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- Saturday, July 18, 2015: (Sacramento) The 2nd annual Sacramento Solar Cooking Festival will be held once again in William Land Park from 10am - 3pm. The event is free and open to the public. Solar chefs interested in cooking at the festival are required to pre-register, which will begin in May, 2015. Attend mini solar-cooking classes, learn how solar cooking helps families around the world, and learn how to make a solar cooker yourself. Video of the 2014 festival can be seen at: Sacramento Solar Cooking Festival 2014
- March 28-29, 2015: (New Haven) - The twelfth annual Global Health & Innovation Conference will be held at Yale University. The conference convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. With attendance from members of many fields of interest, this may be a good opportunity to network solar cooking technology. Unfortunately, by the time we received invitation information, the deadline had passed for abstract submittals. More information...
- Solar Cooker at Cantina West will arrange solar cooking classes and demonstrations throughout Utah and southern Nevada for interested groups. Shade and seating will be provided for the class. More information...
- April 2015: (Dodgeville) An exhibition of Solar Energy Architectonics by Joel Goodman is scheduled at the Iowa County Courthouse (both floor levels), in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, USA for the month of April. Drawings and model photographs will be presented including: the BIETR (building interior evacuated tubes and reflectors) project, building integrated nonimaging reflector troughs (interior and exterior), thru-wall solar cookers, heliostats (2-axis tracking and 1-axis tracking linear Fresnel systems), spherical reflector segment bowls, and thermal storage.
News and recent developmentsEdit
- January 2015: Irene Perbal has explained how she used her experience promoting solar cooking in Sudan and Brazil to help out back in her home state of California, USA. She has been encouraging the use of solar cooking at local food banks. She began doing talks and seminars to train locals on how to build and use the cookers, including the underserved frequenting the food banks. Often her presentation includes sharing a lunch of solar cooked lasagne. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally - Huffington Post
- December 2014: In an article for National Geographic, Chef José Andrés writes about his pop-up restaurant, Sunny Day, which he opened at the Life is Beatufiul event in Las Vegas, NV. Sunny Day used solar cookers to cook their signature dish, vegetarian tacos, during the day and clean-burining ethanol in the evening. Read article...
- November 2014: As part of the "What I'm Thankful For" series, José Andrés explains that he is thankful that his family has a simple and safe method to cook their food, and how solar cooking and other fuel-efficient cooking methods are bringing this benefit to the world's poor, for whom access to traditional cooking fuels is becoming more difficult and expensive every year. Read more...
- October 2014: At the Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, NV, José Andrés debuted Sunny Day, his new solar-powered pop-up restaurant. His goal for the new pop-up restaurant is to educate Americans about clean cooking around the world. Interview with José Andrés
- September 2014: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, USA, Solar Cooker Research
- September 2014: Hawaii company awards solar energy grants - Hawaii Pacific Solar (HPS), a Maui-based solar PV design and installation company, has awarded two education grants totaling $2,718 for solar energy-related projects at Hokulani Elementary School and King William C. Lunalilo Elementary School, both Kaimuki Complex schools. A $500 grant was awarded to Aiea Elementary School to build a solar oven out of recycled products using renewable energy. Read more...
- September 2014: Raquel Redshirt presented her solar cooker design at the TEDxABQ 2014 conference in Albuquerque, NM on September, 6 2014. She stated that her solar cooker was a more health-conscious option in her community which has a high rate of diabetes. Read more...
- September 2014: Leonel Gotlibowski and The Sun Juicer completed a successful Kickstarter campaign! They set a goal of $15,000 and raised a total of $19,152. They describe the Sun Juicer as an emergency ultralight, compact, parabolic solar cooker. Read more...
- August 2014: A group of volunteers known as the Haiti Solar Oven Partners from First United Methodist Church of Jamestown, North Dakota recently traveled to Moffit, N.D., to help fabricate solar ovens to be used in Haiti. Teams of volunteers travel to Haiti each year to live in communities that have invited them. For ten days, these volunteers work with Haitians to build ovens and educate people about solar cooking. Their goal is to deliver 2,300 solar ovens plus hands-on training to Haitian families every year. Read more...
- July 2014: Solar cooking conference extols virtues of cookers to developing world (Sacramento Bee) - Hundreds of people Saturday cooked using only the power of the sun – a practice little used in the United States, but considered a liberating tool for women in developing countries that also helps curb greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...
- July 2014: Results of the US Solar Cooking Survey were presented by Natalia Blackburn at the American Solar Energy Society's SOLAR 2014 conference in San Francisco. During the afternoon of the paper's presentation, solar cooker volunteers, Judy, Rene, and two local elementary school students, brought in panel cookers, a box cooker, and an evacuated tube cooker for display. They talked about their solar cooking projects and answered questions. Judy had baked up scones in the San Francisco morning sun, so that the mostly photo-voltaic oriented crowd could taste what solar cooking was all about.
- April 2014: Three cheers for the Girl Scouts - Girl Scouts in Texas can now earn a solar energy patch
- November 2013: The Gates Foundation recognizes solar cooking - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $100,000 to the University of California Irvine, USA, for its development of a solar stove that allows people to cook without carbon emissions. The grant to the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI is one of more than 80 awards the foundation announced Wednesday, according to a news release. The awards are being given to institutions that foster forward-thinking solutions to persistent global issues. The stored-energy solar stove, which permits carbon-free cooking indoors and at night using phase-changing nitrate salts for heat storage, was designed by a group of senior mechanical engineering students at UCI. Read more...
- September 2013: Haiti Solar Oven Partners will be traveling North Dakota, USA with its Haitian leaders, Montas Joseph and Raymonde Joseph, to spread the word about solar-powered ovens utilized in the poverty-stricken nation of Haiti, and to bolster potential volunteers for the cause. Montas Joseph, Haitian director of HSOP, and Raymonde Joseph, HSOP training director, will visit 29 United Methodist churches in North Dakota and South Dakota throughout September. Read more about the project.
- April 2013: Solar cooking advocate, Pat McArdle, and John Linquist of One Earth Designs, demonstrated the companies' SolSource S1 parabolic cooker at the National Sustainable Design Expo., held each year in April on the Washington D.C. mall. John had the opportunity to demonstrate the cooker to Jacob Moss, senior State Department coordinator for the Clean Cookstove Initiative. EPA officials who were running the expo. told us the the SolSource is their greatest success story. Students from the Navajo Technical College displayed a remarkable wooden solar box cooker they designed that is held together with Velcro, and can be folded flat in thirty seconds.
- February 2013: SCI seeks an experienced solar cook to help with Hurricane Sandy relief - Solar Cookers International is looking for a teacher in New York or New Jersey, USA, whose students and families were affected by Hurricane Sandy to lead a solar cooking workshop. SCI will provide basic resources and materials for a classroom of students to learn how to solar cook to help their families' recovery efforts this spring and summer. For more information, please contact Julie Greene, Executive Director, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (916) 455-4499.
- February 2013: Small midwestern solar cooking organization affects change locally and globally - Benjamin Brown, of EarthApprentice, Solar Cooking in Michigan (SCM), continues to raise awareness of solar cooking potential in the north country by speaking on and demonstrating solar cooker technology. This year's presentation focused on the Jim LaJoie's All Season Solar Cooker. SCM also encourages donations to Solar Cookers International. The Willard G. Pierce and Jessie M. Pierce Foundation, the charitable arm of PCCEI, graciously responded to SCM's program by providing a grant to Solar Cookers International. SCM also sent a Villager Sun Oven to Haiti in conjunction with a Kiwanis Aid Program and First Congregational Church of Charlotte, Michigan. Besides an advocate for solar cooking globally, Benjamin and his family frequently use their solar cookers at their home in Michigan, including a successful challenge to prepare every meal with solar cooking for the month of April last year. Read more at EarthApprentice update 2012
- February 2013: Students learn the scientific method through solar cooker experimentation - Solar cookers lend themselves exceptionally well to experimentation using the scientific method, and that is why Dr. Suzanne Kercher's Environmental Science class at Columbia College in Missouri, USA, spends two months building solar cookers and testing solar cooker designs and cooking methods. Students present their final projects and experimental results at an Environmental Science Fair, an event that is open to all college faculty, students, and guests. While some students focus on comparing the performance of different types of solar cookers, others use a single type of cooker and focus on improving its cooking performance with variations in design and/or variations in the type of cookware used. Regardless of their experimental approach, their ultimate goal is to use the scientific method to construct a cooker that can safely cook food and/or pasteurize water in Missouri, USA in October. Since most college students are strapped for cash, the challenge quickly becomes, how do you build a functional cooker with materials that are readily available, repurposed, and/ or inexpensive to buy? She always point out to students that this aspect of the solar cooker project closely parallels the economic challenges facing a lot of people in the developing world. As an instructor, one of her greatest joys is witnessing the creativity of my students being applied to the practical challenge of cooking sustainably. Above all, that "lightbulb moment" when students first realize that renewable energy technologies are within their grasp, is even sweeter than the treats baked at our end-of-term solar cook- off!
