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Japanistic is already well known amongst bento fans as a source for well priced bento boxes and accessories, not to mention a lot of other great products from Japan such as stationery, craft items and more. They're offering a special discount on a very useful bento box set, plus a giveaway prize to JustBento readers. Both feature bento boxes with clear lids and large snap-on plastic side clips. These types of clips are easy to open and close even for little hands, and keep the contents really secure. They don't require elastic bands to hold them closed - one less item to worry about getting lost.
First up is the special set price for the very cute Addy Drop Back-to-School Package.
It features a single-layer bento box, a small side box, and matching chopsticks. You could use the bento box or the side box on their own of course. The price for the set is $31.45, 10% off the price if purchased separately. The Addy Drop Back-to-School Package can be shipped worldwide.
And here's the equally cute giveaway prize!
This set consists of a Hobee 1-layer bento box (capacity: 400ml) with large snap-on side clips, and the matching chopsticks. 400ml is a great size for kids, and can be used as a snack bento or side box for people with large appetites.
Update: This drawing is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! The winner will be announced next week.
Please note that this giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
To enter, just leave a comment to this post, telling us how you discovered bentos. Be sure to include a valid email address where you can be contacted in the appropriate text box! Your comment must be posted by 23:59:59 EDT (U.S. East Coast Time) (or just before midnight) of Friday, August 20th 2010. One lucky entry will be drawn at random to receive the Hobee bento box and chopstick set. Good luck!
This is Giveaway No. 1 of Back To School Week. Stay tuned for more throughout the week! (Non-US residents don't worry, there will be giveaways later in the week that you can enter too.)
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My mom packed bento boxes for me growing up, so I'm used to the concept. I didn't have the inspiration to pack my own boxes until stumbling across justbento.com and finding all the great recipes for freezer stash items. Now I pack my own lunch every day.
I found bentos through watching Anime and Ghibli films, sounds silly I know. However, it has introduced me and my family to a lot of new cuisine. My first experiments were with nikuman, the char siu being a huge hit. It went on to onigiri, with some encouragement from my then six year old daughter, and she fell in love.
Two years ago I decided to start packing her lunches on a regular basis, and found that I was not a fan of sandwiches every day (not to mention the junk food they try to pass off as healthy to accompany it). She needed more variety, and school lunches just weren't cutting it (especially for the cost).
So I have been doing bentos for her since. She just turned ten now, starting fourth grade, and loves having a good lunch packed in a cute box. I can also know exactly what she is eating and know that it is fresh and healthy. I love bentos!
I discovered bento boxes by accident! I don't even recall exactly how it happened ... hmm.
I was probably browsing the internet for japanese food ideas and stumbled upon bento --- I am prone to random and sporadic obsession and this is exactly what happened here :)
I discovered bentos from anime and last year as a senior in high school when I did a research project on Japanese cuisine.
my husband was posted to Kobe in 2003 for a year-long work assignment. i fell in love with Japanese food & culture when i visited him - sadly i couldn't take a year off from my work to join him :( ... and i love the most amazingly fresh, great-tasting and beautiful bentos that i could get even in the local supermarket, or home-made ones that were sold from makeshift tables each lunch time!
When I was younger, my dad showed us the movie "My Neighbor Totoro". There is a scene where the oldest daughter is making bentos for the family. I loved it!
I ran into Bento looking for a new set of collapseable copsticks and thought it'd be wonderful for me kids to enjoy, and they do.
I found out about bentos from watching Sailor Moon. I've always liked little containers for things. then a friend of mine pointed me towards different sites to buy the bento boxes. i was immediately infatuated! I love them.
I found out about bento because of japanese drama. XD I saw a girl eating bento, and I thought, "That looks really yummy! I want to do that too!"I am very interested in Japanese culture and I LOVE LOVE LOVE to cook. I started making my own bentos when I was in 5th grade, now almost half a decade later, I make bentos everyday for school and I make it for my parents. I also make it for my 17 month-old-sister in daycare. Making bento makes me happy and I love being able to have my family eat healthy, and save $50 - $100 a week!
I've always had packed lunches when I was growing up but have never really made any attempts to make my own "designed" boxes until recently.
I was shopping for a new lunch container for the kids and saw the word Bento. I had no idea at the time what a Bento actually was or what it entailed. Googled - and found Just Bento. I've been reading the blog ever since. That was 2 years ago. At first it was just a very practical way of making lunch but now I am exploring the art form and loving it. Great offer. Thanks for all that you do in your blog.
I discovered Bento boxes after a mama on a forum community I belong to brought them up in discussion. I forgot all about them and then my SIL brought them up the other day in discussion about my son going in Kindergarden. Now I am on a mission. : )
How did I get into bento?
One day I ran into a Japanese girl I went to college with eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe. Her lunch looked delicious- dumplings and tempura and green salad! "It's the bento lunch special," she told me. It was love! Yum yum!
I discovered bento threw anime :)
It was several years ago. I got a bento lunch from a local Japanese restaurant, and I was cuirous about them, so I looked them up on the internet. WOW!! I was so smitten with bento, I started making mini bento out of polymer clay! There is a restaurant in Houston and one in Los Angeles that have some of my minis displayed (maybe still!). Love love loooove bento!!!
My Japanese grandmother used to make bentos for us when we were kids - I loved how the little boxes looked and worked!
I have been trying to find ways to pack a smaller healthy lunch to take to work and for my kids during the school year and I found the idea of using Bento boxes in a magazine for parents recently then I was lucky enough to find this website this week!
I discovered bentos from pure luck. I was on Google, looking for lunch box ideas, and I stumbled across a website dedicated to bentos. The site made me want to make bentos for my little brother and from then on, I've been hooked.
I've lived in the Pacific Northwest for over twenty years, and it is pretty easy to find bento, both in Asian groceries and in restaurants. I can't remember the first time I had a bento box, but it was probably during a visit to Uwajimaya (Seattle *or* Beaverton).
I discovered bentos when I was reading a manga and they seemed interesting so i grew on to them <3
I like to read manga a lot and bentos, along with onigiris, takoyaki, mochi and more food items showed up!
I actually saw a blog about your blog and discovered what a bento box actually was...what neat concepts...the food is arranged so neatly!!!
I actually can't remember. It was either a friend talking about it or from foodie blog surfing...
I was googling something in reference to food, and it popped up! And now its here!
I had been experimenting with sushi and was looking up different recipes for japanese rolled omelet when I found this site and got hooked on bentos.
I knew about bento when I lived in south east Asia.
I discovered bentos when I was searching for portion control ideas. It seemed like a good idea, and since Ichiban Kan was still running it's web store and I had this site for recipes and tips, it was cheap and easy to get started!
I discovered the joys of bento one day while in a book store. A bento book caught my eye and ever since I have been hooked.
I discovered bento boxes when I decided to do a random search of healthy ways to pack asian lunches and I stumbled across "Just Bento". This was also the time I began to watch Japanese dramas and movies which also lead me to bento boxes.
