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By elcarzabol
on September 17, 2014
Culver City, CA
on June 11, 2013
I've made this recipe three times now (with a few of my own twists and it's been a hit! I made the risotto with using 3 small leaks instead of a yellow onion and I also infused the broth with saffron. I also eliminated the Gorgonzola because my husband hates it =
By mpetiya
Charlotte, NC
on January 01, 2013
By Lijemtu
Ogden, UT
on November 24, 2012
Served this to friends and got multiple requests for the recipe. Great dish
Richmond, VA
on August 06, 2012
GREAT! This was my first time making risotto - much easier than I expected. Also, I don't LOVE gorgonzola; this recipe gave me the subtle flavor so that I wasn't overwhelmed. Incredibly easy and delicious.
By egresh
on July 15, 2012
This was my first time making risotto, and it was much simpler than I had expected. This dish was delicious. My family loved it, even my dad who does not like mushrooms (so he claims! I will definitely make this again!
By gus3099
on May 28, 2012
I just finished making/eating this and it's Delicious!! It was my first time making risotto from scratch so I didn't really know what to expect. I thought it would be complicated/time consuming but it was surprisingly easy and VERY good. The gorgonzola gives the dish lots of flavor, but next time I might experiment with some different cheeses. Thanks for a great recipe Nadia G!
on April 22, 2012
I love this recipe so much that this is my tenth time making it...wait ten times?...wait how can I remember how many times I've made it? I have a really bad memory. Anyways I think the reason why I can remember how many times I've cooked it is because it's so good. I think this time I'll share it with my parents. Oh next time it'll be my eleventh time and I think I will try different cheeses...oh that is a thought. Keep making great dishes and keep your show funny it's really entertaining and at the same time I learn new ways to cook. Alla prossima!!
By ottoae31
on December 16, 2011
very tasty. had to use more than 3c of broth. make sure to use good wine!
By Kaplookie
New York
on December 15, 2011
Wonderful! The gorgonzola makes this dish! I did have to use almost 4 cups of broth - maybe I had the stove too high - anyway - I crumbled some extra gorgonzola and served it on top of the risotto, along with a sprinkling of green onions. Loved it!
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Holland Hall's 2014 ARTworks
Featuring Artist Sara Matson Westover
Artist Reception
October 26
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Ticket cost $50
Reservations Required
Exhibition and Sale
October 27 – November 26
Monday through Friday
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Open to the Public
ARTworks Residency
October 27 – 31
Student workshops with the artist will be held in all three branches
All events held at Holland Hall's Holliman Gallery, Walter Arts Center, 5666 E. 81st St, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137
ARTworks has had a rich tradition at Holland Hall since its inception in 1977. The program is in keeping with the schools' core belief that an appreciation for and experiences in the arts are essential. As part of the program, the artist will work with students in each school division.
Sara Matson Westover
Sara Matson Westover layers colors to build images, and she layers images to build stories. She works with transparent and opaque materials, words, shapes, lines, paper and wood. Driven by an arsenal of familiar landscapes and experiences, her paintings are triggered by words, memory and color. They are collections of relics, histories, plants and animals. Ultimately each painting is a complete picture of an incomplete thought. Sara is inspired by every day, oil fields, seasons, people, music, water and unidentified dark matter. She is eternally grateful for the sentimental as well as the challenge to convince her various mediums to get along".
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Chairs: Jamie Zink
Primary School Education: Cyndy Phillips
Middle School Education: Elizabeth Weinstein
Upper School Education: Leigh Ann Moss
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How Radio Taught Me to Write Short in Print
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Know how I write a 1,500-word article? The same way.
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Whose Heart is Baltimore Breaking, Really?
There's a piece about crime in Baltimore over on Medium that's gone viral.
It's understandable why this article has emerged right now. In Federal Hill, robbers recently held up and pistol-whipped employees at a popular tavern. A Baltimore Sun editor was held up on a Canton street by a brick-wielding mugger who fractured the man's skull and knocked out his teeth. In a home facing Patterson Park, burglars beat and stabbed a woman to death in her home. (She had chased one of the burglars out of her house in the early morning just last summer.)
The author of the Medium piece, Tracey Halvorsen, lives half a block from Patterson Park. She is scared.
"I'm tired of being surrounded by drug addicts," she writes. "I'm tired of looking at 11 year olds as potential thieves, muggers and murderers on my walk home from the office."
Halvorsen doesn't want to leave. She loves her neighbors, loves walking outside and seeing "the overall sense of diversity" that city living provides. Baltimore has great restaurants, bright minds, fun bars.
