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This is it! The end of the official Five Week Getting Started Bento Challenge. Or should that be the inaugural Five Week Challenge? Time will tell.
In addition to telling us about your final week's successes and (hopefully few) failures, let us know how you see yourself using the forum in the future. Do people still want to post once a week to an [insert date here] wrapup/roundup/chat type of post? Do you have other ideas? Please let us know.
My blog is Food and Shoes
My week started really well, I weighed in 900 g (~2lb) lighter than last Monday. That was very satisfying.
My bentos got a bit boring towards the end of the week though, as I have been trying to use up bits and bobs from the freezer. I had a couple of fattening but delicious Thai green curry flavoured sausages that I made a couple of months ago, and a few meatballs that I made out of meatloaf mixture. These made repeated appearances. The two vegetable things I made on Tuesday night did too. Anyway, even if it wasn't very varied it was nice.
I don't think I'll be losing any weight this week; our fruit deliveries started at work so I got a couple of kg of cherries and ditto of apricots. And I have been eating them. They may be healthy, but the calories add up when you make a pig of yourself. How can you help it though? The season is not that long and you have to eat them fresh while you can. I must construct a solar dehydrator this weekend.
Here are my lunches:
Monday, 454 kcal, brown rice, mussels, a gherkin, tomatoes, chicken stuffed with carrot, garden beans, lotus rootlets, capers, and pickled ginger:
Tuesday, 495 kcal, devilled egg, three prawn nigiri, capsicum, tomatoes, pickled onion, sausage and miso soup:
Wednesday, 423 kcal, bulghur with furikake, sausage, devilled egg, garden beans, carrot and capsicum kinpira stuff:
Thursday, 419 kcal, bulghur with furikake (I like this), sausage, carrot and capsicum, mixed mushroom stirfry, meatballs with sauce, and a tomato:
Friday, almost exactly the same as Thursday, the veges are under the meat things, and there is no tomato:
Mmn, the sausages sound delicious, and I just noticed the marvellous furoshiki cloths you have!
I agree with Veriest, your furoshiki are very striking! I love the orange one^_^
"A common way to tell if it is well cooked is to throw the sausage onto a hard surface; if it bounces, the sausage is good."
I have posted my Week 5 report, as well as some thoughts on the Challenge as a whole.
In a nutshell, I learned a lot myself!
I'd like to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to Bronwyn and Courtney, our intrepid moderators, for keeping the forum a nice and friendly place!
(I want to weigh myself on Monday morning to see how much I have lost in weight, I'll update that here then.)
And in case you were wondering, the forum is here to stay, even though the Challenge is over! Personally I need to take it easy forum and site-wise for a bit as we move, look for our next home, and so on, though I'll be around of course. (And I'm going to be hauling around my rice cooker on the road!) Besides the forum as just a place to chat and share hints and recipes and so on, I have a few ideas rattling around in my head as to things to utilize the forum, but for now I look forward to reading all your Challenge wrapup thoughts!
The Big Onigiri.
- Wherever you go, there you are. -
I've really enjoyed the Challenge- I'm new to bento, and it's been good to get so much support and ideas from the community here- Thanks! I still struggle with the organizing my food for a week, and I don't always make a bento every day, but I think it's something I can improve on over time.
Personally, I feel a bit neurotic taking pictures of my lunch, so I don't want to continue with a weekly report. However, if another Challenge came along in a while, maybe around June/July, I'd probably join in and try to do more advanced bento.
Summary of the Week
Monday: My parents just came back from San Francisco (Sunday morning)! That's why I had pirohzki and cherries in the bento. The chorizo rice recipe came from a collection of Good Housekeeping's best recipes. But I only used 1/3rd of the amount of Spanish-style sausage and added a can of Purefoods meatloaf instead.
Tuesday: This is an easy bento I do regularly (around once a month). I make a lot of Menrui no Dashi and stock them in the fridge so all I really had to do was boil the noodles, steam the fishcakes, and slice up the takuan. It's one of my favorite bentos.
Wednesday: The lemon pasta with grilled chicken is adapted from The Neelys' recipe from the Food Network channel. The original was a bit dry and they weren't very specific as to how much lemon to put in. the recipe said "the juice of 2 lemons" but that can be as little as 2 T to as much as 6T. I think I went to about 5 T and 3/4 cup of olive oil and 1 cup of Queso de Bola. But it's very tasty and my brothers loved it. The veggies are a simple salt and pepper stir-fry. The soy egg I made was a bit too light, I didn't cook it long enough in the soy sauce but I was in a hurry.
Thursday: My brothers had leftovers that day. I was only in school for half the day so I just packed a salami sammich and salad in my leafbloom collapsible sammich box. The little condiment bottle was from my Mom she got it at some restaurant and thought I might like it because it was small. So cute!
Friday: I tried to make this a bit fancier than usual because it was Justin's last day at his office (he's moving to a new job). I think I put a tad too much wasabi in the sanma onigiri but apparently, he likes the tear-wrenching spiciness of it. Haha! This one has an umeboshi, so I obviously took a picture of my bento box. The boys' get a soy egg instead.
So that's the end of Week#5. Thank you so much Maki for conducting this Bento Challenge! It was great motivation to make bentos often—if not everyday.
Now… if only I can convince myself to turn on the treadmill and walk on it. SIGH.
rest of my rambling is in my blog. :3
PS: I would like to thank the very kind people who commented on my photos in Flickr. It gives me a warm-fuzzy-feeling inside to know someone thinks my efforts amounted to something. You guys are wonderful. =^.^=
Ok - so this is how I have been coping.
I tried taking pictures with my cell phone - they are crummy and I can't get them off the damn thing!!!
I focused on trying new foods - mango mochi, Sharon Fruit, kumquats and Lady apples. The only thing I hated was the kumquats but now I am going to look at some recipes to make with them so they don't go to waste.
It is sad to see a good thing end.
I have used the 5 weeks to explore the whole idea of bento style eating, learning to use new items and old items in new ways and trying new foods. It has been a GREAT 5 weeks.
