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Last summer, the Los Angeles Police Department was dealt a rude shock.
Expecting nearly $1 million in federal grant money to help cover the cost of analyzing DNA evidence in rape cases and other violent crimes, the department was awarded only half that much.
U.S. Department of Justice officials, who distribute the money to police agencies nationwide, told LAPD staff that the fault was their own. The LAPD had been too slow to spend about half the DNA grant money awarded in prior years, so its 2008 allotment was reduced. Meanwhile, an audit found that more than 7,000 rape kits are waiting to be analyzed, the largest known backlog in the country.
As dire as LAPD's problem is, it is hardly unique.
The Justice Department cut backlog funding this year to crime labs in 17 states, including California, because they had not spent federal grants dating as far back as 2004. About a quarter of the 105 law enforcement agencies that receive these grants had their funding docked, Justice Department officials said.
The cuts coincide with a soaring national DNA backlog. Although the federal government hasn't estimated the backlog in recent years, Human Rights Watch, which advocates for rape victims among others, has put it at about 400,000 cases.
Smaller jurisdictions are not immune. In Erie County, N.Y., the year-to-year backlog increased from 620 to 920 in 2007. In Ventura County, the backlog increased from 53 cases to 156 during the same period.
"Potentially hundreds if not thousands of rapists nationally could be apprehended if the frozen evidence of their crime was analyzed," said Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss, who has complained about the backlog for years. "It is the ultimate no-brainer."
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote a letter last week to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey expressing her "strong concerns" about how the money is being spent. Maloney, who sponsored legislation that secured the funding, asked Mukasey for a detailed accounting.
"It would be outrageous if the backlogs are the result of the Department of Justice's negligent administration," Maloney said in a statement to The Times and ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative reporting newsroom.
It has been nearly a decade since Congress ordered the Justice Department to help crime labs reduce their backlogs. Since 2004, Congress has given the department $474 million for this purpose through the Debbie Smith Act, written by Maloney and named after a woman who advocates for eliminating backlogs. Smith was raped in 1989, but her attacker's DNA went untested for six years.
With this funding, the Bush administration said, the backlog would be eliminated in five years, a period that soon will expire.
But at the same time, an unprecedented number of DNA samples entered the nation's crime labs. New laws mandated that DNA be taken from more people, often including those arrested but not charged with a crime. Meanwhile, new technologies made it possible to analyze small or degraded samples.
It remains unclear why the LAPD and many other labs have not used all their grant money. Several labs contacted by ProPublica had no explanation for why the money hadn't been spent.
LAPD Assistant Chief Sharon Papa acknowledged that, on paper, the department had nearly $2 million in unspent federal DNA funds as of August. She and her staff said those figures did not account for about $500,000 of DNA work sent to private labs but not yet reflected on balance sheets.
The spending delay was largely the result of confusion about the time frames the Justice Department sets for spending the money, Papa and others said. She also said the cash flow problem hasn't slowed the pace of the department's DNA testing.
Renee Artman, director of the Ventura County Sheriff's lab, which used nearly all its 2006 federal funding, said many labs would like to use the money to hire more DNA analysts. But the grants cover only a fixed period (usually 12 months), which means labs can guarantee jobs for only that time.
"Not too many people are willing to take a risk and accept this position," Artman said.
The Justice Department would not allow anyone to speak on the record about DNA backlogs. Speaking anonymously, a department official said the agency is available to answer questions from labs and holds an annual conference for its grantees. "We've done an enormous amount of work to deal with rape kit problems," the official said.
The department is aware of the LAPD's problem and is "going to do what we can to assist them directly," the official said.
L.A. isn't the only city where the money sits unused for years.
In progress reports filed in early 2008, 26 labs said they had not yet fully tapped into 2006 DNA money. A lab in Allegheny County, Pa., hadn't used all of its 2004 grant.
