1-2016 Village Voice Newsletter

The Village Voice • January 2016 1

Founded in 1991 Vol. XXV, No. 1 | January 2016

The Village Voice is a publication of the OHCC Journalism Club

Keep Healthy in Anticipated Cold Weather

As residents sit smugly in front of their TVs watching the rest of the coun-try suffer floods, ice storms, snow flur-ries and tornadoes, little do they real-ize that when the predicted jet stream comes over OHCC, we too may en-counter foul weather.

Several residents from the east have contributed some advice about the pre-EDITORIAL, cont’d. on Page 3

EDITORIAL

During the past month, we have been completely inundated with Christmas cards, Hanukkah cards, Kwanzaa cards and other wishes that usually bear similar wishes: “PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MAN.”

What nice wishes! While we can hardly shake the world and plead for peace, we can certainly act on “Good Will Toward Man.” Just how can we extend ourselves and spread good will?” you may ask. And the answer is simple: just get out there and do some good.

So many of our residents have already spread good will by help-ing others. It’s called volunteer-ing. We are living in an active re-tirement community and the key word is “active.” Most of us have the time to do some volunteering even if means only a few hours a week.

Some volunteer at Tri-City Medical Center manning the re-ception desk, gift shop and an-swering telephone calls while others escort patients to various departments. There are over 450 active volunteers ranging in age from 15 to 90 who share their time and expertise at the Medical Cen-ter and off Campus locations. Call (760) 940-3125 to learn more about joining their volunteer program.

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cautions we should take to remain healthy and well.

First and foremost, keep warm. When going out into the cold, wear a knitted cap or a warm hat to keep your head protected. Your head requires 40% of your total body heat to keep your body functioning. Dress in lay-

Steam rising off swimming pool during 40° weather.

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Another dedicated group of resident volunteers re-ports to work in the Thrift Shop at Camp Pendleton. Some haul donations to the shop and others display clothing and housewares and toys onto shelves. The amount of donations can often be daunting so they never have enough people to sort and fold clothing, shoes, baby clothes. Volunteers are also needed for clerical work at the office as well as consult-ing positions. Applications are available at the front desk of the Clubhouse in the Village Vet folder.

Volunteers are the heart and soul of Brother Benno’s. Without them, Brother Benno’s would cease to exist. Volun-teer involvement can be simple or extensive. Here are some of the areas where help is critical: Drivers and helpers to pick up food from local grocery stores. Help children read and selecting books to take home to keep. Warehouse: sort-ing donated clothes, toys and hygiene items. Thrift shop: sort, stock and sell merchandise. Help with decorating pre-pare or serve on special holidays. Brother Benno’s is locat-ed at 3260 Production Ave., Oceanside, CA 92058. Call (760) 439-1244 for more information.

Each week about two dozen volunteers from OHCC head out to the Assistance League of North Coast thrift shop. There they assist in the merchandising of operating the shop, gathering donations and displaying them in their showroom.

From the proceeds, the League provides for the needs primarily of children. Their goal is to provide a starting point for academic success. Volunteers spark interests in reading classes. Once a year, they give boys from a local or-phanage $100 to spend at a JCPennys Store. They also take disadvantaged children to Payless Shoe Company where each child can select a pair of sports shoes and socks. The Thrift Shop is located at 1830 Oceanside Blvd., Oceanside, 92054. For additional information call (760) 722-2286. They welcome new volunteers. n

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Volunteers serving dinners at Brother Benno’s.

Frost settles across lawns by Leisure Village Way.

ers in wind-resistant clothing. “Long Johns” thermal under-wear is very effective in the outdoors. Cover your ears, and wear gloves or mittens that cover the full wrist. To protect your face and neck, wear a scarf or a hooded jacket. Some outdoor and sporting stores also stock flannel jeans and pad-ded jackets as well as heavy thermal socks. If your clothes get wet, go inside quickly and remove your clothing as soon as possible.

Be sure your rooms are warm. Beware of portable heat-ing devices that do not meet all safety standards. Toxic


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The Village Voicefumes, such as carbon monoxide from old or faulty heaters, can cause unconsciousness or death from lack of oxygen. Re-member carbon monoxide detectors are readily available at our local hardware stores. It is necessary for older adults to take extra home heating precautions as they tend to have slower metabolisms and therefore make and retain less heat than other adults.

Also, be careful of the wind in cold times outdoors. It creates what is referred to as the wind-chill factor. This can cause rapid body-heat loss. Residents should limit their time outdoors. If you need to do heavy outdoor chores, dress warmly and work slowly. You can develop health problems from working in cold environments for any great lengths of time.

A condition called hypothermia is a life-threatening sit-uation that is caused by short exposure to extreme cold or long exposure to mild cold. Symptoms of hypothermia in-clude trembling, stiffness of muscles, puffiness in the face, poor coordination, confusion and low consciousness and re-activity. If you suspect hypothermia, seek emergency medi-cal care immediately.

To remain healthy and safe this winter, follow the sug-gestions from people who have experienced these extreme weather conditions. And most of all, use common sense. n

OHCC TV Channel ChangesStation

There is an in-house channel change (again). What was channel 12.1 is now channel 97.1.

Also the OHCC in-house channel can be seen on 1960 in-stead of 865. No further changes are anticipated (for now). n

Online Lectures to be Available at OHCCBy Jim Mulvey

Osher is coming to Ocean Hills Country Club. Osher, a program for retired and semi-retired adults, features an ex-tensive library of lectures on the subjects of medicine, sci-ence, art and literature, current events, international rela-tions, law, and politics.

The Master Board recently approved a partnership with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC-San Diego, which allows our Recreation Department to present videos of UC-SD lectures at the clubhouse. Chris Bessey will soon be scheduling and showing the online lectures for interested groups, clubs, and individuals. The list of videos from which to choose will be located at the front desk. In addition, those of us who would prefer viewing the online lectures at home may purchase the $25.00 Affiliate Membership at the Com-munity Service Committee table on Do Dues Day, allowing us the opportunity to be smart in private.

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New Community Patrol Director

Reina Enrique has assumed the reins as director of Communi-ty Patrol beginning the new year. She had been briefed by outgo-ing director Len Weinstein for the past four months. Before coming to OHCC, Reina was assigned by United Protection Service in vari-ous venues, but primarily at United Parcel.

Reina lives in Rancho Bernardo and commutes to OHCC. Her hours are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. during weekdays. Born in Murrieta, she has lived in the San Diego area most of her career. She finds our community very friendly and coopera-tive and looks forward to a happy relationship with our res-idents. n

Christmas Tree inAbravanel Hall

(We apologize for having omitted the article about the fine work by members of the Garden Club decorating the Christmas tree in Abravanel Hall.)

Each year, like clockwork, volunteers from the Garden Club decorated not only the tree in the lobby, but performed a magnificent job on another tree in Abravanel Hall. It took them four hours of work sorting through the decorations, and selecting the colors and lights.

With the past experiences of decorating trees in Abra-

vanel, the volunteers have found that a flocked tree did not work well. Several years ago, they used a flocked tree on the stage only to discover much to everyone’s amazement air-conditioning blew off the flocking and dusted the perform-ers, their costumes and the stage curtains. It was also re-ported that some of the Styrofoam flocking settled onto the dining tables and into the drinks during parties. Howev-er, most of the New Years eve party goers thought the Styro-foam flocking that floated into their champagne was the re-sult of the bubbly drink. As the rousing night continued, no one even bothered to notice. n

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How to Lock Your Car and Why

I locked my car using the remote fob. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and used the fob to lock my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!!

Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situ-ation .

I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars.

Two weeks later, my friend had a similar happening.While traveling, my friend stopped at a roadside rest

area to use the bathroom.When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later,

someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone,

laptop computer, GPS navigator, and briefcase. He called the police and since there were no signs of his

car being broken into, the police told him he had been a vic-tim of the latest robbery tactic. There is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your remote fob locking de-vice.

They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They see you go inside of the store, restaurant, or restroom so they have a few minutes to steal and run. What You Should do

The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car — that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next vic-tim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exit-ing, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the remote door lock on your key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.

