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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Write a Poem on "Where I'm From"
Hey there, Genea-Nauts -- It's Saturday Night, and time for more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Write a poem about "Where I'm From" using the template found at the websitehttp://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm
2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Google Plus or Facebook note.
Thank you to Kevin Huigens of the Family History Nuggets blog for the SNGF suggestion!
I am from poor North and East Texas dirt farmers and laborers of green beans, peanuts and watermelon.
I am from the small early 40s brick home of a Methodist minister in NE Texas with his wife and a milking cow in the back that was shared with the Baptist minister's family.
I am from the rolling hills and pine tree forests of East Texas where trees cast shadows on the highways and spread their branches to meet each other and where the crepe myrtles bloomed along the sides.
I am from a religious family and a family that taught honesty and respect from my dad Kermit and my mom Murriel and from our grandparents.
I am from the habit of industriousness along with the contrasting habit of procrastination.
I am from always being taught to say, "Yes, Sir", Yes, Ma'am" and "Please" and "Thank you".
I am from the United Methodist Church, beginning by being a "preacher's kid", being active in youth groups and choirs, graduating from a United Methodist University with a Bachelor's Degree in Church Music and directing quite a few United Methodist Church choirs. My influence, if there is any, is that my two daughters' families are United Methodist and are active in their local congregations with children's' and youth activities, singing in the choirs, playing bells, and playing in the orchestra.
I am from Linden, Cass County, Texas. My dad's parents were from Denison, Grayson County, Texas and my mom's parents were from Cleveland, Liberty County, Texas. Through the years my mom and her mom prepared many meals for our family and extended families that included mostly home cooked meals, much of it coming from each of their gardens.
I am from the experiences from the time I learned to drive of the worst accident that took place in our home driveway as I hit my dad's car that I did not see when I was backing, the wonderful times I recall when our family went driving on Sunday afternoons wherever we lived to see the traffic at the airports or to watch the seashore, and the gatherings of all of our aunts, uncles, and cousins at our grandparents' home where I remember running around in the yard, gathering eggs, shelling beans, being carted around in the wheelbarrow by my granddad, smelling homemade biscuits, sleeping on a pallet by the open front door when so many relatives showed up, and listening to the "grownups" sitting outside in the rope bottom straight chairs in the cooler air discussing Texas politics or telling jokes.
I am from evidence found in private family albums, newspaper archives located on the Internet, documents and certificates. My parents' evidence is found in private family and relatives' photo albums, U.S. Census records, Athens, Texas Historical Society and Galveston, Texas vertical file records, and college yearbook records.
Linda Sue Hollingsworth Littlejohn Robbins


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Lively Los Angeles-based indie pop group [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Foster The People[/lastfm] will perform an exclusive Live on Letterman concert direct from the legendary stage of New York's Ed Sullivan Theater.
The entire concert will stream live on Wednesday, October 26th at 9pm ET/6pm PT, and you can watch it right here or on CBS.com, presented by Dance Central 2 on Kinect for Xbox 360.
About ten months ago, neo-psychedelic indie band [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Foster the People[/lastfm] was playing a month of free residency shows at a small Los Angeles venue called the Echo.
The week after Foster the People's first gig at the space, the lines to get into the show literally trailed down Sunset Blvd–all from word of mouth and constant play of their first single, "Pumped Up Kicks," on KROQ.
Since then, Foster the People's neon-tinged dance-oriented pop-rock has exploded in popularity across the country, making them a huge draw band at festivals like SXSW, Coachella, ACL, and Lollapalooza, and helped get their songs featured widely on television shows, movies, and commercials.
When their first album Torches was released, it debuted at an impressive number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 33,000 copies in the first week.
All this from a band that was playing free local gigs just months before.
Be sure to mark your calendars on Wednesday, October 26th to watch Foster the People perform a Live on Letterman webcast at 9pm ET/6pm PT, right here or on CBS.com.
Want to learn more about the rapid rise to musical success of Foster The People? Read up here!
- Foster The People Show Where It All Started
- Foster The People Pump Up The Crowd With "Pumped Up Kicks" At Lollapalooza
- Foster The People Brings The "Helena Beat" At El Rey Show In Los Angeles
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The world of video game design is a thrilling one. Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to create and design a game? Can you imagine yourself creating exotic virtual realms, enchanting characters, and thrilling adventures like those seen in Call of Duty, God of War, and Halo? Sound like a dream job? You bet it is, and it can be yours.
Now is the time to regenerate those dreams and passions you've always had and empower your creative career as a video game designer.
Today, there are a wide range of universities, colleges, and technical schools available for the aspiring video game designer. Many of these top game design schools offer online associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees in coding, game design, animation, and other related gaming areas.
How an Online Game Design Education Works
When it comes to covering costs with scholarships, Rudyard Kipling said it right: "It's a jungle out there."
Although all online gaming courses will have a significant online component, programs will vary in format and required equipment. Most students will access class information, complete assignments and tests, and communicate with instructors and other students online. While many programs will utilize an online chat room format others may rely more on e-mail communication.
Students in degree programs can expect more structure than students taking courses from online schools that offer only individual courses or short, certificate programs. Students communicate with instructors and peers through email, chat programs, forums, and other discussion boards.
Other benefits include:
Classes can be "attended" from the comfort of your home, at your own pace.
Some schools will customize programs, to help you meet their educational goals.
Because of "accelerated" programs, many degrees can be completed in half the time that a traditional education would take.
Interaction with students from around the world is possible, thanks to the online class environment.
All chat discussions, class documents, training materials, and transcripts are recorded and archived for future use by students.
Online game design students work closely with instructors as they create actual games that contribute to a portfolio to be used in the job search. Many programs are designed so that students create projects from their first story boards all the way through to a completed game.
While pursuing an online game programming degree, students will learn programming fundamentals, character animation and modeling, game play strategies, critical thinking, logic, multi-player online game (MMOG) programming; two- and three-dimensional graphics programming; and simulation and game engine design.


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The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays
Aperture, 2010 - Photography - 255 pages
The Pleasures of Good Photographs is an intellectual and aesthetic excursion led by one of the field's eminent critics and popular writers. In this new volume of essays, Gerry Badger offers insight into some of his favorite images, artists, and themes, drawing upon nearly three decades of experience writing and thinking about photography.
With deep discernment and a readable mixture of scholarly finesse and wit, Badger describes the meaning of work by dozens of photographers, from Eugene Atget and Dorothea Lange to Martin Parr, Luc Delahaye, Susan Lipper, and Paul Graham. Among the broader topics discussed are the photobook, where Badger believes "photography sings its loudest and most complex song," and Photoshop's impact on art-making. An interlude at the heart of the book pairs the author's evocative meditations with more than a dozen "pathway" images.
The Pleasures of Good Photographs showcases primarily new essays, with a couple of classics thrown in for good measure, making it an important addition to the canon of photographic writing.
A photography critic for nearly thirty years, Gerry Badger is himself a photographer, as well as an architect and curator. He has written for dozens of periodicals and his previous books include The Photobook: A History, Volumes I and II, coauthored with Martin Parr, and The Genius of Photography: How Photography Has Changed Our Lives, a companion volume to the BBC television series. Badger lives in London.
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The Principality of Gallia is moderately wealthy, Nordic democracy located in Northern Arterus, northwest of Fanta, on the border of the Axackal and Gravic seas. It is a member of the Reims Agreement and is one of the few liberal democracies in the world.
