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Arthur Schaper: Grand Theft Auto Cicilline
Friday, April 18, 2014
From East Side of Providence representative to Mayor to Congress, Rep. David Cicilline is unremarkably " The Prince of Providence". GoLocal MINDSETTER™ Don Roach uncharitably depicted the former mayor as an absentee landlord type, who blamed unions, the economy, or anyone else rather than taking charge and enlarging Providence's fortunes. Roach then repeated the $110 million shortfall reproach of Legacy Cicilline, which outgoing (or rather fleeing) Mayor Taveras had announced (not so much addressed) on his first year in office.
Despite his royal status, Christmas 2013 was not so merry for Cicilline, who tweeted that someone had broken into his car, a symbol of sorts for the city's crime rates, which continued upwards after his tenure as mayor. City-data.org reported a sharp increase in murders from 2008-2009, along with robberies, assaults, and rapes. Violent crime was roaring, even as property were crimes were going down. Then again, even auto thefts rose toward the end of Cicilline's mayoral tenure.
The former mayor's holiday tragedy represents another fallout: Providence's dire financial problems, which came to light after Cicilline's 2010 Congressional win. Of course, one could blame such bleak statistics (crime and money) on the 2008 Housing Crisis, followed by the Great Recession, but the larger car-jacking remains in the drivers' seat: the fiscal state of the city of Providence, which Cicilline was responsible for from 2003-2011.
Still mayor of Providence when he got elected to Congress with a bare 51% of the vote in 2010, Cicilline had assured votes that his city would see a surplus. Despite Republican National Committee efforts in 2012 blasting the Providence pol as one of the ten most corrupt representatives in Washington, he won again.
What role did Prince David play in leaving Providence a negative legacy, a city which lawmakers claim needs a massive dose of its namesake to stay fiscal solvent?
Shortly after the disturbing revelations that Providence financial straits had increased from a Category 3 Hurricane to a Category 5 (per fellow Dem Angel Taveras), Congressman-elected Cicilline refused to see reporters or discuss anything about the matter. The hollow talking points followed: recession, state aid cuts, end of Obama stimulus, and failure to adequately fund the city's pension funds.
Right from Cicilline's lips, that last part was de jure Prince David's responsibility, yet he duffed it off as just another item justifying his silence on Providence's improvident fortunes. About the pension issues, however, and even more interesting, Politifact reported that Cicilline adequately funded the city's pension, even though the early years never passed 90%.
What's going on, then? The pensions were adequately funded, but not really? And how does that exonerate Cicilline?
Even during his 2010 campaign against John Loughlin, Cicilline turfed blame to state aid cuts:
"With Governor Carcieri trying to balance Rhode Island's budget on the backs of our cities and towns, the City of Providence faced deep cuts in state aid."
Leadership includes responding to crises, not lamenting the lack of leadership higher up.
Confirming this tenet of executive authority, The Providence, Rhode Island Internal Auditor's Report from April 2011 issued a damning summation leveled at Cicilline, not Carcieri's administration:
[T]he prior Administration did not recommend the necessary decisions to avert a fiscal crisis. . .
The report blasted Cicilline for not having any long-term plan in place to preserve the city from the incoming fiscal problems facing the city. Indicting the dysfunctional relationship between the city council and the Administration, the report outlined some disturbing and perhaps illegal trends which took place from 2009-2011, including the following:
1. The Cicilline Administration transferred funds from the Undesignated Surplus without City Council approval. Was David robbing Roger to keep the city books balanced?
2. Cicilline and company frequently missed deadlines to provide information or respond to requests from the Independent auditor about the city's financial status. Was Cicilline too busy running for Congress to make sure that his city was still afloat?
3. The city council did not receive outlined, scheduled monthly updates regarding whether the city was headed toward surpluses or deficits the following year. Every working family assesses current income to determine future sending on a weekly basis, but the prior Cicilline Administration didn't even bother?
4. While the former mayor could blame the state government for cutting off funding in response to the Housing Crisis, his administration insisted on projecting unrealistic revenue streams, like $2.8 million from Interests-Investments, which in fact brought in barely a tenth of the anticipated amount.
Then this statement stood out in the preliminary report:
Financial reports submitted to the State were inaccurate.
So, loose accounting led to lost accountability, with scrubbed balanced sheets. The whole debacle sounds like a fiscal Benghazi in New England. Later Bloomberg News reported in 2012 that Providence may seek bankruptcy protection, i.e. no resting under the wings of the Most High (not Buddy Cianci!)
Providence's fiscal mismanagement falls squarely on Cicilline, who for all his royal pretensions and self-defense pleas, more likely played his city like a video game from hell.
Arthur Christopher Schaper is a teacher-turned-writer on topics both timeless and timely; political, cultural, and eternal. A life-long Southern California resident, Arthur currently lives in Torrance. Follow him on Twitter@ArthurCSchaper, reach him at [email protected], and read more atSchaper's Corner and As He Is, So Are We Ministries.
Related Slideshow: Providence Pension Liability
A new report shows that Providence's pension fund—even after the recent reform—is still in trouble. The below slides break out the key numbers for the pension fund, including the unfunded liability, the assumed and actual rates of return, the current level of benefits, and how long it will take the city to pay off the unfunded liability. Figures are current as of July 1, 2013 and are taken from the new Jan. 31 actuarial report from Segal Consulting.
Impact of Lower Rates of Return
$72 million:The city unfunded liability increased by this amount when the city lowered its assumed rate of return by a quarter of a percentage point, from 8.5% to 8.25%
$506.2 million: The estimated increase in the unfunded liability were the city to use the 6% assumed rate of return recommended by Moody's Investors Service.
Current Cost of Pension Fund
For 2013
City Contribution: $58.1 million
Employees Contribution: $10.9 million
Net Investment Return: $18.1 million
Cost of Retiree Benefits: $95.4 million
Note: Net investment return is the return on investments after investment and administrative fees have been paid.
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Comment #1 by Roger Watson on 2014 04 18
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Comment #4 by Jonathan Flynn on 2014 04 18
crime and gangs grew under his administration.
you have to wonder what this guy was doing for 8 years. everything in the city got worse under his administration. everything.
how could anyone possible vote for him unless you are voting yourself money.
Comment #5 by john paycheck on 2014 04 18
how could anyone defend this guy based on these facts.
and who knows what has been covered up and will surface in the future.
Comment #6 by john paycheck on 2014 04 18
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Comment #8 by Lewis Charleston on 2014 04 18
"Grand Theft Auto" I immediately thought that the investigative genius Mr Schaper had found a link between Rep Cicilline and Rep Darrell. Mr Issa was arrested FIVE TIMES, twice on illegal weapons charges, twice for CAR THEFT, a third time for faking a car theft. Then there are the allegations of arson. Issa quadrupled his building insurance from $100,000 to $460,000 .Flammable liquid had been poured on ONLY the areas WITHOUT sprinklers. The police suspected the totally corrupt Darrell Issa was guilty of many more crimes
Sammy in Arizona
Roger Watson ""Sissyline's"" how imaginative .. LOL
Comment #9 by Sammy Arizona on 2014 04 18
Comment #10 by Art West on 2014 04 18
Comment #11 by Lewis Charleston on 2014 04 18
The City employees continued their 8-9% of salary payments though,which Cicilline did not always immediately transfer to the Fund.
Further,Cicilline increased the bonded indebitness of the City to an unprecidented level.
During his tenure,the quality of life in the City decreased dramatically,partially because Prov.became a hub for heroin and cocaine dealing.
Finally,Cicilline's lack of character remains a permanent taint on the Mayor's office during his administration.
Go to youtube.Type :congressman cicilline dr fadul in the search line and watch the 2 videos,one in Spanish,one w/English translation.
