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If you're like me — a middle-class Mainer who has seen the recession take a bite out of the family income — going to the grocery store, the butcher shop, and the farmers' market has become a newly painful experience. Off the table are the last-minute, quick, easy, and often more expensive choices: the thick steaks to broil, the pork tenderloin to sauté, and those more exotic, often imported ingredients like the Chilean asparagus in February. Yet many of us today have grown up a generation distant from farmhouse cooking, from doing more with less.
Hard times may be a new challenge for some of us, but there are other Mainers who have to be resilient as a fact of life, and they're probably not the first people you'd expect. They are Maine's chefs.
"We have a mini-recession every year," says Rob Evans, one of Maine's top chefs and co-owner with his wife, Nancy, of Hugo's in Portland. "It's called winter and spring. Food cost is the one aspect we can really control. So we source locally for rabbit, chickens, pork, sometimes beef, fish from New England waters. Starting in September, that expensive rib eye is gone off the menu! Instead, in the fall in Maine, braising comes to mind, with a cheaper cut of meat and root vegetables coming into play."
Evans is talking about two frugal ideas even home cooks can use — buying food produced locally (it's less expensive since it doesn't have huge transportation costs attached), and adapting your cooking to use less expensive cuts of meat. Braising is cooking "low and slow" in chef lingo, cooking a protein in liquid, sometimes wholly submerged, sometimes only shallowly so that the top of the cut gets caramelized, and for a long time at a low heat, usually in the oven.
"Beef short ribs," Rob continues, "you can get everywhere. You get more flavor out of the braising bottom cuts like that, and they lend themselves to all different preparations — sweet and sour, savory, in red wine and herbs. At the restaurant almost all of our braises are done overnight at two hundred degrees in the oven. But at home, in the winter, one of our favorite meals is oxtail stew made in the Crock-Pot. The way to think of it is, you invest a half an hour in prep in the morning or the night before." When you get home from work, "you've made sauce or stock, you've cooked your meat, you threw in some large-cut pieces of carrot and onion so you've got your vegetables. With a bag of rice, you've got your whole meal right there."
Jeff Landry, chef-owner of the new Farmer's Table, in Portland, also sings the economic benefits of buying locally. "We just opened a few months ago," he says. "We don't have a lot of money to bring in tenderloins and foie gras." His approach is to get several meals out of the same, reasonable cut of meat and thus avoid any waste. "We get Caldwell Farms all-natural beef brisket to make beer-braised corned beef," a main course one evening, "which can go into a hash for brunch," the next day. "That's 100 percent yield. All our chickens we buy locally as whole birds," which can cost half as much as buying pre-packaged breasts, for example. "We'll stuff them and roast them. What we don't sell one day becomes a chicken salad over romaine at lunch the next day." Not even the picked-over carcasses go to waste because "those we use for stock as a base for soups and sauces," he says.
At El Camino in Brunswick, chefs Eloise Humphrey and her sister, Daphne, use a variety of tricks, mostly based on planning ahead, to serve a full plate of Cal-Mex food for about $11.50 — using mostly organic and all-natural locally sourced ingredients. Though Eloise, who devises the menus, also uses braising and inexpensive choices for beef, chicken, and pork, to keep costs down, she cooks with so many vegetables that she has had to find clever ways to economize here, too. She uses two techniques in particular, both easily adaptable for the home chef.
"Except for avocados and citrus, which don't grow here," Humphrey says, "I never buy something that's not in season. I buy as much as I can at the height of a vegetable's abundance," when it is least expensive, "and either pickle it or freeze it, or make it into a sauce, or somehow preserve it. It works for the farmers because someone is buying all of their ugly vegetables, like their #2 tomatoes, which I can get for a dollar a pound. I separate yellow and red heirloom tomatoes, roast them, then freeze them so I can offer a beautiful yellow heirloom tomato soup — in February!"
Humphrey also takes inspiration from what she calls "the amazing Mexican diet. Rice and beans are complementary proteins," basic nutritional building blocks that are a part of almost every El Camino plate. "So you don't need a large — and expensive — serving of animal protein at the center of the plate," she says. "Four or five ounces are plenty." Because she already has those non-meat proteins, too, she can get the diner focusing on, say, a fabulous roasted squash taco with wilted chard, caramelized onion, roasted pepper, and tomatillo salsa. "And I don't think anyone ever leaves here hungry, either," she says.
Of course, we all need a break now and then from cutting back, and here in Maine that often means a lobster dinner, particularly when out of town visitors arrive. But even in that big bowl of lobster bodies and legs and empty shells at the end of the meal, Josh Mather sees pure gold. Chef-owner of Joshua's on Route 1 in Wells, he can sell scores of portions of his rich lobster pie each week. The recipe leaves lots of shells and legs after the picking.
"We make all our own stocks," he tells me, "and the biggest one is lobster stock," which is made by simmering the shells in water with a few vegetables, herbs, and sherry. "We leave it brothy, and then we'll take haddock scraps," left over from preparing another main course, "and maybe a shrimp or two, simmered in the lobster broth with fresh basil and parsley added at the end. People love that soup — and in all the years it's been on the menu, no one has complained that there's no lobster meat in it."
