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TV series "The Fugitive Plan B" [KBS]
KBS TV series "The Fugitive Plan B" will go on air in Japan starting April next year.
CEO Ahn Hyung-soo of the production company of the show told Sports Today over the phone, "It has been decided that the show will begin its air in Japan. Starting April, 'Fugitive' will be broadcasted on So-net, a station affiliated with Sony Group". Ahn added they are currently in talks with other public networks in Japan as well.
In October, the distribution rights to "Fugitive" was sold to seven countries in Asia including Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
"The Fugitive Plan B", which will end its run tonight, is helmed by noted director Kwak Jeong-hwan and written by Cheon Seong-il, the creative duo behind the 2010 hit series "The Slave Hunters".
The action-comedy drama, starring Rain, Lee Na-young and Daniel Henney, is about a detective and his female client getting chased by cops and gangs as they get entangled in a case searching for gold that disappeared almost a century ago.
The 20-part series first scored viewership ratings in the 20 percent range when it aired on October 7 and has maintained its position at No. 2 on the Wednesday and Thursday primetime slot with ratings in the 13 to 15 percent range.
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Some consider her the icon of the age and worship at her shrine. Others find her to be oppressively present. Oprah Winfrey is obviously an impressive force in promoting ideas, books and people.
One of her more recent ventures was a series that confronted the topic of a debt-ridden people and the impact this raging disease has had on society. The professionals Winfrey engaged as presenters challenged the debtors—and by extension all of us—to change lifestyles.
Navy Seaman Apprentice Nicole M. Meissner, daughter of Laura A. and Jay E. Meissner of Leland, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training and was meritoriously promoted to her current rank at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.
During the eight-week program, Meissner completed a variety of training, which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
Army Pfc. Kristen A. Hughes, daughter of Lane Thompson of Shallotte, and Kevin Hughes of Ocean Isle Beach, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.
During nine weeks of training, Hughes studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.
Brunswick County resident Dawn Lewis Scott has been admitted for the fall 2010 semester at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington as a Principal Fellow.
One of only 52 Principal Fellows selected statewide to participate in the rigorous, two-year program, Scott will complete a full year of coursework and a 10-month full-time internship, while earning a master's degree in school administration. Major areas of study will include: teacher effectiveness, instructional improvement, school finance, teacher support, data analysis, diversity and vision.
Tammy McClain and Talbot Grissett, both of Ocean Isle Beach, announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage. The prospective bride is the daughter of Ray Lambert, of Ash, and Betty Lambert, of Concord. The prospective groom is the son of DeAnna Grissett, of Shallotte, and Kenneth and Frances Grissett, of Ocean Isle Beach. An Aug. 21 wedding is planned at Miss Caroline's Country Wedding in Maggie Valley.
Denny and Lynn Ellis of Shallotte, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Sara Ellis, of Shallotte, to Ian Carico of Supply. He is the son of Dicky and Anne Carico of Madison. An April 10, 2011, wedding is planned in Southport.
Communities in Schools (CIS) had its fourth annual Stuff the Bus event at the Leland, Shallotte and Southport Walmart stores on tax-free weekend to benefit the children of Brunswick County.
"Stuff the Bus helps reduce the financial burden on families already hard hit by the economy. This year more than $13,000 worth of school supplies were collected for the children in Brunswick County," said Linda Rumsey, director of the Adopt-A-School and Volunteer Program.
By Charlie Spencer
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It is that time of year when the Master Gardener information phone starts to ring off the hook. Homeowners who have centipede grass in their yards realize that there is something wrong with the grass. It is dying in places, usually in a circular pattern.
The people who keep weather records tell me the last 60 days have been consistently the hottest since they started keeping records on such things. That's probably not news to most of you. The heat has been brutal this year.
Brunswick Community Hospital was recently recognized as a leader in clinical quality and patient safety for its efforts to reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infections, specifically Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA infections, which are difficult to treat if they develop.
