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(RNS) So here we go again. It's that time of year — Lent, when many Christians give something up. Often it's food, although my mom told me when I was a kid that giving up vegetables doesn't count.
A few years ago, as we approached Lent, a few of my friends (who during the rest of the year rejected religion), announced they, too, were giving something up. What, exactly, they were relinquishing, I don't remember — and it doesn't matter.
At the time, it was a joke — "Don't want to upset Baby Jesus …"
While I still chuckle at the memory, it has lost some of the humor. As the Facebook statuses appeared in my newsfeed leading up to Lent, with my friends announcing what people are giving up or crowd-sourcing ideas, I found myself getting frustrated.
When did Lent just become a second chance at our New Year's resolutions?
Is that all Lent is now? And does God really care if I don't eat chocolate for 40 days?
Lent is supposed to be a time to struggle with our doubts and our humanity. But it's become easy — not that refraining from chocolate or caffeine is especially easy, but it's a lot easier than confronting our failures, our imperfections and what is putting distance in our relationship with God.
It's not about whether or not we make Baby Jesus cry.
We give something up and let go to bring us closer to God and to remember the struggling and suffering of Jesus before he died. It's hard, and it's supposed to be, because that thing we're letting go of is something we're holding onto too tightly and it's preventing us from being the whole person God intends us to be.
Personally, I all too often hold on too tightly to plans. It's possibly part of what makes me good at my job. After all, keeping clergy to the time constraints during a media event requires a plan. But as John Lennon once said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
My husband and I had a plan, for example, and it didn't involve us living in two states over the past three years while he's worked on his law degree. My husband worked at the University of Michigan in 2008 and fell in love with the campus. So when it came to applying for school, he applied, but didn't think he'd get into the top 10 school. He did. And they gave him a scholarship.
I've remained in Washington while he's in Michigan, and while the past three years of a long-distance marriage has been one of the hardest things we've done, without letting go of our plans, neither of us would be who we are today.
So this Lent, instead of worrying about making Baby Jesus cry, try to let go of something that's harder to give up than French fries, chocolate, alcohol or coffee. Because even though it will be difficult, who you are on Easter Sunday just might amaze you.
(Shannon Craig Straw is a Washington, D.C.-based communications strategist working primarily with social justice and religious advocacy organizations. She is a lay leader and Sunday school teacher at Mount Olivet United Methodist in Arlington, Va. You can follow her on Twitter: @ShannonStraw)


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Google has exhausted stocks of its Nexus 4 smartphone in the Australian Play Store for a second time.
The device went back on sale yesterday following a two month long hiatus but stock of the 16GB model lasted less than seven hours before selling out. The 8GB model of the Nexus 4 is still currently available to purchase, but it is listed as "ships soon" with a 2-3 week wait adivsed.
The flagship Android phone first went on sale through Google's Play Store in mid-November last year, but both the 8GB and 16GB models were listed as "coming soon" less than an hour later.
Google has not responded to inquiries and refuses to comment on stock availability or any further details. The company has severely struggled with stock levels since the mid-November, worldwide launch.
In addition to online sales, the 16GB model Nexus 4 went on sale "exclusively" through Harvey Norman retail stores today for $496. The outright price through Harvey Norman is $97 more expensive than the Play Store, though Google charges $19.99 for shipping
A quick search on the Harvey Norman website indicates that most retail stores are already out of stock of Nexus 4 devices. A message on the site reads, "we'll be getting more stock really soon and you can still buy on back-order."
Australian Android blog Ausdroid reports that additional stock is set to arrive in the first week of March.
In addition to outright sales, selected Harvey Norman stores offer the Nexus 4 on a range of Optus post-paid mobile plans.

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On a planet with 7 billion people, many of Earth's inhabitants have never seen water flow out of a pipe. To bring development, growth and improved quality of life to our world's poorest regions, adequate water supply is essential.
On a planet with 7 billion people, many of Earth's inhabitants have never seen water flow out of a pipe. To bring development, growth and improved quality of life to our world's poorest regions, adequate water supply is essential.
This was the topic of discussion at the Global Water Summit held in Paris in April. As spring showers soaked tourists, delegates from around the world convened to discuss water's key role in economic recovery and business development.
Back in Massachusetts, the discussion of water resources is headed in the opposite direction. State regulators are not focused on improving the economy or the quality of human lives. Instead, they are seeking to ration the supply and force consumers to pay dearly for reduced use.
Even though this state has among the lowest per person water use in the nation, special interests are driving regulations to choke the supply of water. By cutting off the supply of additional water, state regulations will cause business and residential growth to wither. Limit water, and you limit economic development.
The Department of Environmental Protection has proposed new Water Management Act regulations aimed squarely at decreasing water use. The DEP has released the draft rules for a public comment period that ends July 10, after which the final regulations will be issued.
As drafted, the new regulations will sharply increase water rates for the 180 municipal water departments with expiring Water Management Act permits, which cap water use. The new regulations would not impact Massachusetts Water Resources Authority communities, which are fed by the Quabbin Reservoir, and a few water suppliers with grandfathered limits.
Essentially, the draft regulations require a water department that needs more water than the average used in between 2003 and 2005 to complete questionable mitigation projects aimed at replacing each additional drop consumed. The expensive mitigation could also be indirect, such as the removal of dams and the installation of fish ladders, projects that do not return water to the ground.
The new regulations will set up scenarios where water departments will turn away developers and companies looking to expand because there is not enough water available by state permit and seeking an increase will require mitigation that is too costly. These developments will then go elsewhere, and the community will lose out on the economic and tax benefits of development.
Alternatively, water departments will be a tool of the DEP to restrict homeowners' use of water and complete so-called mitigation projects where any benefit to the environment is suspect at best. Consider a scenario where a water department, in order to win state permit approval, is required to remove a dam. The ratepayers will foot the cost of the project and the lawsuits from property owners whose waterfront lots disappear along with the pond created by the dam.
It is abundantly clear that public water supply is being used as a planning tool to restrict growth and make an end run around municipal zoning bylaws. When a government entity directly restricts land use, it interferes with private property rights, which constitutes a taking and is subject to compensation. However, when lack of water denies a property owner the right to develop, the same result is accomplished in the name of the environment and the landowner is helpless.
The new regulations fail to address the importance of water to economic growth. They place no importance on serving the people of Massachusetts and providing an abundant water supply. If water allocation were truly the issue, the state would prohibit the issuance of building permits in those few areas of Massachusetts with limited water supplies until the aquifers were replenished or new sources found.
Indeed, the regulations fail to encourage the development of new water sources, such as the construction of desalination plants that turn saltwater into safe, quality drinking water. As a seaside state, Massachusetts should tap this abundant resource.
The Global Water Summit in Paris included its version of the Academy Awards for leading water projects around the globe. Along with projects from Dubai, Israel and Singapore, the Swansea Water District's $20 million desalination plant placed third in its category of "Best Desalination Plant" commissioned in 2013.
Swansea is not blessed with abundant groundwater supplies, and we have turned to a tidal river for water to support the people and economy of our community rather than cutting off the supply. Fresh, clean water is an essential commodity that should flow freely and not be used as a planning tool to limit growth and reduce our quality of life.