- January 2013: Survey participants are being recruited to document solar cooking use in the USA - Natalia Blackburn of Blackburn Engineering is conducting a survey to begin to determine how solar cooking usage may be able to reduce traditional consumer energy demand in the USA. While individual savings may be small, when the big picture is considered, Natalia believes that wide use of solar cookers can add up to substantial savings for utilities. The objective of this study is to develop a set of protocols to measure energy savings and dollar savings attributable to the use of solar cookers in U.S. residential households. The survey will be conducted with a fifteen-minute phone interview, or the group of twenty-five questions can be answered by email. Respondents will be contacted via email to set up an interview. If you are a resident of the USA and have been solar cooking for at least eighteen months, consider participating in this pioneering effort by emailing email@example.com. Natalia hopes to complete data collection by the end of March, 2013. Survey information...
- October 2012: - Students, parents, faculty, staff and friends gathered at Miami Country Day School located in Miami, Florida, USA on Friday, April 20, 2012 and set the Guinness Book of World Records™ for "The Most Cookies Baked in One Hour Using Solar Ovens". Trays of unbaked cookies were placed in 40 smaller solar ovens, as well as, two Villager solar ovens. After the cookies were baked and 1225 counted....a World Record was set! The event raised over $18,000 USD, which was used to send the 40 solar ovens and a Villager oven to Haiti. The cookies baked in the event were donated to Feeding South Florida. The event was lead by Matthew Cohen, a high school junior who has been actively involved in the solar oven movement for the past nine years. Cohen launched the website Power from the Sun to educate people worldwide on the benefits of solar cooking and help raise money to send solar ovens to needy families in Haiti. Cohen's latest project is aptly named "The Life Of The Traveling Solar Oven" and encourages students, parents, teachers, and local businesses to sponsor a solar oven. Participants are asked to use the solar oven, document their experience with video or photos and share it on their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/PowerFromTheSun. The event will conclude on Earth Day 2013. Sign up for the Traveling Solar Oven.
- April 2012: Solar Household Energy has announced that it is seeking unpaid interns to assist with communications and program activities at their Washington D.C. office for Summer and Fall 2012. Both upper- level undergraduates and graduate students are eligible for this internship. Specific tasks will be assigned according to skill level and individual expertise. More Information...
- December 2011: Grants benefit Florida schoolchildren - A US$3,000 grant from NextEra Energy Foundation for the 2011 Florida Power & Light Teacher Grant will be used to support a solar energy program impacting 1,200 students from 14 schools. The program will include hands-on experience related to solar cooking, cars and the importance of solar energy. - The Daytona Beach News Journal
- October 2011: Shash Broxson explains about the program, Saving the Planet, in the Saving the Planet Overview, which has involved empowering low-income residents of south Florida, USA with the use of a Sport Solar Oven in exchange for community service. Shash provided training and coordinated the fund raising with the Family Resource Center in Hernando, Fl. Read more about the program, and donation information at: Saving the Planet Report
- July 2011: Solar cooking expo at northern Virginia mosque - Solar cooking in Islamic countries is on the rise, but its wide-spread acceptance as a significant way to reduce the damage caused by smoky cooking fires will need greater support from the international development community. Solar Cookers International (SCI) board member Patricia McArdle and Afzal Syed of the Dar al Noor Mosque congregation contributed to this goal by hosting a well-attended solar cooking demonstration at Syed's mosque in Manassas, Virginia on Saturday July 9. Solar Household Energy (SHE) co-founder Louise Meyer and two SHE volunteers from Washington DC also participated in this event. A popular DC radio show interview with McArdle about her novel Farishta two days before the event, drew large crowds from around the northern Virginia/DC metro region. Watch a video of the event...
- March 2011: Former New York City photographer lives off-grid in Texas desert with his solar cooker - A New York Times article reports on John Wells, living a solitary existence in the west Texas, USA desert. If you stop by, he may offer you dinner: a plate of red beans, rice and broccoli, and a tangy slice of homemade cheese, olive and beer bread, cooked all afternoon in his solar oven. His structures are primarily recycled shipping containers, and he has made several clever adaptations of household appliances, including a pedal-powered clothes washer. Using his solar cooker, made from a recycled satellite dish, is central to his daily activities. New York Times article with photos of his cooker.
- February 2011: A team led by Utah inventor Scot Frank, has landed a spot in an entrepreneurial boot camp hosted by a group called the Unreasonable Institute. With the help of sixty world-class investors and entrepreneurs at this summer's institute in Boulder, Colorado, Frank hopes to bring the SolSource 3-in-1 stove to a mass market. Frank's group has developed the solar stove that can be used for cooking, heating and electricity. Durable, lightweight, portable, affordable and easy to repair, the stove is made primarily of yak-wool canvas and mylar plastic. Worldwide, pollution from combustion stoves used indoors sickens and kills more than 1 million every year. Many victims are children. More Information...
- November 2010: Rowena Gerber, who heads the Education and Youth group of the Solar Cookers International Association, and teaches at the Abess Center for Environmental Studies in Miami, Florida, USA, recently received the Global Educator Award from the 6th Annual MY HERO Film Festival to recognize the incredible impact of her Solar Oven Project. Over the years, Gerber and her students have raised thousands of dollars to send solar cookers to Senegal, Haiti and Afghanistan. Gerber chose sites that were "sun rich, but so poor otherwise." These solar ovens harness sunlight to make a tremendous difference in the lives of families. In the process, the Solar Oven Project also teaches children about the importance of protecting and preserving their environment. More Information...
- November 2010: Solar cooking Kaua'i style. An anonymous blogger in Hawaii recently posted about a trip to the beach. "I took three types οf solar panel cookers tο thе beach іn order tο mаkе lunch аnd dinner аt thе same time. On thе left іѕ thе CooKit wіth аn oval graniteware pan wіth hamburgers. In thе middle іѕ a Funnel Cooker wіth corndogs аnd chicken nuggets. On thе rіght іѕ mу nеw CooKit (thanks tο Nathan), whісh I hаd filled wіth chicken аnd veggies fοr dinner. Gο swim fοr a couple οf hours, hаνе a nice hot lunch аnd return home wіth dinner. Solar cooking Kaua'i style."
- November 2010: At 15, Noah Kwicklis has invented a solar water desalinator that recently won an innovation award from the nonprofit Climate Change Leadership Institute, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. CCLI is an all-volunteer group devoted to raising funds and designing action projects to help the environment. It was noted that, "Your project brilliantly demonstrates an integrated solution to two of the most vital needs of our society — access to drinking water and clean energy deployment,". Kwicklis said he was surprised by the award. He plans on donating the money to Solar Cookers International, which provides inexpensive solar ovens to villages in developing nations. More Information...
- November 2010: UA's High School Engineering Program Wins Education Award. The Arizona Department of Education has awarded a 2010 Spotlight on Success award to the UA College of Engineering's pioneering program to teach Engineering 102 in high schools. Students in participating schools who take the class earn credit hours toward an engineering degree at UA. Once engineering students get to the UA College of Engineering, one of the many fun projects that freshman engineers participate in during the ENGR 102 class is solar oven design. This year, more than 80 teams assembled Nov. 5 on the UA Mall for the first ever Solar Oven Throw Down.
