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Spending in depth: the bagel budget
Published on - October 11th, 2012 (by Honey Smith)
This post is by new staff writer Honey Smith.
One of my goals in taking a hard look at my budget is not to do too much at once. I want to make sure my changes stick and avoid making repaying debt an obsession.
You can read about the first budget category I examined, life insurance, here. That one tiny change ended up being instrumental in my quest to pay off my credit card debt, which was very exciting.
Also in that post, I mentioned that some of the "extra" money I squeezed out of my monthly budget was the $40 adult allowance I give myself.
Some of the money gets spent on things like going to the used-book store or buying a new article of clothing from Goodwill. However, about half of this cash allowance is reliably spent on one of my weaknesses: food. Namely, bagels (not grocery store bagels, bagel-shop bagels).
Alternatives to bagel-shop bagels
Astute readers pointed out in the comments that there must surely be a less expensive way to indulge my bagel habit (which, actually, is more of a cream cheese habit — I am addicted to the jalapeno-flavored cream cheese at this particular chain). Indeed, this is the case:
- I could buy day-old bagels from the bagel shop
- I could buy grocery store brand bagels
- I could make my own bagels
I could buy the flavored cream cheese from the bagel shop by the tub
- I could make my own jalapeno-flavored cream cheese
I will probably actually try making my own bagels at some point, more because I am a hobby chef than anything else. Sadly, buying the flavored cream cheese by the tub at the bagel shop is not an option, since this is the ONLY FLAVOR they don't sell this way. Presumably this is the case because only lunatics from the Southwest eat jalapenos for breakfast. (Actually, if I could put jalapenos in everything, I probably would.)
However, I could probably halve my bagel costs using some or all of the strategies above. But as J.D. has pointed out many times, it's more about the mind than it is about the math. To get to the bottom of my bagel budget, I have to ask myself: why do I buy bagels from the bagel shop in the first place?
What bagels mean to me
Yes, fresh-made bagels and zesty cream cheese are delicious. But there are other reasons I frequent this shop. First, it gets me out of the office for a bit during the nicest part of the day. Second, it feels like a luxury to have something hot and fresh I did not make — for less than $3 a pop.
On the other hand, there are also reasons that I bring my breakfast to work most mornings. It is obviously less expensive to have instant oatmeal or some Greek yogurt. Additionally, those options are significantly healthier than the bagel. (Both the Greek yogurt I like and the instant oatmeal I use have about half as many calories as the bagel alone. Lord knows how many calories are in the cream cheese, since they know me by name at the shop and usually give me extra!)
In other words, it's not just my wallet that says "don't buy a bagel every day." My waistline agrees. And, as it turns out, that's EXACTLY the reason I want them to stay a somewhat-expensive indulgence. That, and I want to avoid frugality burnout.
If I spend half my monthly allowance on bagels, that's $5 per week. At slightly less than $3 per
slice of heaven bagel with cream cheese, I can enjoy toasted goodness 1.6 times per week. This means that sometimes I have only one bagel per week, and never more than two. If I decreased the cost of each bagel, what would probably happen?
I'd say to myself, "Oh, goodie! I can eat more bagels!"
Yes, the appropriate personal-finance-blogger thing to say is that I'd pocket that extra $10 per month and snowflake it into debt repayment. I know myself, however, and that's not what would happen. Instead, I am deliberately keeping my bagels expensive in order to erect a passive barrier to eating so many.
I hadn't explicitly thought of it this way prior to writing this post, but it's what I've been doing subconsciously all along. I'm creating a balance between how expensive bagels are, the value I get out of the experience of eating one, and what a poor nutritional choice they are.
To me, $20 a month balances the financial scales quite nicely — without tipping the literal scales too far in a direction I don't want to go.
Other indulgences
Once I did think of it this way, it occurred to me that there are probably other indulgences that I could take the same approach to. What about beer?
Currently, I have a beer most nights after I get home from work. Because I like craft microbrews, on average we are probably talking $7.99 plus tax per six pack. At one six pack a week, that's about $35 per month.
Under the current system, each beer costs about $1.33. However, I'm also drinking that beer alone at my house. Ironically, probably while watching The Bachelor or The Biggest Loser. I'm also consuming 24 of them per month. Hello, calories and antisocial lameness!
Now let's say I take that $35 per month out of the grocery budget and give it to myself as allowance, to be spent on happy hours with friends. A craft bottle or draft costs about $4 during happy hour, which becomes $5 or so when you include the tip. Now for the same amount of money, I am drinking seven beers per month.
Whoa. That's a 70 percent reduction in the number of beers consumed, plus in this scenario I am getting out of the house and being more social. Is it the most frugal choice? No. But it doesn't increase my costs either, and is healthier all the way around. I'll take it.
What about you?