Autumn's Concerto/Next Stop, Happiness! I recently started getting into Taiwanese dramas, mostly to help improve my Chinese, but of course got addicted. The main female character works as a bento girl, selling lunches on a university campus, and that's how I first discovered bentos and later Just Bento since I was searching for cute bento boxes online.
I just discovered bentos this morning due to a packed lunch post on unclutterer.com
I discovered bentos accidentally, while looking for a new lunchbox for work. I found the "Laptop Lunch" box and there was a mention of bento-style lunches. My Laptop Lunch box is still used often, and my lunches are more often than not bento.
I think I first learned the name "bento" when I was researching for our trip to Japan.
I discovered bento through a grocery site. One of the ladies mentioned making bentos for her daughter's school lunches. I've been happily learning ever since!
Honestly, I have no idea. I've been so obsessed with Japan for the past 3 years, that I can't pinpoint exactly when I first discovered bentos. If I had to give an answer though, I think it was from an anime? Or maybe a drama? Or a song? Anyways, you get what I mean. :)
A friend from Korea actually introduced me to bento. She started taking pictures of her children's lunch then I started looking into what the cute boxes were and discovered Just Bento. So far it's the most comprehensive site and so I jumped into the forums and am still learning. :)
Have much to learn and many recipes to try, but little by little, I'm finding my niche.
i became aware of bentos when I was searching the web for healthy school lunch options. I fell in love with the idea from the very beginning.
I discovered bento boxes while in Japan on a group pilgrimage near Mount Fuji. There were about 100 of us, so arranged lunches came already prepared in sectioned off plastic boxes with see through tops. "How cool is THAT!" I said to my table, as I admired the nicely prepared lunch. "What a great way to take lunch to work." This was pre-internet days and so searching for a box was not easy, so I went to an Asian market to start questioning. i found something suitable but it was never perfect. With the internet, I was like an excited kid. BENTO - so desu! My search for "japanese boxed lunch" brought me to the wonderful site of JUSTBENTO, once it was created. Now, there are so many to choose from. My family and I have our favorites. And picnics have never been the same.
Well, I'm not really sure when I first became aware of bento (or at least when I knew to call it that), but I have always admired the pretty little lunches I see anime characters eating. The first bento box I ever bought was a My Melody one I got into a bidding war on ebay for nearly a decade ago, and I confess I bought it for the My Melody more than the bento part. ;o) (My first name is Melody.) But I didn't use it for a couple of years, not really knowing how to adapt my western style lunches to fit in it. Until it occurred to me (duh!) to look for bento-specific recipes, just like the pretty little lunches I see anime characters eating! And now I'm hooked!
I started last year packing japanese style bentos using info from this website. I went on a picnic last summer and a friend brought a tiered tiffin of food. I thought it was wonderful and when trying to find a site for such a tiffin I found JustBento. I had no idea about bentos and have been googling ideas and experimenting ever since.
We have ups and downs but my daughter on the whole likes the bentos--and even though we are caucasian living in a heavily hispanic area (Miami), she still prefers the more traditional japanese bento food I find here. :)
My wonderful friend Stephanie introduced me to the world of bento. She makes some of the most colorful and flavorful lunches. I had traveled to Japan just the year before - I wish I had started this addiction before then! I would have had to buy another suitcase to bring everything home! (We do not have any Japanese stores nearby in the US Midwest - so I have to rely on Target and the internet.) :)
I have been interested in bentos for quite some time and now with two kids to pack for I'm researching and getting started.
A friend posted about them on a message board and I googled them to find out what she meant.
I think I first saw bento on a show about hawaii. But then, as busy homeschoolers, we bought the Laptop Lunch boxes a few years ago and the blessed internet introduced me to more.
That Addy set is too cute. My daughter is nicknamed Addie and we call her Addie Bug. May need that set!
I found out first about bentos because of Hana Yori Dango. Ya, a drama, haha. Dramas and movies have been teaching me about culture and language though after all. I realized just how cute they could be.
I discovered bentos in all the manga that I read, and I also eat at a lot of japanese restaurants that have table bentos
I'm not entirely sure how I came across bentos because it's just kind of something I automatically knew. You're going to school? Don't forget your bento! But I guess I became very aware of how much I loved bentos when I was VERY young and saw the movie "My Neighbor Totoro". There is a part in the beginning of the movie, I think, where the eldest sister, Satsuki, must eat quickly to leave for school.
I fell in love with bentos that day because it just looked so cute and delicious! C:
I have been watching your site for a while now, and I must say that I can't wait for your book! (We've already ordered it, and the rest of this household look forward to it as well - they love it when I make them bentos from this site) This is the first time I've entered a drawing contest online. I wish everyone luck!
I discovered bento thru this site!! I found this and lunchinabox.net and cookingcute all in the same search. I was looking for a recipe but I don't remember what for anymore. I've been hooked on bento, AND this site, ever since! :D
I stumbled across them looking for Thomas the Train lunchboxes on eBay for my son, and I thought they were awesome, so I started researching them and naturally came across this site. I can't wait to get my first box and start packing!!
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Flexner on Finishing: Finishing Cherry
Aging and Darkening
Besides blotching, another quality of cherry is the tendency of its heartwood to darken as it ages. The darkening is brought about by exposure to oxygen and light. Light accelerates the process, especially UV light, such as sunlight and fluorescent.
As cherry darkens, the blotching becomes muted – that is, the lighter non-blotchy areas darken to the color of the darker blotchy areas. So time does a pretty good job of disguising blotching in cherry. This is the reason I've always believed that the best way to finish cherry, if your goal is to make it look like old cherry, is to let it get there naturally.
You can always accelerate the darkening a little by placing the ready-to-finish or already finished wood in the sunlight for a few days. This will darken the heartwood a little, but it will still take years to reach the rust red color of old cherry.
If you want to achieve the rust-red color immediately, and are using non-blotchy cherry or are willing to live with the blotching, the most accurate way to do so is to stain the wood with a cherry dye stain. But keep in mind that the wood will still darken under the stain, giving you a result you, or your customers or descendents, may not be so pleased with after several decades.
How Factories Do It
If you've ever looked at factory-finished cherry furniture, you've surely noticed that it doesn't look like old cherry. It's usually considerably darker, sometimes so dark and opaque it's even difficult to see that the wood is cherry. But it's not very blotchy.
Cherry furniture manufacturers solve the blotching problem by putting most of the color on top of the wood rather than in it. Instead of using stains, they get the color with glazes and toners. Glazes are thickened stain applied in between coats of finish. Toners are the finish itself with the color (usually dye) added. Toners are always sprayed.
The end result is reduced blotching because it is covered over. Though there's no reason you couldn't finish cherry in this manner yourself, the look attained is not what most woodworkers want.
