, the competition's adviser and the director of Arizona State University's Architecture School, says that Portals + Loops most impressed the jury because its design combined "a subtle beauty with a realistic implementation strategy." An implementation plan is especially important because the trail requires financial commitments from three municipalities and a quasi-public utility, the Salt River Project, which manages the canals for the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the U.S. Interior Department. Portals + Loops, McCoy says, was precise and intelligent, compelling and feasible. Ultimately, the jury was convinced that this team demonstrated "the greatest knowledge of the trail," he says.
"The fact that the canals are here is in itself quite remarkable," says Hoffman. "Forget about adding any particular amenities; just being able to ride a bicycle or walk unimpeded around this loop would be a major achievement. Early on, the Papago Salado Association envisioned a trail, and a trail can lead anywhere. The competition brief showed the canals, but also other passageways and potential passages. The brief didn't say the trail should be a loop. We said, call it a loop and make it a loop."
"You could never get lost if you identify the loop and know how to get on it," Alt adds. The loop will follow the Arizona Canal on the north side, the Grand Canal on the south, the Old Cross Cut Canal on the west, and the New Cross Cut Canal on the east, all twentieth-century constructions. Access roads, usually 20 feet or more in width, flank the canals, frequently in pairs. They enable workers to dredge and clean the waterways. The loop will follow along the service roads, "but there are many breaks in the trail" because the service roads are to be its route, says Alt. "Our greatest challenge was to connect the broken links." A segment of the Old Cross Cut Canal, for instance, is a 20-foot-deep open culvert with perpendicular sides. Where a service road is fenced off along a segment of a mile or so, the team proposes suspending the trail between the parallel walls of the canal near ground level, in effect capping the open culvert.
"The first canals [built by nonnatives] were unlined, open ditches, and very large trees grew up along them," Alt explains. "The canals were shaded and pleasant to walk along. Then the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided that the trees were robbing the canals of water, so they cut down the trees, lined the canals with concrete, and created the Salt River Project to manage the system. For a time the public was barred from access, probably in part because people were doing things like water skiing along the canals behind trucks. But in the past 20 years the Salt River Project has allowed people back, and the public has taken an interest in making the canals a public amenity."
Unlike unused railroad beds that communities around the country have made into trails, the canals are working utilities. "Our goal was never to make something that is absolutely pretty, to pretend that this is a park," Alt says. "We're not pushing the cities to bury the power lines along the Grand Canal, for instance. They'll remain aboveground for many generations."
"For us, it always came down to the canals themselves," says Hoffman. "If we could get people onto the canals, they are interesting enough to make the place."
The portals in Portals + Loops are six trail entrances, or trailheads, positioned at the four trail intersections, or corners of the loop, and along the east and west segments. Each portal will be prominently marked on the desert landscape by a cooling tower, whose primary function will be to provide places for pedestrians to cool down from the desert heat. Each will be wrapped in a distinctive perforated screen inspired by one of six varieties of cactus. The jurors predicted that the towers "could easily become landmarks within the region," McCoy reported at the conclusion of the competition.
Inside the cactus skins will stand open vertical cylinders; at the top of each, a ring of pipe will mist the air. As the moisture evaporates, the air at the top cools, creating convective currents at the base. On a 110-degree day, not uncommon in Phoenix, the temperature can be 85 degrees under one of these columns, Alt says. Evaporative cooling towers were featured at Expo '92 in Seville, Spain, and have attracted interest in the Middle East. But they haven't been used extensively in Phoenix, he continues, "although the climate here is pretty good for them, except for about a month in the summer during the monsoons when the air is already very moist" and therefore adding humidity for the sake of cooling is pointless.
New plantings around the cooling towers will extend the modified microclimates out a bit into the immediate surroundings where there will be interpretive exhibits. The exhibits and signs and the benches, light poles, and drinking fountains will come from a kit of standardized parts that will help unify the trail's appearance and give it identity.
During the year since winning the competition, Portals + Loops team members have received praise for their sensitivity to the climate, culture, and economic realities, but they've also met resistance to some particulars of their design. Part of the idea of suspending a trail over the Old Cross Cut Canal was to put grates in the surface of the trail to let out air to cool pedestrians and bikers. "Simple, we thought," says Alt. But the team has run into obstacles created by the Salt River Project's regulations and other bureaucratic constraints.