Gallia is a unitary, constitutional monarchy, with the Prince or Princess as head of state and the legislative-executive body as sovereign. The government consists of the legislature, Parliament, which is divided into the Folkting (People's Thing) and the Storting (Grand Thing); the executive, which comprises the Prime Minister, their cabinet, and which consists entirely of members of the Folkting, and His/Her Majesty's Civil Service which is the extant bureaucracy of the civil government.
Conventional long form: The Principality of Gallia
Capital: Kiruna
Administrative divisions: 46 provinces
Citizenship: Jus sanguinis
Suffrage: Weighted suffrage for all citizens
National symbols: Krone, lynx, blue silver and gold, coat of arms
National anthem: Sang av Gallia (Song of Gallia)
I. Government
Head of state: Princess Katherine IV
Head of government: Prime Minister Kjell Vikernes
Legislature: Bicameral; Storting (Upper) and Folkting (Lower), both have right of initiative but only Folkting can propose monetary bills. The Storting is appointed and can review, amend, and suspensive veto bills proposed by the Folkting, with the exception of supply bills which cannot be vetoed.
Voting: Party list for Folkting
II. Law
Gallan law dates to the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on binding precedent. Modern Galla has expanded its legal system to include codification of major laws and elimination of juries in favour of bench trials.
Constitution: Codified.
Highest court: The Storting serves as the court of last resort
Jury trials: None, civil and criminal law makes use of lay judges and bench trials
Double jeopardy: Protection against retrial for convictions and acquittals
Law enforcement: National Police Bureau (Statens Polisbyran) and Gendarmerie (Statsgendarmeriet)
The modern Gallan economy is a mixed economy, with government spending approximating 55% of the GDP. The majority of this spending goes towards social programs designed to alleviate poverty and unemployment, and sustain the military-industrial complex of the country. Economic growth has slowed in recent years, reaching a low of ~2.6% in 2014 from a decade high of 6% in 2006, but recovering within two years to its present 3.2% growth rate.
GDP: $3,400 billion
GDP growth rate: ~4%/annum (avg. 2005-2015)
Debt as % of GDP: 117%
Unemployment: 4.2%
Gini: 0.29
Currency: Gallan Thaler
Gallan society is highly collectivist in theory, to the point of eschewing the concept of natural rights. In practice it tends to resemble other liberal civilizations, at least superficially: Pluralist discourse is encouraged, because the Gallan state enforces monoculturalism through the education and legal systems, policy aimed at destroying ethnic enclaves, and immigration policy. Social welfare is a priority of state domestic policy, partially through monoculturalism and partially through deliberate social engineering.
Ethnicity(-ies): Gallan, Chti
Language(s): Gallan, Chti
Religion(s): Gnosticism
Urbanization: ~80%
Major urban areas: Kiruna, Visby, Hyssna, Halmstad
Education: Universal public, with limited private competition
Healthcare: Universal multi payer with public and private tiers
Life expectancy: 72 years (both sexes)
Galla's military is substantial for its size, owing to its borders with historically hostile powers, and much of the state and civil society is built to support this large armed force. The Gallan military conscripts from the general population. Several divisions of the Gallan Army are active service, staffed with a mixture of conscripts and volunteers, and reside in the northern portion of the country. The Gallan military-industrial complex is robust and heavily intertwined with the Varnian MIC, with many complex weapons used by both Galla and Varnia built in one or both countries.
Funding per annum: ~$228 billion
Pct. of GDP spent/annum: ~6.7%
Pct. of budget spent/annum: ~12%
Conscription: Universal for both sexes
Divisions: 8 active, 6 reserve, 2 division equivalents in separate brigades
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A wave of optimism surrounding the launch of Research In Motion's re-engineered BlackBerry line picked up momentum on Thursday with Goldman Sachs raising its rating on the smartphone maker and setting off another surge in its share price.
RIM's share price closed up 42 cents or 3.9 per cent at $11.52 (U.S.) in trading in New York. Earlier in the day it had been up by as much as 13 per cent in pre-market trading.
The brokerage firm joined a growing chorus of analysts who have warmed to the prospects of a successful introduction of the new BlackBerry 10 devices, which RIM hopes will let it claw back market share lost to Apple Inc's iPhone and smartphones powered by Google's Android platform. The BB10 devices are expected to hit store shelves early next year.
The shift in sentiment has been swift. A few weeks ago, most analysts believed RIM had squandered any chance it had to become a serious competitor because of repeated delays in the launch of the new smartphone.
But with a launch date now set for Jan. 30 and some positive feedback about the devices from telecom carriers and developers, some analysts now think RIM might be able turn around its fortunes.
In a note to clients, Goldman analyst Simona Jankowski said preliminary specifications that have emerged on the BB10 devices appear impressive.
"With these devices RIM appears to finally be aiming for the leading edge hardware performance that was missing from its prior generations," Jankowski said.
Jankowski said she believes more applications will be available for BB10 than had been expected because BlackBerry users typically download a relatively high number of paid apps, which is an enticement to app developers.
Goldman, which raised its rating on RIM shares to "buy" from "neutral," also increased its price target to $16 (U.S.) from $9.
RIM shares, which have plunged about 90 per cent from a 2008 high of more than $148, have risen some 75 per cent in the last two months as the company moves closer to the launch of the new devices.
RIM promises its new devices will be faster and smoother than previous smartphones, and will have a large catalog of apps that are crucial to the success of any new line of smartphones.
Earlier this month, Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek, who has been one of RIM's biggest critics, raised his rating and price target on the stock.
Last week, National Bank analyst Kris Thompson raised his price target on the shares, stating that there is more money to be made in the stock ahead of the launch of the BB10 devices.
RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins told Reuters earlier this month that he sees the new BB10 devices providing RIM with a framework for growth over the next decade.
To be sure, not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair warned on Wednesday that rising expectations for the BB10 in 2013 have provided false hope for investors.
"We believe the run-up in the stock miscalculates the reality of consumer demand for BB10 next year. ... The fact is, the smartphone market has changed in the last 24 months, and RIM is not only late to the party, the party has moved to a different location and RIM is showing up at the wrong house," Blair said.


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The contest is now closed. Thank you so much every one who entered! The voting and selection process will be announced soon.
The April theme didn't really go too well, and it's my fault (see why here.) But it's a new month! After much consideration, the monthly theme/contest for May will be: Vegetarian bentos. May is a great time for spring and early summer produce throughout most of the Northern hemisphere, so I think it's a great time to get creative with our vegetables. Southern hemisphere bentoists can jump in with cold weather vegetables.
Even if you aren't a vegetarian all the time, it's never a bad idea to eat more vegetables. I'm not a vegetarian myself but I try to make at least 40-50% of my bentos meat-free. The main goal is that by the end of this month, we'll have lots of ideas and recipes for vegetarian bentos from the community!
One lucky winner will win a $50 shopping spree in the online store of newest sponsor, From Japan With Love.
If you've ever perused the From Japan With Love site, you know that Sofia has a knack for choosing the most adorable bento products and other goodies from Japan. Here's your chance to fulfill your kawaii-loving urges!
So…good luck everyone!
The Big Onigiri.
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Great contest, Maki - I'm looking forward to seeing some new veggie bento ideas. I've posted my first bento of the month over on my (otherwise rarely used) blog: http://arjedre.blogspot.com/2009/05/todays-bbq-lunch.html The quinoa salad is one of my favorite spring dishes - it's just cooked quinoa tossed with chopped red/green peppers, tomatoes, green onions, cucumber, mint, and parsley and then tossed with a lemon vinaigrette.