This is very real. Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look how many times we all



lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remem-bered to lock them — and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever was in our car. n

Is The Word ‘Senior’ Politically Correct?By Jim Mulvey

The “senior” moniker is being ditched by many so-called “Senior Centers” across the country. According to Sally Gal-lagher, executive director of 125 Line, “It’s very clear when you talk to people in the baby boom group that they don’t like that name and don’t want anything to do with it.” Are boomers becoming politically correct curmudgeons? Are they a generation of babies, not boomers? Well, I suppose it’s a matter of senior semantics.

Much preferring the terms “active adults” and “older adults” to such creaky language as “the elderly and golden agers,” boomers unequivocally reject the uncomplimentary, but colorful, euphemisms of “old coots,” “old duffers,” “old fogeys,” “old codgers,” not to mention “the creaky,” “the ge-riatric,” “the infirm,” and “the senescent.”

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Ways to Deal With Robocalls and Unsolicited CallsBy Nelson Agudelo

Since moving to OHCC about two and a half years ago, we have been plagued by a daily barrage of unsolicited phone calls from trying to sell us everything from water fil-ters to free travel, to telling us how the callers (with Indian or Pakistani accents) were from Microsoft and needed to get access to our computer to fix a serious problem (Microsoft does not call customers of their own volition). This was hap-pening at all hours and the situation was just out of hand. To make matters worse, we have two landlines, so the prob-lem was multiplied by two. We even had a $12 charge on one of our phone bills created by an inmate at a Los Angeles jail who called us and somehow managed to gain access to our phone line and used it to make outside phone calls. The situation was simply unbearable and we felt helpless as we could not get these calls to stop, no matter how often we re-quested the callers to take us off the list.

Mind you, we had duly registered our phones with the National Do Not Call Registry. That only seems to work with large serious entities. Political calls and charity requests are exempt. Still, it is worth putting your number in. This can only done via the internet at: www.donotcall.gov/

In the September issue of Consumer Reports we came across a review of several gadgets that, when used with phones that have the “caller I.D.” operational, can be used to permanently block unwanted phone calls. With a certain degree of skepticism, and unhappy about having to spend money to solve a problem we did not create, we ordered one of these. The particular machine we ordered had the ability


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to block calls on two separate phone lines and was relative-ly easy to install and operate. We installed this gadget near-est our most used phone. Soon we were pressing the large red “block now” button each time we received a call that was not acceptable to us. Not only do the callers get discon-nected, they cannot call our phone numbers again. That is, unless they change the originating phone number. The ma-chine’s counter, indicating the number of callers blocked, continues to increase. The number of unwanted phone calls has decreased from several calls per day to a call or two ev-ery other day, if at all. Again, the key for the success of this gadget is the operational caller I.D. (often an extra monthly charge on your phone bill).

Now, while this is not an ultimate solution or a panacea that eliminates unwanted phone calls, it goes a long way to-ward reducing the number of these calls that come through. The device does not interfere with your phone, or with your answering machine and, of course, most require you to physically press the “block button” (can also be done by di-aling a number from your phone’s handset if the device is not nearby). You can find several of these machines via a simple search on Google.com. Search under “call blocking devices for telephones.”

While we are not endorsing any one machine, or even the use of such a machine, we encourage you to consider

taking the drastic step to install a call blocker for your peace and quiet and your safety. And let’s not forget the onslaught of political advertising and related donations request that is about to hit us, all related to the up-coming elections. n

Water Situation in Californiafuture of water storage: In the Central Valley, farmers

and water officials are debating the best way to store water. One long-standing proposal is to build a reservoir in the set-tlement of Sites, near the town of Maxwell. “When the Sac-ramento River is running high in the winter, flows would be diverted into two existing irrigation canals and a new, 13.5-mile pipeline system extending to the Antelope Valley.”

Storm preparations: In Huntington Beach, officials are building a 5-by-20-foot sand berm to protect oceanfront properties from the coming El Niño. The Public Works De-partment is replacing flood-control station engines and in-stalling emergency generators at 15 sites. Rains associated with El Niño could come as soon as mid-January.

Let it snow: The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada has reached a new milestone: It’s higher than the average for this time of year. California’s mountains haven’t seen this much snow in two years. “We’ve got snowstorms on top of other snowstorms, which has helped accumulate snow-pack,” said Eric Kurth, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

California’s Central Valley is sinking. The drought has caused farmers and water agencies to rely on groundwater supplies. Pumping that water has caused the land to sink. “It’s shocking how a huge area is affected, but how little you can tell. The NASA report also states that the land near Corcoran, in the Tulare basin, sand 13 inches in an eighth-monthp period, and researchers found that a stretch near the California Aqueduct — one of the main arteries of the State Water Project — sank eight inches in a four-month stretch last year. In the last half of 2014, a spot near Arbuckle in Yolo County sank five inches.

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them every day. Phyllis Horn called me with news and gos-sip. She told me the canasta gang will especially want me to return. After all, many of them had knee jobs: Carol Fried-man, Joan Gross and Carol Agudelo. We intend to form a chorus line, “Dancing Girls with Scars.” Joan is my inspira-tion; she’s already back to playing pickleball.

As most of you know, our Louise Reis, assistant to the Clubhouse manager, has retired and Angie Ripsco is tak-ing her place. The hardest part of her job is ROOM ASSIGN-MENTS!!! If you pass Angie’s office, you hear residents’ la-ments such as “But last year, I was in the Music Room,” or “My girlfriend got the sewing room, why didn’t I?” There is an occasional “Thank you.” But come on guys, we have to cut her some slack. Just think, in eleven months, it will be another new year.

I hope everyone had a happy holiday. I hope this year brings everyone good health at OHCC and peace all over the world. I enjoy writing to you every month; it’s fun. And you know, I like fun-ny. n

Village HappeningsBy Selma Leighton

Well, the holidays are over. Chanakuh, Christmas, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa and New Years are gone for another year. Relatives, thank heavens, have gone home and, unfortunately, that beautiful Christmas tree that the Garden Club decorated, will be no more. Festive dinners and luncheons are over and it’s probably time for some of us to go on a diet.

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The Movie SceneBy Joan Buchholz

TrumboDalton Trumbo was a prolific screen writer for four de-

cades, beginning in the 1930s, who faces a Hollywood un-der siege from the House Un-American Activities Com-mittee. The Committee was weeding out people who had communist doings. Witnesses were summoned, Trumbo among them—who refused to testify. He among others were deemed “unfriendly” and were cited for contempt of Con-gress, fined, sentenced and jailed. J. Edgar Hoover and Jo-seph McCarthy along with Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) are depicted as bullies providing the viewing audience that such a witch hunt could never happen again.

The film reaches a highlight when Trumbo is confront-ed by Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg), who names names in order to maintain his status as popular actor. Trumbo rebuffs Robinson and confronts John Wayne (Da-vid James Elliott) who, as a patriotic actor, spent WWII on a movie set.

After 11 months in jail, Trumbo finds himself abandoned, unable to find a job. He needs to relinquish his ranch and embrace humility since he and other accused were banned

from working in Hollywood. But writers must practice their crafts. He is forced to write for Frank King’s (John Good-man) B-movies. Later, Trumbo manages to win two Oscars for screenplays signed under false names, Roman Holiday and The Brave One.

The movie ends happily when Trumbo is asked by Kirk Douglas (Dean O’Gorman) to rewrite the script of Spartacus that effectively ended the blacklist.

The movie was stirring, reminding me of the very recent blacklisting of gays in movies. Times have changed, for the better. I think this is the best movie I’ve seen this year and I hand it four smiles out of four.

Creed

It was almost 40 years ago when Rocky Balboa hit the screens and the action star anti-hero Sylvester Stallone was pull-ing in audiences through sev-en of his films. Few people loved Stallone more than Stallone. And if you don’t believe me, just look at the bronze statue of him portraying Balboa on the steps of a government building in Philly. Guess who paid for it?

But don’t be discouraged by this new Rocky movie. Stallone is no longer a boxer or the star. But the star belongs to a newcomer named Michael B. Jordan. He plays Adon-is Johnson, a kid with money but has lost his way in juvenile halls because of his fighting. Then comes Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad) who rescues him because he happens to be the son of her late husband and his mistress.

