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Rank your income to specific age groups to see if you're in the 1%, to see where you stand today, or to see where you project yourself to be in the future. Read more about the households that make up the top 1% by income earnings.
Simply add up your households annual income, such as your salary, your spouse's salary, bonus, business income, and windfall events, then enter it into the calculator. The age ranges are based off of the age of the head of household, who is typically the primary income earner. The way that the age ranges work is to limit the results to the age groups that you are interested in comparing yourself to, so that the results are more relevant. So for example, if you are 35, I would recommend setting the minimum to 30 and the maximum to 40. The calculator will then update to show only the household incomes of households with heads within that age range.
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Scroll up to enter changes to your income.Percentile Rank : An income of $120,000.00 for ages 18 to 100 ranks at the 81.82%
Median Income : $52,657.09
Mean Income : $102,123.00
Income 25th - 75th Percentile Ranges : $27,341.18 to $98,225.73
Income Percentiles by AgeFor reference, here is how much a household would have to earn to rank at certain percentiles between the ages 18 to 100.
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This is where your income would rank if there were 100 households within the nation who's head of households were between the ages of 18 to 100. 18 households would be have higher incomes than you. 81 households would have lower incomes than your household.
Share These Results :These results are based off of 6248 individual samples where the head of household was age 18 to 100 and are weighted to represent 125981700 American households. The SCF is known to be slightly biased towards higher incomes values, which the Federal Reserve attempts to correct for by adjusting the weighting of each individual response. Keep this in mind if the number of responses your output is based off of is low, or if you are looking at the tail ends of the data--like the top 1% or bottom 1%.
The numbers are based off of the results of the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances by the Federal Reserve. I used R to separate one of the five imputations with the sample replicatant weights from the Federal Reserve. If you want to do your own analysis check out the raw data, and also check out this guide on how to import the data into R http://www.r-bloggers.com/analyze-the-survey-of-consumer-finances-scf-with-r/. The number of samples per age vary quite a bit, so you might get unusual results for certain ages.
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Update: September 2017, The data is now updated with data from 2016! Median income has risen 10% from 2013 to 2016. Some of the age ranges look a little more irregular than usual, so I will be on the lookout for any additional updates from the Federal Reserve. As of 2/24/2018 there have been no updates to the data that was published.
Update: April 2019, incomes appear to be growing faster than inflation for the past few years. If you use this data to compare your current income to the distribution, it will probably be safe to assume that your percentile rank is slightly lower.
Looking across the data, young adult incomes (adjusted for inflation) have been flat over the past generation, but debt is increasing.


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One of the most-used features of any smartphone is its camera. The ability to take a decent photo and share it quickly with friends, family and, yes, the entire world is compelling. And as smartphone cameras get better and better, they've made the consumer point-and-shoot camera an endangered species.
That makes Samsung's Galaxy Camera a puzzling product. It's essentially an Android smartphone without the telephone component, and its primary feature is a 16-megapixel camera with a 23mm lens with 21x optical zoom. It's got a 1.4-GHz quad-core processor, 1 gigabyte of RAM and 8 GB of storage, which can be expanded by up to 64 GB via a microSD memory card. It's made of a much sturdier plastic than Samsung's smartphones, and has some heft to it – it feels solid in your hands.
The back of the camera is a bright, 4.8-inch touchscreen that handles sunlight relatively well, and the operating system is Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.
Indeed, looking at the home and app screens on the Galaxy Camera, you'd think you were working with just another Samsung smartphone. You can do anything on this device that you can on, say, a Galaxy S III – download new apps, check your email, surf the Web, access social media, even play games. The only thing you can't do is make cell phone calls – but even then, by downloading an app like Skype you could make Voice Over IP calls.
But what the Galaxy Camera is primarily designed for is taking pictures and easily dispatching them to a variety of sources. For example, both Dropbox and Instagram are pre-installed, and can be set up with just a few taps. Once that happens, it's a snap to take a photo and send to either service. You can even have your photos automatically uploaded to Google+ without doing a thing. The Galaxy Camera has both Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity – my review unit talks to Verizon's network, and there's an AT&T version, too – so you can dispatch photos from almost anywhere.
The camera works in three modes: Auto, Smart and Expert. Auto mode chooses the best settings for the picture you're taking automatically, and is how most smartphone cameras work. Smart mode lets you choose specific settings for the type of picture you're taking – macro, faces, sunsets, panorama, action freeze and more.
For those who want complete control over how the camera works, there's Expert mode. When you select this, a representation of a Digital SLR lens appears onscreen, allowing you set the ISO, aperture and shutter speed. I'm not an expert photographer, but when I've shown this feature to the photojournalists I work with, they've been impressed.
The photos taken by the Galaxy Camera are acceptable, but not exceptional. Colors seemed a little over-saturated, as well. The image stabilization feature helps take mostly blur-free photos, but overall the image quality was not that much better than the camera on a Galaxy S III or my iPhone 5.
Here are two pictures taken Sunday at the Bayou City Art Festival in Memorial Park. Can you tell at a glance which was taken with the 16-megapixel Galaxy Camera and which was shot with the 8-megapixel iPhone 5?
The top photo was shot by the iPhone, the bottom with the Galaxy Camera. The colors are more vivid in the Galaxy picture, though I think the iPhone 5 handled the bright sunlight better.
The camera also handles full HD video at 1080p at 30 frames per second.
One of the nice things about this device is that you don't necessarily have to use the main camera app if you don't want to. If the concept of an Android-driven point-and-shoot camera catches on, it would be interesting to see what kind of advanced camera apps arise. There's already a slew of good ones, such as Camera Zoom FX.
And because it's a full Android device, you get other benefits, including the ability to control the camera with your voice. You can tell the camera to take a picture, rather than pressing a button.
The Galaxy Camera sells on Verizon's website for $549. The AT&T version is $499. If you want to use it with LTE, you'll need a data plan, which further adds to its cost.
I have mixed feelings about the Galaxy Camera. Given that the upcoming Galaxy S4 will have a 13-megapixel camera with pretty slick software, I'm not sure there's a need for a product like this. A year from now, we'll likely see smartphones that can take better pictures, though the Galaxy Camera's optical zoom gives it a big advantage. If you like the point-and-shoot form factor and want to share your images instantly, the Galaxy Camera is worth considering.


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Twitter shares fell 18%, or $6.90, Tuesday, as the lockup on 489 million shares held by insiders expired.
Volume soared to more than 10 times the daily average. By the final hour of trading, more than 122 million shares had traded hands.
Backing out the average daily volume of about 11 million shares and assuming the sales all took place at or near the lows of the day, that implies more than $3.5 billion was freed up for other uses by Tuesday's out-of-the-ordinary trading.
That's the equivalent of about 41,000 P85 Model S Tesla's ($84,570 apiece after Federal and state incentives).
Put another way, it's equal to more than 3,700 houses in San Francisco, where the median price is running about $940,000.
While Tuesday's Twitter drubbing was painful, it wasn't the worst of the year. Twitter shares fell 24% on Feb. 6 on disappointment over weaker than expected user growth and timeline views.
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Jason Babin almost is as good as new.
The Jacksonville Jaguars pass rusher is on the mend from June groin surgery, and he says he'll be ready for training camp, if not much sooner.
"I'm about nine days out from being 100 percent," Babin told the team's official website.
The operation represented Babin's first-ever surgery, according to the website, somewhat remarkable considering he's 33 years old and entering his 10th season in the trenches.
After being claimed off waivers from the Philadelphia Eagles in November, Babin notched 1.5 sacks over five games. He's just two seasons removed from an 18-sack terror spree with the Eagles in 2011. Now he's penciled in to play the "Leo" role in Gus Bradley's defense, meaning his sole role is clear: Destroy signalcallers at all costs.
"It's a position that I can only dream about because you're going to line up on a tackle or you're going to line up on the open side, and you're going to rush the quarterback every down, for the most part," Babin said. "I don't think I could ask for anything more than that."
