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Ten-day festival to include seven tastings and films
SACRAMENTO – As food and wine pairings continue to rise in popularity, the farm-to-fork capital is offering a different kind of pairing: food and film. The 3rd Annual Sacramento Food Film Festival will take place March 20-30 and will include food, wine and beer pairings with seven films about food. Festival proceeds will benefit California Food Literacy Center, a Sacramento nonprofit providing food literacy education to local low-income children.
"This is a chance for guests to soak up the amazing food and drinks that Sacramento has to offer while also feeding their minds," said Catherine Enfield, festival founder and food writer.
The festival's red carpet premier at Ten22 on March 20 features appetizers, drinks and screening of the award-winning movie, "Spinning Plates." Cost is $40. On March 22, the festival continues at the Sterling Hotel, featuring a sneak preview of the highly anticipated, new Ruhstaller Nugget hop beer, bites from Adam Pechal and screening of "Beer Wars." Cost is $30. "Bottle Shock" will be screened at Lucca on March 25 and will include a four-course dinner based on the film. Cost is $40, and $50 if including a wine pairing. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op offers a free event on March 26 to screen "Cafeteria Man" and will include appetizers, an appearance from the film's star, Tony Geraci and a panel discussion with local leaders in food literacy education. Selland's will offer a family spaghetti dinner on March 28 and screening of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" at McKinley Park's Clunie Center. Cost is $15 for children, $25 for adults. Slow Food Sacramento will host a free screening of "The Slow Food Story" at the Guild Theater for free on March 29. The festival wraps up on March 30 with a sushi and uni tasting by Billy Ngo from Kru, and Q & A with the film's producer, Alexander Finden, at Sunh Fish and screening of "Sweet, Sexy Ocean." Cost is $35.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.sacfoodfilmfest.com.
"We are proud to be the beneficiary of such a creative event that not only gives people the opportunity to enjoy the amazing food of the Sacramento region, but also helps spread food literacy through the creative medium of film," said Amber Stott, founding executive director, California Food Literacy. "We look forward to good food and good conversations."
California Food Literacy Center was established in July 2011 to educate and inspire low-income children to eat healthy food. Students learn fruit and vegetable appreciation, how to read nutrition labels, basic cooking skills and environmental impacts of their food choices. The nonprofit also runs the Food Literacy Academy, which trains community members as food literacy teachers. To date, the nonprofit has 60 active volunteers and serves 2,400 kids annually. After just three months of food literacy education, 70 percent of students request the foods they have tasted in class, including broccoli, celery and oranges. Ninety-two percent of K-1st grade students say healthy food tastes good, and 88 percent of children understand how to read a nutrition label. To make a donation: www.californiafoodliteracy.org.
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Slow Food Sacramento's successful membership drive has earned the chapter a visit — and meal prepared by — Matt Jones, the newly elected President of the Slow Food USA Board of Directors. Congratulations! Still haven't joined? We're hoping to sign up just as many new and renewing members by the end of the year. Consider a gift membership — it's easy to arrange.
As we go into end of the year harvest celebrations, we're focusing on the Slow Food Biodiversity Foundation's Ark of Taste project — the FAO-recognized effort to save delicious foods and meaningful food cultures from extinction. Read more about Slow Food Sacramento's celebration of Ark products elsewhere in this newsletter. And thank Snail of Approval Awardees including Elegant Beans/Mohr-Frye Ranch and Kingbird Farms for growing several Ark varieties of beans, fruits, and vegetables. Then take a moment to notice that Snail of Approval Restaurant Magpie Café & Catering notes on its menu when it serves AOT foods. In 2014, the 25th Anniversary of Slow Food, let's celebrate the farmers and chefs who are rescuing these foods. And let's identify and nominate more candidates for the Ark. The Karakul or Fat-tailed sheep, raised at Oregon House in Yuba County, has just been boarded. Spring lamb anyone? Our chapter nomination, Chenin Blanc Clarksburg AVA is being reviewed. Want to join the Slow Food California Ark of Taste Committee? Email firstname.lastname@example.com
The Slow Food California Regional Leaders meeting in San Diego November 2-3 gathered over 50 leaders from across the state as well as Executive Director Richard McCarthy and Jovan Sage and Isabel Eljaiek from the Brooklyn staff as well as Matt Jones of the Board of Directors, plus Alfonso Rocha from Puebla, Mexico (International Councilor representing Mexico and Central America) and representatives of Slow Food Baja. Our focus was on what it means to be a region within Slow Food USA and what big ideas we have for the California region. Our Policy and Ark of Taste Committees are up and running. We formed new committees on Transnational work within the Americas and on Snail of Approval as well as for a series of Master Classes — Master of Meat? Wine? Cheese? – patterned after a very successful Slow Food Italy program. More coming soon, including how to volunteer and opportunities for training. Our policy, ark of taste, events, and fundraising workshops were terrific. And we know we need to spread these opportunities around the state. Best part – meeting all these energetic, interesting, involved volunteers, farmers, chefs, educators, gardeners, and you!
Next up for a regional meeting is Sacramento in connection with the Green Schools National Conference March 27-29, 2014. Stay tuned.
Charity Kenyon
Slow Food USA Governor
Central Valley California Region &
International Councilor
Growing Farm To Fork in Sacramento
What's next as Sacramento seeks to earn and hold on to its title as America's Farm To Fork Capital? Some interesting ideas collected by Chris Macias in The Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/30/5860288/growing-sacramentos-farm-to-fork.html
Snail of Approval Winners Announced for 2013
Fourteen local businesses recently received the Snail of Approval award from Slow Food Sacramento, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting good, clean and fair food.
The Snail of Approval program is designed to recognize local busineses that contribute to the quality, authenticity and sustainability of food in the Sacramento community. The Snail of Approval is granted based on the three basic principles of the Slow Food movement: good (authentic flavor), clean (grown and produced so it does not harm the environment) and fair (food producers receive fair compensation).
Businesses are recognized in three categories: Producers, Supporters, and Restaurants. The businesses receiving the Snail of Approval this year are:
Elegant Beans and Beyond
Chocolate Fish Coffee
Temple Coffee Roasters
Insight Coffee Roasters
The Good Stuff
Kingbird Farm
Capitol Garage
Mama Kim's on the Go
Two Flew the Coop
Edible Sacramento
Local Roots Food Tours
The awards will be presented on Sunday, November 3, at the annual Harvest Dinner. For more details on the event, please visit https://slowfoodharvestdinner2013.eventbrite.com/.
For more information about the Snail of Approval program, visit http://slowfoodsacramento.com/snail-of-approval/about/.
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Slow Food Sacramento is the local chapter of the international nonprofit Slow Food, which has more than 100,000 members worldwide. Slow Food believes that the food we eat should taste good: that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work.
Slow Food considers its members and all who eat to be co-producers, not consumers, of food. By being informed about how our food is produced and actively supporting those who produce it, we become a part of and a partner in the production process.
2013 Midterm Report from the California Policy Committee
To: Slow Food CA Region Chapter Leaders
From: Slow Food CA Region Policy Committee
Date: July 30, 2013
Re: Midterm report on policy actions taken by Slow Food CA Region in 2013
To the terrific chapter leaders of Slow Food California Region:
We will soon complete our first full year as a Slow Food California Region. Though we have yet to devise the optimum method of communicating with Slow Food California members, we wanted to report to chapter leaders on our activities and challenges as your Slow Food CA Region Policy Committee.
