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"[It is] a special wash to show that I am clean, I am ready," he says.
That practice, which includes the washing of feet, caused problems in the men's rooms, Daniel Dunnigan recalls.
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So Shenaq turned to Ford's Interfaith Network, a company-sponsored organization that Dunnigan now heads.
"The person doesn't have to check their faith at the door. They also don't need to be obnoxious about it during the day in the workplace," he says.
Faith support groups such as Ford's have mushroomed from just 50 a dozen years ago to well more than 1,200 today, according to one survey.
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Setting Up Log Shipping
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Log Shipping in SQL Server 2000
Setting up, reconfiguring, and monitoring log shipping
Ron Talmage
Log shipping increases a SQL Server database's availability by automatically copying and restoring the database's transaction logs to another database on a standby server. Because the standby database receives all changes to the original database, it's an exact duplicate of the original database—out of date only by the delay in the copy-and-load process. You then have the ability to make the standby server a new primary server if the original primary server becomes unavailable. When the original primary server becomes available again, you can make it a new standby server—effectively reversing the servers' roles.
In SQL Server 2000 Enterprise and Developer editions, Microsoft provides a log shipping utility in Enterprise Manager—as part of the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard. Previously, you needed to build your own log shipping system or—in the case of SQL Server 7.0—use the unsupported log shipping tools available in the Microsoft BackOffice 4.5 Resource Kit. (For information about those tools, see "Log Shipping with SQL Server 7.0," December 2000.) The new wizard eases the process of setting up, configuring, and monitoring SQL Server 2000 log shipping. (To verify the technical details in this article, I used SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1—SP1. However, according to the fix list, SP1 doesn't fix any bugs related to log shipping.)
The primary server is the production server on which the real work takes place; this server holds the source database. The secondary server holds the destination database to which you copy and restore the source database's transaction logs. A monitor server monitors both the primary and secondary servers. Unlike SQL Server 7.0's method of monitoring log shipping from the secondary server, SQL Server 2000 log shipping uses Enterprise Manager's Log Shipping Monitor utility to monitor each log shipping pair. Microsoft recommends that you install this utility on a separate monitor server.
You use Enterprise Manager's Database Maintenance Plan Wizard to set up SQL Server 2000 log shipping. But before you can use the wizard, you must make some initial preparations. To begin, carry out the following steps:
- Identify the log shipping pairs (i.e., the primary serversecondary server combinations that you want to participate in log shipping). Although you can set up log shipping between two databases on one server, the information in this article assumes that you intend to set up log shipping from one server to another.
- Identify a monitor server, which should be separate from both the primary and secondary servers.
- Establish security to all the servers. The Windows account you use to set up log shipping must have SQL Server systems administrator (sa) privileges on all the servers.
- Create primary and secondary file shares. First, create a share for the folder in which the source database's transaction logs will reside. Second, create a share for the secondary-server folder to which you plan to copy and restore the transaction-log files. To clarify the file share's purpose, specify the server and database names in the file share. If file shares already exist, you might want to delete or move other files, especially old transaction-log backup files, from the shares. Grant permissions on these file shares to the Windows account that each server's SQL Agent is using.
- Decide how to create and initially synchronize the destination database. You can let the log shipping setup process create and initially synchronize the destination database, or you can restore the initial full database backup manually.
- Register all three servers (i.e., primary, secondary, and monitor) in Enterprise Manager.
After you complete these preliminary preparations, you're ready to use the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard to set up log shipping. You can view the process as a series of five steps, which Figure 1 shows.
The first two steps are optional. If you haven't yet synchronized the source and destination databases, Step 1 carries out that task by making a one-time backup of the source database. In Step 2, the wizard copies that backup to the secondary server and restores it to the destination database.
The wizard always performs the remaining three steps. In Step 3, the wizard creates a SQL Agent job on the primary server. This job periodically backs up the transaction logs to disk files. The wizard also creates a log shipping database maintenance plan on the secondary server. This plan consists of two SQL Agent jobs: one to copy the transaction-log files to the secondary server (Step 4) and another to restore the transaction logs to the destination database (Step 5).
These steps create a log shipping pair (i.e., two databases in a log shipping relationship). To provide further redundancy or to set up a reporting server, you can form other log shipping pairs by setting up log shipping from the primary server to additional secondary servers.