I am a pescatarian, but want to give vegetarianism a serious try. This contest will support my transition. I can 't wait to get started.
I'm thinking that as a moderator I should be disqualified from entering this contest - but I'm posting a bento anyway. I had great fun trying to scrape up something out of not very much. I got back from Australia on Friday night, stopped to get some milk on my way home, and haven't left the house since. No veges available, nothing fresh at all. If it wasn't for this contest I'd have just thought "bugger it" and bought my lunch.
So here is a scraping the bottom of the barrel vegetarian bento: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34000296@N05/3495644087
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I love this idea! ^__^
I'm even considering transitioning a little too.
Here's my first bento of the month.
I can't wait to make more and see everyone else's creations.
My daily to-do list:
to love and to be loved back
Unfortunately, I'm unable to take part because I have to use up the dried ebi and chirimenjako that have been sitting in my freezer for almost 1.5 yrs!! I brought them over from my hometown and it would be a waste to throw them away..
However, I will hop in if I could use them up before the end of the contest ^^
My fiance is actually ten times better in the kitchen than I am, and the bentos he makes us always look much more appetizing. On this day, he made a spicy egg salad, paired it with marinated carrot sticks (using that bottled vinegary sauce we find in the supermarkets over here), and finished the meal with gomashio-sprinkled rice: http://www.somewherethesunisrising.com/2009/01/tip-scales.html
p.s. He packs Korean nori with each box, so that he can make his own onigiri. We use it more than Japanese variety because it's salty and a little oily, so we enjoy the added flavor. It was off to the side of the bento, so here it is in a photo by itself: http://www.somewherethesunisrising.com/2009/01/sarang-hae-yo.html
Asian adventures through American eyes @ http://www.somewherethesunisrising.com
This is why I should check the forums when I'm not at work... I just made about 6 portions of sticky rice with chinese sausage. Oh well. The Boy can eat them or they can languish in the freezer a little longer than expected!
I'm looking forward to this challenge as I really need to shake up my bento habits and get some excitement into them again. Will have to start tomorrow though as today I have miso chicken
I am entering one too, although it's simple - it's vegan.
I was very happy with my bento lunch today, which was even vegan :) So I'm hereby entering it into the contest.
I just started bento blogging, I'll try to keep it up :)
Thanks so much for hosting a vegetarian theme! My first entry is even vegan. I will try to post as many of my lunches as possible in an effort to smash any preconceived notions that vegetarian diets lack creativity or deliciousness. Here's my first entry: http://seesawfodder.blogspot.com/2009/05/competitive-lunching.html
Veg on bento troopers.
I'm picking out a thermos for you.
hi maki,
here is my entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35552506@N08/3512127776/
thanks for doing this!
So far my most successful Bento (though I've only made 5: this week was a holiday week and I just discovered this site last week). All of my Japanese coworkers were impressed.
It was an italian based theme, with a japanese twist (since my goal is cheap food in Japan).
I had a chrysanthemum, cabbage, and cucumber salad, with some black sesame seed decoration and a sesame seed dressing (in the little fish container).
Komachibu (used the panfried komachibu recipe on this site as an inspiration) flavored with fresh roasted garlic, basil and tomato sauce. I didn't get any of the browing effect, but they turned out quite tasty.
Then as my grain: spaghetti with olive oil, blanched mixed peppers, parmesan, basil and salt.
You all have until the end of the month to enter, so no hurry! Get through your sausages and stuff now, and think veggie bentos afterwards ^_^
So are moderators eligible? I haven't bento-ed much in ages. It's too cold to be in my kitchen at 6 AM these days.
My Japanese/bento blog:
It's too cold to be anywhere except bed these days. It's too cold to EAT bentos these days. I've been having soup.
Yep, moderators are eligible! Only people not eligible are me (Maki) and, if she is lurking, Sofia of From Japan With Love (obviously)!
Here is my entry:
Pasta salad made with brown rice fusilli, olives and tomotoes with balsamic vinaigrette. Boiled egg completes that tier.
Top tier contains, organic roasted pizza rollups, mandarin orange, candied ginger, pizza crust and cheese wedge. Carrot sticks.
Thanks for the contest Maki!
I finally got a camera to properly photograph my lunch efforts, so here's today's lunch in full color and focus: http://arjedre.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-veggie-lunch.html
I've got quinoa salad, yogurt with fruit and granola, baby carrots, and sauteed spinach with tomatoes. Hopefully it's enough to keep me going until 6:00pm.
This contest is a great idea! My vegetarian bento is here:
My blog is in French :)
You can see in there:
- quinoa taboule with black olives, parsley and tomatoes
- potatoes and pickles salad
- radishes
- on the side: yogourt and mustard sauce for the potatoes. Yummy!!!
Here's another entry from me.
Natto with green onion, shoyu and mustard. Brown rice musubi with furikake.
Bananas, strawberries and pickled pluots stuffed with candied ginger for desert.
I do wish it was summer. Here's another entry.
Sautéed Brussels sprouts and capers tossed in a bit of soy sauce and sesame oil, cherry tomatoes, tamagoyaki with Korean seasoned seaweed in it, a couple of baked falafels, pickled jalapeños, brown rice.
I have another entry. Not sure if this qualifies as some of the items are from leftovers that I did not cook myself. Let me know and I will remove this submission if I am breaking any rules.
Seasoned brown rice stirfry with tomato, olive and peas. Left over guacamole and pico de gallo with a corn tortilla.
My first entry is not as exciting as I wanted, but I really lurve the prize on offer and so must enter to win! So here it is... the frugalist bento in some time!
and it's friend, Frugal bento 2
Here is my first entry into the contest:
A very simple rice & kinpira bento, with fun protein-rich side dishes and some of Spring's very first strawberries!
My site: http://www.goblinbox.com
My bentos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/goblinbox/sets/72157608661768465/
I'm really enjoying seeing the entries so far! Keep them coming :)
Am I being obnoxious for submitting obento everyday?
Here's my lunch for tomorrow.
I'm on a roll. Third entry, and it has little tiny brown rice onigiri in it. The cabbage is really just there to lift the eggs up so they don't rattle around, but I made a dressing with some sushi ginger juice in it to make it a bit more appetising. NOT an original idea - there's a sushi place not far from my work which makes a chicken and cabbage bento with a similar dressing. It would be an identical dressing if I could figure out what exactly they put in it apart from the ginger juice.
I got 2kg of fresh salmon the other day and cured some of it in sugar, salt, lemon zest and dill, a la gravlax. I gave a little (and I mean little) bit of it to Yoshio (a Japanese guy with whom I work) to try. He took it home, and he and his wife liked it very much. Then they gave me a present of a couple of packets of bento cute things including two small onigiri moulds, one for cylindrical and one for triangular balls. Of course I needed to try them out, didn't I? I do wish there was some way of stopping him from giving me presents though, it makes you think twice about giving something little when you know you're going to get something larger back.
hi maki,
I have another entry:
I didn't mean for it to be vegetarian, but then I realized it could be if I substituted the ham I was going to use with soy instead. In fact, I think it probably tasted better for it. :)
Another entry, but this time it's a recipe.
And it may not be allowed, because one of its ingredients is something already made. Just delete this if it doesn't qualify.
And some of it is in a bento here.
Another entry from me, this one experimenting with gluten free flour to make the best sort of birthday cake - PANcake!
I'd like to submit my spiced chickpea recipe:
Thank you!
I have a blog about life and bento making in Boston: www.smalerie.com
I'm having trouble doing the tag thingies on Flikr, but here's a link to my efforts from yesterday :
It's also on my blog (link below).