Robert Marquis, a Swansea selectman, is superintendent of the Swansea Water District, where he has worked for 39 years.


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PHOENIX -- It seems we are forever bidding Bill Parcells either hello or goodbye. His NFL head-coaching career now spans four teams and three decades. But no matter how many changes he has undergone or reincarnations he has managed, he remains always front and center, one of the few figures in the game of professional football today who could pass for larger than life.
Love him or loathe him, Parcells is rarely irrelevant. Even when he's not in the NFL, his presence always looms, and we have learned to pay attention when he talks. Whether we believe every word is another story entirely.
As strange as it first sounded, his recent hiring by the Dallas Cowboys is a pairing that now strikes us as destined to have happened. In some ways, the only surprise is that Parcells and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn't find each other sooner. Their publicity-creating partnership is certain to test that old adage about how much can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.
Parcells' profile since he took over the Cowboys on Jan. 2 has been ridiculously low by his standards. That's why easily the most anticipated segment of this week's NFL annual meeting had nothing to do with the debate over expanding the playoffs, changing the overtime format or instant-replay challenges.
The event everyone was waiting for came Wednesday morning at 7:15, when the NFC coaches' annual media breakfast kicked off at the Arizona Biltmore Resort with one Duane Charles Parcells in attendance. Known for his habitual avoidance of the league's annual meeting -- too many people, too much schmoozing -- Parcells had a standing-room-only crowd of reporters gathered around his table. Some arrived as early as 6:45 a.m. in order to elbow their way into position (Trust me on this one).
Washington's Steve Spurrier? That was so last year. This year's buzz was all about Parcells and him conducting just his third news conference since becoming the Cowboys' sixth head coach -- and first since Jan. 28. Parcells didn't disappoint, holding court for more than 50 minutes while answering questions that ranged as far as why he named one of his three daughters "Dallas" to the demise of Emmitt Smith's illustrious Cowboys career.
Here are the best-of-the-best excerpts from Wednesday's gabfest, in which Parcells, as usual, commanded center stage:
On what brings coaches like himself back to the NFL again and again:
"It's hard to explain. It's a very exciting game, and if you like competition -- in this league -- Sunday at 1 o'clock, that's where it is. It's a killer business. There isn't any doubt about that. I was looking at the coach's [group] photo yesterday, and there's only one guy that was in the first one I was in, and that's Dan Reeves.
"And I can recall the first picture that I was ever in -- and you'll get a kick out of this -- in 1983. Bud Grant was in the picture standing right behind me and as we were trying to get ready to take the picture, he said, 'This is like taking pictures of bomber pilots. When you come back next year, they'll be a few missing.' I've always remembered that."
On his noted preference for having just one voice speak for an organization -- his -- in light of the Cowboys' high-profile owner:
"I'm just going to coach the team. As you know I haven't been too vocal since I've been there. I've had one or two press conferences. So Jerry's going to speak and I'm going to do what's required of me [media-wise] from the standpoint of during the season, and that's the way it's going to be."
On whether having Jones comment on personnel issues bothers him:
"No, no. It doesn't bother me. I'm going to be fine with that. I think we're going to be philosophically compatible. I don't think there's any question. We've had many exchanges about things of that nature since I've been with the Cowboys. I think it's going to work out okay."
On whether that's an accommodation on his part:
"Absolutely. But I'm not the general manager. When I was the general manager of a team, then it's a little different. Then I'm responsible. But I'm not responsible. I'm in a little different position. And I quite frankly don't mind it."
On what brought him to the place where he doesn't mind that:
"Well, because I'm past all that stuff. You know? It's a different time for me and I think it's a different time for Jerry. I just want to do my best, and to coach this team and try and get it back to where he wants it and where I would like to have it. You know it is a marquee franchise. I know that."
On people waiting for his first blow-up with Jones:
"It's not going to happen. I mean I wouldn't foresee any of that. People waiting for it? You mean certain journalistic people? I told you I'm going to be a good partner. I'm going to work hard and give it my best shot. We both understand that this needs to work. I certainly understand it.
"We both want it work well. I'm going to make my very best effort to make it work. I promise you that. I promised him that. So we'll see how it goes. ... All I know is he's been great since I've been there. Are things a little different than I'm used to? Sure. I'm sure they're different for him too."
On whether he and Jones talk every day:
"Oh, yeah. There's been a couple times where he's been out of town. I kid him every once in a while when Stephen (Jones' son and a team executive) and he come in with their suits and ties on and their hankies in the suits. Then I know they're doing a little business away from Valley Ranch. I say, 'Uh-oh. We're not getting much done today.' But when they come in there with those open-collar shirts, I know we're working on football."
On whether he was in agreement that it was best for Smith to end his career elsewhere:
"It was difficult for me because I came in right at the tail end of it. They [Smith and Jones] had had this agreement to work this thing out. I sure didn't want to get in the middle of it. ... It really would have been fine with me either way, but certainly you have to look at the future of the franchise and at each position, and ask 'Is the player that's currently there what you're going to build with?' I think probably now is as good a time as any to try and move on."
On putting his stamp on the team, and banning dominoes in the locker room:
"I don't know anything about these dominoes. I really don't. They say 'He took the dominoes out.' I didn't know we had dominoes. I don't know what transpired [in the past]. I wasn't there. All I know is the way I like to do things."
On whether running back is a must need or a want:
"All I can tell you is I've been very fortunate in my career at the running back position. Some of the real great players I've had have had a trait that I'm spoiled about, and that is a tremendous stamina and ability to sustain performance. I had that with Joe Morris for a short period, with David Meggett in his own particular job he did, with Ottis Anderson and then with Curtis Martin.
"These guys are going to have to show me they've got that heart to be that guy. Right now, I don't know. Until you see him get smashed for a no-yard gain six times in a row and then still attack the same way they've always attacked, you don't know. Do I hope it's OK? Yeah, I do hope they're going to make it. But I really don't know. Troy Hambrick's going to get a good chance. That's what he's said he been wanting.
"Well, as they say in Texas, 'We're fixin' to find out.'"
On what he wants from receiver Terry Glenn:
"I'd like to have that same guy he was when he was a rookie [in New England with me in 1996]. That would certainly suffice. Again, I look at Terry Glenn pretty much the same way I looked at entering into the relationship with the Cowboys. I mean, this needs to work.
"And I had a great relationship with Terry his first year. People think it was adversarial. In no way was it ever adversarial. It was in jest that comment that was made. He knew it, I knew it and everybody on the team knew it. And I just like the player. I think he's a guy who can help our team. ... He's a threat now. If he gets it going and we have somebody get him the ball, he'll be a threat. He really will."
On how comfortable he is with his undersized defensive front:
"I'm going to have to see them play. I really don't know. I mean it's not what I'm used to. I'm going to have to see them play and then make my judgments when I see them. But it's certainly not what I'm used to. I'm used to a little bit bigger group. But the game's changed. It's more spread out. The style of middle linebacker in this league has obviously changed from what it was."
On whether he has had any regrets after taking the Dallas job:
"No. ... Hey, I know the window is closing for me. I wasn't really out there. I didn't expect this to happen. I didn't. It just hit me. I just thought this might be the right fit. ... I haven't regretted it at all."