Making things happen is the job of Debbie Abele, the executive director of the Papago Salado Association, who works to balance a project suspended among three municipalities that don't always see eye to eye and an agency of the federal government represented by the Salt River Project. "Our cities [Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale] are known for their squabbles," she says, "and the Salt River Project acts as a public agency when it wants to be and as a private one when it wants to be."
"Twenty years, eleven miles, three cities, one vision" is the Papago Trail catchphrase. "We're going to be working on the trail longer than we hoped because of the economy," she says. "The cities are cutting staff. But when things turn around, we'll be ready to go."
Portals + Loops landscape architect Michael Boucher is the team member Hoffman and Alt credit with helping to keep the proposal simple and on target. "Whenever we became too exuberant with our proposals, Michael would say to hold back, to make minimal impact with the work," Hoffman says.
Speaking from Freeport, Maine, where he practices, Boucher explains why he thinks the jurors selected Portals + Loops, based on a jury interview with the team at the end of its presentation. "One of the goals of the National Endowment for the Arts was to persuade people who entered the competition to move outside the normal boundaries of practice," he says. "Our proposal was not a typical beautification project. We focused on the fact that there is beauty in utility. A lot of this trail, in fact, already exists. The purpose of the design, in my mind, is to make people aware of the existence of the trails, not to create a parks-and-rec 'landscaped' condition."
The jurors also liked the team's direct response to the competition program and the fact that the approach is economical to implement. Asked if he brings a New Englander's sense of economy to design in the desert, Boucher says he learned about designing for the desert beginning in about 1994 when he started working with some of the best modern architects in the country, including Will Bruder of Phoenix and Tucson-based Rick Joy.
"My ethic about the desert comes from an entirely different viewpoint than 'landscaping,'" he says. "What will be important about Portals + Loops when it is implemented is that people become aware of what the canals mean to the region. They make this place habitable. This water is essential here."
Project Credits
Portals + Loops: Team leaders: Christopher Alt and Dan Hoffman.
Assistants: Christiana Moss, Jonah Busick, and Ryu Igekai.
Landscape architect: Michael Boucher, ASLA.
Graphic artists: BJ Krivanek, Joel Breaux, and Andrew Weed.
Environmental artist: Laurie Lundquist.
Historian/interpretive planner: Nancy Dallett.
Systems specialist: Harvey Bryan.
Consulting engineers: Entellus, Inc.
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Former All Black Pita Alatini could easily have fled his adopted home town in northern Japan after it was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami and returned to his native New Zealand.
Instead, the captain of the Kamaishi Seawaves rugby club stayed on to help rebuild the port town he has called home for the past six years after the March 11 earthquake, the worst ever recorded in Japan.
"I love this town and I've got a lot of good Japanese friends," said Alatini, a former All Black midfielder and one of three foreign players to have stayed on in Kamaishi.
"We can rebuild the town, we can put Kamaishi back together," he added as he helped local volunteers unload food and clothing for survivors of the 9.0-magnitude quake at a local shelter.
"We just ask them (survivors) to hold strong."
Nearly 700 Kamaishi residents have been confirmed dead after the huge wave slammed into the steel-making town, toppling tsunami protection walls, with a further 650 unaccounted for.
But its 34-strong rugby squad, among them three foreign players, were all unhurt, and have been putting their considerable physical strength into helping with the relief effort.
The foreigners, who also include an Australian and a Tongan, have stood side by side with locals, enduring power outages, food shortages and the risk of aftershocks and radiation from a stricken nuclear plant to stick by the community.
"We owe Kamaishi a lot," Australian rugby forward Scott Fardy told AFP. "Hopefully, our presence here will help Kamaishi and cheer people up. We hope we can benefit the community in some way."
The Seawaves team was once among the best-performing in Japan, earning Kamaishi the nickname "rugby town", although it has slipped down the league in recent years.
Relief organiser Wataru Yahata said rugby was "the symbol of Kamaishi," and expressed hope that the players' efforts would give local people encouragement as Japan faces up to its worst disaster since World War 2.
Rugby has a small but growing following in Japan and in 2019 the country will become the first outside the sport's traditional strongholds in Europe, South Africa and Oceania to host the World Cup.
Alatini, one of a growing number of foreign players in Japan, has now left Kamaishi to join his family, who returned to New Zealand shortly after the quake.