First, some context: At the end of last year on short notice we sent to California Chapter Leaders our first ever Policy Priority Survey. We asked for your areas of interest weighted in terms of your willingness to take action. Over half the California chapters responded, with these priorities: 1. Farm Bill, 2. GMOs, 3. School gardens, 4. Food Policy Councils, 5. Cottage Food Law implementation, 6. Urban Agriculture.
Chapter leaders will receive a new survey this Fall. You will also be asked to identify chapter members who would like to be more involved in taking action on policy at the state and national level. We will create a special email list for focused communications.
Next, our early success: AB 343 (Ag Gag) – with Slow Food California support, a coalition lead by the Humane Society of the United States, persuaded Assemblymember Jim Costa to withdraw his bill before it was heard. Whistleblowers who report animal abuse by feedlots and similar operations can continue their undercover work.
And then there was the Farm Bill: Our committee members spent a lot of time working with National Sustainable Ag Coalition, Environmental Working Group, and others trying to persuade California Representatives to support amendments and spot bills that would yield an equitable farm bill. Our success was mixed, with some surprising disappointments and some gratifying surprises. Of course the House failed to pass a comprehensive bill and has since passed a bill stripped of food stamps (SNAP).
Slow Food USA, Slow Food California, and Slow Food Orange County are on record with 243 groups from all over the country demanding a full and fair Farm Bill to be passed this summer. The NSAC press release is here http://sustainableagriculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Full-and-Fair-Farm-Bill-Now-Statement.pdf
– we are in very good company.
We authored blog posts for Slow Food USA about why the Farm Bill matters: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/farm_bill_july_2013_update
spoke on the radio http://ecotopiakzfr.weebly.com/program-archives.html
and debated the best way forward. We're still at it!
GMO labeling initiatives on the federal level (Boxer) have our support. The King Amendment to the Farm Bill (which would preempt state labeling laws) earned our opposition. We are working with Slow Food International to build the coalition of Slow Food members who support GMO labeling and are interested in related issues.
More on the State level: Urban Agriculture Incentives AB 551 (Ting) has our support. A proposal to require CSAs to register with the State and imposing new statewide standards AB 224 (Gordon) is under consideration. We're asking CSA's within our network for their views.
Draft training materials plus legislative contacts with staff for each chapter – Stephanie Georgieff with the help of an energetic intern has created a draft of training materials plus contact lists for each chapter, including the staff names associated with food policy. It's a huge task and will be ready for roll out at a Regional Meeting proposed for November in San Diego – with regional trainings to follow.
Policy work is a small but meaningful part of what we do as Slow Food members supporting good, clean, fair food for all: Eat, Learn, Act.
We welcome your interest, comments, suggestions – and participation!
Charity Kenyon (Sacramento), Chair
Stephanie Georgieff (Redlands) Vice-Chair
Dom Fiume (So. Cal. Gov., San Diego)
Matt Jones (SFUSA Bd. Directors, liaison)
Ruth Begel (Solano County)
Peg Champion (South Bay)
Kari Hamerschlag (East Bay)
Laurie Koran (Solano County)
Rick Neugebauer (Temecula)
Jessie Phillips (Tahoe)
Mary Rousseve (Sacramento)
Brenda Ruiz (Sacramento)
Diana Tierney (Orange County)
Slow Food International Council – June 15-16, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Hosted by Slow Food Istanbul in the midst of the Taksim Square Gezi Park protests, the June 2013 International Council meeting was exciting, inspiring, and tasty. The International Council includes representatives of countries with at least 500 members. (Slow Food USA is represented by two Board members – Matt Jones and Nazli Parvizi and two Governors — Joel Smith and Charity Kenyon). The Council, together with the Executive Committee, plans and promotes the Slow Food movement's development worldwide. As a result of action taken at the October 2012 Slow Food International Congress in Italy, the International Council for the first time includes representatives of Terra Madre communities where the convivium structure is not developed, but Slow Food is working with producers and gardeners — largely in the global South. This expansion made for a rich and rewarding exchange that demonstrated the strength and breadth of the organization.
All but one Councilor was able to attend, notwithstanding the close proximity of the meeting to the rapidly developing demonstrations. Our hosts were fully engaged in supporting the protests, even planting a symbolic vegetable garden in Gezi Park. The Council adopted a resolution in support of those demanding: "a new Turkey, able to value simple but important things, like the trees in a park."
Friday night's dinner started the meeting – on a boat on the Bosphorus – what more need we say? The pleasure of shared food and conversation helped make and strengthen connections across continents and hemispheres; the weather was calm and mild; the lights on mosques and old palaces was dramatic. The demonstrations were far away.
On Saturday Carlo Petrini welcomed us, pointing out that next year 2014, will be the 10th anniversary of the Terra Madre Network and 25th Anniversary of Slow Food. And there is no going back. The question for the Council was how to manage and lead this complex movement for the common good.
To that end, Slow Food has adopted three areas of emphasis to meet our goals for change: (1) 10,000 products boarded on the Ark of Taste — the FAO recognizes Slow Food as the only movement formally safeguarding the biodiversity and the fight against malnutrition. This gives us the responsibility to follow through. (2) 10,000 Gardens in Africa — a movement spreading education and training with knowledge of local seeds to fight both land grabbing and malnutrition. We cannot close our eyes to the injustice of 24,000 people dying every day from hunger, mostly in Africa. Our 10,000 gardens in schools, at hospitals, and in communities can set an example for other NGO's and African governments. (3) 10,000 Convivia and Food Communities — networks have knots and we are currently at 1,600 chapters in 170 countries and 2,200 food communities for a total of 4,000 toward our goal of 10,000.
The growing Youth Food Network is under new leadership of Joris Lohman from Amsterdam who sits on the SFI Executive Committee. Foodstock will take place in Polenza in 2014 – 1,000 students from 67 countries are expected. The SFYFN is developing, including its governance, but it represents our future.
Finally, we need to carry out a census that somehow documents all the different SF projects around the world, so that we can more accurately understand and convey our impact.
We next heard about the re-launch of the Ark of Taste, including review of new documents in draft to explain the relationships among AOT, Presidia, and the Biodiversity Foundation. The point is to make boarding products easier, fun, and rewarding. We may make mistakes, but must not hold back for fear of error. Mistakes can be corrected later. The only mistake is failing to act now to capture and document the wealth of our food communities. There was robust discussion of other knowledge we are losing, including methods of production and processing, as well as of the dangers of bio-‐ piracy. The exciting Alliance of Chefs and Presidia is developing as a way to bring AOT products to the attention of consumers and to support markets for producers. Menu language has been approved.
In the afternoon we met as regional groups, including a meeting of the Americas — from Canada to the tip of Chile. And each group reported out on action items agreed upon within the groups. We will be hearing more about these plans, including a likely Slow Meat conference (like Slow Cheese and Slow Fish) in Colorado in 2015. The more we talked, the more it became obvious that we had links already and could use them to build our networks across the Americas — from Terra Madre communities to chapters. A current example is Slow Food Philadelphia's work with blue corn tortilla makers in Mexico, uniting two halves of a small indigenous Puebla minority and promoting their special corn. We look forward to making more of these connections.
Dinner was in a small, intimate restaurant in the Nisantasi neighborhood. Lovely, diverse, conducive to discussion and very close to the demonstrations. Towards the end of the evening the government ruthlessly cleared Taksim Square, demonstrators fled into the neighborhood, a small hospital was erected around the corner from the restaurant. Our hosts and guests were calm; taxi drivers were able to get us back to our various hotels without much trouble.