On whether he's approaching this as if it's his career's final act:
"Well, I'm in the age-prohibitive category, I think. You know what I mean? Quite frankly, he doesn't know this, because I've never told him, but [Chiefs head coach Dick] Vermeil has been a little bit of an inspiration to me. ... [I was] sitting there looking at him, saying, 'You know, you might still be able to do this if you still want to.'"
On whether he regrets telling everyone "to write it on your chalkboard, I'm never coaching again" after the 1999 season with the Jets:
"No. That's the way I felt at the time. I'm not apologizing for it. That's the way I felt. I didn't think I was. As I said, this is a business that can wear me out. You know what kind of personality I am -- Type-A personality. I know that.
"But I'm past all that. This is a different enterprise now for me. I'm enthusiastic. I'm energized. I look forward to it. Will it beat me down again? Yes. The answer is yes, it will. But until it does, I'm giving it everything I've got."
On his four-year contract and how many years he thinks he has left as a coach:
"I don't know. I look forward to this very much. It's always been the same for me. You're afraid that it's not going to work. So that's what drives you. You're afraid you're going to fail. That's what drives a lot of us in this business. You do everything to keep that eventuality from happening. I'll do my best."
On the irony of coaching the Cowboys and having a daughter named Dallas:
"My college roommate's wife's name was Dallas. I just liked the name. My wife liked the name. So we just picked out that name. That's all it was. I never foresaw that this opportunity would come along, but hey, it did. That's the way life is, and that's the way this industry is now. So you just go."
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Ariel Castro's defense attorney, Craig Weintraub, is speaking out following the apparent jailhouse suicide of his client.
The convicted kidnapper and rapist was found hanging in his cell on Tuesday night at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Pickaway County, Ohio.
Castro was sentenced to life in prison, plus 1,000 years, for kidnapping and sexually assaulting Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus while holding them captive in his Seymour Avenue house for over a decade.
Weintraub tells 19 Action News he plans to launch his own investigation to find out what happened, but insists the investigation isn't for a future lawsuit.
"This is for the Castro family members to try to find out what happened," Weintraub said. "The family is shocked and devastated."
"There definitely was a history of suicidal thoughts," Weintraub continued. "We know that. We learned about that when the FBI found the letter inside the (Seymour Avenue) house."
Weintraub tells 19 Action News that once Castro was sentenced, he made a request with the Sheriff to have an independent forensic evaluation of Castro while he was still in Cuyahoga County. His request was denied. Once Castro was moved to Orient, a request was made with the warden, but that too was denied without any explanation.
Weintraub doesn't know if Castro was placed on suicide prevention while in Orient, as he is not familiar with their protocol.
"There's inherent distrust of the state at this point," Weintraub said. "We all want to trust those that are empowered, particularly at a prison, but I don't trust the prison. There is no reason to trust them. They didn't communicate with us the reasons we couldn't get an independent evaluation, they didn't contact the family, Mr. Castro's family, to let them know he died prior to making a public statement."
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Since receiving my review unit of the Samsung Galaxy S8, I've barely reached for my iPhone 6. And while I test the device for my in-depth enterprise review, I've stumbled across some features I think are underrated.
The most prominent features of the S8 are easy to spot and highly publicized -- the bezel-free Infinity Display, the Super AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution and virtual integrated home button. The design and display drew me in, but I've found a lot more to love about the Galaxy S8 -- even in some areas I least expected. Here are the five most surprising features I've found on the Samsung Galaxy S8.
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The bezel free design allowed Samsung to pack a 5.8-inch inch display into a 5.86-inch form factor -- to put it simply, this phone is all screen. This is great news if, like me, you've found past Android devices too large or uncomfortable to hold. The tapered edges add another level of comfort and I found it just as comfortable to hold and use with one hand as my iPhone 6. But my favorite thing about all the screen real estate is that it makes the multi-window feature on Android Nougat usable.
On smaller Android displays, I don't find multi-windows usable, but on the S8's taller display, I had more than enough room to make use of the feature. Once I got the hang of the different gestures, commands and features, it became intuitive. I used the feature to constantly float apps like Spotify or Google Hangouts in the corner while I scrolled through Twitter or browsed the web. I wound up using the multi-windows more often than I had expected, docking YouTube or Amazon at the top of my display while I kept up on a group chat below. At this point, exiting and opening apps over and over to respond to messages or check notifications feels archaic.
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The Edge notifications aren't perfect. I'd like to have more control over the notification settings and even the option to turn off the Edge lighting in certain situations. And some apps, like Android Messages and Samsung's stock messaging app still displayed the traditional notifications with the edge notifications. However, these are all software fixes, and I'm excited to see what Samsung does with these sleek notifications in the future.
This minimalism extends to the lock screen, too. You can opt to see notification icons instead of the traditional alerts. Small, delicate app icons pop up to indicate unread messages and alerts -- double tapping on the app icon will display more information about the notification. With the icons only setting, my lock screen never looks cluttered or overrun with notifications and I found it less distracting, overall.
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You'll hear a lot about the Galaxy S8 fingerprint reader -- mostly because it's been relegated to the back. The Verge reports that Synaptics didn't have the technology for an integrated fingerprint ready in time for the launch date -- the same issue Apple is reportedly facing with the rumored iPhone 8.
I personally don't care for fingerprint readers and I went in expecting the worst, but after a week of use, I've been pleasantly surprised at the ways I've made it work. I can't say the S8 fingerprint reader frustrates me anymore a smartphone with a home-button fingerprint reader. And once I slapped a case on the device, it became easier to blindly locate the fingerprint reader, avoiding the dreaded camera smudge.
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The location isn't ideal, but I prefer it as a design choice -- S8 cases would be ugly and ineffective if they needed a cut out large camera and another cutout for the fingerprint reader below.
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I never thought I would see the day when I counted Samsung's TouchWiz as a plus. But on the Galaxy S8, Samsung's Android skin is more refined and user-friendly than ever. I appreciate stock Android as much as the next tech-enthusiast, but for the average consumer, Android can be a mess of configurations and menus. Apple's popularity proves that plenty of users aren't interested in drilling down to fine-tune every notification and setting, they just want a phone that works.
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Samsung's bloatware is still there -- but it's tucked away nicely into a folder. It's less intrusive than in the past, and it doesn't annoy me anymore than the folder of stock Apple apps I never touch on my iPhone. Samsung no longer forces its proprietary apps on you and lets you decide which apps serve you best. And on the S8 I can tuck the folder away into my App Drawer, instead of making room for it on my home screen.
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One of the most underrated features on the Galaxy S8 is the Bluetooth 5, which lets you stream audio to two Bluetooth devices simultaneously. It features greater range and a stronger, faster and more reliable connection than Bluetooth 4. It's a small feature, but reliable Bluetooth is becoming increasingly important, especially as connected devices continue to grow.
Having the latest Bluetooth in the S8 won't just make it easier to stream to more than one set of headphones or speaker, but you also won't have to worry about compatibility over the life span of your smartphone. It's also the first device to feature Bluetooth 5 -- and, while it won't be the last, it might be months before another flagship device ships with Bluetooth 5.