Here is how my week 5 goals worked out:
* sort bento ACCESSORIES and plan to use more of them
- ongoing and some were weeded out to be used for a bento swap!!
* look into new things to try like furikake from samples on hand
- done and I did NOT like anyone of them - I think I will not pursue this further.
* pre-plan the bentos and other meals for 7 days ON PAPER OR AT LEAST ON THE PC
- done and on paper!!! YEAH!!!!!!!
* refine mise en place according to meal plans
- on going and also laying out mise en place for husband and son for meals
they make themselves
* make at least 4 bentos and photograph them
- 3 bentos made and photographed - can't get the pictures off the damn camera!! I really miss my cameras and miss sharing what I have made!
* post here and write a report on my adventures! - DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ Begin by knowing you have already arrived ~
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What a week !
I'm a bit sad that I didn't had the time to write down my goals for the last week on the forum, but well, I didn't have the time to go to my usual wifi hotspots...
Basically, my goals were :
* go back to simple bento-making
* allow myself to use/ reintroduce meat in my bento
* spend just a reasonable amount of time on them but not overdoing it, that is not forcing myself to make them under 15 mns
* Give a rest to sandwich bento (max 1 this week)
I found out last week that making sandwich bentos really doesn't speed up my bento routine that much, however it does makes me feel more stressed since it is definitely harder for me to plan them and decide what's going in it... which is kind of weird.
And while I wanted to enlarge my range of vegetarian/vegan recipe (I'm not a vegetarian, but I do understand why some people choose this option) for enviromnental and health reason, maybe it'll be better for me to apply this for dinner or on the weekends, when I can take my time to cook.
I was feeling a bit tired at the begining of the week but it got better as time went by, and it shows in my bentos !
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I named this one Blah-o-bento... nothing stood out taste-wise but the quick-pickled mouli, which is nothing new for me since I eat it pretty often at dinner.
Made in about 30 mns (had to cook the rice)
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That's already better ! Now, it doesn't look like much and it's still a sandwich, but it effectively soothed my craving for a ploughman's.
Moreover I had a treat (strawberry marshmallow)and while I don't eat this kind of cloyingly sweet treats very often, it perfectly suited my mood and the snowy weather on that day.
Made in 20 mn
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Crappy picture, but yummy lunch. That's what I meant when I said "simple bento" : only a few items, but well-balanced flavors and textures as well as a quick assembly. I was agreably surprised by the addition of green peppers in the miso-marinated porc, and the quick pickled fennel and nappa cabbage with olive oil and lemon juice goes straight to my list of favorite pickles.
Made under 15 mn, with leftover rice and porc marinated overnight.
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Surprisingly enough this bento was one of the easiest to put together, and definitely a hit. The key to variety here is the fact that all items were leftovers (already preped and huddled together in a corner of the fridge) exept for the kimchi fried rice and the miso-gochujang marinated fish... but even the plain rice was a leftover, and the fish marinated overnight.
Made in 20 mns in the morning, but I could have cut that down to 15 if I had used frozen/de-podded peas.
I wanted to make a celebratory/treat bento for friday, but uni got me in its claws.
I also remembered I originally wanted to make a French bento somewhere along the way, but totally forgot ! So, I guess once I get back to Lyon I'll do that to reward myself ! ^^p
Like some of the people in the forum, I feel like time fleed in those 5 weeks. Or rather it's a bit like with some other things in life... you begin something thinking it'll be strenuous, long and difficult, and in the end you say to yourself "What, that's it ? It was not so at all." I don't now if it's because I tend to overestimate the difficulty of some projects, or because everything seems very easy once it's over, but it's not a bad feeling altogether.
Anyway this challenge has been terribly helpfull in many regards, but I think I'll talk about this in another post in the challenge week 5 talk. I'll definitely be back for a celebratory bento at least, to round up the challenge ! And now that I have some time before me, I'll probably do a bento gear round-up as well as have a closer look to the contents of the other parts of the forum.
I can't tell you how much seeing everyone's efforts and ideas helped me, it was a fantastic motivation !
Thank you all for this !
Interesting - I found it a bit stressful to plan sandwich-bento too! You'd think it would be a quickie no-brainer but it really isn't!
Exactly, and it's kind of counter-productive too... a sandwich is meant to be a quickie, rigth ? ^^p
Maybe that's because to make it as satisfying and complete as other bentos I had to really think about what would go inside and how to assemble it ; or maybe it's just because I didn't grow up eating/making sandwiches that makes it so stressful. (I recently witnessed a british mum putting together 3 sandwich lunches under 15 mns every morning and it looked as easy as snapping her fingers to her !)
Although this week illness has prevented me from cooking from Wednesday to Friday. I have done quite well in other aspects of the challenge.
I found the challange was at a time where their wasn't enough free time for me to be turning out bento's each day (then again, I'm starting to think that I've seen the last of my free time), but I still found it fun and usefull.
My goals where:
1) To get into the habit of making bento's - I need to improve on this, but I think of it much more than I did before.
2) To learn to cook rice, the only staple that still evades me - this was a complet success (turns out you need to rinse it first)
3) To help my brother loose weight. - Unfortunatley making a creature a healthy lunch and leading a horse to water are very similar exercises, eccept for the horse will sometimes feel like drinking.
4) To reduce stress levels - hence the flower shaped carrots, pointless details are relaxing in cooking but not anything else for some reason
5) To become healthier - This was more of a long term goal. I wasn't realy expecting much to happen during winter. But my bento's have been fairly balanced so I'm hoping to feel healthier once my body stops trying to hibernate.
In addition, this week, I have made some miso soup balls and some salted seasame seeds, which should help with bento's. I plan to stock up with useful staples over the next week as it is half term.
I don't think that I would be able to keep up with weekly reports unless there where specific challanges too meet, which I shouldn't imagine there will be for a while (or mabye at all *cry*). I do plan to rattle around the forum though, picking up (and hopefuly contributing) useful ideas, and taking part in any future challanges that may, hopefully, happen.