At the Badger Café and Pub on Main Street in Union, the motto is: "Nothing fancy, just good, honest flavors from locally sourced providers." Michael Greer and his wife, Christy, opened the Badger two years ago. Their challenge, says Michael, has been to make a living with a restaurant in "a small community a bit away from the coast. So we cater to people in the area versus catering to people coming through the area. We're open year-round, five days a week, and we need our community, which means simple food, things people recognize."
Like the other chefs, Greer saves by buying locally — all his vegetables in season, pork and beef from Caldwell Farms in Turner and Luces in North Anson, sauerkraut from Morse's in Waldoboro, bread from Atlantic Baking in Rockland. He's got to be very versatile within a smaller repertoire of dishes.
"I try to use ingredients and preparations that I can multi-task with, so there's no waste," he says. The mac 'n' cheese sauce (whose recipe is on page 57), for example. "That cheese sauce is a sauce for breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes. For burgers and sandwiches, I serve it as a dip, and at breakfast it goes over what we call the 'Badger in the Hole,' a slice of hallah bread with the center cut out and filled with a mixture of cheese, eggs, bacon, scallions, and tomatoes. The great thing is, people can go to most delis, even Hannaford's, and they'll sell you cheese scraps that are close to half the price as regular cheese."
All of these chefs pointed out different side benefits to "going frugal." It could be the opportunity to get the family and kids around the table shelling peas, hulling strawberries for jam, or shucking corn. Or perhaps it's the discovery — or rediscovery — of the pleasures of making something as simple as a good flavorful stock. Or even just the sense of accomplishment and pride in feeding your family with ingenuity and saving money in the process.
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Smart chefs also take advantage of economies of scale, according to food supplier DeeDee Caldwell, who together with her parents raises beef and pork on four hundred acres of pasture in Turner. She points out that, with a little planning and a freezer, you don't have to sacrifice your desire to eat healthily in hard times.
"If you buy direct from farm producers," she says, "you don't pay retail mark-up. I have customers who call ahead. I'll pack up the meat they order and they pick it up right from my walk-in cooler. And there are coops, too, like Blue Hill and Belfast and Rising Tide." Such groups require every member to give of their time as a condition of belonging, but in return "you don't pay what you would at a higher end market and you're supporting local agriculture because they buy from small farmers and producers like me."
Don't have a group of like-minded friends in your area who want to share a whole or half-animal with you? Jeff Landry points out that, through organizations like Slow Food and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), "it's not so hard to go on-line to find other people who want to share a whole pig with you. The producer tells you when your animal is ready, they butcher it exactly how you want, cut the chops, make the bacon, grind so much for sausage. You can get really high quality you'd be paying nine dollars a pound for at Whole Foods for less than half."
Rob Evans' Crock-Pot Braised Oxtails
Hugo's Restaurant, Portland
Serves 4–6
3 lbs. oxtail
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup canola oil
1 carrot, chopped into 1-inch pieces
2 celery stalks, chopped into 1-inch pieces
1 onion, chopped
1 tbsp. tomato paste
1 cup dry red wine
2 qts. chicken stock or water
2 whole bay leaves
3 sprigs fresh thyme or sage
1 tsp. ground allspice or 10 whole allspice
2 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
1 tsp. grainy mustard
3 tbsp. sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
This recipe starts on the stovetop but can be finished either in the oven or in a Crock-Pot. If finishing in the oven, preheat to 300 degrees and use a Dutch oven or enameled cast-iron pan. Season oxtail with salt and pepper then toss in flour until lightly coated. Place pan over high heat, add half the canola oil, turn down to medium, and fry oxtails until golden brown on both sides, adding oil to pan as needed. Remove oxtails from pan. Drain all but 2 tablespoons of the oil then add carrots, celery, and onion over medium-high heat. Sauté until brown. Add tomato paste and stir until vegetables are evenly coated. Add wine and scrape up browned bits with wooden spoon. Reduce the liquid to a syrupy consistency. Add stock, bay leaves, thyme or sage, allspice, balsamic, mustard, sugar, and oxtail, and bring to a slow boil. To finish in the oven: turn off the heat and place pan in a 300 degree preheated oven uncovered for approximately 3 hours or overnight at 200 degrees. To finish in the Crock-Pot: cook in a covered Crock-Pot about 8 hours or until meat is falling off the bone. Remove from the oven and let cool in liquid for at least 10 minutes or unplug Crock-Pot and let sit for 10 minutes. Pull oxtail from liquid. Strain braising liquid, saving the liquid and vegetables to eat with oxtails but discarding spices. Reduce liquid in a saucepan if it is too watery. Reheat vegetables and oxtail in a low oven and serve with sauce over your favorite starch and little coarse sea salt to taste. Short ribs, veal shank, lamb shank, and beef cheeks are all good substitutes for oxtails.
Eloise Humphrey's Squash Soft Tacos
El Camino, Brunswick
Serves 4–6
1 buttercup or butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup olive oil
1 red onion, diced
1 red pepper, seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 medium poblano pepper, seeded and cut into 1-inch pieces
4 cups spinach, swiss chard, or your favorite green washed
20-24 small soft corn tortillas
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Toss squash with half the olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast in a heavy-bottomed pan until tender and slightly golden, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Combine onion and peppers in a bowl. Toss with remaining olive oil and salt and pepper. Roast in the same oven as the squash until onion has become soft and brown, and peppers have lightly browned edges, about 45 minutes.
