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Classic lasagne
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal580
- fat32g
- saturates14g
- carbs31g
- sugars8g
- fibre3g
- protein44g
- salt1.71g
- 2 tbsp olive oil, plus a little for greasing
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- 750g lean beef mince
- 90g pack prosciutto
Prosciutto is sweet, delicate ham intended to be eaten raw. The word 'prosciutto' is the…
- ½ quantity tomato sauce (see below)
- 200ml hot beef stock
- a little grated nutmeg
- 300g fresh pack lasagne sheets
- ½ quantity white sauce (see below)
- 125g ball mozzarella
First make the ragu or meat sauce. Heat the oil in a frying pan, then cook the beef in two batches for about 10 mins until browned all over. Finely chop 4 slices of prosciutto, then stir through the meat mixture.
Pour over the tomato sauce and stock, add the nutmeg, then season. Bring up to the boil, then simmer for 30 mins until the ragu looks rich and is well coated in sauce. Can be left for 3 days in the fridge or frozen for 3 months (although not if the tomato sauce has previously been frozen).
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. To assemble lasagne, lightly oil an ovenproof serving dish (30 x 20cm). Spoon over a third of the ragu sauce, then cover with lasagne sheets. Drizzle over about one quarter of the white sauce. Repeat until you have 3 layers of pasta. Cover with the remaining half quantity of white sauce, making sure you can't see any pasta poking through.
Tear the mozzarella into thin strips, then scatter over the top. Arrange the rest of the prosciutto on top. Bake for 45 mins until the top is bubbling and lightly browned. (The uncooked lasagne can be frozen. If baking from frozen, add another 45 mins to the cooking time).
White sauce
Melt 85g/3oz butter in a saucepan, stir in 85g/3oz plain flour, then cook for 2 mins. Slowly whisk in 750ml/1¼pt milk, then bring to the boil, stirring. Turn down heat, then cook until the sauce starts to thicken and coats the back of a wooden spoon. Sauce can now be cooled and kept in the fridge for up to 3 days or frozen for 3 months.
Homemade tomato sauce
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a saucepan. Add 2 onions, finely chopped, 2 garlic cloves, sliced and 1 carrot, roughly chopped. Cook for 5-7 mins over a medium heat until softened. Turn up the heat a little and stir in 2 tbsp tomato purée. Cook for 1 min, pour in 200ml white wine, then cook for 5 mins until this has reduced by two-thirds. Pour over 3 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes and add 1 handful basil leaves. Bring to the boil then simmer for 20 mins. Leave to cool, whizz in a food processor.
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Fantastic lasagne recipe! This was my first time making a lasagne and I found the recipe easy to follow with great results! I was a bit anxious as I was cooking for 11 people (and so made 2 lasagnes...one set of sauces) I prepared them in advance, froze them and once cooked they turned out beautifully. I added worcester sauce to the beef when frying and seasoned my white sauce with plenty of salt, pepper and a bit of nutmeg. Like others,I found it did need quite a bit more milk than the recipe suggests. Nonetheless, Delicious!
I made a text file of this recipe a while back for use on my phone. Since then the white sauce and tomato sauce instructions have disappeared. If anyone is wondering, this is what I retrieved earlier:-
White sauce
Melt 85g/3oz butter in a saucepan, stir in 85g/3oz plain flour, then cook for 2 mins. Slowly whisk in 750ml/1¼pt milk, then bring to the boil, stirring. Turn down heat, then cook until the sauce starts to thicken and coats the back of a wooden spoon. Sauce can now be cooled and kept in the fridge for up to 3 days or frozen for 3 months.
Tomato Sauce
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a saucepan. Add 2 onions, finely chopped, 2 garlic cloves, sliced and 1 carrot, roughly chopped. Cook for 5-7 mins over a medium heat until softened. Turn up the heat a little and stir in 2 tbsp tomato purée. Cook for 1 min, pour in 200ml white wine, then cook for 5 mins until this has reduced by two-thirds. Pour over 3 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes and add 1 handful basil leaves. Bring to the boil then simmer for 20 mins. Leave to cool, whizz in a food processor.
Really enjoyed this meal, it was easy to make once taking it step-by-step. I used bought white sauce but just added more milk and some paprika - worked really well! I also added roasted, then slightly blended peppers, to the sauce. It's a great recipe, with a bit of flexibility in terms of what you can add! Definitely worth a try!
I love making this Lasagne and find the "extra" sauces freeze really well on their own for use another time. This time I made a version using turkey mince instead of the beef, smoked (but still meaty) streaky bacon insead of the prosciutto (but fried it all off and added it all to the meat sauce rather than decorating the top), and used chicken stock rather than beef. I also forgot to get Mozzarella so used a combination of grated cheddar and parmesan. It cut beautifully into 6 portions - not sloppy, just perfect. Tastes completely different to the usual Lasagne, obviously(!), BUT, was delicious and thoroughly enjoyed by all of us.
Although this was fiddly to make the end result was delicious.