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A friend gave me this terrific phrase that pretty much sums up my view of making wine - art, science, luck. It doesn't just have the right elements. It has them in order.
Great wine is an expression of specific grapes, of a place and a season. It is an artistic expression, and not simply that of the winemaker. Wine as we know it is not natural without human intervention. Still, humans are a part of nature and our role in guiding grapes to reflect what we at least perceive to be their nature is fundamental to what's interesting and artful in wine. Anyone can ferment something and make it drinkable. I believe the art of making great wine is about helping the uniqueness of a specific lot of grapes become real and beautiful. Something you can smell and taste.
Of course, there is science. We study the biology and chemistry of soil, plants and fruit in the vineyard. Then we take the grapes at harvest and analyze their components, perhaps intervening to preserve the integrity of what's there. We monitor sugar, acidity levels and temperature throughout fermentation, observing smells, tastes and textures along the way. For me, the goal of science is to understand what's present and what's happening, all with the intent of allowing what's there to best reveal itself in the finished wine.
And there's luck. Luck implies something happening that won't usually happen, and great wine is undoubtedly the product of luck. Luck in the growing season and luck in the winery, where things that you've done before, perhaps after a season that might not have been entirely unprecedented, somehow delivers something truly exceptional. Doesn't this happen in so many walks of life? From sports championships to a great novel, how many times do people produce something extraordinary and spend the rest of their time trying to recapture that result?
But luck has another side. My dad, like many dads I suppose, used to say that luck happened to people who worked hard. Luck in this way being fortune, something that might be repeatable with a certain diligence. I think of the best improvisational musicians. They study and practice, tune their instruments and set things just right, then let go and allow fortune to reveal something great. The result is usually not something anyone had in mind, which is the point, as if there's a combination of artistry in the musician and the music itself, so that the musician is channeling or funneling something more essential than he or she would have consciously delivered. How many times do we hear winemakers talk about talking great grapes and simply trying to not screw things up? It's really true.
That's winemaking to me. You go into it looking for expression. That's the point. You are diligent about analysis and technique, with the goal of preserving that expression. You then let go to allow something greater than you to happen. So, harvest 2010 has been about harvesting, sorting and destemming, adding some sulfur to preserve integrity, and largely letting the grapes ferment without interference. Each fermenter was mixed once, then left alone for a week or more until it became active, then monitored for a complete fermentation.
The goal isn't to say this is the right or best way to make wine. Rather, to see if the result will be reflective of the grapes, their place and season. And perhaps something lucky, either chance or fortune, will come from it. At the least it should be unique. So far, I think it's a mix of both. I'm excited for what harvest 2010 in the northern Willamette Valley is producing. Stay tuned as the new wines age through the winter and spring.


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I was traveling (ironically) on February 4th and have been blissfully ignorant of the news that TSA workers are on the verge of wearing the union label. Talking about President Obama's move to the center on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, Jack Welch said, "Let's hope he's moving to the center. But from what I see—unionizing 43,000 TSA workers on a Friday and giving a speech (to the US Chamber of Commerce) Monday morning—show me the money."
If there has been any uproar about this, I've missed it. Welch's point on Squawk Box was that although Obama hasn't passed card-check legislation that is (rightly) feared because it would make unionization far more wide-spread, unionizing 43,000 government workers on a slow news Friday afternoon was significant. Even with card check regulation, unions would have to spend money ramping up campaigns and targeting employers. Obama did a back-door card check by adding thousands of soon-to-be dues-paying government workers at no cost to big labor.
Two unions are fighting for the $18 million in annual dues that the TSA crew will provide: National Treasury Employees Union and American Federation of Government Employees. "Today marks the recognition of a fundamental human right for 40,000 patriotic federal employees who have been disenfranchised since the inception of the agency," said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees when the decision was announced.
Gage called the decision "a big first step" for TSA workers, saying it would help improve employee satisfaction and morale at the agency, which was ranked near the bottom among all federal agencies in a recent survey conducted by the Office of Personnel Management.
That's right, as Yuri Maltsev explains the surest way to demoralize people and turn them into alcoholics and the like, in droves, is to have them stand around and do nothing that's productive while getting paid for it.
TSA administrator, John Pistole, said the decision will allow bargaining on a national level over certain employment issues such as setting work shifts, transfers, vacation time and awards (yes, that's right, awards). However, the deal prohibits negotiating on the deployment of security personnel, job qualifications, testing or discipline. It also bars any work slowdowns.
Like entrepreneurs who deal with government regulation day-to-day in order to conduct business, those us who fly regularly learn how to navigate as efficiently as possible the borders the TSA has erected in every airport around the country. Movies like Up In The Air and commercials for National Car Rental highlight the skills of the frequent flier, "You are a business pro, executor of efficiency. You can spot an amateur a mile away, while going shoeless and metal free in seconds."
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In another decade the political discussion will not be framed as to whether passengers can actually fly without steering through a government checkpoint at all. Those on the right will argue as to how the TSA must be made more efficient and cost the taxpayers less but be ever present to keep us safe. On the other side of the aisle the argument will be about respect for government workers and proper working conditions. It is only a matter of time before airline schedules must take into account TSA shift changes and staffing levels.
As the TSA bureaucracy grows, it will mean a slow death to the business pro road warrior. Face-to-face will be driven out of style and today's young people are ready: Facebook meetings, Skype and who knows what.
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In late 1955 Walker joined the Navy as a radioman and served on board a destroyer escort before joining the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59). While on shore leave in Boston during the winter of 1957, he met Barbara Crowley. They married soon afterward, and children followed, three daughters by 1960. After qualifying at submarine school, Walker was assigned to the Razorback (SS-394) for a Pacific deployment. While serving in her, Walker, then a petty officer, received his top secret cryptographic clearance and passed the Personnel Reliability Program, a psychological evaluation to ensure that only the most reliable personnel have access to nuclear weapons.
His submarine participated in surveillance missions off the Soviet port of Vladivostok and in the flotilla observing the July 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test. Walker's efficiency reports were uniformly excellent, and he was assigned to the Blue Crew of the Polaris ballistic missile submarine Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619), then under construction at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. On board the boat, Walker impressed the executive officer enough that when he was named to command the Gold Crew of the Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), he recruited the petty officer to lead his radio room. Walker first qualified on maintenance of cryptographic equipment in early 1963. Along the way, he passed his high school general education degree exams as well as Navy promotion tests, rising through grades to chief petty officer and warrant officer. These were the makings of a fine enlisted career. Ten years in, John Walker had served with some distinction on board half a dozen vessels, was a plank owner on a pair of "boomers," had attained warrant officer rank, and had run the radio shop of a nuclear missile submarine.
Life, however, grated on Smilin' Jack. Walker disliked the impersonal nature of his big ships, and his membership in the tight-knit crews of smaller vessels was long behind him. The lengthy underwater patrols in the ballistic missile subs, during which there were just a handful of brief communications with home, tried him.
