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Fresh off covering President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night for FoxNews, Fred Barnes will be flying into Memphis on Wednesday morning to talk to the gathering. Headlining the speaking list is Barnes, who along with Mort Kondracke, hosts \"The Beltway Boys\" on FoxNews. He also appears regularly on Fox's \"Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998, he was a regular panelist on the \"McLaughlin Group.\" Barnes was senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic.

\"Nope, it had been kind of slow, actually,\" he said. \"We had three or four in the box, but they hadn't been anything special. \"We were actually doing about 5 knots trying to get to some birds when it hit,\" [Pat Foster] said. \"We troll a lot slower than that when we're striper fishing. So it's pretty wild that this fish hit. \"To the point that we set a new record is not surprising,\" [Lewis Gillingham] said. \"Striped bass are a highly sought-after fish this time of year, and the numbers of big fish off the coast have been incredible. But to break it by 5 pounds is pretty impressive.\"

If you look on the shelves of more than 50,000 of Britain's commercial kitchens, you will find a slim, A4 catalogue with a purple cover that carries details of roughly 10,000 items of fresh, frozen and chilled food. The catalogue belongs to a very important company, but one with a very low profile. Its name is 3663, which spells \"food\" on your telephone keypad. Three Double Six Three, as the firm's name is normally rendered in speech, is officially the largest player in a mushrooming industry called \"foodservice,\" and which supplies raw materials to restaurants, pubs, canteens, and any other outlets from which people buy or are served cooked meals. Some of their 10,000 products are fresh, high-quality ingredients, destined for the smartest restaurants in the land. Others, are artery-clogging, processed, \"basics,\" chucked into the deep fat fryer of your local fast-food outlet. The firm's catalogue, to pick a couple of examples at random, contains a \"breast of chicken, with apricot, brandy and herb stuffing, wrapped in Serrano ham\", and some venison and pork sausages \"infused with sloe gin and served in a rich and sweet bramble berry and red wine sauce\". For dessert, it suggests that chefs offer \"strawberry Romanoff with mixed berry coulis\", or an indulgent-sounding \"apricot, apple a n d stem ginger crumble... heaped with hand-placed golden oaty all-butter crumble\". \"Actually, it is economically sensible for us to recycle,\" he says. \"It's good for the environment and good for the company. Firms like ours have a choice: we can either say, 'we're the bad boys and we don't care', or we can seek to minimise our impact, and that is what we've done.\"

Last year's holiday weekend was especially good for Fred Barnes of Chesapeake. Fishing from the beach on one of the Eastern Shore's barrier islands, Barnes landed a 53 -pound, 13 -ounce giant that turned out to be the winner in the annual Striped Bass World Championships. The Rock Around the Clock event runs for 24 hours on the Sea Gull Fishing Pier on the first island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge- Tunnel. The event takes place Nov. 25. More than 100 anglers participated last year for more than $1,000 in prizes. Eugene Hairston of Hampton won with a fish that weighed just less than 7 pounds.

Photo (color) Courtesy of Moton Early Childhood Center; Moton Early Childhood Center students celebrated a different aspect of good citizenship each day during Character Counts Week, Oct. 20-24.