Comment #12 by mark malachi on 2014 04 19
My website can be fund here: MattforRI.com
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Comment #16 by G Godot on 2014 04 22
I repeatedly called the "Prince's" Office and got the runaround.."He's In..But Busy..He just stepped out.. He'll Call you back.. I even made an appointment for my late Dad and I to Meet with him.. He cancelled an hour before it was to take place...Citing" Prior Commitments." I exhumed her on 2005 after 3 YEARS of Fighting the Parks Dept. and "His Royal Never Around Ness"..This created hardships for Dad and me as we had to rebury here in our Native NY. Come to find out that The Trust fund for the Cemetery, handled by "Private investors", did not exist..There was supposed to be a 3,000,000.00 Trust Fund on Acct. In a Providence Bank. I had someone investigate it, and Account does not exist. Apparently it was depleted some time ago. The cemetery gets a yearly cut before Memorial Day, and that's It.. Directors of Operations (Former), Carol Grant, Bob McMahon, Alixe Ogden.. all gave us the runaround.. and all this happened Partly on "Davie Boys watch".. Just wanted to toss my hat in the ring, as a Citizen That Cares.. Beware North Burial Ground, People. I don't know if things have changed.. My family's headstone still is up in the cemetery.. and I refuse to remove it even though the Graves are empty.. Kind of a reminder to anyone that knew me who has people buried in there near my former plot(Section 28, Lot 8009 Heed- Bennett on Headstone..Section is located on Crescent Ave.
I have a Good Memory, and I never forget when someone refuses my Family respect and dignity..."Dave.. I remember.."
Inclosing: Why are RI politicians so Dishonest?
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In the first game for his Swedish Elite League team Skelleftea (a 4-3 victory) David Runblad's line looked as such:
1 goal, 1 assist, team-leading +3, and 3 hits in an also team-leading (by far) 27+ minutes of icetime.
This is a men's league, of course. Runblad is 20.
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Police in Charlotte say a Charlotte teen who has Asperger's Syndrome and was reported missing on Monday morning was found safe, unharmed and reunited with his family.Demetrius Walters, 15, had last been seen leaving his home on the 10000 block of Tradewinds Lane to take a walk on the McMullen Creek Greenway in south Charlotte.
He was found several hours after being reported missing.
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Narratives of the European Crisis and the Future of (Social) Europe
Philomila Tsoukala
Georgetown University Law Center
Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 241-266, 2013
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-012
Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-004
This article examines two distinct types of narratives prevalent in academic writing and popular press regarding the causes of the crisis in Europe. The first type, a morality tale, attributes the crisis to profligate southern states that refused to abide by the strictures of the Stability and Growth Pact. The second type is focused on the structural reasons for the crisis, emphasizing the nature of the European Union as a non-optimal currency area, and the euro as a factor in the creation of trade imbalances and competitiveness problems within the euro zone. Each type of narrative suggests a different type of solution. The morality tale tends to see austerity measures and stricter fiscal discipline as the solution, while the structural narratives suggest anything from banking, to fiscal, to full political union or, by contrast, breakup as the potential ways out. The article argues that European politicians have focused on the morality tale and this in turn makes the structural solutions required for the survival of the euro politically unworkable. The article further argues that the European Commission has used the crisis as evidence of the dire consequences following from lack of reforms. Instead of profligate citizens the Commission sees inefficient states that are potentially creating impediments to growth. Notably, the Commission's vision of desirable reforms for the purposes of growth reach well into the basic structures of European welfare state, on social policy, pensions, and health care, but this time under the guise of a fiscally mandated adjustment that should be binding on Member State through the process of economic policy coordination.
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"Marriage Lock"
Upshot, we can't really get divorced, because that would knock her off my coverage, and carry on in separated limbo that neither of us wants and that over time becomes more and more tense and legally problematic as we maintain separate finances/households/etc. I imagine many couples have not been able to divorce because they have been dependent on spouse's insurance. (I also imagine if a major illness/claim arises many of these spouses-in-health-insurance-only find their eligibility challenged and end up uncovered anyhow.)
In my case, we get along fine and it's not the end of the world, but the ACA for us means closure and moving forward. For my ex, it's a small piece of building her own independent future.
But I often think of those trying to get out of a bad marriage because of abuse, or infidelity -- but who have found that meant becoming uninsurable . . . ? Bet alot of those folks are saying "Thanks Obama" without the sass . . .


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That's according to his manager Alex Davis:
"Well, I'm not sure exactly what the problem or problems were. I tryed [sic] hard to avoid, but Dana wasn't listening. It unfortunate, but Todd's an asset and he will keep fighting. He's a young kid that gets a lot attention."
SI.com's Josh Gross passes along the quote from Davis about the apparent difficulty in dealing with the talented but ornery Duffee, who set the division ablaze with his record-setting knockout over Tim Hague, only to go belly up after a KO loss to Mike Russow just a couple of months later. Any chance he shows up in Strikeforce? And what kind of impact can he make if he does?


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Three people have been charged after over $17,000 in property was stolen over the last few months in Union County, the sheriff's office announced on Thursday.
The burglaries involved several homes and businesses in Union County dating back to late October, according to warrants provided by the sheriff's office.
Felicia Parkins, 20, has been charged with grand larceny in connection with an incident on Jones Ford Road, according to warrants.
Freddie Puckett, 53, has been charged with three counts of grand larceny, third degree burglary and second degree burglary in connection with incidents on Kelly Road, Jones Ford Road, Terrapin Road in Union, according to Kim Bailey of the sheriff's office.
According to Bailey $16,550 of the stolen property has been recovered.
Bailey said the sheriff's office has also cleared a burglary case that happened on Buncombe Road in Union. She said the suspect in the case is deceased and did not release his name.
Deputies said there was also a storage building that was burglarized in Union and a man had been charged. Bailey said, Jimmy Rhinehart, 43, was arrested on Thursday and charged with third degree burglary and petit larceny in connection with theft of over $1,500 in property at the storage building.
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5 Things I See Going Down in 2010
1- Henne becoming a solid QB
Without a doubt Henne had a very impressive season as a "rookie". However, he is not an extremely solid Qb by any stretch of the imagination just yet. He´s accuracy is so so, he has to work a lot on those short passes - both with accuracy and touch-, force the ball into tight windows a little bit less and work on the overall mental aspect of the game. Like knowing when to ask for that extremely valuable 4th time out. However, in my opinion, the thing that will make him or break him in the long run will be leadership. He absolutely needs to become more vocal. Forgive me but there is no such thing as a silent leader. Not in football anyways. While its true that this season he was merely a rookie, next season the team wil be depending on him, both on the field and off of it. After all, the NFL is a quarterbacks league. Everyday of the week and twice on Sunday, right Matty? =0
2- The start of a Sanchez vs Henne rivalry
Sanchez had a strange season. He started off really well and then absolutely failed. Till the end of the season that is. When the playoffs came he was asked to do exactly what Flacco was asked to do the year before; throw two or three clutch passes and not make mistakes. Well, he did just that. Specifically against Indy he had a nice game. Having the poise, accuracy and arm to make that long throw to Edwards that put them ahead in the game. He had another couple of nice throws too. But what really impressed me was the poise he had in a such a vital game. As a rookie. Playing in front of the New York media machine. Just like Henne, he will work and finally get off the map all those little mistakes that take a big toll on a first year QB. If this year´s MNF game agains the Jets in Miami was epic, wait till next year when these two young QBs are ready to rumble like grown men.
3- Channing Crowder being a playmaker
All of us know Channing is not a playmaker. Plain and simple. Sure, he plays the run nicely and has a tight grip on the play calling and overall dicsipline of the defense. But he is still not a playmaker.
However, this past preseason I really saw something out of Channing that got me really excited. He was going after the quarterback from the ILB postion a whole bunch, getting pressures, sacks and batting passes down. Then the season came and those glimpses dissapeared. The thing, though, is that it might have had more to do with Pasqualoni´s conservative play calling than anything else.
This brings us to the arrival of Mike Nolan. Nolan loves bringing the heat (insert Miami pro basketball team joke) from every single position on the field. I think this will not only benefit Channing on his ability to get to the QB, but it will also add to his interception numbers.