This week was a bit like assembling together the pieces of a puzzle that in past weeks were all scattered (and hidden) around! Before the challenge, I was not new to the bento universe but I had not yet tried to make it my own. I used to look at bento related websites with great admiration but felt they were too daunting a task for me to make.
The challenge was the perfect opportunity to learn while making new friends, and I think I became a real 'beginner'! At first I was a bit confused by the new things to do, but even more I was overwhelmed by the many things you need to think about when trying to organize better. After having 'survived' for 4 weeks, on the 5th I tried to take it easier and I focused on what I realized to be my most important aim/goal/challenge: having my meals arranged in a bento-style way at lunch and dinner, with all that comes with the bento-making process. I mean, I want to continue bringing my bento every day at work, but during this week 5 I arranged food in a bento-style also for dinner (exercise!), on one single plate, and I realized it is a good way to pay attention to what and how much I eat.
During week 5, I got more into my own specific needs and tried to focus on them
:: together with my bentos, had healthier snacks (dried apricots/sunflower seeds/whole grains&honey home made biscuits/and my usual apples)
:: kept on using leftovers and previously frozen things, making a habit of writing down on a notebook how much I spend on food and trying to get better at money saving
:: focused as before on season's food and local products (and this also helped on the money saving!)
:: tried to put my lunch in a smaller bentobox and saw that it was ok! Lunch was still satisfying and I did not feel sleepy or too 'heavy' in the afternoon, I had my usual snack and I was in a better mood so ate more 'consciously' also at dinner (!!!).
:: froze some leftovers that I would have wasted otherwise (I usually tell myself 'ok, I will eat this tomorrow' and then 'tomorrow' I end up cooking something new and forget about leftovers, but this bad habis is changing!)
:: got things reorganized in a couple of cupboards (and more to follow) and in one of my freezer drawers
:: thought and searched in books/internet and magazines about correct food combinations and exchanged on it with a challenge friend who made me wish to search more!!
:: and today, after dinner, got my bento ready for tomorrow and for week 6!!
I mean, for me this is only the beginning and I'm still exited!!!
Here are this week bento:
My goodness is five weeks really over? My greatest accomplishment: the *fantastic* freezer stash I have built up- home made meatballs, rice portions, soup portions, mini-frittata, muffins, brownies, you name it!
Two bentos this week
:: Napa Cabbage and Baby Bok Choy, with brown rice stir fry. And a few Ikea Swedish Meatballs, topped with Black Sesame Seed.
:: Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli, Bright and Happy Slaw (http://www.thesecondlunch.com/2009/02/a-bright-and-happy-slaw/)
Well, my five weeks were a bit of an adventure. At the very end of the year I moved to San Francisco from the east coast, and although I had been making Bento regularly at home in New England where I had an office job, the switch over became difficult as I waited for my bento supplies to come here (my boxes were shipped by my very very kind mother who staggered the shipments because I wasn't sure of the space I would have initially), as well as my new life doing most of my work from home. It turns out that making bento to eat at home isn't as easy.
Nevertheless, I was relatively successful, making home made lunches for myself most weekdays, and making Bento three days a week for the boyfriend. They were mostly sandwich bento, and weren't sufficiently attractive enough for me to photograph and post, but some of them were really fun!
I also put together my own blog (something I've been interested in doing for a while, as I write for several other blogs).
So exciting!
I didn't really lose any weight, but certainly didn't gain any, and can now sufficiently walk up and down hills in San Francisco to my liking. I'm going to be starting the Self Challenge on the 19th, and hopefully I'll be able to focus more on the weight loss. I certainly will be using bento lunch to help!
I'd love to continue posting wrap ups on the forum- Maki, thank you so much for putting this all together. (And thank you Bronwyn for moderating as well!) I can't express how fun it has been to see peoples lunches everyday, and have this little community!
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Week 5? The Challenge is done? But but but wah!
Like everyone else has mentioned, the Challenge has literally flown by. And it has been GREAT. I have no idea whether I lost weight (I only got up the courage to weigh myself at the gym on Thursday) but everyone is saying I look skinnier so that's good enough for me.
I've made a bento every work day during the challenge. For the last fortnight I've been making at least 2 a week for The Boy as well. We are converts to the whole bento ideal. We're eating better and feeling better and saving money too.
I am definitely going to continue making bentos and posting them on flickr! I going to aim toward more vegetarian bento, mostly for money saving issues but environmental as well. My reward for continuing until May (my birthday) is a new bento box for myself, since importing anything uber cute is a bit of a splurge.
I've really enjoyed this challenge and it's been awesome meeting you all!
The weeks seem to pass by way too quickly. I did pretty well with my goals. I walked every day that I could to work and I kept track of my calories on my ipod touch, well until Friday night but I will fill it in when I have some down time. I didn't lose any more weight, but I am still at my low so I am willing to be patient and keep trucking until I am eventually able to get under that. So here's my week:
Monday: Kung pao tofu and rice. 438 Calories. And my husband's lunch, he agreed to a bento.
Tuesday: For lunch it was shirataki noodles, tamagoyaki, carrot kinpira, and asparagus. 382 Calories, I will stick to regular brown rice from now on I got quite hungry in the afternoon. And for dinner it was a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat, and sliced bell pepper. 505 Calories.
Wednesday: Brown rice, triple soy loaf, carrot kinpira, and asparagus. 540 Calories.
Thursday: For lunch I had brown rice, curried chickpeas, carrot kinpira, and brussel sprouts. 432 Calories. And for dinner I had black bean burgers on whole wheat, with lightly steamed carrots and sliced bell pepper. 478 Calories.
Friday: Carrot sushi (first attempt at making sushi), brussel sprouts, carrot kinpira, tamagoyaki, and miso soup ball. 547 Calories
Saturday: a bonus bento, the hubs took me wine tasting for Valentine's Day. The zucchini spirals with the curried chickpea centers were very yummy.