What's your favorite small splurge? Pumpkin spice lattes (I don't drink coffee but hear they're out of this world)? Energy drinks? Movies at the theater? Are you always scouting the absolute best deal on every single purchase, or is there merit in the idea that by keeping something on the expensive side, it stays a rare treat? Call me a nosy pepper — jalapeno business!
Here is the ultimate guide to making bagels at home. I was able to follow this with decent amount success.
I agree with William, a small splurge won't hurt your budget (just your waistline). Mine is a breast of fried chicken. We used to go every week with my bf when we were living in Guatemala and that means that I didn't have to cook, we would take away and eat in the park, people-watch and chat for a while, and have a small helping of greasy comfort food instead of buying the whole chicken. $2 is a small price for all that!
Pollo Campero is awesome.
Wow, this comment had a bit of the Proustian Madeleine effect for me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_memory). It brings back such good memories from a service trip I took to Guatemala as a teenager. Now it seems like a lifetime ago when I was teenager. We had been living on black beans and tortillas for weeks. It was good but monotonous. One night for a treat we all went out to Pollo Campero's for dinner. I don't know if it was the change of pace or the quality of the chicken, but it was such a treat.
I do think there's merit to keeping something a special treat; however, I think if you're consuming something frequently – like the beer everyday- it's not a special treat.
As far as whether you should buy special treats & how to divvy up the extra expense and all that- it just all depends on whether the $$ you're allocating toward it is truly extra $$ you don't need in my opinion. If you can really afford to buy the treats & pay for all your bills, go for it. Because the problem with 'special treats' is that if you're indulging in them frequently enough, they add up over the course of months and years to hundreds if not thousands of dollars. I most often stick to oatmeal, cereal, & Miller Lite for that reason.
I'm a specialty-coffee gal. Your reasoning is pretty much exactly the same as mine – I allow myself one latte per week, for both budgetary and waistline reasons. At $3-4 a pop, they're not exactly a "good deal," but they're not breaking the bank either.
I definitely do the same with my splurges, especially the food ones. I'd just rather enjoy something spectacular and slightly more costly every now and again than have a constant, cheaper source at home that I don't enjoy as much.
Does the bagel shop have frequent buyer cards? Or can you haunt Living Social and Groupon for coupons? What about buying gift cards to the bagel shop from a site like Gift Card Granny- where you buy a GC for much cheaper than it's face value? You can also ask your husband for bagle shop GCs for Christmas and birthdays.
Sadly, the location I frequent doesn't accept gift cards. But I am doing ok within my own budget!
A very thoughtful post! It points out a new way of thinking about spending. I'm going to have to keep that in mind next time I'm tempted to buy a giant tub of ice cream.
Honey, you are way over-thinking your "indulgence" budget. If you are comfortable with the $40 per month, then keep it simple. One example is to use a simple envelope system. Buy whatever you want (beer, bagel, etc..) and when the 40 dollars runs out, then wait for next month. This system can work with categories like groceries, dining-out, etc.
My point is, if you over complicate these small things like bagel and beer, you will not be able to stick to a workable long term budget. You need to look at the big picture. Simplify the budget for small items and focus your time and energy on big ticket expenses, paying down debt and new income streams.
These are examples on where you need to spend your time and energy on.
I don't know about Honey, but it really helps me to pull out very specific things in the budget as much as possible. I separate out eating out, groceries, and work lunches because that makes it far easier to guess how much I will/should spend.
I think that if you're trying to control something specific, it's far better to make your budget specific for that thing.
I make automatic transfers of amounts I need to save and pay, though, my bills are really simple (rent, student loan, hulu/netflix, savings).
I know I get paid on the 10th and 25th of each month.
I monitor the amounts to make sure my auto-transfers will clear, but I do what I want with the rest.
Sometimes it we need garden supplies, or its film festival month, or we're hosting a b-day party or 4th of July. I have no credit card so I cannot live beyond my means (save for defaulting I guess).
If you made your own flavored cream cheese, you could make roasted garlic jalapeño.
[crap, this was supposed to post as a reply to the OP]
I like to indulge in a Starbucks iced coffee when I go to Barnes & Noble to sit in their cafe. Also a drugstore makeup item every month or two months when I wander in to fill a prescription. Enjoy those bagels~!
For health, waistline and diet reasons, I don't have many splurges (gluten intolerant and my doc has me off all grains), but the ones I do have I budget for. I must say the "budget" is more for the reasons listed above than how much money I spend because its impossible for me to spend a lot of money on certain indulges anyway.
Over the past few weeks I used my budget to purchase several Groupon, Living Social, Google Deals, Get My Perks and the Chinook Book 2013 coupons for places I know I'm going to use (most places I've been to before). The coupons are for coffee, wine tasting, a spirits/distillery festival, various restaurants, services, etc. All except for the Starbucks coupon are local business. Many of those will keep my occupied for a while and I purchased them with the goal to share with other people.
