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Check it out Remembering a couple of legends With Roger Ebert’s passing earlier this month, many of my fellow critics, entertainment reporters and I are sadly mourning the death of one of the world’s greatest film critics. Between Ebert and his TV cohort Gene Siskel, the two left a remarkably huge shadow from which none of us will probably ever emerge. If you want to see why, or you just want to go on a stroll down memory lane, visit siskelandebert.org, where you can watch just about every single one of their review segments from 1975 to Siskel’s passing in 1999. You may be surprised by how much they loved “Babe: Pig in the City.� — Shea Conner, St. Joseph News-Press

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The app lets you do everything the Kindle does with highlighting texts and making notes. You can also download the app to your PC or Mac. Check it out on Amazon.com. — Jennifer Gordon, St. Joseph News-Press

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A grilled mozzarella sandwich with a side of carrots at CafĂŠ Pony Espresso.

Grilled cheese and then some

Watch Nathan You need to see the Comedy Central show “Nathan for You.� As far as I can remember, it’s not very vulgar and actually quite clever. It’s about a comedian, Nathan Fielder, who attempts to help out small businesses with ridiculous ideas like a viral video for a zoo or summer Santa half-off photos. It’s really funny. — Andrew Gaug, St. Joseph News-Press

Dress up your favorite sandwich

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rilled cheese is one of America’s most popular foods partly because of its simplicity. With just two ingredients (three if you count the butter), it’s a fast, cheap and easy way to get a comfort food fi x.

Because of its simplicity, though, grilled cheese is essentially a blank canvas, tempting eaters to experiment with new ingredients and add some flair to the humble cheese sandwich.

In fact, April 12 was National Grilled Cheese Day. People who celebrated the holiday likely didn’t just stop at white bread and a slice of plain American.

The pop culture website Buzzfeed.com even included a list of “40 Amazing Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes� on its home page that day, encouraging viewers to expand their sandwich culinary horizons with ingredients like jalapenos, pulled pork or apples.

Nancy Goode and her staff at Cafe Pony Espresso in Downtown St. Joseph know a thing or two about adding ingredients to grilled cheese. One of their most popular menu items is their grilled mozzarella, tomato, pesto and feta sandwich, or “grilled mozz� for short. “One time I went to a bar and ordered a grilled cheese and (the bartender) said, ‘Do you want cheddar on wheat or Swiss on rye with a little mayo?’ So then I started thinking ‘Oh, you can make variations on grilled cheese,’� Ms. Goode says.

She says she fi rst saw the grilled mozz recipe on Pinterest and thought the combination of ingredients sounded interesting together. She then decided to add feta to the sandwich to give it another layer of flavor.

Local chef and Bleecker Street Deli Co. owner Andrew Clark says experimenting with grilled cheese is a popular food trend right now, with many specialty and gourmet restaurants around the country featuring

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only variations of this sandwich. “People have gotten away from the old belief that you just had to use Velveeta,� he says.

It’s now very common to see “upscale� grilled cheese on restaurant menus featuring artisan breads, specialty cheeses and toppings like herbs, greens and different meats.

Mr. Clark personally likes using a blend of cheeses on his sandwiches, goat cheese or Gruyere. He also likes adding meat to make it heartier. “In my mind, everybody loves bacon,� he says. “To really take it to a different level, I love chorizo.�

Ms. Goode says one of her personal favorite additions to grilled cheese is sliced green olives. This is reflected in Cafe Pony Espresso’s mac ‘n cheese puttanesca, which contains olives and peppers for a spicy kick. She also offers regular grilled cheddar or provolone on white or wheat bread for people looking for a quick and cheap lunch option. “When I’ve always thought of comfort food, the fi rst thing I think of is tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich,� she says.

At Bleecker Street Deli Co., Mr. Clark doesn’t have grilled cheese on the menu ... yet. He’s considering demoing a new sandwich option that would utilize ingredients he mentions above like Gruyere cheese and chorizo. “We probably would put a little bit of arugula on it, too, to not feel so guilty about the thousand calories in the sandwich,� he jokes.

Because his restaurant is new to the area, now is a good opportunity for him to play around with menu items. The same goes for the humble grilled cheese. Mr. Clark says it first emerged in American culture in the 1920s and during the Great Depression but has only experienced a facelift within the last decade. “It’s been kind of bored and complacent for 90 years or so, and now it’s come to life,� Mr. Clark says. “I think people are moving away from stagnant eating.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, don’t be pushy with authority figures because such an attitude is not in your best interest. You are better off putting on the charm and getting them to see your softer side.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, avoid getting involved in a family spat unless someone seeks your advice. Let your relatives work things out on their own and only offer your thoughts when prompted.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you might run into a snag with your spouse or partner over shared finances. Rather than settle issues this week, you’re better off waiting a few days.

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Women sign the shirt that Shirley Andersen intends to be wearing when she finishes the Susan G. Komen event in Dallas.

Walk on

Local breast cancer survivor preparing for 60-mile walk

By JENNIFER GORDON

“Some day they’re going find a cure. That’s what we do this for, so other women don’t have to experience those choices,”

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ellowship helped Shirley Andersen get through her breast cancer diagnosis. Fellowship will help promote a cure.