Babin still can impact a defense, but that 18-takedown campaign is deep in the rearview mirror. Even half that would be a coup for the Jaguars at this stage. Still, Bradley has emerged as one of the NFL's more creative defensive minds, and he'll squeeze the most out of his players.
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HOUSTON - Seventy-two companies and organizations set up inside Minute Maid Park Thursday, looking to hire military veterans from every branch.
This is the second job fair set up by Hiring Our Heroes and Recruit Military.
Last August, 600 people pre-registered and this year 738 veterans and their spouses registered before the event. Hundreds more lined up to fill out applications for the possibility to get their foot in the door.
"We are here to help veterans -- that is our mission," said Virginia Carpenter, who works in the armed forces and was recently hired by Hiring Our Heroes. "I am a perfect example of how this program works. In June of this year, I went to a Hiring Our Heroes event as an unemployed vet. I gave them my resume and, four interviews later, I was starting my job two weeks later. This is a no-fluff program. We are really here for the vets and to find them employment."
The program started in March 2011. Since then, more than 14,000 veterans and their spouses have found employment.
"A lot of veterans don't know how to translate what they did in the military into civilian terms. So it's great just to have a fair that can help them do that and knows how valuable their skill sets are. I see their faces when they come and hand out their resumes. They have served our country and now they want to work, but are having such a difficult time finding jobs," said Carpenter.
In Texas, the unemployment rate for veterans is higher than civilians. The job fair not only offers employment opportunities, but workshops on resume writing, interview skills and advancement in education.
Hiring Our Heroes will be back in Houston on Feb. 6, 2013.
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It's been said by her critics and mockers that Sarah Palin has become a brand, peddling herself with well-paid speeches, books written with a lot of help from professional wordsmiths, her own "reality" TV show, and those little key chains trimmed with genuine "Mama Grizzly" fur. (OK, so we made up the bit about the key chains.)
Now, it appears, Mrs. Palin – and her "Dancing with the Stars" daughter Bristol – really do want to be identified with a personal economic brand. They've applied to have their names trademarked. "Sarah Palin®" and "Bristol Palin®."
Not to sell souvenir coffee mugs or hats with their visage, but as "motivational speakers." In the former Alaska governor's case, that could prevent, say, Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey from performing as "Sarah Palin." Or vice versa if it turns out that Tina Fey is actually "Tina Fey®."
According to papers filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (and first reported by Politics Daily), Mrs. Palin is seeking to trademark her name for "educational and entertainment services … providing motivational speaking services in the field of politics, culture, business and values."
The younger Ms. Palin's application is for "educational and entertainment services, namely, providing motivational speaking services in the field of life choices."
As a 20 year-old who became a single mom as a teenager, Bristol Palin already has a lucrative career speaking about "life choices" – giving speeches and appearing on panels regarding teen abstinence.
In addition to "Dancing with the Stars," Ms. Palin has appeared on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and of course "Sarah Palin's Alaska." And she's formed her own public relations and political consulting firm.
Bristol as controversial as her mother
Trademark or not, Bristol Palin as a paid public speaker seems to be as controversial as her mother.
Last month, Washington University in St. Louis withdrew an invitation for her to speak on a panel for "Student Sexual Responsibility Week."
"Because of the growing controversy among undergraduates over the decision to pay for her talk with student-generated funds" the committee and Palin decided against the appearance, the university said in a statement.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP nominee for vice-president keeps being mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate, even though her "unfavorable" ratings remain high and a large majority of Americans don't think she's qualified to run the country.
But her every word and act remain politically mesmerizing. Did those cross-hairs over elected officials targeted for defeat have anything to do with violent public discourse? Are her comments on the ground-shaking revolution in Egypt worth noting?
"Her staying power is that she has risen above the stature of mere conservative politician, subject to the rules of the game," Monitor columnist Walter Rodgers observed recently. "Rather she's become a true entertainer who happens to be wildly popular among some conservative voters."
Meanwhile, the trademarking process for the Palins continues. Once completed, they will join other celebrities in protecting their name with that little ®.
'Everybody's name is their brand'
"Everybody's name is sort of their brand, and once it gets associated with goods or services, then it functions as a trademark," Marshall Nelson, a Seattle attorney specializing in copyright, trademark and other intellectual property issues, told the Associated Press. Once a name is trademarked, he said, it gives the holder additional remedies to recover profits and damages if someone uses the name inappropriately.
For the record, here's what Palin told the Christian Broadcasting Network over the weekend regarding how the Obama administration has handled Egypt's political upheaval:
"Nobody yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and I'm not real enthused about what it is that that's being done on a national level and from DC in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt."
Explaining further, she said: "And in these areas that are so volatile right now because obviously it's not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House."
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A Tale of Two Cities Pursuing One Common Vision: The story of how urban economics, urban energy, urban environment get greener, cleaner, smarter because they're better connected (Part 1)
Two events on the North American west coast, set apart by two days, each helped to set the tone for this year's big debate about the future of cities.
Where exactly is the big debate, you might ask? Looking at the Presidential election season The New York Times Op-Ed columnist, Tom Friedman, bemoaned in early January, the fact that he just doesn't "remember any candidate being asked in those really entertaining G.O.P. debates, 'How do you think smart cities can become the job engines of the future, and what is your plan to ensure that America has a strategic bandwidth advantage?'"
At IBSG we know some of the most important elements of that alternative future for US cities. And we are engaged in intensive projects with our customers — cities like Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver — to shape it.
What are the real urban innovations that are making such cities possible?
On January 30 about 300 leaders — gathered from a half dozen countries — met up in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood for the "State of Green Business 2012." One special session focused on a question that many are now asking: "Can San Francisco Be America's First VERGE City?" According to the event organizers at GreenBiz Group, "VERGE describes a convergence taking place among energy, information, building, and transportation technologies that will revolutionize cities. Capitalizing on this convergence will require visionary political leaders, private-sector investors, and unprecedented partnerships among cities, companies, utilities, investors, and other institutions. San Francisco already has invested in green and smart technologies affecting vehicles, traffic management, building efficiency, and infrastructure."
The organizers asked a good question, which served as the focus for our morning session: "What will it take for the 'City by the Bay' to be the showcase city for the coming convergence?"
What was the most important conclusion of that session's discussion? My vote is for this one: to make real progress, a city of any kind needs at least one political leader — and preferably a coalition — who is ready to do more than talk, and who is ready to spend political capital. San Francisco Mayor Lee has already shown he's ready to do so. One recent "show of force" was his January 2012 appointment of Jay Nath as the first — amongst any city — Chief Innovation Officer. While working for the city's CIO, Jay helped drive the City's big push into broadband, which enabled app developers to offer — on the network — amazing solutions to city residents.
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The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Jude.
It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, (14a)
These men refers to the apostates whom Jude pictured in the previous section—the false visionaries, the flouters of spiritual authority, the revilers, the brute beasts who behave by carnal instinct, the hidden reefs, the waterless clouds, the dead and uprooted trees, the wild sea waves, and the wandering stars headed for eternal blackness. Even before the Flood, Enoch (Gen. 5:21–24) prophesied that the Lord would come to judge such false teachers. By citing Enoch, Jude underscored the motivation behind God's judgment on apostasy while also reinforcing the certainty of it.
Even though this prophecy is not recorded in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit inspired Jude (cf. 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20–21) to use it because it was familiar, historically valid, and supported his overall thesis. Jude extracted the quote from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with which his first-century readers were well acquainted. The book was part of the written history and tradition of the Jewish people, and rabbinical allusions to it were not uncommon.