I made it just as the recipes says with just the addition of Worcester sauce. I am so glad I read the comments before I started as I was in danger of using all of the sauces in one lasagna. ( instead of half ) . I would recommend making the sauces the day before as they are rather time consuming. I will certainly be making this again. A good recipe when having friends round .
I used this recipe to make chicken lasagna and I loved it!!! I used about 500 gm seared chicken breasts, 4.5 cups of pasta, made passata out of 7 tomatoes , garlic, basil leaves and olive oil, onion. I also mixed in a vegetable stock cube with the cooked pasta before assembling...i baked it in a round dish for 35 minutes...was delicious!!!! Thanks for this recipe!!! I needed to salt everything, even the white sauce.thumbs up!
I made this recipe for the first time yesterday (6/1/2015) and it was everything past reviews saidxabout it - in a word 'superb' . I followed the recipe as stated with 2 small variations. I used passata, instead of tinned chopped tomatoes, and I added 50 GMs of parmesan to the white sauce. For the white wine I used a good glass of Chardonnay. The results were very, very, satisfying. We shall be enjying it again.
This was so good. I didn't have beef stock so added red wine instead, i will try with stock next time and compare. I also added courgette, carrot and mushroom finely chopped (saute with onion and garlic before adding the mince) - I had a vegetarian over so removed a bit of this into a 2nd pot before adding the mince and prosciutto to the main - viola, vegie version. I also put a small grating of parmesan onto of the mozzarella before putting in oven to get that crispy effect. Delicious!
I think the recipe is really good, yes there is too much ragu sauce, but I just froze some and used it for meatballs another time. I used 500g beef mince and 250g pork mince because that's all I had in. I added some extra ingredients too, sun dried tomatoes to the ragu and a sprinkle of parmesan to the white sauce...also some cheddar on top as well as the mozzarella :) (greedy, but so good) my mum said it was the nicest lasagne she's ever had and she's tough to please! :D I would recommend this recipe.
This is the best lasagne dish I've ever had and pretty easy actually. I wasn't sure when I'd made the tomato sauce, didn't seem anything special, but once cooked in to the meat it's so rich and tasty. Empty plates all round, including the fussy pre-teen!
Ok, with regards to comments about the recipe and ingredients and sizing ....for some people (like me) recipes like this are great as I like to freeze as I cook. I froze half of the tomato sauce, making life easier when I came to make it again. (Just made half the white sauce recipe the first time but a cheese sauce next time, personal preference.) The recipe using the sauces as a vegetarian option is the roasted vegetable lasagne on the right hand side just above here.
Give this recipe a try, delicious x
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Hello, I was just wondering of by lwaving the wine out it would make a huge difference and what to use instead as my 9month old will be eating this ( I know the alcohol burns off) and I personally dont like wine so dont have it to hand. I have loved all your other recipes cant wait to tey this and its perfect as I need to freeze so partner can 'cook'
How can I follow a recipe that tells me to use 1/2 quantity tomato sauce and 1/2 quantity white sauce without telling me what is the full quantity of each. Is it half a pint or half a quart or half a gallon?!!! I agree with lizzieo-88 but am not even going to venture to make this recipe. It's nonsense. I wonder how those who have said it's a good recipe went on when it came to the tomato and white sauces.
I'm confused. Is this for two lots of lasagne i.e two oven dishes. Also, is this for two oven dishes worth and then there is half the white sauce and tomato sauce to freeze? Or where the recipe states you need half the white/tomato sauce, the other half is for the 2nd lasagne? I'm confused. Any clarification would be appreciated. I'm eager to make it.
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This pick made me scratch my head as well. I would have went with Selby, Benson, or tried to trade up in the second round to get better vaule. I hope I am wrong but this guy wont ever play a meaningful minute for the Knicks.
The Official Jorts Thread: What do we know about him?
Not a whole lot.
I believe this article has been posted before, but this is a focal thread on Jorts. Considering how much we need him as a position player, I'd appreciate any comments, assessments etc. from those who've seen him play, as I have virtually no access to College Hoops without paying for cable here in Japan.
Perhaps no player has been a more pleasant surprise in this year's NCAA tournament than Kentucky's Josh Harrellson. The Wildcats' center was a valuable piece all season, but his increased production in the tournament has been a huge factor in Kentucky's run to the Final Four, as he's averaged almost 15 points and 9 rebounds per game while shooting 76% from the field.
Harrellsona former Junior College recruit--was nowhere near the NBA radar prior to this season after only seeing the floor in blowouts as a juniorplaying just 88 total minutes all year. However, with the departures of DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson and Daniel Orton to the NBA, and Enes Kanter being ruled ineligible, Harrellson was thrust into the starting center role for the Wildcats. Without much depth at the big positions, he's been able to play through some of his struggles this season, and now he's peaking at the right time, helping his team to victories and catching the attention of NBA scouts.
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Harrellson has earned praise from the Kentucky coaching staff this season for his commitment to improving his conditioning, enabling him to play increased minutes than what was initially expected from him. He'll need to continue to work hard on his conditioning level and maximizing his explosiveness to limit the disadvantages he'd face physically against NBA caliber centers.
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Jorts & Shumpert Combo Mix.