Those cruises were also hard on his family, which by now included a son, Michael Lance. Meeting the kids all over again after a patrol was difficult for everyone, and according to Walker, he discovered Barbara philandering with family members, ignoring the household, and - shades of his father - drinking more and more. Walker seems to have despised the Navy for encouraging alcoholism among Sailors and their families. He invested his savings in land outside Charleston, South Carolina, planning to build a car park to give his wife a constructive outlet. He later opened a bar on the property instead, but the marginal venture left Warrant Officer Walker strapped for cash. Casting about for some means of righting his financial boat, he drove a cab and shuttled rental cars among cities, but it was not enough.
A Second Career
Espionage became Walker's way out, though in his telling political disaffection also played a role. He suspected John F. Kennedy's assassination had been engineered by government and corporate leaders intent on preventing the President from toning down the Cold War. In his memoir, Walker recounted his intellectual evolution from 1950s John Bircher to Cold War denier. He said he began to realize the Soviets were not the aggressive adversary Americans feared. "The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he commented, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me."
One bracing fall day in October 1967 Chief Warrant Officer Walker, then assigned as a watch officer at Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force headquarters in Norfolk, decided to correct the military balance - and balance his checkbook - by leaking top secret information to Moscow. Taking the first step, he photocopied a document at headquarters and slipped the copy in his pocket. The next day he hopped into his red 1964 MG sports car, drove to Washington, walked into the Soviet Embassy, and asked to see security personnel.
Yakov Lukasevics, an internal security specialist at the embassy, had no idea what to do with the American who came bearing documents and said he wanted to spy. The papers, however, needed to be evaluated, and so he telephoned the KGB rezident , or station chief, Boris A. Solomatin. KGB rezidenturas (stations) were wary of walk-ins, persons who spontaneously offered their services. The Soviets even used the term "well-wishers" to denote such persons. And the idea of an American striding right into the Soviet Embassy in Washington, which was under constant FBI surveillance, immediately suggested a trap.
"I have an interesting man here who walked in off the street," Lukasevics told Solomatin. "Someone must come down who speaks better English."
Another KGB man presently spoke to Walker, who identified himself and said he wanted to earn money and "make arrangements for cooperation." The KGB officer then took the documents upstairs to Solomatin. As it happened, the 43-year old rezident was a naval buff, having grown up in the Black Sea port of Odessa. Solomatin recognized that some of Walker's documents concerned U.S. submarines, vessels that particularly plagued the Soviet Fleet. Of greater importance, the National Security Agency (NSA) document Walker had purloined before leaving work listed the following month's settings for the American KL-47 encryption machine. The Soviets had already received some NSA papers from a different spy, and after comparing markings and format realized Walker's settings document, called a key list, was genuine.
On the spot Solomatin decided to take a chance. For a KGB station chief personally to meet a prospective agent was unprecedented, but Solomatin spent the next two hours talking privately with Walker. The American favorably impressed him by saying nothing about love for communism, which most phonies emphasized. This was strictly business. Walker received a few thousand dollars cash as a down payment and was smuggled off the embassy compound in a car. Thus began the Navy's most damaging spy case.
Solomatin, who had not previously paid special attention to the U.S. Navy, now boned up on the subject.
He kept a very tight rein on the Walker operation, assigning Oleg Kalugin, his deputy for political intelligence (Line PR), as the American's manager and Yuri Linkov, a naval spy, as his case officer. Kalugin spent weeks driving around the Washington area to identify and carefully record spots for "dead drops," places Walker would deposit packages of intelligence and pick up cash and instructions. During a meeting outside a northern Virginia department store within a month of Walker's embassy visit, the warrant officer handed over a bigger pile of Navy documents, and Linkov gave him the locations for his first few drops-offs plus more money. Those were the only face-to-face meetings the KGB had with John Walker for a decade. Some versions of the tale maintain that his espionage began in 1968; however, Solomatin, Kalugin, and Walker all agree that it began in October 1967 at the Soviet Embassy.
Only a handful of other KGB officials ever had anything to do with Walker. A stovepipe fed his material to the deputy chief of the First Directorate, the KGB's foreign intelligence unit, and just a couple of assistants. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner for Walker's recruitment, Solomatin was promoted to deputy chief of intelligence. In 1968, when the KGB created the Sixteenth Directorate, its counterpart to NSA, the Walker case passed from Line PR to the new agency, but the tight security surrounding it was preserved.
Whether the KGB had an immediate use for Walker's KL-47 key list is still not clear. In early January 1968, however, the spy delivered to the Soviets a KW-7 encryption machine key list that would quickly prove useful. Later that month, North Korea captured the spy ship USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in international waters and with it a KW-7 device along with manuals and other documents. According to historian Mitchell B. Lerner, a leading authority on the affair, within two days of seizing the Pueblo , North Korea dispatched an aircraft to Moscow containing almost 800 pounds of cargo, presumably from the spy ship. The KGB quickly dispatched a team of intelligence experts to the port of Wonsan, North Korea, where the vessel had been taken. U.S. intelligence detected transmission of an enormous fax to Moscow, presumably the texts of manuals for cryptographic equipment on board the Pueblo . Thereafter, Moscow had continued access to American naval communications until the U.S. system was entirely changed.
Life As a Spy
John Walker's trickle of intelligence meanwhile became a flood. According to Walker's account, he mostly supplied the Soviets with old key lists - much less zealously guarded - and the KGB never pressed him for current or future ones. In fact, the Soviets advised Walker to avoid future material as well as maintenance manuals. Also, their plan for clandestine drops provided for only two per year, and he claimed that the KGB never demanded more frequent exchanges, which means their take of current/future material had to be limited to a couple of months annually.
Walker also maintained that much of what he gave the Soviets concerned such obsolescent systems as the World War II - vintage KL-47, which featured a seven-rotor encryption machine similar to the German Enigma, and the KW-37, an early online, or automated, encryption system. As for the later-generation KW-7 system, Walker said he only provided the Soviets with its key lists for random future dates. Probably few commentators accept his version of what he handed over. If his claim that the KGB showed no desire for current or future keys is accurate, it puts an interesting light on Soviet gains from his espionage.
Walker nevertheless provided a huge array of other secret Navy and U.S. documents to America's Cold War adversary. These included operational orders, war plans, technical manuals, and intelligence digests. The KGB devised and furnished its spy with an electronic device that could read the KL-47's rotor wiring and gave him a miniature Minox camera. At Norfolk, he used his status as an armed forces courier to smuggle documents from headquarters to his bachelor officer quarters (BOQ) room, where he photographed them. There was such a stream of papers he had to be selective. Walker estimated that photographing just 20 of the hundreds of messages that crossed his desk during a watch would have required more than 100 rolls of film over six months, yet initially everything he left at a dead drop needed to fit inside a single soda can.
Later, while on training duty at San Diego, Walker had less access to top secret documents and had to rely on a classified library. Smuggling out material meant getting it past multiple checkpoints staffed by Marine guards. He also forged the papers required to show renewal of his security clearance. This spy enjoyed amazingly good fortune.