You could also add to this that there is a 99% chance that Channing will be playing with a much more talented companion at ILB that on past years. Thus giving him more of a chance to take risks every now and then.
4- More love for Wilson because of aclimating and blitzing
I dont really get what the story on Wilson is. After all the guy won a Super Bowl with the Giants playing the same position he played last season with the Dolphins. Sure, later on came his stint with the Raiders where he played SS and might have lost the grip on the FS position. Either because of that or because Tom Cable punched the crap out of him on a meeting.
However, whatever the case it might be, Wilson flat out stunk last year.
I do see some reasons why he could have a much better season in 2010.
First, he wil have a whole year of experience with this team under his belt and playing in his natural position. Then, Nolan will probably find a way to put much more pressure on the QB that last year, thus making Wilson´s job a bit easier. And finally, both Sean Smith and Vontae Davis will have a better grip on the corner position that they did as rookies, which should provide Wilson with a little bit less open space to cover.
Not likely, but Wilson could finally come around in 10´. After all he is making a huge amount of money.
5-- A new star on our backfield-
Both Ronnie and Ricky are magnificent runners. However, they are power runners. Both of them go extremely hard up the middle and gain solid chunks of yards every time they carry the ball. But in my opinion, neither Ricky -because of age- or Ronnie are the kind of running backs that will get down the field consistently enough. In less words, without the wildcat, neither Ronnie, much less Ricky are home run hitters. Not to mention Hilliard isnt the answer or Ronnie´s ability to come back from another season ending injury as big question marks?
The answer could be waiting for us at #12 in a guy named CJ Spiller.
This guy is basically the next Chris Johnson and will 99% be there when we pick in the first round.
I agree we have more pressing needs than RB, like ILB and WR. However, we are not going to go with a problem child like Dez Bryant and I believe this FO will wait till the second round to get their ILB. Maybe in Brandon Spikes or someone else. I just dont see McClain as being the next Patrick Willis. Plus, I think there is a reason why in the last decade there have only been 4 ILBs selected in the first round.
All of us our looking for our big offensive threat on a #1 receiver, but it wouldnt surprise me if we found that on CJ Spiller.


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Welcome to all who represent the Claret and Blue! First of all, thank you Aaron and Kirsten for starting this blog. I'm newly assimilated into the Villan fanship, but if I know myself, I will be caught up in the team's fortunes in no time.
Secondly, and mainly the point of this post, if you are not able to make it to Villa Park to watch the match in person, where do you like to watch it at? At your house, at a pub surrounded by other rowdy Villan supporters, or somewhere else? Just like the authors, I'm about 7500km from the Holte End, also. I've only caught a few AVFC matches this season, but just as I enjoy watching my beloved Seattle Sounders play with a bunch of friends and other supporters, I know that I would like to watch Villan matches with other supporters. I thought that in this post, we could list out Pubs (if that's your thing) that you like to watch the games at. I know that these locations will be all over the US and England because of the diversity of the fanbase that will frequent this blog but that is what I am hoping for. Hopefully, this list could bring some supporters together that did not know about other supporters that lived around them. There are a couple of pubs in my area that regularly show EPL matches, like the 3 Lions Pub in Redmond, WA, but I know that there are quite a few more around here that I don't know about.
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Just a heads-up, the Lumia 620 has been earning some pretty rave reviews
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With its colourful, interchangeable cases and extremely reasonable price tag, the Nokia Lumia 620 is an excellent choice for younger phone fanatics or just those wanting to take their first steps into Windows Phone 8.
Pocket-lint: 4.5/5, Hot Product award winner
The Lumia 620 has none of the problems of Nokia's 920 (size, high cost) and the 820 (high cost) but is a lovely, charming and pleasant phone to use. It might be a little small for some, especially those with bigger hands, but we had no problem with our above-average-sized-hands. This is, in short, a winner, and honestly probably just about the best WP8 device out there.
Engadget: precisely what an entry-level smartphone should be
The Lumia 620 represents a new high-watermark for entry-level smartphones, regardless of OS. Ignoring the app drawbacks, the phone provides a great web browser experience alongside the full Windows Phone 8 feature set. It could be a very exciting phone for Nokia -- it's an exciting one for us. We've mentioned the price several times during the review, but for a new smartphone with the latest version of its respective OS, it's a steal.
Very promising for Windows Phone and Nokia. Now, hopefully, we'll really be getting an indication of whether demand for Windows Phone is out there. Seems like all that it'll need is a bit of an advertising push to make people aware.


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The Magic gave the Sixers their 12th straight loss in Philadelphia tonight. Things happened. Mostly funny, horrible things.
The newest trade rumor involving Danny Granger sends us to Milwaukee. According to Fox Sports Ohio, the Pacers are very interested in doing a sign-and-trade of Danny Grange for Brandon Jennings....
Another day, another Danny Granger trade rumor. This time though, the trade actually makes a ton of sense for both sides. Should the Pacers send their former franchise cornerstone to the Clippers...
In the debut of Indy Cornrows' 23rd Pick Tournament. Draft writer, Evan Sidery analyzes the positives and negatives of drafting Rudy Gobert. Also, Evan looks at the possibility of trading Danny...
Whats up Pacers fans? I'm a writer/illustrator over at Bright Side of the Sun and am currently doing a project where I am doing 30 illustrations (1 player from each of the 30 NBA teams) over 30 days. Day 25 features your own Paul George and I thought I'd share it with you. For those wondering why I'd choose George, one of my best friends is a Pacers fan and he requested that I do George instead of Granger...so I did. Anyway, feel free to visit and check out this and more as well as follow the project. Comments are welcome and appreciated. -Dustin
No preference on teams I would love to play for anyone.. Clippers, bucks, raps, and pacers would be my fave tho love to play wit @dgranger33Paul George replying to my question on Twitter I asked him "Do you have a preference where you go or would you mind if LAC drafts you?". Figured I'd share the answer.
Wow, first Hip-hop Danny Granger reference. Off Wale's new mixtape, "While the world goes Dre crazy/I'm Danny Granger I'm just working with a different Pacer"http://www.walemusic.com/
How Danny Granger has inspired me to be a better Hawks fan.
In a game that meant a lot more to the Pacers than the Bucks, Indiana used a 26-5 blitz at the start of the fourth quarter to erase a 10 point deficit and spark them to a 105-97 win at Conseco...
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text: As With Before any win in the last two years are better than this so I kept it to The Crap Years of AZ Cardinals. I had to struggle to find these but I remember going to at least two of these games and remember the feeling when they won. First Game Aug. 7th 1997 We Beat Dallas 25-22 in Overtime. I remember this game because it broke a 13 game losing streak to Dallas and If I remember we tore down the goal posts (i deny everything). Second game Dec. 27th We beat San Diego 16-13 to get into the Playoffs for the first time ever in AZ. I remember San Diego tied the game with I believe 35 seconds left they kick off and Metcalf (i think) returned the ball to our 40 and we had time for one pass from Plummer to Frank Sanders and Jackie kicked the game winner. Third Game Dec. 29th 2003 We Beat Minnesota 18-17 on a last second touchdown in an other wise crap year to keep Minn out of the playoffs (I told you i struggled). Last but not least and I didnt want to add this one because I know it will win but I couldnt find a fourth, Jan 2, 1999 we beat Dallas 20-7 for the Cardinals first Playoff Win in 60 years I think. I just remember this as the Ultimate Ass Kicking by the cardinals. It wasnt even close and the game should of been 40 -3 the way they played. So there it is best win of the crap years.


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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
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51 Westminster Street, Lewiston, Maine 04240
Registration fee: $20.00 per person, or $25 per person on the day of the meeting.
To register, contact Glen Koehler at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 207.581.3882.
Everyone is welcome to attend. This meeting will provide pest and horticultural management updates for commercial, hobbyist, large and small-scale orchardists. Three pesticide applicator recertification credits will be offered for attending from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration cost includes lunch and is $20 per person for those who preregister, or $25 per person on the day of the event. Preregistration is requested to ensure an accurate lunch count and to minimize registration time on the day of the meeting.