A lot of question marks surrounding Jorts. I expect very little from him. He's on the wrong team if he wants to learn first hand from a versatile veteran. That, and MD will detest his role.
This pick made me scratch my head as well. I would have went with Selby, Benson, or tried to trade up in the second round to get better vaule. I hope I am wrong but this guy wont ever play a meaningful minute for the Knicks.
He has very little upside.
Questionable if he can even be effective in the NBA. Not a great athlete, has weight problems (That's why he didn't play at Kentucky until this year) and a poor wingspan/standing reach. His main skill is rebounding and playing hard, but I really don't see him ever starting. At best, I guess he can be a backup PF off the bench IF he develops a mid range shot. If not he'll be out of the NBA soon.
Can this guy be a poorman's Bill Laimbeer? Seems like he's got the toughness & the size, but does he have the basketball skills?
And, I still believe that a big, aggressive, center that's white and unathletic be instantly thrown in to the Laimbeer comparisons is ridiculous.
Poor man's version or no, it really is just silly.
That is all.
Obviously I don't. Reading is usually partaken in for the sake of coherent understanding.Asking questions is typically done because you don't have the answer and looking for one. I haven't seen Jorts play. Obviously you seem to feel yourself to be the authority on him.
I bring it up because it's a constant in this league, and it's ridiculous.The only one choosing to bring race into this conversation is you.
You would never, and you know it, have made that comparison [on any level, poor man's etc.] without any provocation. It's not that I'm singling you out intentionally, you're one in many million. All I'm saying is - "It's non-sensical'.If it makes you feel any better I'll rephrase my question like this - Is Jorts capable of being a similar player in style to Kevin Dampier? (Or is that a silly question to you too?
Please don't take it personally.
Who the **** is Kevin Dampier?
I don't see what the big deal is re: comparing players Crazy. I gotta agree w STAT1 here.. I like the Lambeer comparison because they're both around 6'10'', not very athletic and both guys appear to be tough, hard-nosed types. Each of them can also stick that little midrange J.
Now no ones saying Jorts will be Lambeer, that would be obsurd say so early. But from what I know and have heard/read about Jorts, Lambeer seems to be a good frame of reference when looking for a player for one to ask the question, "Can he be anything close to or like ____________?".. There's nothing wrong w asking this question and it has nothing to do w race.
Whether or not it is a good comparison, which it is to a degree, I'm just saying that we've gotta stop with the white man comparisons.
Gallo, Larry (whose vid mix you posted in the ent thread was awesome) Dirk, Chambers, Laimbeer and so forth have always been thrown in to the same stock pile and it's silly. There's absolutely no denying that it's a constant.


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AMHERST, Mass. - Erika Eipp scored four goals and Sam Rush added three more as the No. 10 UMass women's lacrosse team defeated Boston University 11-8 on Wednesday afternoon at McGuirk Stadium. A four-goal run in the first half helped the Minutewomen (4-0) overcome an early deficit to the Terriers who jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first two minutes of play.
Along with Eipp and Rush, Katie Ott, Katie Ferris, Tanner Guarino, and Kelsey Sheridan each added tallies. Sheridan added four draw controls, two caused turnovers and two groundballs. Ferris also had two assists, four groundballs and three caused turnovers.
Boston University (0-3) was led by three goals from Sofia Robins and two from Kelsey Marafioti. Lindsay Weiner had a goal and two assists, while Jenna Boarman had a goal and an assist.
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I've been wanting to start taking some overnight trips and I've been looking at gear. The list of camping gear is very overwhelming. I've already decided on using a hammock instead of a tent. What it comes down to is the smaller items. What I'm looking for is the essentials. I don't really plan on doing more than a night or two seeing how I'm solo most of the time.
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One thing to remember when doing a backpacking fishing trip, is that fishing gear weights can add up quickly. Wading boots (>2.5 lbs), fly boxes (8 oz), reel (8 oz), etc. What surprised me this past weekend while car camping in the park was how many people were wearing waders. Save yourself the trouble if backpacking and leave the waders at home, you don't need them.
Here are a couple of good ones I like. They are from a guy who does mainly smokies trips.
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Thank you guys for posting. It's all extremely helpful.
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Now that I have a general idea of the things I need to take with me, what are the things you wouldn't leave without? The frisbee idea is great. Wouldn't have thought of that one. It always seems to be the little things that you forget and that i want to avoid if possible.
A first aid class would be great. There's no use in taking first aid supplies when you don't know how to use them. But, my first aid kit consists of a space blanket, 2 aspirin, 2 Benadryl's, a small tube of super glue and about half a dozen wraps of duck tape on a walking stick. If something happens to you that you can't fix with that, you're going to have to come off the mountain anyways.
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Most counties will be holding the upcoming Municipal General Election by mail ballot, which means county election administrators will be relying on accurate records to get ballots into voters' hands.
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Bluefield State College students Kayla Fazio, Jordan Manns and BSC faculty member Dr. Tesfaye Belay represented the College at the annual General Meeting of American Society for Microbiology in San Diego, May 23-27. The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science organization in the United States, with more 43,000 members from all around the world.