But as the story progresses, Adonis locates Rocky whom he wants to be his trainer. He becomes a legitimate box-er and his late father’s nemesis helps him. The story is not complicated and the audience is captured heart and soul. At the end of the film, you will find yourself cheering for the hero. This time the hero isn’t Rocky. I loved the movie for its humanity and I hand it 3 ½ smiles (out of four). n

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The Crusty CurmudgeonBy Bob Wong

This year, instead of having our grandchildren visit us here in Oceans-ide to celebrate Christmas, we decid-ed (actually my wife decided) that we should take the arduous trip to Las Ve-gas to celebrate the holiday at their home. No, they don’t live on the Strip or even Downtown. They live in North Las Vegas, land of sand and sagebrush, freezing weather and bone chilling winds.

However, all these elements didn’t seem to faze them; but their pet animals suffered. The pet casualty lists one guinea pig, one rabbit, a couple of lizards, one overweight bulldog, and a couple other creatures long forgotten. Their backyard resembled Emerald Hills Cemetery. But the survi-vors kept them happy: one domesticated brown rabbit and one white wild rabbit and a horned lizard.

But Christmas was a special day…not like a birthday when only one person gets a gift. It is a free for all and ev-eryone hits the jackpot. The anticipation to open gifts was unbearable, but each was allowed to open one gift on Christ-mas Eve.

I can’t recall what exactly was revealed under the wrap-pings and ribbon, But soon, more and more packages were opened and the craze grew more thunderous with each mo-

ment. What transpired destroyed the theory that Santa Claus entered the home via the chimney and left children gifts in their hanging stockings. I recalled in my childhood, I fully trusted Santa who would fulfill my wants. As I grew older, I discovered there was no Santa. After I married and had chil-dren, I suddenly realized I was Santa.

I found out that we’re living in an electronic era, that even toys were sophisticated beyond my imagination. What were simple board games are now electrified. Batteries ran everything. Dolls talked, radio-controlled cars had sensors that determined their speed and direction, dart games that kept score. I was afraid to join them in a game of checkers. Making a wrong move could possibly electrocute me.

But when the excitement subsided, and the floor was cleared of wrappings, they discovered one large empty box, that when converted, could make a cool tent, especially when covered with a few towels and sheets. It was the best toy of the day. They clamored in and were completely hid-den from the real world. They could enjoy all the cookies and candy canes they could eat and mother couldn’t know about it. That box was the grand prize.

Next year when I visit them, I’ll bring them a present they’ll not forget: a huge empty FedEx packing case. It’ll save me lots of money. n


Guess Who?Can you guess who this

sassy looking, “All American Sweetheart” is?

The answer is revealed in the Potpourri Section, on page 38.

Just StuffBy Phyllis McNeese

About EstesHave you noticed that chunky red-haired boy seen in the

Office Depot commercial? This boy reminded me of Estes, who was one of my 8-year-old boys in my first year of third-grade class. He was chunky and red haired, sort of unre-markable academically and behaviorally — just an average kid with a somewhat introverted personality. I remember nothing of his activities in the classroom, but do have a vivid memory of one incident starring Estes on a field trip.

On that visit to the Museum of Natural History at Expo-sition Park in Los Angeles, the children eagerly anticipat-ed seeing the dinosaur bones (what else?). Upon arrival at the museum, each chaperone took charge of six or seven stu-dents and since the ride took an hour, I thought it best that each group should use the facilities, then gather at a central location.

After 10 minutes, we assembled, accounting for our charges. Suddenly Estes, marched up to me, looked me straight in the eye and demanded, “How come they got dirty pictures in this place?” It so happened that the rest rooms were located on the second floor where classical oil paintings including a nude were hung. I tried my best to ex-

Tell Them Again(An unknown romanticist once set these words to music for

the men of OHCC.)

There’s a doctor living in Yorktownand a lawyer and an Indian too,

but neither doctor, lawyer or Indian chiefcould love you any more than I do.

There’s a barrel of fish in the oceanand a lotta little birds in the blue,

but neither fish nor fowlsaid the wise old owl

could love you any more than I do.

So let’s all the men of our village sing loud and lovelyon Valentine’s Day these words to the Queen

of our dreams. Since love conquers everything,and indeed it surely does, let’s sing it to the rafters

to the beautiful and wonderful one we love.

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plain the “this place” considered these pictures, including the nudes, were art, not dirty pictures. Estes did not look convinced.

To this day, Estes probably doesn’t remember the inci-dent, but I recall those two or three minutes out of one day out of many years of teaching.

Strange, what we do remember. n

A Compendium of Useless Information

Snakes AliveOn Dec. 13, 2015, a yellow-bellied sea snake landed

ashore at Huntington Beach. It was the third such snake to migrate northward from the tropical waters due to El Niño.

Del TacoMidway to Las Vegas in Barstow on I-15 at Lenwood

Dr. is a cluster of fast-food restaurants. The most popular of these is Del Taco. Their massive parking lot is jam packed and people usually line up 10 deep to place their order. So what is so outstanding about this Del Taco, you may ask?

It’s the size of the taco that attracts customers from all around. The generous amount of meat in the taco includes a slice of tomato, chopped lettuce and a scoop of cheddar cheese. Ed Hackbarth is the founder of Del Taco and has been operating the company for over 60 years. He contin-ues to clean off trays and takes time to gab with customers. Opened in 1954, he has managed to serve these extra large tacos to an average of 1100 customers a day and twice that many on holidays. The price is $1.60 per taco and the menu

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6 garlic cloves2/3 bottle of dry red wine (enjoy a glass while cooking!)1 28 oz. can of diced tomatoes with juice2 14-1/2-oz. cans of beef broth (or use the easy boxes)5 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme2 teaspoons grated lemon peelSalt and pepper to taste

Trim off as much excess fat as possible from the shanks. Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat and working in batches, add shanks to the pot and cook until brown on all sides, about 8 minutes. Transfer shanks to a bowl.

Add onions, carrots and garlic to the same pot and sau-té for about 10 minutes. Return the meat to the pot, and add all the rest of the ingredients. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer until meat is tender, about 2-1/2 hours. Check your seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste.

Allow to get cold, then refrigerate or freeze in smaller batches as needed.

Serve lamb shanks over rice or polenta.

also includes burritos, taquitos and other Mexican delights. Travelers find it worthwhile to pause a little while to enjoy a taco or two and say “Hello” to the founder.

Local Markets Did you know there are 23 Ralphs stores in San Diego

County? Vons has 30 stores and Trader Joe’s, 14.

The Shoppes at CarlsbadThat’s the new name for the former Carlsbad Westfield

Mall. Customers wonder what’s the difference between shops and shoppes? One wag suggested prices increase when you shop at shoppes. n

From Bev’s KitchenBy Bev Gillett

Lamb Shanks Braised in Red Wine

There is nothing more satisfying on a cold Winter’s evening than a warming stew of some kind, and if you are partial to lamb, this is one of the best! I buy my lamb shanks at North County Produce on Hacienda, but wherever you buy yours, have the butcher cut them into three pieces each, so you are not wrestling with a huge bone on your plate. Lamb Shanks also freeze beautifully, so you can have a ready meal with-out having to make it too often.

You can serve six or more with this quantity.recipe6 lamb shanks (about 5 lbs), cut into three pieces each2 tablespoons olive oil2 medium onions, chopped 3 large carrots, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch thick rounds

A pretty big taco at Barstow Del Taco.

Notes:1. You can thicken the sauce with two tablespoons of

flour mixed with some water if you wish.2. I have seen Ralph’s and Trader Joe’s carrying chopped

onions and carrots ready to go. Makes life easy!3. I make the shanks the day before I need them, and

skim off any hardened layer of fat before reheating.4. I serve my shanks alongside acorn squash with minted

peas. An easy way to cook acorn squash is to put them on a baking sheet, stab them once or twice with a knife (so they don’t explode in the oven!) and bake at 375° for about 40 minutes. When cool enough to handle, cut in half and spoon out the seeds. n


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Luxe Buffet occupies the free-standing building that had been West Buffet (by the old Robinson-May in the

Carlsbad Mall). If you are not expecting a redo of the old res-taurant, think again. You can detect the change the moment you open the glass doors. The new owners entirely gutted the old and replaced it with glitter and polish that spells a new chapter in Chinese buffets. Glass chandeliers and mod-ern buffet tables are manned by attendants and sushi chefs who made sure the trays were filled.