At the Illinois State Police crime lab, the DNA backlog was eliminated in 2005, but it reemerged with 938 cases in September 2008. Yet the lab has not fully spent its grants from 2006 or 2007.
The lab has not been penalized for the unspent funds, said Master Sgt. Brian Ley, an agency spokesman. It received $2.4 million in 2007.
"This is an issue we've dealt with for years," Ley said. "We recognize that there will always be a backlog of some sort."
Sarah Tofte, who has tracked the backlog program for Human Rights Watch, said the breadth of the problem suggests the Justice Department hasn't adequately supervised the program or pressed labs to use the money.
"There's no accountability," she said. "None."
The Justice Department requires labs to submit two-page quarterly progress reports. But many hand in incomplete reports with such entries as "nothing to report -- no funds spent," as the South Dakota attorney general's office recorded in January.
In a 2004 audit, the Justice Department's inspector general found that oversight of DNA funding was weak. In response, the department largely outsourced its oversight responsibilities to a nonprofit contractor in Florida, the National Forensic Science Technology Center. Now, each lab is visited every second year by an audit team.
The Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the agency lacks the staff to watch the program on its own. In 2007, the department paid the Florida company $6 million for services that included overseeing the DNA program.
Lisa Forman Neall, a former chief of the Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division at the Justice Department, said oversight responsibilities shouldn't be outsourced.
"That is the job of the federal agency," said Forman Neall, who left the division before it began administering the Debbie Smith program.
Now the inspector general's office is again auditing the backlog reduction program, a spokeswoman confirmed.
Justice Department officials declined to comment.
It is difficult to determine exactly how the Justice Department has spent the $474 million Congress has provided for the DNA program since 2004.
About $55 million is unaccounted for, according to an analysis of government data. Department officials said some of that money was probably used for administrative costs.
They also said some DNA grant money went for research and development in areas unrelated to the backlog, including fingerprint analysis.
Maloney said she'll investigate whether it's possible to ensure that DNA testing funds are spent on reducing the backlogs.
But even labs that spent their grant money have seen backlogs skyrocket.
At the Missouri State Highway Patrol, for instance, the backlog rose over the course of a year from 392 cases to 1,173 by the end of 2007. Its funding was not enough to keep up with the boom in testing, officials said.
In Los Angeles, news of the backlog and revoked funding has caused politicians to confront the problem. The City Council found money late last month to pay private labs for more testing and to hire 16 DNA analysts and support staff, a boost of about 33%.
But millions of dollars in additional city funds, federal grants and private donations will be needed to address the problem, and even then city officials say the backlog won't be eliminated until 2013.--
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As a kid, I loved festivals and celebrations because they meant great food.
Now, I love festivals and celebrations because…well, because they mean great food.
Let's admit it: most of the fun in any event really lies in the food, doesn't it? Celebrations around the world center around food, and we Indians are no different. Every festival in India has dishes uniquely associated with it, and on festival days, I remember, the women of our family would spend hours in the kitchen turning out lip-smacking goodies.
They would make luscious Shrikhand -Puri for Gudi Padva (the Maharashtrian new year) and whisper-soft Puran Polis for Holi, a raucous festival where everyone douses everyone else with colored water and powders. Diwali, the festival of lights and the mother of all Hindu celebrations, was a smorgasboard of so many sweet and savory treats, it makes my head spin and my stomach growl just to think of them. Ganesh Chaturthi, the birthday of Ganesha, the beloved elephant-headed god of Hindus, was about five days of feasting on the most delicious food imaginable.
After marrying a Tamilian, I inherited more festivals and therefore more occasions for great food. Of these, Pongal is just about my favorite.
Pongal is a day for the people of Tamil Nadu to elebrate prosperity, and it is a day to cook two of the most amazing dishes I've ever tasted: Venn Pongal and Sakkarai Pongal.
Both dishes start out with a similar base of rice and mung lentils, but one is mixed with jaggery, an unrefined sugar, to make the sweet or Sakkarai Pongal, while the other is flavored with a few simple spices like pepper, ginger and cumin seeds to make the savory version, or Venn Pongal.