"This is the second student group from BSC to participate in this prestigious scientific society of individuals interested in the microbiological sciences," noted Dr. Belay, BSC Associate Professor of Biology. "At the general meeting, the students exchanged information with other microbiologists and gained insight across a variety of scientific disciplines. The students also visited several exhibit booths and learned more about cutting-edge products and laboratory supplies for their research."
The research works are being supported by grants awarded to Dr. Belay by the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) and VW NASA Consortium.
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Bug could threaten your computer's security
A bug on an application used on just about every computer could leave users vulnerable to hackers.
Java is a program that allows programs to be used across a range of operating systems and is found on PC's, Macs, and smart phones.
This weekend, a bug was discovered that could allow hackers to get access to a person's system. That would include access to any personal information on a computer, and websites a person visits.
But the only way hackers can get access is if a person essentially allows it. "This isn't something where someone from the outside can just attack their system and get in, this takes user intervention, so I'd like to stress specifically that users monitor their browsing habits, they monitor what they click on and where they go," said UW-La Crosse's Information Security Officer Jim Treu.
Homeland Security suggests people turn off Java until the bug is completely fixed. But for places like UW-La Crosse, that's not a possibility.
Instead they are constantly educating the thousands of users and checking their own system. "Once a month, we have what we call a maintanence window, that's when we sweep our system, we make sure we have the latest updates and upgrades and we do our security settings, or penetration test as we call it," said UW-L's Chief Information Officer Dr. Mohamed Elhindi.
Security experts say beyond safe browsing habits, it's important to make sure your system and security features are always up to date.
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DescriptionThis is an unbranched native perennial plant about 1-2' tall. Side stems may develop from upper leaf axils if the central stem is damaged. This stout central stem is 4-angled and it is covered with short white hairs that are usually appressed. The opposite leaves are up to 3½" long and 1½" across. They are broadly oblong to lanceolate in shape, and have smooth, slightly ciliate margins. The lower leaves have short stout petioles, while the upper leaves are sessile. They have deep pinnate venation and are covered with a white pubescence. The upper half of the central stem is perforated by whorled clusters of flowers. Each cluster of flowers is about 2-3" across and in the shape of a flattened sphere, with the flowers arranged in circular rows. The flowers are white, light pink, or lavender, and individually slightly less than ½" long. There are two prominent lips, with small purple spots on the lower one, and fine hairs in the back. The blooming period occurs during early summer and lasts about a month. Neither the flowers nor the leaves have a noticeable scent. The root system consists of a taproot, which forms offshoots occasionally by means of short rhizomes. The seeds are quite small, and distributed by the wind to some extent. Cultivation


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The war on ThanksgivingNovember 25,2013
The war on Christmas has been going on longer than the war in Afghanistan. Bill OReilly & Company emphatically warn about the liberal menace, depriving Christians of their sacred traditions by having the temerity to insert Happy Holidays where Merry Christmas used to reign supreme. Or worse, suggesting government-sponsored nativity scenes in public squares cross church-state lines.
Particularly since Barack Obama took office, the seasonal inclusion progressives demand is routinely depicted as one of numerous Muslim plots to disarm Christians and impose Sharia Law on the unsuspecting dullards we are. Evidently, no one over at Faux News has ever taken a really good look at the illuminated, plastic wise men, crouching ubiquitoulsy across Americas suburban lawns.
Persian, Indian and Arabic is what they are, decidedly un-Christian. If they showed up in person, most Bible-belters would call Homeland Security. Dudes who look like this are wanded at airports, profiled at Barneys, and conjured up in the twisted nightmares of Michelle Bachman.
The holiday wars are beginning to suffer a serious case of mission creep, with big-box giants deciding to open on Thanksgiving, shifting the battle lines to what will soon more than likely be known as Black Friday eve. The full-on commercialization of the last months of the year has become so routine, weve lost our sense of outrage about how the coercion of Americans to spend money they dont have has become more sacred than any religion in history.
Although the season has been expanding for years with the first Christmas trees often appearing before the summer rental expires, Thanksgiving somehow seemed to maintain an aura of peaceful solitude, insulated through overeating and watching televised football. Even if thats your usual autumn weekend routine, Turkey Day felt special the last holiday left that seemingly retained all the right ingredients for guilt-free lethargy, nicely balanced with inter-generational family squabbles.
Its the time of the year that big business in their lust for profit at the expense of everything else including intelligence appears to go into rut. In their haste to capitalize on the season, they make decisions worthy of Saturday Night Live. One small example: Hallmark changed some wording in their current crop of Deck the Halls greetings thusly: Don we now our fun apparel.
Really? No one in a company that employs 11,000 people, generating $4 billion in revenue, fell hysterically out of their chair when this proposal ran up the flag pole?
It is unsurprising then that corporate executives of such alacrity would trample over one of Americas bedrock traditions in a desperate attempt to turn people upside down and shake them until their pockets no longer jingle.
Our only hope is to resist. Passive resistance. Overeat and fall asleep in front of the TV. If we dont, theres no end in sight. Its goodbye Halloween and watch out Labor Day.
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Very old, but still funny to watch
yeah classic just like the weasle one
Haha yeah.