The rugby season does not restart until September, but he plans to return next month for a meeting with fellow team members to discuss the future of the club.
For fellow Seawaves player, Tongan Lataniela Lui, leaving was unthinkable. "This is our home," he said. "We owe Kamaishi. We can't just get up and walk away."


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Feather flower effects add beauty, flash, mystery and color to any show. While they can be effectively use anywhere in a show, they are most often included in the opening or closing segments a show. The flowers should be well made and not look like cheap feather dusters. The color of the blooms should not clash with the other colors used in the show.
Variegated (multi-colored) blooms add the maximum amount of color to a show. However, if the show has a central color scheme, you may want to coordinate the color of the blooms accordingly. Red blooms add a richness of color to a show. Yellow blooms appear larger than they really are. Avoid using all blue or white blooms on an effect. Blue blooms are not very visible and tend to fade into the green foliage. White blooms will show soil with age.
While I have used both regular and rose flowers in my shows, I prefer not to mix them in a particular segment of the show. Likewise, I do not like to mix Al DeLage's Fastest Trick in the World (a vanish) with production effects. An exception would be reappearing of the vanished bush with the Deluxe Candle to Bouquet or other production effect. A number of floral productions, concluding with a botania, provide a most effective ending to a show. Standing at attention, with a forty-two bloom Marshall Mighty Botania thrust into the air will bring "OH's" and "AH's" from the audience. It presents them with a final image of the performer that they will long remember.
For many years, when anyone asked "What kind of feathers do Marshall's use?", they were told they came from swans. This bold-faced lie threw many a competitor off the track. The truth is that swans are protected by federal law under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as well as many state laws. Harming a swan (even accidentally), plucking or possessing their feathers is a violation of the Act and carries a penalty of up to $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for organizations and up to six months in prison. What Marshall's really uses are grade A parried nazurias (goose) feathers. They are the most expensive feathers available, but the best feather flowers are made with them.
Parrying (shaving) the quill of the feathers makes them less brittle and very flexible. This helps to prevent the feathers from breaking. While parried nazurias are the most attractive and suitable, they are also the most expensive. They will, with proper care, outlive their purchaser. Marshall's uses nothing but parried nazurias, except for a few special orders, which use pallets. I recently sold a botania in fine condition to Mike McDade. Prior to my obtaining this effect, it was owned by three magicians. The second two had purchased it from the estate of the former owner. All of the former owners, with one exception, are now deceased. But the botania goes on entertaining audiences year after year.
Other, less expensive, feathers are used to produce feather flowers, including turkey, hackle (chicken), and pallet (goose) feathers. Turkey and hackle feathers are relatively inexpensive when compared to goose feathers, but they produce a poor quality bloom, that does not last and leave "fuzzies" wherever they appear. Pallets "troop" well, are very sturdy, and tend to be larger than nazurias (thus produce larger blooms). However, they are much less flexible than the nazurias. They may prove satisfactory for some performers. For example, Marshall's remade Harry Blackstone's Girl to Botania (Girl from Tangiers) with pallets.
Feather flower blooms come in several varieties. The most popular is the large "magician's bloom", but carnation and rose blooms are also available. My personal preference is roses, because they look more like the real flowers than the other two types of blooms. They can be mixed with real roses to allow for handouts of the real flowers to ladies in the audience.
Since feather flower effects can be quite expensive, it is important that proper care be given to their use and storage. When using these effects, pay strict attention to following the manufacturer's instructions. If you wish to rearrange the position of a bloom, do not grab the top of the flower and bend without holding the stem at the bottom of the bloom. This will prevent the stem from breaking loose from its attachment to the body of the bouquet.
It's not a good idea to place your hands on the blooms any more than is absolutely necessary. Oil, sweat and dirt from your hands can be deposited on the blooms. When you do handle the blooms, never run the blooms through your hand in any direction other than from the stem to tip of the bloom (the direction in which they compress). If they are run in the opposite direction, the feathers will split and separate. If a feather should split, pull the split between your moisten fingers from quill to tip. This may restore the feather.
While it is acceptable to store the blooms in a sleeve or their tubes to transport them to a show, upon arrival, the feather flowers should be the first items unpacked and stored in an open fashion. Never pack the blooms where they can be crushed by the weight of other equipment.