Here's the bottom line on cherry: Most boards blotch when stained, and also when finished without a stain. There's no way to avoid this, other than finding boards (or veneer) that don't have the tendency.
Over time the blotching is muted as the heartwood darkens naturally to a rust-red color. If you choose, you can get to this color immediately by staining with a cherry-colored dye stain. But in time the wood will darken further underneath the dye.
You can also add color and disguise the blotching with glazes and toners, but you can't achieve the rich, transparent rust-red look of old cherry this way.
The only way to get the old cherry look is to finish with just a clear finish, any clear finish, and let the wood age naturally.
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Excitement is building for the 10th Annual End of the Year (EOY)
East Coast Tournament*
4 Ways to Qualify:
(1) Players who have won their respective season playoffs in Fall 2017 or any championship in 2018.
(2) Any player that has played 40+ league matches in 2018.
(3) Any player that has played 200+ matches in their Tennis League Network career.
(4) Players who attended any of the past tournaments but needs to play 10+ matches in the current year.
When And Where:
Long Weekend Program:
A couple of the Championship matches could be played on Center Court!
Skill Levels:
New for 2018: Men's 40+ Level A & B
plus Men's: Elite 4.5, Advanced 4.0, Advanced 3.75, Competitive 3.5, Competitive 3.25 / Skilled 3.0 and Women's Advanced 4.0, Competitive 3.5
Bring BACK the Ladies:
2018 Women attendees can bring a female player to participate and they pay half off the champion's price. The friend needs to have played in a TLN Franchise in the past 12 months.
Tournament Format:
The Friday and Saturday results will be used to determine the qualifiers for the Championship Draw and Consolation Draws. We will guarantee a 1.5 hour break between the Saturday matches. The number of players who qualify for Championship Sunday depends on the number of player's in the division. Not all players qualify. There's no consolation draw for non-qualifiers.
*Winners will be crowned 2018 East Coast National Champions.
$69 for Champions & $89 for Non-Champions. Once again there won't be a shuttle for this tournament.
Current projections are $100 gift card to the Winners and $50 gift card to the division runner-ups. Prizes can be influenced by any sponsors that come on board.
Travel Arrangements:
Travel arrangements will be covered by the players not by Tennis League Network, LLC.
Tournament Sign-up deadline is Monday, Nov. 19th.
Ultimate Goal:
The tennis should be quite exciting, the players should be amp'd up for the tournament.
Hotel for Out-of-Towners: Hotel Urbano???
If Hotel Urbano is done with construction we will gladly reserve a block of rooms there for 2018.
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Delingpole on Friday: Et tu, Caitlin Moran | Bogpaper.com.
Not only does the Climate Change Ghetto mean I earn less money than I used to but it also means that every day I get bags and bags of hate mail (well, the electronic version thereof: emails or Tweets) from strangers, and almost-strangers, and even friends telling me how loathsome I am.
One Tweet that particularly hurt me the other day was from Caitlin Moran. I like and admire Caitlin, a lot. We have loads of mutual friends; she took me out for an evening's drinking once and we had a reasonably fun time together; plus, of course, she's unquestionably one of the funniest, most fluent journalists of her generation.
Caitlin's speciality – in so far as she has one – is pop culture. No one writes better about the immeasurably trivial. And I mean that as no criticism. A journalist's first duty is to be read. A journalist you're dying to read no matter what topic they turn their hand to – even if it's trash TV programmes you've never watched or girlie fashion issues you wouldn't, as a rule, be remotely interested in – is a mighty journalist indeed. On TV, fashion, music, social mores, celebrities, food, drink, sex and so on, there's really no other writer who can touch her.


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James Hetfield: Metallica Haven't Even Started Writing for New Album
Yes, Metallica do plan on recording a new album, but frontman James Hetfield has reiterated his bandmates' recent statements that the process of putting together the disc has been a slow one. In fact, he reveals that the songwriting portion has yet to even begin.
"We haven't even started writing it," explained Hetfield to Abu Dhabi's That's Entertainment in a video segment (seen below). "We're going through riffs. We have, like, 800-and-something riffs we're going through — lots of ideas. We're really excited about it, but doing concerts here and there, trying to get back in the studio and get some stuff done, it's all really exciting. But it gets done on Metallica time, which is not really scheduled. When it's done, it's done and when it's good, then it will be done."
Drummer Lars Ulrich recently stated that he would be surprised if the band's next full-length album arrived before 2015, citing the band's full schedule as part of the reason for the delay. Meanwhile, guitarist Kirk Hammett offered in a separate interview, "We're recording stuff here and there, but it's a pretty slow process."
Though Metallica fans may be without a new album for quite some time, they can still be anxious about the band's upcoming 'Metallica Through the Never' 3D film, which is due in theaters this fall. The movie incorporates a lot of the props from some of the band's most popular tours, and Hetfield says he sees it as a way to bring the younger generation up to speed.
He concludes, "The idea behind it was a best-of concert. A lot of younger fans haven't got to see all of the things from the past like the 'And Justice for All,' the 'Ride the Lightning' … all of the stage props that we had, the destruction scene, 'Master of Puppets' crosses … lots of things like that. [So we came up with the idea of] doing a best-of concert and touring that. And then we thought, 'Well, if we're gonna do that, why don't we film it?'"
'Metallica Through the Never' will screen in IMAX theaters on Sept. 27.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lots of women suffer from postpartum depression, but violence in new mothers is incredibly rare, and when it happens, it typically is linked to a different condition. Experts caution against assuming that post-pregnancy mental health problems explain a Connecticut woman's bizarre Capitol Hill car chase that ended with her death in front of her toddler.
And they worry that such headline-grabbing cases can discourage women from getting needed help if they're experiencing problems after the birth of a child.
"Women need not go into secrecy if they're struggling," said William Meyer, a clinical social worker and associate professor at Duke University Medical Center. "Women who suffer from depression do not, except in really extreme, exceptional cases, ever hurt their babies, ever put their babies in harm's way."
Authorities identified 34-year-old Miriam Carey of Stamford, Conn., as the woman who was shot to death by police Thursday after trying to drive through barricades at the White House with her 1-year-old in the car. Carey's mother told ABC News that her daughter suffered from postpartum depression and at one point was hospitalized. Friday, a federal law enforcement official said Carey also had delusions that the president was communicating with her and that her condition had been deteriorating over the past 10 months.
There are no details on Carey's official diagnosis or treatment.
But having delusions is not a symptom of the postpartum depression that affects anywhere from 10 percent to 20 percent of new mothers.
Most new mothers have a bit of the "baby blues," occasional feelings of sadness or anxiety soon after giving birth. Symptoms of postpartum depression are more serious and last longer, and they can require treatment ranging from support groups to medication.
Symptoms of postpartum depression include lacking interest in the baby; mood swings between sadness and irritability; fatigue and lack of energy; and withdrawal from family and other interests. In severe cases, a woman may have suicidal thoughts. According to the nonprofit Postpartum Health Alliance, women also may have "scary thoughts" of something bad happening to the baby.