Old, but cracks me up everytime
i dont remember it cause this is the 1st time seeing it
Ages ago since I saw this, but just as funny as last time :p
long time...
Haha still funny.
Lmao :d
funny cause the vid is in spanish.
Originally Posted by NinjaTendo 64
i dont remember it cause this is the 1st time seeing it
o wow really?
It was so popular back then at least.
Originally Posted by Merita
Old, but cracks me up everytime
my first time seeing it
hey Drizzy what are you doin?
Who remembers Fun With Akatsuki parody series?
Thse were awesome
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Thse were awesome
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Lake Land College hosts summer basketball camps
Posted on May 9, 2013
Summer break is almost here and there is one way to ensure your children has a fun and healthy vacation – sign them up for Cedric Brown's Basketball Academy at Lake Land College.
There are three sessions of camp for boys and girls in grades three through 12. Session I runs from June 24-27; Session II runs from July 15-18; and Session III runs from July 22-25. The participants will be divided into three skill groups: grades three through five; grades six through eight; and grades nine through 12.
Each session will be filled with skill-based instruction including dribbling, passing, shooting, footwork, defensive principles and competitive games.
The cost is $50 per day or $160 per week, if pre-paid prior to the camp session. During the sessions, the concession stand will be open for participants to purchase snacks and drinks.
To access the registration application online, visit: www.lakeland.cc.il.us/athletics/mbasketball/camps.cfm. For more information, call Coach Cedric Brown at 217-234-5333 or email at email@example.com.
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I have 2 older children, ages 10 and 9, who I tried very hard to bf, but due to very high pallettes, I just couldn't (I am sure I *could* have but no one told me what to do and I saw many LC's. My nipples were bleeding, and I just couldn't take the pain anymore). Anyway, they both did great on formula.
My third baby is almost 15-weeks old (tomorrow). I breastfed him until around 6-weeks old. For various reasons, I quit. For the sake of time (he is napping right now!), I won't elaborate. After a couple of weeks on regular formula, he started having bloody and mucousy stools. After several weeks of this, the doctor told me that he had a cow's milk protein allergy. So he put him on soy, which he did okay on for a few weeks, then the blood came back. By then, I had researched soy formula, and was very upset about how dangerous it is. My best friend fed her adopted son the Weston Price formula with goat's milk. I can't get raw goat's milk, so I am using powdered goat's milk. My baby does great on it. But I do reduce the whey and yeast flakes due to his acid reflux, so I do worry about him getting the right amount of vitamins.
So...that's the backstory. I continue to be obsessed with relactating. I am so angry with myself for quitting bfing. I feel like I will never forgive myself. I know that with his allergy, I would have to watch my diet really closely, and I just *hope* I could do it. I continue to pump every once in a while because I can't bear for my milk to dry up forever. Today I pumped with my Medela PIS advanced and got out maybe 1/2 ml out of left breast and enough to just cover the bottom of my right. And my DS will latch on, and still has the rooting reflex, so that is good, I think.
I have researched relactation and have considered getting the Lact-Aid system and the drug Domperidone (sp?). I do worry about ordering the drug from overseas. But I have not done this because of the expense and the not knowing if it will work. My DH thinks that I will never be able to make enough milk to feed our son, since he is taking about 35 ounces a day now.
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Disappointing performanceFebruary 04,2013Even Democrats who support President Obamas choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, must have winced as the former Nebraska lawmaker a Republican appeared unable to respond with clarity and confidence to questions from his former GOP colleagues on the Senate Armed Forces Committee last week.
Hagels performance was in sharp contrast with the earlier Capitol Hill appearance by retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who, when challenged by critics, had mounted a stirring, spirited defense of her performance. She was on her way out of the Obama administration while Hagel was trying to find his way in, and that made a huge difference.
One observer, Peter Beinart of The Daily Beast, has advanced the theory that Hagels surprisingly inept performance was actually the result of coaching by White House staffers who had strongly advised him not to react in his normal way he has a reputation for having a short fuse to the grilling he was sure to endure at the hands of Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, James Inhofe and Ted Cruz.
The problem is that Hagel is quite compelling when hes mad, Beinart observed. I suspect thats part of why Obama chose him in the first place, because Obama is himself mad that he was pressured by the military brass and by congressional Republicans into sending more troops to the lost cause that is the Afghan War. And Obama wants someone to push back, hard, if Benjamin Netanyahu and his friends in the GOP try to pressure him the same way on Iran.
Whatever caused Hagel to appear unprepared for such an important confrontation, his performance was surely deeply disappointing to those who genuinely believe that the president needs a secretary of defense who has what it takes to stand up to the incredible pressures that are sure to come his way, especially at a time when our nations priorities are changing.
It is widely understood, for example, that Pentagon spending has to be reined in, and it is unlikely the generals will accept that without strong leadership from the secretary of defense.
But there are two things to understand about the Hagel nomination: First, despite his lackluster performance on Capitol Hill last week, he is almost certain to be confirmed. Second, as poor an impression as he may have made, the tone and nature of the questions thrown at him by his critics on the committee made them Hagels critics look more like immature schoolyard bullies rather than statesmen.