Step by Step
To see how the wizard works, let's step through it screen by screen. Open Enterprise Manager, expand the primary server node, drill down to the Management node, and launch the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard.
In the wizard's first screen, which Figure 2 shows, select the source database, then select the Ship the transaction logs to other SQL Servers (log shipping) check box at the bottom of the screen. You can build a database maintenance plan for only one source database at a time. The check box is available only when you set the selected source database to the full or bulk_logged recovery model because only those models permit transaction-log backups.
The next several screens present options to associate full database backups and maintenance activity with the database maintenance plan. However, a plan with more than one function can be confusing, so I suggest you keep your log shipping plans separate from other plans.
In the Specify Transaction Log Backup Disk Directory screen, select the Use this directory check box and navigate to the primary server's transaction-log folder. Make sure the specified Remove files older than duration is sufficient to keep the log files on the primary server until you can back them up as part of your regular backup strategy. If you specify too short a duration and if the copy job on the secondary server fails, the primary server's SQL Agent job will delete transaction-log files before SQL Server can copy them to the secondary server, and log shipping will fail. Specify the default .trn extension for the transaction-log files, which the plan will name according to the format dbname_tlog_yyyymmddhhmm.trn.
The next screen, Specify the Transaction Log Share, appears only when you've specified that the plan will install log shipping. On this screen, you must identify the file share on the primary server. You can use the ellipsis (...) button to navigate to the file share.
The Specify the Log Shipping Destinations screen lets you add your secondary server or servers, one at a time. Click Add to open the Add Destination Database dialog box, which Figure 3 shows and in which you enter all the secondary-server information. The Server Name text box shows the secondary-server name you registered in Enterprise Manager as part of your preparation steps. In the Directory text box, enter the name of the secondary-server directory that will receive copies of the source database's transaction logs. This name is a local pathname, not a file share. You can choose the option to Create and initialize new database on the secondary server, in which case SQL Server will copy and restore the initial database backup. Or you can choose Use existing database (No initialization) if you've already performed the database restore. If your database is large, you might want to make your own backup and restore it during off-hours.
The destination database must be in a nonrecovered state for SQL Server to restore transaction logs to it. You have two options regarding the database load state: No recovery mode or Standby mode. No recovery mode means that users can't query the database; transaction-log restores will be the only activity that occurs on it. Standby mode leaves the database in a read-only state so that you can query it when you aren't restoring transaction logs. The Add Destination Database screen also presents an option to Terminate users in database (Recommended) during the database restore (if you're using an existing database) or during transaction-log restores. During a database or transaction-log restore, the restore process is the only "user" permitted in the database. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you use this option because the presence of other users in the database will delay the restore.
You might also want to select the Allow database to assume primary role option, which lets the destination database become a new log shipping source database and thus permits a possible future role reversal between the primary and secondary servers. When you select this option, specify the secondary server's transaction-log file share as the location for transaction-log backups from the new source database.
On the next screen, Initialize the Destination Databases, you can choose to use a recent backup or to make a new one. For large databases, using an existing backup might be more convenient. However, all the transaction logs that occurred since that backup must reside in the primary server's transaction-log file share, in the correct naming style, so that the wizard can copy and restore them to the secondary server. For smaller databases, letting the wizard generate the backup is much easier.
On the Log Shipping Schedules screen, you set the frequency of transaction-log backups for the source database and of the SQL Agent copy and load jobs that the wizard creates on the secondary server. Log shipping frequencies can be as granular as once per minute, but once every 5 minutes is a more common choice for larger databases.
The Log Shipping Thresholds screen presents options to set the acceptable latency times for transaction-logbackup and copy and restore jobs. When the threshold times are exceeded, the Log Shipping Monitor dialog box on the monitor server raises an alert.
Speaking of the monitor server, the next screen, Specify Log Shipping Monitor Server Information, lets you specify which server to use as your monitor server. Be careful: You might be tempted to simply accept the default, but that default is often the primary server. Typically, you don't want to use the primary or secondary server as a monitor server because you won't be able to determine the current state of log shipping if either of those servers becomes unavailable.
After a few reporting screens, the wizard's final screen lets you choose a plan name. I suggest that for clarity, you put the phrase log shipping somewhere in this name. You might not want to include the server names in the plan name if you want to perform a future server-role change. Click Finish. Now, the wizard automatically sets up log shipping from your primary to your secondary server and also sets up the Log Shipping Monitor on the monitor server.