Today, to go with my Venn Pongal, I made some Aviyal. a South Indian stew made with coconut milk and vegetables, and flavored with coconut oil.
I had already posted a recipe for Venn Pongal in the past, so I am not going to repeat it here, other than to give you the link. But here are my recipes for Sakkarai Pongal and Aviyal.
One quick note: both Pongals use ghee liberally, and ghee, or clarified butter, as you know, is a no-no in my kitchen. For the Sakkarai Pongal I used canola oil and almond milk and stirred in some vegan butter (Earth Balance) at the end. It was creamy and delicious.
Sakkarai Pongal is great with some pachchai karpooram, or edible camphor, which gives it a unique flavor. I've never been able to find any at my Indian grocery store, so I went without, but add a pinch if you can find it.
Happy Pongal, everyone! And, for my Tamil readers, Pongal Vazhthukkal (Desi had to write that for me) 🙂
Sakkarai Pongal
- 3/4 cup rice
- 1/4 cup mung lentils or mung dal
- 1 cup almond milk
- 3/4 cup to 1 cup of jaggery , grated
- 1 tsp powdered cardamom seeds
- 10-15 cashew nuts , broken into pieces
- 1/4 cup raisins (I used the dark ones, but golden raisins are better)
- Boil the rice and mung dal together, preferably in a pressure cooker, until really soft. I added about 3 cups of water to the pressure cooker, which gave me the right consistency.
- Add almond milk to the rice-mung mixture and set it on a low flame.
- Add the jaggery and stir well.
- Cook on a low flame until the raw jaggery smell has dissipated. This took about half an hour for me. The pongal should not be dry, but creamy and slightly fluid. If it gets too dry, add some more almond milk.
- Heat the canola oil. Add the cardamom, cashew nuts, and raisins.
- Toss until the nuts are lightly browned. Add to the rice.
- Stir well. Serve warm or at room temperature.
- 4 cups of mixed veggies (I used potatoes, green beans and pumpkin, but you can add sweet potatoes, carrots, colocasia, plantain, eggplant, green peas...most veggies would be great in this)
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 3 red chillies
- 2 tbsp bengal gram dal
- 2 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tsp canola oil
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- Heat the canola oil and add the bengal gram dal. Stir until lightly browned, add red chillies and stir for another minute.
- Put the bengal gram dal in a blender along with the ginger, coconut milk and cumin seeds. Blend to a smooth paste.
- Cook the vegetables with some water until almost tender.
- Place the vegetables in a saucepan with 1 cup water, the ground coconut-cumin paste, salt and turmeric.
- Bring to a boil, lower heat and cook for another five minutes until the vegetables are quite tender.
- Heat the coconut oil in a separate pan.
- Add the curry leaves, stir for a minute, then pour into the aviyal.
- Stir in and turn off the heat. Check salt and add more if needed.
- Serve hot with venn pongal or even plain boiled rice.


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Twenty minutes into the movie and you are suddenly hit by a disgusting rock of indifference. You don't want to watch it any further, because things aren't exactly exciting or frantic for that to matter. The introduction of the characters to the tale is sour. The score hobbles from the mysterious violin to occasional piano notes without imparting it a proper depth. It struggles with its ghost without any explanations.
Edith played by Mia sways expressionless and sometimes distant in her period attire. Thomas and Edith chemistry doesn't ignite sparks either, and you begin to wonder how mediocre love could be. The latter was supposed to be deliberate. However, it all looked too dramatic to be true which, I believe, Toro could have worked upon more.
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:47 pm
Post subject: Nukelies: nuclear weapons hoax, nuclear power probable hoax
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but I just found this site and the 9/11 material is good.
I want to draw peoples' attention to a forum
which was started to explore the idea that nuclear weapons were and are a fraud.