But, she writes, "you just can't ignore the crime. It's the elephant in the room in Baltimore City."
She pins it on the city's elected leaders, saying she does her part by paying taxes, running a business, reporting suspicious activity, keeping her home "looking nice," and keeping her outside lights on at night.
Then, this:
"All I know is when there are more police, there is less crime. When people get arrested for littering or loitering or being publicly intoxicated, they go do that shit somewhere else. And yes, I realize this may be a knee-jerk reaction and won't solve all the problems. But I'm desperate for some kind of help. I want to feel safe."
Crime, the subhed of the article says, "is why people leave."
Some people, anyway.
I think Halvorsen is mistaking Patterson Park and similar neighborhoods for Baltimore City. In the 1980s and 1990s, Federal Hill and Canton were the first neighborhoods to attract large numbers of upper-middle class, mostly white homeowners. Patterson Park has been on the same track for years, although some would argue it's still "in transition," as it abuts a largely poor part of town that's heavily black and increasingly Latino.
I produced a series for Baltimore public radio station WYPR called "The Lines Between Us" about how race and class dramatically shape our experiences in Baltimore. We had a lot of data maps built for the series. Canton, Federal Hill, and the area around Patterson Park are veritable islands when it comes to drugs, shootings, and violent crime in general.
Horrific crimes like the ones that just happened in Canton, Federal Hill, and Patterson Park happen against the odds. In the rest of Baltimore, they are the odds.
The "other Baltimore," which I assume she's referring to when she says "they go do that shit somewhere else" (and where I assume she believes "they" are coming from) has been scared to death for decades. That other Baltimore is mostly black. There's a lot of poverty there; but there are also a lot of working people surviving day to day, trying to get their kids a good education and keep them off the streets. There's a lot of crime there, but there are also a lot of people who have to deal with that crime every day and have been working for decades to pull their community out of an intractable spiral.
And you know what? Despite all that, if you actually talk to them, many of them love Baltimore, too. They have the same love/hate relationship with Baltimore that Tracey Halvorsen does. They weigh the same benefits against the same dangers. But they have fewer resources to make that move out of the city–a move that is clearly at the forefront of many more wealthy city dwellers' minds right now.
I see where Halvorsen is coming from, and I get the chorus of amens I've seen on Facebook and Twitter. I'm white and middle class, I've got a lot to lose, and I could easily find an affordable place to live far from the perils of the city.
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It's tough to talk about white privilege in the face of crimes like the ones Halvorsen cites, with innocent victims killed and badly injured and stunned families left to grieve. I sympathize with Halvorsen and her fears that she'll end up like them.
But so far, $32,000 has been raised for the victim of the Canton robbery and beating. The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward in the Federal Hill bar robbery. There's also a lot that goes on, from individual decisions to local, state, and federal policy, that ensures–whether intentionally or not–that all the social ills stay where they "belong": in the neighborhoods that people like Halverson and, frankly, I won't live in. Halvorsen blames the mayor and city leaders, saying they ignore crime. But people in other Baltimore neighborhoods are upset with leadership, too, saying neighborhoods like Halvorsen's get the resources while poorer neighborhoods are left to wither.
But what will pointing the finger at City Hall do about problems that have persisted through many mayors and many city councils? Perhaps pressuring city leaders can do something for some neighborhoods. Halvorsen says, "All I know is when there are more police, there is less crime. When people get arrested for littering or loitering or being publicly intoxicated, they go do that shit somewhere else." That sounds a lot like a plea for "zero tolerance" policing.
Baltimore tried that; in 2005, over 100,000 people were arrested…and one out of four was released without charges. More arrests mean more racial disparities, which you'll find in drug arrests and at every level of the juvenile justice system. (In fact, federal law insists the state measure those juvenile disparities and make plans to address them. The state can lose federal funding if its efforts fall short.) All the stopping and frisking in the world isn't likely to stop crime, and it certainly won't end the inequalities that drive crime.
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Well, don't we all.
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Mayor Holden set to announce future BRPD Chief by early next week
BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — In just a few days Mayor Kip Holden has said he will be making a decision on who will lead the Baton Rouge Police Department as chief.
The three finalists all interviewed with Mayor Holden Tuesday. Holden has told NBC33 in the past that he is looking for a candidate who will help the department and the relationship with the Baton Rouge community.
The three finalists that interviewed with the mayor were interim chief Lt. Carl Dabadie, Cpt. Noel Salamoni and Cpt. Carl Dunn. All three currently work for the Baton Rouge Police Department.