Changing a Log Shipping Configuration
You can use your database maintenance plan's Properties dialog box to change your log shipping configuration. The Transaction Log tab offers options for changing the configuration of the log shipping transaction-log backups. The Log Shipping tab shows you the log shipping pair you originally created for the plan, as well as any other pairs you might have added to the plan. This tab also contains options to add a new destination database (thereby creating a new log shipping pair), to delete a selected log shipping pair, to edit current log shipping pair properties, and to remove log shipping entirely.
When you choose Edit from the Log Shipping tab, you open the Edit Destination Database dialog box. On the dialog box's General tab, you can view and change the secondary-server transaction-log directory and future primary-server file share locations that you chose during setup. On the Initialize tab, you can change the recovery mode and the secondary server's copy and restore frequencies. On the Thresholds tab, which Figure 4 shows, you can set threshold durations. The Out of Sync Threshold sets the maximum permitted duration (between the latest source database transaction-log backup and the most recent transaction-log restore) before the Log Shipping Monitor will generate an alert. (You can also set this parameter from the Log Shipping Monitor.) The Load Time Delay, File Retention Period, and History Retention Period values all relate to the secondary server.
The monitor server plays an important role in these configuration options. The Log Shipping tab depends on the monitor server for much of its information, so you can't change log shipping configuration values when the monitor server is unavailable. When I ran SQL Server 2000 Profiler on the monitor server, I found that the primary server connects to the monitor server to retrieve existing log shipping plan information from the log shipping tables on the monitor server. Therefore, to change a log shipping plan's settings, you must make sure that the monitor server is available to Enterprise Manager.
Inspecting and Monitoring Log Shipping
If you're accustomed to SQL Server 7.0 log shipping or you've created your own log shipping system, you probably monitor log shipping activity from the secondary server. However, SQL Server 2000 log shipping also provides a special Log Shipping Monitor utility that you typically place on a separate monitor server.
Where does SQL Server 2000 store log shipping information? A total of seven log shipping tables reside in the msdb database in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise and Developer editions:
- log_shipping_plans
- log_shipping_plan_databases
- log_shipping_databases
- log_shipping_plan_history
- log_shipping_monitor
- log_shipping_primaries
- log_shipping_secondaries
Each of these tables exists on the primary, secondary, and monitor servers. Each server uses only some of the tables to store data, depending on the role the server plays in log shipping.
Inspecting log shipping on the primary server. From Enterprise Manager, you can connect to the primary server and inspect and monitor log shipping. If a database is involved in log shipping, the General tab of that database's Properties dialog box tells you the database's role (i.e., source or destination) as well as which server houses the Log Shipping Monitor. You can view the state and history of the log shipping transaction-log backup job in Enterprise Manager's SQL Server Agent, Jobs node.
The primary server populates only two of the msdb log shipping tables. In log_shipping_databases, SQL Server inserts a row linking the database maintenance plan ID to the source log shipping database. In the log_shipping_monitor table, SQL Server inserts a row containing the monitor server name and type of login.
Inspecting log shipping on the secondary server. The log shipping plan resides on the secondary server. From that server, you can monitor the SQL Agent jobs that copy transaction-log files to the server and restore those logs to the destination database. You can also inspect the destination database's Properties dialog box to determine the database's role in the log shipping process.
On the secondary server, SQL Server uses four of the msdb log shipping tables. After SQL Server creates the log shipping plan, it inserts a row into the log_shipping_plans table, specifying the primary and secondary server names, file locations, and the copy and restore job IDs (which it gets from the sysjobs system table on the secondary server). In the log_shipping_plan_databases table, SQL Server links the plan to the source and destination database names and stores information about the last files copied and loaded. The log_shipping_plan_history table records each log shipping plan's copy and restore event, along with information such as whether the job succeeded. In the log_shipping_monitor table, SQL Server also inserts a row that references the monitor server.
If you chose (when you set up log shipping in the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard) to let the destination database assume a primary role, you'll see one important additional item on the secondary server: another database maintenance plan with the same name as the plan you created but without log shipping enabled. You'll also see a disabled SQL Agent job for making transaction-log backups of that database. You might find these additional items confusing. Despite having the same name, this additional plan isn't the same maintenance plan as the one you created. SQL Server simply holds this second plan in reserve in case you make a primary- and secondary-server role change.