Though he was not the author of the book, Enoch's message was passed down through oral tradition until it was finally recorded in what was called 1 Enoch. That book, like other books such as The Book of Jubilee, The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, and The Assumption of Moses (from which Jude probably quoted in v. 9), was not part of the Old Testament canon; yet, since it was accurate, it was acceptable for Jude to use it to bolster his argument. None other than the apostle Paul occasionally followed the same pattern (of citing nonbiblical sources to make a legitimate spiritual point) in his teaching (cf. Acts 17:28; 1 Cor. 15:33; Titus 1:12). (For a further discussion of Jude's use of apocryphal works, see the Introduction to Jude in this volume.)
Enoch stood in the seventh generation from Adam (Gen. 5:4–24). He was a hero to the Jewish people because, like the prophet Elijah later (2 Kings 2:11–12), he went to heaven without dying: "Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him" (Gen. 5:24; cf. Heb. 11:5). Although it was not included in the biblical record until the book of Jude, Enoch's prophecy is the earliest human prophecy found anywhere in Scripture. (The only earlier prophecy recorded in the Bible was made by God in Gen. 3:15.) In fact, Enoch's message predated the words of Moses, Samuel, and the Hebrew prophets by many centuries.


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I have been asked by many why I would want to be a City Councilman at this point in my life. I believe that this is a perfect time. I am retired and therefore have an abundance of time to give to the job.
The 20 plus years that I worked for the City, has given me a very extensive knowledge of the workings of city government. The 14 years as the Chief of Police has given me the chance to work with budgets. We never went over our budget while I was the Chief. Being a city employee has given me a very large respect for the other city employees. I believe that the employees are the biggest assets the city has. As a councilman, I would rely on their knowledge and experience.
I have lived in Blanding all of my life and have a very strong desire to serve the community. We are very lucky to live in this special place and need to do everything that we can to preserve our way of life. This doesn't mean that I am against growth. I just think that we need to be able to afford the things that we do.
I strongly believe that a city government is in place to serve the people. I would strive to be very open to what the citizens want and expect from the city. Let me share a quote from the Declaration of Independence. "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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From RayalaSeema to the Land of Lincoln - Nannari Lassi
Journeys that are meaningful and memorable to us and the ones which we look forward to are those when we could get back to our roots and people/places close to our hearts. After a dozen years of migrant living, we do appreciate and cherish those valuable moments spent with our near and dear ones and no place on earth seems to be more inviting than our hometowns.
Today I thought it's time to pay a tiny tribute to Cuddapah - my husband's hometown, where I lived for a short time and keep visiting whenever I go to India.
We come from Andhra pradesh - a Southern state of India, which is divided into three regions - Kosta (coastal), Telangana and RayalaSeema. My husband's family comes from Cuddapah*, one of the four districts of Rayalaseema** region.
The name Cuddapah or Kadapa (the new spelling) is derived from the Telugu word 'gadapa', meaning "threshold". The town is so named because it is the gateway from the north to the sacred hill of Tirumala -Tirupathi and in the past, people used to visit the Venkateshwara temple located here before proceeding towards Tirumala Temple. It is said that the Cuddapah temple could not become as popular as Tirumala's because of vaasthu dosham. The area where temple is located is called Devuni Cuddapah (devuni meaning God's) and I very much like the peaceful ambience of that temple.
My daughter at Annapoorna Kshethram, constructed by my brother- in -law at our hometown, Cuddapah.
The fiery town which has been (un)popularized by the telugu movies in the name of mindless factionism also has certain food delicacies exclusive to the area. Nannari Lassi is one among them. As far as I know, this drink is unique to the place and I haven't come across it anywhere else. (Correct me, if I am wrong. I know there are some posts about nannari, it's syrup and sharbat at various sites.)
As the name suggests,'nannari', a wonderful herb and a natural coolant is used to prepare this lassi. The outer part of nannari's root is brown in color with a whitish inner part. The root has a pleasant odor that you cannot miss. Only the roots can be used for extraction of the syrup and the leaves are not of much use.
Nannari lassi is the ultimate answer for the parching heat of Cuddapah summers, where temperatures hit 120 F. No artificial drinks can soothe you as this drink does and this is nature's way of balancing the summer act. Once you taste this, you would be hooked to it for a lifetime.
Making Nannari lassi involves three stages. Preparation of nannari juice, nannari syrup and nannari lassi. Usually the first two steps can be skipped, by buying syrup directly from the stores. I was lucky enough to get hold of the roots from one of my SIL's childhood friend, Smt.Renuka. A big thanks to her, who gave me all the roots that she had brought from India for her daughter. She even taught me how to extract the syrup from the roots. This post would have been impossible, without her.
Also the roots we had don't look like the ones I have noticed on other sites. I am not sure whether these are very matured ones or another variety.
I had 2 cups of roots and I could prepare a little more than 3 liters of juice. That is a lot. 2-3 measures of sugar syrup is added for each measure of the nannari juice and nannari syrup is prepared. Whenever lassi is to be made, a few tbsp of syrup is mixed with yogurt.
Soak them in plenty of water overnight. The water would have turned a darker brown shade by morning and you would not miss the strong, pleasant smell of the nannari. Do not throw away the water used to soak. Instead use it to cook nannari in a pressure cooker for about 20 - 25 whistles (Yes, that many times). Turn off the stove. When the valve pressure is gone, remove the weight and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes more, for better results. Collect the water in a big pot.
Again add water to the roots and repeat the process for 2 or 3 times more and collect all the water. The nannari juice is ready. The final product would be a dark brown colored liquid that is almost similar (or a little bit thicker) to water in consistency.
2. Preparation of Nannari Syrup:
(For each measure of nannari juice, add 2 to 3 measures of sugar).
Add 3-4 tbsp of water to sugar and keep stirring it on medium flame. By 4 - 5 minutes, the solution would turn frothy. Keep stirring. (Place a small plate with little water beside the stove. Put a small drop of sugar syrup on the water. See if you can make a ball out of the syrup, with your thumb and forefinger. Heat for a couple of more minutes more). The sugar syrup would have reached almost honey cosistency. Turn off the stove and add the nannari. The whole process would take around 10 minutes. Let it cool. Now the nannari syrup is ready for use.
Refrigerate it and use when needed.
3. Preparation of Nannari Lassi:
For a true, authentic lassi and an enjoyable experience, go with yogurt prepared with full fat milk.
Add about 1.5 to 2 Tbsp of nannari syrup to 3/4 cup yogurt and 1/4 cup water. Take a good old wooden churner and churn the yogurt till it is frothy. Add ice cubes, if serving on a hot summer day.
When Jagruti asked about 'Joyful eating whilst travelling', I thought why not send something I tasted for the first time at a place that is associated with fond memories and also unfamiliar to many and so this lassi is going to be a part of that.
Also going to Srivalli's Thanda Mela.
This has been in my drafts for close to three years as I was not happy with the images of the roots that I had taken. I could not get hold of nannari roots again, so far. If I do, better images would be updated. :)
* Cuddapah pronounced as cu - du - pu (cu as in cup, du as in duck and pu as in pun.)
** Rayalaseema refers to the region ruled by the famous king, Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire.
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Banking on nutrition
It's a drizzly winter morning, and dozens of volunteers at the San Francisco–Marin Food Bank are slowly breaking down a 2,000-pound sack of whole oats into 1-pound bags, their hair tucked back in neat plastic caps. A decade ago, volunteers were more likely to be boxing up canned foods items. Today, 60 percent of everything ferried out of this warehouse is fresh produce. No soda or chips are in sight, and whole grains like these General Mills oats are standard.
For food banks nationwide to move in a similar healthy direction, coordinated efforts must increase at all levels. It will take leadership like that provided by Feeding America, the national food bank network organization; expanded support for nutrition policies at the local and regional levels; and donor efforts to supply more healthful foods. It's a tall order. But with the growing ranks of the food-insecure and obese, there is more pressure — and desire — than ever to provide low-income families with healthful food and create support for food bank nutrition policies to ensure that happens, says Patricia Crawford, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and director of UC Berkeley's Atkins Center for Weight and Health (CWH), a partnership between the College of Natural Resources and the School of Public Health.