Here are my lunches for the week. I continued to make three bentos a week. For Monday, I made stir-fried broccoli with gochuchang and crumbled tempeh, rice, and a lychee-coconut gel dessert. Total calories: 488.
Wednesday's lunch included leftover whole-wheat penne with a reduced-fat tomato Alfredo, vegetarian sausage patties, and steamed broccoli. Total calories: 376.
Friday's lunch had steamed broccoli (as you can tell this is one of my all-time favorite veggies) with Maggi seasoning sauce, rice with furikake, and vegetarian meatballs. Total calories: 375.
This challenge went by so fast, but I learned a lot and become a bit more confident in my bento skills. Pre-planning my lunches and utilizing leftovers was a huge help in terms of keeping my meals cost-effective. I also wrote up a list of items for my bento stash, organized by category (protein, carb, veggie, seasonings) to make the planning easier. Additionally, I find it more convenient to prepare the lunches the night before.
In terms of my weight loss efforts, bentos are an excellent tool for me. For the past couple of years, I've made a habit of regular exercise, but I had problems exercising proper portion control. When I started ordering actual bento boxes and sets, I was a bit surprised by their small size. However, I've come to realize that they really do store a reasonable amount of food.
Overall, I thought this challenge was really fun and beneficial.
I don't know how I'm this late with my week five wrap-up; it was a very busy week I guess!
The week went great --I've continued to make bento each day, and one day I brought a second (identical to mine) bento for my laoshi, which he very much enjoyed; that was really nice.
The best thing in week five was that I FINALLY got my rowing machine cleared off, and rowed each day from Monday on --the last few days I rowed TWICE each day even :-) I did go over to the online rowing site as I'd mentioned earlier, and it happened that the Valentines day challege started that Monday, so I did the challenge (to row 14 kilometers in a week), and won this Valentine:
I gave it to mom :-)
I'll keep on photographing my lunches, and posting them to the pool, and I will keep on making bentos and participating in the forum. This whole endeavor has been incredibly enriching: I love the recipes I learn from Maki and from fellow bento friends, and I love making new friends who are so creative and warm and encouraging.
I know I've lost at least 6 lbs, and now that I've started rowing I'm hoping to accelerate the weight-loss part. I did have my first meeting with a new nutritionist at my local hospital, and she's great & super helpful --she wants me to come and do a presentation on using bento for health & weight-loss for a nutrition class she's teaching. This challenge has really been a gift. Thanks Maki, and thanks to the rest of you too :-)
Like Mosaica, I too am very late with my Week 5 wrap-up report! Last weekend was a blur, and this week I have been first sick, and now I am recovering and making up for "lost time." ;) I posted about each bento that I made on my blog, here:
And here's how I managed to meet/not meet my goals :
* Dinner bentos for Tuesday - I did manage to put one together (steak sandwiches with bleu cheese, and black bean soup) and it was delicious!
* Plan a dinner every night that we're going to be at home - I mostly succeeded in this. Overall I have been focusing more on dinner, which I had previously found I had been neglecting during the challenge
* Use of leftovers, and starting to put up a stash - Definitely met this goal. I also organized my fridge and freezer, hooray! Leftovers are something that I will still need to rely on for our own personal bento meals, although since I've started making bento for others I realize that I probably shouldn't rely on leftovers for their lunches...!
* Finish a draft of a plan for offering my bento-making services to additional coworkers - I'm still working on this draft tonight...and hoping to get my first order form out this coming Wednesday.
Overall, participating in this challenge has been very inspiring for me, and one of the most positive outcomes is that I have now started making bento lunches for my coworkers, for a price! I am currently only making lunches for one coworker, but I plan on expanding to include additional "customers" starting the first week in March. It's been a bit of extra work so far, but a lot of fun, and this website has been a lot of help in that regard - thanks, Maki! And thanks to all of you for posting and giving me tons of great ideas and encouragement, whether directly or just by participating in this challenge. I plan on sticking around and posting pictures and participating in the forum when I can, although I have found lately that my life (a lot of which involves bento prep, actually) has kept me offline for the most part. We'll see!
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Public health initiatives have been a major benefit of living in the 20th and 21st centuries. They've spared many of us from terrible communicable diseases, ensured we live past childhood, and helped cause human life expectancy to increase by 18 years worldwide in the past 50 years alone.
The idea of the public health initiative wasn't invented in the 1900s, however – let's take a look back at some of the earliest attempts to better the quality of life for society, with some dating back as far as 3,500 years.
Top image: Baghdad physician Al-Rhazi making one of the first smallpox diagnoses, via Adam Blatner.
Citizens in India and China Implement Variolation against Smallpox, 1500-1000 BCE
While the exact area and time of this practice has yet to be pinned down, individuals in China and India were using the scabs and crusts from the wounds of individuals afflicted with smallpox to inoculate others. This process, called variolation, was a method of deliberate infection that gave the infected degree of immunity. The scabs would be allowed to dry in bottles for several days, ground up, and then inhaled by the patient.
Those administering the inoculations also noticed a drop-off in the effectiveness of this technique, observing that the scab particles would be of less use the older they became. A very similar process is outlined as an Indian religious practice of the Vedic tradition dating to 1500 BCE. In addition to inhaling dried scar particles, placing a small portion of a smallpox wound into a freshly opened cut was also practiced in China.
The City of Rome and Waste Removal, 600 BCE
The Roman system of aqueducts and plumbing, at its height, including nearly of 1000 kilometers of piping and carried both fresh and foul water throughout the city and sometimes directly to residences by the first century CE. This system took centuries to construct, with the first major step coming with the construction of the Cloaca Maxima, which translates into the "Greatest Sewer", and served to remove water and waste from the city. If only mutagen existed then, maybe we would worship large, ninjitsu-knowing turtles. The Cloaca Maxima was finished in the sixth century BCE under the watch of King Tarquinius Priscus, using forced labor from Roman citizens.