Mix squash, peppers, and onions together. Sauté greens briefly and add to squash mix.
Heat tortillas by laying them on a kitchen towel moistened with water so that they are not overlapping, then roll it up, and place it in warm oven for 5 minutes. When warm, double tortillas, fill with squash mix, and garnish with salsa and sour cream. Refried or black beans and rice make a healthy and tasty complete meal.
Josh Mather's Squash Soup with Balsamic Roasted Beets
Joshua's Restaurant, Wells
Serves 4
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 yellow onion, minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 shallot, minced
1 medium butternut or acorn squash, about 3 cups peeled, seeded, and chopped
7 cups chicken stock
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 sprig fresh thyme leaves
6 tbsp. unsalted butter
Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Heat oil in large heavy-bottomed pot, add onion, garlic, shallots, and squash. Lightly sauté on medium heat for about 5 minutes, then add stock. Bring to a simmer and maintain for about half an hour or until the squash is soft. Add salt, peppers, and thyme. Remove from heat and transfer soup to a blender/Cuisinart in batches that just half-fill the bowl, blending on high and adding the butter as you go. Strain through a fine strainer.
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1 large beet
1 cup balsamic vinegar
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put beet in a small oven-ready pan with vinegar. Cover with aluminum foil and roast at least a 1/2 hour at least depending on the size, until easily pierced with a knife. Remove beet and peel and slice it into small dice, then add it back to the balsamic vinegar, which should be reduced to a thin syrup. Garnish soup with as many dice as you like, and swirl a little of the reduced balsamic over the soup to make an appealing design.
Michael Greer's Mac & Cheese Cheese Sauce For Any Pasta
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Serves 6–8
1/2 cup butter
1/2 small onion, diced
1/4 cup flour
3 1/3 cups half & half (whole milk or cream may be substituted)
1 tsp. dried thyme (1 tbsp. fresh)
4 cups (about 2 lbs.) cheese ends and scraps grated
1–1 1/2 lbs. of your favorite pasta like elbows, shells, rotini, etc.
1/2 cup breadcrumbs, if baking as a casserole
salt and pepper to taste
On the stovetop, heat butter over medium heat and sauté onions until translucent, but not brown. Turn heat down, stir in flour and cook another 2 to 3 minutes. Slowly stir in half and half and bring to a simmer. Stir in thyme. Reserve 1/2 cup of cheese if baking, otherwise add the cheese a little at a time and allow to simmer until all of the cheese has melted. (I prefer four different cheeses rather than all one, and you can often get a package of cheese ends for very little just by asking at your local deli or supermarket cheese counter.) Add salt and pepper to taste.
For a baked casserole, combine 1/2 cup reserved cheese with 1/2 cup breadcrumbs and sprinkle over surface of oven-ready filled pan, then heat in 300 degree oven until top is bubbly and brown, about 20 minutes.
Once the sauce is done, stir in your favorite pasta and whatever else you may want, leftover (cooked) shredded chicken, beef, veggies. This also works well as a baked dish.
Jeff Landry's Beer-Braised Brisket
The Farmer's Table, Portland
Serves 4-6
1 1/2 tablespoons pickling spice
4 tbsp. kosher salt
4 tbsp. brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
3 lbs. beef brisket
1 12-ounce bottle medium ale beer
1 cup water, more as needed
In a bowl mix pickling spice, salt, sugar, and molasses. Put brisket in a covered pan just larger than the meat and add beer and water in equal amounts until the meat is just covered. Simmer, covered, over low heat about 2 hours or until the meat falls away in shreds on your fork. Serve over braised or boiled cabbage as a main course. For a breakfast hash, chop fine and add chopped, sautéed onion and small diced fried potatoes.
- By: michael sanders
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Another thing I noticed...
...regarding the beef brisket recipe. In the print copy of the magazine, it calls for 1 1/2 CUPS of pickling spice, not the 1 1/2 TABLESPOONS called for here in the web site. 1 1/2 cups is an awful lot, 1 1/2 tablespoons is likely correct.
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so what do you do with the brisket and the pickling spice and brown sugar etc? Do you rub that on and let it sit in the fridge? Do you take it off before the beer? What?
To Teri...
I'm going to make an educated guess and say that you rub the pickling spice mixture into the meat. Otherwise, why bother mixing it all together, if you're just going to dump it in the pot with the beer and the water.
It certainly can't hurt to rub it on ahead of time and let it marinate in the fridge, a few hours or overnight. I make a Paul Prudhomme recipe for New England boiled dinner that uses a rub that sits on the brisket overnight. It is not rinsed off before cooking.
I plan to try this recipe soon, doing just as I described above. After I do, I'll come back and let you know how it turned out.
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On it and we have had the opportunity is now.
Right now on Fox Business as we bring in Cisco's chief about his company's guidance and its future John Chambers joins us now from -- has quarters and John.
We wanted to let our viewers know that you always make yourself available to us after guidance you're not running or hiding from the story at all are you.
-- Liz and if you watch here in the quarter she said very well was an extremely strong quarter for Cisco is record revenues.
It was record earnings in record net income.
And we did exactly what we told the street view -- do not only for the last quarter but for the last year.