"People managing food banks are taking charge and doing the difficult thing of modifying the healthfulness of the food donations they solicit," says Karen Webb, a nutritional epidemiologist at CWH. "On the one hand, the food banks want an ample supply of foods to hand out, but they're also advocates for people in our most vulnerable population, so the nutritional quality of that food is important."
There has been progress, which CWH researchers and their colleagues, at the request of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, have documented in 'A Movement Toward Nutrition-Focused Food Banking,' an upcoming discussion paper to be released in summer 2014. The report details the evolution of food banking as the number of people served by these organizations jumped a whopping 46 percent from 2006 to 2010, according to Feeding America. Today, 12 percent of the population uses the emergency food system. Driven by increased demand, food banks have shifted from an emergency lifeline to a service filling a chronic need.
While organizations move to provide more healthful food, it's clear that pantry users, or clients, want these foods. A 2011 CWH study asked clients to rank calorie-dense snack-type foods and beverages as well as healthy options by order of preference.
"Food pantry clients ranked the most nutritious foods highest," says Webb, a co-author of the IOM report. "Those foods are expensive, and they want to receive them. Meat, dairy, and fresh produce are at the top of their list, while soda and candy rank lowest."
What policy looks like
Getting healthier food into clients' hands requires changes in both policy and practice, but what exactly is a nutrition-driven food policy? Many stakeholders are trying to effect change — food banks and the umbrella groups that support them, organizations and corporations that donate, and state and federal governments — but there are few cohesive policies and common standards to govern how they work together.
To start with, food banks can benefit from formal written guidelines that address the nutritional quality of the foods and beverages that they purchase or acquire from donations, according to the recommendations in the IOM report, whose authors include CWH's Elizabeth Campbell and Michelle Ross, Heather Hudson of the Food Bank of Central New York, and Ken Hecht, formerly with California Food Policy Advocates. A policy should guide the nutritional quality of the food bank's inventory as well as provide data analysis to track how successful the food bank is at distributing foods like produce and limiting unhealthful ones such as processed crackers and chips. Some 56 out of 200 food banks have a policy in place, according to a recent Feeding America survey, but more must be done.
Alameda County Community Food Bank (ACCFB) is a policy model, Crawford says. It established a written policy in June 2013, with the help of the nonprofit anti-hunger group MAZON and CWH. The project, which included several other food banks, was funded by Kaiser Permanente.
"We held focus groups with staff members and agency representatives," says Jenny Lowe, ACCFB's nutrition education manager. "We wanted to get everyone on the same page. We asked, what are our practices? We'd been following this for a long time, but never wrote it down."
The food bank's policy is now clear. They purchase fresh fruits and vegetables, low-sugar canned fruits, low-salt canned vegetables, low-fat milk, lean proteins, nut butters, beans, whole grains, packaged meals and soup.
"Green" foods are now more readily available at food banks across California because of the California Association of Food Banks' (CAFB) Farm to Family program, which connects state growers and packers to food banks. In 2011, CAFB, a nonprofit, membership-based umbrella group, sponsored AB152, now a state law, which enables farmers to get a 10 percent tax break on the inventory costs of fruits and vegetables they donate.
CAFB exemplifies how agriculture, advocates, and food banks can work together to create policies that incentivize the support system for healthy diets. Since 2005, the group has increased food bank produce donations by 92 million pounds of fruits and vegetables that might have otherwise been plowed under in the fields. "In California, we have a progressive agricultural community as well as progressive food bank organizers," Crawford says. "It's that convergence that has made California a model and brought national attention to what we're doing."
Other positive steps: Feeding America appointed a director of nutrition in 2011, and in 2012, it implemented Foods to Encourage, nutrition guidelines for promoting health—the food bank network's first-time effort at national guidelines. It's also running a pilot program that connects food-insecure clients who have Type 2 diabetes with nutrition, health education, and medical care.
Even with successes like these, there's still a long way to go.
Fresh food, new challenges
Six California food banks participated in a 2010–11 CWH study on inventory trends, funded by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. All six had significantly increased the amount of produce they provide to pantries, the study found, but hardy onions and potatoes made up about half of those gains. While the increase in fresh produce was dramatic, getting a variety of vitamins and minerals from different types of produce is key to good nutrition, Webb says.
"Food banks now must tackle the next challenge: adding more colorful yet hardy vegetables, such as bell peppers and broccoli," Webb said.
Part of that challenge is providing better distribution systems to pantries. Many food banks boast state-of-the-art facilities with refrigerated trucks and big walk-in refrigerators, but the pantries they serve are often basement kitchens and church halls with little access to refrigeration or storage. Policy changes must consider how to improve these conditions. For example, ACCFB provides farmers-market style distribution in parking lots to some clients, and both ACCFB and the state of New York help provide pantries with equipment grants to improve facilities.
Crawford notes that both the Central New York and Alameda County food banks have successfully implemented nutrition policies without offending donors or losing support.
Moving nutrition forward
In February 2012, anti-hunger leaders convened in Oakland, Calif., to discuss their findings from the 2010–11 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study. There, CWH and California Food Policy Advocates called for food bank procurement policies that meet or exceed the Foods to Encourage guidelines, which were due to be released later that year.
In the most recent nudge forward, the IOM report recommends that items available through U.S. Department of Agriculture food distribution programs align with key recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Most food that the USDA supplies to food banks is already healthy, a recent study showed, and the agency is moving quickly to further improve nutritional quality by adding items like whole-grain pastas and brown rice. The report also recommends that food banks and advocates work with donors to find new ways to incentivize nutritious donations.
The IOM report represents a formidable increase in visibility for the issue of food bank nutrition, and Crawford wants to take advantage of the momentum. She's calling for a meeting of key stakeholders to discuss how to keep improvements to the emergency food system's nutritional quality moving forward.
Obesity and diabetes risk continue to plague the nation's health, and food banks will face big challenges in the coming year, including an expected rise in the number of clients as a result of the recent $8.6 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps — part of the farm bill passed in February, and as a consequence of California's drought, which is expected to bump up food prices.
"Those of us working in the field of hunger and food insecurity want the best for the people we serve," Crawford says. "There is a moral imperative to do more than to provide just calories. We must provide foods that will help protect the health of the most vulnerable in our society."
This article originally appeared in the spring 2014 issue of Breakthroughs, the magazine of the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources.
World Food Center at UC Davis will tackle global issues
The new World Food Center at UC Davis will take on a broad purview related to food, including sustainable agricultural and environmental practices, food security and safety, hunger, poverty reduction through improved incomes, health and nutrition, population growth, new foods, genomics, food distribution systems, food waste, intellectual property distribution related to food, economic development and new technologies and policies.
With rapid global population growth occurring on smaller amounts of arable land, coupled with the expected impacts of climate change on food production, understanding the sustainability of food into the future is critical.
The new center's website notes, "The World Food Center at UC Davis takes a 'big picture' approach to sustainably solving humanity's most pressing problems in food and health. By bringing together world-class scientists with innovators, philanthropists and industry and public leaders, the center will generate the kind of visionary knowledge and practical policy solutions that will feed and nurture people for decades to come."
In establishing the World Food Center, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said, "We did this to fully capitalize on our depth and expertise as the world's leading university for education, research and scholarship on all aspects of food, but especially the nexus between food and health."
UC Davis is the top-ranked agricultural university in the world, and California is the major producer of vegetables and fruit in the nation. Tom Tomich, director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute and professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis, says of the World Food Center's location at UC Davis, "There's no place else that has the right mix of educational programs, research facilities, and the engagement with the state."
The major academic disciplines surrounding food are found at UC Davis — agriculture, the environment, medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, social and cultural sciences, and management. More than 30 centers and institutes at UC Davis will be pulled together through the World Food Center. The combination of scholarship, leadership, and partnerships at UC Davis has already established the campus as a center for food-related science and outreach. This new center will reinforce that strength and broaden the university's ability to tackle tough global issues related to food.