*We have sections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, showing these towns were not 'nuked', but just bombed like other Japanese towns.
* We have sections on what properties were ascribed to 'atom bombs' (and how some of them were dropped: the 'mushroom cloud', the glassified desert, the supposed shadows of a person (or two), the radiation
* Ditto for the H bomb, and why it was made up - essentially to make war 'unthinkable' when people suggested the A bomb should be used
* We're working on pieces exmaining the sites of supposed nuclear tests, for example Bikini
* Plus a lot of apparently off-topic material. In fact, much modern thought and propaganda is influenced by supposed nukes.
* There are considerable doubts - when you investigate - as to whether nuclear power ever worked. There is nowhere on earth powered by it; the Chinese are building many power stations - all coal fired; the 'dumpload' hypothesis appears to cover this
There are also videos on Youtube supporting these general theses.
NB the whole intention is to be accurate and scientific and evidence-based
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Youtube playlist of 7 short videos illustrating some of the problems -
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"I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this"
Oh yes sir, you are not only allowed, but perfectly welcome to make a complete ass out of yourself.
I just hope you will keep your revelations to just one thread so you will not make that message board even more dead than it already is.
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Isn't Nico Haupt behind this theory?
Anyhow, it shouldn't be down to whoever creates these theories but the question should be are there grounds upon which any theory can be launched.
To some extent the nuclear energy industry competes with the oil industry and so why wouldn't there be created a nuclear weapon that is feared by the world and a few melt downs to deter governments from taking the nuclear industry forward. Melt downs of nuclear plants is just an unknown invisable fear whereas the after effects of nuclear weapons are a known and visable fear.
Electric cars are slowly emerging and what if they pass the stage of having to be recharged [using the means of nuclear energy] and become nuclear energy cars. Who knows how nano sciences will progress in years to come.
Nico has been accused of being Cointelpro and probably all sorts of other characters but I thought his first opinion on 9/11 was rather interesting.
Not only that airbases had been closed down but that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition to protect lives. How simple was it to fly something into the towers [with one missing and landing in WTC7] with the threat being there were nuclear devices on board. There didn't have to be. One can appreciate what the only course would have been. Bring them down and bury any threat under the rubble. Hot spots and all.
Don't deny it or that one may have missed and shot into WTC7 because we all saw it.
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And *all* the physicists in the world have had the wool pulled over their eyes on the subject of nuclear physics for the past 80 years or so?
Naah - not buying that.
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Aside from the interesting history catch what Edwin says about the electric car. The first electric cars were covered up and went the way of the Dodo but are slowly coming back. This shows that this technology [the hybrid car] is not so new.
Ask why the hybrid has suddenly appeared in our streets. Its not the fact they were too dangerous because they ran silent and pedestrians can't hear them coming.
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*The point about permission is that the original post was an external link with a bit of info, which may be discouraged.
*Most physicists have little to do with nuclear matters, or with the more or less fantasy worlds of relativity etc. And there is strict security - there is no independent auditing. At least, this is true in the 'west' - it's possible the 3rd world and Japan are discovering anomalies.
I'd be pleased if people look at
and maybe comment (we discourage trivial timewasting comments, though). There's a newbies section on the sort of thing we're looking for. It needs some knowledge of modern history & science & technology, but it's not as complicated as is often made out to be. We also have an off-topic section looking at various other revisionist ideas.
There are short videos online illustrating some of the problems - the following link should be the playlist
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The Ballistic Missile Submarine: Nuclear Weapon of Choice
Were the US to launch a nuclear strike, for any reason, the weapon of choice would most likely be Trident missiles launched from one or more Ohio class ballistic missile submarines. The US Navy has 14 Ohio class submarines in service, 8 assigned to the Pacific Fleet and based in Bangor, Washington and 6 assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, based in Kings Bay, Ga. The Ohio class submarines are each armed with 24 Trident missiles, each carrying 6 to 8 100 kt W76 nuclear warheads. The four Royal Navy Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines, home-based in Scotland, are also armed with Trident missiles though they carry British warheads, rather than US-supplied warheads. It has been reported that the US Navy maintains 4 ballistic missile submarines on patrol at all times, 2 in the Atlantic and 2 in the Pacific.