- July 2010: The Ahmedabad-based Self Employed Women's Association has joined forces with the Sierra Club to provide new green jobs and technology for SEWA's 1.5 million members in India. Ninety-three percent of India's workforce remains in the informal sector, said Nanavaty, executive director of SEWA. "The Indian economy is growing tremendously, but how do the rural poor also avail of these opportunities?" Sailesh Rao, president and founder of the San Jose, Calif.-based Climate Healers, said his non-profit organization had come up with two solar cook stoves, one that could slow-cook a meal like rice and daal throughout the day, and another that could prepare rotis almost instantly. Women using the solar stoves could also generate an income by selling their carbon credits, Rao told India-West after the talk, envisioning a plan where the credits could be sold for $11 per metric ton, netting rural women about $4.
- May 2010: Nineteen Brigham Young University student engineers traveled to Peru's fabled high mountain Lake Titicaca to deliver a special solar oven as part of their course on sustainable engineering projects that help improve local people's standard of living. The students worked with the people of the Uros islands. The islands are constructed from floating beds of reeds and soil about nine feet thick, anchored to the lakebed with boulders. Power is difficult to come by, so the Uros cook fish, fowl and homegrown potatoes with expensive propane stoves or time-consuming, reed-fed fires. Local residents were intrigued by the new approach to cooking. More Information...
- May 2010 For Google, Earth Day 2010 celebration was about solar cooking demonstrations, classes on composting and local food sourcing, distribution of reusable shopping bags and discussions on healthy cooking and eating. It also included hosting a speaker from "The Nature Conservancy" and giving tours of Google's on-site 1.6MW solar panel installation and the 400kW Bloom Energy fuel cells. More Information...
- May 2010 Florida students have creative ideas for solving some of the world's greatest energy challenges, and their solutions were demonstrated Saturday at the eighth-annual EnergyWhiz Olympics. More than 500 students throughout Florida converged May 1 at the University of Central Florida's Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) in Cocoa to compete in the day-long competition that showcased student projects in alternative fuel technologies. Events included the Bright House Solar Energy Cookoff, a solar cooker design and cooking contest.
- April 2010: Patricia McArdle met a group of Navajo high school students who have used designs they found on the internet to make several solar cookers including the Cookit, box cookers and a Fresnel lens solar fryer for making traditional Navajo fry bread. Their Fresnel cooker won second prize two weeks ago at the nationwide Spirit of Innovation contest--beating out some elite science high schools. They and their science teacher, Paul McCarl, working with very limited resources, are now trying to make a large fresnel solar cooker that can be used by Navajo families to make fry bread.
- April 2010: Anyone who has been to a country that uses plastic pre-paid phone cards knows that the cards are found in abundance and typically discarded after use. Stephen Harrigan of the U.S.-based consultation and training organization Solar Clutch sent us this great tip: use the cards to reinforce weak areas of cardboard solar cookers, particularly flaps and slots on panel-type cookers, the "fingers, pockets, and necks" as Harrigan calls them. Rubber adhesive or contact cement can be used to attach the cards.
- May 2010 Florida students have creative ideas for solving some of the world's greatest energy challenges, and their solutions were demonstrated Saturday at the eighth-annual EnergyWhiz Olympics. More than 500 students throughout Florida converged May 1 at the University of Central Florida's Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) in Cocoa to compete in the day-long competition that showcased student projects in alternative fuel technologies. Events included the Bright House Solar Energy Cookoff, a solar cooker design and cooking contest; the Junior Solar Sprint, model-size solar car races; the High School Hydrogen Sprint, model-size hydrogen-powered car races; and Energy Innovations, a full-scale solar electric design challenge.
- April 2010 A student-run community service club at Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, California, actively promotes renewable energy through presentations, hands-on workshops, and installations. Solar cooking and solar water pasteurization are often highlighted by the students of Club RESC:UE (short for Renewable Energy Sources Club: United Educators). At the annual "Get WET" Festival in Folsom, California, club members converted a fountain to run off solar energy and presented information about solar water pasteurization using simple solar cookers. Club RESC:UE also co-sponsored the annual "All Things Solar" event in Roseville, California. Club members acted as solar cooking experts, demonstrating nearly two dozen solar cookers and serving solar-cooked food to passersby. In addition, they participated in a solar cooker construction workshop where participants built solar CooKits.
The History of Solar Cooking in the USAEdit
Some of the many solar cooking non-governmental organizations based in the US are Solar Cookers International (SCI), Rotary International, the Solar Oven Society, the Solar Oven Society, and Solar Household Energy, Inc.
No precise numbers are available, but estimates suggest that perhaps as many as 10,000 Americans use solar cookers regularly. The electrical utility of the area, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), has been a strong supporter of solar energy usage. SMUD serves an area of more than a million people. Under earlier leadership, it pioneered the development of cleaner electricity generation, including building the first solar powered generating station in the United States. It has offered rebates for replacing old appliances with energy efficient equipment, it cooperated in planting of trees to lower the cost of air conditioning to consumers, as examples. For purposes of this report, it is important to note the strong support of SMUD for solar cooking education, including outreach to schools and community organizations. They have placed solar cookers with Scout troops, offered workshops in 65 schools of the area, and made available plans to build cookers to customers throughout their service area. In 1991, SMUD even produced a solar cooking cookbook. Reducing the use of electricity is in everyone's interest; this interesting example of a public utility's contribution to solar cooking as one contribution to solving the problem was noteworthy.
George Lof, a former director of the Industrial Research Institute at the University of Denver, Colorado, was an early pioneer of solar-powered techonolgy, including solar cooking. In the fifties, he experimented with a parabolic solar cooker design that he dubbed the "Umbroiler" because of its umbrella-like structure. He marketed the design, but it was a commercial failure for the times.
Considerable activity can also be found in the state of Arizona, probably the sunniest of the U.S. fifty states. The most important solar cooking fact about Arizona is that Barbara Kerr, the foremost expert on solar cooking in the U.S., lives in a small community in this state. She has created, and lives in, a Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center that demonstrates a wide range of ways to live lightly, rather than destructively, on the earth. Barbara is the author of several books (The full text of one is here) and articles on solar cooking, the creator and marketer (with her colleague, Sherry Cole) of a cardboard box cooker, the refiner of the CooKit as the first inexpensive but efficient solar cooker, and a never-ending source of information to those who seek her knowledge on the internet. A visit to Taylor, Arizona, is a trip to an important piece of solar cooking history.
Solar devices are also manufactured in this area. Early pioneers, Bob Larson and his wife Heather Larson, produced cookbooks and plans for solar dryers until their untimely deaths. Jay Campbell, a New Mexican engineer, has invented a range of cooking devices that won prizes for ingenuity and efficiency, though he is not a manufacturer but rather an idea person. One firm, Zone Works, makes and sells parabolics out of Albuquerque.
Unlikely as it may sound, the state of Minnesota has also made contributions to the development of the solar cooking. Mike and Martha Port, founders of the Solar Oven Society, have worked in a variety of Central American and Caribbean nations on various projects. Recently, they completed research and development of a new cooker, manufactured from recycled soda bottles; the device will help to fill the gap between the very inexpensive (but not so long lasting) CooKit and the more expensive box or parabolic cookers. With the assistance of a small business development grant from the State of Minnesota, charitable contributions from a range of churches and organizations, and the dedicated volunteer labor of the Ports over many years, they have recently been able to begin the sale and marketing, both in the U.S. and abroad, of the Sport. A collectivity of Minnesota churches made possible the shipment of 400 unassembled cookers to Afghanistan for sale at a subsidized price to people whose need for cooking energy is great.
The Nevada Solar Cookers Association was formed to share recipes, ideas and stories, and to spread the news about solar cooking in their area [1].
While use of the solar cooker is not unknown in the U.S. it is by no means widely used. Most work of American promoters appears to have been devoted to projects in other parts of the world.