It was especially irksome to see McCain treat Hagel so rudely because when he ran for president in 2008, McCain said hed appoint Hagel secretary of defense. They were once close friends.
There are enough (55) Democrats in the Senate to almost guarantee that, barring an unlikely Republican filibuster, Hagel will indeed become the next secretary of defense. Two Republican senators, Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mike Johanns of Nebraska, have already declared their support for the appointment.
However, there are well-financed outside groups vigorously opposing the nomination for their own reasons and there will be great pressure exerted on senators by organizations such as The American Future Fund. Among their targets will be Democratic senators who face re-election in 2014, so look for an abundance of articulate anti-Hagel commercials on television between now and the vote on confirmation.
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Building Bright Futures grant available for kids programs
MONTPELIER — Applications are being accepted for the Building Bright Futures grant, offered through the Vermont Community Loan Fund for child care, preschool and after-school programs.
The funding can be used to start up, relocate, expand or improve facilities and accessibility. Grant requests may not exceed $25,000 and may not be more than 25 percent of the total project cost.
Priority is given to full-day, full-year operations, comprehensive operations that integrate services with other programs and services, and operations in which 25 percent or more of the total enrollment is or will be filled by children whose families qualify for child-care financial assistance.
All applications will be reviewed for quality of care and regulatory issues, and applicants must be active participants in the STep Ahead Recognition System (STARS).
The deadline for applications is March 18 at 3 p.m. Applications can be downloaded from www.VCLF.org.
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1999-2007 Chevrolet Silverado:
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This favorite among many of the nation's police departments, the Crown
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In the attempt to lessen the risk to lenders, and bolster the available car
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Posted Feb 23, 2014
If you're shopping for a used car, you can expect better deals this year. A large supply of trade-ins and cars
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automotive web site Edmunds.com.
The popularity of leasing new cars, in recent years, plays into the expected lower used car prices. "The boom
in new car leases is leading to a higher number of lease returns, which adds to the growing inventory of used
cars, forcing their prices down," explains Philip Reed, senior consumer advice editor for Edmunds.
In turn, falling used car prices may also affect new car deals, especially low-payment lease offers. Lower used
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A meeting set up to sell a car that had been advertised on Craigslist turned
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The car, a 1999 Honda Accord, was recovered when the victim found it a short
parked near an apartment complex, but the robber wasn't there and hasn't
been arrested.
Police say it started when the 36-year-old victim arranged to meet a man who
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p.m., at which point a man on the lot pointed a gun at the victim's neck and
ordered him to leave while the man took off in the Accord west on Markham
Police responded and took a report. The victim then called investigators a
short time later and said he had found his car at 609 Brookside Drive, the
report said.
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Electric vehicles once were billed as the answer to high gas prices and
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Who's who in the UK's wholesale markets review
The UK government today announced plans to launch a year-long review by the Treasury, Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority of the wholesale markets, in a bid to clean up the country's finance sector after a series of scandals.
The review is expected to yield recommendations on standards of behaviour, strengthening market conduct oversight, and reforms in relation to benchmarks to strengthen the infrastructure supporting those markets.
News of the forthcoming review, which will focus on the fixed income, currencies and commodities markets, where the Treasury said "the bulk of concerns about misconduct have arisen", came as the government outlined a range of measures it will take in the meantime, subject to a consultation process in autumn this year.
These include expanding the UK's criminal regime for market abuse and making it a criminal offense to manipulate benchmarks other than Libor used in the foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities markets. The group running the year-long review will make an early recommendation to the government on the latter issue by providing a list of benchmarks that should fall under the legislation.
The plans will be laid out by Chancellor George Osborne in his annual speech this evening to banking and business executives and politicians at Mansion House.
Financial News takes a look at the key individuals involved:
• Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik
Deputy governor, Bank of England
The UK central bank dealt a sound blow to the proverbial glass ceiling in financial services with its appointment three months ago of the International Monetary Fund's Shafik to the new role of deputy governor for markets and banking.
Today's announcement adds another weighty task to Shafik's in-tray, as she will lead the review. Shafik does not actually join until August, and was already facing a wide-ranging brief including reshaping the Bank's operations and balance sheet and helping to lead an eventual exit from quantitative easing in the UK. She will seek to improve the Bank's markets and banking remit, including taking a root-and-branch look at the organisation's market intelligence function.
She will be a member of the Prudential Regulation Authority board, the Bank's court of directors and both the monetary and financial policy committees, as well as play a role in leading the central bank's surveillance, analysis and engagement on the international stage.
At the IMF, Shafik oversaw work in Europe and the Middle East, and also looked after the organisation's $1 billion administrative budget. Before joining the IMF as a deputy managing director in April 2011, she spent three years as permanent secretary of the Department for International Development, a UK ministerial department that leads the country's work to end extreme poverty. Before that worked at the World Bank, where she had responsibility for a $50 billion private-sector and infrastructure investment portfolio.