8:00 AM How Climate Change Works and Observed Changes in Maine Weather
- Glen Koehler, UMaine Cooperative Extension, Pest Management Office
9:00 AM Coffee and donuts, meet and greet — Provided by Milton Sinclair, Paris Farmers Union
9:30 AM Groundcover Management
- William Lord, University of New Hampshire
10:30 AM Break — Provided by Randy Drown, Crop Protection Services
10:45 AM Changing Weather in Maine
- Glen Koehler
11:15 AM Calcium Nutrition and Physiology
- Renae Moran, UMaine Cooperative Extension, Highmoor Farm Agricultural Experiment Station
11:45 AM Understanding Nutrient Recommendations
- Bruce Hoskins, University of Maine Analytical Lab and Maine Soil Testing Service
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Maine State Pomological Society Update
- Andy Ricker, Ricker Hill Orchards, Turner, Maine
1:15 PM Climate Risk Reduction and Opportunities for Maine Tree Fruit Growers
- Glen Koehler
2:15 PM Growing them is Easy… What Makes for Grower Success?
- William Lord
2:45 PM Break — Provided by Paul Peters, Northeast Agricultural Sales, Inc.
3:00 PM Insect and Disease Pest Management Update
- Glen Koehler
3:30 PM Maine Board of Pesticides Control Update
- Gary Fish, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
4:00 PM Adjourn
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Staff from UMaine's Highmoor Farm in Monmouth will be on the Orono campus again this fall to sell high quality apples and pumpkins. We hope to see you there!
Highmoor Fall Harvest Sale
Thursday, October 10, 2013 – weather permitting
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Located by the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre, between Winslow Hall and Fogler Library
The following apple varieties will be on sale:
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Gala Golden Delicious
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Snow Sweet
Apple prices: $1.00/lb
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Renae Moran, a tree fruit specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about this year's apple crop. Moran said southern Maine is having an above average year due to the good weather conditions during pollination when trees were in bloom. She said a week later trees in northern Maine came into bloom when there was a long period of rainy, cold weather.


text: I had that happen to me in Northern Ireland once. We were having dinner at a little place in Larne. I knew that the people at the next table were speaking English, but I couldn't understand more than a word here or there. Also, in Scotland & Ireland, I was asked more than once if I was from Australia - and I'm from Seattle - home to those who have possibly the nearest to "dictionary" pronounciation in the US.


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Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold's attorneys have rested their case in his trial on misconduct in office charges.
Attorney Bruce Marcus on Monday urged Judge Dennis Sweeney to throw the case out of court. Marcus contends the allegations that Leopold used his police detail for personal and political purposes are too vague and do not constitute crimes.
Sweeney decided to let the case move forward.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday morning.
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Category Archives: Beautiful things
Defining Ourselves
Filed under Beautiful things
Finding the Sweet Spot
This is a story of renewal, perfect for the Spring.
This tree you see endowed with so many glorious orange orbs was, not so long ago, a barren and unhappy thing. She was planted in the area of my yard most welcoming to citrus. By that I mean it was hot, sunny most of the day, and protected from the wind. It was also right inside the front gate, so every day, many times, I would walk by my little growing mandarin orange tree and mentally entreat her to "please grow." I put her on the drip system, I gave her citrus food, good earth, and I infused her with doses of iron and fish emulsion. You know, I paid attention to her. And she responded. Grew into a fine-looking specimen. But she never, ever set any fruit. Year after year, strong green growth, zero fruit.
The value in a fruit tree is … um … fruit. Without fruit, it's just a nice shrub, and in my little patch of warm, sunny yard, if a fruit tree was simply going to be a tree, then she had to make room for someone else who would provide. But she was a healthy tree, and I'm a pushover when it comes to ending the life of a sturdy grower. So we banished her to the backyard, in an afternoon-only sunny spot where the earth hadn't been amended with all manner of lovely soil but rather had a clay-like consistency. We gave her a nice hole twice as wide as deep, put her on the drip, and said a prayer.
She proceeded to drop each and every leaf, as if she was hot and needed to expose her branches to the fresh air. Or she didn't care anymore. In the short order of two weeks, she went from a green, robust citrus bush to a craggy looking old lady. The move killed her spirit. Feeling like I had failed her, I took some consolation in knowing that I hadn't simply ripped her out by the roots and dumped her unceremoniously into the compost pile. We had at least given her a second chance.
But when, after a rain fall, I took a walk out the back door towards the compost pile, I noticed that my naked mandarin orange tree was adorned with delicate white flower buds. Somehow, after jettisoning every bit of exterior life, this cagey tree was going through a re-birth. And not just a few fruits on the maiden voyage. Oh no, she was covered in flowers that I knew, weather and wind and birds willing, would turn someday into precious fruit.
So you see. Sometimes we just need to find the right patch of dirt for us to fully flower. And it might not be the patch of dirt everyone thinks is perfect for our growth. Yet if it feeds us, then all is right with the world.
Filed under Beautiful things, Delish Things
The Universe Speaks
Call it the law of attraction. Or karma. Or just a spectacular coincidence.
But what would you call it if you had a conversation with your mentor about how you really really should think about speaking to others about your topic of passion, and not just in a casual way but in a Stand-Up-Before-You-And-Get-Paid fashion. Then you leave that person and stop at the library and check out a few books on public speaking before you pick up your son to go home. And at home the little light on your answering machine is blinking. And the nice lady who just left you a message says how she would like you to be the program speaker for her upcoming fundraising event.
I mean, what do you call that? Other than ah-mazing.
I'll take it, of course. And ask for many more helpings, please. If all I must do is focus on what I want to happen, which is sometimes harder to do than I would like, then I should get on that.
And so should you.
Maybe we should all sit down with a pen and pencil, and just focus in on a few things here this new year that we would like to happen. Maybe say them out loud a few times.
That way, whomever is listening can get right on the job of making our dreams come true.
Filed under Beautiful things
I'm Coming Out
Do you know what it feels like to come out?
I certainly don't, but I'm trying.
Now, please, my sexuality is firmly fixed in the heter-oh category, but I'm speaking more metaphorically. I'm not sure why this is so hard for me, but I struggle with embracing the fact that the things I care about matter. And that expressing my point of view is valid, and shouldn't mean I need to apologize. Or be embarrassed. Or worry that I am coming off as pushy.
There are so many facets to every matter, and we all have the power to stand squarely on our own convictions, just as long as we do it nicely. With grace. Dignity. I'd like to reiterate that point to the two rather militant ladies who set up shop across from my local market with signs of President Obama donning a Hitler mustache. I told them that I would have been interested in learning of their point of view, except that the little hair patch they superimposed upon our Commander in Chief was offensive. She wagged her finger at me and told me something about thermonuclear war and Russia and Israel, and that "I should be ashamed of myself" for not snuggling right up next to her and denouncing Obama, as he clearly is just like Hitler.
I wonder how successful she was pulling people to her side with that tactic.
Unlike this woman, I come from a mother who never wants to be a bother. It's a noble trait. And her maternal point-of-view runs deep within me. Although I sigh when I see her don the "I don't want to be a bother" cloak, I do it myself. My work now as a champion of talking to kids about a parent's cancer means, by the very nature of the conversation, that I have to embrace my point of view and repeat it to others.
By the transitive property, that means championing myself.
So many of us are trying to sell ourselves, or our wares, or our thoughts every single day. We struggle with, as my friend Karen so aptly described it, "the little voice" inside us that doubts ourselves, when we should be thinking of "the big voice" that carries the greater, more inspiring message we embody.
So here's to believing in oneself. Hip hip! To not apologizing for our delightful points of view. Hurray! Because, as I tell my son all the time, if we all had the same point of view, then the world would be a very boring place indeed.
Filed under Beautiful things, Just something ...
No No
I know no.
No, this can't be happening.
No, I don't want to lose my hair.
No, thank you, I'll pass on daily radiation.