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TORONTO -- Jon Cornish is again chasing CFL history.
The Calgary Stampeders running back was named a finalist for the league's outstanding player award, along with receiver/kick-returner Chad Owens of the Toronto Argonauts.
Cornish ran for a league-best 1,457 yards and not only became the first Canadian to lead the CFL in rushing since '88 but also broke Norm Kwong's 56-year-old record for most rushing yards in a season by a Canuck of 1,437.
The six-foot, 217-pound native of New Westminster, B.C., could become the first Canadian to claim the award since Tony Gabriel in 1978. Gabriel and former standout quarterback Russ Jackson (1963, '66, '69) are the only Canadians to ever win it.
And Cornish would be the first running back to do so since Montreal's Mike Pringle in '98.
"It's going to be very interesting," Cornish said. "I think him coming out of the East is sort of a statement about how the season has played out.
"It hasn't been a typical season in terms of statistics. You have a special-teams player leading the league in receiving and you have a running back (outgaining) the longest receiver. It's very interesting."
Owens set a pro football record of 3,863 all-purpose yards. The 30-year-old Hawaii native and also led the CFL in receiving (94 catches, 1,328 yards, six TDs), kickoff returns (71 for 1,588 yards) and total return yards (2,510).
"I set the bar high for myself . . . having a chance to be a (most outstanding player) that's the top right?" Owens said. "As a player you never want to try to be No. 2 . . . you always want to try to be the best.
"So for me, it's winning the Grey Cup, obviously, and, if I'm fortunate enough, to have an opportunity to one day be a most outstanding player."
Voting was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and eight CFL head coaches. The award winners will be named Nov. 22 in Toronto.
Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said there isn't much to choose between Owens and Cornish.
"He's had a great season too," Milanovich said of Cornish. "They're both deserving."
Owens agreed.
"Cornish is an awesome player," he said. "He's obviously done what he needed to do to get to this point, to get nominated as well.
"He's a hell of a football player."
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Shea Emery -- Montreal
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1) It's a brand new year! Do you have any resolutions for 2013?
Nope. I don't really do resolutions. I do need to stop eating stuff that is bad for me, though, which is more of a recognition that I'm not 20 anymore than a resolution.2) Dusty Springfield sang of feeling "brand new." What leaves you feeling refreshed and/or rejuvenated?
A good night's rest, a shower or bath, getting something major accomplished, that sort of thing.3) Dusty's given name was Mary Catherine. If you could give yourself a brand new first name, what would it be?
I have come to appreciate and even like my first name. Ironically, I used to want to be called Sam. If pressed, I wouldn't mind being a Jo.4) Actor Billy Bob Thornton has dismissed antiques, saying, "I'm creeped out by old stuff." Do you ever shop at estate sales, yard sales or second-hand stores? Or do you want everything brand new?
I'm pretty creeped out by Billy Bob, who isn't exactly a spring chicken himself. And I do like older stuff that's in good shape, much better than new stuff that costs the moon and falls apart tomorrow. Having said that, I don't shop in second-hand stores very often because of the dust factor, I don't go to yard sales because they are mostly full of junk (or things I have literally NO need for, e.g., kids' toys), and I don't go to estate sales because they depress the hell out of me.5) Are you sad to see the holiday decorations slowly disappear until next year? Or do you think they should come down on January 2?
I think they should come down on Epiphany or thereabouts. My mom was a big believer in January 1 being the clean-up day, but that's mostly a carry-over from having a real tree slowly turning into a fire hazard. Ours is still up. Maybe we'll get it all down and put away this weekend...we'll see. As for outdoor stuff, I'm fine with the lights staying up for awhile; it's too cold around here in January and February (usually) to ask people to crawl around on their roofs and wade through snow to collect everything.6) Do you like the picture on your photo ID?
I actually do, even though my hair is quite different now.7) Crazy Sam shudders at the very thought of a snake. Which is your least favorite member of the Animal Kingdom?