I am sure I have many small splurges but a big one is driving my car to work rather than taking public transit. I only do it a few times a month, usually when I am running late. It is such a luxury to get behind the wheel that it keeps me from feeling too irritated with all the traffic congestion on the way!!
I thought this was your best article yet! Even if I don't agree with your particular choices (bagels are great, but I don't drink beer!) I love the notion of using small splurges to keep yourself on track with the big things, but making sure the small splurges are worth it TO YOU.
I do something similar in limiting myself to lunch out no more than once a week – it's a break from packing my lunch that keeps me from getting bored and abandoning the practice entirely while still not doing too much damage to my wallet or waistline.
And when you want to make your own bagels, here's the recipe I've had success with:
I agree, but I think the next step is to look at, when is it a small indulgence vs. when should you really cut back. A coworker of mine used to go out for coffee once a week. But then she liked it so much she started going every few days. Then it was almost every day. One day she realized she was spending upwards of $20 a week on coffee. It's important to continuously examine the reason why you allow that indulgence, and have a gut check when it gets out of hand.
Wow, I really, really liked this article! I would like to see more articles about keeping things in balance like this.
My husband and I have been trying to sell our house in another state for over a year now, and we have finally decided to move back into the house, refinance and pay it down quickly. But we want to keep a balance in our lives and enjoy ourselves while we do this. In the past we have been very strict and aggressive about saving and neglected things that would have made life better (buying quality instead of cheap) and a little more fun. So how to keep the balance? We're still trying to figure this out.
I tend to have an addictive personality, so I have a lot of trouble only doing things every so often instead of all the time. My tendency is for every penny to go to paying down the mortgage, but I know that isn't a healthy balance. I also completely understand that a treat is not a treat if you do it every day, so I'm working on that too. There is so much more enjoyment if I only drink this beer (my favorite is New Belgium Fat Tire) once every two weeks instead of every night. I just have a hard time with the balance.
Please, more articles like this one! Great job, Honey!
Just for the record, you are totally not the only one. I have the addiction gene and although my vices are limited to diet coke, chocolate, and eating out, it is REALLY hard (o.k., nearly impossible) to rein them in. The 1st one isn't good for my health, the 2nd one isn't good for my weight, and the 3rd one does a number on my budget. But even with this awareness, balance is hard.
The up side, though, is that the stuff I'm not so interested in (e.g., shopping) is stuff I'm totally not into. I guess it's the silver lining to the addiction cloud.
BTW – jalapeno cream cheese – Honey, God bless you. If I liked it the way you do, I doubt I'd restrain myself to 1.6 X/week. No one would ever kiss me again.
I really can understand your justification for one of life's small and simple pleasures. Hey, you can't help what makes you happy! For me its going out with friends on Friday night- I don't think I'll ever give that one up, its just what I need after a week of work. I think cutting back to 1.6 bagels per week is reasonable. And if they know you by name at the bagel shop, they should be kind enough to sell you a tub of your favorite cream cheese!
Ours is taking our kids out for donuts on Saturday mornings. It's fun, they enjoy it but it can add up in more ways than one. I know that if we were to cut it down to just once a month we could still have fun, but not spend the extra money and not add to our waistline at the same time.
Food! We like to do a lot of home cooking. I just got $33.00 in bulk sized spices (oh thank god we have cumin again! And tonight the house will smell like chicken adobo). Right now we have some nice vanilla beans and mint extract with plans of making some ice cream (we've had a home made ice cream party before with 6+ ice creams and sorbets).
We all have our treats but you're so right, that the one way to keep them in the treat category is to only indulge once a week ish.
Great post! I love the idea of timing splurges to get the most bang for your buck. My personal rule is to only indulge if I absolutely LOVE something. This goes for clothing (one of my vices) and for food (my other vice). I try to eat super healthy all week, and then allow myself one splurge on the weekend. But when I splurge, I get exactly what I want. Same goes for shopping. I rarely buy new clothes, except when I see something I absolutely love (which probably happens 4 or 5 times a year). Then I don't mind spending extra on it. It seems to work for me!
This question is for the other readers as well.
How do you keep track and stick to your overall budget if you have to analyze every little detail your purchase?
If I had to analyze the cost savings of having to buy 1.6 portion of bagel or investigate the cost benefits of $1.33 per bottle of craft beef to achieve 70% reduction , I would be mentally exhausted by the time I reach to chicken.
I get it that it is ok to spend money on indulgence. From what I got out of this article, Honey is over-analyzing on the wrong topic. She should use her analytic skills on the bigger picture and just enjoy the bagels and beer.
For me, doing this kind of "analysis" can actually be kind of a fun challenge. If you are nerding out about paying down debt or saving more, there can be some reward just in discovering sneaky things that are busting your budget and then knocking them out. But that's me. If you find that kind of monetary investigation exhausting, then I guess you have to go with what works for you (maybe the envelope system or something, where you focus more on the total amount, not really on where the dollars are going?). As for Honey, she said the bagels account for about half of her "allowance" so I don't think it's overanalysis when you look at it from that perspective. I think it's great that she's looking at the little things she can do to achieve the big-picture goal of finding a balance between saving money and enjoying life. And if she's analyzing bagel and beer purchases this closely, that can only mean good things in terms of weighing bigger purchases more carefully.