"If it's just a case of postpartum depression, you usually don't see people hurting others or getting aggressive," stressed Dr. Ariela Frieder, a psychiatrist at New York's Montefiore Medical Center who specializes in post-pregnancy mood disorders.
In contrast, postpartum psychosis can come with hallucinations, paranoia, confused thinking and desires to hurt the child. It is very rare, occurring in about 1 in 1,000 women after childbirth, Frieder said.
It's an emergency that usually occurs within a few weeks of delivery, according to a 2011 review published in the Journal of Women's Health.
Nor does it tend to last for a year, noted Duke's Meyer.
Sometimes women who appear to have postpartum psychosis actually have a different mental illness — bipolar disorder — that may not be properly diagnosed unless symptoms occur again long after pregnancy, Frieder cautioned.
Whatever happened with the Connecticut woman, overall, postpartum depression is under-recognized, said Eileen Magri of Winthrop University Hospital on Long Island, N.Y.
Stigma discourages new mothers from seeking help, and families that do recognize a problem often have no idea where to turn, Magri said. She runs a special program that screens new mothers for signs of postpartum risk, such as a family history of mental illnesses, or the mother experiencing recent stressful events. Those considered at risk receive home visits from social workers who are on the lookout for developing symptoms.
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|S69-38670 (July 1969) --- A photographic illustration comparing the size of Apollo Landing Site 2 with that of the metropolitan Los Angeles, California area. Site 2 is one of three Apollo 11 lunar landing sites. This will be the landing site if Apollo 11 is launched on July 16, 1969, as scheduled. Site 2 is located at 23 degrees 42 minutes 28 seconds east longitude and 0 degrees 42 minutes 50 seconds north latitude in southwestern Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility). (The white overlay is printed over a lunar surface photograph taken from Apollo 10 during its lunar orbit mission and is numbered AS10-31-4537.)
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Chuck Norris: Karate champion. Delta Force agent. Texas Ranger. If it can be done in the world of action, Internet folk hero Chuck Norris most likely has done it. In 1992 Norris moved into the realm of family fare with "Sidekicks," the story of an asthmatic kid with Chuck Norris fantasies who takes up karate with the hopes of meeting his high-kicking hero. The film proved once and for all that Chuck Norris doesn't do kids' movies, kids strive to be in Chuck Norris movies.
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Calls on Congress to take steps to improve access to the democratic process
Congressman Brian Higgins, NY-26, spoke Tuesday from the House Floor to call on Congress to take steps to eliminate barriers to voting and ensure that every American who wants to cast a ballot is able to do so. He also spoke in support of preserving the integrity of the Voting Rights Act, whose Section 5 is currently in question before the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder.
Higgins returned this week from the annual Faith & Politics Institute Congressional Pilgrimage, which took a delegation of Congressional representatives on a tour of civil rights landmarks in Alabama.
The text of Higgins' remarks is below:
"Mr. Speaker,
"This weekend I joined a trip led by Congressman John Lewis to some of the landmark sites of the civil rights struggle, culminating in a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 48th anniversary of his historic march.
"The trip underscored the importance of the Voting Rights Act, which is responsible for a much of the progress we have made toward eliminating voter discrimination, and the need for the Supreme Court to uphold Section 5 of the law in the case pending before it.
"Meanwhile, in Congress we should be working to eliminate the inexcusably long lines at polling places across the country and ensure that every American who wants to cast a ballot is able to do so.
"Decades ago, Congressman Lewis helped lead the fight for the idea that all Americans should be able to participate in our democratic process. It is my hope that the Supreme Court and this Congress will honor that struggle in the years ahead."


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January Jones plays TV's iciest mom on Mad Men, but she and Betty aren't alike in their mothering techniques.
"I think my fans make cracks about it, but they don't actually think I'd bring any of Betty's parenting into my own life," she told PEOPLE during the show's press junket Tuesday.
"What's nice is that the expectations for my parenting is very low, so I can really only exceed the expectations."
Fans need not set the bar too low, though. Jones, 34, was back to work almost right after she gave birth to her son Xander Dane last September. "I think I went back to set six or seven weeks after, so he was really little," she says.
Jones was determined to spend time with her son, even during long days on set. "I had the baby and the baby nurse in their own room so I could go back and feed him every two hours," the first-time mom recalls.
"If I felt like he needed me, or if he needed to eat, or even if I just needed a squeeze because I was having separation issues, I would go back and see him. It was such a blessing that I wasn't separated from him."
Jones tells PEOPLE that the biggest challenge of being a mom on set was the exhaustion. "It was hard to work long days and then go home and not sleep," says the actress. "It's getting harder, not easier, so I'm a little concerned!"
Jones's secret to staying high energy through the grueling shooting schedule? "I have a great doula who makes sure I'm eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation."
You read right: Jones is eating her own placenta. "Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins," she explains. "It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas."
Jones has taken the capsules every day since right after she had her son, and also anytime she feels tired or down. Jones insists, "It's not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!"
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Summer is right around the corner and Nike plans to heat things up with a brand new signature pack of Air Max sneakers. The collection, dubbed the "Sunset" pack, includes the Air Max 1, Air Max 90, Air Max 95 and Air Max 97. Each pair features a radiant orange to yellow tone. They're expected to be released in June at select Nike retailers but are available for pre-order via UK-based End now.
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The Lost Airliner and Our Fear of Flying
Not knowing what happened only fuels anxiety.
Posted Mar 12, 2014
As the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was being discussed on the SOAR message board and Facebook page, I didn't initially realize why it was causing so much distress. Then, when someone on the message board asked why some sort of data link could not give us information about the plane, I realized that the distress was about the absoluteness of the disconnection between us and the flight. I responded to a thread on our Facebook page:
Susan: I keep reminding myself of your advice to not get swept up in the media, especially at this point where there is no factual information. I don't watch the news reports until they report the facts. Now it's just speculation, which serves no one well.
Andrea: I understand that. But then all we can say about the passengers is that they were unlucky to board that particular plane? It is the unknown, the possibilities. Yes, this is the case with anything in life; this is just so tragic and jarring because of the scale of the disaster and the fact that they are lost...they cannot even be found.
Me: It is about the total and absolute disconnect. Avoid a void that allows nothing. I didn't get it until someone asked about a data link that—if it is done by satellite—provides connection no matter where the plane is. Suddenly I realized that what is bothering so many people is that there is nothing, no explanation, no clues, no radio transmission, no sign of the plane's crash site, nothing. There is just a complete void of connection. Even an explanation would be a sort of connection with the people who are lost. Since there is no scenario of how they met their end, it is as if they stopped existing in a more non-existent way than if we knew how it happened. This total and absolute disconnect is troubling, and I believe it is troubling because it resonates with the disconnect we felt as little kids.