Our half-day meeting on Sunday focused on funding, membership: the numbers. We approved the 2013 budget — half way through the year and agreed that future Councils will receive, discuss, and act on the budget at the beginning of the budget year. A lengthy financial report and social report with commendable detail were presented by the external auditor. I, for one, was impressed both by the amount accomplished on a small budget and by the commitment to transparency and accuracy.
Next, we discussed Strategic Goals, which had been presented in draft shortly before the meeting. Another draft will be prepared by October. Councilors are to prepare their responses to the current draft by mid July.
Finally, we were all energized by an upbeat presentation of the Slow Food Youth Food Network, and by a delicious tasting of traditional Turkish foods with a presentation by a well known chef and journalist. Wow! Lots to do and lots of great people to do it with! It was a great honor to represent Slow Food USA in Istanbul.
Charity Kenyon
Slow Food USA Governor, Central Valley Region of California
International Councilor
Sacramento's Chenin Blanc Nominated for Ark of Taste
Slow Food Sacramento is engaged in another international program, the Ark of Taste project of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity.
To make this work possible, Slow Food USA has regionalized its Ark of Taste Committees. Slow Food California's new Ark of Taste committee is headed up by Linda Elbert of the Orange County Chapter. Our own Suzanne Ashworth of Del Rio Botanical has agreed to serve on the jury that selects foods to be boarded. And David Baker of GRAS has submitted Slow Food Sacramento's application to board the Clarksburg Chenin Blanc — a grape variety we are losing to Chardonnay. Chenin Blanc grows best in three places in the world: Clarksburg, the Loire Valley of France, and South Africa.
If you attended our mixer and tasting at Revolution Wine, you know we want to keep the grape in production here! We owe a big debt to Revolution Wine's Gina Genshlea, David Baker, Darrell Corti, and all the vintners that have helped David and SFS with this project. Want a good Chenin Blanc? Stop by Revolution Wine. Want to help with the work of the Ark of Taste Committee? Contact email@example.com.
Read more about the program to protect threatened food varieties of all kinds here: http://www.slowfoodfoundation.com/pagine/eng/arca/cerca.lasso?-id_pg=36
Slow Food Sac and Grant High School Supporting School Gardens in Africa
Slow Food Sacramento has created, through a donation by Kingbird Farms, its first relationship with one of Slow Food International's 1,000 Gardens in Africa. We have partnered the GEO Program at Grant High School in Sacramento with Victoria School Garden in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
We're looking forward to some photo sharing between Annmarie Kennedy of GEO and Sifuni Wilson, Head teacher of Victoria Primary School. The school is currently focusing on improving access to water.
Read more about this program of Slow Food International here: http://www.slowfood.com/terramadreday/pagine/eng/pagina2.lasso?-id_pg=113
Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food, wants to grow this program to 10,000 gardens! Would you like to help support the Victoria School project or help Slow Food Sacramento adopt another garden? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com
Spring Fever Catches On In Sacramento School Gardens!
Slow Food Sacramento would like to extend the kindest words of gratitude to our greater community of partners, supporters, and amazing members who last year helped support the soft launch of the School Garden Coalition through their participation in Urban Ag Fest IV.
Last year's beneficiary of funds raised at Urban Ag Fest IV was Rosemont High School Green Academy. And they have put the funding to good use! In addition to adding much needed fencing, Green Academy students completed the ADA beds; graded and plumbed; planted fava beans, asparagus, cilantro, and potatoes; and reserved the clay extracted during excavation to build wood burning ovens!
Culinary Arts teacher Chef Scott Singer, Masonry Program educator Brett Hutchison, and Principal Leise Martinez are excited to demonstrate the practical life and job skills, linked learning, and critical thinking applications possible in a school garden environment. And in the 3rd week of April, almost 70 Rosemont HS Green Academy students walked to neighboring Sequoia Elementary to do a full day of work in that garden alongside their younger friends.
See some photos here:
or on twitter at @RHSCulinary.
Please join us for Day on the Farm, May 19, at Soil Born Farms American River Ranch at the School Garden Expo. At this event, you can get connected to a few of the region's school gardens and edible education programs. Thanks to Assemblyman Roger Dickinson for in-kind support helping to make the expo possible. Help needed on May 18 and 19th! To volunteer, learn more about the Coalition and the exciting work ahead, or to donate resources contact Brenda Ruiz at email@example.com.
What's So Special About Sacramento's Chenin Blanc?
Chenin Blanc from the Clarksburg AVA is described as a light, dry white wine with notes of light honey, nectarine, and peach.
The grapes are native to the Loire Valley in northern France. In addition to the Loire Valley, the world's finest and most distinctive Chenin Blancs originate from South Africa and right here in our backyard, in Clarksburg in the Sacramento River Delta.
Chenin Blanc thrives in the Sacramento Delta because of the welcoming natural conditions: the Delta soil, which is composed of various alluvial layers including sandy loam and dense clay, paired with the hot summer days and maritime-influenced cool nights. Gerald Asher of Gourmet magazine once wrote "It's the right grape in the right place." And local gastronome Darrell Corti proclaimed "Chenin Blanc loves rich Delta soil."
Chenin Blanc was once a popular and prolific grape grown throughout California. In the late 1970s, Charles Krug produced 125,000 cases of dry Chenin Blanc. Yet, today, its production is threatened by wine industry trends. Acreage is at an all time low, falling almost 80% since the 1980s, and most is grown in the Central Valley as an anonymous blending grape. While many vineyards have chosen to replace Chenin Blanc with better selling varietals, several wineries have continued to carry on the tradition of Chenin Blanc, creating unique and award-winning wines, and preserving this distinctive expression of our local region. Producers of Chenin Blanc in our region include Wilson Ranch, Bogle Vineyards, Heringer Vineyards, Baranek Vineyards, Six Hands, and Dancing Coyote.
Originally settled just after the 1849 Gold Rush, Clarksburg has been a productive agricultural area for over a century (producing pears, alfalfa, tomatoes, and cattle). The transformation to vineyards began in the early 1960s. Chenin Blanc was first introduced to the area and quickly became a star, putting Clarksburg Chenin Blanc on the national stage through the 1970s. Almost all of the growers have been farming here for five or six generations, since prior to 1900.
Because of Chenin Blanc's uniqueness and rich history, Slow Food Sacramento and the Green Restaurant Alliance of Sacramento are working on a nomination of Chenin Blanc from Clarksburg AVA for Slow Food's Ark of Taste, which preserves unique flavors from particular regions. We are proposing it be certified as a heritage product, outstanding in terms of taste—as defined in the context of local traditions and uses, at risk biologically or as culinary traditions, and produced in limited quantities.
To learn more, join us for an upcoming Chenin Blanc tasting and Slow Food mixer on April 23. Details and tickets available here.
The tasting will feature these great wineries:
- Revolution
- Bogle
- Rendez Vous
- Heringer
- Clarksburg Wine Company
- Dancing Coyote
- Blue Plate
- Twisted River
- Dry Creek Vineyards
"Living Food Communities" Documentaries Are Online
On February 12, 2013, the documentary film Couscous Island – produced by Slow Food in the framework of the 4Cities4Dev project and co-funded by the European Union – was presented at the Berlin Film Festival.