• Martin Wheatley
Chief executive, Financial Conduct Authority
Wheatley will co-chair the new review with the Treasury's director general of financial services, Charles Roxburgh. A former deputy chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, Wheatley joined the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in June 2005, becoming its first chief executive the following year.
His latter years at the Hong Kong regulator saw the body adopt an increasingly pro-active stance towards combating insider trading and protecting retail investors, and gave Wheatley a reputation as a tough enforcer before he stepped down to return to the UK in June 2011.
Two months later, he joined the Financial Services Authority, the predecessor to the FCA, as head of a planned new conduct business unit, which was ultimately created on April 1 last year as the FCA.
The new review, the Treasury said today, will build on tough action already taken in the UK to punish wrongdoers and mend the financial system, including the FCA's Libor reform efforts under Wheatley's leadership.
In the FCA's business plan for the year ahead, published in March, the regulator said its tasks included assessing whether the banking industry has learned from scandals including rigging of Libor and other benchmarks, and establishing a strong supervisory framework for Libor which involves the banks submitting rates and the benchmark's new administrator.
• Charles Roxburgh
HM Treasury director general, financial services
Roxburgh spent more than two and a half decades at consultancy firm McKinsey & Company before starting his current role at the Treasury in February last year. He is the Treasury's man in charge of all things pertaining to the financial system and stability in the UK and to financial services.
Roxburgh studied at Camdridge University and Harvard before becoming a consultant at Arthur Andersen and subsequently joining McKinsey in 1986. His roles at McKinsey included co-leading the company's global strategy practice from 1999 to 2003, leading its UK financial institutions group from 2003 to 2006, and co-leading its global corporate and institutional banking practice from 2005 to 2009.
• Elizabeth Corley
Chief executive, Allianz Global Investors
The high-profile head of €345 billion asset manager Allianz Global Investors is one of the most respected names in asset management circles. Last year she appeared in Financial News's annual list of the 100 most influential people in European financial services, making her a strong choice to chair a panel of market practitioners that will represent the views of the financial services sector and feed into the forthcoming review of the wholesale markets.
Corley has been with Allianz GI since April 2005, when she joined to build its European business after spending 11 years at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and its predecessor Mercury Asset Management. She led the European business until January 2012, when she was named global chief executive of the fund manager.
Corley, a keen novelist who has written thrillers, has a range of other duties besides her role at Allianz GI, including roles as a board member at the Investment Management Association and the Financial Reporting Council, an advisory council member at TheCityUK. Most recently she joined the board at Pearson, the educational group and publisher of the Financial Times, where she has been a non-executive member since May this year.
Daniel Godfrey, chief executive of the Investment Management Association, said today: "I believe her appointment recognises the fact the markets exist for their customers, represented by the asset managers. It also reflects the links the industry has established with the Government, to promote the UK as a global player."


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Canceled! Airlines scrap record number of flightsBy SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
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Airline passenger Hossam Shalaby, from Egypt, waits for his rescheduled flight to Orlando this week, under the departure board showing hundreds of cancellations at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.NEW YORK The relentless snow and ice storms this winter have led to the highest number of flight cancellations in more than 25 years, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
U.S. airlines have canceled more than 75,000 domestic flights since Dec. 1, including more than 14,000 this week. Thats 5.5 percent of the 1.37 million flights scheduled during that period, according calculations based on information provided by flight tracking site FlightAware.
Its the highest total number and highest percent of cancellations since at least the winter of 1987-1988, when the Department of Transportation first started collecting cancellation data.
The nations air traffic system was still recovering Friday from the latest bout of bad weather. Flights were taking off again but thousands of passengers werent.
This year is off to a brutal start for airlines and travelers, says FlightAware CEO Daniel Baker. Not only is each storm causing tens of thousands of cancellations, but theres been a lot of them.
And February still has two weeks left.
Mother Nature isnt entirely to blame. A mix of cost-cutting measures and new government regulations has made airlines more likely to cancel flights and leave fliers scrambling to get to their destination.
There were days this week where more than 70 percent of flights were canceled in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Charlotte, N.C. Even typically warm or at least warmer weather cities were not immune. The worlds busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, was paralyzed Wednesday by ice and snow.
Bradley Voight, 25, was one of those passengers trapped in Atlanta after his Spirit Airlines flight to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Wednesday was canceled. After a night sleeping in the airport, he eventually got home late Thursday.
It was fun because of the people I met, but it was terrible because of why I met them, he noted Friday.
Making things worse for travelers this winter, airlines have been cutting unprofitable flights and packing more passengers into planes. Thats been great for their bottom line but has created a nightmare for passengers whose flights are canceled due to a storm. Other planes are too full to easily accommodate the stranded travelers. Many must wait days to secure a seat on another flight.
Carol Cummings, 23, was trying to fly Thursday on United Airlines from the Washington D.C. area to Los Angeles to visit a high school friend for the long Presidents Day weekend. The flight was canceled and Cummings was automatically rebooked for a flight on Monday the day she was supposed to return home. After two and a half hours on hold, United offered to move the trip to another weekend for an extra $150 or to refund her ticket.
I am annoyed and surprised at the lack of customer concern I experienced, she says. Cummings is waiting for her refund.