We were escorted to a booth suitable for extremely skin-ny people, but not for us seniors. The table was finally shift-ed around by a bus boy that allowed adequate room (bare-ly).

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The Mongolian chef manned his section, but with few patrons. Why fill up with noodles when there were so many other hot dishes were being served? But he also served a meat carver for a leg of lamb, sausages and other meats. I suppose lamb is popular in Mongolia.

At the end of the hot food section was a small variety of dim sum: cha siu bow (steamed buns filled with a mixture of pork), shrimp rolls, pork belly, pork ribs and can you believe this? Chicken feet? Surely, there must have been an authen-tic Chinese chef in the kitchen.

For those who preferred western food, there was a large variety of salads, including crab, mixed and macaroni sal-ads. And of course, we couldn’t overlook the beautifully prepared desserts: cookies, cakes and ice cream.

If you expect the prices of this buffet to resemble those of West Buffet, you would be mistaken. The price for dinner for seniors on Monday thru Thursday is $18; the weekend: $20. Lunch is priced at $15. Prices may be on the expensive side for us seniors because our food consumption is not as great as those half our age. But for young sea food and sushi aficionados, Luxe Buffet could be a bargain. Beer and wine are available. Parking is ample, although on the evening we were there, the lot was filled to capacity. But we were lucky to find a reasonable slot nearby. n

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Out and About in San Diego CountyBy Jack Shabel

A touch of New England made its debut in Carlsbad ear-ly in 2014. It is the Green Dragon Tavern and Museum. The building itself is very interesting. The original Green Drag-on Tavern in Boston played an important role in our nations

history. A lot of the plotting for the Revolution occurred at the Green Dragon and, as a matter of fact, Paul Revere’s his-toric ride started from the Green Dragon in Boston.

The Green Dragon Tavern & Museum in Carlsbad re-developed a long deteriorating vacant structure into an en-hanced replica of the original. The building is gorgeous. It is easily visible from I-5 on the east side of the highway just south of the Palomar Airport Road exit. We recently went

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there for dinner and afterwards toured the museum. The dinner was very good with a definite New England flair to it. The menu had clam chowder and fish and fries, but then, who doesn’t. Also on the menu were delicacies like New England Baked Cod, Maine Lobster Rolls and Maryland Crab Cakes. There are a lot of very tempting non-seafood se-lections if you are not a seafood aficionado. As this is not a column about restaurants, I won’t say much more about food.

On site and free whether or not you eat in the restaurant or visit the tavern is a nice little museum. The collection in-cludes an autograph collection of our country’s founders, in-cluding the signatures of John Hancock, Sam Adams, John Adams, and additional signers of the Declaration of Inde-pendence and our Constitution on documents of various in-terests and significance. Additional artifacts and exhibitions provide insight and education on the life and times of our founders, our history and the contributions that led to the formation of our great country. Original newspapers from the era adorn the corridors and share history often forgotten in our history books.

There aren’t any displays of ancient muskets or civil war clothing or other colonial era bric-á-brac. This is a exhib-it that stresses reading of history in excellently displayed in-formation. I especially liked the poster sized displays of in-sightful biographies of some of our founding fathers.

All in all, it’s an interesting visit. I would recommend a combination of a meal and a visit to the museum but if you just visit the museum itself, you won’t be disappointed. As I mentioned, the museum is free.

The opening hour for the restaurant and tavern is 11:30 a.m. On Sundays they open at 10:30 a.m. for Brunch. Their website is at www.greendragontavernca.com They are locat-ed at 6115 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad. Their phone number is (760) 918-2421. n

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1. Affordability. As noted in some of my prior articles, it is getting more and more difficult for first time buyers to find affordable homes. These buyers are often recent college graduates, with entry level employment (if they can find any employment), living in shared rental units (or with their par-ents) and strapped with large student loan debts that make their immediate accumulation of wealth for a down pay-ment and loan qualification virtually impossible.

The dearth of entry-level buyers has the domino effect of weakening the move-up market because those sellers are unable to dispose of their homes quickly and for a price re-flective of their accumulated equity. The failure of this group of potential buyers to enter the market has a ripple effect throughout the real estate industry leading to a stagnation of sales throughout each layer of the market.

2. Second-Wave Crash of the Sub-Prime Market. The oft-predicted second-wave crash of the sub-prime market was extolled 10 years ago by many economists. This predic-tion was based on the theory that the sub-prime interest only loans issued in 2005/2006 would come due in 2015/2016 and would revert to unaffordable full payment principal and interest loans. However, the experts were wrong on this prediction because either these sub-prime loans were liqui-dated by those borrowers years ago (i.e., short sales, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, etc.) or those who managed to retain their homes now have enough equity to sell their homes in the normal course. As a result, in my judgment, the second-wave crash theory is a non-factor.

3. rise in interest rates. Perhaps the greatest threat to market stability is an anticipated rise in interest rates to be promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board, which is expect-ed to occur within the next few months. If interest rates do increase then there will be a resultant negative impact on

The Real Estate CornerBy Tom Brennan

(Tom has been involved in all aspects of real estate for more than 40 years, both as a lawyer and a realtor. )

Indicators of the Future of the Real Estate Market

As most of us realize, the real estate market, particular-ly in California, is often subject to significant shifts in stabil-ity and direction. Several years ago, the market was saturat-ed with inventory, lagging prices, decreased sales and angst among sellers. Yet, the market quickly turned to one of high volume sales, increasing prices and shrinkage of inventory. The reasons for this abrupt turn-around were the confluence of many variables (pent-up demand, low interest rates, an improving economy, etc.) many of which, in hindsight, were obvious and predictable.

Accordingly, it may be worth looking at today’s indica-tors to preview tomorrow’s real estate market. It is impor-tant to note that according to several market surveys, the


home sales. The logic is simple. If rates are low then more people can afford to buy your home. That results in more competition for the available inventory and a likely higher price for your property. Further, after you sell your property and buy another house, the monthly mortgage payment on your new home may be lower than the prior monthly pay-ments on your former house. Conversely, if interest rates in-crease then fewer people can afford to buy your home there-by reducing competition and making it more difficult to get a great price for your property. Moreover, financing your next home may be more expensive because of the higher in-terest rates.

The net result of the foregoing analysis indicates that in the near term the housing market will cool which may make it more difficult to maximize the value of your property. To be sure, this is all speculation as the future is never fully pre-dictable. n

Kippel’s Pet KornerBy Ellen Kippel

Why Does My Dog Need to be Licensed?Licensed dogs have a higher chance of being reunited

with their owners if they get lost. Field Services will try to return the dogs directly to their home if the dog is wearing an up-to-date tag.

Important health information about your dog can be placed in our licensing records so that if they get lost and end up in our care, we have a medical history for them. Buy-ing your dog a license helps save the lives of animals by pro-viding funding for pets in need that come to the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA.

It is the law; the city of Oceanside (4.17) requires all dogs to be vaccinated against rabies and to obtain a license with-in thirty (30) days

(a) of all dogs reaching 4 months of age,(b) of acquiring a dog, or

(c) after moving to Oceanside or Vista. Failure to do so within this time will result in a late fee and/or a citation.

If your dog ends up at our campus, your fees will be less. If an unlicensed and unaltered dog (running at large) is brought to the North Campus, the fines to retrieve the dog start at $150 per day. The fines are set by California Food & Agriculture Code (30804.7) and local ordinances.

You can enjoy our dog park. All dogs need to be licensed and altered for entry to the San Diego Humane Society Dog Park. For hours visit our website at www.sdhumane.org.

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Military Chronicles

President of Toyota Subsidiary in Brazil Passed Away in 1999

It was little noted in the U.S. press that Kasuo Sakamaki passed away. He was 81. But just who was Sakamaki?

Kasuo Sakamaki was a young Japanese ensign in 1941. He had been chosen from an elite group for the five two-man midget submarines to attack the American fleet in con-cert with a surprise attack on the naval base in Hawaii.