The blooms should be stored open, with the blooms uppermost. Keep the open by storing them in a vase or quart size "mason" fruit jar. Make sure the item you are storing the effect in is heavy enough to prevent tipping over. I like to place a few marbles in the bottom of the container to prevent it from tipping over (stones would do). Never store them in a cloth or plastic sleeve, or a tube (i.e., botania cones) or in a closed position. Storing them closed compresses the feathers and trains them to stay closed. When you try to use them, they will look like feather dusters.
If your blooms begin to droop, hang them upside down until they look right. Two methods have been successfully used to open stubborn blooms. Some manufacturers and performers advocate the use of steam to open blooms. I do not favor this method. The wires that make the stems, as well as other metal parts, will rust. However, it does open blooms and also helps to clean them. To open blooms with steam, use a teakettle with a small spout. When the kettle begins to steam, hold the center of the flower in the path of the steam and shake it. A clothes steamer can also be used to accomplish the same thing.
I recommend the use of heat to open stubborn blooms. It will open the blooms nicely and put that "curl" back in each petal. However, heat must be applied carefully to avoid permanent damage due to scorching or burning. Use a 300-watt spot light bulb . Do not use and infrared or heat lamps, because the temperatures produced by them is too high and may permanently damage your feathers. Cover the bulb with the type of guard used with incubator lamps. You can usually purchase this item from a chick hatchery or a farm supply house. The guard prevents the feathers from coming in direct contact with the lamp. If you do not have a guard, be careful to avoid any direct contact with the bulb. Watch for a small whiff of smoke. In a pinch, you can use an ordinary light bulb. Generally, the first time this happens, it is the dust "burning off" of the feather. Do not be overly concerned, but check to make sure the feathers are not being damaged. Apply heat to the feathers in intervals, rather than continuously. Soon you will see the feathers "curl" and the blooms will open.
The greatest enemies of feather flowers are sunlight, dust and moth larvae. Avoid direct sunlight, as it will fade the vivid colors of your blooms. Dust will make the blooms look dingy and dirty. To avoid these problems, cover the blooms with a sheet of opaque plastic cover made from a large plastic garbage bag cut in two (single thickness). Watch for moth larvae, as they will eat small holes in feathers (and your silks). A few mothballs scattered about the storage area will help avoid this damage.
Nothing short of redying the feathers can restore faded colors. However, dirty blooms may be cleaned and restored. I am aware of three methods used to clean feather flowers. The first and preferred method uses cornmeal. Cornmeal provides a mild abrasive that will remove dirt that has not become imbedded in the feather. It also adds oil to the feathers and helps to rejuvenate them. Place about a cup of cornmeal in a plastic bag, which is large enough to hold your effect.
Carefully place the effect in the bag, with the blooms pointing toward the bottom of the bag. With your hand, close the opening of the bag about the bottom of the effect. Shake the bag vigorously for a minute or two. Remove the effect from the bag and blow the cornmeal out with a hairdryer or vacuum cleaner with the tube in the exhaust (blower) outlet. Alternately, you can "bang" the center of the bush against the heal of your hand. Be careful not to damage the blooms. Repeat this action if necessary. Be sure to get all of the cornmeal out of the effect before trying either of the following methods. If the blooms cannot be restored in this manner, you may wish to try one of the two following methods. Be warned, these methods may cause some damage to the blooms and you may wish to avoid them.
The second method uses dry cleaning fluid (or Renuzit). A word of caution — dry cleaning fluid is toxic and highly flammable — it should not be used in-doors. Dip each bloom into a pail of the cleaning solution and shake them. When you are finished, stand store the blooms open in their container. Disadvantages of using dry cleaning fluid are that it (1) removes the natural oils from the feathers, (2) makes the feathers brittle and (3) loosens the floral tape used on the blooms, making it a gummy mess. You will probably have to replace all of the floral tape on the effect. To replace the oils in the feathers, use the cornmeal method cited earlier. Replacing the oils in the feathers will make them less brittle. Finally open the blooms if necessary after all of the cleaning fluid fumes have evaporated.
The final and most drastic method uses soap and water. Since it can damage your bloom by causing the dyes to bleed, this method should be used after everything else has failed. Swirl each bloom about in pail of cold soapy water and hang them on a line to drip dry. While wet the blooms look horrible, once they have dried, they should look fine.