Adult bentos: brown rice with umeboshi, rocket salad with sunflower seeds, soy sauce, tamagoyaki (no recipe, just egg and a bit of sugar), fried renkon (soaked in beetroot juice to make it pink for my daughter, who still didn't eat it!), gold and green kiwifruit.
Kids' bentos: Okowa from Maki's recipe (vegan), dried apricots, cherry tomato (daughter only, son doesn't like them), rocket, sunflower seeds, renkon and tamagoyaki.
Does this count as one entry or four?
They're notes. just at the top left of your picture there are a bunch of little grey things, one of which is "add note". If you click on that a wee square with a text box comes up, you can drag it to where you want it and type in the text box. Then save.
And you don't need to use the comments boxes either - you should be able to click on an "edit" at the bottom of your pic and add a caption.
Here is our Daruma spring themed bento:
Food colored rice with cheese, radish and nori on top of rucola leafs. Apple slice for cloud and radish rose. Cucumber, radish and tomato salad, apple bunny and berries:
Another recipe entry
I've not much time latley, so the best I've got so far is Stuck in a rut bento
The pasta is a simple mix of pesto and red pepper paste. The cheese is emental.
I did a nice humous and pepper bagel lunch the other day, but had mislayed my camera.
The next one was a succesful attempt at feeding creature a vegetarian bento, but was unfortunatley not during may. It's almost definatley inellegable, but may be of interest to anyone trying to convince fussy eaters that meat isn't entirely neccesary. Pasta and pinaple bento The pasta sauce is onion, pepper, chilli, garlic, spinach, and olive oil. All of which he "doesn't eat" and yet he has only once failed to eat the pasta dish containing all of them. The origonal dish (stolen of a local italian resteraunt) did contain bacon, but bacon is seldom in the house. It also contained breadcrumbs, but their only good with hot pasta.
Here's my first entry!! May has been busy for me, but it's finally starting to wind down enough that I've had time to fix up some bento :3 I hope to have a couple more to put up within this coming week :)
Hopefully they'll get a little better, too X3 Thank you!!
A very basic veggie fried rice lunch from last week that I'm too lazy to actually add to my blog...
The vaguely flower-looking tomatoes are a HUGE step - I'm usually not so much with the bento art.
Today's lunch was a little more appetizing looking on account of the good cooking I did this weekend.
(There are detailed pix in the photo stream as well to show the bottom tier)
Lunch is packed in a "Fit n' Fresh" box that has two tiers separated by an ice pack. It's great for larger lunches that need to stay chilled or for runny items since there are two lidded containers. The only thing I don't like about this box is that it's not collapsible in any way - even when it's empty it takes up the same amount of space in my bag.
Here's my entry. Thanks for organizing this!
I have 2 entries today both with vegetarian curry and chutney. These are both 1st attempts at these recipes.
I've seen some really nice bentos in the competition, and I felt challenged to do something a bit more imaginative that the usual vegetarian stuff I do (which has always seemed to involve tofu!).
You can see my bento on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24810486@N04/3546149461/
I wanted to use some vegetables that are in season in Britain at the moment, and I chose broad beans (I love these) and beetroot (such a shot of colour). I also wanted to have a range of different tastes (sweet, spicy, bitter, salty) and textures (soft, crunchy, juicy). What with it being a vegetarian bento, I also wanted to have more than one kind of protein - I ended up with three! (Egg, tofu (yuba), and beans.)
So, the contents of my bento were:
soramame gohan (rice with broad beans)
kinshi tamago (egg shreds)
beetroot and bean korokke on Chinese leaf
stewed hijiki with carrot and shredded yuba
green beans with ginger
carrot and daikon
shrikand (Indian spiced and sweetened yogurt) with raspberries
The korokke recipe I invented myself - I'll post it in the bento recipe cookbook forum (http://justbento.com/forum/beetroot-and-bean-korokke-recipe). If it's not against the rules, I'd like to enter this for the contest too, on its own merits as a recipe!
Non-Japanese bento. This is different for me because I usually make more traditional, rice based bento, but I figure if I ate it in Japan, it's kind of Japanese anyway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorayaki01/3547095568/in/pool-justbento
There are a couple more photos after that which are close ups of individual boxes, I'm entering the big picture in the hope that I get bonus points for making four bento in one morning after not quite enough sleep!
No recipes for this, all I did was boil the tofu and stir miso and water in with it. The potato salad was from the supermarket. I was going to add an egg but my husband was leaving for work, and I hate when he leaves without his bento!
Today's lunch consists of mini black bean and spinach quesadillas with salsa, a banana, some baby carrots, and a bit of yummy cheese.
Thanks to everyone who's shared pictures of beautiful vegetarian food - I look forward to catching up every time I post.
Just got home from creche, and the kids hardly touched their lunches. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow!
This vegetarian bento was yummy and high-protein!
Hi Maki-san!! :)
Alrighty. I kinda got backed up so I have quite a few entries in this post :/
I hope that's okay... Please, if I need to remove them, just tell me so and I'll gladly comply.
Thank you! :) <3
So many wonderful vegetarian entries from everyone. Here's my attemp:
hi maki,
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Another one I didn't set out to make vegetarian, but decided to add the sausage on the side for dinner, then omitted it in the bento.
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"Little Quentin" By Albert 't Hooft And Paco Vink
It's like Sin City meets Harvey with some My Little Pony thrown in for good measure.
Quite Possibly the Single Most Coherent Argument for Marijuana Decriminalization
The guy is a Superior Court judge, so yes, I'd be willing to bet he knows what he's talking about.
Joe Rogan on Weed
Joe Rogan may well be the most aggro stoner of all time. I wouldn't say that to his face, mind you.
The Guy That Discovered THC Discusses How Weed Can Help Treat Arthritis and PTSD
Dr. Mechoulam, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, discusses how he isolated THC for the first time in 1964 and postulates on the compound's role in treating arthritis, brain injuries and even possibly PTSD.
Soap Maker Cages Himself in Protest of Obama's War on Hemp
Even though it has a thousand and one industrial uses (none of which involve smoking), hemp has been caught up in the War on Drugs given its resemblance to Marijuana. Well, David Bronner CEO of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap had had enough and showed the president his displeasure by locking himself in a steel cage of emotion.


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Our Ancestry.com tour included the corporate offices
and the digitization department. This is Laryn Brown, head of the Document Preservation department, in front of monitors tracking the scanning.
About a dozen people operated different kinds of scanners; one photographs books and automatically turns the pages. There was a flatbed scanner bigger than me.
In the works is a UV scanner, which can bring out ink on severely damaged and faded records (we saw an example of what this technology can do—it turned a nearly blank page into a readable document).
More and more often, though, Ancestry.com will digitize paper records on-site at repositories, with digital images sent to headquarters for processing.
Yes, many records are indexed in China and Uganda. Indexers receive months of training in English and whatever language the records are in; they're asked to key exactly what they see, even when a word is misspelled. US employees do quality spot checks and occasionally send back batches of records for re-indexing.
Back in the USA, another team examines records and indexes to "normalize" those misspellings and aberrations in data fields. Say a set of records is from California. The clerks who created the records way back when may have written the state as CA, Cal., Calif. or Calfa. The Ancestry.com staff will add "California" to the index for these records so they come up in customers' California searches.
More on searching later!
I was lucky enough Friday to be in the company of some wise bloggers and super-experienced genealogists. For their observations, see Dear Myrtle, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, Genea-Musings, the Ancestry Insider and GenealogyGuys.