The St. Joseph woman, a six-month survivor, plans to do a 60-mile, three-day Susan G. Komen walk to promote breast cancer research. Mrs. Andersen and her daughters, Alesia Karcher and Christy McDonald, are training for the Dallas three-day, which takes place Nov. 1 through 3.

Mrs. Andersen’s daughters-in-law walk in Dallas and inspired her to do it.

Other women in St. Joseph, including Carol Burns and Barbie Squires, have done the three-day walk in San Diego. Mrs. Andersen wanted to follow in their footsteps.

Before Mrs. Andersen does the walk, however, she needs to raise $2,300.

She recently held a Mah-Jongg fundraiser at Ashland United Methodist Church to help. Close to 80 women came out to support the cause. Another dozen donated to Mrs. Andersen’s trip.

Mrs. Andersen plays the Chinese tile game, which has similarities to the card game Rummy, with 11 other women who call themselves the Cha Ching Mah-Jongg club. The other members of Cha Ching helped her with the fundraiser. Breast cancer research means a lot to them, too. Of the 12, four have had breast cancer.

Knowing her friends’ history with breast cancer made her diagnosis easier, Mrs. Andersen says.

“I don’t have to look very far to know I’m going to be OK,” she says.

Stories like her friend Judy Giddens’ keep her motivated as she trains to for the walk-a-thon.

Thirty-six years ago, Mrs. Giddens found a lump and had a radical mastectomy. Her medical team also removed her lymph nodes.

“I didn’t know until I came out of surgery that I had cancer,” Mrs. Giddens says.

Chemotherapy and radiation were treatment options for women living on the

Mrs. Giddens says.

Jennifer Gordon can be reached at jennifer.gordon@newspressnow.com.

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was malignant and called her surgeon at home on a Sunday as soon as she found her lump. Her surgeon was a family friend, and she said she’s come to the surgeon’s house if she couldn’t see her surgeon at his office.

Mrs. Andersen says she was insistent about the pain she felt in her breast until her medical team checked it out.

“If I wasn’t my own advocate, I would just now be finding out that I had it,” she says.

Mrs. Andersen says she feels blessed that they caught her cancer early, that she was surrounded by supportive friends and families. She hopes the awareness walks and the educational campaigns and all the fundraisers bring about more treatment options for women who are diagnosed. Or better yet, that the research and the funding results in one treatment option that doesn’t involve lumpectomies or radiation or chemotherapy.

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Shirley Andersen shows the wings on her shoes to the women who gathered at Ashland United Methodist Church for her fundraiser event. coasts and weren’t readily available for patients in the Midwest. Lumpectomies weren’t possible, either.

Mrs. Andersen caught her breast cancer early and only needed surgery and radiation. She wants to see treatment options continue to improve.

Mrs. Andersen also wants to promote education about breast cancer through her fundraiser and the walk.

Awareness is just as important as treatment options, because it can help women pinpoint a problem earlier.

Mrs. Andersen’s only symptom of breast cancer was a sharp, stabbing pain in her breast.

“You hear so often that breast cancer can hurt. It can,” Mrs. Andersen says.

“Mine did not,” Mrs. Giddens says.

“I did not have a lump,” Mrs. Andersen says.

“I did, and mine did not hurt,” Mrs. Giddens says.

They also want to see more women advocating for their health. Mrs. Giddens says she knew her lump

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013 the computer science, mathematics and physics department at Missouri Western State University, Dr. Ottinger has little opportunity to use Spanish but can still read, write and understand it, even though when it comes to speaking it, he’s a bit rusty. His knowledge of the language served him well in several jobs after he returned from his mission, however, and he sees benefits even now to knowing it.

“One advantage I have found to knowing a second language is that it helps me understand the English language better,” he says. “In school, we learned the different tenses used in English, but as I learned Spanish I was able to better understand the nuances in the different tenses and when they should be used.”

Bryce Freeman, Paraguay Jessica Stewar t | St. Joseph News- Press

Bryce Freeman is studying to be a Spanish teacher Missouri Western State University. He became fluent in Spanish while doing a two year mission trip in Paraguay.

Speaking in many tongues

Mission experiences have ledto a knowledge of myriad languages in the local LDS church

By ERIN WISDOM St. Joseph News-Press

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n a church that encourages its laypeople to serve long-term missions at locations around the world, an interesting byproduct is the number of languages known in any given congregation.

This is the case for the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has dozens of members who have served one-and-a-half or two-year missions in a number of countries — including Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Belize, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Argentina, England, Wales, Scotland, Brazil, the Philippines, Ukraine, Croatia, Mexico, Ireland, Paraguay, Uruguay, Greece, Romania, Spain and throughout the United States.

Several of these former missionaries agreed to illustrate the diversity of their collective experience — and the language

acquisition that came with it — by sharing a little of their stories:

Dr. Michael Ottinger, Chile

Dr. Michael Ottinger didn’t have any trouble mastering Spanish while on a mission in Chile from October 1985 through October 1987.