I do NOT like maggots, or other creepy-slimy things like leeches and snails. Snakes, not being slimy, do not bother me much, especially around here where none of them is poisonous. And kinda weirdly, I love earthworms.8) What's the most recent magazine you flipped through?
Booklist, December 15 issue. At work. For the reviews.9) Do you have nice handwriting?
If I slow down, then yes. My usual scrawl, however, is far from attractive. It is, however, almost always semi-legible, which is more than I can say for at least two people with whom I work.


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CANA — St. Paul's beloved librarian will continue to have an impact on the school and the community where she taught and touched the lives of students for 37 years.
Joyce Slate had enough time in her career to make a generational impact on St. Paul students and on their sons and daughters, as she encouraged reading, sponsored the yearbook, documented the school year with her camera, took children on field trips and threw fundraising events to be able to afford those trips.
HILLSVILLE — Two protest votes cast by Carroll School Board members against transferring Woodlawn to the county supervisors nearly defeated the idea, as the school board chairman thought the land might become useful for growth in the future.
When the board members discussed the matter Oct. 8, several of them felt the idea to turn over the more than a century old facility to county officials was a "done deal."
The last official Carroll County school system function at the long-standing Woodlawn facility was the surplus auction on Saturday.
Months after Galax Elementary School's Cooperative Center for Exceptional Children received the exciting news that they had won a $10,000 prize to buy a smart board for their curriculum, Order of United Commercial Travelers of America (UCT) President Robert Kellogg and wife Bert dropped in to see first-hand what the national contest sponsored by the fraternal organization has made possible.
By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
This year's accreditation scores for schools in the Twin County area are reflecting a statewide trend, as the new and more difficult state tests pose new challenges and set higher goals for school systems to reach.
With accreditation standards becoming more difficult to achieve, Galax High School has become proactive in bringing staff, administrators and teachers together to create a team that is focused on learning and success.
HILLSVILLE — Though Woodlawn school won't be used as an educational facility when its transferred to the county supervisors in October, athletic teams will still need the gym and the ball fields for their games.
Carroll educators have a timeline to give the former school back to the county supervisors, and both governmental bodies have made plans for the transfer.
INDEPENDENCE – After months of discussions between the school board and county supervisors, Grayson County Public Schools will receive two new school resource officers for the current school year.
County officials came to an agreement on how to pay for the new officers, after earlier funding discussions seemed to indicate the school board could not afford to pay the amount of local matching funds that the supervisors required.
Grant funding awarded to Galax City Schools will allow the school board to look into the possibility of a year-round curriculum. As a stipulation of the grant, the board will have to make its final decision about the curriculum by next fall.
In the interest of providing students with resources to succeed academically, the Galax City School Board has looked into several options to improve the curriculum.
HILLSVILLE — Soon after an update on how work on the heating and cooling improvements at Carroll County High School has progressed, county supervisors unanimously approved the concept of seeking funds to add an auxiliary gym to the facility.
The school that's seen its population grow to about 1,200 students with the addition of the ninth grade still needs one more addition, Supervisor Bob Martin said during Monday's county board meeting.
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Wendell Scott
Wendell Oliver Scott (August 29, 1921 – December 23, 1990) was an American stock car racing driver from Danville, Virginia. He is the only black driver to win a race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. According to a 2008 biography of Scott, he broke the color barrier in Southern stock car racing on May 23, 1952, at the Danville Fairgrounds Speedway. The book, "Hard Driving: The American Odyssey of NASCAR's First Black Driver," by Brian Donovan (Steerforth Press), says that after gaining experience and winning some local races at various Virginia tracks, Scott became the first African-American to obtain a NASCAR racing license, apparently in 1953, although NASCAR does not have the exact date. The book says that Scott's career was repeatedly affected by racial prejudice and problems with top-level NASCAR officials. However, his determined struggle as an underdog won him thousands of white fans and many friends and admirers among his fellow racers.