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If you don't think the way we watch TV is in the midst of monumental change, ask yourself: Has any new network series of late generated nearly as much excitement as the return at 12:01 a.m. Sunday of "Arrested Development" on Netflix?
The offbeat sitcom about the Bluth family, one of the most dysfunctional clans in TV history, was canceled by Fox seven years ago because it was deemed to have too small an audience to be profitable for network TV.
But network TV is now seven years closer to its dinosaur grave, and Netflix appears to be booming with a new business model of distribution for TV shows that aren't on TV. Exhibit A is "House of Cards," the Maryland-made political thriller starring Kevin Spacey as House Majority Whip Francis Underwood. Its 13 episodes of the first season were offered to subscribers all at once in February, to be binged or parceled out as consumers so desired.
Most of us binged and then rationalized that we were video pioneers or cultural pathfinders or something righteous after 13 straight, sleep-deprived hours of reveling in Underwood and his wicked Washington ways.
Analysts expect the 15 episodes of "Arrested Development" to do even better for Netflix, because both the series and creator Mitch Hurwitz seem so in synch with the new media possibilities of on-demand, Internet-streamed productions.
Whereas "House of Cards" was told mostly in the traditional, linear manner as an HBO drama might be, "Arrested Development" always had a keen postmodern sensibility with a commitment to the kind of self-referential jokes that inspire a cult following.
And during the three seasons it ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006, "Arrested" achieved only cult numbers — with an audience that topped out at 6 million.
But a small audience is not necessarily a liability in the new world of niche, on-demand programming – especially if it is made up of passionately devoted fans who are likely to subscribe to a service for a show that speaks to them.
And that's something "Arrested Development" always did. It was the anti-family sitcom in a medium that was all but built on sitcoms that celebrated families starting in the late 1940s.
The Bluth family was led into ruin by its patriarch, George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor). From his "creative accounting practices" to the Security and Exchange Commission probe of his crooked ways, he was the embodiment of the corporate corruption that led to the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s and the near-crash of Wall Street in 2008.
Prescient in 2003 about where the economy was headed? You bet, but in a crazed and darkly satiric way. George's wife, Lucille (Jessica Walter), was just as bad as him — a pill-popping, self-indulgent monster to everyone from her children to servants.
The series' deepest connection to its young-adult audience was forged through its leading character, Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), second-oldest son and the nearest thing to a competent member of the family. Like Michael in "The Godfather" movies, just when he thinks he has escaped, he's dragged back into the madness of the family — and asked to save it while everyone around him keeps acting selfish and crazy.
The cast is superb. It also includes Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, David Cross and Alia Shawkat. Ron Howard, who serves as narrator, has become a character in his own right through his sometimes ironic commentary. Recurring players include Liza Minnelli, whom viewers will see again during the new season.
Hurwitz's sensibility is so attuned to the possibilities of the Netflix model that he says he's had to rein himself in.
"Particularly, in comedy, the more communication you can have with your audience the better," Hurwitz says. "I mean, that's what comedy is. It's about getting a laugh. It's a social activity. Jim Vallely, my longtime producing partner, has been saying, 'After this comes out, why don't we make all the [hard drives] of all the content available online and let people cut [edit] their own versions of it?'"
If that's not enough of a democratic and interactive model of TV production versus the old Hollywood gatekeepers system, how about this?
"At one point, I even thought, 'Let's do a Google chat in the writers room,'" Hurwitz added during a teleconference Thursday. "We were torn about something. We thought, 'Is this funny? Is it good to have this character do this, or does this kill the character?' And I really thought, 'Well, why don't we just go ahead and ask the people we're trying to please anyway? Let's just open it up to the fans and ask them.'"
Indicative of the level at which serious fans engage the show is a celebration that Baltimore's EMP Collective was to stage over the weekend: BluthCon 2013 — "a celebration of the greatest television series of all time," according to a release from the arts collective.
The event lineup included a costume competition, video monitors playing episodes from the first three seasons in an endless loop and a "Bluth Banana Stand."
The Banana Stand references a storyline from the first season involving George Sr. telling Michael, "There's always money in the banana stand." Banana stands are a Bluth family business.
Michael, angry at his father and wanting to show that he's now in charge of what's left of the family business, burns down the stand — only to discover that his father was being literal and there was $250,000 in paper money hidden in the stand.
The release of the 15 new episodes means binge time for the members of EMP Collective.
"I cannot imagine anyone in our organization not sitting down and watching the entire thing all in one sitting," says Maggie Villegas, producing director of the group. "I'm pretty sure that's going to be a marathon situation."
That is the kind of engagement the Netflix model allows. And it has already proved itself a winning business formula with "House of Cards."
Netflix added more than 2 million subscribers in America (3 million worldwide) during the first quarter, when "House of Cards" debuted. The new subscribers took Netflix to 29.2 million in the U.S., which put it ahead of HBO, which has 28.7 million subscribers, for the first time.
And while stock in Netflix had been down 6 percent the week before "House of Cards" debuted, it was up 10 percent the week after. Since Jan. 1, Netflix stock is up 150 percent overall. If "House" wasn't a hit, it was perceived as one by Wall Street, and that's pretty much all that matters in the mad world of media transformation these days.
"What I get from viewers — young and old and in-between — is how happy they are that we are coming out with this — for want of a better word — engine," Tambor says of the Netflix model. "Our viewers, who are quite ardent and are the reason we're back, really love what we've done here. The fans are appreciating the way we're sending it as well as the content."
"What I like is that the audience owns the material," Hurwitz says. "They aren't being told when they would get each particular bit of information. It informs the telling of the story."


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Maintenance is important on a track car. I'm not talking about doing oil changes at 3,000 miles or a transmission flush at 30,000 miles. I'm talking more about the maintenance that a track car needs. A few of you know this, I own a 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII. In the years that I've been going fast and driving hard around a race track, the EVO is the oldest and the most expensive to maintain. Late last year I ended up having a few issues with my car, and here's what I learned in the three months it took for me to fix the car.
John at Raver Motorsports (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raver-Mo…) follow them on facebook))fixed most of the issues with the car. It's a great shop, and having had tuned three EVO's that frequent Waterford Hills Raceway here in Michigan, it's a tuner and a builder I trust.
The EVO's 6-speed is a wonderful transmission for road racing; the gear ratios are spot on. The weakness of the transmission has to do with the amount of fluid the unit takes, which is just less than 3 quarts. This is where all the issues started. I overheated the transmission to the point I destroyed the input shaft bearing as well as a list of other parts within the transmission. The transmission had Redline MT90 gear oil in it. After receiving the bill from the transmission shop, it's a wise idea to bolt up a transmission cooler (which funny enough, John at Raver had told me to do so last season when the transmission went in) the temperatures you see on a hot day while tracking the car get very hot.
After replacing the transmission, things got interesting. There was an oil leak coming from the exhaust cam seal which resulted in the timing and balance shaft belt to be covered with oil. Pulled the lower timing cover to find the balance shaft belt was sheered, for those that don't know the balance shaft belt keeps the motor's vibration to a minimum. However, considering how close it sits to the timing belt, getting caught in the timing belt would result in a disaster. I'm happy that Raver found these issues, because otherwise a "simple" transmission failure would have resulted in a complete drivetrain failure.
At the end of the day, the turbo turbine housing had 5 cracks from high exhaust gas temperatures, transmission over heated to the point it cracked the casing from excessive input shaft play, and the timing system was about ready to fail as well. I cannot thank Raver Motorsports enough for all the help, if it wasn't for them I would be out for this coming season. Make sure you change your oil and transmission fluid frequently. Do research on your car, find the weak points and fix them. A lot of people don't understand how much heat and stress you put on the car after an hour's worth of tracking the car, maintenance is a must. Take care of your car and you'll have a much better time at the track knowing your car won't have any issues!