In truth, I couldn't say no. I had to figure out a way to square my new horrid reality. No matter how much I wanted to turn and flee, I had to face the music.
And yet.
Last weekend I had the chance to meet an array of women who have stomped on the word "no." I'll tell you about two.
Rebecca Byrne, who along with me was chosen as a 2011 Pink Power Mom for her work as an advocate for breast cancer patients, was 13-weeks pregnant when she found out she had breast cancer. Her doctor told her that no, she couldn't continue her pregnancy. She needed to terminate it immediately, and start radiation.
Rebecca pivoted out of that office and found another doctor, who allowed her to be treated for cancer while continuing her pregnancy. Her daughter Emelia is now a happy 1-year-old, and not surprisingly, Rebecca used that same tenacity to start the We Will Not Lay Down 2 Cancer non-profit.
Karen Neblett, who heads up sales for Kids II, the company behind the Pink Power Mom program, has a different relationship to the word no. Firstly, she doesn't ever accept "no" as the final answer. She likes to think of a "no" as meaning something more delightful, like "not at this moment in time." Things shift, she said. Options open up. At its essence, she said, a "no" simply means you must find another path. The path to "yes".
I am embracing this attitude. Because life can be filled with people telling you "no" for a million reasons, but those who make things happen in this world simply pirouette past the word and sashay on.
So, here's to staying nimble. Let's juke, jive, bob and weave around the negatives in life.
Remember, just like the Australian band Bomba said in their song "Busted":
"Cursed is the walker who will never travel light."
Filed under Beautiful things
Who Cares
Turns out, plenty. Plenty of people care, and sometimes it feels good just to see who does. As I take stock of what I've done in the past year, I'd like to publicly share the cancer centers where Nowhere Hair is doing good work. I thank them for their support and for realizing that healing – true healing – comes when all members of the family are included.
Alegent Health Cancer Center Omaha, Nebraska
Alta Bates Medical Center Berkeley, CA
Baltimore Medical Center Baltimore, MD
Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center Ellsworth, ME
Beverly Hills Cancer Center Beverly Hills, CA
Bonheur Children's Hospital Memphis, TN
Bozeman Deaconess Cancer Center Bozeman, Montana
California Cancer Care San Mateo, CA
Carol Simon Cancer Center Morristown, NJ
Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Cancer Center Los Angeles, CA
Center for Breast Care Burbank, CA
Center For Cancer Care Goshen, IL
Central Florida Cancer Institute Winter Haven, FL
CHW Sacramento Sacramento, CA
Colac Area Health Patient Library Australia
Concord Hospital Library Concord, New Hampshire
CPMC Institute for Health and Healing San Francisco, CA
Cross Cancer Institute Alberta, CANADA
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA
Diablo Valley Oncology/Hematology Pleasant Hill, CA
El Camino Hospital Cancer Center Mountain View, CA
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Gift Shop Columbia, MO
Fairbanks Cancer Center Fairbanks, Alaska
Florida Hospital Orlando, FL
Foley Cancer Center Rutland, Vermont
Fox Chase Cancer Centere Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Frederick Memorial Hospital Frederick, MD
Gibbs Regional Cancer Spartanburg, South Carolina
Helen F. Graham Cancer Center Newark, Delaware
Hickman Cancer Center Adrian, Michigan
Huntsman Cancer Institute Learning Center Salt Lake City, Utah
John Muir Hospital Women's Resource Center Oakland, CA
Kaiser Permanente – San Rafael Breast San Rafael, CA
Kansas City Cancer Center Kansas City, MO
LSU Feist-Weiller Cancer Center Shreveport, Louisiana
Marin Cancer Resource Center Greenbrae, CA
Martin O'Neil Cancer Center St. Helena, CA
Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, W Virginia Univ. Morgantown, West Virginia
Massey Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth U. Richmond, VA
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Rochester, Minnesota
MD Anderson Houston, Texas
Memorial Cancer Institute Pembroke Pines, FL
Memorial Sloan-Kettering NYC
Mid-Columbia Medical Center The Dalles, OR
Mills Peninsula Cancer Center San Mateo, CA
Mountain States Tumor Institute Boise, Idaho
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
Nevada Cancer Institute Las Vegas, Nevada
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon, New Hampshire
Norris Cotton Cancer Center St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Northwest Cancer Specialists Portland, OR
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, Illinois
NYU Cancer Institute NYC
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Palo Alto, CA
Payson Center at Concord Hospital Concord, New Hampshire
Pink Lotus Breast Center Beverly Hills, CA
Premier Oncology Santa Monica, CA
Providence Cancer Center Portland, OR
Queen of the Valley Medical Center Napa, CA
Rocky Mountain Oncology Casper, Wyoming
Roger Maris Cancer Center Fargo, North Dakota
Rutland Regional Medical Center Rutland, VT
Saint Anthony's Hospital Cancer Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Saint John's Health Center Santa Monica, CA
Sanford Cancer Center Souix Falls, South Dakota
Santa Monica Hem/Onc Consultants Santa Monica, CA
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa, CA
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Seattle, WA
Seattle Cancer Treatment & Wellness Seattle, WA
Sequoia Hospital Redwood City, CA
Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrated Oncology LA, CA
Siteman Cancer Center St. Louis, Missouri
St. Johns Health System Anderson, Indiana
St. Louis Children's Hospital St. Louis, MI
St. Mary's Lacks Cancer Center Grand Rapids, Michigan
St. Peters Helena, Montana
Stanford Cancer Center Stanford, CA
Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre Toronto, CANADA
Sutter Cancer Center Sacramento, CA
Swedish Cancer Institute Seattle, WA
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Miami, FL
The Angeles Clinic Los Angeles, CA
The Cancer Institute at St. Alexius Hoffman Estates, IL
Touro Infirmary New Orleans, LA
Tower Hematology/Oncology Medical Group Beverly Hills, CA
UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology Los Angeles, CA
UCSF Cancer Center San Francisco, CA
U. of Arkansas, Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Center Little Rock, AR
University of Alabama – Kirklin Clinic Alabama
University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center Chicago, Ill
University of Vermont Cancer Center S. Burlington, VT
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Los Angeles, CA
West Virginia University Hospital Morgantown, West Virginia
Women & Infants Hospital Providence, Rhode Island
Don't see your favorite? Give them my phone number: 415.388.2757 and tell them what they're missing.
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The Road to "Yes!"
The train tracks from Alaska into Canada.
I am lucky enough to now be blogging for Facing Cancer Canada, which gives me an outlet to talk very much to the cancer community. "It won't always be about cancer," I told Chantal, my contact there. "My life is not all about cancer." She understood, and actually encouraged me to simply write what moves me, as they want to show all sides of the cancer experience. In it, after it, through it.
This is my second blog post.
We're a posse that understands the meaningfulness of firsts. First time in the infusion lab. First tug and eerie release of your here-to-fore sturdy hair. First time hearing the solid "thunk" of the door closing as everyone flees the radiation room, yet you are left behind.
So many firsts. So many difficult firsts.
But life has a way of evening things out. The pendulum swings back. The trick, it seems, is to catch it and go for a new ride. Take a chance. Try something new.
I am now on the side of more pleasant firsts, thankfully. Like this past weekend, I was part of a gala event called Truth Be Told for the Premiere Oncology Foundation in Santa Monica, California. I was invited as a storyteller, along with 10 other cancer survivors, to put a face on this disease.
I grabbed, and I swung. I mean, I'm not a professional speaker. I like speaking. Do it a lot, actually, every day. But not on stage. And certainly not alone, without notes or a podium. Terrifying? You bet. But so amazingly juicy to force myself to push through my comfort zone.
Not only did I get to simmer for 2 days with some soulful people, but I got to share my work with the audience, and ask them to consider the importance of including our kids in our cancer treatment. In other words, saying yes to opening myself up to strangers allowed me to further a discussion that I am passionate about.
Life is just a series of firsts, punctuated by long stretches of the same old, same old. For cancer patients, saying yes is part of the treatment. We have to agree to some protocol and move forward. But having an enthusiastic "Sure!" to what comes after we're all finished with our doctor visits, that is part of the wisdom borne of a cancer diagnosis.