From boyhood, Scott wanted to be his own boss. In Danville, two industries dominated the local economy: cotton mills and tobacco-processing plants. Scott vowed to avoid that sort of boss-dominated life. "That mill's too much like a prison," he told a friend. "You go in and they lock a gate behind you and you can't get out until you've done your time." (This quotation and those that follow are from "Hard Driving" and are posted here by the book's author.) He began learning auto mechanics from his father, who worked as a driver and mechanic for two well-to-do white families. Scott and his sister Guelda were awed by their father's daring behind the wheel. "He frightened people to death," Guelda said. "They say he'd come through town just about touching the ground. After Wendell started racing, all the old people would say the same thing: 'He's just like his daddy.'" Scott raced bicycles against white boys. In his neighborhood, he said, "I was the only black boy that had a bicycle." He became a daredevil on roller skates, speeding down Danville's steep hills on one skate. He dropped out of high school, became a taxi driver, married Mary Coles and served in the segregated Army in Europe during World War II.
After the war, he ran an auto-repair shop. As a sideline, he took up the dangerous, illegal pursuit of running moonshine whiskey. This trade gave quite a few early stock car racers such as Junior Johnson and Big Bill France their education in building fast cars and outrunning the police. The police caught Scott only once, in 1949. Sentenced to three years probation, he continued making his late-night whiskey runs. On weekends, he would go to the stock car races in Danville, sitting in the blacks-only section of the bleachers, and he would wish that he too could be racing on the speedway.
Scott was around thirty years old when he was sitting in the bleachers of local speedways, watching white men race. Up to then, he had lived his whole life under the rigid rules of segregation.
The Danville races were run by the Dixie Circuit, one of several regional racing organizations that competed with NASCAR during that era. Danville's events always made less money than the Dixie Circuit's races at other tracks. "We were a tobacco and textile town -- people didn't have the money to spend," said Aubrey Ferrell, one of the organizers. The officials decided they would try an unusual, and unprecedented, promotional gimmick: They would recruit a Negro driver to compete against the "good ol' boys." To their credit, they wanted a fast black driver, not just a fall guy to look foolish. They asked the Danville police who the best Negro driver in town was. The police recommended the moonshine runner whom they had chased many times and caught only once. Scott brought one of his whiskey-running cars to the next race, and Southern stock car racing gained its first black driver. (Scott's debut often has been reported as taking place in the 1940s, but articles in two Danville newspapers, the Register and the Commercial Appeal, confirm the date as May 23, 1952.) Some spectators booed him, and his car broke down during the race. But Scott realized immediately that he wanted a career as a driver. "Right from the first, I loved driving that car in that race."
The next day, however, brought the first of many episodes of discrimination that would plague his racing career. Scott repaired his car and towed it to a NASCAR-sanctioned race in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. But the NASCAR officials refused to let him compete. Black drivers were not allowed, they said. As he drove home, Scott recalled, "I had tears in my eyes." A few days later he went to another NASCAR event in High Point, North Carolina. Again, Scott said, the officials "just flat told me I couldn't race. They told me I could let a white boy drive my car. I told 'em weren't no damn white boy going to drive my car." Scott decided to avoid NASCAR for the time being and race with the Dixie Circuit and at other non-NASCAR speedways. He won his first race at Lynchburg, Virginia, only twelve days into his racing career. It was just a short heat race in the amateur class, but for Scott, the victory was like a barb on a hook. He knew that he had found his calling.