I definitely need to indulge in a little bit here and there. I'm not talking about extravagant things but since we generally save 40-50% of our income every month and rarely buy things, I feel as though I *need* to buy something here or there before I go crazy from withholding. I like to buy things once in awhile otherwise the feeling on constant deprivation starts to wear on me.
Food is definitely my poison—and I definitely allocate money toward our "eating out" budget, which is separate from our grocery budget.
I understand your craving with bagels. I feel the same way when I see cakes, cupcakes, donuts, and muffins. They are very hard to resist! Even if I tell myself that we should stick on our budget, it is very difficult for me to say no to these pastries. As far as my waistline is concerned, I do not have any problem with it as weight gain is also difficult for me. LOL.


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On my recent trip to Paraguay, right after the coup d'etat, which removed President Fernando Lugo from power, I was able to interview people of all kinds of types in relation to what happened. One of the interviews that most interest was shown for abroad was that with Fernando Lugo himself.
The interview, which I have posted below, was published in slightly different versions in:
Klassekampen (Norwegian): http://klassekampen.no/60453/article/item/null/-fortsatt-folkets-leder
Junge Welt (German): http://www.jungewelt.de/2012/07-23/045.php
Upside Down World (English): http://upsidedownworld.org/main/paraguay-archives-44/3766-post-coup-paraguay-an-interview-with-fernando-lugo
Berdikari (Malay): http://www.berdikarionline.com/dunia-bergerak/20120719/pasca-kudeta-di-paraguay-wawancara-fernando-lugo.html
La Radio del Sur (Spanish, audio): http://mexicoahoraonunca.org/entrevista-fernando-lugo/


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Awards signal sconomic potential for construction sector
Scotland's off-site manufacturing sector could be worth £240m over the next five years, according to Edinburgh Napier University research. The figure was published last autumn as a new the Scottish Government launched its £10m to help deliver hundreds of eco-friendly homes and bring down heating bills.
The announcement of the Greener Homes Innovation Scheme followed the Government's 2013-14 budget which directed investment into construction, skills and the green economy. The scheme is specifically for affordable homes that employ modern, environmentally friendly methods of off-site construction.
Walls, floors, pipes, kitchen and roof are assembled in a factory then transported, as a unit, to the building site, ensuring a faster construction process, reduced waste and less disruption to the environment.
The research from Edinburgh Napier's Institute for Sustainable Construction also predicts that exports will grow from £5m to £50m, leading to the creation of over 500 jobs in the off-site manufacturing sector.
Examples of such companies include CCG, Stewart Milne, Scotframe, Mactaggart and Mickel, Lomond Homes, City Building, Oregon and Makar.
This expertise and research has led to Edinburgh Napier holding discussions with Russia and the USA about future off-site manufacturing trade opportunities for Scottish companies.
Speaking in Glasgow during a visit to off-site manufacturer, City Building, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Investment and Cities, Nicola Sturgeon said: "Scotland's housebuilding industry makes a sizeable contribution to Scotland's economic prosperity. Houses are key sources of carbon emissions so new technologies are essential to ensure we deliver energy efficient and low carbon affordable homes.
"The Greener Homes Innovation Scheme will encourage modern methods of construction thereby making more fuel efficient housing widely available, which will help to cut energy bills and tackle fuel poverty. The Edinburgh Napier University research points to a massive growth in the off-site manufacturing sector with export opportunities capable of securing 500 new jobs." Meanwhile, the following month Professor Gokay Deveci from Robert Gordon University's Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment received four national design awards for a successful knowledge transfer partnership agreement with a local construction company which resulted in the building of a sustainable model house in Aberdeenshire.
The Model-D Show House at Pitmachie, near Insch, built in partnership with local firm Sylvan Stuart Ltd, was officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond in 2011. Constructed almost entirely from Scottish timber, the house was created from a concept aimed at exploring affordable, low-carbon homes which could be easily constructed in rural communities.
The first of the Model-D's quadruple plaudits was awarded last July, when it was announced as one of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland's (RIAS) inaugural award winners, representing the very best of current Scottish architecture.
The Model-D was also the only recipient of a newly established RIAS award, sponsored by Wood for Good and the Forestry Commission Scotland, which seeks to stimulate greater appreciation of home-grown Scottish timber. The award was bestowed on the Model-D house as it best demonstrated the use of timber in construction out of all the shortlisted entries.
The Model-D was then announced as a recipient of the prestigious Saltire Society's 75th annual Housing Design Awards. Recognised in the 'Private Dwelling – New Build' category.