But John Walker's luck ran out with his family. He sometimes spent nights at the BOQ instead of the family's home. Barbara Walker had suspected her husband of sexual adventures - true, as it happened - and looked through his things. Family financial problems that had seemed insuperable were suddenly solved. Walker pointed to his moonlighting as the source of his money, but Barbara remained unconvinced. And then, within a year of her husband becoming a spy, she found a grocery bag in which Walker had secreted a pile of classified documents. Confronted with the discovery, he admitted to his espionage and took Barbara along to one of his dead drops in a dubious attempt to involve her in his crime. From the beginning, the KGB had warned Walker never to reveal anything to his wife or other family members. Though Barbara did nothing immediately, the seeds of John Walker's downfall were planted.
On the West Coast and while assigned to the combat stores ship Niagara Falls (AFS-3), the spy's journeys to drop his gleanings to the KGB became much more onerous. One 1972 drop required a flight from Vietnam to the United States, a brief cover visit home, and then rejoining his ship in Hong Kong. When Walker returned to Norfolk to work at Amphibious Force Atlantic headquarters in the summer of 1974, the problems were ameliorated, but the transfer conflicted with his desire to remain afloat and away from Barbara.
The naval spy's solution was to retire from the Navy. He believed that he could then work more effectively as a network manager, delivering to the Soviets information gathered by others. By the time he separated from the service, Walker had already begun dabbling in private investigating. Later, he took a job at Wackenhut and then opened his own firm. He also divorced Barbara, but not before again bringing her along to one of his drop sites.
Building the Ring
John Walker's network began with an old Navy friend, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jerry Whitworth, also a radioman, who had left the service but re-enlisted in the fall of 1974. He then volunteered for a billet at Diego Garcia, a previous duty station. Whitworth was active by the summer of 1975, when Walker put in for retirement. The more experienced spy forwarded many packets of Whitworth's intelligence to the KGB. Possibly the best resulted from his tour on board the Niagara Falls in the same post Walker once held. When the ship went into dry dock, Whitworth was reassigned to Naval Communications Center Alameda. There, however, he found that clandestinely photographing documents was harder. Walker bought a van, for which the Soviets reimbursed him, in which Whitworth could do his camerawork while it sat in a parking lot near work.
With Walker free to travel after his retirement and Whitworth delivering the goods, the spymaster offered the Soviets more frequent intelligence deliveries. Again the KGB specifically refused, although it invited Walker to a face-to-face meeting in Casablanca in the summer of 1977 during which his Soviet contact denounced his recruitment of a new agent. Walker agreed to annual clandestine meetings in Vienna and not to bring in any more agents. He later claimed that during one of the sidewalk encounters in the Austrian capital he was secreted away and debriefed by a group of men who included KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov. Others claim that Andropov personally oversaw Walker's espionage, which was unlikely.
In late 1980, a visit to Alameda by a Naval Investigative Service (NIS) team to solve a rape case frightened Whitworth. He not only became skittish but also pecuniary, deliberately ruining a batch of his photographs in an attempt to get the KGB to pay twice. Whitworth carried off a foot-high stack of documents from his last post on board the Enterprise (CVN-65) with the intent to continue delivering his stream of classified information after leaving the Navy, which he did in October 1983. Among the materials the Soviets obtained from him were cable traffic plus photographs of, and some key lists for, the KW-7, KY-8, KG-14, KWR-37, and KL-47 cryptographic systems. Though older crypto setups predominated, the take included data on the newest U.S. secure phone system.
Aware of Whitworth's increasing reluctance to spy and despite Walker's promises to the KGB, in 1983 the spymaster solicited his son, Michael, a freshly minted yeoman on board the Nimitz (CVN-68) who worked in the ship's administration office. (In 1979 he had attempted but failed to draw in his youngest daughter, Laura Walker Snyder, who was then in the Army but pregnant and planning to leave the service.) Michael copied more than 1,500 documents for the KGB, including material on weapon systems, nuclear weapons control, command procedures, hostile identification and stealth methods, and contingency target lists. He also included such ordinary items as copies of the Nimitz ship's newspaper.
Owing money to the spymaster, Arthur L. Walker, John's older brother who was a retired Navy lieutenant commander working for a defense contractor, played the game. He produced repair records on certain warships plus damage-control manuals for another. John Walker's rationalizations aside, this "family of spies" approach to espionage was a security breach waiting to happen, since suspicion of any family member would likely result in questioning of others, and the master spy was perfectly aware that Barbara Walker harbored nothing but ill-will toward him.
End of Walker's Espionage
A most troubling aspect of the Walker affair is how it could have gone on for 18 years without authorities uncovering the leak. There is no indication that counterintelligence was even aware of, much less moving to combat, the Walker network. Norfolk FBI spy catcher Robert W. Hunter claimed he knew that an "elusive master spy . . . was out there," but no attention focused on Walker until he was given away.
John Walker's operational security finally cracked in 1984, and fissures opened at every seam. That May Jerry Whitworth, afflicted with guilt or anxious to make a deal, opened an anonymous correspondence with the FBI in San Francisco using the name "RUS" and offering dark secrets. Whitworth, however, could not bring himself to follow through, and the FBI special agents involved were unable to track him down. In the end the RUS letters would be connected to John Walker, but only after the fact.
Then Barbara Walker denounced her ex-husband to the FBI. In November, after daughter Laura convinced her to speak to authorities, Barbara told the FBI field office in Boston that she had important information, and on 29 November a special agent from Hyannis interviewed her. The spy's ex-wife told him of her growing suspicion of her husband as far back as the 1960s, his admission to spying, and her accompanying Walker to dead drops near Washington. She described actions in those deliveries that dovetailed with KGB techniques.
The agent, however, noted in his report that Barbara appeared to have been drinking when she greeted him at her door and that during the interview she drank a large glass of vodka. She was also evasive when asked why she had not reported the spying earlier. He surmised that her allegations could be the result of her alcohol abuse and ill feelings toward her ex-husband, graded her information as meriting no follow-up, and sent the report to Boston, where it was filed away.
A month later, an FBI supervisor making a routine quarterly check of inactive files noted the Barbara Walker report and forwarded it to the bureau's Norfolk office because the alleged espionage centered there. Joseph R. Wolfinger, special agent in charge at Norfolk, obtained headquarters' approval to open an investigation. On 25 February he assigned the case to Robert Hunter, who had brought the Boston report to his attention.
The pieces then quickly fell into place. Laura Walker Snyder was interviewed about her father's attempt to recruit her and added details to her mother's account, though both Laura and Barbara were recognized as having personal problems that would make them not fully credible witnesses. In early March, headquarters authorized a full field investigation, code-named Windflyer, involving its foreign counterintelligence unit. The Naval Investigative Service also came into play since Michael Walker, a suspect by then, was an active-duty Sailor. Laura Snyder telephoned her father at the behest of the FBI, which recorded the conversation in which he evinced interest in her rejoining the military or perhaps the CIA. The FBI tapped Walker's phones, and the NIS interviewed hundreds of persons who had known him and obtained a confession from Michael on board the Nimitz .
The end for John Walker finally came on 20 May when the FBI arrested him after confiscating 127 classified documents from the Nimitz that he had left at a dead drop. A search of his home turned up plentiful evidence of the spy ring, including records of payments to "D" (Jerry Whitworth), who turned himself in to authorities on 3 June. Brother Arthur was also arrested.