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- Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout.
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Earn 6 merit badges, including 4 from
the required list for Eagle.*
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- While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.
- While a First Class Scout, serve actively 4 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop):
- Patrol leader,
- assistant senior patrol leader,
- senior patrol leader,
- Venture patrol leader
- troop guide,
- Order of the Arrow troop representative,
- den chief,
- scribe,
- librarian,
- historian,
- quartermaster,
- bugler,
- junior assistant Scoutmaster,
- chaplain aide, or
- instructor.,
- troop Webmaster, or
- Leave No Trace trainer.
- Captain,
- cocaptain,
- program manager,
- squad leader,
- team secretary,
- Order of the Arrow team representative,
- librarian,
- historian,
- quartermaster,
- chaplain aide,
- instructor, or
- den chief.,
- team Webmaster, or
- Leave No Trace trainer.
- President,
- vice president,
- secretary,
- treasurer,
- den chief,
- quartermaster,
- historian,
- guide,
- boatswain,
- boatswain's mate,
- yeoman,
- purser, or
- storekeeper.,
- crew/ship Webmaster, or
- Leave No Trace trainer.
- Take part in a Scoutmaster conference
- Complete your board of review.
|Boy Scout troop.
|Varsity Scout team.
|Venturing crew / Sea Scout
* A Scout may choose Choose any of the 15 required merit badges in the 12 categories to fulfill requirement 3. See requirement 3 in the Eagle Scout requirements for a list of badges required for Eagle.
NOTE: The footnote to Requirement 3 means that, for example, a Scout can use both Lifesaving AND Emergency Preparedness and/or Swimming, Hiking, AND Cycling toward the requirement of 4 from the required list for Eagle when working toward Star Scout.) Also note that the asterisks are specifically placed on the lines marked "(required for Eagle)" signifying that the note applies to these badges. The Guide to Advancement explicitly states this on page 43:
188.8.131.52 Earning Eagle-Required Merit Badges for Star or Life Rank
Candidates for Star or Life, in the selection of "any four" or "any three," respectively, of the merit badges required for Eagle, may choose from all those listed, including where alternatives are available: Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving; and Cycling OR Hiking OR Swimming. For example, Cycling, Hiking, and Swimming could count for Life rank, but only one of those would serve toward the 12 required merit badges for the Eagle Scout rank.
Please note that Requirement 7 - (Complete your Board of Review) MAY be done AFTER the Scout' has reached age 18. All other requirements must be completed BEFORE the Scout's 18th Birthday.
VENTURERS and SEA SCOUTS
The requirements above are those for boys enrolled in the Boy Scout Division as members of Boy Scout Troops (including Venture Patrols within Troops) or Varsity Scout Teams. The following requirements apply to boys registered in the Venturing Program including Sea Scouts.
- Any male Venturer who has achieved the First Class rank as a Boy Scout in a troop or Varsity Scout in a team may continue advancement toward Star, Life and Eagle Scout ranks up to his 18th birthday.
- He must meet the requirements as prescribed in the official Boy Scout Handbook and the current Boy Scout Requirements book.
- The Venturer may fulfill leadership requirements by serving as president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer of his crew, or as boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, or storekeeper for his ship.
- The Scoutmaster conference will be conducted by the Advisor or Skipper.
- A board of review will be conducted by the crew or ship committee.


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As the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationweighs approval of a radical new method of AIDS prevention — a prescription pill taken once a day — advocates say the results of experimental trials in sub-Saharan Africa argue strongly for the drug's adoption in the United States.
The pill was developed to treat people already infected with HIV. But studies published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate that it can also prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV, the most common mode of contagion in Africa.
A growing number of doctors in the U.S. are already prescribing the drug to uninfected high-risk patients as an off-label use, and some insurers are covering the considerable expense.
"It's not officially monitored, but its use is on the rise," said Dr. Robert M. Grant of UC San Francisco's Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, who worked on one of the new studies. "We're already starting to see support groups for users."
The blue tablets, which are sold under the brand name Truvada, contain a combination of two antiretroviral drugs called tenofovir and emtricitabine. Researchers began studying Truvada's ability to prevent the spread of HIV to uninfected gay men and heterosexual men and women several years ago; the FDA has said it will make a determination on the drug's use for HIV prevention by Sept. 14.
Publication of the Africa drug trials comes less than two weeks before the International AIDS Conference convenes inWashington, D.C.The results, as well as the FDA's deliberations, are likely to be hot-button issues there, since both advocates and critics of using Truvada for prevention have found ammunition for their views in the studies' findings.
Most notably, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is vehemently opposed to the drug's approval as a prophylaxis in the U.S. because it says the pill is dangerous, overly expensive and will detract from proven methods of AIDS prevention, such as condom use.
"Our culture is always looking for a quick fix," said Michael Weinstein, the foundation's president. "We want to pop a pill.... Well, there are better methods."
In each of the three trials published Wednesday, test subjects were given Truvada or a placebo. They also received counseling on HIV risk reduction, condom use and other contraceptives. The treatment's success was closely related to whether the subjects used the drug as intended and how strongly they perceived themselves to be at risk of infection.
The study that showed the highest rate of success involved 4,747 married couples in Kenya and Uganda. In each case, one of the spouses had HIV and the other was uninfected. Truvada reduced transmission of the virus by up to 75%, according to the report; the medication was deemed so effective that the study ended early and people on the placebo switched to the drug.
However, a related study that focused exclusively on healthy women in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania — some married, some unmarried — was discontinued early because Truvada failed to significantly reduce infection rates. Although 95% of test subjects told researchers they were taking the pills regularly, blood tests suggested that less than 40% of the women actually did so.
"We hypothesize that the women's perception that they were at low risk for HIV infection may have contributed to the poor adherence," wrote the study authors, who were from the U.S., South Africa, Kenya, Britain and Belgium. Daily pill regimens may have also posed a difficulty for some of the women, though the researchers weren't sure why.
The third study involved healthy single men and women in Botswana ages 18 to 39. Half were asked to take Truvada once a day and the other half took a placebo. Over three years, those who got the medicine were 62% less likely to become infected than those who got the dummy pill, researchers from theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their collaborators reported.
But the study had important limitations. Many volunteers dropped out, which prevented the researchers from determining whether the drug was protective for men and women independently, as it was in the trial involving married couples.
The report also raised questions about Truvada's effect on bone mineral density, as the researchers observed a "small but significant decline." Other side effects, such as nausea, vomiting and dizziness, occurred more frequently in those who took the drug instead of a placebo, but those symptoms lessened after the third month, the authors wrote. The other studies also noted side effects of gastrointestinal problems and fatigue during the first month.
The pills were supplied byGilead Sciences Inc., the Bay Area firm that makes Truvada and is seeking fast-track approval from the FDA.
For study researchers and many AIDS advocacy groups, the take-away message from the three trials was that Truvada could be an effective tool in the battle against AIDS, if used correctly.
"Adherence matters," said Dr. Lynn Paxton, who coordinated the Botswana study at the CDC. "If you don't take the pill, it won't work, no matter what else you do."
Groups like the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, are citing these data as they lobby for the FDA to approve the drug and for the CDC to release guidelines on its use as soon as possible.