Professor Deveci, a member of the University's Institute for Innovation, Design & Sustainability Research: said "I'm absolutely delighted that we've been honoured on a local and national scale for our partnership project which offers a model for affordable housing stock in the countryside.
The alternative contemporary design of the Model-D house draws upon the architectural language of traditional agricultural buildings and incorporates energy efficient features.
"The design utilises its setting and natural daylight to radically reduce energy costs. Large windows in the south facade take advantage of solar gain and maximise views, and an external rain screen provides shading and privacy." The Model-D, which was also nominated for a Scottish Design Award in the Affordable Housing Category, received further recognition when it was 'Highly Commended' in the Sustainability Category of the Aberdeenshire Design Awards. And it was shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.


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Her grocer sells the not-perfect fruits and veggies at a big discount.
This post comes from Linsey Knerl at partner blog Wise Bread.
My grocer has a little-known secret: It sells damaged and past-date produce weekly. To find it, you have to go around the corner of the regular produce aisle, next to where the employees take their breaks, and right in front of where the forklifts go in and out. It's in a wire bin with no special markings or signage.
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We're consuming too much sodium, and it's contributing to hypertension, cardiovascular disease and higher health care costs.
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The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, said the FDA in fact has plans to do that. "The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products," the Post said.
Volcanoes do erupt, once again proving the need for an emergency fund. As they say, stuff happens.
Despite what one TV commercial suggests (ladies, you know the one), Mother Nature is not to be messed with, underestimated or denied. Her latest dustup -- eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull (click here for a pronunciation guide) -- has put a major crimp in many people's travel plans.
Oh, sure, it's a shame that some of Europe's royalty weren't able to attend the queen of Denmark's 70th birthday bash because flights were grounded. But for possibly millions of regular, everyday people like you and me, the shutdown of air traffic across Europe because of the massive ash cloud has caused a real hardship. (Update: Flight restrictions began loosening today.)
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The labor laws in the United States can be, at times, very confusing. Ever wonder why waiters at a restaurant can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour while the federal minimum wage is more than three times higher? How much is the minimum wage? Why is overtime pay 1.5 times regular pay for nonexempt employees but not required for exempt employees? What does exempt actually mean?
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The single most expensive part of any vacation is almost invariably the hotel, especially when your travel plans include Earth's truly expensive spots: places like San Francisco, London, New York, Tokyo or Paris.
Adding to the pain is the fact that while you're paying big, you're ending up in a comparatively tiny space with far fewer amenities than you have at home. But there's a simple solution to this expensive dilemma.
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In the weeks preceding Financial Literacy Month, the fourth annual Consumer Financial Literacy Survey asked people to grade themselves. Are they getting smarter about money?
"In 2009, 41% graded themselves as C, D or F, with only 34% falling into that category in 2010," says the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, which sponsored the survey.
The survey showed that people have gotten a bit more money-savvy in the last few years, but the results were a mixed bag. Considering that April is Financial Literacy Month, isn't now a good time to take stock of yourself? Ask yourself these questions:
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WBGO Gallery Exhibition
Hispanic Heritage - Group Show
On display July 1 - September 30, 2014
- 54 Park Place
- Newark, NJ 07102
Join us for a free gallery reception on Thursday, September 4, 2014 6PM - 8PM at the WBGO Art Gallery. View the exhibit, meet the artists and enjoy a live performance.
The WBGO Gallery is located at 54 Park Place in Newark, NJ. It's free and open to the public. WBGO is a wheelchair accessible facility.
This group show celebrates Hispanic Heritage, with works in various media, by the following artists:
Luis Alves
Media and Art exert powerful influences over all of us through continuous evolving processes of reflection and creation. They shape our hopes and fears, our notions of beauty and ugliness, our ideas about the primitive and the civilized, our conceptions of the honorable and the shameful. My work uses juxtaposed images to comment on the deep and delicate role the media plays in the shaping of our complex lives, identities, and consciousness. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material.
Carlos Mateu
Carlos Mateu was born in 1970 in Havana-Cuba, and has resided in the United States since 1997.
He calls his style geometric pop. His paintings fuse elements of cubism with realism, using straight lines and perspective to create a geometric and three-dimensional effect, while subtly deforming the images. Intense colors of acrylic are applied in layers like silkscreen, creating clean and precise divisions between tones, textured further with oil pastel. His subject matter incorporates surrealism and mysticism to reflect the Afro Cuban life and religions, memories of Cuba, his life in the United States and his own creative perspective on the world around him.
Fausto Sevilla
My works are meditations on narratives I have experienced. I revisit the stories to dig out details and I use the range of media to tease out different parts of the memory. I do this with an understanding that memory is flawed and constantly changing like improvisation. Each new interpretation is new stained glass widow in my constructions.