With the advent of a sewer system, the luxury of public latrines could be conceived, with the first ones consisting of wooden planks with holes cut in them that sat above sewer lines. These were often used by soldiers stationed along Hadrian's Wall. After defecating, occupants would use a communal sea sponge to clean up in lieu of the yet-to-be-invented toilet paper.
The sea sponge was placed in bucket of salt water for the next benefactor. The holes in wooden planks would later become hewn stone openings in free-standing public latrines, some of which were available at no cost, while other were pay for play. Some denizens of Rome actually had latrines in their homes by the 1st Century CE. You'd get to have your own sponge then. I hope.
Keeping Sick People Away from the Rest of the Population, late 1300s CE
Surely this idea was in practice prior to the 1300s. However, the Black Plague was where this really became widespread as a public health initiative. The removal of bodies infected with the plague, however, this did not stop the fleas that caused the Black Death.
Individual cities would contract with "Plague Doctors" – denizens who would visit the sick and keep a tally of the numbers of those afflicted, and, in some cases, help remove bodies. The Plague Doctors were extremely visible (and ominous) due to their outlandish clothing and beaked mask, designed both to protect the individual and provide a hospitable work environment (the horned beak stored spices to help the plague doctor mask the stench of the bodies he would come in contact with).
These measures, while not extremely useful in controlling the spread of the Black Death (they, in fact, possibly led to the spread of Black Death as a Plague Doctor went from city to city carrying fleas), laid the foundation for later organized efforts to fight community-wide diseases.
Non-Municipal Initiatives & our Body's own Defense
Some initiatives date back upwards of hundreds of thousands of years, including burial rituals and warnings against eating certain types of food. But these came in the form of religious instructions, and not government-initiated decrees. It is also important to not that our bodies themselves have inherent protection against harmful material, as a correlation between foul odors and infectious material is often observed (i.e., feces, rotting flesh).

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In 1935 I was baptized and then raised in one of the largest "mainline" Protestant denominations. But by age twelve I was so disappointed with the pastors sent to us, all preaching the old liberalism so popular in those years …Read More
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Dr. Robert B. Strimple is president emeritus and professor emeritus of systematic theology at Westminster California. He is author of The Modern Search for the Real Jesus.


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We're on the verge of big things.
Memorial Day weekend opens not only summer but also our hearts.
Our national habit of making holidays of our holy days gives us fun, on the one hand, and I'm a fan of fun.
But Memorial Day does an honor we must not forget.
American soil was still stained with the blood of Union and Confederate soldiers when Decoration Day was conceived to pay them tribute by placing flowers on their graves. The day of honor caught on state by state — ruefully in the South — until visiting cemeteries on Decoration Day became an American custom. After World War I, the honor was extended to all who died in war fighting for the nation.
In my girlhood, we bought and wore red paper poppies made by disabled veterans in honor of the blood of heroes and inspired by the poem In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.
We carried real flowers to the cemeteries to decorate beloved graves.
The custom is not forgotten. Arlington National Cemetery places flags on each grave for Memorial Day, and too many families across the land again have graves of their own to visit and decorate.
So at Bay Weekly, we eagerly accepted Stephanie Zanelotti's invitation to write about the Stars and Stripes Festival she and Connie O'Dell are organizing at Chesapeake Beach to, Zanelotti says "bring back the true meaning of Memorial Day through family-oriented fun as well as educational events and activities."
Writer and poet Elisavietta Ritchie carried out the assignment for which she was suited by her military lineage: Father, grandfather, daughter and both first and present husbands served in the military through all the last century's battle zones, living to write their stories.
True to her background, Ritchie interviewed a half-dozen veterans who'll be telling true stories of their wartime experiences at the festival throughout the weekend.
In this week's paper, you'll get an overview of the festival and meet veterans George Brummell, Donald Knepp, Phil Pfanschmidt, Nicole Starr, Donald Taylor and Bruce Wahl.
Find the full schedule at http://www.chesapeake-beach.md.us/events_cbssf.htm.
We hope to see you there. Wherever you are, you can join hearts and hands around the nation in the National Moment of Remembrance at 3pm on each Memorial Day simply by pausing for a moment of silent reflection.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Before Memorial Day Weekend comes May 24, which is the day 1,998 students graduate from Anne Arundel Community College. Any graduation is great, and, as Stacey Gomoljak Wynia writes in her first story for Bay Weekly, "an epic, bursting with stories that deserve to be told."
Community college graduations are, I think, uniquely American because they are so democratic, marking commencements achieved by hard work rather than privilege. In my early working years as a teacher in community college — first in an inner city St. Louis community college — I fell in life-long love with the mission and the students. So it's with delight that we bring you the story of Class of 2012 mother-daughter graduates Dawn Rasmussen and Courtney Stewart. Thanks to grandmother Marie Clark, who brought the story to our attention.
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Bay weekly's office moving day is Friday, May 25.
The office is deconstructing as I write. As soon as I say good-bye for this week, I'll return to sorting files and photos.
We're not taking everything with us, and our recycling cans in the parking lot are filling with more than paper.
We'll be parting ways with file cabinets, chairs and a unit or two of RAM memory, plus who knows what else.
Perhaps some of it could be useful to you?
Assorted stuff is up for grabs Friday, May 25, between 10am and 2pm. Come by our old office at 1629 Forest Drive, Annapolis, to see — and take — for yourself.
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Statement of Reginald F. Wells
Deputy Commissioner of Human Resources
Social Security Administration
Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform
Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization
Hearing on Achieving Diversity in the SES Workforce
October 15, 2003
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for asking me to be here today to discuss the Social Security Administration's (SSA) efforts to achieve diversity in its Senior Executive Service (SES) representation. I am pleased to have the opportunity to tell you about the efforts that SSA has made to develop and recruit a diverse workforce as we also address the challenges presented by the forthcoming retirement wave among career civil servants.
Who we are
The Social Security Administration is an agency of 65,000 employees working in 1,500 installations nationwide. We are a workforce that is highly committed to the Agency's mission and values. As Commissioner Jo Anne B. Barnhart has often said, the men and women of Social Security are the agency. And I have to confess that I share her view that the Social Security workforce is the best in government.