The remainder of the US Navy's submarine fleet consists of 54 attack submarines and 4 converted Ohio class guided missile submarines (their mission includes special forces and intelligence gathering operations), divided roughly evenly between the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. These boats can carry varying numbers of Tomahawk cruise missiles, but the Navy's stockpile of nuclear-tipped Tomahawks has been in storage since President George H.W. Bush ordered them removed from the Navy's ships in 1991. The date for their decommissioning has been set for 2013.
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has quite a lot of consideration about so-called nuclear submarines, including, as with supposed nuclear battleships and aircraft carriers, whether they are in fact nuclear-powered.
It's also interesting to consider whether it's actually possible for a missile with enough fuel to travel thousands of miles to in fact be launched from underwater. This is quite apart from the issue of nuclear bombs -- note for example there are reports that 'bunker busters' aren't enough for Iran, despite the suppose capabilities of H bombs.
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Youtube playlist - if it works; you may need to click something else - of 7 short videos illustrating some of the problems -
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How close is this to reality?
It is thought that bunker buster bombs would be used on an Iranian nuclear plant. As I understand it, one in particular which is close to another two or three.
Lets think for a moment bunker buster bombs are not compatable with the generation of nuclear energy. Isn't there something called fall out and I don't mean fall out from bombers the sky?
How deep do these bunkers have to be before radiation cannot leak out after the bunker buster and blown it up.
Whether you are talking about energy grade or weapons grade - will it not lead to contamination.
Of course, if it is singled out for making weapons grade then this question surely is more pertinent.
So, if you want reality then do research on how do you take out a nuclear plant which is alleged to be making a weapons grade?
The Chernoble plant was "taken out" and look what facilities were available [then] for effecting a remedy. Do you think in 2012 the contamination would be contained?
Is there any weapons that could take down a nuclear plant without blowback that would be morally committing suicide, even for Israel?
How much is the threat of taking out any Iranian capability of manufacturing weapons grade a reality and how much is it a reality of actually doing it?
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I'd be pleased if people look at _ and maybe comment (we discourage trivial timewasting comments, though). There's a newbies section on the sort of thing we're looking for. It needs some knowledge of modern history & science & technology, but it's not as complicated as is often made out to be. We also have an off-topic section looking at various other revisionist ideas.
OK, I've looked at your site and videos. Would you please give us your best evidence to support your conjecture? I don't think that posting drivel about the "JEWS" makes for a good scientific argument and there are many other examples of this almost classic holocaust denier rhetoric throughout your site.
We don't need your link posted anymore, just some good evidence. And by the way, did you get here from Raphael's obsession with the Swastika research? Looks like you may have arrived at the wrong address ...
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"I don't think that posting drivel about the "JEWS" makes for a good scientific argument and there are many other examples of this almost classic holocaust denier rhetoric throughout your site. "
I become curious. What is a "Jew" according to you and what is "holocaust denial rethoric" (scientifically)? John Irving cannot be procecuted for his writings, it is so silly. What his personal life tells us is there are some who don't tolerate scientific research, they are afraid of something?
Edit: Probably I meant David Irving, not John Irving
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MEMRI announces that its MEMRI TV site has had over one million hits this month. It must be a genuine milestone for an organization of which few have heard. As of today the television site's most recent post is "Al-Jazeera TV Staff in Ramallah in Anti-Bush Demonstration: Down with Fascist America."
MEMRI has also posted a special dispatch that is of interest: "Iraqi Author: George Galloway, You Will Be Tried Just Like Your Friend and Benefactor Saddam Hussein." MEMRI explains:
In a November 4, 2005 article on the Al-Jiran website titled "George Galloway Will Yet be Tried," Iraqi author Fadhil Rashad called for British Member of Parliament George Galloway to stand trial for robbing from the Iraqi people.