Strictly speaking, fear is about something specific, and anxiety is about the unknown. The unknown is so hard to tolerate that we try to transform it into something "known." If we have a definable target we can do something about it. Doing something is one of the ways we relieve anxiety. We can avoid it, fight it, or escape from it. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do; we can't avoid, fight, or escape the unknown.
In most crashes, the news tells us what happened and in a day or so, unless the crash involved someone we knew, the event becomes old news. This case is different: A plane disappeared. We think, This can't happen. A plane can't just disappear. We can't accept the complete disconnect caused by the information void. Why is it so disturbing? It resonates with times as a child when something went terribly wrong and there was a complete disconnect between us and the people we needed and depended upon.
For a child, a complete disconnect is too awful to endure, so he or she shuts down. James Masterson, called this abandonment depression. We are born to connect. At birth, there is an urge to connect with the breast, and to feel the connection of being held. This expands to an urge to connect psychologically, to be recognized as a real person, and to be responded to by others.
Since self-to-self interaction is so basic to our feelings of security, we build within the mind replicas of those who are vital to us. Then, when they are not present physically, they can still be present inside us psychologically. These internal replicas allow us to maintain a sense of connection—and thus security—even when they are away. But when a child tries to rely upon people who are unpredictable, it is impossible to build internal replicas adequate to prevent distress when the person is away. The child cannot feel secure when alone.
Fast forward to the present: Here we are, as adults, still needing to avoid feelings of disconnection. But without adequate internal replicas, distress is triggered by the disconnection of this disappearance. This creates a demand for so-called experts who we call upon to spin theories in thin air. What is the harm? Speculation about how Air France Flight 447 from Rio to Paris was lost in 2009 led to the formation of a myth about what happened to the plane that was every fearful flier's worst nightmare: A plane far out over the ocean, away from any land, hit terrible unexpected turbulence, and "fell out of the sky" at night, into the ocean.
That's not what happened, we've since learned, but I still get emails and calls from people who tell me that the loss of the Air France flight is the cause of their fear of flying. We can thank the media for that. The speculation offered some sense of connection, but if it fit a person's worst fears, then the cure the media offered to deal with the unknown was worse than the disease.
The Boeing 777 has flown 18 years with no fatalities, other than a 2013 crash landing in San Francisco which was determined to be caused by crew (and management) incompetence, not an issue with the plane. One crash in 18 years of flying is a great safety record. Rationally, such a record should be reassuring. But it isn't. Cognitively, we require absolute safety to get rid of our anxiety. Since absolute safety does not exist, cognition cannot solve the problem. Fortunately, relationship can. We need to establish suitable internal replicas.


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'Vampire Diaries' Scoop: Damon & Elena Get 'Hot & Heavy' Next Week
The April 19 episode has a special treat in store for 'Delena' fans.
The ever-fluctuating scale of Elena's (Nina Dobrev) heart has been tipping dramatically in Stefan's (Paul Wesley) favor during the past few weeks on The Vampire Diaries — but fear not, "Delena" fans! A source confirms exclusively to HollywoodLife.com that Elena and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) will share a "hot and heavy" scene on the show's April 19 episode, "Heart of Darkness." And unlike in the above photo, this one's not a pain-induced dream.
I'm also told Damon and Elena's encounter will make things even more tense between the Salvatore brothers, which certainly makes sense, considering executive producer Julie Plec has been teasing that the love triangle will come to a head by the end of the season.
(Plus, click here for exclusive details on Caroline & Tyler's "hot" reunion!)
Are you excited to see Elena's steamy scene with Damon on the next episode, or were you hoping she'd continue drifting back towards Stefan? Leave your thoughts about the ever-shifting love triangle in the comments section below!


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Lamar Institute of Technology will hold five orientation sessions for new students who plan to attend LIT in the fall. Each session will last an hour. There will be a separate orientation held at the same time for parents.
Incoming Lamar University freshmen can start their college careers off right by registering for one of seven upcoming new student orientation sessions.
Orientation is designed to ease the transition to college for first-time freshmen and incoming students with fewer than 18 hours of college credit. At orientation, students and their family members will meet college deans and current students, learn about student organizations and academic resources, and gather financial aid information.
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Older women with thin bones should be screened every year and those with denser bones can safely wait up to 17 years to have their next bone mineral density test, according to new research.
Current recommendations have relied on bone mineral density readings to try to predict the speed at which bones weaken with time, said lead author Dr. Margaret Gourlay of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "This is the first U.S. study to do it based on patients."
Based on results from 4,957 women who were studied for 15 years, the report, "makes a major contribution toward filling a significant knowledge gap in the field of osteoporosis," said Dr. Margery Gass, executive director of the North American Menopause Society, whose guidelines for brittle bone disease suggest testing postmenopausal women every two to five years.
About 10 million Americans over 50, most of them women, have osteoporosis, according to the National Institutes of Health. The cost to the U.S. health care system is as much as $18 billion per year.
Gourlay's team found that the best time to have a subsequent bone density test depended on a woman's starting point, as gauged by the so-called T score derived from using X-rays to measure the density of bones in the hip. The lower the score, the weaker the bones.
Among women age 67 or older who started out with a normal T score of -1.00 or higher, it took an average of 16.8 years for 10 percent of the group to develop osteoporosis, indicated by a score of -2.50.
They also looked at women with osteopenia, in which "your bones are thinner but not at the osteoporosis level yet," Gourlay told Reuters Health. As those T scores fell, it took less time for osteoporosis to develop in 10 percent of the women.
For women with the lowest starting scores of -2.00 to -2.49, the interval was just 1.1 years. For women with a score of -1.50 to -1.99, it was 4.7 years. And among women who scored -1.01 to -1.49, it took 17.3 years for one in 10 to progress to osteoporosis.
The researchers adjusted the analysis to account for estrogen use and risk factors for osteoporosis. The volunteers were women from Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Oregon.
"We knew that the groups that had thinner bones to start with were going to transition to osteoporosis faster," said Gourlay. However, "we were not expecting this kind of separation between the low risk and high risk group. For those women with a T score above -1.5 to have just a 10 percent chance of making the transition to osteoporosis after 17 years was a great surprise. This was very good news."
However, the time intervals were not the same for all women age 67 and older. They shrank as women aged.
"For example, among women with moderate osteopenia, the estimated (bone density) testing interval was approximately 5 years for women who were 70 years old and approximately 3 years for those who were 85 years old," the researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Gourlay cautioned that the time scales may also be very different for women under 67.
"The findings in this paper will enable clinicians to recommend bone mineral density testing from an evidence-based position," Gass said in an e-mail, adding that testing has been both under-used and over-used, depending on the setting, "primarily because of lack of data to inform guidelines."
It's under-used in women over 65 and over-used "in early postmenopausal women, the majority of whom are at very low risk of fracture," she said. "Some clinicians are even getting a 'baseline' in early postmenopausal women, something no medical society is recommending."