In exchange for limits to his charges, John Walker made a deal to discuss his espionage in detail and plead guilty, and Michael also copped a plea. Arthur Walker was tried in August and found guilty. Whitworth went before a court in the spring of 1986. At his trial John Walker retaliated for the RUS letters, which would have betrayed him, by painting his friend's participation in the starkest terms. Found guilty, Whitworth was fined $410,000 and given 365 years in prison. As for the Walkers, Arthur was sentenced to three life terms plus a $250,000 fine, John received a life term, and Michael 25 years. In February 2000 Michael Walker was released for good behavior. John and Arthur Walker, meanwhile, will be eligible for parole in 2015.
Assessing the Damage
Many observers believe the Walker spy ring created the most damaging security breach of the Cold War. Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Admiral William O. Studeman declared that no sentence a court could impose would atone for its "unprecedented damage and treachery." Secretary of the Navy John H. Lehman tried to overturn John Walker's plea agreement but was restrained by Secretary Weinberger. Oleg Kalugin, the KGB officer who had first managed Walker, wrote that his was "by far the most spectacular spy case I handled in the United States." Walker and his colleagues compromised a huge array of secrets. Jonathan Pollard, another naval spy apprehended during 1985, the Year of the Spy, gave Israel a greater quantity of documents (estimated at 1.2 million pages), but the Walker material, with its cryptographic secrets, has to be judged as the worse loss.
Soviet spy chief Boris Solomatin offered a more nuanced perspective when author Pete Earley interviewed him in Moscow nearly ten years after Walker's arrest. Refusing to compare the Walker case with that of former CIA counterintelligence officer Aldrich Ames, another high-profile spy for the Soviet Union, he observed that agents must be judged on the content of the information they deliver. Ames provided the names of Russians spying for the United States and thus affected the KGB-CIA espionage war. Ames' information "would have been used to identify traitors," he said. "That is a one-time event. But Walker's information not only provided us with ongoing intelligence, but helped us over time to understand and study how your military actually thinks." John Walker had been the Soviets' key source on Navy submarine missile forces, which Solomatin viewed as the main component of the American nuclear triad. The KGB spymaster also noted that Walker helped both superpowers avoid nuclear war by enabling Moscow to appreciate true U.S. intentions - a goal the American articulated as one of his aims.
Among the still-murky aspects of the Walker affair is the question of what impact his intelligence had on the Vietnam War. While on board the Niagara Falls , Walker served in the combat theater, so he is believed to have compromised the Navy's theater cipher settings. Oleg Kalugin maintained that the North Vietnamese benefited from the Walker intelligence. Observers claimed Moscow gave Hanoi data enabling North Vietnam to anticipate B-52 strikes and naval air operations. Solomatin, however, disputed that.
As deputy chief of the KGB's First Directorate, Solomatin himself helped decide what intelligence went to Hanoi, as well as the Soviet Union's other allies. He asserted that little was shared and it was given in the most general terms, precisely to avoid exposing the KGB's prize agent. The logic is inescapable. A CIA operation would have been run the same way.
Even without the B-52 charge, the John Walker spy ring was enormously damaging to United States security. In the history of Cold War espionage only a handful of spies operated as long as Walker (British intelligence official Kim Philby and FBI agent Robert Hanssen are the obvious comparisons), and none had comparable access to military secrets. No spy ring ever functioned as long as Walker's without the other side becoming aware of a leak. While some specific secrets compromised during the Cold War, such as information about the atomic bomb, were intrinsically more valuable than Walker's, no agent supplied such consistently high-grade intelligence over an equivalent time frame. As Boris Solomatin noted: "You Americans like to call him the ' spy of the decade.' Perhaps you are right."
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Basic Books, 1999).
John Barron, Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring (Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1987).
Howard Blum, I Pledge Allegience . . . The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family (Simon & Schuster, 1987).
Peter Earley, Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring (Bantam, 1988).
Peter Earley, "Boris Solomatin Interview," Crime Library on truTV.com, http://www.trutv.com/library/
crime/terrorists_spies/spies/solomatin/1.html ? print+yes
Robert W. Hunter and Lynn Dean Hunter, Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case (Naval Institute Press, 1999).
Oleg Kalugin, The First Directorate (St. Martin's Press, 1994).
Mitchell B. Lerner, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2002).
Ronald J. Olive, Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice (Naval Institute Press, 2006).
John Prados, The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence Analysis and Soviet Strategic Forces (Princeton University Press, 1986).
Frank J. Rafalko, ed. A Counterintelligence Reader: vol. 3, Post World War II to the Closing of the 20th Century (National Counterintelligence Center, 2004).
John A. Walker Jr., My Life as a Spy: One of America's Most Notorious Spies Finally Tells His Story (Prometheus Books, 2008).


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Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 7
Location: Northern California
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:27 am
Post subject: Looking for Roseanne Raspberry plants.
I'm on a mission. I'm looking for a very difficult cultivar of a red raspberry (difficult to propagate and to find). It seems that there is no commercial stock available . It is supposed to be the best tasting of all red raspberries. Friends and neighbors may have some in their gardens. Have any of you heard of such a planting?
Thanks for the help.
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Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:48 pm
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etwizard: It's yet another miserable day in the Midwest, with rain, snow and hail covering the ground on Good Friday. So, armed with a bracing cuppa tea (Scottish Blend) and the laptop, I did an hour's worth of searching for your Roseanne raspberry bushes with ZERO SUCCESS.
Even at websites that listed old, vintage varieties, there was no listing and nothing even close; except for an Anne raspberry with yellow berries.
Where in the world did you read about this? I'm curious because if it's an article written about them, maybe you can contact the author about them.
I'm enclosed two links for two sites that have a nice listings for berries, and the descriptions sound like what you desire in your Roseanne berry.
Good luck with this and please update us if you find out anything else.
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Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 7
Location: Northern California
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:55 am
Post subject: Still looking...
The real name of this berry is Rosanna. It is refered to in some sources as coming from the Adriatic... late fruiting. Doesn't seem to sucker, ergo lack of easy propagattion. More than that I don't know.
The weather in No. Cal. is SUNNY today. Maybe it will last. Spring at last, spring at last, thank God almighty, spring at last.
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Posts: 3
Location: Eugene, Oregon
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:01 am
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I found these posts online... sorry for the length, I'm pasting the whole enchilada. Perhaps you can contact these people:
Subject: Fullerton Arboretum "Green Scene" April 28, 29 Plant Sale
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eunice Messner <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Probably the largest collection of garden vendors in California
will be at the "Green Scene" Fullerton Arboretum event April 28,
29, 2001. 9 to 4 on Saturday, 10 to 4 on Sunday. I believe
admission is $6 and children under 17 are free. Arboretum members
will have first choice on Friday evening (plus refreshments). You
can join at the gate for $25.
The Orange County Chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers will
offer a large selection of fruit trees. It varies every year but,
for sure, will be avocado trees that are best for the home garden
that are not sold commercially. We get the scion wood from the UC.
Field Station. There will also be a large selection of potted
deciduous trees from L.E. Cooke.
The best tasting of all red raspberries, "Rosanna" will be
available. All commercial sources have none left in stock. This
variety does very well in our subtropical areas as well as colder
ones. (Bill Nelson came and dug up some of mine so he would have
some parent stock.)