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From Being a Blessing -- 54 Ways You Can Help People Living with AIDS
January 1995
When you visit, it is often very helpful to pray or to meditate with a person who is ill. Always ask the person who is ill if it is okay for you to offer a prayer for his or her renewed strength and healing and invite the person to join you in the prayers if the answer is affirmative. The words, though important, are not as significant as the message that it is okay to pray, to ask for help from a Higher Power, and to do so both alone and together. It is also a good way of leading into discussions that will be very meaningful both for the person who is ill and for the visitor. Prayer can be used to help calm a person and to introduce the idea of meditations for healing and inner peace.
There's a really beautiful note on prayer in Brakhot 13a:
There are a lot of sources you could use for prayers. I have attached just a few prayers. Keep a collection of them, you never know which will fit a particular situation. Whenever possible, pray both for the individual and for all others who are ill. This allows the person who is ill to continue to hope for others as well as for him or herself. Even if one's personal prayers are answered in ways other than one hopes for, if one prays for others, perhaps those prayers will be answered.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may move,
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Mi Shebeirach
Mi shebeirach a-vo-tei-nu
Mi shebeirach i-mo-tei-nu
M'kor ha-b'ra-chah l'a-vo-tei-nu,
Bless those in need of healing
With r'fu-a sh'lei-ma,
The renewal of body,
The renewal of spirit,
And let us say, Amen.
(Debbie Friedman and Dorah Setel)
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May the One Who blessed our ancestors, Sarah and Abraham, Rebecca and Isaac, Rachel, Leah and Jacob, Moses, Miriam and Aaron, bless and heal (name) and all others touched by AIDS and related illness. Mercifully restore (him/her) to health and vigor. Grant insight to all those who bring healing, courage and faith to (name). Grant love and strength to us and to all who love a person living with AIDS. God, let Your Holy spirit rest upon all who are ill and comfort them. Speedily and soon, may we know a time of complete healing of body and spirit, and let us say: Amen.
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Eternal God, near to all who call upon You, be with (name) as (s/he) combats AIDS; strengthen (her/his) faith in Your compassion. Grant (her/him) strength and courage to endure suffering and discomfort, and vision to see beyond the present moment. May it be Your will to bring (her/him) peace and healing even as (s/he) journeys through life with AIDS. Grant courage and wisdom to all who minister to (her/his) needs, may their hope and determination never wane. Heal us, God, and we will be healed; save us and we will be saved, for You are our hope and our strength. Amen.
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El nah, refah nah lah (lo). God, please, heal her (him).
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Source of Life, we pray You:
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Heal us, God, and we shall be healed. Save us, and we shall be saved. For You are our Praise. Send us complete healing for all of our illnesses, for You are our Nurturant and Loyal Source and Healer. You are a fountain of blessings, God, Who heals the sick.
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My God,
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We are loved by an unending love.
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May you live to see your words fulfilled
Prayer is powerful and gives strength. I have found, when visiting people who are ill, that they are very ready, willing and interested in having prayers said with and for them. Often people will tell me they don't believe in God, or don't believe in a God who responds to personal prayers, but what could it hurt? (In other words, an opening.) If praying becomes an invitation to discuss the issues of life and death, hope and healing God and God's love, then it serves its purpose.
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Future generations will turn to you and will ask, "What did you do to help end the AIDS crisis?" How will you answer them?
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Stephen Orr: Growing tomorrow's garden
Sustainable and beautiful is the future of our nation's gardens.
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Stephen Orr, editorial director of gardening at Martha Stewart Living, and renowned author recently published a new book that turns an artist's eye on sustainable gardens across the country. Orr along with two other garden book authors will be at the Rodale Institute May 13 for Grow Up, Grow Well, Grow Modern, an evening sure to be full of lively discussion (space is limited, so reserve your spot now). We caught up with Orr in advance of the event to get his definition of sustainability and vision of tomorrow's gardens.