This is the last documentary in the Living Food Communities series, which includes three other half-hour movies directed by Francesco Amato (director of Ma che ci faccio qui! and Cosimo e Nicole) and Stefano Scarafia (director of Il corridore andGente di Terra Madre). Each movie tells the story of a Slow Food community, presents a product and describes how it is an important element of the cultural and social identity of the whole community. In addition, it shows how, if properly promoted, these productions can offer a viable opportunity to improve the community's economic conditions.
Watch the films at this link: http://www.4cities4dev.eu/ita/7/video
The movies were shot in Africa, between Kenya, Senegal and Ethiopia:
Pokot Ash Yoghurt – Kenya, 23'20"
The Tarsoi village community has always produced a very peculiar yoghurt with cow's or goat's milk mixed with the ash from an indigenous tree. Ash yoghurt had a very important role in the diet of the Pokot people. Today, communities have overwhelmingly lost pride in their food culture and the yoghurt is only produced by a few families for their own consumption. Occasionally the extra production is sold at local markets.
Harenna Forest Wild Coffee – Ethiopia, 23'59"
Ethiopia is the country where coffee originates from and the only in the world where wild coffee plants grow. For thousands of years, families have been roasting their own berries, crushing them in a mortar and offering coffee to guests according to a solemn ritual, a strong symbol of hospitality and respect.
Fadiouth Island Salted Millet Couscous – Senegal, 27′ e 34′ (two versions)
The village of Fadiouth is located on an island made entirely of shells, which can be reached by a long wooden bridge. The Serer – the indigenous people that lives there – have always been the greatest producers of sunnà millet and live off farming and fishing in the sea and lagoon.
These films were produced as part of the 4Cities4Dev project, co-funded by the European Union. Their production stems from the cooperation between Slow Food and four European cities – Turin, Tours, Bilbao and Riga. The project combines the role of cities, as active protagonists of local policies and decentralized cooperation, and the Slow Food approach, based on the involvement of food communities, citizens and consumers.
Letter to Sac City Board of Education about School Closures
The board of Slow Food Sacramento provided the following comment letter to the Sacramento City Board of Education this week. We are urging them to consider the value of school garden assets, particularly at Fruit Ridge Elementary, as they evaluate several campuses for closure.
January 29, 2013Hon. Jonathan Raymond, Superintendent & Hon. President and Members of the Sacramento City Board of Education Sacramento City Unified School District 5735 47th Avenue Sacramento, CA 95824
Re: Proposed closure of Fruit Ridge Elementary School / Garden
Dear Superintendent Raymond and Members of the Board of Education,
We, the members of Sacramento Slow Food's Board of Directors, respectfully request that the Board reconsider its proposal to close the historic Fruit Ridge Elementary School and move the students to schools on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Slow Food is an international nonprofit that advocates for good, clean, fair food for all. The Sacramento Chapter's emphasis is on promoting urban agriculture including school gardens. Our fourth annual Urban Ag Fest in 2012 raised funds for our school garden coalition and for the garden projects at Rosemont High School and O.W. Erlewine Elementary School. Our guests, including teachers, students and volunteers from 15 SCUSD schools showcased their school garden projects, toured the Rosemont Garden and its Culinary Arts and Masonry Arts Programs, and enjoyed a sit-down dinner on the senior lawn. Our speaker was former State Superintendent of Schools Delaine Eastin, under whose leadership California's school gardens grew from some 40 to more than 3,000.
Later in the year we welcomed Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard Project to Sacramento and to St. Hope Leadership Academy Charter School. And now Sacramento has declared itself America's Farm to Fork Capital. Slow Food Sacramento is participating in the development of that project, specifically encouraging emphasis on access: Whose Forks? We think the moniker is meaningless, if Sacramento is not improving the access of school children to good, clean, fair food. In that vein, we applaud efforts by SCUSD to change its approach to food procurement and we have partnered with the Food Literacy Project, which teaches food literacy in elementary schools in Oak Park.
In this context, we ask that you please reconsider whether closing Fruit Ridge Elementary School and shutting down its garden and orchard is the right decision or whether this move would be inconsistent with the district's and community's support for the health and learning benefits of school gardens:
• Fruit Ridge Elementary participated in our Urban Ag Fest school garden showcase and, through the generosity of several prominent businesses and individuals we were able to host their delegates at the shared meal. The school is a member of our School Garden Coalition. Its staff have been trained at the Edible Schoolyard Institute in Berkeley.
• This fall our Fresh Food Access Fund, a fund hosted by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, awarded $1,000 grant to Fruit Ridge Elementary School to support their Garden and Living Laboratory.
• Fruit Ridge Elementary's garden, established in 2002, is a standout. We know of no other garden that can match the oasis of tranquility and activity that it represents. If you have not visited, please do so, before you make your final decision. Name a place at any school that you would rather be, if you were an elementary school child. You won't find one.
• Fruit Ridge Elementary is the only pesticide free school campus in the district. This represents an investment of hundreds of hours of volunteer time and a huge public health benefit.
• Fruit Ridge's garden is huge: one-quarter acre including 35 fruit trees. The orchard is a ten year investment by Common Vision's Fruit Tree Tour: http://commonvision.org/programs/fruittreetour/ Common Vision's school orchard program has impacted 80,000 students at over 180 low income schools and community centers. In Sacramento that school is Fruit Ridge Elementary.
• Fruit Ridge Elementary's garden represents ten years of investment in time, money, and resources by volunteers, nonprofit associations, local businesses, students, teachers, and staff. No such investment has been made at the alternative school sites to which these children would be moved.
• Fruit Ridge is in a residential neighborhood, near the County's Emergency Housing, and away from the area's busy thoroughfares. The neighbors are homes, not convenience stores and speeding traffic. The environment represents a place where a garden and students can thrive in safety.
• The California School Boards Association selected Fruit Ridge's garden to be profiled in the Summer 2008 newsletter http://www.csba.org/NewsAndMedia/Publications/CASchoolsMagazine/2008/Summer/InThisIssue/Gardens.aspx
The article posits:
"Slowly but surely, despite changes in academic priorities, accountability systems and fiscal uncertainties, school gardens and related agriculture programs are taking root at rural, urban and suburban schools across the country."
Using Fruit Ridge Elementary School's garden as its shining example, the article describes these gardens as:
"a crucial component of a broader and expanding national collection of public and private initiatives to improve students' nutrition, physical fitness, overall health, and of course, their academic success."
Thank you for your consideration of Slow Food Sacramento's views, as the Board undertakes its difficult decision-making process. We request that school garden assets, representing substantial investments of public and private funding and volunteer effort be included in the Board's analysis of any site's strengths. Thus, for example, Bret Harte Elementary School's garden was one of three pilot edible schoolyards for which the school district financed installation of hard- and soft-scape. The District's Green Fellow and Project Green Program will be aware of additional substantial public and private investments in sustainability including, for example, the substantial June 2012 Project Green Award to Washington Elementary School.
If we can provide additional information or help arrange a tour, please do not hesitate to contact Charity Kenyon firstname.lastname@example.com or Brenda Ruiz firstname.lastname@example.com
Very truly yours,
Coral Henning, President
Slow Food Sacramento


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App Review: Documents to Go for iPhone
Matt Miller, editor of our sibling-site NokiaExperts, got an advanced look at Documents to Go for iPhone as part of his ZDNet gig, and has already gone live with an amazingly detailed review: Review: Documents To Go raises the bar for iPhone word processing.
Matt loves the low price point, the Word editing, and Exchange support. Obviously, he misses the Excel editing support, but knows that's coming.