Lots of flowers, organic vegetable plants, succulents, garden
tools, macadamia nut crackers, etc. and of course, food. (I am
bringing 350 pepper plants, like the ones that are selling now for
$4.99 a #, - O.C. Organic Gardening booth.)
It is LOTS of fun! Plan to spend the day.
Eunice Messner mailto:email@example.com
P.S. I am also known as the "Hollyhock Lady" as I bring seed to
the O.C. Horticulture booth from my English fluted and/or frilled
hollyhocks unlike any others you have seen. The 300 packets I
bring usually sell out on Saturday.
>From the #57 Freeway, exit on Yorba Linda Blvd., turn west (left)
to the next street, Associated Rd., and turn left again. There
will be parking attendents to direct you.
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I believe Rosanna was developed in Italy. I've tried it here - flavor is extraordinary, but it is persnickety and never had much fruit over the 4 or 5 years I've tried. My one or two sprouts are already promised to a friend - if I find more and you are interested, let me know.
Hector black, zone 6
best of luck
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Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 342
Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:23 pm
Post subject:
Great info, McAuliflower! Maybe I need to do some searches on Roseanna now, vs. Roseanne.
Persnickety plants I have little time for growing. I've done it with various basil species that never seemed to make it out of their Green E.R.
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Posts: 7
Location: Northern California
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:15 pm
Post subject: Nice reply, thanks
Thanks McAuliflower
I'm not sure what it is about Raspberries. When I study apples, I find reams and reams of history and research on varieties and crosses and everything about them. Berries, no such luck.
I was given a clump, five canes, a few weeks ago. I traded some of my Marionberry for some of her Rosanna. Its leafed out now. Very stout, ridged canes, similar to Heritage, not at all like Willemette. I have heard that its slow to never fruiting. I have heard that it is the best tasting Raspberry in the world. I have heard that it is a late producer and not a heavy producer. Most of all this is anecdotal. Most of my e-mail requests to growers, associations etc have drawn responses summerized by "can't find it, don't know".
My plant is just leafing out and is too early to show any flowers...So more to follow.
Still looking for that Raspberry tome... Where is it?
Thanks for helping.
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Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 861
Location: Paris
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:26 pm
Post subject:
Good evening!
This is a wild stab in the dark, but I know the is a heritage fruit and veg company in Victoria in Australia. Cannot remember their name, but a place I worked at bought a whole heap of heritage fruit and veg plants to plant as a demonstration orchard and farm.
Maybe if you looked up specifying Victoria Australia you could find them? They may have info on the plants for you. I do know that they would have to have imported them at some stage from other countries as Australia does not have these types of fruit and veg as natural native species.
If I have a brainwave I will post name for you.
I am enjoying hearing about your gardens. At present I am in a tiny Parisienne apartment and miss my garden in Sydney where I grew all my herbs and a lot of our fruit and veg and flowers. Am thinking about window boxes and wondering if it is the right time for them here now?
Good luck!
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Posts: 1196
Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:46 pm
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Debbie, I think the place you are thinking of is
Diggers Seeds
, at Heronswood, Victoria.
Perry's Fruit and Nut Nursery
at McLaren Flat south of Adelaide, South Australia, might also be worth a try.
Good luck in your search, etwizard. I always liked growing Heritage Raspberries, which had a lovely crop in Autumn. It's too hot and dry here in Adelaide to grow them, unfortunately.
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Posts: 7
Location: Northern California
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:06 am
Post subject: Springtime
The search for the heritage of the Rossana Raspberry goes on. The Marionberries are now leafed out fully. Fruiting stems are going on about 7" tall. I grow my marionberries wrapped around hoops attached to the wine barrel they grow in. Its kind of a nice way to keep them contained. Its very pretty in the garden and very practical. The raspberries are in raised beds between horizontal wines. The upright plants are pretty easy to deal with, except for the suckers. You need to control them. The plants that tend to long limbs, like the Cumberland Black Caps, or for that matter the Wilemettes', end up tied on the top wires. It gets intense when the new canes join the fruiting canes and everyone needs to be or needs to stay tied up. Such troubles.
The Boysenberries and the Tayberries are about ten time worse. Don't come to that box with anything but long sleeves and leather gloves. These vines trained horizontal are a challenge to the flesh. Mine. They will absolutely give new credence to the legend of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. While there is no tar pit in this story, you could hide between the rows (if you were really small) and be quite safe for any but the true armor clad.
This being spring and all in No Calif. its also the season for slimey creepy slippery gooey world wreakers. The slub and the snail. We finally got a little sun this weekend and I did a little stroll to check things over. My table with all my grafted miniature trees was my first stop. Ah oh. Something was amiss. Little trails of slime. Damn...
I had grafted to some St Juliene A rootstock a variation on the Blenheim Apricot, and they had been munched. I had to find the criminals. No one hidding on the table. Wait, how about that littleslice between the table top and the pot bottom. You know, where the water drains out under a black plastic pot? Lifted them up and there they be. Little grey darts of slippery destruction. Well final destruction was mine. Cleared em out.
Unfortunately, one tree had all its swelling buds eaten clean off. Nothing but a slime trail on a brown stick. We'll have to see if she'll push a new bud out. If not, well, the rootstock will trow out a new bud and we'll do it again next year.
So much for trees and buds for now. More gardens later.
I still want to know about 'Rosanna'. If now of you find it...well I give you a report as the season moves along.
Keep the thumbs green.
Plant a garden...even on a wndowsill.
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Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Posts: 136
Location: New York City
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:58 am
Post subject: Re: Springtime
etwizard wrote:
Plant a garden...even on a wndowsill.
I'm also stuck in a gardenless Parisian apartment. Anyone have advice on what I can plant?
Don't forget the cannolis!
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Posts: 861
Location: Paris
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:18 am
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Good morning!
Heronswood is one of the places where you can buy heritage plants in Vic, but the one I am thinking of is for commercial growers mainly. Still can't remember the name, but will email a friend from where I worked and see if they can go back through invoices to find the place. They do take small orders and are very helpful for enquiries.
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Ems' Bloody Mary Tomatoes on Toast
Ingredients (1 serving):
- 6(ish) cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 dessert spoon olive oil
- 1 dessert spoon worcestershire sauce
- 2 dessert spoons vodka
- 1 pinch vanilla salt (or rock salt if you can't get the vanilla kind)
- 2 pinches black pepper
- a few sprigs fresh thyme or basil (dried herbs if you don't have fresh are fine), chopped
- 1 slice granary bread / ciabatta, toasted
- 1 small clove of garlic, peeled
To make:
- Mix together the oil, worcestershire sauce and vodka to make a sort of marinade for the tomatoes.
- Mix the tomatoes in with the marinade and pop in the fridge for at least half an hour (or overnight if you can).
- Toast your bread of choice on both sides.
- Remove the tomatoes from the marinade (but keep it), place on a baking sheet and sprinkle over the salt, pepper and herbs.
- Grill the tomatoes.
- Rub the garlic over the toasted bread on one side.
- Remove the tomatoes when nicely toasted and pop them onto your toast…..you can also drizzle over the marinade if you like too. Done!
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