"You can't hold up any one example as the paragon of sustainability. I don't want people to turn their minds off to attractive sustainability. The aesthetics of something shouldn't cheapen the things for people."~ Stephen Orr
Tell me about Tomorrow's Garden. What can readers expect?
One thing I hadn't seen that much in the marketplace is that sustainability could be beautiful. Other books that go into sustainability have a lot of detailed information, but I felt like I could do something new. On the other hand, I didn't want to do just a book of beautiful gardens that would simply sit on coffee tables. I wanted something that worked on different level. I wanted it to be more of a visual handbook.
The book is not a how-to book about sustainability; it is more a mind-set book. How to shift your mindset with a view to what you can do with your yard and garden. The book is definitely trying to teach people about issues of sustainability, but in a way that draws people in. It is accessible--especially to people who aren't already interested in the idea of sustainability.
What inspired you to write this book?
I had worked at some very high-end glossy magazines, and documented a lot of very large estate gardens. I started to feel kind of psychologically burdened by how big and vast and grand these things were. Our economy had been puffed up and our garden-making had gotten puffed up, too. I wanted to addresses smaller gardens that have a sense of purpose. Gardens that were not just about money and getting the rarest plants.
I include myself in that group of gardeners who had gotten wrapped up in this ideal. I just started to feel like we were all moving toward a new direction with American gardening that isn't so wasteful and inconsiderate of our resources (water, time, effort, fertilizer).Or, at least, we should be.
Like giving up the old fashioned ideas about not worrying about water. I have a friend in LA and saw how hard it was for her to garden with their water restrictions. Eventually, she transitioned to a Mediterranean-style garden. It is still a non-native garden, but it made much more sense for the climate. And maintaining that garden turned out to be much easier on the environment (not to mention the gardener).
Writing this book was really about the education of a responsible gardener. And I educated myself in the process.
Tell me a little bit about you. What is your background, your history?
Well, I'm a self-taught gardener. I've never been to school for horticulture, but I've always loved plants. My parents were both interested in plants and I gardened with them. I learned at very young age to appreciate gardens and plants. I moved from Texas to New York in 1988 and started working as a magazine art director. So I'm really visually oriented when it comes to gardens because of my art direction background.
When I started thinking about the initial idea for this book, it really struck me that with magazines, we often stuck to just a few parts of the country. I wanted to do a national book. Since I have a BFA in painting and photography, I was able to take my own photos. Basically, I started traveling and documenting everything myself, and it became a really organic process. I was able to get out and document stuff on the side of the road if I stumbled up on something inspiring!
Did you come across any surprises while out on the road?
We know that we have climactic difference across the country, but one thing that was surprising is that each of the locations I visited had a different gardening soul.
Whether it was high design in small backyards, public spaces being used in interesting ways, or a community gardening utopian spirit (like in Portland where they're gardening together and sharing front-yards). The approach to sustainable gardening that people had was very different from city to city and town to town.
Why do you grow organically?
I didn't quite make a big deal about "organic" in the book because it was kind of a given. I'm an organic gardener myself and I don't have any temptations not to be. If I have a problem I just live with what nature brings and do what I can to avoid the problem in the future. Everyone I talked to and worked with was organic to my knowledge. I didn't put them to a test, but they were all certainly somewhere on the organic spectrum.
What was the biggest challenge you've faced as a gardener was the key to overcoming that challenge?
Right now my biggest challenges are deer and shade. The area where I live is full of beech and hemlock trees and heavily deer ridden. A fence would block the view, which is incredible, and I am currently gardening within a very restricted palette. Wherever I move next, I'd like to make it sunnier and with a fence or a wall garden. I've been gardening as an adult for 25 years and learned to grow in quite a few weirdly restrictive situations. The most interesting was on the rooftop in the west side of Manhattan. Everything had to be in a pot and I had trouble with wind. Of course, most people have restrictions with their gardens. But when you enjoy growing things, the challenges can be make it more interesting.