Shortly after midnight on the night of Saturday, Decem-ber 6, he was launched from his “mother” submarine off the harbor. He, along with his crewman, was strapped to his 75 foot metal tube equipped with two 18-inch torpedoes. The plan was to make it into Pearl Harbor seven miles away, launch the torpedoes at the battleship, the Pennsylvania. The skies were clear and he could see the twinkling of the stars above the lights from the shore. He listened to the music from a Hawaiian radio station.

But from the start, the mission had failed. Nine men from the other midget submarines died. As Sakamaki ap-proached the entrance, he discovered the sub’s gyrocompass failed to provide the right direction. He tried to get the sub in the correction, but it wouldn’t steer properly and bucked the running seas. Running beneath the water, he raised his periscope and saw two American destroyers. He could see sailors running on the deck. Very shortly, he felt the impact of depth charges that wrecked the torpedo launching gear while injuring the two. They decided to rendezvous with the mother sub off Lanai, but ended off the north east coast of Oahu.

Unfortunately, the sub became wedged on a coral reef and the battery began to smoke and leak gas. They aban-

doned the sub after attempting to set off explosives to pre-vent it from falling into enemy hands. It failed. His crewman was never found, while Sakamaki lost consciousness as he washed up on the beach. David Abuki, an American Army sergeant discovered him and took him prisoner. He was the first Japanese combatant taken prisoner in WWII.

(Based on several accounts of his stay in mainland camps, he was generally pleased with his treatment having realized the hu-maness of the Americans whom he met. He mentions several times the educational opportunities at the camps that had lectures on English, geography, music and Japanese poetry. He encouraged other POWs to learn English and addressed the problem of suicid-al Japanese POWs after their capture. After the war, he returned to Japan, married and had a successful career with Toyota. His sub-marine is on display at the National Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas.) n

BridgeBy Dan Neilson

Light OpeningsIn third or fourth seat, most experts recommend opening

with less than the usual 13 points. The purpose of this en-deavor is twofold. You wish to capture the contract or point out a favorable lead if opponents outbid you. The downside of these efforts is never explained. The future is always rosy for the compliant student; passing out a hand is always stat-ed as a bad result.

There are three major problems with opening with less than 13 points. You may go down. Zero is a lot better than a minus score! Opponents may overcall or make a weak dou-ble to take the bid. This is even worse than a zero. Last of all, you are lying to your partner about your point count. I know there are methods to show your weakness but even if you are aware of them, the opponents can mess you up with competitive biddings. You are now guessing and in a treach-erous area. It’s better to have a confident partner than an in-flated ego.

Opening with less than 13 points is acceptable with dis-tributional hands. Twelve points is all that is needed with a five card suit. Eleven points with two five card suits or a six card suit. If you possess two four card majors, you can also open with only 12 points. In this case you plan to be dummy is one of those suits and the hand is worth an extra point. One final exception is when your suit is spades. Since this is the boss suit you can add a point for intimidation.

Don’t worry about being passed out. Back in later with an overcall or double! But, the most important reason for passing a hand out is it gives you plenty of time to go to the restroom! n

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I Love A MysteryBy Ira M. Landis

I am unquestionably a Lee Child addict. I have read all twenty of his Jack Reacher novels and avidly read his inter-views with the press. I eagerly await his forthcoming books. It is not too surprising therefore that I found an interview in the New York Times Magazine about his approach to writing most enlightening and interesting.

At the time I was reading his most recent book, Make Me. I was rather shocked to learn that he sits down at his type-writer each morning without benefit of an outline and “lets it flow.” Now I wonder if that information influenced my perception of what I was reading. As is usual with a Jack Reacher tale, Jack is traveling with no special place to go and all the time in the world to get there. A remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother’s Rest piques Reacher to contemplate a one-day stop-over. He ex-pects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a field of wheat but instead encounters a woman waiting for a missing asso-ciate and a small town of silent, watchful people. The wom-an and her missing associate are former FBI agents who are now private investigators operating in a loosely knit “fran-chise/network” on a very low overhead basis, generally out of their homes. They assist one another on an as needed ba-sis. Former military policeman Reacher is a natural ally to these people.

It is not at all clear initially why the community is so hos-tile to these visitors. The town-folk could easily have contin-ued to conduct their nefarious business without being so ag-gressively obnoxious to the visiting strangers. That proves to be a major mistake as anyone undertaking to wrong Reach-er usually finds out to their chagrin. Fortunately for the for-mer FBI agent Reacher met at the train station, she now has a strong ally in Reacher. Their relationship ultimately blos-soms into physical romance and the resolution of the prob-lems overhanging the community. Those problems are most unique; perhaps they would be better described as bizarre. Why are there so many apparently well to do visitors ar-riving in town for brief stays and after being treated almost royally moving on?

Although I will not say this is one of Child’s best books, I will still be looking for his next one with the hope that his 21st will revitalize Child (and me). I know Reacher will be his usual man of mystery. It would be most unusual for his new relationship to continue. n

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Scams UpdateBy Ira M. Landis

New scams keep on coming. California Attorney Gener-al Kamala Harris has issued a consumer alert in response to complaints about debt collectors who have contracted with counties to collect outstanding fines. Harris says some are failing to notify people about California’s debt amnesty pro-gram or are telling eligible people they don’t qualify.

The program that began in October allows drivers with lesser infractions, such as running a red light, to get a dis-count of 50% or 80% of what they owe. It doesn’t apply to parking tickets, drunken-driving or reckless driving viola-tions.

Harris recommends people contact the county that is-sued the ticket to determine if the infraction qualifies.

The above information was reported in the October 29 L.A. Times. On October 30, the Times reported that a subsid-iary of pharmaceutical manufacturer Warner Chilcott, who was accused of offering kickbacks to doctors for drug pre-scriptions, has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of healthcare fraud. A former company president, W. Carl Reichel, was arrested and accused of conspiring to pay kick-backs to doctors.

Prosecutors allege that from 2009 to 2013, employees pro-vided payments, meals and other remuneration to doctors to induce them to prescribe drugs made by Warner Chilcott. The company was bought in 2013 for $8.5 billion by Actavis.

The Justice Department said the company has agreed to pay $125 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability re-lated to illegal marketing of drugs. I don’t find this news shocking because I believe it appears to be widespread phar-maceutical industry practice. n

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Watching WildlifeBy Russ Butcher

Sea CoralsIt may seem surprising that the diversity of sea corals in

many tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world’s oceans are not plants, as many of them superficially resemble. They are actually animals that are related to jellyfish and sea anemones. Each individual coral consists of a tiny, simple or-ganism known as a polyp, which basically contains a stom-ach topped by a tentacle-bearing mouth. At night, the pol-yp extends out its tentacle to sting and ingest tiny prey such as floating zooplankton. Thousands of polyps living togeth-er form a coral colony. The polyps of many kinds of corals secrete a limestone (calcium carbonate) exoskeleton beneath it. Over long periods of time, the multitude of coral colonies create and maintain a coral reef.

There are three types of tropical and subtropical coral reefs: fringing reefs in shallow waters near coastal shores, ring-shaped atoll reefs near or at the ocean surface atop un-derwater islands or volcanoes, and the large and extensive barrier reefs that are separated from land by broad lagoons. The largest and most famous of the latter is the Great Bar-rier Reef stretching about 1,200 miles along Australia’s east coast.

Among the more than 3,000 coral species, there are the “soft corals,” such as the graceful sea fans, sea feathers and tree corals; and the “stony or hard corals,” such as the brain,

staghorn and elkhorn corals. The stony corals are the lime-stone-secreting reef-builders. Coral polyps are inhabited by tiny, single-celled algae, known as zooanthellae, which pro-vide the coral polyps with the oxygen and some of the nu-trients they require. The algae also give the corals their often varied bright colors.

Scientists explain that even though the tropical and sub-tropical coral reefs occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor, they are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. These reefs provide food and shelter for numerous kinds of tropical fish, along with crabs, lobsters, shrimp, sponges, sea stars, sea urchins, sea anemones, squid, octopuses and oth-er forms of marine life. Many of these species are important sources of food for humans. According to the Defenders of Wildlife, roughly “one-third of all marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs.”