He ran as many as five events a week, mostly at Virginia tracks. Some spectators would shout racial slurs, but many others began rooting for him. Some prejudiced drivers would wreck him deliberately. They "just hammered on Wendell," former chief NASCAR photographer T. Taylor Warren said. "They figured he wasn't going to retaliate." And they were right--Scott felt that because of the racial atmosphere, he could not risk becoming involved in the fist-fights and dirty-driving paybacks that frequently took place among the white drivers.[citation needed]
Many other drivers, however, came to respect Scott. They saw his skills as a mechanic and driver, and they liked his quiet, uncomplaining manner. They saw him as someone similar to themselves, another hard-working blue-collar guy swept up in the adrenalin rush of racing, not somebody trying to make a racial point. "He was a racer -- you could look at somebody and tell whether they were a racer or not," said driver Rodney Ligon, who was also a moonshine runner. "Didn't nobody send him [to the track] to represent his race -- he come down because he wanted to drive a damn racecar." Some white drivers became his close friends and also occasionally acted as his bodyguards.
Some Southern newspapers began writing positive stories about Scott's performance. He began the 1953 season on the northern Virginia circuit, for example, by winning a feature race in Staunton. Then he tied the Waynesboro qualifying record. A week later he won the Waynesboro feature, after placing first in his heat race and setting a new qualifying record. The Waynesboro News Virginian reported that Scott had become "recognized as one of the most popular drivers to appear here." The Staunton News Leader said he "has been among the top drivers in every race here."
Scott understood, though, that to rise in the sport, he somehow had to gain admission to the all-white ranks of NASCAR. He did not know NASCAR's celebrated founder and president, Bill France, who ran the organization like a czar. Instead, Scott found a way, essentially, to slip into NASCAR through a side door, without the knowledge or consent of anyone at NASCAR's Daytona Beach headquarters. He towed his racecar to a local NASCAR event at the old Richmond Speedway, a quarter-mile dirt oval, and asked the steward, Mike Poston, to grant him a NASCAR license. Poston, a part-timer, was not a powerful figure in NASCAR's hierarchy, but he did have the authority to issue licenses.
He asked Scott if he knew what he was getting into. "I told him we've never had any black drivers, and you're going to be knocked around," Poston said. "He said, 'I can take it.'" Poston approved Scott's license. Later he confided to Scott that officials at NASCAR headquarters had not been pleased with his decision. "He told me that when they found out at Daytona Beach that he had signed me up, they raised hell with him," Scott said.
Scott met Bill France for the first time in April 1954. The night before, Scott said, the promoter at a NASCAR event in Raleigh, North Carolina, had given gas money to all of the white drivers who came to the track but refused to pay Scott anything. Scott said he approached France in the pits at the Lynchburg speedway and told him what had happened. Even though France and the Raleigh promoter were friends, Scott said France immediately pulled some money out of his pocket and assured Scott that NASCAR would never treat him with prejudice. "He let me know my color didn't have anything to do with anything," Scott said. "He said, 'You're a NASCAR member, and as of now you will always be treated as a NASCAR member.' And instead of giving me fifteen dollars, he reached in his pocket and gave me thirty dollars."
Scott won dozens of races during his nine years in regional-level competition. His driving talent, his skill as a mechanic and his hard work earned him the admiration of thousands of white fans and many of his fellow racers, despite the racial prejudice that was widespread during the 1950s. In 1959 he won two championships. NASCAR awarded him the championship title for drivers of sportsman-class stock cars in the state of Virginia, and he also won the track championship in the sportsman class at Richmond's Southside Speedway. Even at this early stage of his racing, Scott would tell friends privately that his goal was to win races at the top level of NASCAR. For the rest of his career he would pursue a dream whose fulfillment depended heavily upon whether France backed up that promise.[citation needed]
In 1961, he moved up to Grand National (now Sprint Cup). In the 1963 season, he finished 15th in points, and on December 1 of that year, driving a Chevrolet Bel Air that he purchased from Ned Jarrett, he won a race on the half-mile dirt track at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida -- the first (and, to date, only) Grand National event won by an African-American (Darrell Wallace Jr.recently became the second African-American driver in NASCAR's top 3 series to win with his win at Martinsville in 2013). Scott passed Richard Petty, who was driving an ailing car, with 25 laps remaining for the win. Scott was not announced as the winner of the race at the time, presumably due to the racist culture of the time.[citation needed] Buck Baker, the second-place driver, was initially declared the winner, but race officials discovered two hours later that Scott had not only won, but was two laps in front of the rest of the field. NASCAR awarded Scott the win two years later, but his family never actually received the trophy he had earned till 2010--47 years after the race, and 20 years after Scott had died.[citation needed]
He continued to be a competitive driver despite his low-budget operation through the rest of the 1960s. In 1964, Scott finished 12th in points despite missing several races. Over the next five years, Scott consistently finished in the top ten in the point standings. He finished 11th in points in 1965, was a career-high 6th in 1966, 10th in 1967, and finished 9th in both 1968 and 1969. His top year in winnings was 1969 when he won $47,451[1] ($302,058.77 in today's money).