Monitoring log shipping on the monitor server. After log shipping is in place, SQL Server enables Enterprise Manager's Log Shipping Monitor utility on the monitor server. In addition, SQL Server creates two SQL Agent alert jobs: one for backup and the other for out-of-sync conditions.
To use the utility, open Enterprise Manager and connect to the monitor server, drill down to the Management node, and select the Log Shipping Monitor. When you select the utility, it presents a list of log shipping pairs. Right-click a log shipping pair to view its backup, copy, and restore histories. The copy and restore histories are especially useful because they give you quick access to more detailed error information than you can find in the histories of the secondary server's SQL Agent copy and restore jobs.
When you open a pair's Properties dialog box and go the Status tab, which Figure 5 shows, you can view the status of the pair's backup and copy and restore processes. The status can be Normal or Out-of-Sync. If the SQL Server Agent hasn't yet copied or restored a transaction log, the dialog box will display the log-file name as first_file_000000000000.trn. This isn't the name of a real file but simply a way for the utility to indicate that the SQL Server Agent hasn't processed any files yet. The Status tab also shows the Backup, Copy, and Load (i.e., restore) deltas in minutes at the current time. The information on this tab doesn't refresh automatically, so you must close and reopen the dialog box to refresh the data.
SQL Server uses only two of the msdb log shipping tables to store log shipping pair information. In each table, SQL Server assigns an ID to link entries, and a foreign key constraint in log_shipping_secondaries references the log_shipping_primaries primary_id. (These two tables are the only log shipping tables that contain a foreign key relationship.) The log_shipping_primaries table contains a row for each log shipping source database, its transaction-log backup job status, and planned outage information (which you can use to avoid unnecessary alerts). The log_shipping_secondaries table contains a row for each destination database that belongs to a particular log shipping source database. The linked rows form the log shipping pairs that appear in the Log Shipping Monitor.
Each log shipping pair's Log Shipping Pair Properties dialog box also contains a Source tab and a Destination tab, which let you adjust information concerning thresholds for backup failure alerts and out-of-sync alerts, respectively. These alerts refer to two SQL Agent jobs running on the monitor server: Log Shipping Alert Job - Backup and Log Shipping Alert Job - Restore. By default, each of the jobs executes once per minute. These jobs generate an error in the Windows 2000 or Windows NT Application log when any log shipping pair's backup delay exceeds the backup-alert threshold or when the pair's copy and restore process is delayed beyond the out-of-sync threshold.
Removing and Reinstalling Log Shipping
To remove log shipping from a database maintenance plan, open the plan's Properties dialog box, go to the Log Shipping tab, then click Remove Log Shipping. This action removes the SQL Agent copy and restore jobs from the secondary server, clears out data from the log shipping tables on that server, and removes all related information from the Log Shipping Monitor. However, the action leaves the primary server's SQL Server Agent transaction-log backup plan in place. Deleting the database maintenance plan removes that job. To remove the Log Shipping Monitor from the monitor server, manually delete the applicable rows from the log_shipping_primaries and log_shipping_secondaries tables in the monitor server's msdb database.
If you enabled a destination database to assume the role of a source database when you set up log shipping in the Database Maintenance Plan Wizard, the secondary server's database maintenance plan and its transaction-log backup job remain on the secondary server after you delete the plan on the primary server. To remove these items, delete the secondary server's log shipping database maintenance plan.
When you experiment with SQL Server 2000 log shipping, chances are you'll occasionally abort the installation process. When you do, some data might remain in each server's log shipping tables and can interfere with subsequent attempts to install log shipping. (For details, see the Microsoft article "BUG: All Changes May Not Be Rolled Back When Log Shipping Maintenance Wizard Fails" at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q298/7/43.asp.) To guarantee that these remnants are removed fully, delete all related data from the msdb log shipping tables on each server.
Coming Up: Role Reversals
Now that you've set up and configured log shipping, you need to know how to reverse your primary and secondary servers' roles if necessary. In Part 2 of this series, I'll explain how to perform a log shipping role change, how to perform a log shipping role reversal, and how to use log shipping in SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition.
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Allen Wong, 52, is the owner and operator of Fusion Fire Grill, 3686 E. Main St., in Whitehall.