Unfortunately, the world’s sea corals are facing a mul-titude of severe threats to their survival. Among the major threats are water pollution from human waste, trash, pes-ticides and fertilizers; sedimentation or soil erosion that smothers reefs and blocks sunlight; over-fishing; diseases that weaken or kill corals; ships and boats plowing into or dropping anchor onto the fragile reefs; and global climate change that is increasing ocean temperatures and acidity. Re-search by the Smithsonian Institution, for example, shows that at least 80 percent of the reefs in the Caribbean have al-ready been lost. Similar devastation is being reported from the Hawaiian Islands and numerous other fragile reef habi-tats around the globe.

Top left: Brain coral (left) and other hard corals. Bottom left: Sea fan, a type of soft coral. Right: Soft corals and tropical fish.


Can the world’s coral reefs and all of the marine life that depends upon them actually be saved? While scientific re-search increasingly reveals little reason for optimism, we have to hope for a miracle. n

Bird of the MonthBy Russ Butcher

Ferruginous HawkOne of North America’s largest birds-of-prey is the Fer-

ruginous Hawk. Measuring about 2 feet long, with a wing-span of 4.5 to 5 feet, it is surpassed in size only by eagles and vultures. This hawk breeds in such open habitat as the grasslands of the northern Great Plains and Canada’s Prairie Provinces. In the fall, many of these hawks migrate south-ward to spend the winter months in deserts and arid grass-lands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexi-co. One such wintering area is San Diego County’s Ramona Grasslands. Birdwatchers are sometimes lucky to spot one of these regal raptors perched atop one of the many rocky outcrops that dot the grassy expanse near the town of Ra-mona.

When viewed soaring overhead, the adult’s underwings and body are predominantly whitish. When perching on a

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boulder or the ground, the bird’s plumage features its gray-ish-white head and tail, white breast, rust-colored shoul-ders, and dark feathers extending along its legs. This hawk’s name is derived from the Latin word, ferrum, referring to the iron-rust color of its shoulders. Its favored food includes ground squirrels, pocket gophers and young jackrabbits. The Ferruginous Hawk’s population is declining primari-ly because of habitat destruction. Researchers estimate there are now fewer than 4,000 pairs and it is officially listed as a “threatened” species. n

Travels With JoeBy Joe Ashby

Portugal(For those wishing a geography reminder, Portugal is a narrow

country located adjacent to Spain, along the west coast of the Iberi-an Peninsula.)

We finally arrived in Lisbon on Christmas day by the way of Frankfurt and made our final connection by bus to Lagos. Our friends greeted and whisked us to their apart-ment where we shared a delicious bowl of Portuguese soup and a glass of wine.

The following day, we were invited to an open house of some British expat friends filling our plates with Box-ing Day dishes (shepherds’s pie, lamb curry, spicy meat-balls and quiche.) Saying our farewells, we drove to a coast-al town of Praia de Lux as the sun was setting. At the city point, we were treated to the sight of pounding seas dashing against cliffs, islets and grottos. This is one of the most pho-tographed sites in Portugal.

A hearty breakfast had us ready for a planned adven-ture to Villa do Bispo, the history and birthplace of Hen-ri, the Navigator. A member of the aristocracy, he devoted much of his life to seamanship and navigation, although he never ventured out of port. Then we made our way to Fon-taleza where the remains of the fortress have been revamped to replicate what it might have looked like in the 1400s. No cannons remained but it was not difficult to see how this bastion could defend Portugal from any invaders. The deep aquamarine seas attracted scores of fishermen with long poles seeking contents from the ocean. Many a fisherman have lost their lives trying to fish from these craggy, steep cliffs. After a series of picture taking, we returned to our ho-tel in Sagres where we enjoyed piri-piri chicken (a delicious specialty of Portugal that originated in Northern Africa).

Driving through the beach town of Alvor where the shift-ing sands rippled like the ocean, we passed Ramalo where we stocked up on some gorgeous pieces of ceramic souve-nirs. Continuing onto the mountains to Monchique, we saw splendid vistas from this highest mountain top. We stayed on to enjoy a dinner of piri-piri chicken with wine, cheese and olives.

Portugal is full of castles and it appeared there was at least one at every turn of the road. But one of the most inter-esting one is located in the center of the town of Sintra. Hav-ing taken 5 years to construct, the castle was completed in 1885 when King Ferdinand died. While it reminded me of a

Above: Algarve Lighthouse overlooking the Atlantic. Right: Portugal is noted for colorful pottery.

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medieval castle, other elements were incorporated such as Gothic, Renaissance and even from Egypt, Japan and India. The flashing pink and yellow colors of the building was in stark contrast to the luxuriant vegetation of the surrounding park. The cupolas, towers, walls and footbridges look like the setting of a fairy tale and provided a home for the roy-al family until 1910 when the monarchy was abolished and the republic established. Each room we visited was lavishly decorated as though royalty still lived there. After lunch, we sauntered off to Moro Castle, just a kilometer away. n

Décor in the VillageBy Theresa Howell

Changes in Your Home with Pattern Design

To transform a bland interior and fur-nishings into an attractive environment, use a variety of pattern designs. Once you can see what you can do to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, your spirit soars. You’ll be able to discover a visual stimulus that challenges you mentally, uplifting you to feel exhilarat-ed. Most man-made patterns are inspired by nature. You see leaves on the capitals of Corinthian columns as well as the relief work on buildings.

Similar patterns are carved in marble ceramics, stone and wood, etched in glass, painted on porcelain, and even on textiles and rugs. Wood furniture is often decorated with patterns from nature using inlaid pieces of wood, an an-cient art known as marquetry (the equivalent in wood floors is called parquetry). Some patterns are directional and some are not. With direction in mind, look at each design to de-termine how the pattern is laid out. When your walls, win-dows or major furnishings already bear bold motifs or pat-tern mix, select a carpet with a small repeat. The small scale and abundant motif repetition will create that of a solid col-

or flooring. Always keep in mind the size of a room and the scale of your furnishings, when you are selecting patterns.

Express a style or mood. Patterned carpet should fit a room’s desired style. For example florals work well in tra-ditional, country or cottage-style rooms. Geometrics add a clean graphic look to contemporary schemes. Whimsical motifs can work well in eclectic spaces.

Colors should always complement each other. Do you want colors to rivet your attention or to serve quietly? Pick carpet with low color contrast between the pattern and the background for the greatest subtlety

Examine a rug, fabric you want to use on a sofa and the

pattern of wallpaper you want to use on your walls and ceil-ing. Use colors that are pleasing to you, fabrics to be select-ed with usage in mind and pattern designs that complement each other. Don’t be afraid to use various patterns. You will be pleasantly surprised how they will transform a room. n

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The Street Where You LiveBy Russ Butcher

Thebes WayThebes Way is named for the city of Thebes (also called

Thiva), located about 30 miles northwest of Athens, in the Boeotian region of central Greece. The city’s site has been continuously occupied since about 3000 B.C. Archaeologi-cal research has revealed that ancient Thebes, built atop a low ridge, was one of Greece’s earliest fortified settlements. However, its early power ended when its walls and acropo-lis were attacked and destroyed by invading forces around 1200 B.C.

Between 1100 and 700 B.C., Thebes gradually became a powerful Greek city-state. During the following 400 years, it constantly challenged both Athens and Sparta for region-al dominance. In 480 B.C., Thebes joined invading Persian forces in a seemingly unpatriotic battle against the Athe-nians. From 431 to 404 B.C., Thebes shifted its strategy by al-lying with the Spartans in a successful battle against Athens in the Peloponnesian War. In 403 B.C., Thebes again changed its strategy, this time supporting the restoration of the Athe-nians’ democracy, as a counterweight against Sparta. In 338 B.C., an elite military force of Thebes was defeated by invad-ing Macedonian troops in the Battle of Chaeronea. Triggered by an unsuccessful revolt against the occupying soldiers, Macedonia’s feudal king, Alexander the Great, retaliated by plundering most of the city in 335 B.C. Never again did The-bes regain its long-held regional prominence.

From the 10th century, during the Byzantine and Frankish periods, Thebes became a prosperous center in the lucrative silk trade. By the 12th century, the city’s weavers had become the Byzantine Empire’s major producer of the highest qual-ity silks, even surpassing the weavers of Constantinople. To this day, silk weaving continues in Thebes.