We're gaining market share vs most of our key competitors we're breaking away in the search about a market.
Where and the hot new areas such as CAD Ares have cloud the areas of video the areas -- mobility.
And we're proud about where we are we just tend to be very candid and honest to the best for our ability about what we're seeing in the market as we move forward.
Yes I'm just sticking up for you John that the Hulk.
Look we know the positives here executives you -- week you have the record quarter you streamlined but that guidance let's get to that because investors rush the exits because of that five brokerages have cut their price targets on the stock so I need to ask you what is the number one issue.
At the heart about lowered guidance what's the problem.
There -- two issues there's if I may expand it beyond -- the first and most major.
Is uncertainty in Europe and the fact that Southern Europe and some of the challenges -- spread to central and Northern Europe.
And is that gonna affect the -- a global issue.
The second part is uncertainty on CEO is not in the mid size companies but in the very large company's.
Bad until they see more predictability in terms of what's going to happen in Europe.
It can be more predictability and some of the government policies.
EC they have not -- on the brakes -- -- see them lifting up.
Their foot off the gas pedal to watch and -- that uncertainty that we're pretty shared with the market.
If we were indicating their long term down scenario we -- to -- -- that bluntly.
But we did said we're gonna do the same thing that our customers are going to do wouldn't take a step back watch to see what happens and then adjust appropriately.
I believe most of our customers believe in optimistic scenario for the second half of the year.
We just wanna see how things unfold before we say that term shareholder upset that I get now let me go back to the first one -- its Southern Europe please tell -- which countries.
-- the Southern Europe -- we all know Portugal Spain.
Greece across the Mediterranean area where the part -- -- -- challenged.
And we sold -- over the last several quarters as many of have you seen in the press.
What is change vs one quarter -- and by the way one quarter ago we said here that thinks we're watching.
Europe and the global economy secondly let's howl spending was occurring.
In our accounts know the which was disconcerting about -- spend it or not.
Both of those -- worse than the last quarter.
We -- that in terms of Central Europe I think about France through that section the UK.
Northern Europe I think about Germany -- the Scandinavian countries and as you've seen from their GDP numbers and others that section is challenged.
What we get his -- in terms prepared.
So it's just gonna ask the next -- worry the next worrisome country.
You talked about the southern countries and now you say maybe France really -- starting to look weak too because that was supposed to be one of the stronger economies there.
Well I think clears what -- seen in this is in Cisco talking.
What we saw in our business was that we saw decrease each year over year in France.
And year over year in Northern Europe and that's the first time we've seen that that was not in place just a quarter got -- -- Unfortunate we often tend to be a leading indicator what's -- to happen.
And that's part of the reason your -- record earnings and your transparent about your concerns in the stock gets.
Takes a major hit which is -- -- is the CEO as that occurs but -- believe trust is everything.
And we were always signal for the market what we believe is occurring in the market so I think -- as a -- was going to be tough.
For well John you just said that we're gonna do what our customers to take a stake batten stepped back wait NC.
You never struck me as a -- took a step back in fact when things got really ugly last year.
You -- without -- thousand jobs you streamlined you've got rid of some ideas on how to hold meetings because it wasn't fast enough it was clogging up the system.
So you're telling -- gonna sit back they've got to be something specific that you are doing at Cisco.
To generate business if not corporate business or government business which you say is it's drinking a little bit.
Where will you put all your energies to fight this.
Well this -- I can break your question the couple pieces.
We've always come to market transitions.
In our industry adding -- to give us credit for this better than any of our peers.
And we end up gaining more market share and more percentage of the total industry's market cap whether they're good transitions are not so we're pretty good at coming through -- Secondly as you said last year -- even though we were in the number one position many of our markets.
We felt we weren't changing rapidly enough is a company would become a little bit too fat the becomes slower in the decision process.
And what you saw -- do was reorganize our company around our customers -- we organize our field.
And you saw -- also over the last year every quarter gain market share a number of our peers and the fears or concerns that many people -- about how HP would be just a year ago or juniper sure.
Juniper is down in the mid single digits negative on the revenue growth.
And down in the market -- market by 20%.
HP we all know the challenges in the data center where many people thought -- -- we're going to 67%.
So we are positioned well for the future and we are -- we're ready -- you watch this focus gross margins have improved.
Our focus -- market leadership feels pretty good if we need to just we will.
We're gonna watch right now we say we don't need to.
It's the growth story over for Cisco John you hear some people say that.
Well when you're small company.
-- growth comes a lot easier in terms -- -- cents.
When your company is approaching fifty billion dollars and your major peers in the industry like a Microsoft -- And Oracle or an -- group or not BM great companies.
Are growing flat down a little bit or just slightly up.
-- -- growing dramatically faster than them and we think we can.
Are we gonna grow at twenty or 30% no but will we get -- more than our fair share market if we do our job -- in key industries absolutely will and we showed that insertion batter.