"It's a fusion of Asian and (American) Southern flavor," said Wong, who has a lifetime if experience in the restaurant industry. He was 8 when he began helping at his parents' restaurant in Amsterdam, Holland.
Wong since has owned, operated, or worked at hotels and restaurants in 22 counties and can carry conversations in seven languages.
He has owned restaurants in four other countries and most recently worked for a national food distributor, but the opening of Fusion Fire Grill, four years in the making, represents the first restaurant Wong has owned in the United States.
I created the concept of blending Asian and Southern flavors," said Wong, who also created the menu. "It's a new concept and something different."
Wong also chose to focus on the casual restaurant genre.
"I want to cater to the working class," said Wong, who added he's chosen family-friendly price points for dining at Fusion Fire.
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Referring to the city of Whitehall's new marketing campaign and slogan, "opportunity is here," Wong said he chose Whitehall because of its potential and, well, opportunity.
"Opportunity is here, and I wanted to be in front," Wong said.
The 3,000-square-foot restaurant, at a former Dunkin Donuts, seats about 22 people indoors and about 26 on an outside patio.
Wong said he prides himself on not only catering to the working class, but staffing his restaurant with minorities, giving African-Americans in particular, an opportunity for employment and developing marketable skills.
Wong studied hotel management at a school in Brussels and gained most of his international culinary experience working at kitchen in hotels throughout the world, typically traveling from one international site to another as a fill-in for chefs on vacation or extended leave.
He has worked in virtually every Western European county, Egypt, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian locales and was sous chef at a restaurant in Bermuda.
Among the most popular items at Fusion Fire Grill, Wong said, is a "Southern Style" greens with bacon, Southern Corn relish, and Hibachi Chicken.
A choice of sauce is also important, and includes Fire's Spicy Tomato, and his trademark "Can I Get Some Yum-Yum" sauce, Wong said.
Fusion Fire Grill officially opened Oct. 24 with a ribbon cutting that Whitehall Mayor Kim Maggard attended.
Wong said he intends to "put Whitehall on the map" as the birthplace of Fusion Fire Grill.
"I want to open several more restaurants in Central Ohio," said Wong, who has a goal of 30 restaurants throughout the United States in the next 10 years.


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WASHINGTON — Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like service in Cuba that the U.S. government secretly funded were overtly political, documents obtained by The Associated Press show, even though the Obama administration has said the program had a more-neutral purpose.
The early messages poked fun at the Castro government and were created by a political satirist working for the social media project. Those messages conflict with the U.S. government's earlier assertions that its program didn't promulgate political content.
Disclosure of the text messages came as the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Congress in sometimes-confrontational testimony Tuesday that his agency's program was simply meant to increase the flow of information in a country that heavily restricts Internet access.
An AP investigation last week found that the program, known as ZunZuneo, evaded Cuba's digital restrictions by creating a text-messaging service that could be used to organize political demonstrations. It drew tens of thousands of subscribers who were unaware it was backed by Washington, which went to great lengths to conceal its involvement.
At an oversight hearing Tuesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah that the program was "cockamamie" and had not been described adequately to Congress. Shah also faces House and Senate foreign relations committees this week.
Some messages sent to Cuban cellphones had sharp political commentary, according to documents obtained by the AP. One early message sent on Aug. 7, 2009, took aim at the former Cuban telecommunications minister, Ramiro Valdes, who once had warned that the Internet was a "wild colt" that "should be tamed."
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Others were marked in documents as drafts, and it was not immediately clear whether they ultimately were transmitted by the service, which the government said ceased in 2012 because of a lack of funding.
One draft message read: "THE BACKWARDS WORLD: 54% of Americans think Michael Jackson is alive and 86% of Cubans think Fidel Castro is dead." Another called Castro the "The coma-andante," a reference to Fidel's age.
"No," wrote organizers, apparently rejecting that text. "Too political."
USAID, known worldwide for its humanitarian work, has maintained repeatedly that it did not send out political messages under the project. Leahy asked Shah whether the project's goal was to "influence political conditions abroad by gathering information about Cuban cellphone users" or "to encourage popular opposition to the Cuban government."
"No, that is not correct," Shah said. "The purpose of the program was to support access to information and to allow people to communicate with each other," he said. "It was not for the purpose you just articulated."
A USAID spokesman did not respond to a request seeking comment late Tuesday.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf last week said that "no political content was ever supplied by anyone working on this project or running it. It was the people — the Cuban people on the ground who were doing so."