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Oh Daddy
He was a whistler and a whittler, and I miss him so.
Most nights, after we ate dinner, dad would sit in his chair, pick up a piece of wood and, depending on the point in its creation, would either sand or whittle with sharp as a razor knives. Whales. Birds. Strange objects. To my right on my desk is a interlinked set of ovals whittled out of some light wood. His knife strokes are right there for me to see.
These links are symbolic. I was born on my dad's 41st birthday.
He was a fisherman and a tinkerer. He taught me both. I can still picture in my mind all the different fishing holes we visited. Our neighborhood had Square Pond, arrived at after a walk through the Connecticut woods and across a simple, open meadow. While he would go fly fishing for Big Mama, the bass he was sure lurked in the deep, I would flit along the shore, trying to catch bullfrogs or successfully catching tennis ball-sized Sunnies. A longer car ride away was the place where we tried for carp, one from an overpass and another down by the river. When I grew to be in middle and high school, we would try for salmon in Washington State, a long windy drive out to Fox Island until the road dead ended, and then an equally long windy walk past the blackberry and raspberry bushes down to the huge dock overhanging the Narrows. Instead of the light poles with a red and white bobber, we used long, heavy salmon rods laden with herring that took all you had to whip it out there into the current. We'd catch dog fish (which I believe were a kind of shark) that the Vietnamese fisherman who squatted for hours while they fished would take home, and every so often we would land a salmon. On every fishing trip there was a lot of casting and reeling in. Casting and reeling in. "Something's out there, Sue," he'd say. "Just got to be patient." He was ever the optimist when it came to fishing.
He showed me the value of working hard. Of trying to fix things yourself. Of being creative in your down time. Of telling good stories. Of reading.
He could carve a beautiful turn down any ski hill, and perhaps his greatest gift to me, other than making me in the first place, was teaching me the same love for skiing. He started me at 4, as I have done with my son, first in between his legs going down the almost flat hills, then watching as I shusshed down the slopes and doing the inevitable sweep of the hill behind me.
He carved me a small wooden mouse with a tiny leather tail that was pinned to my jacket or hat when I skied. He told me it was a mogul mouse, that would help me navigate through a mogul field and not fall down. There was nothing, he admitted, to be done about the snow snakes. You just had to carve those turns and hope for the best.
We worked together to bring back to life a 1971 MGB-GT. That meant many evenings after school and on the weekend, after he had played his round of golf with his buddies, we would attack a certain part of the car with the Chilton's manual by our side and a whole heap of good intentions. I learned to gap spark plugs. Fiddle with duel carbs. The crazy make-up of a disk brake system with all it's little "shoes" and moving parts, and how to apply Bondo. I learned with him that the electrical system on a British car is a thing of mystery, no matter what the pages of the manual say. And that the simple touches, like the rear view mirror affixed to the right front fender, are both necessary and rakish.
He called me Chatterbox and Finella. And George, sometimes. You see, I was the son my dad never had. How I wish I could hug and kiss him today.
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Being Present for a Present
In an age where convenience can strip away creativity, I'd like to make a plea for thoughtful presents. You see, I'm faced with buying a 12-year-old boy a gift, and I've been guilty recently of taking the easy way out. The gift card. A present is reduced to a strict exchange of dollars. It feels hollow, in a way, but it does get the job done. Safeway has a kiosk right by the check-out stand that is 6 feet of colorful gift cards from every retail business around. Certainly every giftee – man, woman, child from infantcy to seniorhood – could use something from one of those stores.
Yeah. But.
I'm here to tell you about a certain salad bowl that I received as a gift. A woodworker named Lloyd General lovingly turned (literally, he hand turned it on a lathe) a massive chunk of California walnut into a work of functional art. I just ate a salad out of that gorgeous striated brown bowl. I have eaten or served items out of that bowl for close to 20 years. And when I do, a tiny piece of my heart goes out to the woman who thought enough of the importance of gift buying to get it for me: my mother-in-law Lou Ann. It is, simply put, a five-star gift that my son will inherit when my salad eating days are done.
Now, I've given some wacky presents in my day. A worm composter to my sister-in-law was an abject failure. (I mean, who hates worms?) But to a girlfriend mourning the loss of her husband, I gave a pair of soft-as-a-kitten cashmere socks. I told her that if everything else was going sideways, at least her feet would feel loved. And she could think of me, in those dark, cold days of winter, when she pulled them on and felt the warmth from my heart.
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What Pablo Neruda Said
People say things all the time. Others write a whole hell of a lot of words. Pablo Neruda, the poet, loves words as much as I do. Probably more, I'd reckon. From his Memoir, the last sentence has stayed with me since the moment I read it close to 20 years ago.
Savor this morsel:
"You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend … I bow to them … I love them, I cling to them, I fun them down, I bite into them, I melt them down … I love words so much … The unexpected ones … The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop … Vowels I love … They glitter like colored stones, they leap like silver fish, they are foam, thread, metal, dew … I run after certain words … They are so beautiful that I want to fit them all into my poem. … I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives… And then I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them, I let them go … I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves … Everything exists in the word … An idea goes through a compete change because one word shifted its place, or because another settled down like a spoiled little thing inside a phrase that was not expected her but obeys her."
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Potato and Avocado Soup
Submitted by: oldsheila
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 15 to 30 minutes
- Serves: 6
- Preparation time: 15 to 30 minutes
- Gives the potato soup a totally different flavour.
3 cups water
2 vegetable stock cubes
2 large potatoes, peeled and sliced
3 onions, sliced
2 ripe avocados, peeled and sliced
2 teaspoons lemon juice
300 mL cream
2 teaspoons nutmeg
- Combine water, crumbled stock cubes, potatoes and onions in a pan and bring to the boil.
- Lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Blend until smooth.
- Blend or puree avocados with lemon juice and ½ cup of potato liquid.
- Heat both soups in separate pans, stir cream into avocado soup.
- Pour the soups in separate jugs. Holding a jug in each hand, pour soups into individual bowls at the same time, then gently swirl with a knife.
- Sprinkle with nutmeg.
Recipe notes
You can replace avocado soup with 2½ cups carrot soup.
So refreshing!
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Warming, creamy soup
Reviewed by: ASD3, Jul 17 2011 3:38PM (more reviews by ASD3)
Tasted great
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Nice, rich soup, would enjoy at a dinner party
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It was in early February that Chris Rock not only teased a potential upcoming tour with Dave Chappelle, but also that he was going to be shooting a new film this spring/summer.
That project is now officially a reality, with Rock penning the script for it, and will also direct, with Scott Rudin producing (he also produced Chris Rock's Broadway debut, The Mother-F with the Hat).
Here's the project's synopsis:
ANDRE ALLEN is a comedian turned film star who, despite the expectations of his millions of fans, is determined to reinvent himself as a "serious" actor. Although his latest pretentiously historical film project is tanking, his upcoming television wedding to pretty, popular reality star, ERICA LONG, is the biggest media event of the year. In the midst of all the frenzy leading up to his televised nuptials, Andre agrees to be interviewed for the New Yorker by CHELSEA BROWN, a gorgeous but no-frills young woman with a sharp intelligence that matches his own. It's a feisty, funny, no-holds-barred interaction that may well change the course of both their lives…
We posted the casting call notice a month ago, which was searching for actresses to play Rock's soon-to-be wife, as well as his love interest (likely the Chelsea Brown character described above).
Deadline is now reporting that Rosario Dawson is in talks to play the female lead, which will likely be the Chelsea Brown role, opposite Rock. I doubt that she's playing the soon-to-be wife.
In my February post, asking who you guys would like to see play that part, no one mentioned Rosario Dawson. Instead, there were thumbs up for Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union, Zoe Saldana, Thandie Newton, Tracey Heggins and a couple of others.