Buy well-made feather flowers from a reputable manufacturer who warranties their workmanship, take care for them and they will give you many years of service.
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wikiHow to Make White Hot Chocolate
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White hot chocolate is a delicious variant of the usual hot chocolate. While some people may argue that white chocolate isn't "real chocolate", for a lot of people, it's about the taste - and it's a taste that they really enjoy! This wonderful taste transfers well to a hot drink. Try it on a cold and wintry day to build some cheer.
This will serve one. Double it for a shared treat.
- 1 cup (240 ml) milk, warmed (dairy or other kind of preferred milk)
- 40g (scant of 1/4 cup) white chocolate - chips, chopped, or round discs (try to buy good quality white chocolate, as this will be less waxy and over-sugared––European or European inspired brands are often best, but Chipits work as well)
Method 1
Making it on the Stovetop
1Put the chocolate into a small saucepan over low to medium heat.
2Heat the chocolate gently until it becomes warm and only just starts melting. Don't let it melt in the pan. Remove from the heat as it starts to melt.
3Pour the warm chocolate into a mug or glass. Add warm milk.
4Stir until the chocolate melts in. Serve immediately. Some ideas of what to serve the hot white chocolate with include:
- marshmallows
- whipped cream
- cookies
Method 2
Making it in the Microwave
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- It's a good idea to serve with the stirring teaspoon in case there is any delicious chocolate to retrieve from the bottom at the end of the drink.
- Sprinkle garnishes over the top if wished. Such things as colored sugar, dark chocolate flakes and ground cinnamon or nutmeg are good choices.
- If you're not sure about the quality of the white chocolate, ask the retailer if it is of connoisseur quality. If the retailer doesn't know, they don't know chocolate! High quality white chocolate uses cocoa butter as its main ingredient, not hydrogenated vegetable oils.
- The taste quality of this drink can vary considerably depending on the quality of the chocolate. Be sure to use a white chocolate that you enjoy eating.
Things You'll Need
- Small saucepan
- Stirring implement such as a teaspoon
- Serving mug or heat-resistant glass
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I worked today. Very easy day as a Drama teacher:)
One student asked me if I was really the supply teacher and I said I was only [I]acting[/I] like it :p
I worked on my packing list tonight...
Surfer Son went by himself to the travel health clinic. He got his Yellow Fever shot and some Malaria pills. (We paid) Evidently he's going to be quite a distance from the "bad" areas. He decided to get 27 pills (for an approximate 14 day stay) The Dr. told him he could get more down there.
I'm working again tomorrow, so I think I'm going to [B][I]try[/I][/B] to go to bed before [B]11[/B] tonight!!!!
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Best keyboard i have ever used.
Stunning to looks.
Where do i start. I received my shiny new keybord on the 10th and couldnt wait to open it and hook it up but was very :( to find out the the 6 key was burnt out. I thought to myself well maybe i can live with that but then tragedy. as i looked down the P key led started to flicker and die then the Y key did the same. I said "no this just cant be" then 30sec later the O key did the same thing. Now i remember the big red STOP! paper in the box. So i call corsair Tech Support to RMA and he tells me they can advance rma me a new 1 and i can just send this back when i get it. So now i call the sevice dep to setup the advanced part of it and they tell me "sorry we are out of stock" and guess what so is newegg so now it must be returned for a refund..
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I can just hope that corsair can sort out the issue with the bad leds because after reading some of the other reviews i am not the only one that has had this problem and until they do i wont be buying another
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We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience. Rest assured, we will have more K90 keyboards in March. If you haven't already returned it, we'd like to ask you to be patient and hold onto the K90 until we have more available.
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DIY: Butterfly & Bunny Breakfast Toast with Raisins, Peanut Butter, and Granola
Like most kids, mine love creative meals. It's amazing how a smiley face pancake, or toast can get them to eat their breakfast up in its entirety. Most days I don't have too much time to be creative, but I found a very quick way to make my kids a healthy ... Click here to read more.


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Louisville police are investigating a rash of burglaries while families are attending funerals for their loved ones.
"Whoever this crew is that's working this right now, they're actually reading the obits and they're realizing that when you lose a loved one everybody goes to pay respects," said Lt. Rob Davis with the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Three burglaries happened in east Louisville over the past couple of weeks.
Police said thieves checked the obituaries and then broke into the homes, stealing jewelry and firearms.