Where their market cap ex is going to percent maybe we -- in search about it we've gone between five and 12% over the --
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September Tapes
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Commercial director Christian Johnston makes his feature film debut with the dramatic thriller September Tapes. The story takes place in Afghanistan, one year after the events of September 11. American journalist Don Larson (George Calil) and his two companions travel to Kabul in order to investigate the search for Osama bin Laden. After meeting with members of the Northern Alliance, he is arrested for taking photographs. While he's incarcerated, Don learns about a bounty hunter named Babak who may be able to help them. September Tapes premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the American Spectrum competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Freshman Orientation
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Can a young man win the hand of the girl of his dreams by convincing her that he prefers the company of men? That's the dilemma facing the protagonist of this independent comedy. Clay (Sam Huntington) was a big man on his high-school campus, but he discovers he's just another nobody when he starts his first year of college, and while he expected to be making time with lots of pretty coeds, most of the girls on campus could care less about him. As Clay hopes to improve his social status by rushing a fraternity after his dorm roommate unexpectedly dies, Amanda (Kaitlin Doubleday), another incoming freshman, is similarly hoping to join a sorority, and as part of her initiation she and the other pledges are each instructed to pick up a certain type of "loser" guy for a party where the boys will be humiliated as part of the evening's entertainment. Amanda is supposed to find a guy who is obviously gay, and her friend Jessica (Heather Matarazzo) mistakenly thinks Clay fits the bill. It doesn't take long for Clay to realize what's going on, but he decides to play along if it means going out with a pretty girl, and he gives himself a crash course in gay behavior in hopes of winning Amanda's heart with some help from amiable queer bartender Rodney (John Goodman). Produced under the title Home of Phobia, Freshman Orientation was the first feature film from writer and director Ryan Shiraki. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Sisters
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Screenwriter Richard Alfieri and director Arthur Allan Siedelman adapt Anton Chekhov's classic stage play The Three Sisters to the screen in this film starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Maria Bello, and Erika Christensen as the titular siblings. Upon departing from Charleston, SC, to further their education at a prestigious Manhattan college, sisters Marcia (Bello), Olga (Masterson), and Irene (Christensen) soon become lost in fantasies of what their lives may have been to the point where they are unable to affect change in their real lives. As the three sisters gradually open up to each other and their brother, Andrew (Alessandro Nivola), the specter of their deceased father soon lifts, leaving the nostalgic siblings to realize that the only way to confront the brutal realities of life is through honesty and understanding. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Southland Tales
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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopian science fiction, and music from writer and director Richard Kelly, his first film after gaining a cult following with Donnie Darko. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution.
In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock) is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott) is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two, and he struggles to track down his other half. Featuring a massive supporting cast which includes Mandy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shawn, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Amy Poehler, and Justin Timberlake, Southland Tales received its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival; director Kelly also created an accompanying series of three graphic novels that chart these events and characters prior to this story. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Walker Payne
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Desperate circumstances force a man to make a terrible choice in this period drama. It's 1957, and Walker Payne (Jason Patric) is a good but troubled man who struggles to keep his appetite for whiskey and women under control for the sake of his two daughters after breaking up with his wife (Drea de Matteo). Like most of the men in the small Illinois town he calls home, Payne provides for his daughters by working in a nearby coal mine, and when the mine suddenly closes, jobs become all but impossible to find. Payne's money problems come to a head when his ex-wife, who has decided to leave town and attend nursing school, demands 5,000 dollars or otherwise she will take custody of their children and he'll never see them again. Opportunity comes to Payne in the form of Syrus (Sam Shepard), a charming but unscrupulous man who offers Payne the chance to make some big money fast. Syrus runs an illegal dog-fighting circuit outside of town, and he's certain Payne's pooch Brute, a good-natured but massive animal, has the stuff to be a champion. Can Payne sacrifice his loyal canine friend to maintain the custody of his daughters? Walker Payne also stars Bruce Dern as Walker's friend Chester and KaDee Strickland as Audrey, a divorcée with an unpleasant past who falls for Payne. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Remember the Daze
The feature debut from writer/director Jess Manafort, this bittersweet teen comedy centers on a group of kids on the last day of school in 1999. With an ensemble cast featuring Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, and Alexa Vega, the film follows several students as they relish the advent of summer vacation and struggle with drugs, sex, and the unpredictability of the future before them. The Beautiful Ordinary screened at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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A grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) begins to suspect foul play when the six airplane crash survivors she is tending to mysteriously begin to disappear and the truth behind the tragedy grows ever more clouded in Nine Lives director Rodrigo García's conspiratorial supernatural thriller. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Deep in the Valley
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Albino Alligator screenwriter Christian Forte pulls double duty as writer and director of this fantasy comedy concerning two friends who enter a mysterious video booth and find themselves suddenly transported to an alternate dimension in which the entire world has taken on the traits of an adult film. Chris Pratt and Brendan Hines star in a film featuring Denise Richards, Scott Caan, Tracy Morgan, and Chris McDonald. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Director Richard Linklater teams with writer Skip Hollandsworth for this darkly comic docudrama detailing the unusual friendship between a likable Texas mortician and a wealthy but reviled widow, and the shocking crime that followed. Inspired by Hollandsworth's 1998 Texas Monthly article that first caught the attention of Linklater, Bernie takes place in Carthage, TX, where effeminate mortician Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) enjoys a reputation as a friendly and upstanding member of the community. Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), on the other hand, couldn't hold a lower position on the local social scale. Repressed and bitter, nasty Marjorie has isolated herself from her neighbors, and as a result has been essentially shunned in her small town. The moment Bernie shows Marjorie a shred of kindness, she clings to him tightly and refuses to let go. Meanwhile, as Marjorie becomes Bernie's sugar mama and the pair becomes inseparable, the local rumor mill begins to churn. Eventually, her intense jealousy becomes too much for Bernie to take. When the caustic widow's body is discovered stuffed in her own freezer, local District Attorney Buck Davidson (Matthew McConaughey) vows that justice will be served, but he finds it difficult to build a convincing case against Bernie as the locals rally to his defense. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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As Cool as I Am
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Small-town teen Lucy (Sarah Bolger) bears witness to her mother (Claire Danes) and father's (James Marsden) disintegrating marriage while confiding her hopes and fears in her best friend Kenny (Thomas Mann). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Maryport school puts on a slick production of Grease
Last updated at 22:08, Thursday, 15 March 2012
Grease was definitely the word at Maryport's Netherhall School last week.