Check out his full review for more, including a huge screenshot gallery, and overviews on editing, syncing, and Exchange support.
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I will get this just because of the price... Lol. Not because I actually need it! In fact, no exchange on my iPhone, but I will be purchasing the Exchange version.
$4.99 / $9.99 are awesome price points.
P.S. Those prices are for two weeks only. Get them while it's hot!
ok, so i went and downloaded this, most outstanding! better than on my bold. the ability to wirelessy synch my doc folders with my iphone is amazing!! i am in love and 5 dollars truly well spent.
So other than the price, what might Docs to Go have that Quickoffice doesn't? If I already have Quickoffice, is there any reason to buy this too?
Does QuickOffice have the over the ait syncing?
looks good. Hopefully, you ll soon can edit and creat excel-files.
@ Jason, if you already have quick office, i dont think you would need this. i ALMOST bought quick office, and then caught this blog post. saved me some cash i guess. i still really like the functionality of the program though.
I could actually use this and was thinking it would be great to have an app like it...only to find out there is one already! And for a great price! Very cool though, thanks for highlighting the review.
I'm a little disappointed with Docs To Go for iPhone. I was really hoping for the excel release too, and I know that it's coming in a free update, but still, bit of a let down. The word processor is good EXCEPT you cannot edit font size or font type... I know that you can at least enter font type in QuickOffice. Lack of mobileme support is disappointing for me too.
Yeah. Absolute disappointment. All that waiting for nothing. They kept on talking about doing unique things with the app, but I don't really see exchange attachment support as all that unique. If there was a way to get a free exchange account I'd be happy, but there's not. I was thinking they'd implement an in-app email client to download and send attachments from POP3 & IMAP accounts, much like 'Print and Share' does. Of course, in saying all that I can't complain about the price.
Another big difference - at least for now - is that D2G has Word 2007 (docx) support, which QuickOffice doesn't. -Joe
Not too impressed at the moment. Bought the Exchange version and can't for the life of me get it to work. The DataViz website listed in the log to allow you to check sync error codes does not exist and my attempt to log an e-mail support request about it failed when I hit the send button with the neubulous 'technical difficulty' response.
I have an Exchange account configured for e-mail that works fine, and syncs calendar and contacts but on this, nope. Same settings fail.
Will persevere over next few days to try this but cannot say I'm that impressed so far and would happily have stuck with QuickOffice had it not been for the Exchange option. If that will not work I shall be demanding a refund!!!!
@Mr P. I had some trouble with the Exchange syncing as well. I had the same settings and all. What I did was turn SSL off in the Docs to Go settings under exchange and it seemed to correct the problem. If you tried that already sorry for the repeat. But give it a shot if you haven't.
isnt gprs the slowest network on it... i think it is
One question for those who have tried it with Exchange: Once you've downloaded the document from the exchange e-mail to your device, is it permanently saved on the device and no longer associated with the e-mail from which it came? In other words, once downloaded, can you delete the e-mail and have the document remain on the device?
Good app for the price, however can not get MS EXCH towork?!?!?
Hope Dataviz will sort this, comes across as 'not quite finished' - surely after so many years in business . . . . . .?
Will try the SSL toggle-thanks for that tip !
If I buy this from itunes (to make sure I get the price) before having my iPhone (it's ordered), will the license properly be assigned to my new iPhone when I get it?
Thanks for the tip re SSL. Tried it but unfortunately it does not work for me. With it disabled I get an SSL error message and with it enabled I get Error 0xa777777a. When you go to the page their Log suggests re error codes you get 'Page cannot be found'.
Beginning to think I made a mistake buying this. I have logged a tech issue via the DataViz site and hope it can be resolved but, having bought an Exchange version I would expect it to work. If it doesn't I shall be going for a refund through the app store and telling them why.
Not impressed at the moment.
@ Mr P
I am experiencing the same issues (exact same errors). I too have logged a tech issue with DataViz. I sent them a copy of the verbose log, as requested. I'll see what they come up with.
Right now, I am of the mind that even with Exchange not working properly, I am satisfied with the functionality I am getting for $9.99.
@ Mr P
I received the following response from Dataviz.
"This happens if the Exchange Server uses self-signed (custom) certificates. Docs To Go does not support self-signed certificates (this is mentioned in the system requirements on the product page). Basically, any certificate that doesn't have a "real" CA (Certificate Authority) such as Verisign or Godaddy will not work with DXTG and will cause this error. The built-in "Mail" app on the iPhone doesn't support self-signed certificates either. It won't give the same error, but it will essentially leave the user at a dead end."
Sure enough, once I got an actual issued certificate from GoDaddy, D2G with Exchange works like a charm.
@ jstrickland.
So they ask you to buy a certificate in addition to $9.99? Sounds scary to me.
I would rather choose Quickoffice coz they evolved much better than docs to go and in the iTunes description they promised that there will be a free update with full attachments support not limited to Exchange account.
I got the same 0xa777777a error and read the Data Viz reply. It says that all mail apps will have this problem.
I'm puzzled because i already have Exchange working fine for my emails on my iPhone even though Exchange uses self-signed.
I just can't pairing Documents to go Desktop with my iPhone. When It's pairing Documents to Go Desktop Windows Vista Home Premium appears this msg "Documents to Go stops to work. Windows will verify a reason to this problem...". Then "Windown can't solve the problem..." Then Documents to Go close. Why?
@ JStrickland
How did you go about getting this certificate and what did you do with it? Our company can provide me with a zipped signed certificate that we install on out laptops when getting this error but, for security resaons they will not use public.
Without Exchange working it's still OK BUT if it doesn't work I needn't have bought it, I could have opted for the other one. Private certificates are mentioned in the app store now but it's buried quite low down in a manner which for me does not reflect the critical nature of this issue. In my view they should put a large asterisk next to the title of the app and pick it up immediately below pointing that it requires public certificates to work, uring those who do not know what their company uses to check.
I'm having the samie problem that Sergio has, but in my case I have Windows XP Home Edition, and it shows me the same trouble, I can't paire my iphone with my computer, "Documents to Go stops to work, Windows can't solve the problem and Documents to Go Desktop gets closed. Somebody has a solution about it?
0xa777777a error
This happens if the Exchange Server uses Self-Signed/Custom SSL Certificates, which are not supported by version 1.000 of Documents To Go for iPhone. Any certificate that does not have a trusted industry standard Certificate Authority (CA), such as VeriSign or Go Daddy, will not work with Documents To Go 1.000.
This error will be resolved in an update for Documents To Go for iPhone, which will be version 1.100. This update will be available soon. When it is released, if version 1.000 is installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch, the App Store and iTunes should both show that an update is available.
So to confirm until the 1.1 update is released I will not be able to open Word attachments from an exchange email? I haven't bought yet.
Will you keep the pricing static until 1.100 - why should we pay full whack (1) for something that is not working 100% (2) for being effectively your beta testers?
I have the same problems with a Mac computer. When it comes to step 3, after about 30 seconds of trying to connect with the iPhone 3GS, the following mesaage pops up: Pairing failed - Pairing with the device failed 346540. Hoepfully this problem will be solved with version 1.10....
Working great for me. Syncs perfectly. Dell Latitude with XP
With the 1.1 update Exchange sync now works OK even if public certificates are not used. Much better.
(sergio) hi! i read your problem and it seems we are both on the same boat, my ipod touch could not be paired with the desktop DTG. i followed everything they've given at tech support and still i can't make it work.i wonder if you have solved yours already, i hope you can share how you did it.thanks in advance!