Her group recommends screening for all women who are age 65 and older and for women ages 50 to 64 if they are smokers, consume alcohol daily, weigh less than 127 pounds, have rheumatoid arthritis, have already had a fracture suggesting that their bones might be weak or had a parent who suffered a hip fracture.
The test itself typically costs $250.
Gourlay said it's not clear if the guidelines will save money. "This tells us how to use the test better, but we're still concerned that overall the test is not ordered enough."
She cited a 2008 study of female Medicare beneficiaries over age 64 in which only 13 percent had ever gotten an initial bone density test. "This is 13 percent of the women who, everyone agrees, should have the first test."


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Category archives for marmot
So you know how there aren't as many members of some species as there once was, and in fact some species that used to exist no longer exist? Well, some folks still haven't gotten the message. In an attempt to bring more recognition (and funding) to the conservation cause, some mighty fine Zartists are collaborating…


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Reviewed By R SCOTT P (Bay Pines, FL) Reviewed for a 2005 Nissan Pathfinder —8/26/2005 9:30 AM
I paid professionals $25 for the installation and even they were not able to get the round foglight protectors installed correctly. They were familiar with the product and had nothing but praise. Looks great, we'll see how it holds up under the Florida sun.


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The visitation is necessary.
The visitation is necessary. These women religious are drifting into heresy (specifically regarding the ordination of women and also "new age"), and demonstrating disobedience to authority. Whatever happened to the vow of obedience? Last I heard, there still is one, and it hasn't been repealed.
Apostolic visitation
It is reasonable, justified, and long overdue for the reasons stated above. It is nesessary for the purification of Holy Mother Church in preparation for the crucial times ahead. Eternal Father, for the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
The vow of obedience does
The vow of obedience does not bind anyone to not think, to not ask questions, and to not wonder. In our diocese, our former archbishop got into a lot of trouble by lecturing a grandmother who questioned how he had dealt with a young priest found with child pornography on his computer. Our archbishop's words to her ("You should be ashamed!") echoed through the newspapers for weeks, revealing him to be a man demanding blind loyalty for the worst reasons.
Seems to me that that archbishop (who was still trying to cover up for one of his prized young priests) and others like him are the ones in need of purification--not the nuns!
..."in preparation for the crucial times ahead"??? This person has been using a fundamentalist interpretation of the Book of Revelation OR thinks he/she has a personal pipeline to God OR is taking some seer's words literally OR is connected to some with evil intent who he/she knows are planning something awful that he/she won't reveal just yet....OR (most psychotic of all) ALL of the above.
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Catholic Mom,
the purpose of this poll isn't to discuss the sins of priests; it's to discuss the state or religious lay women in the United States. The pope, as head of the Church, is responsible for *all* Catholics, ordained or lay. What harm will this visitation bring? Why is it assumed that the visitation will effect negative change? Perhaps positive change is needed.
Well, an under reported fact
Well, an under reported fact is that the Pope has delegated the inspections to religious sisters, so any complaints about problems in the hierarchy are irrelevant.
Implicit in vowed obedience is a willingness to follow.
Business as usual is your
Business as usual is your stance apparently.
I suppose you think that being eco-fashionable and prancing around in the moonlight on the summer solstice is the highest exhibition of using one's brains, as you so strongly think the sisters ought to do. This (and model heresy) is what many of them do with their "freedom" in case you haven't noticed.
I think the apostolic visitation is necessary and ought to be carried out with rigor and attention to detail. Moreover, I think that houses that don't pass the criteria of the visitation ought to be shut down. Organizations that don't pass the criteria of the visitation need to have their credentials revoked publicly -- and lose any and all funding they receive from the church.
Visitation of sisters
I agree with "Catholic Mom" who points out that entering a religious order (or coming into a church) doesn't mean giving up one's freedom to think or question. Where would we be today if Paul couldn't disagree with Peter?
Women religious are not "Stepfor Wives" at the whim of bishops or the Vatican. They have given themselves to Christ and His Church to help spread the Good News and live a life of Christian charity. They are not dolls lined up and counted as if they were prize possession to be shown off.
Sts.Peter and Paul
Paul disagreed with Peter on a matter of truth wherein an entire group of people (the Gentiles) were being undermined in their attempt to follow Christ. Those who are checked by this Visitation will not be so undermined but rather criticized because they are giving rise to their own preferences and so-called freedoms. This could be defined as following "self" instead of Jesus who calls us to unity.
St. Paul tells us that in community we should think of the interests of others (self-effacing) rather than our own (Ph 2). We should take it for granted that joining a religious order and living under a Rule of life means a sacrifice of one's own preferences.
This poll is under attack
Please be aware that John Zuhlsdorf at wdtprs.com has alerted his site's followers to the presence of this poll. This normally means that the poll is about to be bombarded by traditionalists.
I thought you would like to be aware.


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Derry police looking for help in identifying robbery suspectBy ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
April 08. 2013 4:53PM
DERRY – The Derry Police Department is asking for help identifying a suspect who robbed the East Derry General Store Sunday evening.
At approximately 6:12 p.m., the store, located at 50 E. Derry Road, was robbed by a white female described as approximately 5-foot-4, weighing 120 to 130 pounds, with blue or green eyes, blonde hair, and wearing a green, hooded sweatshirt under a black North Face jacket, with jeans, and sneakers.
Derry Police Capt. Vernon Thomas said surveillance video captured images of both the suspect and a blue, four-door Dodge Neon that police believe was involved in the robbery.
During the robbery, the suspect said she had a firearm, but Thomas said that no firearm was shown.
The Derry Police Department is seeking assistance with the identity of the female and/or the suspect vehicle, Thomas said.
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Hazelnut and Bourbon Torte
Hazelnut and Bourbon Torte
By Valerie Gordon, Owner & Chef, Valerie Confections in Los Angeles, CA
Call it Fruitcake 2.0. Chef Gordon's recipe is exactly what all fruitcakes should aspire to be. This gorgeous, caramel lacquered torte gets all its chutzpah from the Maker's Mark® Bourbon in both the cake and the glaze. And it eats just as good in the summer as it would during the holidays.
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- 2 cups hazelnuts, skinned* and toasted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon water
- 5/6 cup Maker's Mark® Bourbon
- 1-1/2 cups medjool dates, pitted and diced 1/2"
- 3/4 cup golden raisins
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup hazelnut paste
- 3 large eggs
- 3 teaspoons vanilla paste
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups roasted hazelnuts, skinned and halved
- 1 recipe bourbon caramel glaze (recipe below)
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks
- 1-1/3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon molasses
- For Hazelnut paste, mix hazelnuts, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a food processor.
- Process until the hazelnuts break down first into a granular flour texture, then a paste, like a chunky peanut butter.
- Stream cold water in and continue to process until the paste forms a ball.