Mansa K. Mussa
Hispanic Heritage Exhibit curator Mansa K. Mussa is the quintessential Newark artist. He has spent his life in the great metropolis as an artist, photographer, dancer, and designer. Mussa's focus in the act of creating and curating art is to use it to challenge and uplift the human spirit and to search for the common threads that bind us as human beings. Creating and sharing art requires a certain courage that exposes the artist to appreciation, reverence, or criticism. He continues his life-long work as a photographer, collagist, mixed media artist, arts organizer and arts educator.
Jonathan French
I have been a photographer for forty years, and most of what I know about photography has been self-taught. I consider myself a visual historian and a preserver of history, especially when it relates to people of the African Diaspora. The works I present are of my travels through Latin America and various communities within.
Gina Rivas Velazquez
I Gina Rivas-Velazquez am the artist behind the art; having had a passion for art ever since a child always wanting to be an artist; designing dance flyers, t-shirts, murals and various other art projects around the Bay area. I started out taking art classes in the summers at the California College of Art in Oakland as a teen which fed my enthusiasm and drive for all aspects of art and design. I earned my BFA degree in Fashion Illustration from the fabulous Academy of Art University in San Francisco...which ultimately gave me the tools, confidence and courage to head to New York City! I describe my unique style as a definite reflection of my diverse cultural background which consists of my mom's family's "New Orleans" creole culture and my other half; Mexican American...and my husband, Puerto Rican which further enhances my eclectic and colorful mix. I celebrate my culture everyday through my art and design and often with a party!
The WBGO Gallery is located at 54 Park Place in Newark, NJ. The WBGO Gallery is free and open to the public. WBGO is a wheelchair accessible facility.
You can also visit the gallery during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 9AM to 5PM.


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Oberoi Hotels & Resorts > The Oberoi, Lombok > Special offers > Exotic Honeymoon
Exotic Honeymoon - The Oberoi, Lombok
The island of Lombok presents a picture of serenity with its white sand beaches, shimmering turquoise waters and dense green forests. Located on pristine Medana Beach, The Oberoi, Lombok is a cluster of villas and pavilions set amidst lush tropical gardens. We offer unique opportunities to savour splendid surroundings, luxurious interiors and personalised service with ambience and style, certain to create a memories to last a lifetime.
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- One candlelit dinner with a bottle of wine on the beach.
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- Free use of gymnasium, tennis court, mountain bikes, golf putting green and 24 hour business center.
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STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - Portage County is searching for a new Emergency Government Director. Sandra Curtis retired from that position Friday after 25 years.
County Executive Patti Dreier has appointed Curtis' assistant Corinna Neeb as the Interim Director while the county seeks qualified candidates. Neeb is also one of the people seeking the post permanently, but that decision will be up to the county after the Human Resources Department screens all qualified candidates.
Dreier is confident Portage County will get qualified candidates, even though there's a shortage of them in the state right now.
The deadline for new applicants is this week. Dreier's goal is to have a new appointment ready for County Board confirmation in January.
NOTE: County Executive Patti Dreier's entire interview updating residents on several county issues is attached to this story. Click the application above to hear it.


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The grace of silence
Norris, Michele
Adult Nonfiction PN4874.N64 A3 2010
Norris, Michele
Adult Nonfiction PN4874.N64 A3 2010
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Michele Norris looks at her own life and her parents' lives as a means to understanding how their experiences colored her own growing up and view of the world. Their groundbreaking move to south Minneapolis is just one thing that will make this interesting to local readers. For anyone who wants to look at their own history through a different lens, Michele gives us tools to emulate. I read this in one day, yesterday, the day we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King. I'm glad this was on my Christmas list and proved to be as wonderful as I thought it would be.
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One Minneapolis, One Read - Fall 2011- The City of Minneapolis is participating in a city-wide reading initiative called, One Minneapolis, One Read. This idea was inspired by a group of residents in south Minneapolis called Building Bridges. The book that people will be reading is called "The Grace of Silence" by Minneapolis native and National Public Radio host Michele Norris. This memoir describes the experience of the Norris' as the first Black family on their block in a south Minneapolis neighborhood. Norris also details her discovery of race-based family secrets… · An NPR story about the book can be listened to here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129933195 · An excerpt from the book can be previewed here: http://erb.kingdomnow.org/excerpt-the-grace-of-silence-by-michele-norris-vol-4-3-5/ City-wide events will be taking place through the fall to discuss the book. More information can be found here: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ncr/oneminneapolisoneread.asp Such readings could strengthen our communities and promote solidarity throughout Minneapolis. Please feel free to share this information with your partners and colleagues
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Cortez Shaw sings Someone Like You at American Idol audition (Video)
Sometimes in life, if all else fails, you've got to pucker up and kiss a little ass. Ask Cortez Shaw. He knows.
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When Cortez went to audition for American Idol in Galveston, he chose to sing Adele's Someone Like You. Which literally everyone must sing badly, because Jennifer Lopez was moaning that she rarely heard a version that sounded like the record. Anyhow, Cortez started off badly. The vocals weren't impressive enough and viewers and judges alike were starting to get bored.