Year 13 students performed the popular musical as part of their A-level studies and involved the whole school in their full-scale production.
Krista Davies, head of drama, directed the show with teacher Lisa-Marie Ellwood in charge of music.
The students gave three public performances and a production for local primary schools.
First published at 19:24, Thursday, 15 March 2012
Published by http://www.timesandstar.co.uk
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Wyndham Newport Onshore is the perfect home base for your Newport vacation. Since Newport is considered the "Yachting Capital of the World," it's the perfect place for all types of boating activity. With the harbor and marina right in your front yard, you can enjoy watching beautiful vessels float by. Or when you want to join the seafaring fun, you can rent your own equipment or charter boat. As you venture through town to see some of Newport's history, you will find many 19th-century mansions open to the public, and many quaint shops offer crafts, antiques and other items that will remind you of your visit here.
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I admit that I was never confident in this moving company. In fact, I only hired them because they were dirt cheap. Luckily for me, things worked out well this time around. The first time I moved I hired a different company and ended up taking them to court because they never paid for my broken TV and the couch that they lost. Anyway, that's all behind me now thankfully. With this company, I got everything I needed for a fast move into my new apartment. So even though I called all of the shots, it is like they were excited about meeting me halfway. The movers did a good job and I am glad I hired them.
My doctor told me that I should check out this company when I went in for my annual checkup. I told her I was moving into a new home and needed to find a moving company. Well, she was spot in with this choice. They had excellent customer service and the movers are fast and super efficient. The moving quote was accurate and they stuck to the plan. My on time delivery was the icing on the cake! Trust me when I say that this company was as good as it gets.
When I booked this company, I had second, third and fourth thoughts about it. I immediately began to think about all of the different things that could go wrong. It didn't help that my friends were criticizing me for hiring movers instead of doing it on my own as well. Anyway, now that the move is behind me, I am thrilled to report that the movers were unbelievable and their performance was more than I could hope for. Unpacking was easy because they clearly marked all of the boxes. We didn't have to worry about setting up the kitchen table or the entertainment system in the living room because they did all of that for us at an extra charge. They even stuck around and help us connect some of the stuff in my home office.
I liked this company because they knew how to give me a peace of mind. They just had a "been there, done that" kind of attitude that was good enough to calm me down. It started with my customer service agent Irene and permeated all the way down to the movers who helped me put together my new living room table that I got in from Ikea. Because they acted as problem solvers from the start, I didn't really have a high level of stress during my move. If I was in charge of this company the only thing I would do is get more customer service lines to make contacting them easier. The two numbers I had were often busy and then it took a while for people to get back to me.
I admit that I had somewhat of a complicated moving request. I wanted them to pickup all of my things and deliver half of the items to my new home and the rest of it to a storage unit. While two other companies were not open to the idea, this one said that split deliveries were pretty common and assured me that everything would go smoothly. But I guess since they were so focused on the delivery, they neglected the pickup. I ended up having to wait an hour past the time set for the delivery window before they showed up. Thankfully, this was the only frustrating moment of the entire move for me and my family. They packed everything up wonderfully and made sure all of my furniture was delivered in one piece.
They did a great job moving my things from Plantation to Coral Springs, FL. Movers were careful, on time and very professional. I would definitely use American Van Lines again
Everything about this company was perfect for me. I was downsizing to a 1 bedroom apartment and I needed movers who were quick, cheap and ready to work hard. I saw an ad for them in the local paper and called in right away. Here's how they were able to make me commit.
It started with Mike (customer service rep). He was friendly and told me that he would find ways to work with my budget and help me save. This was important.
Next, they were persistent. I literally got a call every day where they were asking me if I found a moving company yet because they really wanted to help me out.
I have to say that after I signed up to hire them I didn't hear from them nearly as much and that had me worried that it was a scam. But they managed to show up on time and did everything that they said they would. The packing process took them less than 2 hours and they genuinely did what it took to protect my goods.
This was a good company with really good prices.
Do not use this company. These people didn't show up for my move on May 15th or May 16th. I had to rent a freaking UHaul and move myself out. My house closed on the 18th so I would have been screwed if I couldn't move myself. I had to contact my credit card company because they were dragging their feet refunding my $1000 deposit. Do yourself a favor and use another mover. Totally UNPROFESSIONAL.......