How have you seen people's relationship to their food and how it is grown change over the last decade?
Everybody is more interested in how their food is grown—where it comes from. Gardening is slightly behind on that local-sourcing movement. All the same issues that pertain to the new food movement are things we can consider with gardening. You can think about what kind of stone or gravel you're using and find something mined locally. Even if plants aren't native you can still think about where they're being shipped from.
I really think the younger people that are interested in the food thing are going to be very interested in the garden thing, and growing their own food will lead them into growing their own ornamentals, too. Edible gardening is the gateway drug to full-on gardening nut!
How do you define sustainability?
You know, you can't hold up any one example as the paragon of sustainability. I don't want people to turn their minds off to attractive sustainability. The aesthetics of something shouldn't cheapen the things for people. If you want to take a piece of the message, that is better than nothing. Hopefully over time, you'll get more and more into it. We're on the verge of a new generation of gardeners who are interested in both sustainability and beauty.
Are you inspired by any organic pioneers?
When I first started gardening I was inspired by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch—and I still am. They are seamlessly putting forward an organic and very beautiful garden. And I love anyone who celebrates the native flora—Lady Bird Johnson, Theodore Payne, Lester Rowntree. And, to be honest, the Rodale family. I have a number of the older books and I still use them, especially the herb book from the 60s and 70s.
What is your opinion on organic versus local?
I feel like all of these things are so complicated. It is not either or, but an equation that is very personal to people. It is so hard to say to somebody you only have to buy local or you have to buy organic (even if you have to ship it a long way).
I'm not really into telling people what to do. I'd rather ask people to be conscious of their actions. If you have a great organic nursery nearby you're blessed, but if you don't, do what you can. I think you also lose people to the cause when you make strict rules. If someone violates these rules then they fail. I wouldn't want to do that.
What tool couldn't you live without?
I have a little weeder that is kind of like a knife and I really like it a lot. It is good for digging in cracks and planting bulbs. It is made by Sneeboer, a family business. So, although it is imported from Holland, I feel good about supporting the work they're doing.
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8 comments:
- Kate said...
This sounds like a great book! And I love the photo that was posted...intriguing.
- May 13, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Robin Horton/Urban Gardens said...
Must read this book. Looking forward to your keynote this summer at GWA.
- May 27, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Lucindaville said...
Nice blurb in the New York Times!
- June 4, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Stephen Orr said...
Many thanks!
- June 8, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- Dara W said...
Hello! I met you at Terrain and told you that I mentioned your beautiful book in my blog. Here is the link to the blog-http://workingitamomsguide.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html Thank you so much for coming to Terrain.
Dara Westerman
- June 10, 2011 at 11:55 AM
- LoRFLoR said...
Excited about the book. I am new to your site, but added it my blogroll if you don't mind. I just joined the landscape design blogging community on line, so it's been fun to see what's out there. Looking forward to reading your posts regularly! Cheers!
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it doesnt look that bad. but im not american so i dont really care that much, but i still support the tilt.
Precisely. You're not from the country so you don't care.
I really think it's fair to put this one under Marvaddin's decision alone, since he is from Brazil and does care. I mean, I see everyone's points about public opinion and suchlike, but it is his map, and he did say that he wouldn't let the tilt go forward from round one. You all could whinge at RJ for misleading you in the polls instead of Marv for vetoing the tilt, if you want to whinge about something.
Hey Mj. We are not wingeing.. please don't say that .
People are in here because they care about what comes out of the foundry. It is crazy but i am already attached to RJ's map and am truly looking forward to playing on it... but at the moment it looks like i will not get to.
I think i care about beauty and ideas as much as anyone genuinely cares about the angle of pivot along the north south line of longitude!


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