Scott was forced to retire due to injuries from a racing accident at Talladega, Alabama in 1973. He achieved one win and 147 top ten finishes in 495 career Grand National starts.
Scott died on December 23, 1990 in Danville, Virginia, having suffered from spinal cancer


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I make a big Hanukkah party every year. And since the focus of the evening is my potato latkes, I try to make the rest of the food and drink as easy and streamlined as possible (for those of you unfamiliar with latkes, they are both labor AND time intensive – but soooooooo worth it!).
I order in roasted chicken from a local market, make and freeze all the desserts in advance (like this and this), and serve these with some version of punch.
We usually get a big crowd so the punch needs to be served in a large bowl and kept ice cold. I like to make a pretty ice ring for just this purpose and it is so easy to do.
Start with a tube or bundt pan – the sides can be straight or fluted; just make sure that it is the proper fit for your punch bowl. Fill it one-third with water and freeze (make sure it is sitting on a level surface in your freezer). When frozen, layer your ingredients on top. I like to use fruits and herbs that complement the flavors in the punch.
Pour enough water over your ingredients to cover by 1-2″ (to keep them from floating to the top) and freeze again. Finally, fill the pan almost to the top and freeze once more (this can be done overnight). When ready to use, turn the pan upside down and hold under warm running water till the ring releases.
There you have it! I've included the recipe for the Pomegranate-Champagne punch I served, and would love to see some of your favorite party beverages (and serving tips!).
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adapted from Bon Appetit
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. sugar (100 g.)
(2) 750-ml bottles chilled brut Champagne
1 1/2 c. white rum
2 c. pomegranate juice
1 large lemon, thinly sliced
Pomegranate seeds
Fresh mint leaves
Bring water and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer 5 minutes. Cool syrup completely.
Combine Champagne, rum, and pomegranate juice in punch bowl. Add enough syrup to sweeten to taste. Mix in lemon slices, pomegranate seeds, and mint leaves. Add ice block to bowl.
Above recipe serves 10-12 – double it for a larger crowd.
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JERUSALEM (Sep. 28)
Egyptian forces today advanced from their portions and occupied a strategic hill near Ein Karim, southwest of Jerusalem. Jewish authorities have informed U.N. observers of the breach of truce.
All indications point to the fact that the Egyptian troops on the Jerusalem front may soon start an all-out offensive. Jewish military authorities have therefore ordered a strengthening of the city's fortifications.
Tension in Jerusalem reached a new high today after the city had its third air raid warning in 36 hours. Sirens wailed for one hour after the sound of aircraft was heard over the city. No bombs fell.
An official communique issued by the Israeli military authorities said that Arab sappers blasted a Jewish outpost late yesterday in the Deir Abu Tor sector, on the southern edge of Jerusalem. One Israeli soldier was killed and two were wounded. Arabs also attacked the Jewish positions with grenades, machineguns and mortars on Mount Zion and at the New Gate, on the southern and northern walls of the Old City, respectively, the communique reported.


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Roasted Beets with Cilantro-Basil Pesto
For your Rosh Hashanah table.