- *Note: If you cannot find skinned hazelnuts, toast hazelnuts on a baking sheet in a 350°F oven for 10–12 minutes. Transfer the hot hazelnuts to a large bowl lined with a towel. Gather the corners of the towel and rub the hazelnuts together vigorously inside the towel. Most of the skins should come off.
- For Hazelnut Torte, preheat oven to 300°F.
- Mix diced dates, raisins and 1/2 cup Maker's Mark® Bourbon.
- Set aside in a small bowl.
- Sift all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt and set aside.
- Using a paddle attachment on a standing mixer, beat brown sugar and butter until creamed.
- Add the nut paste and beat until incorporated.
- Beat the eggs in one at a time.
- Add 2 teaspoons vanilla paste.
- Add in the dry ingredients.
- Stir until well combined.
- Drain the dried fruit from the Maker's Mark®, reserving the extra Maker's™.
- Add the marinated fruit to the batter and then fold in the hazelnuts.
- Spread batter into a greased 9" circle baking pan.
- Bake for 60 minutes.
- Remove cake from oven when a testing stick comes out clean.
- Let cake cool completely and remove from pan.
- Pour extra bourbon over the cake.
- Glaze the cake with the Bourbon Caramel Glaze.
- For Bourbon Caramel Glaze, melt the brown sugar and butter over a medium low heat in a small sauce pan.
- Stir vigorously to create a smooth texture.
- Stream the whipped cream into the brown sugar blend, using a whisk to incorporate the cream.
- Whisk in the powdered sugar.
- This may take a bit of work.
- Continue stirring until sugar has completely dissolved.
- Add 1/3 cup Maker's Mark® Bourbon, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla paste and molasses.
- Remove from heat and let cool.
- When the glaze reads 100° F, pour over the cake.
- Refrigerate to set.
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By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators said on Friday tobacco companies must report how much formaldehyde, nicotine or any of 18 other harmful chemicals are in their products, as part of a larger government effort to regulate the tobacco industry.
Another draft rule places limits on misleading advertising that attempts to show some tobacco products are less harmful than others, such as "tar-free" or "light," without providing evidence these claims actually make products safer.
The guidelines are part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's enforcement of a 2009 law that gives it broad authority to oversee the manufacturing and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
"Tobacco products, in this country at least, are the only mass-consumed products that consumers don't know what's in them," Dr. Lawrence Deyton, director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, told reporters.
"Today, we are ending that era."
Some 8 million Americans have smoking-related illnesses, and as many as 443,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related causes such as lung cancer. Smoking is estimated to be the No. 1 preventable cause of illness and death in the United States, and contributes about $96 billion each year to health care costs.
The guidelines would force companies to tell the FDA whether their products contain any of 20 harmful or potentially harmful ingredients found in tobacco or tobacco smoke, and the amount of each.
The ingredients won't go on the packaging; rather, the FDA would compile information for each product and provide it to the public by April 2013. The FDA said it hasn't yet decided how it will present the information.
These 20 chemicals are the easiest to test for immediately, but the FDA will later make companies provide information for a full list of 93 chemicals.
Deyton, head of the FDA's tobacco center, said most people are aware of the dangers of smoking in general, but may not know specifically which chemicals in tobacco are harmful, and why.
For example, ingesting carbon monoxide - produced any time you burn something, and present in tobacco smoke - is known to increase the risk of heart disease and lung disease, the FDA said.
Besides informing the public, regulators said they hope the rules would encourage tobacco companies like Lorillard Inc and Altria Group, parent of Philip Morris USA, to make their products safer and less addictive.
Representatives from the companies could not be immediately reached for comment.
The announcement comes only a month after the government suffered a blow in court in trying to enforce another tobacco law that requires companies to put large graphic warnings on cigarette packaging. A U.S. District Court judge sided with the companies and ruled the labels were unconstitutional. The United States is appealing the decision.
The second draft rule requires FDA approval for companies to sell products they claim to be less harmful than typical tobacco products, known as modified risk tobacco products.
The companies must submit scientific studies and analyses to the FDA in order to prove their tobacco products actually benefit public health, or reduce harm.
To counter a decline in smoking in the United States, cigarette makers have focused on smokeless tobacco and other "modified risk" products.


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Authors: Kansas Rifles No. One
Date: February 22, 1856
The Kansas Rifles No. One sponsored this ball to be held at the Free State Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, "in honor of the Day which gave birth to th Immortal Washington." The committee of arrangements consisted of J. W. Colburn, James H. Lane, A. Cutler, A. D. Searl, W. L. Brigden, Chas. Robinson, John G. Cropsker, James R. White, E. Emmerson, and B. F. Swift. Tickets to the event were $2.00.
Keywords: Balls (parties); Community life; Cutler, George A.; Daily life; Dance parties; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Free State Hotel; Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Parties; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Searl, Albert D.


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How to Negotiate for a Lower Price on Anything
A lot of personal finance advice tells you to negotiate for a lower price on everything from cars to rent. But this requires you to do two things that are kind of uncomfortable in American society: talk about money, and try to get someone to do you a favor. Here's how to make the whole thing less painful.


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Hungarian State Opera House
They say that if the crown of Andrássy út is Heroes' Square, then the Opera must be its wedding ring. The Neo-Renaissance building of the State Opera House was designed by Miklós Ybl, built between 1875 and 1884. Its auditorium seats 1289 people.
The first performances ever held here were the Lohengrin and Bánk Bán. The electric lights system in the building has been in place since 1895. To the right from the carriage entrance stands the statue of Franz Liszt, and on the left is one of Ferenc Erkel, the father of Hungarian opera. There are four separate sections in the Opera House: the reception area, the auditorium, the stage and the technical area. The entrance of the building is guarded by the statues of Ferenc Liszt and Ferenc Erkel, both the works of Alajos Stróbl. The ceiling of the auditorium is decorated by frescoes by Károly Lotz, and the reception area has Árpád Feszty's pictures. The box office is in the Western side of the building, with brass railings forcing the patrons in a snake-like line. The Opera can be visited on a guided tour as well.
Address: 1061 Andrássy út 22
Phone: (36-1) 353 0170
Web: www.opera.hu
Public Transport Access: Metro line 1 and bus 105, get of at the Opera metro station


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Program serving pregnant teens to close
Hannah House shutting down
Program serving pregnant teens to close
Hannah House shutting down
A nonprofit residential program that serves pregnant and parenting teens and young adults from New Hampshire and Vermont is closing.
Hannah House in Lebanon, N.H., is shutting down Dec. 31, bringing to an end 25 years of providing around-the-clock care for young mothers, mothers-to-be and their children. Its day care facility is also closing.
The Valley News says the organization cited financial problems in announcing it was laying off staff at the end of the year and reorganizing in 2013.
Board President Barbara Callahan said she's hopeful that in time, the nonprofit can offer day care and outreach programs.