This app is nice but ultimately quite disappointing to me. I personally feel that the following items are needed FAST:
1) Imap and POP3 email support, both editing attachments and the ability to send attachments.
2) Excel editing support. Sure we get this in the future, but when exactly?
Lesser Items:
1) Powerpoint editing support. The blackberry has it so why not the iPhone?
2) the ability to change fonts in Word.
3) the ability to create and edit tables within a word document.
All in all it's a pretty poor start. Sure the price point is low, but frankly it should be. So much for the two week sale as well. The prices are still the same.
i need the manual docs togo in spanish please help me
i cant sync el ms with me imail of my iphone
necesito el manual de docs togo en español no puedo sincronizar el ms change con mi imail tengo un iphone
i tried quickoffice.just the setup for synch gave me a headache.I bought docs2go and the synch was magical.
i am a fan of this product since my palm days.
Currently iphone 3gs and vista.
Docstogo iphone app does not work with Open Office files.
will this app work with an 8g iphone?
This app (spreadsheet) is quite disappointing to me.
1) Hard to select multiple cells, though the instruction claimed that it's easy to do so
2) File formatting change after synchronizing to iPhone


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Here is a beautiful look for Michelle--in Vera Wang as Peggy notes--and a beautiful program.
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Here is a beautiful look for Michelle--in Vera Wang as Peggy notes--and a beautiful program.
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The requirements at her time were different so the training would be different too. TES is more important now than before, so the more athletic lady may have a better chance of making it to the top now than before. Having said these, noone can take away her achievements of her time. Oh.. yes, I love her Vera Wang costumes.
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I wasn't following skating intensely at the time, so what was the argument (or perceived argument) against Rush and MM?
The music cuts to Scheherezade were just plain awful-no wonder Kawahara's work wasn't showcased properly. Much like other Kwan programs, many nuances were removed later in the season.
I can't understand why Kwan never had a new short program to begin that season. We can't necessarily say Rach was a poor choice since she won the short program at the Olympics. I'm sure Kwan was relieved when the 2002 season ended. She skated in about 8 competitions (including cheesefests) and had unreal pressure at the Olympics. If 2002 didn't happen, then we wouldn't have the 2003 season which was a pure joy to witness.
I think the judges would have awarded Kwan 1st place in the SP at SLC regardless of which program she skated to. It was a poor choice, because it was a pale imitation of the original, IMO.I can't understand why Kwan never had a new short program to begin that season. We can't necessarily say Rach was a poor choice since she won the short program at the Olympics.
Never knew she used her SP as her exhibition at 2001 Nationals. That was a first and probably a sign that something was amiss.
As for coming up with an SP for the Olympic season, I "made" her an SP from the last ~2:40 of Red Violin. Amazing how well it fits together. Oh well, too bad she didn't ask me, or any other fans.
Keeper of Nathalie Pechelat's bitchface.
And her Beautiful World exhibition caused her to lose to Josee Chouinard at some Pro-Am.
I almost voted "yes," but went with "I don't know." My personal feeling is that, as Jenny Kirk noted, Michelle put so much pressure on herself to be an Olympic Champion that it was most likely counter-productive (especially in 2002, I would think, where she may have felt she had something to prove). It's hard to know if Frank's input would have helped her confidence or not.
Brian Boitano talked a lot about how he and Linda Leaver spent so much time mentally preparing for the Olympics, psychologically going through a "winning" scenario. He called it the "bubble" that they created and it obviously worked for him. Of course, not every champion prepares with such tactics, but does anyone know if Michelle ever worked that way? She had such a winning record at Nats and Worlds, maybe she didn't feel she needed something like that.
"I hit him with my shoes... if he had given me the medal like I told him to, I wouldn't have had to hit him!" -- 8-year-old Rhoda Penmark in "The Bad Seed"
Although Karen Kwan's figure skating career was eclipsed by that of Michelle, Karen was a very good skater in her own right. Here are a few videos which bring that out:-
U.S. Nationals 1995 (7th): Short Program
U.S. Nationals 1996 (5th): Short Program, Free Skate
U.S. Nationals 1997 (7th): Short Program, Free Skate
Her best result internationally was a 3rd placed finish in the Nebelhorn Trophy in 1996
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whether she would /wouldn't i don't know--my reasons as to more no
in 1998- under frank carroll-1) landed 7 jumps to tara 5-not going into that
2) jumped higher than tara
3) had higher artistry marks than tara in free program-
4) michelle was better artisticly
5)michelle made no major mistakes-she skated clean/interpreted program well,
the only thing tara had over michelle was she skated a little faster -i can go into reason why her being so young as that helped her look prepubscent.
so if the judges didn't give it to michelle over tara than-what makes people think she would have won in 2002 under frank -since frank criticzed her publicly along time, and publicly stated he was still upset over the 1980 mess with annett/linda. think of how frank gushed and help mirai, did he do that form michelle, i can't hardly think of time he did.
the ogm for me is made up ahead of time by who the federation wants and who they think can sell better and who fits the usfsa image better.
they screwed up with michelle kwan, and still are.
Isn't this also the nine-year anniversary of her 2004 US Nats free skate?
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Poor Simon
I was just thinking this morning I am never satisfied .Watching my skating I am overjoyed it's actually being shown on ES for a start but in an ideal world I like Chris/Nicky commentating and to view in HD Am I asking too much ? probably
I was sure they were going to stay for the dance medals .
The skate gods heard me Eurosport 2 HD appeared on my channels
Now I just need Nicky there at worlds.
I hope he'll be commentating at Worlds but he has some serious personal stuff going on as you probably know, so it may be Simon & Chris again.
'The one. The only. Daisuke Takahashi ' Chris Howarth, EurosportUK
is already available a schedule for Worlds ??
They are the best !
Would someone please help a dunce? I followed the link http://220.127.116.11/w00t/20130129/vv51...01-493131.html that was posted elsewhere, during 4CCs and was able to watch some of the action but not a substantial amount. I also remember seeing a schedule for when things were supposed to be on, but never could figure out what time zone it was.
I got the impression from reading some links that the schedule for worlds was already posted, but I cannot find it. Also, following that link now fails, as I expected.
So, can someone give me the basics on what I need to do, where I need to look and what time zone I'm going to be looking at when it comes to EuroSport, Please.
As you may have already guessed, I am no lover of NBC Univer$al, et.al. and would prefer to see what is happening WHEN it is happening rather than waiting the frelling 2 weeks that N[othing[ B[ut] C[rap] bought so that we can watch the competition elsewhere.
Thank you, in advance, for all your help.
When cable system$ and broadca$t entitie$ di$agree, the viewer pay$ the ultimate price.
I think all U.$. tv viewers should write to the FCC and make this type of mega-entitie$ stop their childi$h bickering and make their "users", the VIEWER their main concern. Without VIEWERS there are no broadcast entities and no need for cable systems!
I'm sure a separate 2013 Worlds un-geoblocked, live stream viewing options thread will be created in this forum as soon as the schedules become available.
"Randy [Starkman (1960-April 16, 2012)] lived by the same motto as the rest of us. The Olympics isnt every four years, its every single day. He just got it." --Canadian Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden
Nice coverage of the dance event this afternoon thankyou Eurosport Nicky back with Simon
Looking at Eurosports coverage for the World's................Only an hour for the ladies short. No live coverage of afternoon events.