This winter is even more painful than 2000-2001, when 66,000 or 4.2 percent of December, January and February scheduled flights were scrapped.
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History of the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone
|History of the Peace Corps
|Since 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 138 countries all over the globe.
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The Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone began in January 1962 as one of the first countries entered after Peace Corps' launch in March 1961. In fact, Peace Corps signed an agreement with the new government of Sierra Leone just nine months after the country became independent from the United Kingdom.
The first group of Peace Corps Volunteers to arrive in Sierra Leone were 37 secondary school teachers in January 1962. They were joined by another 70 Volunteers in August 1962. For much of the 1960s, PC/Sierra Leone (SL) concentrated on education, with Volunteers involved in teaching at many levels and throughout the country. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s PC/SL branched out into the sectors of agriculture, community development, design-construction manpower development, and health.
In the early 1990s political turmoil and civil unrest in the region engulfed Sierra Leone and Peace Corps was forced to evacuate its 82 Volunteers as a result of a bloodless coup d'état that took place in Freetown on April 29, 1992. In July 1992 Peace Corps staff returned to reopen the program, with 15 former Volunteers; another 11 new agriculture trainees arrived in August 1992. Projects in Health, Education and Agriculture were re-established in areas not immediately affected by the civil conflict, but growing violence soon made it difficult for Peace Corps to continue. Following the evacuation of the remaining Volunteers, the program was finally closed in October 1994. More than 5,900 Volunteers served in Sierra Leone up until this closure.
Peace Corps conducted a partial assessment in 2001, hoping to utilize Peace Corps Response Volunteers. Agency finances did not allow a return, but full assessments were conducted in 2003 and 2007, both recommending that the security situation in-country was conducive to Peace Corps' return and that there was a tremendous need for, and goodwill toward, the Peace Corps. With the availability of funding in 2009, the agency made the decision to re-enter Sierra Leone with a group of 40 Volunteers.
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In Sierra Leone Peace Corps begun in Sierra Leone with an educational
project, but Volunteers have worked in many program sectors, including agriculture, education, fisheries, health, parks management, rural development, and small-scale food production/processing.
Throughout its history, Peace Corps has enjoyed a significant amount of support from the government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) and the population at-large. This strong support still exists and was very evident during the many meetings held with ministerial level officials during the re-entry assessment visit, as well as during tours of the nation. Education, environment/agriculture, health, and small business development are areas in which the government has expressed strong interest in having Peace Corps assistance and support. Strengthening local organizational capacities, food security, and income generation are explicitly advocated as major goals of many national development initiatives. All of the initial activities proposed for Peace Corps fall within the scope of government priorities and will systematically adhere to the strategic policy of decentralization and building local capacities in GOSL's overall development plan.
Soon after the war ended in Sierra Leone, education emerged as a national priority. The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (now Ministry of Education, Sports, and Youth) developed a comprehensive education sector assistance plan for 2007-2015. Sierra Leone's educational system has been transitioning from post-conflict resolution to sustainable development. To strengthen the educational system, the government of Sierra Leone and its partners are collaborating in every facet of the system to provide quality and affordable education. In response to this national priority, the Peace Corps' initial return to Sierra Leone has focused on secondary education Volunteers teaching English, math, and science.
The focus for future programming in Sierra Leone is strong and strategic growth. In 2011, a second project area is expected to be added to complement the existing secondary education project and Peace Corps will more than double the number of Volunteers in-country. Peace Corps will also place Response Volunteers. These are returned Peace Corps Volunteers who undertake more narrowly focused and shorterterm assignments. Future programming expansion will likely focus on agriculture, community development, food security, and health education, in keeping with GOSL priorities.
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Keep it personalMarch 14,2013
Normally I find Steve Pappas editorials well reasoned and sensitive to the local conversation. So I was quite surprised at his argument that the town meeting is an inefficient relic of a past age in need of replacement with the Australian ballot.
I fear Mr. Pappas has become a victim of the cult of efficiency that has ravaged our national financial, educational and political systems. In so doing, he has missed much of the less-recognized social research which highlights the crucial capacity of community to provide social and economic resilience.
In answer to Pappas complaint, I have but one word: Irene.
The bonds of community in Vermont were the key ingredient in our collective resilient response to that disaster. Peoples trust and care for each other, born of their collective struggles to find answers to shared problems, created a deep and lasting bond. That bond was, in turn, the motive force in the way our communities turned out to heal and rebuild.
We may not agree with each other on the issues facing our towns, but we have the knowledge that real people like us are struggling to find answers to our shared challenges. Such struggle, in turn, keeps a human face to our problems, which cannot be seen in an impersonal ballot. Then, when disaster strikes, we have a different feeling about the people affected than we do about the abstract voter.
We have been assured by the climate scientists that myriad disasters await us in the future. We are going to need every ounce of social strength to meet and overcome those looming challenges.
The last thing we need to do right now is hide from our neighbors in the safety of a voting booth when tough decisions loom. We need this constant practice in struggling with difficult issues because the issues are going to get worse. The town meeting is a way of keeping our social capital in shape to meet the demands of a difficult future.
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