Archived articlesEdit
Climate, Culture, and Special ConsiderationsEdit
Possible funders for solar cooking projects in the USAEdit
- See Raising funds through grants and donations.Raising funds through grants and donations
Articles in the mediaEdit
- January 2105: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally - Huffington Post
- August 2014: First United Methodist Church volunteers help with solar oven - The Jamestown Sun
- July 2014: Solar ovens may stimulate student appetite for STEM - University of Arkansas
- July 2014: Ask James Dulley: Solar ovens are simple to make, easy to use - Rapid City Journal
- July 2014: Solar cooking conference extols virtues of cookers to developing world - Sacramento Bee
- June 2014: Young chefs harness solar power - Daily Press
- June 2014: Solar Cooking: The No-Fuel, No-Emissions Way to Make Dinner - Edible Manhattan
- May 2014: Solar ovens yield sunny side-up s'mores at WMS - Woodbury Bulletin
- May 2014: Solar Cooking in Third World Countries - Digital Journal
- January 2014: SUNY? students build solar Cookits - Observer, Dunkirk NY
- October 2013: Cooking biscuits on the UA Mall - Daily Wildcat.com
- September 2013: Haiti Solar Oven Partners visits the Black Hills to gain support for its mission - Rapid City Journal
- September 2013: Solar Oven Project to Help Haiti - KDLT News
- September 2013: Solar slow food - newsreview.com
- September 2013: Haitian to say thanks for solar ovens - The Bismark Tribune
- August 2013 Cooking Cookies with Solar Power - PBS Kids Zoom
- August 2013: Get Cooking With a DIY Solar Oven - AARP Blog
- July 2013: Mountain View Markets hosts annual solar cook-off - Las Cruces Sun-News
- July 2013: Solar stove with humble beginnings in Himalayas is now in Utah - The Salt Lake Tribune
- June 2013: Mojave Environmental Education Consortium hosts first-ever Solar Oven Cook-Off Competition - Daily Press
- June 2013: Northville Students Harness Solar Power for Tasty Treats - Northville Patch
- June 2013: Cook solar: California employees get sun-cooked snacks - Western Area Power Administration
- June 2013: Faith effort creates solar ovens for Haiti - The Bismarck Tribune
- May 2013: Two UI professors work to create inexpensive solar cooker - The Daily Iowan
- May 2013: Oak Hills students partner with French students on sustainable energy project - Cincinnati.com
- March 2013: Bedford family helps Nicaraguan villagers use solar cooking - Bedford Journal
- March 2013: Resident uses solar oven to eat healthy, reduce bills - Peoria Times
- March 2013: Hewlett-Packard alum sets out to change world with Nepal solar project - MercuryNews.com
- November 2012: UA Hosts Solar Oven Bake-Off - Arizona Public media
- October 2012: A Solar Stove for Haiti -The Sag Harbor Express
- December 2011: Solar cooking works, from sunny Brazil to Seattle - Crosscut.com
- December 2011: Zero-carbon cooking with sunshine Sacramento Nutrition Examiner
- August 2011: Sunny side up; Oak Park, California resident reminds us of the simplicity of solar cooking - Newsreview.com
- August 2011: Cinnamon Buns in the Solar Oven - Phoenix New Times
- July, 2011: Calabasas, CA Youth Help Raise Global Awareness - Calabasas Patch
- July, 2011: Solar cooking method could help local families in need - Ledger Dispatch
- July 2011: Solar cooking a boon to the homeless - Recordnet.com
- May 2011: Sun-baked meals gaining popularity - Utah Daily Herald
- April 2011: CFCC students hold first ever solar oven competition in North Carolina - WECT.com
- January 2011: New Jersey high school sophomore recognized for raising funds to purchase solar cookers for African refugees. - NJToday.net
- November 2010: Energy Justice Conference at CU-Boulder focuses on putting plans into action - Daily Camera
- September 2010: Ashland Middle School kids cook with homemade solar ovens - Ashland Daily Tidings
- September 2010: Plant City farmer lassos solar energy - St. Petersburg Times
- September 2010: The Art of Solar Cooking - East Bay Express
- July 2010: Ed Begley Jr. Answers Questions about Reliable Wind Power, Solar Cooking, and More - Planet Green
- July 2010: Teachers get lesson of their own - MidlandsConnect.com
- July 2010: 'Air-friendly' cooking for July 4 weekend - abc 15.com
- June 2009: Engineering Students Build Solar Ovens For African Orphanage - WMFD
- February 2009: These cooks busiest when sun is shining - San Diego Union-Tribune
- January 2009: The dish on solar cooking: Local group touts the benefits of the sun's power - Sacramento News & Review
- August 2008: Galley of the sun: Backyard cooks go solar - The Arizona Republic
- August 2008: Energy a DNC theme - Steamboat Pilot & Today
- August 2008: Hands-on engineering, campus visit inspire former refugees - News at Princeton
- June 2008: Solar panels, clothesline (and solar oven) help family slash energy bills - CNN
- June 2008: Portable Solar Cookers For Tibet - Lucky!
- June 2008: Be Green: Here comes the sun - The Record
- June 2008: American Wins UK Insurance Institute's Talent Prize for Solar Oven - Insurance Journal
- April 2008: Arnold Schwarzenegger Tastes Solar Cooking: "Fabulous!" - Energy Seeds
- February 2008: Learning to cook without electricity - Deseret News
- January 2008: Sharing his daily bread - Student teaches Africans to bake using solar ovens - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
- July 2007: Cooking With The Sun: Solar Cookers Get Put To The Test - America's Test Kitchen
- July 2007: Conservation Saves More Than the Environment - The Washington Post
- May 2007: Sacramento's Solar Cookers International uses the sun to improve quality of life, one village at a time - Sacramento News Review
- January 2007: CNN Money features Sun Ovens, January 26, 2007
- January 2007: Actor Ed Begley Jr., to bring solar cooking to reality television
- January 2007: Here comes the sun with its power - The Washington Times
Audio and videoEdit
- July 2009: Solar cookers featured - Good Morning America
- March 2009: Utah solar cooking is featured on KSL TV in Salt Lake City - KSL TV
- July 2007: Cooking With The Sun: Solar Cookers Get Put To The Test - America's Test Kitchen
Solar cooking blogsEdit
- Colorado Bob's Solar Oven: A Solar Oven for the Small Street Vendor
- Utah Sun Ovens
- Homegrown Evolution - Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne write the blog Homegrown Evolution chronicling their adventures as urban gardeners, farmers, and solar cookers.
- Little Homestead in the City - An American family in Pasadena living simply since 1973
- Solar Cooker at Cantina West
- Chef Tess Bakeresse
- Chile Chews
- Solar Oven Chef
- SunshineCooking
- ARNies-SolarCooking
- SCI's Karyn Ellis's blog
- Sun Sky Soil
- My Sun Oven
- Solar Cooking for Mainstream Cooks
- An Adventure in Solar Cooking
Solar cooking clubsEdit
USA contactsEdit
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)Edit
Government agenciesEdit
Educational institutionsEdit
Manufacturers and vendorsEdit
See alsoEdit
Gallery of manufacturers and vendorsEdit


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butternut squash bisque
I adapted this from a recepe for fasolatha found on allrecepes.com to be more like butternut squash bisque which I had at the elephant's delecatessin in Portrland Oregon. It's a reaaly great soup for those cold autumn days and a great tasting way to get some squash into your families diet.
Chicken Minestrone with Homemade Broth
When a recipe calls for boneless, skinless chicken, save money by buying a whole chicken and de-boning it yourself. Then save even more money and increase the nutritional content of your soups by saving your chicken bones in the freezer to make your own broth.
lasagna (tofu optional) (alt3ered from better homes and gardens new cookbook)
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lasagna( tofu optional) altered from better homes and gardens New cookbook.
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Yes, Jesus spoke the words from the cross, I thirst. It wasnt for some cool drink to satisfy His thirst He was talking about, He was speaking about thirsting for souls. That thirst has rippled down through the ages for over 2000 years, right now to this very day, for you and me and many others as well, and quite naturally in the hearts and minds of St. Faustina and Mother Teresa. In fact they both had visions of Jesus on the cross as He spoke to them, I thirst - for the salvation of souls. Help me, my daughter to save souls. Join your suffering to my passion and offer them to the heavenly Father for sinners.