PLEASE READ ALL REVIEWS, DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY! – We contracted with this company to move our household items from Dayton, Ohio to Tampa, Florida on Friday, March 9th. In the original estimate my husband told the estimator, Joseph Amato we were closer to 10, 000lbs, but were told by him that in order to keep our deposit low we should go with 7, 000 lbs and if we went over the weight it wasn't a problem and that we would pay the difference.
Well, truck shows up (a day later than what was promised to us & no notification was given to us of the date change until the NIGHT before they showed up) & there is not enough room on the truck for all of our items?!! The movers also did not show up with the items we contracted for (mattress covers) & only 2 men showed up for our 3, 500 sq ft home?! It took them over 13 hours and the help from my Dad to disassemble our furniture and carry down the stairs as surely our furniture would have been damaged/broken with only one man carrying it down the flight of stairs.
We were told by the driver that the company would not be sending another truck to pick up the remaining items as they had no obligatioin to do so since they picked up more weight than was on estimate?! Again, we knew the estimate was low but swayed otherwise and told not to worry, everything would be fine?! We had to scramble the next day & rent a U-haul (more costs to us), get a storage unit (again more costs to us) and fill up my parents & sister's garages with our leftover items.
Once the truck arrives at our home in Florida we discover that dozens of our items (some brand new, some heirloom pieces) are badly damaged/broken or ruined. I called "customer service" and they told me to write a letter describing our problems. I did this & never received a call or email back.
After numerous calls into AVL asking to speak to a supervisor the only compensation made was that they would waive the deposit for our next order?? When I call back to discuss picking up our remaining items stuck in Ohio I am asked if I have anything in writing saying that they would waive the deposit?? It took over a month of calling Joseph Amato, supervisors, customer service to even get a new written quote stating the deposit would be waived. We finally gave up & went with another company. They wanted to charge us all of the fees again as if it was a brand new order. One of their fees is something they call a 'binding estimate fee' which I have been told by Sam, Aramid, Joseph Amato & Matthew all different explanations of what this fee is- all of which are bogus.
We still have yet to hear anything back on what the status is of our damaged items and receiving a claim check for those items. This move cost us double what it should have & the company no concern for our problems, resolving our issues or wanting our business.
I would hate for anyone else to experience what we have with this company as it has been the most stressful, horrific, frustrating & costly experience. Please people, DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY! They seem very nice on the phone, but that is it. After they have your money forget about anything they promised you & expect headache after headache & if you even get your furniture at all- consider yourself lucky!
WARNING DON'T USE THIS COMPANY – The movers were supposed to arrive on a Wednesday and they didn't show up. They called us to tell us that they were running late and they would come the next morning. We had to be out of the house we were renting, so we were on a tight schedule. They didn't show up until the 27th at 2pm. In the agreement, they were to pack up our belongings. When the driver arrived he said "I didn't know I was packing anything." I had taken the initiative to start packing earlier because I'd known they wouldn't be able to pack the entire house in one day. They didn't give us a list concerning how many boxes went into the truck, items or anything. They were here until late that night packing everything. We flew to Florida, meanwhile they told us we were to get our stuff on November 8th--it usually takes ten days. The 8th arrived and our belongings weren't here and no one was calling us or telling us where our stuff was at.
Finally, a week later, my husband was calling, and was able to get a hold of somebody. They told us that in the process of the movers coming to Florida, they had stopped at a rest stop where the truck was broken into: our possessions were missing. American Van Lines had to go and get another company to get our remaining items from where the truck was at when it was broken into. The truck that then arrived at our house was a huge semi truck. When they brought our stuff to us, everything had just been thrown into the semi. When this other company came to drop off our stuff, they stole my husband's watch from the counter. We didn't notice this until a day or two later. All our stuff was scratched from being in the semi. None of our TVs made it back, my daughter's bed was missing. Everything in the kitchen that they had packed was gone--no plates, no nothing. I had a standup jewelry box that I'd packed, all of our jewelry was missing. They took half of our couch as well--they basically didn't bring half the stuff back. Our dining room table is also gone. This moving company was contracted by Cigarette Boats to move our stuff and their lawyer is currently trying to get them to settle but American Van Lines is being unresponsive.
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In natural environments insect pollinators are considered as available commodity.
Urban apiculture introduces a domesticated variation to facilitate cities to transform into "eco-cities" by fostering biodiversity, complementing re-vegetation and sourcing local food. As for multi-floral honey foraged from plants within the city limits, it claims to contain less pesticides than its rural double.
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Beekeepers and cooks, urban designers and environmental artists in 11 European countries are invited to collaborate, contribute and harvest in order to weave ideas, creations and results back into society as interpretation and reflection of the state of their habitat. Inhabitants are encouraged to converse and interact with their newly perceived surroundings.
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A week after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, parts of the Northeast are still reeling from the wind, rain and flooding. Though the darkened Manhattan skyline may be the hurricane's most obvious consequence, the storm's health impacts may be the more significant and longest-lasting.
The hurricane's death toll in the United States climbed to 113 over the weekend, with 48 fatalities in New York and 24 in New Jersey, the Los Angeles Times reported. Thousands still lack power as temperatures drop further and a brewing nor'easter threatens to pour over the area later this week.