During the Ottoman (Turkish) occupation (from 1435 to 1829), Thebes was economically poor. In the 19th century, the city was heavily damaged by an earthquake and was subse-

quently rebuilt. Today’s modern Thebes is the main market center for the surrounding agricultural croplands – notably producing olive oil, wheat, wine and cotton. The few surviv-ing ancient ruins include only remnants of the ancient cen-tral fortress. The recently expanded and remodeled Archaeo-logical Museum of Thebes displays artifacts excavated from sites in and around Thebes.

We send our best wishes to the residents of Thebes Way. n

Author’s Comment:I wish to clarify Ira Landis’s fine Book Review in the De-

cember issue of the Village Voice. The Emperor and the Spy is an historical novel, largely based on the personal papers of a spy, Colonel Sidney Mashbir. However, as a novel, it also has a fair amount of fiction-alization. When certain char-acters are portrayed, they’re presented accurately in terms of their personalities and ac-complishments.

An Illustrated Timeline was created displaying many pri-mary source materials, such as written documents and photographs from the Mash-bir Collection. This Illus-trated Timeline is displayed on the website, TheEmper-orAndTheSpy.com. In general, folks better connect to and en-joy the Illustrated Timeline after reading the book which brings these characters to life. n

— From Stan Katz

Far left Ruins of a

ancient amphithe-

ater.

Left: Recent

street scene in

Thebes.



The Golf GameBy Peter Russell

The 2015 calendar year was filled with many special tournaments, some old, some new. Touring Amateur contin-ues to be a special pleasure because so many courses in the area are putting a lot of money into their facilities to draw even more players. And some courses have closed this year as well. Some are even trying out the new “BIG” hole style in the county. Lots of luck with that! January 2016 also be-gins the ban on the long putters, but I plan on keeping mine in the bag because I don’t anchor the grip. I’m sure that the PGA will be on top of this item. Watch this season’s gaggle of new players on the tour and see who change their putters. That is their money maker and we should all pay particular attention to that club.

Last year’s “1st Annual Fall Classic Event” with among many other prize options available, (lest we forget the $10,000 hole in one on #4!) they were giving away a golf package with a grab bag full of goodies and a free putter. I ordered mine this month, with a broomstick style putter, and will also get three fairway woods to try out; the #3, #5, and #7. I’m a sucker for this type of deal because I’ll have to either return the woods after 45 days, or buy them. I’m sure that I will have to pay the S&H fees to return them which will make any highlights a little dimmer. There is trouble in my future; I can see it coming… In either case I get to keep my new LONG BROOMSTICK Putter as well as a conven-tional putter, a Lob Wedge with a training grip, and many grab bag types of goodies like a ball cap (Warrior brand of course), four sleeves of balls (Warrior of course), and many more typical types of golf items. I’ll let you all know about my thoughts on the overall experience when I’m done “eval-uating” the package.

As we go through another New Year with a long look backwards, we can certainly be thankful for the many things that we all have strong feelings about. A good example is the hiring of a true greens professional working for O’Connell. What a grand job he has done on all of our greens, and on

the overall appearance of the course in spite of the water shortages. Glen Kramer gets an “attaboy” from us all. And then we had to upgrade our Golf Casa computer system, which we all benefit from. Some good from a bad experience again.

As we look forward to the 2016 golf year, I hope that we can all see in our crystal ball (a golf ball of course!) an im-provement in the attitudes and friendships that we have all gained by playing in a competitive environment. We should never forget that this is a gentleman’s and gentlewomen’s sport, so we should look for opportunities to make our fel-low golfers happy to be playing here at what many of us consider to be an outstanding golfing experience. Enjoy each and every day of your lives, hoping that many of them are on a beautiful golf course with some of the very nicest golf-ers in town.

Happy New Year from all of the Village Voice team! n

Scam By Ira M. Landis

Found someone pretending to be you on Facebook? Get-ting rid of the faker can be a lot harder than you think.

It starts like this: Yesterday Jennifer X. opened up her email and found a

Facebook friend request from her husband Andrew. This was puzzling to her because Andrew already had a Face-book account, and they were of course already friends. She thought maybe he’d forgotten his password and created a new account or was testing something out. She clicked the link.

Sure enough, there was a Timeline with Andrew’s name and a profile photo of her husband and his sister as children — the same picture Andrew was using on his real account. Otherwise, though, the faux account was blank.

She told her husband about it. But when he tried to check it out for himself, Facebook told him that page could not be found. Why? Because the imposter had blocked him, mak-ing Fake Andrew’s page invisible to Real Andrew.

When Jennifer went to report the fake, she discovered Facebook’s Catch-22. The only way to report an imposter on Facebook is for the real owner of the account to go to the im-poster’s Timeline, click the downward arrow in the settings box, and select Report/Block. But because Real Andrew couldn’t see Fake Andrew’s page, he was unable to do that.

So Jennifer tried using the Report/Block process to tell Facebook that Fake Andrew was impersonating her hus-band. But all that does is send a message to the person whose account has been duplicated, telling them to report the fake using the process I just described. Which, of course, Real Andrew could no longer do.

Maddening, right? It gets worse. You can tell Facebook another account is using a fake name, but your only options are to ask the person to use their real name (not likely in this

A 1992 view of our golf course from the 16th hole.



Miriam ReinerSource: Ocean Hills Community Patrol

This often occurs before you develop chest discomfort, or you may not experience any chest discomfort.

AnxietyYou may feel a sense of doom or feel as if you’re having a

panic attack for no apparent reason.LightheadednessIn addition to chest pressure, you may feel dizzy or feel

like you might pass out.SweatingYou may suddenly break into a sweat with cold, clam-

my skin.Nausea and vomitingYou may feel sick to your stomach or vomit.Most heart attacks begin with subtle symptoms — with

only discomfort that often is not described as pain. The chest discomfort may come and go. Don’t be tempted to down-play your symptoms or brush them off as indigestion or anxiety.

Don’t “tough out” heart attack symptoms for more than five minutes. Call 911 or other emergency medical services for help.

If you don’t have access to emergency medical services, have someone drive you to the nearest hospital. Drive your-self only as a last resort, if there are absolutely no other op-tions.

Heart attack symptoms vary widely. For instance, you may have only minor chest discomfort while someone else has excruciating pain. One thing applies to everyone, though: If you suspect you’re having a heart attack, call for emergency medical help immediately.

Women may have all, none, many or a few of the typical heart attack symptoms. While some type of pain, pressure or discomfort in the chest is still a common symptom of a heart attack in women, many women have heart attack symptoms without chest pain, such as:

• Pain in the back, shoulders or jaw• Shortness of breath• Abdominal pain or “heartburn”• Nausea or vomiting• Fainting• Unusual or unexplained fatigue, possibly for daysElderly people and people with diabetes may have no or

very mild symptoms of a heart attack, so it’s especially im-portant not to dismiss heart attack symptoms in people with diabetes and older adults even if they don’t seem serious. n

(From Mayo Clinic Healthy Living.)

case) or unfriend/block that person.You could simply submit a report to Facebook telling

them it’s a fake, which automatically — and permanently — blocks you from ever seeing that account. All the other re-porting options (the account is annoying, spammy, inappro-priate, etc.) have the same result. But then you have no way of knowing what happens after that.

Jennifer and Real Andrew were worried Fake Andrew would use his account to scam their friends. Once they re-ported his account, and it was permanently blocked, they would have no way of knowing what Fake Andrew was up to. They wouldn’t know if Facebook had deleted the ac-count or not. (In my experience, fake accounts can exist for weeks or months after being reported.) So they posted some-thing to their Facebook walls warning their friends not to be duped. But as we now know, only a small percentage of your friends will see everything you post.

Is this insane? Yes it is. Just to confirm Jennifer and An-drew’s story, a faux account was created to impersonate a real one and recreated their steps. Sure enough, Facebook has made it essentially impossible to deal with clever impos-ters who’ve discovered this trick. n

Health TipsBy Charlotte Pichney

Symptoms of a Heart Attack

Chest discomfort or painThis discomfort or pain can feel like a tight ache, pres-

sure, fullness or squeezing in your chest lasting more than a few minutes. This discomfort may come and go.