"It's horrible, because if you think about it these people are already in despair. They lost a long-time loved one. They're trying to deal with all the issues surrounding funerals, burial," said Davis.
No arrests have been made.
"If you're going to be away and it's posted and known in a public venue that you're going to be away at a funeral for your family, you might consider having someone stay at your house," said Davis.


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Cafe Accordion Orchestra have been playing shows throughout the Midwest for nearly 22 years, regaling audiences with music that transports listeners to another place and time. As the Cafe Accordion Orchestra prepare to release their tenth album, they stopped in to the Radio Heartland studio to play a variety of tunes and to talk about the new record.
On the cusp of his 70th birthday, the revered singer-songwriter sets down his pen to explore country classics with some stellar duet partners. Stream 'For Better, Or Worse,' in its entirety before it releases on Sept. 30.
Dean Magraw is master guitarist, and he is headlining the first concert in the Red House Live at the Landmark Center concert series, on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m., with special guests Butch Thompson on piano and clarinet and vocalist Prudence Johnson. Before the show, Dean stopped at Radio Heartland to play a few tunes and to chat with Mike Pengra.
Chris Cunningham, formerly of the duo Storyhill, is out with a new solo album called 'If You Knew All Along'. He's on the road promoting that release with touring partner Wes Kirkpatrick, a Nashville songwriter with Colorado roots. Cunningham and Kirkpatrick are trading off songs at duo gigs around Minnesota this weekend, and they took the time to bring their touring show into the Radio Heartland studio.


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I love to try my hand at new baking ideas! I have created all types of 'roll recipes' for dinner but never a dessert. I choose this recipe from Dorothy at Crazy for Crust for my Werther's Original® Caramel Baking Bash because it looked absolutely delicious and I thought it would be fun to 'master' a more difficult recipe like this in a group full of great cooks!
Although the ladies thought I was crazy when they first saw the recipe we were about to try, everyone was pleasantly surprise by how easy it actually turned out to be! In the end, we were pretty impressed with the results; especially once we tasted the final result! It was delicious and the chocolate frosting on top was absolutely awesome!
Our biggest lesson with 'too many cooks in the kitchen' was that we actually forgot to roll the cake immediately after laying it on the towel. We were so relieved it came off the pan that we must have celebrated a little too long. The result was, that the cake began to slightly crack when we rolled it the final time. Lesson learned… don't celebrate until after you roll the cake within the towel! 😉
A Chocolate Turtle Cake Roll is a delicious, impressive dessert that is perfect for those chocolate and caramel lovers in your life!
- 3 eggs
- 1 3/4 cups Devil's Food Cake Mix (Betty Crocker SuperMoist)
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 30 Werther's Original® Baking Caramels, unwrapped
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1. Combine caramels and heavy whipping cream into to a large, microwave safe bowl. Heat about 2 minutes (up to 2 1/2) on HIGH, stirring every 30 seconds, until the caramels dissolve into the cream. Stir until smooth. Place in refrigerator until completely cooled, about 2-3 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a jelly roll (15x10x1-inch) pan with foil and spray with non-stick baking spray. Then sprinkle flour over; tap over the sink or a trash can to release any extra flour.
3. Beat eggs in a large bowl on high speed for about 5 minutes, or until they are thick and lemon colored. Add cake mix, water, and oil. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds and then medium speed for 1 minute, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Pour into pan.
4. Bake 11-14 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Do not over bake. Remove from oven and run a knife around the edges of the pan if the foil did not cover the whole thing to make sure the cake does not stick.
5. Lay a clean kitchen towel on a flat surface. Sprinkle with the powdered sugar. Turn the cake upside down on the towel and remove the foil. Immediately roll the hot cake in the towel. Set aside to cool.
6. Meanwhile, make the frosting: microwave the heavy whipping cream uncovered on HIGH for 1 minute, until it just starts to boil. Stir in the chocolate chips and corn syrup. Let stand 3 minutes and then beat with a wire whisk until smooth. Beat in vanilla. Refrigerate about 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes, until it is spreading consistency.
7. Once cake is cooled, remove caramel from refrigerator. Using a hand held mixer, whip the caramel until it is spreadable, like frosting, about 3 minutes.