"When it started, the folks who operated it put weather content on it, sports content on it to get it up and running, but no political content was ever supplied by anyone working on this project or running it," Harf said.
However, Alen Lauzan Falcon, a Havana-born satirical artist based in Chile, said Tuesday that he was hired to write the political texts, though he was never told about ZunZuneo's U.S. origins.
"I don't do cultural humor," he said. "I do political humor. Everything I do is politics even if it is humor about politics."
"Obviously it has to be covert. There is no way you can do something like this in Cuba without someone paying a price," he said.
Some lawmakers in Washington have expressed support for ZunZuneo since the AP's original disclosure. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Shah was to address Thursday, said USAID should be applauded for giving people in Cuba a less-controlled platform to talk to each other.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican on the House Foreign Relations Committee, before which Shah is to appear Wednesday, has said USAID is not a "secret organization."
But Leahy and other lawmakers questioned how thoroughly Congress was informed of the project. They have said it has been described only in broad terms and they were given no indications of the program's risks, its political nature or the extensive efforts to conceal Washington's involvement.
Shah said Congress has been notified about this program every year since 2008 in documents outlining USAID's budget. "The fact that we are discussing it in this forum, and that it is an unclassified program, illustrates that this is not a covert effort," he said.
He said "parts of it were done discreetly" to protect the people involved. He cited a study by the Government Accountability Office into democracy promotion programs run by USAID and the State Department — including the Cuban Twitter project — that found the programs to be consistent with the law. But the author of the GAO study told the AP this week that investigators did not examine the question of whether the programs were covert.
The program's effects could be far-reaching. Leahy said USAID employees have been contacting the oversight committee to complain that such secretive programs put them at risk because they drive perceptions that the agency is engaged in intelligence-like activities.
"We're already getting emails from USAID employees all over the world saying, 'How could they do this and put us in danger?'" Leahy said.
The launch came months after American contractor Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba. He was imprisoned after traveling repeatedly on a separate, clandestine USAID mission to expand Cuban Internet access using sensitive technology that only governments use.
Early Tuesday, Gross' lawyer released a statement that his client was going on a hunger strike. The ZunZuneo story was "one of the factors" Gross took into account in connection with his hunger strike, the attorney said.
"Once Alan was arrested, it is shocking that USAID would imperil his safety even further by running a covert operation in Cuba," said the lawyer, Scott Gilbert. "USAID has made one absurdly bad decision after another."
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How Norway Scores So Much Olympic Gold
If Norway Wins Medal Count at 2014 Sochi Winter Games, One Region's Culture and Lifestyle May Explain Why
MERÅKER, Norway—The distinct smell of animal feces and soil fills the air. A slender figure, barely illuminated by a white ceiling lamp, bends down and strokes the head of a large sow. "You are a good pig, aren't you?" Jan Thomas Jenssen, 17, says softly.
Then he straightens up, pulls down his gray woolen sweater, and heads off to train for cross-country skiing. "My plan is to become a farmer, like my dad and his dad before him. But first things first."
Though too young for the Sochi Games, Jan Thomas is considered a strong prospect for future Olympic glory. His most impressive credential may not be his technique or recent competitive success, but his birth certificate. He was born in the region of Trøndelag, a place with short summers of potato farming and long winters of trudging through snow-filled valleys and ice-covered fiords, and where Olympic gold is produced at a remarkable rate.
In all, Trøndelag natives have produced more than a fifth of Norway's medals over the history of the Winter Games—even though the region accounts for only 8% of the country's total population. At the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, they contributed to eight of the country's nine gold medals.
"How is it possible that an area of about 400,000 people can be responsible for eight out of nine gold medals?" said Stig Arve Sæther, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Norway itself is a Winter Olympics marvel: With only five million people, it has won 303 Winter Olympic medals, far more than any other country on the planet. To find a country smaller than world-leading Norway on the all-time Winter Olympics medal table, you have to travel down to Croatia, which ranks 24th with 11 medals.
And this month, Norway is fielding one of its strongest teams in almost two generations, with some experts considering it the favorite to win both the highest gold and total medal count, a feat that it last achieved in 1968.
Other countries long ago took to shrugging off Norway's Winter Olympics medal haul as the unsurprising inheritance of a people whose young are born with skis on their feet, as an old Nordic adage goes. But skiing is also fundamental to the culture of other Scandinavian countries, including Sweden, which has about twice the population but, with 132 total, not even half the medals.