Somewhere around the chorus, 20 year old warehouse worker Cortez really raised his game, tackled the high notes with sophistication and ended the song strong. But by this stage, Randy Jackson was flapping his arms around trying to end the audition. But when Randy asks him what else he can sing, Cortez does a little booty smooching – "Aw, come on Randy, you're my favourite judge, man!"
Randy, of course, should know better. But he's clearly flattered that someone remembers who he is, since all eyes at this point are on Steven Tyler. And so, Cortez manages to charm his way past Randy and not have to sing another song! Jennifer Lopez jumps in with her commentary:
You're good looking. You're sweet. You have a great voice.
Randy mostly echoes J.Lo's sentiments:
I think that you're a good looking guy. You have a really good voice…um…yes.
Speaking afterward, Steven Tyler said that he thought Cortez was middle of the road until the chorus. And after receiving three yeses from the judges, Cortez was last seen leaping around with a piece of yellow paper. Destined for Hollywood, baby!
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Querétaro is a city of approximately 1.5 million about 125 miles north of Mexico City and 220 miles east of Guadalajara. One of the most well-known and beautiful colonial cities, UNESCO has named it a World Cultural Heritage Site. It is located near the ancient capitals of the Aztecs and the Toltecs and is growing as an important business and industrial center.
IP students attend the Querétaro campus of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), better known as Tec. The Tec has grown into a major university system with 32 campuses throughout Mexico. The campus at Querétaro was founded in 1975 and currently enrolls about 5,000 students in 19 different majors. CSU students may pursue coursework in most of these areas, subject to their language ability, or concentrate on Spanish language learning.


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The Hennepin County Library Board met Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at the Ridgedale Library.
John Gibbs, President called the Hennepin County Library Board Meeting of January 24, 2007 to order at 5 p.m. and welcomed all attendees.
Agenda was unanimously approved.
Holly Guncheon suggested a revision to the minutes of November 29, 2006. P. Izek moved approval of the revised minutes, seconded by Therese VanBlarcom and they were approved unanimously (6 yeas, 1 absent).
No public comment.
Amy Ryan introduced two Hennepin County Library staff members. Char Sohlberg, Administrative Assistant, Director's Office and Mary Kramer, Capital Projects Coordinator, Center for Innovation and Design.
Patricia Izek: Attended two Friends of the Library meetings: Hopkins and St. Anthony. Both groups are active and extended a warm welcome to the Library Board.
Holly Guncheon: Attended a Raptor Center program at the Rockford Road Library. It was a wonderful collaboration; children and adults in attendance were enthralled. Ms. Guncheon also heard from a delighted customer who recently used her Museum Pass.
Cynthia Steinke: Used a Museum Pass at the Museum of Russian Art. It was a wonderful place and staff at the museum was very positive about the Museum Pass program in conjunction with libraries. Ms. Steinke also complimented and thanked Judy Hohmann and the staff in Partnerships & Communications for the At Home Reader which she regularly uses with her book groups.
David Pratt: Attended the Michael Stephens presentation, The Hyperlinked Library Social Tools and Trends which focused on the future of libraries. It was fascinating to learn about a new generation of library users in this technology-driven age. Mr. Pratt was pleased to see that the library is aware of these changes and is keeping up with them. Amy Ryan suggested an update on the 21st Century Library from staff from the Center for Innovation and Design as the program report at the February 28, 2007 Library Board meeting which was affirmed by Library Board members.
John Gibbs: While on vacation in La Quinta, California in Riverside County, he visited the library and was asked by staff where he was from. When he responded, the staff member asked if he was familiar with the library here. When he replied he was, there was instant, genuine recognition of Hennepin County Library's accomplishments. Mr. Gibbs publicly congratulated Amy Ryan and the staff for doing an outstanding job.
Library Board Recognition
Dana Bjerke, Youth Services Librarian at the Ridgedale Area Library won a New York Times Librarian Award for 2006. The award "recognizes those librarians in public libraries whose exemplary performance and outstanding community service have made their libraries friendlier and more accessible institutions," according to the NY Times. This year 1,300 librarians were nominated and 21 from around the U.S. won the award. Amy Ryan read an excerpt from the nomination essay written by Shalene Gupta, teen volunteer. Ms. Bjerke received a Recognition of Excellence Certificate from Mr. Gibbs, Library Board President, and congratulations from all in attendance for her outstanding and inspiring work.