God has instilled that thirst for souls in many people. He asks us to do our part - for God and souls (St. Faustinas motto). We as parents and grandparents must thirst for the souls of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren, and all of Gods children.
Pope Francis thirsts for souls as well. He recently said he is taking on over 20,000 lapsed American Catholics (fallen away from the church). Lets help him with that, taking on the responsibility for our little group - our children - the little lambs Jesus asks us to feed the word of God. Teach them their souls not only thirst for worldly pleasure but most of all the joys of heaven. (Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee, St. Augustine said.)
There is much to be said and learned about suffering. As I look upon the sufferings of my past life I see how God has sustained me and made me a more loving, compassionate person. Just look at the suffering Jesus endured during His passion and death on the cross. Surely there would have been another way, but I believe He wanted to show us the value of suffering. Perhaps without suffering well keep our eyes ever fixed upon the world instead of raising them toward the glories of heaven. St. Faustinas thirst for souls was most ardent when her sufferings were the greatest, even to the extent of suffering the stigmata, great pain in her hands, feet and side, places where Jesus body was pierced. St. Faustinas thought of saving souls was her greatest joy and it should be ours as well. Let not the trivial moments in life distract us on our way. We need to remind ourselves whats really going to matter in the end. Dont sweat the small stuff. Im real good at that!
We must weigh out the value of suffering. St. Faustinas motto was suffering + love = joy. Only love can give value to our actions. For me it was love + work = apple pie. However, I did have to quit making pies for a short time as I suffered depression.
Now, my thirst and suffering for souls leads me toward spiritual writing - Matter of Faith. My passion for writing and thirsting for souls seems to lift me just a bit above this worldly realm toward that of the spiritual, humbly acknowledging its my gift from God and I feel the need to share it.
God delights in a trusting soul. I am trying to be one of those. Lord help me, sometimes it seems when I dont see my prayers answered as Im expecting, momentarily it seems Ive hit a brick wall and full let down, then again I forge ahead knowing with my prayers God can somehow break through. I trust He can and will - He said so.
In writing this article Ive taken some information from a small booklet called I Thirst. I believe its effects can be very powerful as we thirst for the salvation of souls. I thirst for you my Lord.


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With all the DVR's in use today and OTA channels screaming they are hurting for money, dont you think they need to come up with a different source of revenue? You either change with the times or get left in the dust.
Yes... but what many fail to recognize is that WE will be that different source of revenue. If ad revenue shrinks, then the other logical way for them to get money will be to charge the viewer.
People seem to think they can get something for nothing without consequences.
This would make every DVR on the market illegal. We all have the ability to skip commercials on recorded content. This is really just the next evolution of a DVR. I dont see how the big 4 networks can be okay with DVR's but not with this new feature.
I guess people who use OTA and something like a TiVo are really sticking it to them then since they are not paying at all for the big 4. Time to figure out how else to get the funds needed.
No. There is a HUGE difference between me recording something and having to manually skip (or ignore) commercials vs Dish implementing a feature that I can enable once and have it automatically skip all the commercials.
Me doing it manually requires interaction... which means I have to be interactively watching... which means I might see parts of commercials while I skip/FFwd ahead and I might stop if something looks interesting.
But the automatic skip means one jump across 95% of the commercial break... so I see virtually nothing... and have no reason to check a commercial out... and it does it for every break.
That is why this is an issue. They can't force us to watch commercials. Even before the DVR, and before VHS/Beta... you can leave the room during a commercial... but at least the commercial still played... and even with a DVR or VHS/Beta you had to see bits and pieces as you skipped past them manually.
AutoHop results in automatic non-viewing once you turn it on... and giving viewers the ability to turn it on means more people will do it than if they had to do it manually. People are inherently lazy and might leave the remote down during a commercial break or forget to skip... but AutoHop takes that away with a big "do you want to enable" banner at the beginning and once you say yes it is Calgon go away (to paraphrase an old commercial) for commercials for that show.
I completely understand why the networks don't like this... and Dish is not only applying it just to OTA channels via satellite and not ALL commercial TV... but they are only applying it during primetime, which is probably when those networks make most of their revenue.
So... Dish isn't really about providing a feature to customers who "want to skip commercials" as much as they are about sticking it to those four channels.
It's fine... but everyone should be aware there will be backlash. When the networks lose these lawsuits (and they should lose them)... expect higher prices to come immediately on the next negotiations with each one. That is where this will head in a hurry.


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- Posted by the_dark_lady z7 Amelia VA (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 16:23
Kate, your Red Intuition is stunning! Looking really good for a first year plant! Marina |
- Posted by harborrose 8a-PNW (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 17:24
A friend of mine has that rose, Kate, and I agree, it is beautiful. Nice pictures. Here's my only contribution, Rosa Mundi, the gallica, although you already saw it in the L's with Lynnie! |
- Posted by the_dark_lady z7 Amelia VA (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 18:23
And here are my R's: Radiance Pink Radio Times Rebecca. The reddest Clematis I grow Rebekah Red Coat Red Leonardo da Vinci Reine des Violettes Renae Rhapsody in Blue Rhode Island Red Ritausma (aka Polareis). Love, love, love it! Robbie Burns Robert Leopold Robin Hood Rokoko Rooguchi, another favorite Clematis Rosa Mundi Rosalinde Rosanna Rosarium Uetersen (aka Seminole Wind) Rose de Rescht Rose Delacroix Rose des 4 Vents Rose du Roi Rose of Pickardy Roseraie du Chatelet Rosomane Janon Rotkappchen (aka Red Riding Hood) Rugelda Rush Rushing Stream Raubritter |
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Oh, harborrose--Rosa Mundi and Lynnie--I get it. But I thought it would be rather cool if both types appeared on one bush! As usual, Marina, I hardly no where to start with the wealth of beauty you always post. So I'll begin with the clematis--I wondered how red Rebecca would get. Glad to see your picture. And I like Rooguchi--I have one too. Somewhat at random (cuz I like them all), I'm really taken with your two photos of Rosanna, and Rosalinde right before that is lovely also. Then for a change of pace, Rose of Pickardy is wonderful! But so is Rosomane Janon --I'm particularly fond of those yellow/gold/apricot combinations, and that one has a dash of orange-red in there too--dramatic! Kate |
By the way, Harborrose, I like all the blues with your Rosa Mundi--my favorite combination. Kate |
- Posted by harborrose 8a-PNW (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 20:18
Thank you, Kate! Marina, lovely roses all. I have a very young Polareis or Ritausma and I love love love that bloom also. Wonderful to see an entire bush shot of that rose. Thanks for posting them! |
Marina, I love love love Radio Times and Rose of Pickary! I've looked at both of these Austin's numorous times and really never gave them much thought, but in your pictures, I really like them! I have Robbie Burns coming this spring from Hortico...and I'm excited about that now :) However, after seeing your picture of Polar Ice, I realize mine is planted in a completely inappropriate location! I didn't leave it close ot enough room! Kate, I have Red Intuition on order for Palatine...and I can't wait! You'll have to let me know how it overwinters for you. I was a little hesitant to order it because of its hardiness. HarborRose...don't you just love Rosa Mundi? It and Tuscany Superb were the first two OGRs I ever purchased! Tammy |
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Beautiful roses everyone! I love that ROSANNA! Wow! And the RED RIDING HOODs! I have tons of R roses. Most of these pics were still in my Picturetrail album, but a few I just finished re-tweaking. I don't think I'll get done with this before I have to start tweaking this yr's photos! Yikes... Here are a smattering of mine.... LOL RENAISSANCE RK WITHERSPOON REUNION ROYAL AMETHYST RAINFOREST REBECCA SUSAN ROEDEAN RED INTUITION ROSE GAUJARD RHAPSODY IN BLUE REVELRY REMEMBER ME in pale mode RAINBOW NIAGARA (aka MARVELLE, TROPICAL SUNSET) RUSTY RUBENS ROSETTE DELIZY |
My favs are Rusty and Revelry, Beth. On the roses forum I was just asking about good russet colored roses, but nobody mentioned Rusty. I'm glad you posted it :) Tammy |
- Posted by annececilia z4b/N.Michigan (My Page) on Sat, Feb 2, 13 at 6:58
Thanks for that photo of Royal Amethyst, Beth. It was one of my favorites but didn't like zone 4. I tried growing it potted as well, but it didn't like that either. I sure miss it. Well, here are some of my R's to add to the show: Rainbow Knockout (not keeping this rose - it washes out to blah in the summer sun.) Ramblin' Red (not quite a climber for me in zone4) Red Masterpiece (looking way too orange in the intense sun of this photo, but it is a true velvety red) One of my must have roses, Rosa Glauca The old Kordes climber Rosanna from 1982: Rosette Delizzy, which I played around with growing in a pot for a few years - until I got tired of the in and out spring dance! Royal Edward Reine Victoria Rose de Rescht R. cinnomomea plena, found growing at an old homestead site near my home R. canina - from rootstock R. Magnifica, one of my fav rugosas |
Beth --my favorites are Rhapsody in Blue and Royal Amethyst -- two lovely purples! The Red Intuition, of course! Anne-- and Magnifica Rugosa is--in a word--magnificant! And Royal Edward is statuesque and beautiful! Kate |
They are all so lovely, I can't pick a fave. It's so interesting to see, how different they grow in different climates BTW. |
Tammy, I was just browsing again and was reminded that I meant to tell you that Red-headed Stranger is a stunner--I'd say a "knock out," but that name seems to have other connotations these days. LOL Love those golden stamens in it also. Kate |
I MUST get Red Intuition. The two sets of photos here are so stunning. Thanks all for posting these, such eye candy. |
R seems to have brought out another host of beauties!!! Marine, I really like you moss, Robert Leopold. I've been thinking about adding a moss to my collection. Here is my list of R's. |
Seil, Ruffled Cloud is just adorable! I also really like your Rainbows End. I had mine potted for three years and it did terrible. This past fall I transplanted it into the ground to see if it would do any better...its do or die time! lol Tammy |
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Orlando City News Release -- www.orlandocitysoccer.com
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando City announced today the signing of English League player Anthony Pulis, pending USSF approval. Pulis has played with several Premier League and Championship sides including Portsmouth, Stoke City, and Southampton as well as appearances for the Wales Under-21 National Team.