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Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th St. at 7th Ave, 212-924-0077: DOUBLE FEATURE, Scott Heron in Flossing and Other Dances and Jodi Melnich with Wanderlust: Kentucky; Wed. - Sat., Oct. 26-29 at 7:30pm; $12/$20. FAMILY MATTERS, Masquerade Ball; Sat., Oct. 29 at 2pm; $10/$20. DONALD BYRD/SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER, The Sleeping Beauty Notebook; Wed. - Sat., Nov. 2-5 & 9-12 at 7:30pm; $15/$25.
Danspace, St. Marks Church, 131 E. 10th St. at 2nd Ave, 212-674-8194: JOYCE S. LIM & PAZ TANJUAQUIO/TOPAZ DANZ, Splitting the Night Sky (Lim) & Thunder Against 1.2.3 (Tanjuaquio); Fri. - Sun., Oct. 28-30 at 8:30pm; $15.
Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 2nd floor, 212-219-0736: THE STORY OF TAP (THE SEQUEL), Hosted by Hank Smith; Toes Tiranoff, Megan Haungs & Traci Mann, Fri., Oct. 28 at 8pm; David Gilmore & Michela Marino Lerman, Sat., Oct. 29 at 8pm; $10/$15.
Dixon Place at the Marquee, 356 Bowery at Great Jones St., 212-217-0736: OPEN PERFORMANCE NIGHT, Everyone welcome; Wed., Nov.2 at 7pm. Free.
Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave at 19th St., 212-242-0800: PARSONS DANCE CO, NY premieres & company premieres. Two programs, call for schedule. Tues. - Fri., Oct. 26-29 at 8pm; Sat., Oct. 29 at 2 & 8pm; Sun., Oct. 30 at 2 & 7:30pm. $40. CISNE NEGRO DANCE COMPANY, Sao Paulo Brazil company with 3 premieres; Tues. - Sat., Nov. 1-5 at 8pm, Sun., Nov. 6 at 7:30pm; $36.
The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St. at 10th Ave., 212-255-5793 x11: DANCE & PROCESS, Curated by Miguel Gutierrez. The culmination of a 7-week group process of sharing work and receiving structured feedback. Fri. - Sat., Oct. 28-29 at 8pm. $10.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Citing a history of mistreatment that has hurt Indians, President Barack Obama has established a White House Council on Native American Affairs to promote a healthier relationship among the United States and tribal governments.
The leaders of 30 federal departments and agencies will serve on the council, which is charged with aiding tribes with economic development, transportation, housing and health care.
Obama said Wednesday the United States must restore and heal its relationship with Native Americans. In announcing the panel's creation, he said the country "cannot ignore a history of mistreatment and destructive policies that have hurt tribal communities."
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is scheduled to discuss council details Thursday at the conclusion of the National Congress of American Indians Mid-Year Conference in Reno, Nev.


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NEWARK – The State Board of Medical Examiners today accepted a doctor's decision to voluntarily cease medical practice, rather than face a hearing scheduled for today to temporarily suspend his license, amid allegations that he committed gross malpractice, gross negligence and/or gross incompetence for indiscriminately prescribing painkillers and testosterone to patients.
Dr. Roger Lallemand Jr, 39, and the board reached an interim consent order whereby he agreed to stop practicing medicine today. Lallemand also agreed to return his Controlled Dangerous Substances registration so he can no longer prescribe these prescription drugs.
The interim consent order will remain in place until the board holds a plenary hearing on the complaint filed by the Attorney General against Lallemand on May 1, and considers further action against his license.
The complaint filed earlier this month alleges that Lallemand did not perform adequate physical examinations of patients before prescribing large quantities of powerful painkillers to them. The complaint further alleges that Lallemand routinely prescribed testosterone to patients at excessively high dosages with no medical necessity.
According to the complaint, Lallemand continued to prescribe large quantities of high dosage painkillers to patients even after urine test results indicated that the patients were not taking the painkillers. He also allegedly falsified at least one patient treatment record to substantiate the prescriptions.
Lallemand also allegedly lacks adequate training for some of the medical procedures he performed, including those related to physical rehabilitation, pain management and testosterone treatment, among others.
"We believe Dr. Lallemand poses a clear and imminent danger to the public and cannot be allowed to remain in practice pending the plenary hearing," Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said. "We were prepared to ask the board to act today, if the interim consent order was not agreed to, in order to protect the public."
The complaint arises from investigations conducted by the Division of Consumer Affairs' Enforcement Bureau and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
According to the complaint, an undercover DEA agent posing as a patient came to Lallemand's office multiple times beginning in late 2011. The agent complained of discomfort in his lower back and buttocks and stated that he had not received any physical therapy. He asked Lallemand for Roxicodone, a prescription painkiller, and received a prescription for 56, 30-milligram pills. No physical examination was conducted, other than the doctor touching the agent's knee and asking if the agent could feel it.
In subsequent visits, the agent allegedly received prescriptions for Oxycodone, Roxicodone and Xanax. Lallemand noted in the patient record that the agent stated his pain was worse, and that he was experiencing muscle spasms, when no such comments were made to the doctor, according to the complaint.
The investigations also involved the review of actual patient records. That review allegedly revealed that Lallemand failed to adequately monitor patients and failed to adequately document the effectiveness of various pain medications.
In one case, a patient prescribed Oxycodone showed no trace of the painkiller in his urine sample, an indicator of possible diversion for illegal use by non-patients. The urine sample tested positive for the presence of cocaine, but Lallemand allegedly failed to send the patient to an addiction specialist.
Regarding testosterone, Lallemand prescribed steroids to three patients, two male and one female, after he diagnosed each as having hormone deficiency. However, all three showed testosterone levels above maximum acceptable levels upon re-testing after their treatments began.
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Customers at a bank in Manchester tackled a man wearing a surgical mask and gloves who told a teller he was robbing the bank, police said.
Manchester police said the man entered the Citizens Bank at about 11 a.m. Friday and refused to remove the mask when asked by the teller. He demanded cash.
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Recognizes Nucleolin (NCL), the major nucleolar phosphoprotein of growing eukaryotic cells. NCL is located mainly in dense fibrillar regions of the nucleolus. It is found associated with intranucleolar chromatin and pre-ribosomal particles. Human NCL gene consists of 14 exons with 13 introns and spans approximately 11 kb. It has a predicted molecular weight of ~76 kDa with an apparent MW of 100-110 kDa, attributed to phosphorylation of its N-terminal domain. It induces chromatin decondensation by binding to histone H1. It is thought to play a role in pre-rRNA transcription and ribosome assembly.This MAb can be used to stain the nucleoli in cell or tissue preparations and can be used as a marker of the nucleoli in subcellular fractions. It produces a speckled pattern in the nuclei of cells of normal and malignant cells and may be used to stain the nucleoli of cells in fixed or frozen tissue sections. It can be used with paraformaldehyde fixed frozen tissue or cell preparations and formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections.
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