Museum Adventure Pass Program
David Pratt asked about sponsorship through Macy's and MELSA. The museums do not get paid for admissions by the sponsors. They are donating the admissions and benefit from the collaboration and increased recognition.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT - Amy Ryan
Committee on the Future of Libraries in Hennepin County
Amy Ryan recognized the many contributions made to the committee by Judith Friedrich. Attendees were reminded there is a link on the homepage that carries all of the documents from the meetings. There are also notebooks available to view at the Ridgedale Information Desk and at the Central Library Information Desk at Minneapolis Public Library. Ms. Ryan summarized the two meetings that have been held. Handouts prepared for the third of three scheduled meetings were distributed. She also summarized revisions to the principles the options will be measured against, a variety of funding options prepared for discussion purposes, and other issues yet to be determined. Questions and further discussion on governance, advantages, disadvantages and financial feasibility from Library Board members followed Ms. Ryan's presentation. Library Board members were reminded the meetings are open to the public and all were invited to attend the next Committee on the Future of Libraries in Hennepin County (scheduled Jan. 25, 2007 at 11:45 a.m., A-2400 Hennepin County Board Meeting Room).
NEW BUSINESS - Janet Leick
Positive Environments 2007 Action Plan (draft distributed). Ms. Leick provided background on the need to accommodate all library users, recognizing a significant influx of middle and high school students every weekday afternoon in Hennepin County Libraries. The Library's goal is to ensure a positive environment for all users and staff.
In October 2006, staff from six libraries (Augsburg Park, Brooklyn Park, Hopkins, Oxboro, Rockford Road, and St. Louis Park) met to share success stories and identify needs based on their experience with this issue. The outcomes of this meeting resulted in the first items in the action plan:
Report from Bylaw Review Subcommittee - Patricia Izek and Therese VanBlarcom
Postponed until the February 2007 Library Board Meeting.
Capital Projects Update - Janet Leick
The Plymouth and Maple Grove plans are in the schematic design phase with the architects. Decisions are being made about how the buildings are oriented on the site, storm water management, parking lots, traffic flow, book drops and drive-up reserve pick-up windows.
Therese Van Blarcom moved to accept gifts, seconded by Holly Guncheon, approved unanimously by the Board (six yeas, J. Lunde absent).


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This week's Student Spotlight is with Carlie Zervan, a junior in the PR program.
Where are you from?
I'm from Chesaning, MI.
Why did you choose PR as a career path?
I started off in Music Industry Management and transferred into PR because I like to plan events and I'm a creative person. I think I can be happier and more successful in a career in public relations.
What internships or experience have you had so far?
I haven't had any internships yet, but I have some experience in event planning from my RSOs. I'm currently looking for internships though!
What do you want to do with your career?
I would like to work in the music industry. My dream job would be to own a venue!
Other than Ferris State PR, are you involved in any other activities?
In PRSSA, I am a part of Client Relations. I am also in Alpha Xi Delta where I am the programs vice president. I am also in the Student Fashion Alliance where I am an events coordinator.


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Get ready to laugh your socks off 'cause Bill Jones is about to get roasted! Join in the fun and raise some money for the St. Nicholas Family Clinic on Saturday, September 13. You'll love all of the stories Bill's friends have to "tell on" him and you're guaranteed to have a great time.
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Those 7 a.m. commutes will be getting darker before they get lighter. Daylight Saving Time ends officially at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4.
Remember, you'll "fall back" and set your clocks back by one hour. Many electronic devices automatically adjust when Daylight Saving Time begins or ends.
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Arab women have their turn at UK's Swivel Theatre
Under the banner of 'Arab Women in the Arab Spring,' the UK's Swivel Theatre Company is calling on talented scriptwriters to submit one-act plays on Arab women and their roles in recent Arab revolutions and popular uprisings. The selected play will be performed by the company in June.
The deadline for submissions is 4 March. There are no entry fees.
The selected play will be promoted, along with the writer's name, on the company's website. It will then be performed in a four-week run this summer at London's White Bear Theatre.
The exact date for the play's debut will be announced following the selection next month.
According to company guidelines, entrants are free to write – in a 30-page manuscript – comedy, drama, satire or gritty realism tackling the role of women in the 'Arab Spring'. The company will help entrants with research and guidance until scripts are ready for submission.
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More than 200 mobile apps for diagnosing skin rashes and moles are now on the market, and US researchers Wednesday urged caution in relying on them over a doctor's advice.
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During Barra's appearance in front of a House subcommittee Tuesday, Barra said the company is waiting for the results of an internal investigation on why the repairs, which could have cost as little as 57-cents for each switch, were delayed for years. Barra added that before the automaker's bankruptcy reorganization the company had more of a cost culture then a focus on consumers, but now, GM is "determined to set a new standard" of safety.


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If you're seeking top quality lodging without the premium price, Crestview is for you. Each brand new condominium is beautifully decorated with slate and tile flooring, marble countertops, and fine mountain furnishings. Four hot tubs provide steamy comfort after a day on the slopes, and the swimming pool, private underground parking, clubhouse, fitness area, and free shuttle service (seasonal) add to the abundance of comforts. The popular Tanger Outlet Center is located within walking distance and all of Park City's ski resorts and favorite attractions are only minutes away.
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