Instead, many experts think the answer lies in the culture and lifestyle of the country, where an extraordinary egalitarianism runs through youth sports. Before age 6, Norwegian kids can only train but not formally compete in sports, and before age 11, all children participating in a competition must be awarded the same prize.
"We have an unusually open and inclusive environment when it comes to children's' sports," says Inge Andersen, General Secretary of the Norwegian Sports Federation and Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Sports, meanwhile, continues to take a back seat to education in the country. Although Norway has government-run sports schools, admissions is based on stiff academic standards, not athletic ability.
"General education has to come first. Sports second," said Kjell Lundemo, the principal of Meråker, a government-run sports school with the same name as the town.
To some degree, Norway's dominance isn't surprising. Although its athletes generally don't get huge endorsement dollars, they do benefit from the largess of the country's main organization for elite Olympic sports, which has a relatively large annual budget of $23 million.
Norway also boasts an economy that provides high-paying jobs. Thanks largely to its rich oil fields, Norway has a per capita GDP of $99,558—the fourth-highest in the world behind Qatar, Luxembourg and Singapore. That enables its citizenry to enjoy extraordinary amounts of leisure time and spending money.
It is also clear that Norway has skated to Olympic stardom on a type of ski that doesn't generate as much interest or competition. Of Norway's 303 Winter Olympics medals, 125 have come in cross-country or its cousin, biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and sharpshooting. Together, these two disciplines are the Games' medal-richest sports, awarding 66 medals in Sochi.
They are also among the least competitive. Throughout the history of the Winter Games, Norway and Germany have won nearly half the medals in biathlon. In cross-country skiing, Norway and four other countries have won 82% of the medals. A 2011 survey (conducted for Norway's biggest newspaper Aftenposten) showed that 60% of Norwegians say they are interested in watching cross-country skiing, while 56% say they are interested in biathlon and 43% say they are interested in soccer.
In America, where Winter Olympics marketing invariably features daredevil sports like alpine skiing and snowboarding, little interest exists in watching or participating in cross-country skiing. The U.S. hasn't won a cross-country skiing medal since 1976. Not even four million Americans engaged in cross-country skiing last year, fewer than half the number that skied downhill.
For that reason, Norway's projected success in Sochi doesn't surprise Aksel Lund Svindal, a Norwegian Alpine skiing world champion. "When the best talent goes into sports that the U.S. doesn't hear about," he said, "it makes sense" that Norway would do well.
Olympic history is rich with the medal-winning feats of one-time slacker nations that decided to get serious about the Games. A dramatic recent example is China, a longtime laggard that won the gold medal count at the Beijing Summer Games in 2008. Similar improvements in the Winter Olympics were achieved by Canada and America.
But from the beginning, Norway ruled the Winter Games. At the inaugural Winter Olympics in France in 1924—only 19 years after Norway gained its independence from Sweden—the relatively young nation won 17 of 44 total medals, including five medals in cross-country skiing. In five of the following six Winter Games, Norway won both the gold and overall medal counts.
That success was slowed when the Soviet Union jumped into the games in 1956. But by the late 1980s, flush with oil money, Norway established Olympiatoppen, an organization with responsibility for the country's elite sports. In the six Winter Games since 1988, with the Soviet Union fading, Norway has won 53 gold medals, second only to Germany.
Still, most experts say the biggest reason behind Norway's success is the culture that propelled it atop the medal table from the outset. Norway's cities are relatively close to the wilderness, and children are encouraged to play outdoors even on the coldest days.
Neighboring Sweden, by contrast, has its major population centers farther from the wilderness, and the Swedes are more inclined to play indoor sports in the winter, such as tennis or hockey, rather than bundle up and go skiing.
Norway remains a largely agrarian society that places a large premium on being outside. A Norwegian concept called friluftsliv—enjoying outdoor life—has been studied in books and represents whole areas of study at universities.
Nowhere is this concept more valued than in Trøndelag, a region still dominated by farming and logging. Here, work comes first, but sport builds out of it. The hardship and solitude imposed by farming represents good training for cross-country skiing, an endurance sport that requires an extraordinary ability to withstand pain. "In childhood, I had to participate in physical work," said Petter Northug, a 28-year-old cross-country skier and a Trøndelag native who won four medals, including two gold, at the 2010 Games and who could reach the podium five times at the Sochi Games.