It's kinda strange the their coverage has been so BAD at both Europeans & World's the big two events yet the 4CC's & Junior Worlds have been fantastic.
What's going on with Eurosport ?
Just checked and SD is on from midnight till two AM LIVE so that's probably last two groups .
Nicky /Simon just said don't forget worlds in two weeks time here on ES we'll have comprehensive coverage !
So we'll wait and see.Mmmmm .
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And 3hrs of Men's short on the Wednesday Live from 11pm (although i'm sure that wasn't showing up yesterday when I checked so maybe it's still under review/subject to change...) Good thing I didn't get a chance to cancel my day off on the Thursday today, which I planned to do since it looked like there was no coverage Wednesday night/Thursday day time...
I just checked and this is what I see at 6:55p E (-5):
w 3/13 23:00 Live Men's Short
f 3/15 00:00 Live Short Dance
17:30 Live Pairs Free
19:00 Women's Short
23:30 Live Men's Free
This is as much as they show, and we all know there are events scheduled for Saturday. So, there is hope, I think.
But, back to the DUNCE questions... What time zone are these times? I never did figure this out for 4CCs, so I want to miss anything this time around. Please open my eyes to the obvious
I don't see Saturdays Jr. Worlds events on the Eurosport 2 schedule. Does anyone know if/when/where they will be broadcast???
German Eurosport 2 is airing FS now. Hino is skating.
I hear outside a million panicking birds, and know even out there comfort is done with; it has shattered even the stars, this creature at last come home to me.
And I do believe that it is the UK site, so I will trust that it is GMT. But, that was what I was using for 4CCs and every time I went there when I thought it was the right time, I found international football ("soccer" to us yanks.) And _that_ is when I got really confused. I think I only hit skating twice all weekend. Believe me, I was VERY bummed.
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Monta Ellis said he felt "more alive" in the Bucks' 102-90 loss to Washington on Monday night.
The Milwaukee shooting guard contributed 24 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and six steals while playing 43 minutes in a stat-stuffing game.
And his energy was higher than he showed in the Bucks' 105-100 loss to Detroit on Saturday, when he took only nine shots and had eight points.
But after Monday's game Ellis was asked if he could play the same style he did when he was with Golden State, before coming to the Bucks in a mid-March trade a year ago.
"It's not the same system I was in in Golden State, either," Ellis said. "When I was at Golden State they put me in a lot of different positions, not just pick-and-rolls, spot-up (shots). They posted me, got me at the elbow, isos.
"Coming here it's a more set offense. So it's different. So you're not going to get the same Monta that you get in Golden State. So I just have to adjust to the system that I'm in and try to do the best I could."
Ellis said he's just trying to do "what I'm asked to do as a player."
Ellis was at a loss to explain the Bucks' loss to Washington, which won only its fourth road game of the season.
"We're at a rocky point right now," Ellis said. "We're hitting a lot of bumps in the road. But this is the NBA. It goes like that.
"We just have to fight our way out of it. I think I can do a little bit better, do a bit more. But at the same time, one guy can't win a basketball game by himself. If that means I ratchet mine up a little bit, the other guys have to ratchet up theirs as well.
"Hopefully we get our next game, feeling good about ourselves going into the all-star (break) and come out and try to turn it around."
The Bucks play their final game before the break on Wednesday night as they host the Philadelphia 76ers, the team immediately behind them in the Eastern Conference standings.
Milwaukee is in the eighth spot, three games ahead of Philadelphia.
"We definitely need our next game because that's who is behind us in the ninth spot, and they're definitely trying to come and get us," Ellis said. "It's going to be a very big game. It's going to be like a playoff game come Wednesday. So we've just got to be focused and ready and do whatever we can to get this win."
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Monstah ratchets uP............pHenom rachets dowN.Hide replies
Odd isn't it.
Monta willing to stay if Bucks create more for him? Also brings into question if Monta's funk is an adverse reaction to BJ's sloppy play.
BJ better with a sharpshooter.
Ellis better with a distributor.
One or the other.
When the Pope steps down and names his successor what are the chances it'll be David Stern?
Honestly, I'd rather see Monta get $9-10 million per year for 4 years than Jennings get $15 million for 5 years. Paying Monta like that is paying a good player good money. Paying Jennings the max is paying a good player star money.
you got it Kareem. I'll bet that's what Herbie's bRain tRust was discussing yesterday?
Correct-O, Lew.
Agree with both [rural] and [Mamma]. But neither is now, nor probably never will be, the type of leader the Bucks desperately need in that backcourt.
Neither are a leader.....Monta can be more of a role player though than Brandon. In Brandon's mind he is a gift to any NBA team and a natural leader. I would prefer if they can sign Monta and trade Brandon to a team that can deal with him. Brandon is never going to take us to any promise lands, nor will Monta, but I fell Monta could help more getting there.
gbar - that's a fair assessment. My biggest issue with Jennings is that he sincerely believes he's a superstar. He's no Allen Iverson. My biggest hesitation with Monta, and I have several, is that Golden State has improved quite a bit in his absence (even without Bogut).
I give up. I still think Jennings is our best bet but when I see a game like last night I just don't know anymore. Ellis looked great but what about all those nights when he turns into the unapologetic volume shooter? Maybe this type of game makes Monta more marketable. I don't have a clue what Hammonds should do at this point.
Agree, I'd rather pay monta between the 2, Brandon is not as good as he thinks he is...I know it's not going to happen but it would be nice to see a Jennings and other players trade for Russell Westbrook.
Allen Iverson isn't even Allen Iverson any more.
Addressing the Jennings / Ellis thing as blocked fandom from seeing another area much in need, yet, not getting nearly the Air Time......
With Sanders out, we find ourselves in a similar scenerio relative to a Buck-less
Bogut. Who is manning the paint, and baseline? Both offensively (which here we
go again..another poor season offensively from the 'baseline boys') and defensively
as we note any team coming in with a couple of 'biggs' will challenge this group resulting all too often in defeat.
So while scribes, and fandom focus on the guards,
the team loses nightly because of gapping holes elsewhere as well.
This season has put a big bold underscore to the vulnerabilities created
by the architech of this mess. And, what better way to solve such issues,
Monta this...and Jennings that will do for appetizers.
To stop there with your banter, and pontification is to miss,
it seems to me, the much bigger and more compelling concern(s)?
Three. More. Years.
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Kstein, I just caught up with the last thread and read your piece on Ersan. What you neglected to mention was how horribly he gets abused on defense. Repeatedly. The Bucks need more from a power forward. Unfortunately for Ersan, he is stuck in Tweenerville, unable to guard ANY position.
Thus Perfection, once again,
for those that believe in Illusions.....
AT least he has his offense, what has Phenom got?
....his new Steve Nash moves?
I the spirit of Kstein's post, I was trying to make a comment that didn't mention the guard play. Looks like Kstein doesn't want to hear it, though.
hey Lemmy!!!! he dunked a ball last night............that's vigahhhhhhhhhhh if I evah saw it?
If there are match up issues {zep} and certain players then have an
advantage on Ersan, then, I might be compelled to suggest thats part
of the deal. Also, in the 'help defense' that Skiles use to play, (I don't
know about Boylan) those sort of gaffes were often addressed.
While Ersan may not be the defensive savant you might like,
he does provide many other tools illustrated in the narrative of
which you speak, and in spite of many's disdain for his contract,
a contract nevertheless I feel he has earned.