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On Rosh Hashanah, beets, whose Aramaic name "silka" is similar to the Hebrew "salak"–go away–are eaten to express the hope that our enemies disappear.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup parmesan cheese (or nutritional yeast, if making pareve)
1/4 cup pine nuts*
2 cloves garlic
1 packed cup cilantro leaves, washed and dried
2 packed cups basil leaves, washed and dried
2 bunches medium-sized beets, scrubbed and ends and tops removed
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wrap individual beets in foil and use a fork to pierce a few holes into each foil-wrapped beet. Place beets on a baking sheet and roast in the oven until a knife easily pierces through the beets, about 40 minutes.
Allow beets to rest until cool to the touch, then unwrap the beets and use a paper towel rub off the skin, exposing the bright jewel-toned flesh. Slice beets into 1/4-inch circles and arrange in a bowl or on a platter. Drizzle with cilantro-basil pesto.
To Make Pesto
Place all ingredients except the olive oil into a food processor and blend until a thick paste forms. Then, with the food processor running, slowly drizzle in the olive oil, blending until smooth. Spoon over beets and store any extra pesto in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
*Some people avoid eating nuts on the high holidays–if that is your custom, you can omit them from this recipe.
Rosh Hashanah
Pronounced: roshe hah-SHAH-nah, also roshe ha-shah-NAH, Origin: Hebrew, the Jewish new year.


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Tops in Euro Trends
Ellen C. Wells
Published Date: 1/31/2014
When it comes to style trends, as Europe goes, so goes the U.S. and Canada, even if it's a year or two down the road. This goes for all garden-related elements, but especially for containers. So, what's hot in Euro-style containers? Green Profit asked four folks who have a finger on the pulse of European styles what we can expect to see in the way of container designs. Their answers are as diverse as the countries that make up the continent.
acy Sirk, Amsterdam-based Retail Product and Visual Stylist
Four color palettes are trending for 2014:
• Military khakis and greens, turquoise, aqua, woody browns, green.
• Brown and earth colors but the subtle earth tones, with accents in sunflower yellow, tomato red, string bean green.
• White, ecru, blues and verdant greens, yellow and silvers and grays.
• Porcelain white to off white, very pale pink, gold, translucent pearls—think of all the colors of pearls you can get now—pink, blue, grey, green, yellow, all in very soft, watery tones.
Beyond these you'll see gray/lavender, that range of smoky purples, is mixing in with the above.
Fluorescent colors as an accent are still showing up, but just touches. That bright yellow, sunflower and lemon, both work with all the above, but the story is quite neutral, calm, beautiful palettes of refined colors.
What Stacy is seeing:
• Round, very important!
• Three-dimensional geometric shapes (This is a new trend, and a really interesting one to see.)
• Organic shapes in wood containers
• Tall conical shapes
• Recycled wood made into containers
• Many more single color containers, letting all the interest be in the plant material
Patterning, if there is any, is either graphic line patterns, or patterns embossed into single-color pots. Also to note, on small cachepots, there is BIG interest in lace and crochet, shaped into pots, that become a sleeve for standard plant pots. I am seeing this regularly now, so it's worth looking out for this.
Container Sizes
For gardens, pots are generally getting much bigger. Think larger containers, but fewer of them. Having said that, the classic cachepot pot—6-in. and 8-in.—is still great for indoor plants. Large feature pots are coming indoors, too, and maybe what I see that is new is using outdoor pots indoors.
Container Planting
There's big interest in combining naturalistic planting schemes with more traditional container plants. Also, plants for pollinating insects are key.
In General
Outdoor containers are going larger, and the whites and neutrals are really the big trend. All the color is in the planting. The zinc containers—like old water tanks—and all the new lightweight "clay" containers in a range of lovely muddy soft grays and browns really show off the plants. The pots are more like the hardscaping in a way, just a beautiful unobtrusive backdrop to the real stars of the show: the plants. Adding wildflower seeds in with container plants is interesting too, creating that wild look, and giving something for the insects, as well.