Our overarching goal is to provide the American people with the service they expect and deserve. To do this we must understand and meet our diverse public's needs. And, if we are to accomplish that, we need a high-performing, well trained, and well-equipped staff, from the front line field office workers to the highest executives.
SSA's workforce is a diverse group-71 percent of our employees are women, and 44 percent are members of minority groups. Diversity is reflected in all of the major components and at all levels, including our Deputy Commissioners, Regional Commissioners, and Associate Commissioners.
There is another important characteristic of the SSA workforce. We are also a very experienced group, with an average of 20 years of service and an average age of 47. And that brings me to the challenges-and the opportunities-that the agency faces as we prepare ourselves for the massive increases in workload that the aging of the Baby Boomers is already starting to create. I would like to discuss some of those challenges before I focus on diversity in the Senior Executive Service (SES), because we believe these challenges carry with them the seeds of opportunity to ensure that we are able to meet our goals for a diverse workforce and a diverse SES corps.
Workforce challenges
According to SSA's own Retirement Wave Study that was published in 2000:
- SSA retirements will rise steadily and peak in 2007-2010 when about 2,500 will retire each year.
- 37 percent of overall staff will be eligible for regular retirement through 2010.
- 60 percent of SES and GS-14/15s will be eligible for regular retirement by 2008; and
- We will need to replace 24,000 of 65,000 employees over the next 10 years.
We have turned the retirement wave into an opportunity. Over the past four years, we have hired approximately 12,000 permanent employees, and we have focused on equal opportunities for all, including minorities and women.
We attribute our success to several factors:
- Support from the highest levels of the agency;
- Strong linkage to the agency strategic plan;
- Development of a long-term service vision;
- Analysis and study of potential future losses;
- A specific workforce transition plan; and
- National and regional leadership development programs.
SSA has a comprehensive recruitment plan administered by a National Recruitment Coordinator. We filled the position with a career human resources professional who has worked continually with our components and regions, lending consistency and professionalism to the recruitment process.
We are educating our managers on modern, effective recruiting practices. Under the guidance of our Recruitment Coordinator, we have developed a professional marketing strategy that enables us to compete effectively with government and private organizations.
Diversity and SSA
As I noted earlier, SSA has a diverse workforce. By comparison to the 44 percent of our employees who are members of minority groups, minorities comprise 28.5 percent in the civilian labor force and 30.8 percent in the Federal workforce.
I am pleased to report that we employ an increasing number of Hispanics, who now make up 11.9 percent of SSA's workforce compared to 12.2 percent in the civilian labor force and 7.1 percent in the federal workforce. SSA ranks third among federal agencies in this area. Further, SSA is second among major Federal agencies in hiring Hispanic employees. The Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) June 2003 report to the President highlighted SSA as one of the model agencies for Hispanic hiring.
Employees with disabilities represent 8.1 percent of SSA's workforce compared to 7.1 percent in the Federal workforce. SSA ranks third among Federal agencies in staffing and hiring persons with disabilities.
In October 2002, our SES corps of 123 individuals included 41 minority men and women, representing one-third of the total.
SSA has been recognized for its commitment to diversity by the League of Latin American Citizens, National Image, the Office of Personnel Management, Equal Opportunity Publications, Baltimore City, the Ford Foundation, and the John F. Kennedy School of government at Harvard University.
However, Commissioner Barnhart, and the entire agency leadership, is firmly committed to continuing our efforts to build a workforce that truly reflects the face of our nation as a whole. I would like to take a few moments to discuss some of our agency-wide initiatives because SSA's long tradition of developing leadership from within means that a diverse SES corps depends in large part on a diverse total workforce.
Recruiting a Diverse Workforce
SSA's Office of Human Resources produces a monthly hiring report that cumulatively tracks fiscal year hires on a monthly basis for all EEO groups both at the agency and Deputy Commissioner level. The hiring rates for women and minorities are well above their availability in the national civilian labor force.
On-campus college recruiting is an important source of diverse new hires. First SSA is working with colleges and universities that have large populations of underrepresented groups. SSA regularly recruits at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions and has cooperative agreements with Native America tribal colleges and universities. SSA also uses the Outstanding Scholar Program to recruit minorities as well as authority granted by OPM to use bilingual registers in hiring.
Further, we are establishing partnerships with national organizations with ties to colleges and universities to help us attract a diverse candidate pool. Such organizations include the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the Association on Higher Education and Disability, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
SSA's six Equal Employment Opportunity advisory groups assist the Agency in its recruitment initiatives in addition to their primary role of assisting our agency to better address our employees' concerns and to better serve persons with disabilities, women, minorities, and the non-English speaking public. The six employee advisory groups are:
- American Indian and Alaska Native Advisory Council (AIANAC)
- Black Affairs Advisory Council (BAAC)
- Hispanic Affairs Advisory Council (HAAC)
- Pacific Asian Americans Advisory Council (PAAAC)
- National Women's Advisory Committee (WAAC)
- National Advisory Council on Employees with Disabilities (NACED)
Commissioner Barnhart and I believe that SSA's aggressive recruiting efforts will form the basis for a capable and diverse SES a candidate pool for the future.
Leadership Training
Among SSA's many comprehensive training opportunities for its employees are the leadership development programs. Our three national development programs are for employees from Grade GS-9 to 15. They cover all positions and will enable the agency to meet the staffing and leadership challenges of the 21st century.
OPM has recognized SSA's leadership programs for their "best practices", and the programs are considered to be among the best in government. The programs are structured and managed to link performance to results. Key features include a structured selection process using assessment centers based on key leadership competencies, individualized development plans, program evaluations from each participant and assigned mentors for each participant. Ninety-four (94) percent of the most recently completed SES Candidate Development Program class remaining with the agency has been selected for placement in SES positions at SSA. Of the 30 SES appointees from this class, one-third were women and 40 percent were minority.