Addtionally, as noted in {rural's} post above, as much as I
enjoy this guys game, I can watch him just as well in Brooklyn
as I can here, (with certain provisions) AND, and I am gettting to a
point where there is a part of me that would like him gone...
Seeing that so many here see only his downside, and not
the game he brings that I seem to have gravitated too.
Simply...in my eyes....
his upside far outways those things he still needs to work on
which may include tweaking his mano on mano D>>>
Monstah witt the LEFT HAND last night after a couple of whirling dervishes!!!
What I find interesting is not only that he kind of talked about Jennings. What is interesting is that he felt the need to talk about this topic, at this time...
One can make anything out of it, but it is kind of telling (the timing and all).
"And that's all I have to say about that."Hide replies
Seemingly along those same lines.
wherein we could not find an article on Monta a while back,
One looks now and there are no less then three in the last few
threads. It may not mean much, Or, ___________?
The smell of fire...
The smoke, from afar...
The signs...
Way too "coincidental," but in which direction, or in other words...
... who is going out and who will stay?
....they've picked a new pope?
Mark Pope for da new pope............get on board Cardinals.
Have you seen the correct smoke color? I thinks that's how they announce what's going on...
so. Rudy Gay, Pau Gasol, r no longer options.
Bargnani, Al Jefferson, Milsap, Josh Smith, Shawn Marion, JJ Redick, Boozer, Humphries, Ben Gordon, Gordon Hayward, Dudley, Marcin Gortat, Eric Maynor, DeJuan Blair, Shumpert, Cousins, are available
youd have to think that vets from Orlando, Sacramento, Phoenix would be available in trades for draft picks
the problem, which we STILL have, we dont have a direction
wer not rebuilding and wer not making championship movesHide replies
'....we don't have a direction....'
Or, a plan....
But, we got back, for three more years,
the same guy who is failing both of us {Panda}.
(This narrative does not infer that Panda has the disdain I do for Hammond)
i dont blame Hammond
when the coach and the owner have different agendas
its hard to implement ur plan
the owner is the problem
he wants playoffs
even the 8th seed
what i cant understand though
the last time we were a good team
we had 2 top 5 picks
we need to get there again
What a downer this past week plus has been. Just when folks were starting to get interested just a bit...bam.Hide replies
"Flyin High in April....
....Shot down in May...."
The biggest argument against the stat-geek WP48 people by the stat doubters(I'm looking at you prospector)is that having a Rudy Gay (or BJ, Monta, etc, etc) type opens up more opportunities for the Joe Lunchpail players (Udrih, Moute, Dalembert) who can then score efficiently when their defense sags to help someone else. What do the rest of you believe?
a) One Sir Jackalot per team helps all the non superstars on a team to get by
b) One helps, but two cancel each other out
c) You can't have too many of those guys (Alpha Males, the blogfather calls 'em), but it takes a Phil Jackson to make 'em get along
d) If you can't shoot 50%, you'd better be hitting three pointers and/or free throws or I don't need ya
All participants in today's survey are automatically entered in a drawing for tickets to this years draft.........Hide replies
I vote for item d.
I suggested exactly that to one Mr. Jennings long, long ago...
I already had you down for a d, BTW
You know me all too well, Bucks need Krakkens!
Or at least my "basketball-related tunnel vision..."
I kinda like a and b. There's something to be said for being able to get a shot off rather than having a 24 second violation or some other such turnover. At least there's a chance for an offensive putback and/or the defense having a chance to get set.
D. Watch a Spurs game, if you have a post guy who can suck in defense, a point guard who can shoot well enough to be respected in the pick and roll, and 3 guys who can spot up around the arch, you can't really be defended. In that scenario, nobody has to chuck nothing.
Then what are they doing with Happy Jackalot?
Veteran Leadership??
I just want to be in the draft raffle.
ya'all won't be smiling when Jiffy Al Jeff ends uP on the sPurZ for 'Blow my Trill Stack' and Montana's favorite pseudo-krakken 'The Blair Knee Project'/
Pseudo? Psuedo? Psuedo?, why-I-aughtta...........
Maybe Ortho-Krakken
"The Blair Knee Project."
Brilliant. Laughing hard and loud!!!
The B's have it, that means I don't care which one leaves, as long as he does
Who knows where it started but the IMB3, Bill Michaels, Gery Woelfel rumor of Nets offering Marshon, Humphries, and a 1st for Josh Smith or Ilyasova is intriguing.
Any chance the Bucks could take advantage of a team in win now mode like the Nets?
Could possibly be just wishful thinking on an extra pick or blowing the Nets "dump the hump" possibilities out of proportion but I'd like to see this ball rolling.Hide replies
Ilyasova or J-Smoove, what's the difference?
As much as I love all things Ilyasova,
If that move can be made (and just so I'm clear)...
*Marshon / *Humphries /* First Round...............
....For Ilyasova....?
Uh yea...make it happen>>>
Methinks it's Smith as first option then Sova as second option possibly without the 1st rd pick.
Does that still jive?
and always remember- rumored, heavily heavily rumored.
Its hard to even care about trades that don't break-up the backcourt. It's fair but seems like kind of a short-sell- the Nets love Illy and they don't even play those guys. Couldn't we make them take Gooden or something?
Of the names that are out there, I'd like to get in on Jared Dudley, or I suppose Redick. The Suns are so dumb they'd probably even take Monta for him...
The man from Montana can only dream of such trades...
Would Hammond make it happen?
As soon as he solves the debt crisis, global warming and cures cancer
Gotta love this thread, Bucks need Krakkens!
After such anger and frustration from the last few games, Bucks fans can still find ways to use humor when talking Bucks basketball.
How much humor will be left after the trade deadline is another matter...
i ALREADY have my shades on in case 'the future is too bright'.
I noticed BEasy (under his RealGM moniker), today has had it with BJ for tanking two straight Februarys and is ready to pull the plug. Never thought i'd see the day. BCJ may be one of the last standing loyalists.Hide replies
His faith will be repaid, in another life maybe........
You mean he's dropping lines on that forum,
yet, neglects the Homeland......
Real GM ='s 'The Hinterland'
Maybe they like/respect the plus/minus stat there...
Naw, that ain't it
Must reading for all 'brethren' from the Bleacher Rapport, here's a small taste:
"Milwaukee Bucks Need to End the Brandon Jennings-Monta Ellis Experiment
The Milwaukee Bucks would be better off on finding a better backcourt player to replace Brandon Jennings.
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
The Milwaukee Bucks will never win anything of substantial value with the starting backcourt of Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis. That much should be obvious by now. Sure, the Bucks might sneak into the playoffs as an eighth seed with a record hovering around .500, but the team will surely be dispatched in the first round. It is really hard to envision any other end to this season for the franchise."Hide replies
But according to Charles Gardner Monta Ellis is " more alive " ," and his energy was higher ".Isn't that a good thing? ;-)
You gotta hand it to those JS writers,they sure know how to put lipstick on a pig,but it's.............
still polishing a turd blossom?
bad shooting nights, guess who leads ?
Bucks Need Krakkens, u will love that articleHide replies
It brings me no joy to see how our two most talented ballers have fallen
THE BRETHREN ILLUMINATI could have already surmised that statistic.
for the record,
i like both Jennings and Monta.
also, i knew before the trade that this was a bad pairing.
at the same time, if we could get 1 or 2 better players that would take the pressure off of our 2 smurfs, they would look and play better.
love and marrige
phenom and monty
go together like a horse and carriage
ask Ur Alvin Gentry
you can't have one
they're complementary?