"Anthony has a very good pedigree," said Head Coach Adrian Heath. "He's played for good clubs - Stoke City, Portsmouth, Southampton. He's a very combative-type player, much like James O'Connor, and helps fill a big hole in our midfield with the loss of Lawrence [Olum]. He's another piece of the puzzle, and we're very pleased to have him here."
Pulis is a central midfielder who brings experience and strong technical ability to the Orlando City lineup. He will help fill the gap left by departing midfielder Lawrence Olum, who signed with Major League Soccer's Sporting Kansas City in the offseason.
Pulis began his career with Portsmouth as a youth player while his father, current Stoke City manager Tony Pulis, was the manager. He turned pro in 2003. After a year-and-a-half with Pompey, he joined Stoke City. He spent four years at Stoke before moving on to Championship side Southampton in 2008.
For the beginning of the 2011 season, Pulis moved to Aldershot Town. With the Winter transfer window approaching, Pulis received several offers, including one from the Scottish Premier League, Scotland's top division. Pulis turned down the offers for a chance with Orlando City.


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'SNL' Opens Fire on 'Homeland'
The Showtime series 'Homeland' is super popular right now, but you don't need to have seen it to be in on the joke. You merely need to have seen Claire Danes act in... well, anything.
The Showtime series 'Homeland' is super popular right now, but you don't need to have seen it to be in on the joke. You merely need to have seen Claire Danes act in... well, anything.
If you're getting fired anyway, you might as well let everyone know just what you think of them! However, you'd really better make 100% that the neck on the chopping block is actually yours before you make fun of anyone's stupid name or above-ground pool...
As expected, last weekend's 'SNL' featuring Louis C.K. offered up an even mix of laughs and groans, some sketches falling flat while others stood as tall as Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat. This weekend's newest outing will go back to basics however, as 'Les Miserables' star and Hollywood sweetheart Anne Hathaway picks up hosting duties for the third time, with musical guest Rihanna. So what's the one thing Anne Hathaway has that Louis C.K. doesn't, as highlighted by the new promos? Sexy, sexy hair.
Though not every sketch had us rolling on the floor, last Saturday's 'SNL' turn with Louis C.K. hosting proved to be one of the better outings we've seen in weeks. Among the numerous highlights of the episode, none got people talking so much as the comedians' spot-on parody of his own FX show 'Louie,' replacing the title character with Abraham Lincoln! Not all of the funny and NSFW bits mad it to air however, so how would you like to view the unrated director's cut?
The heavily-anticipated episode of 'Saturday Night Live' with host Louis C.K. aired last night, just six days after Hurricane Sandy unleashed her wrath unto the East Coast. Parts of New York City may still suffering, but the cast succeeded in wringing the comedy from the difficult situation.
It's happening, people! Louis C.K. (comedy's It boy) is hosting 'Saturday Night Live' this coming October 27th. Or is it November 3rd?
Amid last night's 'Saturday Night Live' cold open — mocking the second Presidential Debate — a familiar face emerged from the crowd...
In conjunction with this coming All Hallows Eve, last night's episode of 'Saturday Night Live' — with host and musical guest, Bruno Mars — offered New York's denizens and tourists a few suggestions for enjoying the holiday weekend. And naturally, who better to comment on the city's best parties than 'Weekend Update' City Correspondent, Stefon?
Even Brad Pitt must be laughing today about the 'Saturday Night Live' clips repeatedly clowning on his "arty" Chanel no. 5 commercial, presenting not one by four separate commercial spoofs selling everything from perfume to dog condoms.
Some of the lesser known Bond girls got a chance to shine on 'Saturday Night Live' last night.


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Monymusk is a traditional Scottish Estate and village in Aberdeenshire. Set around the village Square and war memorial are a Shop and Post Office, the Grant Arms Hotel, many picturesque houses, the Village Hall and the Church of St. Mary's. Monymusk also has its own Arts Centre, where local artists and crafters exhibit and sell their work during the summer months.
The River Don flows through the Estate and is popular with fishermen for its excellent trout and salmon fly-fishing. Mountain bikers can enjoy the bike trails on Pitfichie Hill and Cairn William and the area is also great for hill walking and spotting wildlife. We hope you enjoy exploring this website and learning about the history of Monymusk and the surrounding area and what it has to offer to its residents and visitors today.


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City Council The City of Denham Springs operates under a Mayor-City Council form of government. The five-member Denham Springs City Council is elected by popular vote. Each council member serves "at large," thus each member represents the entire City, not any one area or demographic. Members serve a term of four years. A City Council member is required to continue to be legally domiciled within the incorporated limits during the term of office.
Each council member serves as a liaison to a City Department. Additionally, each council member serves as a member of the Denham Springs Economic Development District, a member of the Denham Springs Sewerage District No. 1 and as members of the Finance Committee. Meetings of the DSEDD, the DSSD#1 and the Finance Committee are scheduled as needed. The mayor, city council, city attorney and city engineer meet twice monthly at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday and fourth Monday in the Municipal Building, 941 Government Dr., unless otherwise set by the council. Other special meetings may be held, as needed, to conduct city business.
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Ordinances or resolutions are adopted or revised, and appointments and removals are made only by a majority of those present and voting at a lawful meeting of the council. All voting is by roll call and the ayes and nays are recorded in the minutes of the council. All official actions of the Council are published in the Livingston Parish News, the official journal.
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Chris Davis began City Council service in 2011. Davis is a conservative Republican, and serves as liaison to the City Street Department.
Davis, a Corporate Environmental Health & Safety Manager, is certified by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and holds memberships in Environmental Health & Safety Professionals, American Society of Safety Engineers, National Rifle Association, Louisiana Society for Human Resource Management, and Gideons International.