Last year, the CDC issued advice on using Truvada in gay men who are HIV-negative, but the agency has not yet done the same for heterosexuals. On Wednesday, CDC officials urged physicians to wait for those guidelines before prescribing the drug. However, they said that in urgent situations, doctors should follow the cautions and procedures laid out for gay men, including requirements for pre-treatment screening, dosages, periodic testing and counseling.
Truvada's chief critics contend that the drug is prohibitively expensive in the U.S., where an annual supply can cost about $10,000. They also fear it will reduce the use of condoms.
"You have to be really paranoid about your pants falling down to wear a belt and suspenders," Weinstein said.
But Grant, of UCSF, said the drug's detractors were overstating the effectiveness of condoms. Although they are more likely to be used during casual relationships, their use tapers as relationships grow more intimate.
"We need to be realistic about the limits of condom use," he said.


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Both New Bern mayoral candidates have said during the campaign they are running on their records as aldermen and representatives in their wards, and although there are disagreements with some proposals brought before the Board of Aldermen, they have voted along the same lines on most issues.
Both New Bern mayoral candidates have said during the campaign they are running on their records as aldermen and representatives in their wards, and although there are disagreements with some proposals brought before the Board of Aldermen, they have voted along the same lines on most issues.
Sabrina Bengel and Dana Outlaw both have voted consistently on the Board of Aldermen to remove blighted housing from the city. That was something Outlaw apologized for in the candidates� second forum, saying all housing units were dear to people living in them and more could have been done to restore some of the houses.
Bengel also made a motion July 26 to adopt a budget ordinance of $48,000 for the first phase of an $82,000 branding campaign. Outlaw supported the motion, along with the rest of the Board of Aldermen.
Outlaw made a motion July 24, 2012, to modify the boundaries of Ward 1 and Ward 6, which was seconded by Bengel. Alderman Bernard White voted against it, saying the new boundaries would dilute all three black districts.
In a split vote Sept. 25, 2012, Bengel and Outlaw opposed establishing a $255,000 capital project fund for water treatment facility improvements. But that proposal passed 4-3. Both aldermen said they thought the money could have been better spent.
On Oct. 23, 2012, Bengel made a motion to adopt an ordinance to rezone about 237 acres of the Craven Thirty project adjacent to U.S. 70 to an Industrial 1 zone. Outlaw was the only aldermen who voted against it. He wanted a 100-foot vegetation barrier along U.S. 70. Unanimous votes were cast Dec. 11, 2012, to accept the final plan to Phase 1 of Craven Thirty and to annex the property.
On Jan. 8, 2013, Outlaw opposed a resolution the board approved to add a goal for the N.C. League of Municipalities during an advocacy goals conference to allow the city to provide electric power to all property annexed into the city limits. That proposal, supported by Bengel and the rest of the board, passed.
Both candidates joined a unanimous board to approve and adopt the New Bern Gateway Renaissance Plan, and they also agreed to increase the number of New Bern Housing Authority commission members from five to nine, with White opposing.
On Jan. 24, Bengel voted against a motion by Outlaw to approve a contract with TNT Disaster Services for removal of hazardous trees, stumps and limbs after Hurricane Irene. Although a local contractor did submit a bid, TNT was the low bidder.
On June 14, 2011, both candidates voted unanimously with the board to approve a contract with David Miner and Jason Deans to lobby for the city against the Duke Power-Progress Energy merger. During the May 24, 2011, meeting, both candidates approved $80,000 to hire attorney John Coyle of Duncan & Allen to protest the merger. That vote also was unanimous.
On Sept. 28, 2010, Bengel voted no on a motion by Outlaw that would give the Board of Aldermen the right to appoint two people to a Preservation Planning Project steering committee. Bengel said the committee was formed through a planning grant and the committee was made up of stakeholders from different communities.
Bengel and Outlaw voted to adopt a resolution that would have allowed the mayor and aldermen to serve two full consecutive terms (eight years) and allow the mayor a vote on the Board of Aldermen. The resolution passed 3-2; Aldermen Johnnie Ray Kinsey and White voted no. The state eventually gave the mayor the right to vote on the board (beyond tiebreaker), but denied the extended term limits.
Bengel and Outlaw voted along with a unanimous board on July 27 to appoint Mike Epperson city manager.
On Aug. 24, 2010, Bengel made a motion to amend the personnel ordinance that would allow the city manager to waive the residency requirements that all department heads must reside in the city limits. The motion failed 4-2 with Outlaw and fellow aldermen White, Kinsey and Victor Taylor voting against it.
On June 21, 2010, Bengel and Outlaw along with Kinsey voted against raising the property tax rate to 41 cents per $100 valuation, but the mayor cast a tiebreaking vote that passed the motion.
Outlaw also opposed an increase in fee schedules for the inspections and planning development on June 21, saying the proposed increase in fees should have been done before the budget ordinance. But it was passed 5-1. Outlaw also voted against Bengel and the majority of the board for rising refuse rates from $4 to $5 per month ($2 to $2.50 for senior citizens) and for increased fees for the Parks and Recreation Down East Dog Park and aquatics.
Also on June 21, 2010, Outlaw made a motion to rescind a resolution adopted June 5, 2004, by the previous board that gave the city manager a $10,000 annual bonus within three months of the aldermen�s annual budget work sessions. Bengel and the board approved his motion.
Three years later, on Feb. 16, 2013, Bengel and Outlaw, along with the other board members, agreed to a $10,000 bonus for the current city manager during a Saturday board retreat. Because so much controversy surrounded the consensus, the city manager refused to accept the bonus.
On Feb. 12, 2013, Bengel made a motion to authorize the mayor to sign a memorandum of understanding to establish the New Bern Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. Outlaw, along with a unanimous board, voted to support the motion. In May, they voted unanimously to set up funding the organization with a $165,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration that requires a $41,250 match ($22,886 from New Bern, $12,210 from Craven County, $346 from Bridgeton, $2,450 from River Bend and $3,358 from Trent Woods).
On April 27, 2010, Outlaw voted no on a motion by Bengel to amend the project ordinance for Broad Street. That would cost $1.5 million to convert the overhead electric system to underground along Broad Street.
Eddie Fitzgerald can be reached at 252-635-5675 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @staffwriter3.


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Colleges need to better police their sports programs, reports say
On the same day that former Penn State football coach and convicted child abuser Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 years in prison, a new report on Tuesday urged college governing officials to exercise stronger oversight over their institutions' sports programs.
The report was one of several prepared for the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which was formed more than two decades ago to resist the trend of money and booster influence in big-time college sports, which has led to numerous scandals.
"Our concern is that if boards do not act to ensure an appropriate balance between athletics and academics in our higher education institutions, policy makers or others will do it for us," one of the reports said.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is just the latest high-profile academic institution to become embroiled in scandal. Others include Ohio State University, the University of Southern California and Penn State, all perennial sports powerhouses and feeder grounds for professional teams.
At Chapel Hill, an NCAA investigation found that sports agents offered perks to football players and a tutor fixed their class work to help them remain eligible to play. School Chancellor Holden Thorp fired popular football coach Butch Davis.
More scandals involving academic fraud and travel followed, however. Thorp, a highly regarded leader, announced last month that he would resign at the end of the school year and return to his former job as a chemistry professor.
One of the reports, prepared by researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill, asked the leaders and coaches of all 342 NCAA Division I athletic departments to prioritize values, such as academic excellence, health, safety, honesty and sportsmanship.
"More than 500 coaches passionately defended the values and said that everyone walks the walk and strives to provide a phenomenal experience for the athletes," said Erianne Weight, one of the authors and an assistant professor of sports administration.