Although the founding director of the center has yet to be named, Josette Lewis, Ph.D., was recently appointed as the associate director of the World Food Center. Her background on international research and development for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and director of its Office of Agriculture, honed her skills to take on the World Food Center. It was at US AID that she worked on a major global hunger and food security initiative, establishing her expertise on issues related to global agricultural development and food security.
As the new World Food Center becomes fully developed, it will be well-positioned on campus to continue to solve the major global issues related to food that are a hallmark of UC Davis.
Additional information:
- World Food Center website
- UC Davis video on the World Food Center
- Key facts
- UC Davis Dateline article
- Sacramento Bee article
Stretching food dollars to reduce hunger
To supplement their food supply, Californians can turn to the CalFresh program, which was formerly known as food stamps. The federal program is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
To help CalFresh participants stretch their food dollars and maintain a nutritious diet, the University of California's CalFresh Nutrition Education Program offers a series of four workshops called "Plan, Shop, Save and Cook." In a follow-up survey, UC Cooperative Extension advisors Dorothy Smith and Marcel Horowitz found that one-third of the 1,373 people who participated in the workshops said they weren't running out of food by the end of the month as often.
In the first workshop, people learn the benefits of preparing a balanced meal plan. To do this, they discuss building meals around store specials, foods on-hand and leftovers, while including family favorites.
During the second workshop, participants read the nutrition labels on foods and learn how to make the best nutritional choices while shopping.
In the third workshop, UC CalFresh instructors show the participants how to determine the least expensive options for the items on their grocery list. For example, if buying beef, chuck roast is cheaper and contains less fat than sirloin. Unit pricing, bulk purchases, generic brands, convenience items, alternative protein sources and preventing spoilage and waste are things to consider when choosing food products.
During the final workshop, the participants prepare and taste dishes made with low-cost nutritious foods. They put their new knowledge into practice by creating a one-week meal plan.
In San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, UC CalFresh have teamed up with local food banks to encourage families to eat more fruits and vegetables. Using fresh produce from the food banks, UC CalFresh nutrition representatives prepared fruits and vegetables in healthful dishes, which were tasted by participating families.
UC CalFresh is showing Californians that nutritious and tasty meals don't have to cost a lot.
Addressing nutrition and poverty through horticulture
UC Davis is addressing food security and economic development in Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, and elsewhere, by coordinating an international horticulture program. The Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program (Hort CRSP; pronounced "hort crisp") is one of 10 CRSP programs that focus on global food production and solving food and nutrition problems in developing countries. UC Davis leads the Hort CRSP, with funding support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Examples of projects conducted by researchers and educators throughout the world include:
- Inexpensive cold storage systems in rural, developing areas to prolong food longevity; see page 2
- Concentrated solar drying of fruits and vegetables in East Africa; see page 3
- Improving safety and quality of tomatoes in Nigeria; see page 3
- Smallholder flower production in Honduras for export markets; see page 3
The overarching goals of the Hort CRSP are to reduce poverty and improve nutrition and health of the rural poor, while improving the profitability and sustainability of horticulture in the developing world. Priorities in the Hort CRSP include gender equity, sustainable crop production, postharvest technology, food safety, market access, and financing. The program awards research funding in the U.S. and abroad to:
- Realize opportunities for horticultural development
- Improve food security
- Improve nutrition and human health
- Provide opportunities for income diversification
- Advance economic and social conditions of the rural poor, particularly women
In the three years since the program's inception, several projects have been completed, and many are ongoing. The program's website offers a plethora of information, along with newsletters that highlight individual projects.
The program also has a YouTube channel, with videos on Hort CRSP projects. Some of the videos are about projects that are especially important in developing countries, including:
- The TRELLIS project — bringing together graduate students and in-country development organizations; YouTube link
- Using cell phones to give real-time information to growers in rural areas of India; YouTube link
- Inexpensive cultivation practices for smallholder farmers; YouTube link
- Indigenous products increase incomes in Ghana; YouTube link
- Saving indigenous crop seeds in Southeast Asia for resource-poor farmers; YouTube link
Solving the 2050 Hunger Game
Yes, according to Prabhu Pingali, who was invited to UC Riverside last week by the One Health Center to give a talk. Pingali, the deputy director of the Agriculture Development Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has more than three decades of experience in the field of agriculture. His hour-long talk focused on how nine billion people on the planet can be fed.
He explained that agriculture was on no one's agenda from 1988 to about 2006-2007. But today it is back. "I am in the right profession," he said, smiling.
He said the world experienced a sharp increase in food prices in 2008 due to a "perfect storm" — a rapid demand for food quantity and quality (in terms of diversity) and a high volatility in food prices — and a large group of people adopted a pessimistic view of the world's food production thereafter. The world will not be able to feed itself, they warn.
"But we've been here before and we have come out of it," said Pingali, who has authored ten books and more than 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters on food policy, technological change, productivity growth and resource management in the developing world. "Actually, things are not as bad as you think they are. I take a more positive view."
The audience sat up straight, ears pricked up, eyes trained firmly on Pingali's slides.
"Only in sub-Saharan Africa was there a decrease in productivity," he said. "Technology made the change possible. But technology cannot do it alone. If government support had not also taken place, we would not have seen a change."
Looking ahead
Pingali's slides showed how on the demand side in Asia and Latin America the per capita consumption of staple grain is declining rapidly. As incomes increase, he said, the per capita consumption of wheat and corn decreases and diets get diversified, with people seeking higher quality food.
He predicted more consumption of meat, milk and dairy products in the future. In East Asia, meat consumption will be about 80 kg per person per year in 2050 (in 1975, it was less than 20 kg per person per year; in 2000 it was about 40 kg per person per year). Further, in the future much biofuel will be from cellulosic technology and other forms of waste, not grain.
But what about land area? Will there be any left to produce food for two billion more people? Pingali thinks so. He said overall 4.2 billion hectares of land on the planet are suitable to cultivation; of this area, only about 1.7 billion hectares are already under cultivation.
Pingali predicts water scarcity will be a growing constraint. He explained that currently enormous wastage of water occurs in many parts of the world, but that water use can be better managed.
According to him, we can expect that the following steps will be needed to manage future food production: changing cropping patterns; improved tolerance to drought and submergence; increased use of hybrids; and better land and water management practices.
What should we do?
Pingali thinks we should keep the focus on agriculture and invest in smallholder productivity growth.
"Technology, including biotechnology, will be an important part of the solution," he said. "Policies that enable and encourage smallholder productivity growth are crucial. We need to pay particular attention to stress-prone environments and invest in a long-term strategy for biofuels that does not rely on increased use of food grains."
At the end of his talk, several hands went up and a vibrant Q&A ensued. Unfortunately, I never got to ask my question, time being up: "Dr. Pingali, how would your talk today change for feeding a world population of 15 billion?
Not by much, I suspect he'd have said with confidence and no hesitation, his unstoppable optimism swelling further in the room.


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Eight years ago, Nanette Lowry of Marion had no interest in getting a service dog, despite a hip problem that occasionally sent her tumbling to the floor. She finally changed her mind after falling three times in a single day in front of her students. When she got Astro, a blockhead lab, and trained him, she was amazed by how much more she could do.
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"These guys are just like an extension of me," she said. "I don't know who has more separation anxiety, me or the dog."
By federal and state laws, service animals are permitted to go anywhere their owners go. Businesses can't refuse service to someone because of a service animal, nor can they charge an extra fee or require a deposit.
Lowry said she has had occasional issues with people being unclear on the law, but there haven't been many, although once a hotel in Texas refused to rent her a room. Four days later, the employee who had refused lost their job, she said.
She said people used to think service dogs were only for blind people, but the public is gradually learning. Lowry does her part, teaching children about service dogs when she substitute teaches.