Upper body painPain or discomfort may spread beyond your chest to

your shoulders, arms, back, neck, teeth or jaw. You may have upper body pain with no chest discomfort.

Stomach painPain may extend downward into your abdominal area

and may feel like heartburn.Shortness of breathYou may pant for breath or try to take in deep breaths.


“Dress-up Dances”By Jim Mulvey

I have certainly heard about celebrity romances,And even encountered some interesting bro-mances.

But I’ve never witnessed anything quite like the dancesWhere grown-ups dress up for a party or ball

To display their fineries bought at the Carlsbad MallAnd splendidly model them at Abravenal Hall.

I think we can all agree about these fripperies and fess-up.Seniors like to flash gold, diamonds, and silver for dress-up.

Old folk enjoy their cummerbunds, bowties, and tuxedos,Sometimes even their décolletage and Speedos!—

Feathery ornate hats, mink stoles, and stiletto heels,Which by the way are difficult to run in to line up for meals.

It’s without exception, just one of my perceptions,That these galas remind of Royal Receptions

Where Cinderellas and Prince Charmings as the evening progresses,Swirl to Mambas and Cha Chas in their linen jackets and silk dresses.

At ten, the witching hour, our fine couples could not be any gayer,As they disband and disappear into the misty night’s romantic marine layer. n

To the Editor;I am writing this letter to clarify some of the information

presented (in The Village Voice).OHCC does experience the overflight of aircraft. The air-

craft may be arriving, departing, or transitioning through the airspace around McClellan-Palomar Airport. OHCC ex-periences the overflight of all modes of flight due to the proximity and positioning of the community relative to the airport.

As owner and operator of the airport surface facilities, the County of San Diego does not have jurisdiction to con-trol or regulate aircraft flight operations. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) controls the airspace and flight of air traffic into and out of the airport. FAA rules and regula-tions control the safety, separation, sequencing, course guid-ance, and altitudes of all aircraft arrivals and departures 24 hours a day.

However, the County of San Diego has established a Vol-untary Noise Abatement Program (VNAP) to minimize the impact of aircraft noise on the surrounding communi-ties. VNAP consists of recommended procedures for opera-tions in and around the airport and includes voluntary quiet

hours. It includes programs that consist of speaker’s presen-tations, brochures, airport signage, websites and direct mail-ings.

OHCC is identified as a noise sensitive residential area. OHCC is located to the east of two suggested arrival tracks. The VNAP recommends that pilots enter the airspace at or above 2300 feet Mean Sea Level (MSL) However, there are a number of factors that may impact the altitude of arriving aircraft such as aircraft type, weather and other aircraft in the airspace.

The Glide Slope is not a radius around the airport. The Glide Slope is a signal that extends out approximately 10 miles in an easterly direction on the runway 24 heading. It provides pilots who are flying Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) precision lateral and vertical guidance as they approach and land.

Lastly, the phone number residents may call Jessica Turn-er our Noise Abatement Officer (760) 431-4646 to file com-plaints or get additional information. n

— Oliver BrackettAirport Manager, McClellan-Palomar Airport


Answer to “Guess Who.”Have you guessed? It’s BARBARA OLSON! Barbara

(Gallagher) Olson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on Novem-ber 27, l947, on Thanksgiving Day during a snowstorm. She graduat-ed from Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park, in 1965, from DePaul University, Chicago, in 1969, and the University of Illinois, Cham-paign with a Masters in French Literature, in 1971. The Universi-ty of Illinois had a reciprocal pro-gram with the French govern-ment, so she spent the 1970-71 school year teaching English in a secondary school in a suburb of Rouen, France, while attend-ing a class at the University of Rouen. She was also fortu-nate to tour sixteen countries during this period. She taught French in Zion, Illinois, on Lake Michigan, north of Chica-go, where she met the handsome high school librarian, Ed Olson, down the hall from her classroom (Room 222 like the show at that time.)

Barbara and Ed were married on June 30, 1973, and have enjoyed married life for 42-½ years. They have four children and eight grandchildren in states from Hawaii to Maryland. In fact, in one busy and exciting year they actually had a grandchild from each of their four children, in four different states. There were a lot of miles covered that year! Her trip to Molokai, Hawaii, was especially exciting! (Steve and I also visited Molokai, and recall our mule ride down the steepest cliffs in the world to the leper colony as the “white knuckle express!”)

As a young mom, she balanced family duties with work in adult education, liturgy and youth ministry in the Chica-go and Joliet dioceses. At one point, she was a “roadie” for a British heavy metal artist turned youth minister named “Sal Solo,” and accompanied him into the Cook County jail, where she assisted him as a back-up singer and with other duties at his mixed media concerts, where he ministered to the prisoners through his music and artistry.

Barb and Ed moved to Ocean Hills Country Club in the fall of 2009. They started square dancing and found it the perfect way to get to know a lot of friendly residents. They were officers of the Square Dancing Club for two years. Barb also started volunteering through the San Diego diocese as a jail minister at the local Vista jail. Barb loves to attend the

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movies at Ocean Hills and when Frank Petronella shows a French language one, you can count on Barbara being there, with or without Ed!

If you are interested in joining in on the Guess Who? fun, dig out those old photo albums and please call me, Virginia McConnell 760-295-1979 or e-mail me at [email protected]. Who knows, maybe we’ll be seeing you in a future issue of The Village Voice. n

San Diego Humane Society is Coming to OHCC!

SDHS will be holding a SENIOR ADOPTION EVENT here on Friday, February 12, 2016. We will have dogs available for adoption and information on some of the cats available at that time. The event will be held in the over-flow parking lot from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. SDHS will also have literature available on the many services they provide, espe-cially those relevant to senior citizens and their pets.

SDHS has also agreed to offer Rabies Vaccines for $6 and Microchipping for $15 on this day. So please bring your dogs for vaccines and bring cats and dogs down for the microchipping. Cats must be in carriers! Also, licensing info for dogs will be available.

We will be sending out a reminder of the adoption event in the January, but I hope you mark this date on your calen-dar and even if you don’t want to adopt a dog, please come for a fur fix or just find out a little more about the San Diego Humane Society and the services they provide. n

Village Vets MeetingOur guest speaker at our January meeting will be Eric

McElvinney who graduated from Annapolis and had three deployments in Afghanistan. He stepped on an improvised explosive device and lost part of his right leg. With the help an organization called Challenged Athlete Foundation, Eric has gone on to be a triathlete competing in the IronMan Competition in Hawaii. Meet Eric and hear his inspi-rational story on Thursday, Jan 28, 2016, 3 p.m. at Abravanel Hall. Residents and friends are welcome. Refreshments will be served. n

Barbara Olson


Words, Words, WordsBachelor (as in bachelor’s degree)Originally, bachelor referred to a soldier too young (or

rich) enough to lead his retainers into battle under his own banner. Therefore the word bachelor means a person of infe-rior rank. It was applied to the college degree in order to dif-ferentiate it from the higher degree of doctor.

Scot-freeNo, it does not refer to Scotland. It is derived from the

Anglo-Saxon sceot meaning money put into a general fund — hence, a tax. This scot was levied upon the people accord-ing to their ability to pay. “Scot-free” was meant “tax free” for those unable to pay.

ouija (as in Ouija Board)Ouija is a compound of the French word oui and the Ger-

man ja: which means “yes, yes.” It is derived from the fact that the “Ouija board” agrees with its operators... yes, man. n

Plants in the Village

New Zealand FlaxFlax occurs naturally in New Zealand and Norfolk Is-

land. This plant played an important part in the cultural and economic history of New Zealand for both the Māori peo-ple and later for Europe-an settlers. There are some 60 species of flax across temperate regions of the world and most are used as ornamen-tal garden plants.

Captain Cook wrote that the Māori made all their common apparel from flax. Us-ing mussel shells, they stripped the fleshy green coverings and then processed the remaining fibers from which they made strings, lines and cordage. The fibers were then woven into baskets, mats and fishing nets and cloth.

They also made ropes that were used successfully to bind together sections of hollowed-out logs to create huge ocean-going canoes.

Flax was harvested commercially until the mid 1900s when artificial fibers overwhelmed the market. n

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