But 41 percent of 1,005 coaches involved in the report said that "contradictions" between values and practice existed at their schools, she said. Weight added that their comments raised serious issues that could indicate "unethical behavior and appalling experiences for the athletes."
John T. Casteen III, president emeritus of the University of Virginia and a co-author of a report on the responsibilities of university governing boards, said that the Penn State scandal has challenged other schools to double their oversight.
His report called it a "painful reminder that all boards need to be well informed and must clearly establish the appropriate role of athletics. . . . When the board fails to provide effective oversight or ask the questions that hold the president of the institution accountable, the consequences can be enormous."
Sandusky, 68, had been convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse in a scandal and cover-up that brought about the firing of legendary head coach Joe Paterno, the resignation of the school's president and the indictment of two university officials. The NCAA earlier punished Penn State for the scandal with a four-year ban on bowl appearances, a loss of scholarships, a reversal of its football wins from 1998 to 2011 and a $60 million fine.
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– Half said they had policies to protect children and teens who visit universities for sports camps and enrichment programs. Casteen said that many institutions were rushing to put such policies in place following the Penn State scandal.
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1. What this medicine is for
2. Before you take the medicine
3. How to take the medicine
4. Possible side effects
5. Storing the medicine
6. Further information
Health Essentials One-a-day Hayfever & Allergy Relief
10mg Tablets contain loratadine, which belongs to a
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• symptoms of skin allergies such as rash, itching
or urticaria (hives).
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aged 2 years and over provided they weigh over
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• Are allergic (hypersensitive) to loratadine or any
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1) Choose a dish to prepare and invite one blogger to create that dish with you. You can source your recipe from a cookbook, magazine, blog or any other source. Your dish can be sweet or savory; easy or complicated.
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4) Please feel free to use the Avatar/Badge above "Invite a Blogger to Your Table".
5) Once you have made your dish with your blogging friend or friends and posted it, you can choose to STOP or CONTINUE on and invite another blogger to your table to make something DIFFERENT on a mutually agreeable date within the next 4 week time frame.
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7) Cut and paste these instructions into your post and contact a friend. Let magic happen and let's get cooking!!!
When Giz from Equal Opportunity Kitchen invited me to make this old country recipe with her - one that her mom recently gave her (thanks Baba!) - I was delighted. There's something so seductive about simple recipes. There seems to be a higher degree of magic involved. When you look at some recipe lists with their exotic spices and fresh herbs and the like, you think "well of course that's going to be good!" But the bare culinary truth is that sometimes with 5 ingredients or less you can make the magic happen.
I also like the idea of a country recipe that's actually perfect for the season. Back in the days before fruits and vegetables were available year round in supermarkets, I think by the end of the winter, the only vegetables left in places like here were those that had survived in root cellars, like potatoes. It's not like potatoes never go bad, but if you keep them cool dry, it takes a very long time! Hence the ubiquitous potato (and other root vegetables) in my winter CSA. I used up the last few that were starting to sprout in this recipe and now I'm looking forward to spring veggies, like the spinach I got last week!
So if you're looking to use up the last potatoes, or combat the spring sniffles, I highly recommend this recipe!
Burnt Soup or Poor Man's Soup
1 medium onion, diced
2 tbsp oil (I used olive)
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
5-6 cups water, boiled
4-5 medium potatoes diced
salt and pepper to taste
1. Fry onion in oil until it's brown but not burned
2. Add flour and make a roux
3. Add water, stir to incorporate the flour and add the potatoes
4. Cook over medium heat until potatoes get soft
5. Add salt and pepper to taste
I executed this recipe exactly as written (you other foodies will recognize the self-control that takes) because I wanted to taste it the way it's written. This simple soup is surprisingly delicious. In the end, I added 2 large garlic cloves, minced and half a bunch of parsley, chopped, for the flavor and the immune system booster. I cooked it another 10 minutes with those ingredients and served with whole grain brain.
Even D. who "doesn't like soup", said "mmmm, your potatoes with sauce are delicious!"
Now head on over and check out Giz's version!
Now head on over and check out Giz's version!


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Message from the Director: Turning Down the Volume
Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon E. Panetta: Turning Down the Volume
May 15, 2009
There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. It predates my service with this great institution, and it will be around long after I'm gone. But the political debates about interrogation reached a new decibel level yesterday when the CIA was accused of misleading Congress.
Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing "the enhanced techniques that had been employed." Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.
My advice—indeed, my direction—to you is straightforward: ignore the noise and stay focused on your mission. We have too much work to do to be distracted from our job of protecting this country.
We are an Agency of high integrity, professionalism, and dedication. Our task is to tell it like it is—even if that's not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it.
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Last week (Friday, Dec. 2), pop superstar Britney Spears turned 30. While many of her flans flocked to her social media sites to wish the singer a happy birthday, one site in particular decided to spin the love around by releasing a new Spears song called 'Love 2 Love U.'
According to Spears' fan site, BreatheHeavy (via Idolator), the song is an older tune that had never seen the light of day. They posted this on their site Friday, the same day when Spears entered into her 30s:
"[Britney] is a girl who stays strong through the toughest of times, yet continues to carry on with a positive attitude and inspires millions of people around the world. She is truly my favorite artist and gives me strength and passion for craft. Britney gave me this song 'Love 2 Love U' several years ago, and am very happy to be able to share it with fans today. Happy Birthday, Brit. We love ya."
The tune is said to be an older song that Spears recorded, although the time frame when the song was cut is in question. The song (which can be heard below) may sample the melody from Madonna's 1987 hit single, 'La Isla Bonita,' paired with sirens — but fans who have heard the new tune don't seem to care … They love every second of it!
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New England displayed its faith in young wingers Kenny Mansally and Sainey Nyassi by inking them to new deals during the offseason. The key for the 21-year-old Gambian wingers lies in figuring out a way to transfer that faith into consistently influential performances.
Like most young players, Mansally and Nyassi often display their abilities in fits and starts. Revolution coach Steve Nicol continued to keep the duo on the field (Nyassi played 28 matches in 2009, Mansally featured in 25) even if he needed to drop them to the bench to freshen up the side or shake up their flagging form, but he wants to see his wingers make an impact on a more regular basis in this campaign.
"It's about consistency," Nicol said. "They've both got pace, they like to go at people and they're strong. It's just a case of being consistent. That's the key for them."
Mansally said he understands that he needs to produce more often in order to keep his starting place on the left wing with Mauricio Castro also in the fold and Marko Perovic looming as a possible option after the Revs declared their interest in him last week. Mansally mustered just one goal and two assists during the 2009 campaign and wants to increase those totals in 2010.
"I want to be in the starting lineup, so I want to be in every game," Mansally said. "For that, I have to work hard to improve and score and assist more goals."
While Nyassi also wants to boost his production after registering two goals and an assist last season, he said he's focusing on harnessing his speed and using it to better effect. Nyassi often struggles to figure out when to link up with his teammates and when to deploy his pace against isolated fullbacks.
"I need to focus and notice what is happening," Nyassi said. "If I have two guys on me, all I have to do is play the ball to my teammates. But if I have a player one-on-one with me, I have to have the confidence to take him on. It creates a lot of chances for the team. I will keep on doing it if it helps the team."
Both players may open the season in the starting XI in Los Angeles on Saturday night, but Nicol said Mansally and Nyassi will have to continue to grow as players and show they are worth their places in order to remain there.
"Obviously, they're expecting to start, but they're only going to start if they are producing," Nicol said.


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