There were 18 people who originally applied for the job, 11 passed the chief's exam and the three interviewed Tuesday were chosen to move on in the process by the mayor.
NBC33 caught up with interim chief Carl Dabadie after his interview on Tuesday, he said he is hoping to get the job, but told us that whoever the mayor chooses should be able to work with the community.
"We just need to bridge the gap between the community and the police department. That is our biggest issues right now. We are working through our BRAVE initiative, our street ops initiative to get our officers out of the cars and shaking hands with community members and talking to the community," said Dabadie.
With prior chiefs Holden wanted a committee to narrow the list from everyone who passed the test to ten finalists, this time though, he choose to interview just three candidates.
"I am satisfied with the quality of people we have as finalist, all are very sharp.
it's just a matter of analyzing and figuring out who is the best candidate," said Mayor Holden, after his interviews with the finalists.
Holden has said he expects to make a decision by early next week and said he is analyzing the candidates and their qualifications with his Chief Administrative Officer, William Daniel.


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is it just me or is this an unsafe engine fix?
it may work, how about you buy a pack and weld something and let me know, maybe i'll borrow a few from you.mike
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well I don't wanna do it, personally I'd just buy the new block. Just sounds a little to CHEAP.
Been done since engines were invented. Takes a lot of practice, best to take your block or heads to a crusty old-timer who does it all the time but these repairs are very reliable when done well. My dad had a '60 Chevy pickup that lost a valve head which took out the whole top of the combustion chamber. He had it rebuilt by an old welder and it ran another 60,000 mi. Granted if you have a damaged SBC get a new one but for some old rare pieces that can't be replaced, you have no other alternative.
Like he said, done all the time. Probably not done on newer automobiles much. We tend to just crush them and get new ones. I fix locomotives. I can not just call Summit or Jeg's and order up a crate motor if a block gets cracked. For that matter, most of the time, I can't even remove the prime mover from the loco to do the repair (that would be too expensive and management would throw a fit). So you do what you have to do. Un less it re-cracks you would never know the difference.
That said, I would not do this to a race engine. Just a reliability thing. The block repairs do tend to crack.
HotrodLincoln, I'm with you, I work on offshore oil rigs & the whole world revolves around EMD's & 752 Traction motors.
As far as it goes, I'd trust that weld, mostly depending on where the "Window" was knocked.
If you do alot of shopping at Hot Rod swapmeets & Drag racing events, you will run across a bunch of wonderful looking ultra high Horsepower engines that have only been "Windowed" once or twice. Alot of these pro race engine blocks have to be repaired, just think that if you had just bought a $30k engine block & had a rod go through it, wouldn't you try to get it fixed & not just throw it away because it has a hole in it.
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Sikorsky Completes Initial Tests Of First Rotor Blades For CH-53K Helicopter
Both main rotor blades and tail rotor blades are now undergoing qualification testing at Sikorsky's Stratford, Conn., headquarters. Tests completed to date include spinning of the blades on whirl towers to measure balance, and initial fatigue tests to determine structural strength. Blade qualification testing will continue over several years to include stress and fatigue tests, and additional whirl tower testing to validate aerodynamic stability, tip deflection, and rotational twist along each blade's length.
This first set of blades will be attached to the CH-53K Ground Test Vehicle at Sikorsky's Developmental Flight Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. Marine Corps pilots and Sikorsky test engineers will spin the blades on the GTV as part of the Shakedown Light-Off, a term used to describe the test of engines, transmissions, and blades running together for the first time.
Sikorsky began fabricating composite rotor blades in the early 1970s for the UH-60 BLACK HAWK helicopter. Composite blades made by Sikorsky are flaw tolerant to ensure that any small anomalies present in the blade during its initial fabrication will not grow into larger problematic anomalies.
The 4 th generation blade design is part of a long chain of Sikorsky rotor systems innovations and investment to improve blade aerodynamics.Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture, and service. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries. SOURCE Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
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Conference (2014, July 21)
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; ; et al
in European Journal of Neurology (2014)
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Ehx, Grégory ; Gerin, Stéphanie ; et al
in Lipids in Health and Disease (2014), 13
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Haurez, Barbara ; Petre, Charles-Albert ; Doucet, Jean-Louis
Conference (2014, July 21)
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Absil, Olivier ; ; Delacroix, Christian et al
in Marchetti, Enrico; Close, Laird; Véran, Jean-Pierre (Eds.) Adaptive Optics Systems IV (2014, July 21)
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