"Kids have watched Tank grow up," she said.
In addition to the training covering their areas of service, service dogs are also trained to be controllable, mellow, and stable, so as to not cause problems when out with their owners. Astro passed an assistance dog public access certification test in 2006.
As an example of how calm Astro is she said he has had his tail stepped on or rolled over with a wheelchair without doing anything more than getting out of the way afterward. Lowry said Tank still makes a fuss, but that's part of why he is still in training.
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Lester Coker celebrated his 100th birthday in February of this year. He attended White Oak school. On his birthday he and I drove to the area where the school was located and took photographs of him at the site of his first school, walking the road that he had traveled in his youth to attend the school etc. He related many stories of the school and the church to me at that time. He asked me to try to find a photograph of the school and church for him. Do you know if there is one in existence?
He is very mentally acute and would love to discuss this history with anyone who would like to document it. He lives in the Alba area.
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For someone who won the Indy 500, Dan Wheldon was a supremely friendly guy. He had every reason to act like hot shit, but he didn't, as one of our readers found out.
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Check out the cute invitations I ordered from Leanne's Plum Cake Parties Etsy Shop.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
* Pink Penguin Felt Barrette Party Favors, Birthday Banner, and Penguin Birthday Party Invitations
I made these little cuties as party favors for
"C"s 5th Birthday Pink Penguin Party.
I ordered the little pink penguins from this Etsy shop.
I found the ribbon wrapped barrettes at Michaels craft store.
Then all I did was glue the felt penguins onto the barrettes with glue gun.
Easy and cute!
Just what the birthday girl wanted.
Check out the cute invitations I ordered from Leanne's Plum Cake Parties Etsy Shop.
Check out the cute invitations I ordered from Leanne's Plum Cake Parties Etsy Shop.
She also made our adorable birthday banner this year!
Thank you Leanne!
Pink and Green Mama
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
* C's Penguin Party Homemade Favor Bags
For C's 5th Birthday Penguin Party this month,
we made a few homemade party favor bags to
go with our theme. They were super easy and only took a few minutes to whip up.
We used plain pink and purple gift bags from our local Michaels craft store.
I cut out a few penguin shapes from black construction paper.
"C" punched out orang hearts with my scrapbooking paper punch
for the beaks and feet. We used pieces of a paper doily for the "tummy"and glued on googly eyes.
Penguin Bags and Party Hats waiting for the big day...
Penguin party bag and goodies.
We filled them with stuffed penguins found at our local 5 Below Store,
felt penguin masks that I made, homemade felt penguin barrettes,
whoopee cushions and little penguin crayons, plus a couple of
penguin coloring sheets printed off the internet.
Pink and Green Mama
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Monday, February 27, 2012
* Semi-Homemade Birthday Party Hats
For "C"s Pink Penguin themed 5th birthday party this month,
I made semi-homemade party hats.
She asked for "fancy party hats" so that's what I tried to make for her.
I started with a package of 8 party hats from the Dollar Tree
and some pink feather boa material from Michaels craft store.
The doilies and cupcake wrappers were already in our house.
You can find doilies like this in the cake decorating area of any craft store.
I believe the pink cupcake wrappers were part of a valentine set from Dollar Tree.
Then, I made little cut paper penguins and
punched circles out of scrapbook paper from my art studio stash.
I glued each paper penguin to a circle of scrapbook paper,
then glued that to a flattened cup cake wrapper.
Then it was time to start gluing on the feather boa edges.
Note to self, cutting out feathers makes a HUGE mess, check out my jeans.
You should have seen the floor! Have a broom and dustpan on standby.
My messy table.
Decided to add party hats to the penguins - cut them out of pink paper.
Glued the feather boa trim to the bottom edge of each hat with my glue gun.
I love my silicone glue gun pad/heat mat (got it at JoAnne's craft store)
and yes, I always glue on the floor because it's the easiest outlet to reach!
The hats weren't quite fancy enough so I glued a doily around each cone
then I added the penguins (all with my glue gun - super fast!)
Front view of a finished
Pink Penguin Party Hat!
Side view.
The birthday girl modeling her party hat.
More 5th birthday Penguin Party details to come....
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Birthday Parties, Create, Doily Fun, Paper Crafts, Valentine's Day
Sunday, February 26, 2012
* Felt Penguin Mask
For "C"s penguin party she wanted penguin masks so I made some.
I didn't use a pattern, I just cut out some black and white felt free-hand
and trimmed it until it looked right. Then I cut out some yellow felt for the beaks.
I used double triangles because she wanted to open and close the beaks.
I stitched the white and yellow felt to the black then added a bit of black elastic to the back.
To cut out the eye holes I traced a small plastic lid onto the felt and used it as my
guide to carefully cut out the eye holes with sharp sewing scissors.
Super easy, they took me less than 45 minutes to whip up
and I had all of the materials on hand.
"C" and her buddies loved them. They were mama penguins
taking care of stuffed baby penguins in the igloo fort.
More Penguin Party details coming all week!
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Birthday Parties, Create, Fun With Felt, Sewing Fun
Saturday, February 25, 2012
* 5th Birthday Sign : Photo Prop
My sweet little "C" turned 5 this month!
We loved this cute sign idea on Pinterest from the Prudent Baby blog
and decided to make one for her Pink Penguin birthday party.
"C" picked out the pink wrapping paper from Target.
We glued the wrapping paper to a piece of foam core poster board
with an Elmer's glue stick.
I taped the back edges with clear tape.
I sketched a number "5" lightly on the front of the board
and "C" and I crumpled up small squares (about 2"-3")
and glued them to the board to fill in the number.
Close up of our number "5"
Cutie pie with her number board.
Used as a decoration at the party and as a photo prop
to take birthday pictures!
Hooray for Pinterest and awesome ideas : )
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Birthday Parties, Paper Crafts, Tissue Paper Fun
Thursday, February 23, 2012
* Watercolor Basket - Making Art Supplies Accessible For Children
My girls love to paint with watercolors and they seem to have
the world's worst timing to ask me if they can paint with them.
The supplies were scattered around the art studio in places they needed my help to reach.
For example they would ask for watercolors when I was in the shower,
or when I was cooking dinner and had raw chicken all over my hands,
or when I was "indisposed"
( hiding in ) the bathroom... you get the idea!
I knew I needed to come up with a solution but it's one of those things that I kept
forgetting about until I was busy and they asked again.
Finally, I came up with a solution during the first week of my on-line
Playful Learning Spaces class with Mariah Bruehl.
Put everything in a pretty basket
and leave it out where the kids can find it.
Why did it take me this long to figure this out?!
I used a basket I already had in the house.
I filled it with:
two tablets of watercolor paper,
watercolor paints and brushes,
two glass jars (that can be filled with water at the sink),
a sharpened pencil,
a fine tip and a small line permanent marker,
small roll of paper towels,
and some water-soluble colored pencils.
Note: The salt shaker we use for watercolors is sitting on a table in the art studio
where they can reach it as needed but it's not in the basket
(I was worried it would tip over in the basket.)
The girls "discovered" their new watercolor basket as soon as they got home
from school that afternoon and have been using it almost daily ever since.
Evening watercolor session while mom cooks dinner.
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Favorite Art Supplies, Organization, Watercolors
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
* Washing Baby Dolls Water Play
Baby doll washing has always been a popular water play activity in our house.
I first posted about it in this baby washing post.
I recently set up "C" with a baby washing station in our kitchen.
We dedicated this cute heart print storage box from Target
as our "bathtub" it also doubles as storage for the baby washing gear .
We have some small bottles of real baby shampoo and baby powder.
A mini bar of hotel soap and a few sponges.
I also set up the girl's play drying rack to hang out wet towels and baby doll diapers.
When "E" got home from school that afternoon, she wanted to wash a baby right away
she wasn't too happy that I took her photo playing with her little sister!