And the Advanced Leadership and the Leadership Development Programs, for GS-9 to 14 employees, are equally important for a quality, diverse SES corps in the future. In addition to our national programs, we offer numerous regional and component level programs.
SSA's Response to the No FEAR Act Requirements
Before I conclude my testimony, I would like to turn to the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, also known as the No FEAR Act, which is one of the topics of this hearing. SSA strongly supports the implementation of the No FEAR Act. We believe it reaffirms the strong public policy commitment to ensure that all federal employees are free to come forward with allegations of wrongdoing or misconduct, by making sure they are aware of their rights and legal protections.
Prior to the October 1, 2003 effective date for the Act, SSA took affirmative steps to comply with the notification provisions of the new Act and to meet the Office of Special Counsel's (OSC) five requirements for compliance with the law, under its Certification Program. Under the program, OSC issues a certificate of compliance, good for three years, to agencies that successfully complete the five-step project.
I am pleased to report that SSA has successfully completed the five steps to inform employees of their legal protections and rights afforded under Federal antidiscrimination and whistleblower protection statues. SSA completed the following:
- Placed informational posters about prohibited personnel practices and whistleblower protections at its agency facilities throughout the nation to make employees aware of the whistleblower protection laws;
- Provided information about these protections to new employees as part of their orientation process;
- Provided periodic information to current employees about their rights and remedies under the Whistleblower Protection Act;
- Trained supervisors and managers on the whistleblower protection laws and prohibitions against discrimination via an IVT broadcast on September 22, 2002 and
- Created a hyperlink from the agency's intranet website to the OSC website. This hyperlink can be accessed from both the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and the Office of Personnel websites.
In addition, SSA has provided written notice to employees, former employees and applicants for employment concerning the agency's policy prohibiting discrimination and advising them of their rights and protections afforded under the antidiscrimination laws.
SSA has a long-standing and consistent policy of taking appropriate disciplinary actions against Federal employees who discriminate against any individual in violation of the antidiscrimination and whistleblower laws. SSA will comply with the spirit of the new Act by continuing to take appropriate disciplinary action against Federal employees who are found to have engaged in discriminatory conduct.
As soon as the guidelines are received from the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission and the Office of Personnel Management, SSA is prepared to post on its public Website, in the time, form, and manner prescribed under the new Act, summary statistical data relating to equal employment opportunity complaints filed with the agency by employees, or former employees of, or applicants for employment with the agency.
In closing, I'd like to emphasize SSA's pride in its workforce and its efforts to promote diversity among its employees. Thank you and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have.


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|Catherine Connors rocked MBlog 2012. Her Bad Mother, Connors' much-fêted mom blog, was one of TIME magazine's 25 best. Here she is on break during Winnipeg's first dedicated blogging conference at the University of Winnipeg.
Ok, it's New Year's Eve day and the big question on my mind is "what does authentic voice really mean?" Yeah, seriously. I had the chance to mull this over in relation to this blog on the last Saturday of November, and I've been thinking of it ever since.
See, the good folks at New Media Manitoba scoured the 'Peg for bloggers who knew their stuff plus brought in some special guests for MBlog 2012: Blogging in the Big Time. Chief among those guests was Catherine Connors, editor of Babble (Disney Interactive) and author of HerBadMother.com - one of TIME's Top 25 Blogs of 2012.
Catherine was a delight. And there were a few ideas she clearly unpacked during her preso and the subsequent Q&A.
1) You're not going to get rich from your precious blog. Live with that.
2) If you don't occasionally feel fear after you post, you're not doing it right.
3) Use your authentic voice or your blog won't be sustainable.
Motivation is the key on that third point, she said. You simply won't want to blog if there's not enough you in your posts. And that's what I've been wrestling with.
How much of me does come through in these posts? Is the writing process here a catalyst for generating and floating ideas or simply reviewing ed-related apps and the thoughts of others? Add to that the time crunch nearly every blogger feels and other questions surface. Is this space the best vehicle for my own self-expression? Would a short form blog like a Tumblr or Posterous be easier to update? Does every post need to gift wrapped with a bow?
What about the possibility of embedding quick and more frequent Social Cam videos to bypass a sometimes tedious writing process?
My friend Darren Kuropatwa (@dkuropatwa) uses Social Cam vids brilliantly as a way to float his thoughts about his teaching practice. Check out his While Walking series. It looks like Ontario educator Rodd Lucier @thecleversheep is starting down the same road - sharing short thoughts and impressions more frequently.
So, where does that leave me?
Well, I'm grateful to New Media Manitoba for the excellent event this past November. It was great professional development in a sweet venue with some great networking opportunities - plus I got to meet Winnipeg's bona fide social media guru Erica Glasier (@ericaglasier).
While I haven't found any easy answers to the questions of voice and posting convenience yet, the questions themselves are good ones and deserve attention in the new year.
And that's where my head is right now. What questions will you be be asking yourself this year?


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Major Section: NOTE-2-8
Execution of
table events has been sped up in many cases by avoiding
excessive consing.
ACL2 now warns if
rewrite (or
definition) rules contain
free variables on the right-hand side. Thanks to Dave Greve for raising this
Emacs file
emacs/emacs-acl2.el has been updated to better comprehend the
notion of the ``ACL2 shell'', which is the buffer to which ACL2 forms are
written by commands defined in the above file. Thus, command
control-t e
has been modified always to write to the ACL2 shell (which is
by default), and the following new commands have been defined.
o control-t c
Set the ACL2 shell to the current buffer. o control-t b
Change to the ACL2 shell.
The commands
pl and
pr may now be given a macro name
that corresponds via the
macro-aliases-table to a function name, so that
for example
:pl append is treated the same as
:pl binary-append. A
more interesting improvement, for
:pl only, is that
:pl may now take
any term. When
:pl is given a term other than a symbol, it will print
all rewrite rules that match that term. Thanks to David Russinoff, Robert
Krug, and Bill Legato for getting this going.
A new function,
pkg-witness, returns a symbol in the given package.