“I became quite fluent,”

he says. “Most people I met in Chile thought I was Chilean and were surprised to hear that I was from the U.S.” Now the chairman of

Bryce Freeman was excited to learn he’d be serving in a Spanish-speaking country, as he recognized Spanish as the most useful foreign language for him to know upon returning to the United States.

However, he’d never heard of Guaraní, an indigenous language he also used while living in Paraguay from October 2008 through October 2010.

He became fluent in Spanish and learned Guaraní well enough to teach basic missionary lessons, and he notes that

although he hasn’t retained much of the latter, Spanish still is very much a part of his everyday life.

“I was not planning on becoming a Spanish teacher before I left on the mission ... (but) I learned to love the Spanish language on the mission and decided I wanted to teach that later in life,” says Mr. Freeman, who will graduate from Missouri Western State University in December with plans to become a high school Spanish teacher.

In the meantime, he works as a produce sales associate at the South Belt Walmart, where he’s been able to put his Spanish to use in assisting customers and even in identifying a poorly translated in-store advertisement.

And in a sense, Guaraní has been helpful to him, too. From it, he says, “I have learned to appreciate the simple grammar rules of the Spanish language, because in comparison, Guaraní is much more complicated.”

Brent Eddington, Brazil

Within six months of serving in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brent Eddington was so fluent in Portuguese he was dreaming in it.

“I felt as though a switch in my brain had flipped and I was able to think in Portuguese and process my sentences that way, instead of translatPlease see SPEAKING/Page 4

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Speaking in many tongues CONTINUED FROM Page 3 ing everything into English,” says Mr. Eddington, who served his mission from 2003 to 2005 and now is a business analyst for Heartland Health.

He adds that locals in Sao Paulo call the language Brazilian Portuguese to differentiate it from the more formal version spoken in Portugal. And while he is not exposed to the language now other than through Facebook and e-mail correspondence with people he met in Brazil, Portuguese is similar enough to Spanish that he can understand a majority of spoken and written Spanish.

In addition to retaining much of the language himself, Mr. Eddington also has taught some basic Portuguese words and phrases to his wife and children. And he’s experienced some ways in which the language has expanded his understanding of other languages, as well.

“It is very true that learning another language helps you to understand English even more,” he says.

“Learning the basics of sentence structure and grammar in another language helped me tremendously in both languages. Because Portuguese is Latin-based, I also have found it easier to understand the roots of words and can reasonably decipher written Italian, Spanish and even some French.”

Joe DuFrain, England

When Joe DuFrain learned he’d been assigned to the LDS Church’s England Birmingham Mission, he assumed he’d gotten off easy and wouldn’t be faced with learning a foreign language.

However, “After arriving there, I learned real fast who truly spoke English, and it was not me,” says Mr. DuFrain, who served his mission from 1982 to 1984 and now is a case manager with the Missouri Department of Mental Health.

He adds that in many instances, pronunciation, spelling and word usage are different in America than in England. “Aluminum,” for example, is pronounced “al-you-min-ee-mum.” “Airplane” is spelled “aeroplane.” And to name just a few usage differences: A flashlight is called a torch; underwear is called pants; cookies are called biscuits; and sneakers are called plimsolls.

In addition, Mr. DuFrain faced the challenge presented not only by the variety of accents in different areas of the country but also by areas with a heavy concentration of ethnic groups connected to Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, India and Pakistan.

Working in these areas required mastering some basic greetings associated with a variety of languages and dialects.

Most of those he has not retained, but he has retained British English and continues to use it at home — which is fitting for his family since his wife is from England. He’s also able to understand British TV and literature better than most Americans.

“When I watch a British show, often I will find myself laughing while other people have a puzzled look,” he says. “I presume that it is because I understand the terminology and the context in which it is used, but for someone not accustomed to the terminology, they have to puzzle through it.”

Alex DuFrain, Scotland

Alex DuFrain, Mr. DuFrain’s wife, also assumed she’d received an easy placement when — while still living in England — she was assigned to serve in Scotland from October 1988 through March 1990. But she, too, was in for a rude awakening.

“In Scotland, they speak English, but with a very strong accent,” she says. “When I got there, I thought they were speaking a different language. The highlands of Scotland has a Scandinavian influence, and when I got there, I had no idea what a quine or loon was.

(Quine would be a girl, and loon, a boy.)”

Despite initially thinking she would spend her entire mission having no idea what anyone was saying (and running into some problems in purchasing food due to differences in word usage between England and Scotland), Mrs. DuFrain not only learned to understand the Scottish accent but also picked it up herself: “When I returned home,” she says, “I was a cross between my Yorkshire accent and Scottish.”

Now a mother of five who no longer speaks with a Scottish accent, she still has fond memories of it.

“When I took my children to see ‘Brave,’ I totally enjoyed it, and I was transported back to my mission days in Scotland,” she says. “I loved hearing the accent again.”

Erin Wisdom can be reached at erin.wisdom@newspressnow.com.

Follow her on Twitter: @SJNPWisdom.

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