My little mommy "C" and her freshly washed baby doll.
Note: I'm on stand-by to watch my niece
while my Sister-in-law delivers my nephew (any day now!)
Guess what I've got waiting in a gift bag to surprise her with?
Yep, a plastic baby doll (from Target) a little doll sized wash tub,
and two travel size bottles of lavendar baby wash and powder.
We will be washing pretend babies while we wait for the real one to arrive!
Note: I'm on stand-by to watch my niece
while my Sister-in-law delivers my nephew (any day now!)
Guess what I've got waiting in a gift bag to surprise her with?
Yep, a plastic baby doll (from Target) a little doll sized wash tub,
and two travel size bottles of lavendar baby wash and powder.
We will be washing pretend babies while we wait for the real one to arrive!
Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea
Labels: Clay, Diorama, Draw, Egg Carton Fun, Explore, Play, Play Dough, Popsicle Sticks, Preschool, Printable, Sensory Box, Weaving
Sunday, February 19, 2012
* President's Day Portraits: Mixed Media Art Lesson for Kids
I used to make these portraits with my kindergarten art students for President's day every year.
This lesson is so cute and easy you could make it with older students too!
First, we would study some famous painted portraits
of George Washington.
This one from the National Gallery of Art's collection was my go-to poster of choice.
Then, we would start with a piece of "skin" colored construction paper.
I always ordered the "multi-cultural" spectrum pack
and let the kid's choose whichever color they wanted from the pack.
We would sketch lightly in pencil then go over it in black Crayola marker.
I would model how to draw the facial features and the kids would follow along.
No two portraits turned out alike but they
kids were much more successful with their final projects this way.
I was never one of those, "watch and copy me now" teachers, if they
did it differently I didn't correct them, I just modeled and it helped a lot of kids.
Starting with a large oval (egg) for the face, we would draw two footballs for eyes.
Add circles for the pupils and irises.
A big nose.
Straight line for the mouth.
Then a little smile underneath (bottom lip)
and two moutains on top (top lip)
Don't forget eyebrows and ears!
Then, we would add shadows with a darker
tan or brown crayon (hollows of cheeks, side of nose)
and highlights with white crayon (bridge of nose, middle of forehead)
Then, color in the eyebrows, lips, and pupils with crayon.
Finally, we would cut out the head.
Glue it on a sheet of blue or red construction paper.
Add a black construction paper shirt/shoulders.
Cut a triangle wedge of paper doily for the lace shirt accent.
We would glue cotton balls around the outside of the head as a white wig!
Sometimes, if we felt really festive (and had enough time) we'd add
birthday party hats!
Happy President's Day!
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: 4th of July, Art Lesson Fun, Create, Doily Fun, Holidays, Paper Crafts, School Age, Winter
Friday, February 17, 2012
* Ballerina Paper Dolls With Cupcake Wrapper Skirts
This project first appeared this summer on The Crafty Crow blog,
it was a guest post by another blogger named Merilee from Mer Mag blog.
She made adorable paper doll ballerinas as part of the summer book and a craft series
with the book "Chasing Degas."
It was such a fun girlie craft I knew my little ballerina "C" would love it.
They used crepe paper (party streamers) for their tu-tus,
I substituted with cupcake wrappers!
Merilee has a printable template you can get here.
But, I just drew a bunch of ballerinas free hand with colored sharpies
on white card stock paper. Then we got to work cutting them out.
"C" was excited when I showed her the cupcake wrappers
and explained that she could make skirts for the dancers.
She colored some dolls and asked me to color some with her.
She added skirts to all of our dolls.
Cutting and gluing the cupcake wrappers to make skirts was her favorite part.
I put all of the ballerina making materials in a basket and left it on the art studio table.
It's been fun to find little dancers around the house!
One of "C"s sweet ballerina paper dolls.
I love how she made a leotard out of a cupcake wrapper to match the tu-tu.
"C" even made one into a card for her ballet teacher!
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Create, Homemade Cards, Homemade Toys, Printable
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"The act or action of educating or getting educated; the adeptness or accomplishment acquired or developed by a acquirements process!"
Inquiries into furthering my educational aspirations were fabricated to assorted colleges aural my actual ecology area. Several of the schools contacted appropriate adjustment exams that I did not challenge, as I am accomplished and actual able of ambidextrous with academy examinations. The affair that got to me was the calumniating animadversion from some academy recruiters apropos their standards for apprenticeship as against to addition college. One of the schools that I've abounding is a two-year bulk academy while the added is as well. They authority absolute acreage in the above zip cipher and competed for acceptance in the above local. They both accomplished bounded acceptance as able-bodied as out of accompaniment and acceptance from added countries and nations.
One academy advised itself aloft to the added by acumen of accreditation. The academy that was declared as inferior did not acquire boilerplate states accreditation. The academy was declared as beneath accepted by the other. The alleged aloft academy is advance and operated by a non-HBCU amalgamation while the added happened to be advance and operated by an African American staff. The self-described aloft academy has fabricated plans, designs, and did bid for the active of the African American school. Albeit, the self-described aloft academy admits that it does not and will not acquire accreditation from the alleged inferior school. I acquire abounding both of these institutions and accustomed actual acceptable apprenticeship from its agents as well. While the acquaint abstruse were an invaluable antecedent of information, the apprenticeship that I accustomed from claimed bookish analysis (self-taught) has added my adeptness base. Money was not a agency in my claimed research, study, and/or practicum. I would add, the adeptness and advice that was acquired from the HBCU Academy accepted to be appropriately advantageous as the added if not better!
Personally, I would say that I accustomed added educational bulk at the HBCU (Historical Atramentous Colleges and Universities) as against to the added bookish institution. Albeit, they both appropriate money.
When acceptance appointment academy campuses they are encouraged to become a apprentice at that accurate school. The bout guides' appearance all of the amenities and accolades that are offered in adjustment to get you enrolled…and to accretion your charge monies. But what about the superior of apprenticeship offered by the accurate schools? The majority of the colleges will about adduce their accreditation as compared to addition academy of choice. What has accreditation to do with a acceptable and admired superior education? Money! And the adeptness to accomplish money! Apprenticeship does not and should not crave money!
In 1899 Dr. Matthew Anderson, an outstanding association leader, and his wife Caroline Still Anderson founded Berean Manual and Industrial School. Dr. Anderson was a cardinal admission in the religious, business, and educational history of Philadelphia. Dr. Anderson aswell founded the Berean Presbyterian Church and the Berean Savings Fund Society.
Caroline Still is the babe of the abundant William Still, a Philadelphia Abolitionist and affiliate of the Underground Railroad.
Mr. William Still (a self-educated man), one of seventeen children, was built-in in Burlington County in 1821. His ancestor able bullwork from Maryland to New Jersey and after was followed by his wife and children. William Still larboard New Jersey for Philadelphia in 1844. Three years after he was appointed secretary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
"When Brother William Still was 23, he larboard the ancestors acreage in New Jersey for Philadelphia, to seek his fortune. He arrived, abandoned with alone 5 dollars in his possession. Mr. Still accomplished himself to apprehend and write. In fact, so well, that in three years he was able to accretion and authority the position of secretary in the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Brother Still provided the all-white association with his angle on how to aid avoiding slaves. After all, he had been one himself. He was such an asset to the group, that he was adopted administrator in 1851. Still captivated the position for the next ten years. He aswell became administrator of the Vigilance Committee in 1852. Still was the aboriginal atramentous man to accompany the association and was able to accommodate contiguous acquaintance of what it was like to be a slave."
"Mr. Still accustomed a assisting atramentous business in Philadelphia. His abode was acclimated as one of the stations on the Underground Railroad. Brother Still interviewed able fugitives and kept accurate annal of anniversary so that their ancestors and accompany adeptness locate them. According to his records, Still helped 649 disciplinarian accept their freedom. The bulk is circuitous with the bulk of disciplinarian adored by Sister Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad."