The installation instructions have been updated, for example to give more guidance on obtaining Lisp implementations and to mention the acl2-help mailing list.
Jared Davis has suggested some symbols to be added to
and we have done so. Thanks, Jared.
MFC(used in
extended-metafunctions; thanks also to Robert Krug for this one) o
WORLD, and
STABLE-UNDER-SIMPLIFICATIONP(used in
computed-hints) o
The command
pe has been improved so that when the event is inside
an included book, the path of included books (from the top-level book down to
the one containing the event) is shown. Thanks to Eric Smith (perhaps among
others) for pointing out the utility of this improvement.
A new release of the rtl library has been included:
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Will Wesson's Summer Road Trip
Spring Migration
For pro skier Will Wesson, late-season park skiing is an annual tradition. "Every spring for the last eight years, I've packed my bags, called up friends and set out in search of melting snow," Wesson says. "While most western resorts close in mid-April, I always plan around the few spots known for maintaining quality parks well into summer. This usually means a California road trip, and this year was no exception." The photos and words that follow are his road trip up the West Coast in search of snow.
Northstar, Calif.
On one of the last days of the winter season, Khai Krepela and I went to Northstar to try and conquer this 80-foot circle rail. It was one of the most unique and challenging rail setups I've ever seen in a public park.
Woodward Tahoe, Calif.
The Lake Tahoe area is notorious for its spring sun, but every now and then a storm will come through. A few friends and I escaped the snow, wind and rain in Woodward Tahoe for a day. In this photo, Sawyer Deen boosts on the resi ramp.
Squaw Valley, Calif.
This year was a below-average year for Squaw Valley and Tahoe resorts in general, but closing day at Squaw was still awesome. The upper mountain had plenty of snow and I snapped this photo on my way out of town. Next stop: Mammoth.
Mammoth, Calif.
Mammoth's park in late April this year was all-time good. Perfect sunny weather, warm temperatures and loads of features. In this photo, Marcos Lagoria hits the largest six-kink rail I've ever seen in a park.
Death Valley, Calif.
After Mammoth, I drove south for a couple of hours to Death Valley National Park and the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. It was a relatively mild afternoon by Death Valley standards, climbing only to 106 degrees. I'd originally planned on camping in the park, but it was so hot that I decided to get out as fast as possible.
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Calif.
Next, I picked up my friend and fellow skier Niklas Eriksson in Los Angeles and we drove up the Pacific Coast Highway, stopping to check out beaches and state parks. After visiting friends and family in Santa Barbara and the Bay Area, we continued north toward Mt. Hood, Ore.
Newberry Nat'l Volcanic Monument, Ore.
On the way to Mt. Hood, we explored a mile-long lava tube at Newberry National Volcanic Monument, just south of Bend, Ore. If you ever check this place out, I recommend renting a lantern. We figured we could get by with cell phone flashlights and almost got stuck in the dark.
Mt. Hood, Ore.
After over 1,000 miles on the road from L.A. to Hood, Niklas and I rolled into Windells Camp for the 7th Annual West Coast Session. In this photo, Rob Heule tests out the big jump with a smooth cork 3. A week of sun, slush and filming was over before we knew it and the road trip continued north.
Whistler/Blackcomb, BC
Our next destination was north of the border for Level 1 Productions' last shoot of the year at Whistler Blackcomb. Unfortunately we spent most of the time in Whistler waiting out snow, rain and clouds, but still managed to sneak in a couple solid sunset shoots. In this photo, Nick Miles hits the second jump of two.
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Gateway to Detroit
Just off I-94 with free airport shuttle service
Play your stay at our Days Inn Detroit Metropolitan Airport hotel when you visit the Detroit and Ann Arbor area. Our hotel is located off of I-94 and convenient to all the local attractions and businesses. We offer free shuttle service to and from the airport and the car rental stations, which are located just down the road from our hotel.


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Well, it appears rookie tight end Vance McDonald can catch a not-so-subtle hint.
Or maybe it was more like a plea.
The 49ers' 11-player draft class has selected their jersey numbers and McDonald – perhaps following the fervent wishes of his new head coach – has taken No. 89.
On Saturday, Jim Harbaugh said he hoped McDonald would don those digits because they were worn by Mike Ditka, his coach for six seasons with the Bears. Iron Mike, of course, was also a rugged Hall-of-Fame tight end whose black-and-white highlights (after one catch he bowls over at least 37 defenders) are the stuff of NFL legend.
At 6-foot-4 and 262 pounds, Harbaugh believes McDonald could evoke memories of Ditka.
No pressure, rookie.
"When Vance McDonald gets here, I'm going to try to get him in the No. 89," Harbaugh said on NFL Network. "Because what I have come to know of 'Iron' Mike Ditka and the respect that I have for him through the years, I can't wait for coach Ditka to see Vance McDonald. Because I believe he's going to see some very good similarities."
No. 89 was previously assigned to newly signed tight end Cameron Morrah, who is now No. 84.
Here are the numbers of the 49ers' draftees:
5: QB B.J. Daniels
* Potential Swiss Army knife gets a QB number.
11: WR Quinton Patton
* I think one of the Chiefs quarterbacks used to have this number.
33: CB Marcus Cooper
35: S Eric Reid
* The 49ers noted the first-round pick's number is temporary. He's presumably hoping another will become available as the roster shrinks.
38: RB Marcus Lattimore
* Lattimore wore Frank Gore's jersey number – 21 – in college. He takes Dashon Goldson's old number, which is the same number of another notable South Carolina running back, George Rogers, the 1980 Heisman Trophy winner.
54: LB Nick Moody
* This suggest San Francisco's previous No. 54 – free-agent linebacker Larry Grant – won't be back in 2013.
71: DT Quinton Dial
71: OT Carter Bykowski
89: TE Vance McDonald
* McDonald wore No. 88 at Rice. TE Garrett Celek has the number with the 49ers.
95: DE Tank Carradine
96: LB Corey Lemonier