But today's news made me think about the casting process - specifically, what's the point of circulating or publishing these casting notices on sites like Backstage.com and others that the average struggling actor utilizes to learn about projects to audition for, when producers or casting directors likely already have their minds set on known actors?
We've posted a number of casting notices for what are effectively studio projects on this site, and I peruse sites like Backstage.com weekly (even though I'm not an actor) because, in the past, I've learned about upcoming new projects (studio and indie) via those casting notices.
But what's the point of distributing those notices, soliciting head-shots and reels, and, at times, holding physical auditions with hundreds of *unknown* hopefuls, if the jobs eventually go to *known* actors/celebs in the end?
Maybe this is something all of you professional actors reading this can help me understand, because I don't get it...
But here's the breakdown for the above Chris Rock project that was circulated, including descriptions of leading lady roles like the one that Rosario Dawson is in talks to sign up for:
[CHELSEA BROWN] Late 20s to early 30s, this attractive woman is "vintage, downtown N.Y.C. funky," with a lacerating intelligence and humor that is disarming. Chelsea has been assigned to interview Andre Allen for a prestigious New York magazine, but she's a journeyman journalist who makes her living writing for a variety of publications. Pregnant as a teen, and now a single mother, Chelsea has had a wild past, but is now in the "program" and hoping for a stable relationship with her current boyfriend. Chelsea's initially fractious interaction with Andre soon flares into a passionate tryst. Any ethnicity…LEAD
[ERICA LONG] Late 20s to 40, she's beautiful, glamorous and "expensive." A popular reality TV star, she helped Andre get clean — and he's forever grateful for her assistance. Erica is a camera-hungry celebrity who is completely comfortable in the spotlight. When she persuades Andre to get married on her show in the biggest media event of the year, her stardom is all set to go stratospheric. Any ethnicity…LEAD
[SILK] 30s, Andre's "security guard-slash-assistant," who is never far from Andre's side. A burly, very big and imposing African American guy. A real character, he has a thing for big women…SUPPORTING LEAD
jess | April 25, 2013 1:27 PM
Wow. The shade thrown at Rosario Dawson is puzzling. She's paid her dues, and been smart about selecting her projects. No hood cookout or Tyler Perry movies for her... I also watched
a recent interview she did for Popcorn with Peter Travers, and she's ridiculously smart, witty and charming in a way that shows she's likely very adept at navigating the male-dominated casting process. More power to her.
I'm not even going to bother addressing the usual ignorance that seems to rears its head when articles are posted on Afro-Latina actresses.
Daryl | April 24, 2013 8:22 PM
To the actors and actresses trying to make it in the business, hollywood is about who you know in case you didn't know. They do stuff like this to sell you a pipe dream that it's fair, you can go from unknown to lead actor or actress or have a prominent role in a big studio movie, yeah right. This is why if you are and up and coming actor or actress you should be looking at small independent films, these are the films that you got a real shot in being a lead in and most importantly you will be able to build on your craft. Nobody can take a great performance away from you no matter how small the budget of the film is, people have no choice but to take notice of your talent. Either you going to sit around and wait on hollywood to invest in you or you going to invest in yourself and that's by working with small independent filmmakers, building a filmography that will eventually get you to where you want to go. It should be all about the work and if it's not that means you want to be just a movie star, rich and famous, if that's the case go ahead and do the hollywood shuffle and wish upon a star.
Black Sun Tzu | April 24, 2013 8:22 PM
Man, I'll bookmark this article just for the comments section (no disrespect, Tambay, you know I love your writing). Jug, you're the man!
getthesenets | April 24, 2013 5:13 PM
chris rock makes bad films
his films always seem like extended versions of SNL skits
tired of him doing "Black" versions of previous hit films, to disastrous results
this film is probably a modern Black version of a woody allen film, and regardless of who is cast...it will be terrible
Danny | April 24, 2013 3:11 PM
I don't like Rosario Dawson and I don't care if people call me a hater. Rosario Dawson is just like Zoe Saldana she's a black woman when it is convenient and good for her career. And that's the advantage that these mixed race multiracial women have they can go back and forth to advance their careers.
I just think it is sad that a black actress who might be unknown probably never had a shot to be in this movie in a big role.
The funny thing is Rosario is way too good looking for Chris Rock, this must be some male heterosexual fantasy the ugly straight guy always gets the hot woman.
LeonRaymond | April 24, 2013 2:49 PM
Ha, are you kidding me please, that role and the other one were long gone the moment Chris uttered the word out his mouth, Both Agents of those actresses did the calls , did the back and forth calls signed a ND agreement then name actress says such and such of her needs, agents says okay let me get back to you, Contract signed then they release the info to Back stage and all the other online casting sites so the walk on parts can be cast and back ground parts can be cast. And I can promise you Chris Rock and Danny Boyle had lunch or dinner and discussed it long ago and Rosario said while putting the glass of wine to her lips, "Oh I might be interested in doing that. And that went down months ago!
Jug | April 24, 2013 2:36 PM
Tambay, we've had this conversation before. The point is that an Industry has to keep on rolling, sometimes even at the expense of its employees. Hollywood is about Hopes and Dreams. So they can't very well tell the TRUTH, that all of the reel submitting, auditioning, classes, Casting Director workshops are most likely not going to get you work-until you reach a certain level. And at that level you get representation that keeps you at that level. How do you reach that level? Chicken or the Egg? No one has an answer, a magic bullet. A lot of money is generated from all the headshots taken, then retouched, then reproduced, mailed/submitted. Casting Workshops puts money in Associates/Assistants pockets as well as that of the Actor studios that hold them. The Actors putting themselves on tape for projects. The classes, the coaching, the websites, etc. Every Actor is essentially a sole proprietorship and then a corporation if they're lucky enough to get to that revenue point. Lotta money shelled out just to "try". And the harsh part is that people making decisions-CDs/studio execs/etc-really don't care. It's not their problem, even though it's supposed to be their job. You can pretty much bank that by the time you "see" a breakdown-they have their choices. Breakdowns are pretty much for Guest Stars/Co-Stars on TV & Indie projects and certain hard to cast parts. As someone noted, they are required by law to post them, just as they're required by law to say "Submit All Ethnicities", and look how well that turned out. None of this is written in stone, but it's pretty much S.O.P. As I've said before, British, Australian Actors being funneled into the business through the CDs in their country or their home reps (which are much easier to get mind you) mixed with the multitude of actors still working from years/decades prior that are now working for less money or on smaller projects or have moved from film to tv-means that the "average working actor" really doesn't work. If even Audition. It's almost as if "working" in Hollywood is now a prize for having slummed it somewhere else, be it New York or regional stage or just flat out another country. But coming to L.A., doing "the rounds" and "what you're supposed to do" no longer works. Just had this very conversation with a colleague today, that its a self-defeating model of "Give me a Name" because outside of the Hollywood Bubble, most of these people are nothing. No one knows who they are or more to the point-cares what they do. But if I'm trying to keep my job-whether I'm a VP of Casting or a VP of Dev-I have to sell to my boss an expensive project and that jagged little pill always goes down smoother with a "name" coating, ya know? And that's how we get these movies/tv shows with "how the hell did they get THAT part?!" cast as the lead, they tank, and then everyone stands around pointing fingers and wondering "Why did it fail?" The model is not just broken, its brain dead. BUT bills still need to be paid, folks need to have "jobs" and Dreams need to have an outlet. Sad ish indeed.
WorkingActress | April 24, 2013 2:29 PM
Sadly, casting is no different than any other line of work. Certain projects are posted for EEOC purposes, even though 99% of the time an "insider" is already being considered -- particularly if it's a lead, not supporting role.
What's befuddling in this case, and many like it, however, is that rather than choosing the best actress for the part, base on talent and range; or even box office performance, those in charge (i.e. Rock) choose someone purely based on their exterior appearance.