Erwin Meier-Honegger of Ernst Meier Garden Center, Switzerland
Density Dictates
Erwin Meier-Honegger says the biggest container trend he sees is raised beds for herbs and vegetables, either very simple ones or ones that are more sophisticated.
Pictured: Insect hotels are the latest "container" trend for housing beneficial insects for the garden. "Five-star" hotels such as this can garner as much as $2,000.
"In Switzerland we face a special challenge regarding land-use planning," Erwin says. "As we have only limited land space but important immigration, garden space is becoming very precious and is therefore decreasing. Multi-story apartment buildings are replacing single-family detached houses. We are moving from classic gardening to terrace/balcony gardening."
Because of the density of modern living, the container plantings are designed to establish privacy and to be low maintenance. They are typically minimalist in style with grasses and evergreen shrubs. The containers, Erwin says, are rectangular fiber-stone material in gray colors.
Goodbye, Terracotta
Something else to note from Erwin: The terracotta container market is dead. Although his suppliers tell him colorful containers are the coming trend, Erwin says he sees his customers sticking to dove- and anthracite-colored containers.
When it comes to indoor plant décor, Erwin says it seems the stylish container is more important than the plant. "Customers are willing to pay a fortune for special containers but are looking for cheep indoor plants." Erwin says. That's something to keep an eye on for the American market, as well.
Containers of Another Kind
Erwin says another "container" is becoming a hot item: insect hotels. Ernst Meier sells small "hotels" and even some five stars luxury holiday homes at price of about $2,000. Meant to house beneficial organisms, these "hotels" are also a decorative addition to the outdoor home. "The insect hotels are made by retirees and we use them as showpieces to promote the regular ones," Erwin says. But of course, the toppers are also for sale.
FrankBoendermaker, TASC LLC.
Frank Boendermaker and TASC (Trans Atlantic Sales and Consulting) have actively been selling high-end, lightweight European planters in North America for two years. The Capi Lux line that they sell stateside is the bestselling line in Europe "by a mile," says Frank. "Especially the square cubes and rectangular shapes made of fiberglass," he clarifies. According to Frank, the black terrazzo look is 70% of total sales in Europe and their sales in North America are trending accordingly. All of their planters are lightweight and made of fiberglass, magnesium or a combination of the two materials. Frank is another confirmation that the terracotta market does not exist anymore in Europe. Pastel colors, however, are very hot in Europe, he says.
"Our planters are somewhat modern in North America but we are making great progress," says Frank. This style of planter seems to be popular with hospitality businesses such as hotels, malls, office buildings and the like. They are also getting into the garden center market in Canada and they'll also be sold in Costco this spring.
Keith Turbett, VP of sales for Scheurich
Muted color tones, beige in glossy and matte gets a revival for mainstream products. Copper is a color we see coming and silver is also still strong.
Container styles:
Textured or sometimes called structured surfaces, in combination with softer colors.
Container materials:
Lightweight materials (plastic/resin) for outdoor in Europe and slowly but surely in North America. For indoor the wave of ecological pots has slowed down as consumers question the validity of having an ecological pot that doesn't enhance their plant or their home. Most have a boring look.
Pictured: Acco
rding to Keith Turbett, copper-colored pots are on trend in Eur
Container Sizes:
For indoor pots, the 4-in. and 6-in. sizes and up are popular. American orchid growers are slowly replacing the 4-in. and 6-in. orchid pots with 5-in. orchid pots. For outdoors, 13-in. and 16-in. diameter pots are popular.
In General:
Plastics [containers] are growing as the design and color gets better. The price, especially for the indoor market, makes them acceptable for the budget-challenged/Gen Y consumers. For the outdoor market, the lightweight factor—where a plastic pot in, say, a rotational mold design looks as chunky as a clay pot but is 20 times lighter—appeals to consumers, especially the core gardeners of ages 45-plus. Classical terracotta sales are decreasing by the second over here.
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