A native and lifelong resident of Denham Springs, Davis is a graduate of Denham Springs High School, attended Southeastern La. University, holds a BS in Occupational Safety and Health from Columbia Southern University, and is pursuing a Masters in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University. He is an active member of First Baptist Church. Along with his daughters, Michaela and Christian, Davis enjoys traveling, visiting sites of American historic significance, attending his daughters' school and extracurricular events, and Bible study.
Annie Fugler began City Council service in 2009. Fugler, a Republican, serves as liaison to the Water Department and to the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce and is Secretary/Treasurer of the Denham Springs Economic Development District.
Fugler is a freelance editor, writer and marketer, and a DOTD retiree with 33 years of service. Her civic memberships include Arts Council of Livingston Parish; Edward Livingston Historical Association; Kidz Korner Playland Foundation Committee; Chamber of Commerce, with service as Publicity Chair, Speaker and Gala Committees and Board of Directors; and Livingston Parish Republican Women, with service as Publicity Coordinator and Board of Directors. She was the 2010 Census Point of Contact and works with the Main Street Committee, Women Outreaching Women and Cancer Relay for Life. Fugler has been Chairman of the March of Dimes Walk America, a Heart of the Community award recipient and has facilitated support groups for singles and parents.
A native and lifelong resident of Denham Springs, Fugler is a graduate of Denham Springs High School. She has a business admin. degree from Spencer Business College and attended LSU. She is a member of Open Door Baptist Church. She has a son, Craig Yoches, and two grandchildren, Austyn and SeDonia Yoches. She enjoys writing, fishing, traveling, visiting state and national parks and spending time with family and friends.
Lori Lamm-Williams began City Council service in 2003. Lamm-Williams, a Republican, serves as liaison to the Fire and Police Departments. Lamm-Williams is a baker and pastry creator. Her civic involvement includes LMA Economic Development Committee to the Governor; Denham Springs Garden Club; Habitat for Humanity of Livingston Parish Steering Committee; Livingston Parish 4-H Advisory Committee; Parks and Recreation of Denham Springs softball coach and being a school volunteer. A native and lifelong resident of Denham Springs, Lamm-Williams is a graduate of Denham Springs High School and earned a BA in social work from Southeastern Louisiana University. She and husband, Troy Williams, enjoy spending time at home and at the beach with their four children, Laurel, Jake, Jensen and Meg Williams. They are members of First United Methodist Church. Lamm-Williams interests also include home gardening.
Arthur Perkins began City Council service in 1974, serving four terms plus one year and was elected again in 1995. He is a Democrat. Perkins holds the position of Mayor Pro-Tem and serves as liaison to the Gas Department and serves as Chairman of the Denham Springs Economic Development District and Chairman of the Finance Committee. Perkins is a career educator, becoming a Liv. Ph. public school principal in 1969. In 1970, he was named principal of Albany High School, a position he held for 28 years. Perkins received a commission as Second Lt. in the U. S. Army and retired from the La. National Guard as a Lt. Colonel. Civic involvement includes the Chamber of Commerce; Livingston Parish Voters League; Parks and Recreation Dist. 3 (PARDS) board member; and he is a volunteer tutor at the L. M. Lockhart Center. A lifelong resident of Denham Springs, Perkins graduated from West Livingston High School and from Southern University with a BS in mathematics education. He earned a Masters Degree and a Masters plus 30 in Admin. and Supervision from Southern and did extended study at Tulane and Southeastern Louisiana University. He has been married to Nora Johnson Perkins since 1957 and they have three sons, one daughter, and have reared a granddaughter. He is a member of Roberts United Methodist Church, where he serves as trustee, and he is a trustee of the Mission Finance Committee for the La. Annual Conf. of the United Methodist Church. He enjoys reading, traveling, hunting and gardening.
John Wascom began City Council service in 1995 for one term, and began serving again in 2003. Wascom, an Independent, is Chairman of the Denham Springs Sewerage District No. 1 and Mayor Pro Pro Temp. He serves as liaison to the Wastewater Department. A local businessman, Wascom is owner and operator of several car washes. Civic involvement includes serving as a board member for Parks and Recreation of Denham Springs (PARDS). A native and lifelong resident of Denham Springs, Wascom is a graduate of Denham Springs High School. Wascom and wife, Linda Russell Wascom, have two sons, Aaron and Drew Wascom. They are members of Live Oak United Methodist Church. Wascom enjoys spending his time with his family; working on classic vehicles, in particular a 1970 Chevy Nova restoration project; playing guitar and harmonica and singing with local groups and churches; and making "YouTube" mini-videos.


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I think it is a good idea. How many people do you know that tell you to register and then nothing on your registry is even purchased? For a bride that is already planning a wedding and probably completely nervous about new beginnings she probably doesn't need extra stress of trucking through the store scanning items that in most cases she already has. As for a gift is from the heart, well....We all know why people have showers anyway. Why not save them a trip to the return line and just let them have fun with their new spouse on a shopping spree. Unless of course you actually have a gift you made or put a lot of effort in because come on how many "gifts from the heart" are purchased on the way to the shower anyway?? I'm going to do a gift card party. To add a personal touch I thought it was a clever idea to create a scrap book for the bride to be. Each guest will create a page. It will be a scrap book party that we bring gift cards to!!! |
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- Posted by sweet_pea10 (My Page) on Mon, May 26, 08 at 13:53
Though I am sure your intentions are good, I probably wouldn't attend such a shower if invited. It sounds too much like an out-and-out gift grab. We all know that the purpose of a shower is to help a bride set up her new home, so it is expected that gifts will be given. However, to tell guests that they should bring only gift cards seems a bit much. What happens when the bride receives 5 cards from one store, 2 from a couple of others, etc.; not enough from a single store to secure an item she may want or need unless she adds money to it. She will spend time trying to find items within the price range available and may settle for something she doesn't really want if she is unwilling to add money. That, to me, seems like a much greater hassle than registering for gifts. And why would a bride be "trucking through the store scanning items that in most cases she already has?" If she has it, and doesn't need it, then why add it to her registry? This may work in your social circle, but in my area, it wouldn't go over well. |
- Posted by western_pa_luann (My Page) on Mon, May 26, 08 at 15:20
"For a bride that is already planning a wedding and probably completely nervous about new beginnings she probably doesn't need extra stress of trucking through the store scanning items that in most cases she already has." The brides-to-be that I have known ENJOY going out and selecting items for their new home. No stress at all... just loads of fun! AND I don't know of any that would scan items she already has... unless she needs more of that item to complete a set. Bad idea... but maybe that is the norm wherever you are... |
Sorry, but I would find an invitation to a gift card shower to be just as tasteless as an invitation to a cash shower. It's virtually the same thing. I also think that it would be really boring, and even a little embarrassing, to sit and watch a bride "unwrap" a stack of gift cards. Kind of hard to ooh and ahh over that ... The only difference between the gifts would be the amount on the card. How very pleasant, and how satisfying to watch the expression on the bride's face when she opens my carefully selected ... gift card. I'm with Sweet Pea when she says, "And why would a bride be 'trucking through the store scanning items that in most cases she already has?' If she has it, and doesn't need it, then why add it to her registry?" I don't know what to make at all of the OP's comment, "As for a gift is from the heart, well....We all know why people have showers anyway. Why not save them a trip to the return line and just let them have fun with their new spouse on a shopping spree." Let me get this right: the reason people have showers is to get others to fill in their own shopping list? That is news to me. I thought it was for friends of the bride to buy her gifts for her new home, whether from the registry or not, and to have fun seeing her open the pretty packages and discover the thoughtful gifts chosen by the guests -- from the registry or not. A wedding is not an excuse for a "shopping spree" for the couple. Gifts are of course customary, but the idea is to outfit the couple's new home -- not to be the functional equivalent of winning a lottery or getting "fun dollars" from a mall. Cash gifts aren't meant to be spent all at once; they are for buying the things you need to set up a household, plus perhaps a few treats, and -- gasp -- saving the rest. I do, however, love the idea of a scrapbook party with each guest making a page for the bride. What a treasure she will have. I would also send pages to friends and relatives far away who cannot attend. I would just do that, and not direct the guests to buy gift cards, too. Something tells me that the original post isn't what it seems. |