I don't know of any black, or white people, for that matter, who are Rosario Dawson fans. Have seen her work (since she's largely an indie actress) or could tell you anything she's been in of late. I put Dawson in the same category as Zoe Saldana. She's a new pretty face that white Hollywood -- for who knows what reason -- has suddenly gone gaga for. It's as if they're trying to make her the new Halle Berry. And I wouldn't put either of them in the same category as Berry, as I have too much respect for her. And Berry, has proven herself to be more than just a beautiful face.
The better question is why is Chris Rock down with giving someone like Kamu Bell (totally obsolete unknown dude) an opportunity, with his own TV show, no less, but not an unknown actress, or at least an actress that's not as well known to white audiences?
Rock is the one in control here, just as he was with "I Think I Love My Wife," which featured Kerry Washington and Gina Torres. Two solid, well-trained, actresses who remained under the radar (at least Washington did until "Scandal"), but Torres still is. She's great in USA's "Suits," but that cable channel is waaaaaayyyyy under the radar for a lot of folks.
It would be nice Rock stood up to Hollywood and did the right thing, not the safe thing.
I suppose Dawson's name is being ballied about because of her turn in "Trance," a Danny Boyle project, and Hollywood currently has a hard on for Boyle's work, following the Olympics and "Slumddog."
Nadia | April 24, 2013 2:17 PM
I'm not an actor so I can't speak on the casting notice issue. But what I wanted to say is, watch, the wife, who's the diva, glamorous and âexpensiveâ popular reality TV star, and who's probably going to be more despicable and meant to be hated, will be a dark-skinned African American actress, while they cast Rosario Dawson as the intelligent, disarming, funny love interest. Just watch.
Akimbo | April 24, 2013 2:13 PM
It's the law. Projects have to release breakdowns to make the process seem inclusive. Often, on these high profile projects, casting directors do actually audition actors. It can get shady, if they read people, knowing the producers are negotiating a deal, because those auditions are little more than a bargaining chip against a stubborn star, but they (the CDs) generally have the best intentions.
M | April 24, 2013 2:13 PM
I am an actress, and I don't get it either. I don't even bother submitting for LEAD tv/feature film roles because I know they aren't going to go to unknown actresses like myself. I suppose if I already have a ton of guest-star credits on my resume, it would be a different story. But I like to think that the majority of us "unknowns" already know what roles we should submit ourselves for. It's all a part of being in this business. Plus, for those bigger roles, our agents are supposed to be submitting us for those...and doing all they can to get us in the casting office door.


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To sum it up, the article talks about the Nats inability to sign Aaron Crow last year but their acting GM makes no bones about the fact that if the draft were today they'd take Strasburg and worry about the cost later.
Obviously it's been more or less a foregone conclusion that he'd be their pick but I've seen a few people say things like "Maybe he'll be too expensive for them!" etc so hopefully this finally puts all that to bed and we can move on and focus on Dustin Ackley!


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Atlanta takes on the Nationals in the second game of a four game series. After defeating Stephen Strasburg last night, the Braves send Tim Hudson to the mound to face Gio Gonzalez. Hudson will make his third bid at win #200.
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The communications director for Gov. Terry Branstad is leaving the position to head a new marketing firm.
The governor's office says in a news release Friday that Tim Albrecht will leave a position he's held since November 2009. His last day as the governor's spokesman will be Dec. 13.
Also Friday, Des Moines-based Redwave Communications announced Albrecht has been named director of a new data and digital marketing firm called Redwave Digital.
Redwave is a Republican-leaning consulting and direct mail firm run by David Kochel, a former executive director of the Iowa Republican Party and top Iowa consultant to former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Branstad says Jimmy Centers will be the new director of communications. The 26-year-old Centers has been working as the Branstad campaign's communications director.
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How many cc do you think I would need to get my desired result? (photos)
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Breast augmentation w/ lift
It can be very confusing when three different surgeons give you three different opinions. Unfortunately, it's quite common because plastic surgery is just as much a form of art as it is a form of science.
As a general rule when my patients size their implants I like them to look at themselves with the actual implants in place in a testing bra. This is not a perfect teaching tool because implants can lose some projection particularly when placed under the muscle, but because we size with actual implants, to me it is the best teaching tool.
It is not uncommon in my own practice for patient to bring a friend or family member and a variety of different blouses and spend a good deal of time looking at the implants well before surgery.
So here's some basic thinking that may be of help to you:
When you look at implants on your frame don't just think about the size of the breast, but think about how it balances with the width of your shoulders as well as your hips. If an implant as to wide it will make you look top heavy, if an implant is too narrow it will look like a torpedo. In my own practice I try to focus on this relationship, and to me the width of the implant is almost more important than the volume itself.
Once you find the width of the implant that gives a nice overall balance with the hips then you can change the cup size by going high, moderate or low profile.
If you're agonizing between two sizes I generally recommend you go slightly larger, because it is very rare to hear patients say," I wish I had gone smaller".
Sometimes a patient who needs a breast lift is encouraged to go with a larger implant to to try and avoid the lift. I think that this is a mistake. I personally feel that it's better to get the size breast you want and let the lift happen if it's necessary.
Lastly, as a slender person it is always harder to have a more natural result. Patients with less breast tissue do not provide as much camouflage to help hide the implant. I always prefer a submuscular implant because it adds one more layer of tissue to help hide the implant from the outside world. In very slender patients I prefer silicone gel implants because they tend to look more natural as well. Even though you are slender, pick an implant that is wide enough to fill the chest appropriately. If you go too narrow, it can sometimes looked even less natural, smaller is not always more natural looking.
I hope these things that I've said are making sense, I hope I've been able to add some clarification in sizing for you. Best of luck with your upcoming surgery.
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Breasts lift
Thanks for submitting your pictures and your goal picture. You apear to be a C or full C cup. That is a very nice size, so a full lift surgery ( key hole ) should give you a beautiful, natural and upstanding breasts. You can discuss with your surgeon, how high you would like the nipples to be. Your goal picture appears to be a DD, but it is still swollen from surgery. It wil probably settle around full D. You did not disclose your chest or breasts circumference , so it is difficult to recommend the implants size without those measurement. Assumming that you are presently 34 C cup , to become a 34 full D , you will need roughly additional 225 cc. That means, replacing your 300cc implants with 475 cc saline implants that can be filled up to 525 cc. Always, consult with board certifoed plastic sureons and check their before and after pictures to make sure that you like the results.
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Mediation. For some lawyers, it is a great way to spend a day; for others, it is an interminable bore, and ineffective to boot. It is easy to imagine that lawyers who have had successful mediation experiences are more likely to fall into the former category than the latter. What is more certain, however, is that mediation skills are increasingly important for a litigator to have, for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, most lawyers, especially Biglaw attorneys, are left to fend for themselves when it comes to developing those skills. That is a shame, as the importance of being able to mediate successfully has only grown in today's business climate. More generally, negotiation skills remain under-taught in law schools and by law firms, and as a result are underdeveloped in many lawyers.
Any chance a lawyer has to develop their mediation skills should be seized. As an intellectual property litigator, all of my cases originate in federal district courts, and throughout the country, almost every case schedule includes mediation (or some other form of alternative dispute resolution) as a distinct event. Where on the schedule the mediation occurs, and whether it is held before a magistrate judge or local certified mediator, is usually up for negotiation between the parties. What is important is that mandated mediation is on the schedule. As a result, just as litigators need to know how to handle a discovery motion in a particular court, so should they be prepared to make the most out of whatever mediation process their case calls for. Interestingly, mediation has become an important part of appeals as well, including at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a familiar forum for patent litigators like myself….
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2 killed in small plane crash near St. Louis
Two people are dead after a small plane crash early Saturday morning near St. Louis.
According to affiliate KTVI, a single-engine aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from the Spirit of St. Louis Airport in the Chesterfield Valley.
St. Louis County police say the plane crashed into a tree line about a half-mile from the end of the runway just before 5 a.m.
Authorities say the victims, a 41-year-old male pilot and a 7-year-old girl, are from St. Louis County. The flight plan says they were bound for Texas before continuing onto Arizona.
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the crash. No immediate cause was given, but police point out there was thick fog in the area at the time of takeoff.
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