"William Still, a self-educated man, began his attack to end ancestral bigotry on Philadelphia streetcars. He wrote an annual of this attack in Struggle for the Civil Rights of the Coloured Humans of Philadelphia in the City Railway Cars (1867). He followed this with The Underground Railroad (1872) and Voting and Laboring (1874)."
"William Still, a self-educated man, accustomed an abode for the accouchement of African-American soldiers and sailors. Added accommodating plan included the founding of a Mission Sabbath Academy and alive with the Young Men's Christian Association. William Still died in Philadelphia on 14th July, 1902."
The Concise History of Berean Institute:
"In 1904 Berean Institute of Philadelphia Pennsylvania able for accompaniment aid and accustomed a admission of $10,000. Over the years, accompaniment aid has enabled the academy to aggrandize its casework and alter its programs of study. Funds from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania now accommodate a cogent allocation of the absolute operating budget. Berean Institute boarded on a affairs of amplification beneath the activating administration of the backward Dr. William H. Gray, Jr., who activated the abutment of abounding affecting citizens of Pennsylvania including the aloft Governor Milton J. Shapp. Dr. Gray served as Administrator of the Berean Board of Trustees. Beneath Dr. Gray's administration Berean Manual and Industrial Academy began operating as Berean Institute. He aswell had Berean Institute's accepted architecture complete in 1973."
"Mrs. Lucille P. Blondin, who served the academy for blaster years, became Berean Institute's aboriginal President. Mrs. Blondin retired in June 1993. Dr. Norman K. Spencer was appointed to serve as the additional President and Chief Executive Officer. Beneath Dr. Spencer's leadership, apprenticed programs adjourned by the City and Commonwealth agencies as able-bodied as association beat projects acquire been added. Hon. John Braxton, aloft Judge, Court of Common Pleas active a account of acclaimed Board of Trustees members."
"Berean Institute enrolled acceptance in abounding and part-time programs. A lot of of the acceptance are association of the Commonwealth and reside in Philadelphia. Added acceptance acquire appear from Central and South America, China, India, Puerto Rico, Tonga, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Tanzania, the Dominican Republic, England, Cambodia, Viet Nam and states forth the eastern beach of the United States."
"A bulk of acceptance appear to apprentice a bankable accomplishment and their Berean training fulfills their accepted educational aspirations. Abounding others attention the academy as a stepping-stone to added education. Berean has abounding graduates who acquire gone on to acquire four-year academy degrees and others who acquire completed alum studies at some of the area's outstanding institutions of academy learning."
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Apprenticeship accepted Berean Institute approval to accolade the Associate in Specialized Technology Bulk on September 15, 1976, and the Associate in Specialized Business Bulk on December 27, 1976.
Again, apprenticeship is:
"The act or action of imparting or accepting accepted knowledge, developing the admiral of acumen and judgment, and about of advancing oneself or others intellectually for complete life; the act or action of imparting or accepting accurate adeptness or skills, as for a profession; a degree, level, or affectionate of schooling: a university education; .the aftereffect produced by instruction, training, or study: to appearance one's education; the science or art of teaching; pedagogics."
A analogue of education: 'The act or action of educating or getting educated; the adeptness or accomplishment acquired or developed by a acquirements process; a affairs of apprenticeship of a defined affectionate or level: disciplinarian education; a academy education; the acreage of abstraction that is anxious with the apprenticeship of teaching and learning; an adorning or candid experience:
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random Abode Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009
So why does addition academy bulk it's accreditation over and aloft that of another? Money! Abounding colleges and universities bulk its' educational ethics based on the bulk of money in its' coffers as able-bodied as the bulk of money that they can amass! Addition apparatus to admission ahead in the apprenticeship business is to attain and advance accreditation and as abounding acquisitions as possible.
Several opinions advance apprenticeship accomplished through these venues is advised to adapt people/students for the job bazaar as against to getting able for activity skills. The abilities appropriate to backpack ones breed and their birth that chase into affluent futures.
Is it fair to appraise the adeptness of a bookish academy aloft any added based on the bulk of money that is bare to be spent or the bulk of apprenticeship that is achieved? Ivy alliance institutions about-face out abounding acceptance who are not able for the challenges of life…but abounding of them are affluent and acquire spent bags of dollars to appear those schools as able-bodied as admission from them. On the added hand, abounding poor humans that are advantageous abundant to authorize for grants, loans, scholarships, etc., are bigger able to face the challenges set afore them (so it seems).
Many poor and alive poor acceptance assume to bulk the bookish akin apprenticeship as if their activity depended aloft it, so they tend to plan a bit harder to accomplish the bulk status. The certificate can be accounted abandoned if the alum cannot acquisition the adapted job for which he/she has studied. It is even worse if the accelerating apprentice finds that they are worse off than if they started college. They are now abounding with academy accommodation debt additional the debts that they acquire had to accommodated afore accessory college. Alive at McDonalds and the like, assume to be the alone job that is accessible for abounding of them. The antagonism is fierce. These acceptance are for the a lot of part, aggregate in with abounding applicants that are not academy accomplished and abounding do not acquire top academy diplomas as well! The adeptness accomplished is not advised or activated by abounding of these employers. Kiosk blazon pictures on a cash-register computer is what they acquire to plan with. Is this not calumniating to a apprentice who has advised computer science, apprehend and address computer programs and its languages, as able-bodied as added academics of study?
Why is it that abounding non-ivy alliance acceptance acquisition themselves out of work? Why is it that abounding of them acquisition that they are the aboriginal to lose their application positions compared to their ivy-league colleagues? Why is it that abounding burghal academy accomplished graduates acquisition themselves beneath acceptable to be called as team-leaders than their adverse allotment ivy-leaguers? Abounding administration acquaint their openings with statements that don't crave a academy akin education. They ask that candidates artlessly acquire a top academy akin education. Academy accomplished candidates administer to those openings and acquisition themselves scrutinized out of the running, i.e., accomplishments checks, acclaim checks, bent histories, ancestry activities, etc. Why is it academy accomplished candidates acquisition that not alone do they acquire to attempt with ivy-leaguers, they acquire to attempt with top academy accomplished association as well. What is the faculty in constant hours, years, and added sacrifices to attain the coveted two and/or four-year academy akin bulk if you're not traveling to authorize for the job anyway?
The angle of accreditation, money, and notable adeptness should not be the base of allotment the bookish avenue to education. Apprenticeship should be based on ones adeptness to achieve, retain, and advance education. The accomplishment of apprenticeship begins in the home (as able-bodied as anyone who desires it). It begins with the Childs' accomplishments and the fatigued accent placed by the ancestor and/or guardian. Should the adolescent be awful bookish in abilities that accredit him/her to be declared as intellectually accomplished aloft average, that apprentice deserves chargeless academy education. While the blow of us who are bookish actual may able-bodied acquire to pay for our academy education. Mind you, my altercation is based on the adeptness to admission apprenticeship after accepting to absorb money…teachers charge to acquire a living, schools charge to pay the costs of operating and advancement barrio and staff. So the money has to appear from somewhere. Albeit, the above disparages amid altered colleges should cease the convenance of who's a bigger academy of academy learning. Is it the albatross of accomplished humans to acquaint humans who are not?
While abounding may not be aware, apprenticeship is accessible after accessory alleged accepted and/or beneath accepted schools, of academy learning…start with the libraries in your homes as able-bodied as the accessible facilities, account papers, magazines, aggregate information, and articles. Why is the apprenticeship accomplished by others kept to a akin of clandestineness that one should acquire to pay for it?
Attained and acquired apprenticeship is the albatross of the educational pursuer…the accountability is placed alone on the apprentice not the educational pursued. I'm not advocating that one can become a doctor, architect, or a advocate by artlessly account text…there is a aberration amid apprenticeship and training.
Education is castigation to accomplish and it can be free.
Biography of William Still
Biography of the Berean Institute