Why gift cards? Why not just bring cash or checks? Dreadful! Tasteless! And no fun at all! |
I agree with the others. If there is really nothing the bride needs, what is she going to do with the gift cards? If she already has everyday items then she can register for holiday and special event items. I was 35 when I married DH and had a LOT of things and still managed to find enough things to register for. I also think the gift card shower will be awkward for guests. What does the bride do, open the gift card and say, "oh look, a card to Home Depot from Aunt Mary...a card to Macy's from cousin Cindy..."? Boring! Does she mention the dollar amount? Awkward and embarrassing. If you really plan to do this please consult the bride. Most women I know would be mortified if their bridesmaids did this. It's right up there with the "address your own thank you note". |
- Posted by nancylouise (My Page) on Tue, May 27, 08 at 5:38
It may just be me ladies, but when I first read this post it seemed like it was a fake to me. The OP just did it to get a raise out of us here. Some of the things she stated were inflammatory to me. "trucking to the store, gift from the heart," ect. That and she posted the same day she registered. But if by chance it is real...gift card showers are tacky. I probably would not be attending. I would send a real gift, not a gift card. NancyLouise |
I agree with you Gellchom--and nancylouise, it seems odd to me. Isn't it strange that sometimes when you read a post you want to check the date they joined--and so often its the same day? Some posters do seem recent and deliberately controversial or at the least strange. I wonder if the site does it to keep people interested and on the site longer. If you think this post is odd, try the stepfamily forum. thats a tough crowd. |
Me too, when reading the post I was anticipating some kind of advertising for something. The OP just did it to get a raise out of us here. Kinda like starting up another one of those shoes or no shoes in the house threads. But like NancyLouise said, But if by chance it is real... I'm in agreement with what everyone else said: it's tacky and it will make for a very awkward shower. Do you really believe that no one who attends the shower will be giving a "gift from the heart"? That's a very cynical and sad point of view. I hope for the bride's sake that she doesn't feel that way. |
If the original post is fake, get a life. If it isn't (and I'm not sure it is fake; perhaps she just stumbled on this forum and, after reading a bit, decided to tell about her plans especially after reading the thread about the out of control gift registries), I agree that I would be totally turned off. I most likely wouldn't go, because it seems to me that it's all about gimme gimmee. Part of the fun of a shower is seeing the bride open the gifts, as others have said. If this is really in your plans, please reconsider. And please come back and comment here. To post once and not come back makes me wonder if you ever returned to read responses to your post. Suzieque |
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Head coach Joe Callero said the Mustangs have the most difficult non-conference in the 20-year division-one history of the program. On top of traveling to Arizona Friday night, Cal Poly will face Pittsburgh, Oregon, and Stanford in roughly the first month of their non-conference schedule.
"I'd like to be alive," Callero said when asked about the non-conference schedule. "I think the most important thing is that we're alive and healthy."
Returning three starters and eight letter-winners, Callero said he could see nine or ten guys getting playing time throughout the season. "It's the most depth at every position that we've ever had," Callero said, "which bodes well over 30 games."
Cal Poly will be looking to their three seniors for set the tone. Senior forward Chris Eversley was voted to the All-Big West team last season after averaging 15.0 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Senior forward Kyle Odister averaged 6.5 points per game while appearing in 30 of the team's 32 games, and senior guard Jamal Johnson is coming off a season where he had assist-to-turnover-ratio at 2.75-to-1, 11th in the country.
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Joe and Pat., we stayed at the Rosehill Inn, recently, and everything was outstanding. It is in a great location with restaurants, shops, and attractions just steps away. The inn keepers make every effort to ensure that their guests are comfortable. We have stayed at a lot of b and bs Over the years and the breakfast served here was the best. We'll be back!!!!
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The Rosehill is one of the most relaxing and charming B&B's we have ever been to. Although the inn itself is wonderful, it is the innkeepers Bob and Tricia who make you feel special and welcome. Service is A+ and breakfast is a treat in itself. Staying at the Rosehill Inn should be on everyone's "A" list. Jimmie & Elvia Lucas
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The Miltons are warm and accommodating innkeepers. The property itself is a stately one on one of Wilmington's most beautiful historic-district streets. Every public and guest room is impressively designed and impeccably appointed with beautifully selected antiques; the rooms have various themes that are tastefully handled in coordinated designs. The attention to detail - thick terry bathrobes, superior soaps and creams, the absolute cleanliness of the rooms - is apparent throughout your stay. The photos are wonderful, but don't do the physical beauty of the house and its rooms sufficient justice. But for all the beauty of Rosehill and its central location and the graciousness of its innkeepers, what may be the most remarkable aspect of our experience - and we are repeat visitors - are the spectacular breakfasts that are a staple at the inn. Many B&B offerings include the word "gourmet." Rosehill delivers on that promise, in quantity and variety, with imaginative preparations of traditional American breakfast fare from the freshest fruit, eggs, breakfast meats from specialty-craft provisioners, breads and toasts, juices, and coffees and teas. We've been B&Bing for decades and Rosehill is far and away our favorite place to stay when we're on the road.
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Owners are all friendly, welcoming and accommodating. Feels like being pampered in a grand home from another era - quite fitting in a visit to the historic district of Wilmington. The breakfasts were delicious and I loved starting the day with the other guests at such a fine meal.
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If you have ever wondered what true southern hopitality is like, spend a few days here with the Miltons! Even in the midst of the wonderful antique surroundings, it felt like we were at home with family. The breakfasts were absolutely fantastic! Couldn't ask for more.
5 on October 28, 2009
Hosts were very attentive, food was yummy, location was perfect a real delight!!
4.0 on July 27, 2009
We recently spent two nights at the Rosehill Inn and were very pleased with the accomodations. The only disappointment we experienced was the parking for this location is very limited to small vehicles. We could not park our full sized vehicle in the off-street parking provided by the inn. (it barely fit in the alley between houses) However, the innkeeper allowed us to park next door temporarily until street parking was available. The inn was easy walking distance to the riverfront attractions and restuarants. The breakfasts were quite delicious and served hot and ontime. Our room was very clean, spacious and beautifully decorated. We will recommend to anyone planning a trip to this location!
5 on February 02, 2009
My first time in a B&B and I was so pleasantly surprised! Bob and Trisha were very friendly and breakfeast was outstanding. The house is in walking distance to everything. We will be back!
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Bob and Trisha Milton do a super job making you feel like your at home, with all the elegance of a 19th century stay in Wilmington. The food is all fresh and delicious, and the rooms are very nice. You will not go wrong at this B&B if you are in the Wilmington area!
5 on June 24, 2007
The owner's of this Inn were wonderful and friendly. The rooms were beautiful and very clean with thick, soft towels in the bath. Breakfast is served in an elegant dining room and the food was gourmet! Perfect location for walking the downtown. Absolute A+ accomodations for a fair price.
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The 6.3″ Samsung Galaxy Mega: When 5.5″ Isn't Big Enough
If you thought that the 5.5-inch Samsung Galaxy Note II wasn't big enough for your needs, then you'll be happy to learn that the Samsung Galaxy Mega takes it up a few notches with its 6.3-inch screen, begging the question – when does a phablet simply become a tablet? I guess when it doesn't make phone calls.
The Samsung Galaxy Mega comes in two versions, a 5.8-inch and the 6.3-inch.
The smaller version has a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of storage which is expandable via microSD, an 8MP rear-facing camera and a 1.9MP front-facing camera. The battery is 2,600 mAh. Screen resolution isn't as high as the Galaxy Note II, at 960 × 540 (vs 1280 × 720 in the Note II). The battery is also smaller than the Note II, which has a 3,100 mAh capacity.
The 6.3-inch monster has a 1280 × 720 resolution, 1.7GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of storage and the same cameras. Its battery is 3,200 mAh, besting the Note II – though with a larger screen, it's likely to consume more power. Both phones run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and include all of the new features Samsung announced for the Galaxy S4.
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I think you mean wonderphul. :) I'm actually thinking of switching from my iPhone to a Note 2, but might wait till this one comes out now.
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