8. Unroll the cake carefully. Spread the caramel evenly over the cake. Re-roll the cake. It should roll easily.
9. Place the cake on a cookie sheet to catch any drips. Frost the cake with the chocolate frosting. Top with chopped pecans. (Have a few cracks in your cake? No worries, the chocolate icing and pecans will help cover those blemishes!) Finally, cut off the ends of the cake and place on a cake plate to present your beautiful cake roll!
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Cedarcrest High School freshman orientation set for Thursday, Aug. 22
Cedarcrest High School has set freshman orientation for all incoming 9th grade students for Thursday, Aug. 22.
The orientation program will start at 9:30 a.m. in the theater.
Students will pick up locator cards that have their schedules for the school year on them, and then go to the orientation which will introduce them to their principal, assistant principal and athletic director welcoming them to Cedarcrest and explaining the sports and school activities available to all students. Louis Bremond will provide the kickoff presentation.
Cedarcrest High School is initiating the "Ignite" program for the upcoming 2002-2003 school year.
This is a peer mentoring program for all incoming 9th grade students. Selected Cedarcrest students have had extended training this past spring and summer to be mentors.
Incoming 9th graders will meet their mentors at freshman orientation and will tour the building in small groups with them to see where their classrooms will be when school begins on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
The building will be open on the day of freshman orientation from 8-9:30 a.m. and again from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. for parents to help students pay for student fees (pictures, ASB card, annuals, etc.).
Parents who plan to pay by check are advised to bring two checks (a separate check is required for picture plans). Questions about freshman orientation can be directed to the counseling office at Cedarcrest at (425) 844-4807.


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Erie Bureau of Fire assistant chief to retire
Erie Bureau of Fire Assistant Chief Ray Welch didn't grow up dreaming of fighting fires.
For more than 10 years, he was a heavy-equipment operator for what was then Erie's water department.
He decided to take the civil service test after getting to know two other men, both firefighters.
"I thought I'd try it," Welch said. "I got on and fell in love with it."
Nearly 33 years after joining the bureau, Welch will retire from the job he still loves. His final day of work will be Feb. 26, one day before he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65.
Veteran firefighter Joe Walko, former president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 293, will succeed Welch.
Welch said he will miss the camaraderie of his fellow firefighters and a job that allowed him to serve the community.
"It's a rewarding feeling, that you're helping," he said. "I never really felt like it was a job."
Walko said he's looking forward to the challenge. He called Erie firefighters "one of the greatest assets this city has."
"I'm going to do my best for the citizens of this town and the firefighters of this department," Walko said. "We're going to continue what we do best -- save lives and fight fires."
Walko, 57, will earn a salary of $81,440, up from a current salary of $68,492, said Connie Cook, the city's director of human resources.
Chief Tony Pol said he will hire a firefighter to replace Walko once Welch's retirement takes effect.
Pol praised Welch's dedication to the job.
"We want to wish him a long, healthy retirement for the great job he did for the citizens," he said.
ERICA ERWIN can be reached at 870-1846 or by e-mail. Follow her at twitter.com/ETNerwin.


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UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP. — The Board of Trustees of Meals on Wheels of Salem County invites anyone who has volunteered in any aspect for the program to attend the 32nd Annual Volunteer Luncheon, "Good Memories, Great Work," on Wednesday, April 21, 12:30 p.m. at the Elmer Grange here. Former volunteers are welcome.
Coinciding with National Volunteer Week (April 18 to 24), which recognizes the importance of volunteers, the luncheon program will include guest speaker Peggy Ingraham, Senior Vice President for Public Policy, Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA).
During her nearly 20 year tenure at MOWAA, Ingraham has been responsible for the strategic design and implementation of MOWAA's public policy and legislative agendas, which are directed toward the goal articulated in the Association's tag line "so no senior goes hungry."
She serves as MOWAA's liaison to Congress, the Administration, and other organizations in the aging network. Before joining the nonprofit world, Ingraham served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
She also previously worked as a senior staff member and speechwriter in the United States Senate, and has served as a consultant.
The luncheon also will include musical entertainment and door prizes. Please call (856) 935-3663 for reservations. Anyone who has volunteered for Meals on Wheels is invited to attend.
Meals on Wheels continuously seeks volunteers to support the program. Volunteers deliver meals, help in the office, work at The Giant Pumpkin Carve, and assist with holiday gift drive and other events during the year.