Relief workers now have to contend with a variety of health issues stemming from the late-season storm. "Typically, we usually are dealing with these types of disasters when it's warmer out," said Melanie Pipkin, a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross.
With the cold, people forced from their homes need to take extra care to find shelter and stay warm, Pipkin said, adding that people remaining in their homes and using alternative power sources like portable generators need to be cautious of carbon monoxide poisoning. Fires and shorts from damaged electrical wiring also pose health hazards.
At St. Jacobi Church in the Sunset Park area in Brooklyn, volunteers with Occupy Sandy coordinated relief efforts, including medical care. Outside, cars lined up for more than a dozen blocks, waiting for gasoline at a nearby station. Brett Goldberg, an organizer with Occupy Sandy, explained that the group emerged from Occupy Wall Street to fill the wide gaps in the disaster response, marshaling more than 2,000 volunteers at sites all over the city.
"We've set up a medical dispatch. We put out the word we're looking for medical professionals of all different sorts," he said, adding that New York City's towering high-rises make it difficult for people to get in and out when the elevators shut down during a power outage. "We will dispatch those professionals that go door-to-door, canvassing to find elderly and disabled folks."
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Diabetes, and particularly getting regular insulin, is a big concern among people seeking help, according to Goldberg. The colder temperatures are raising concerns about hypothermia, and people huddling in close proximity could increase cold and flu transmission, he added.
Pipkin said it is still too early to tell if New York and New Jersey face any unique health risks compared to similar and more frequent storms along the Gulf Coast. She also said the Red Cross would not take a stand on whether climate change may be a factor, as well.
"We stay out of that debate. That's a little too political for us," Pipkin said. "I think this is definitely a large-scale disaster, which we've dealt with before. We're still working along the same procedure lines." However, she added, "We're still right in the thick of it."
Patrick Kinney, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and director of the school's climate and health program, agreed that health risks might yet emerge. "This particular storm, I think we're still learning what the health impacts specifically were," he said.
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"From a longer-term perspective, you start looking at things like the effects of the power outage: What does that mean for the spoilage of food? For the contamination of the water supply? You also worry about access to routine medical care," Kinney said. People with chronic diseases like high blood pressure might not get their regular medication after storms, and might suffer as a result, he noted.


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After the early spring and out-of-season storms lead to a surge in dealer chainsaw sales, dealers wait to see if the fall weather will keep the momentum going.
Like most product categories, chainsaw sales saw a boost from the early spring. To top that off, a lot of dealers saw the "upside" to tornadoes with an increase in chainsaw parts sales and maintenance as a result of the unexpected need to clear storm debris. The fall peak season could add to these sales, leaving dealers reporting high numbers at the year's end.
"Chainsaw sales are doing great both at Echo and in the industry as a whole," says Brad Mace, product manager at Echo. "Chainsaw shipments from manufacturers are up about 10% year-to-date while Echo is up considerably more than that."
While the product segment has seen significant growth, it is still down from prerecession levels. According to Mace, when compared to 2006, industry chainsaw shipments are down about 5% year-to-date.
Storms in the early part of the year, in the form of unexpected tornadoes and snowfalls, helped to push chainsaw sales. The push in sales, however, did not match the effect of the fall 2005 hurricane season on dealer inventories.
"Chainsaw shipments have done very well in the first part of the year through April due to storm activity, including cleanup from the 'Snowtober' in New England and the January snow storm in Seattle," says Steve Meriam, manager of national sales and product development for Stihl Inc. "Although a strong market, 2011 and first quarter 2012 are still not as strong as 2006, as we were coming off of a very active hurricane season in fall of 2005, and restocking activity had a positive impact in 2006."
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Husqvarna has also experienced growth over 2011, especially among their high-end chainsaws. Their professional users are seeking products that are easy to maintain.
"Our AutoTune feature automatically monitors the performance of the unit, taking things like fuel type into account, and automatically adjusting to optimize the saw's performance," explains Jeff Dewosky, vice president of dealer sales for Husqvarna.
Commercial and consumer cutters are looking for similar features that add up to a durable and easy-to-use product. Whether in the yard or on the jobsite, the chainsaw should offer quality results and be comfortable to handle for extended periods.
"Fuel efficiency, low vibration and good power-to-weight ratio are particularly important to pro users who are using units for an extended period of time, and should be considered by home users with larger properties, as well," Meriam explains.
"Contractors or commercial users are looking for power, durability, and more and more are looking for a lightweight product," agrees Mace. "To that end, Echo has been focusing on lightweight chainsaws."
While there is a noticeable increase in chainsaw sales this year, it is not an easy sell. Customers are looking for lots of quality features at a reasonable price. Before they make the decision to buy, end users want to know they are getting what they pay for.
"A good value for their dollar is what customers are looking for, whether they are a home user or pro," says Meriam. "Reliability and durability are desirable traits."
The primary feature homeowners are seeking is an easy-to-start chainsaw that starts every time. When they only use the equipment a few times a year, it is important that it is reliable.
"Sixty percent of consumers use their saws four times a year or less, so they want product that is easy to start and safe to use, which is why we equip our saws with the effortless pull system (EPS)," says Dewosky. "EPS reduces the effort to pull by 30%. In addition, our integrated choke and on/off switch make starting the saw extremely easy since there is only one step involved."
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