Scholars who have studied Trøndelag cite its long tradition of outdoor work and play. "I don't think people in Trøndelag have special genes or anything, but they have used skis for transportation and labor for ages," said Sverker Sörlin, a Swedish professor who wrote "The Genius Body," a book about the region's legacy in winter sports. "Nothing is as prestigious as being a great skier. People are so rich in this country; they can do whatever they want. But they still end up skiing."
The tightknit nature of the community also helps. Researchers working at NTNU found that almost all the Olympic winners from Trøndelag have been raised in towns with very few inhabitants who avidly root for their offspring. Small towns can force kids to embrace solitude. "I learned how to thrive in my own company and thus I still love to go on long training rides on my own," says Mr. Northug, who was raised a farm in a town of fewer than 200 people.
Like small-town denizens everywhere, athletes in Trøndelag face limited competition in their native towns. "You may call it a 'big-fish, little-pond effect'—individuals are more likely to develop positive self-assessment in small communities," said Mr. Sæther, the NTNU researcher.
The small-town vibe is threaded through daily life at Meråker, the sports school with 250 high school and college students in the heart of Trøndelag. When one of its students is off competing in races, teachers take a break from the regular curriculum so no one falls behind, helping keep the dropout rate below 1%. While winning has come to be expected, race results aren't the focal point.
"It's good to come back after a race after you've won because no one makes a fuss out of it," said Lotte Lie, 18, a biathlete who has won the Norwegian Cup. She spends between 10 and 18 hours a week on physical workouts, including lying on her stomach in the snow with skis on her feet and a rifle in her hands, aiming at targets about 55 yards away. "I'm trying to think that not winning is OK," she said. Still she remains focused on the long term. "I have a very clear goal of winning the Olympics."
" Scholars who have studied the Trøndelag region cite its long tradition of outdoor work and play. "
Mr. Lundemo, the principal, says the school's emphasis on academic prowess only makes sense, given the odds of Olympic glory for any one student. "When these kids start at our school, we know that very many want to become world champions," he said. "But we also know that very few—maybe none of them—will make it."
At the Sochi Olympics, athletes from Trøndelag are favored to win as many as 30 medals in five different sports: cross-country, biathlon, nordic combined, ski jump and snowboard.
In those disciplines, attaining world-class status typically takes years of training. This is one reason that the Meråker school accepts students whose passion for sport may outshine their performances. In the long run, desire and perseverance will play the greatest roles in shaping future Olympians. The school's coaches say the main lesson they teach is the importance of training relentlessly for years beyond high school.
"Endurance sports take years to become good at," said Frode Estil, a Trøndelag native and former Olympian who won two gold medals in cross-country at the Salt Lake City Games and two silver medals at the Turin Games. Having coached at Meråker after retiring as an Olympian, Mr. Estil adds, "You know, we can't tell who's going to become a World Champion when they're this young."
For his part, Jan Thomas Jenssen, the 17-year-old cross-country skier, is a Meråker student regarded as a potential future star. In January, he took first place in a junior cross-country skiing competition at the Norwegian Cup. Growing up in the tiny town of Hommelvika in Trøndelag, Jan Thomas worked and skied on the family farm and in the forest, under the tutelage of his father.
In addition to physical work on the farm in the afternoons, weekends and holidays, he was regularly charged with what his father refers to as "incredibly boring stuff," like picking stones from a field, just to improve his psyche.
Every time he hurt himself, his father would tease him until he stopped crying. Eventually, he came to believe pain is cool. "My father taught me at an early age to tackle pain—I think that's my strength. I can go for hours in pain without giving up," he said.
His childhood mentor, a star skier turned coach named John Thomas Rena, agrees. "I think a big part of Jenssen's talent comes from the way he grew up," he said.
In Hommelvika, the local ski club is thriving. Here, no pursuit is more honorable than cross-country skiing. Nearly everyone in the community volunteers at local ski clubs. Coaches often are parents or grandparents or local tradesmen who also happen to be former Olympic stars. A local saying has it that you'll meet a world champion on every street corner in Trøndelag. "To ski in the same tracks as Olympic winners of course has a big impact on us," said Ms. Lie, the biathlon athlete. "It makes us believe that it's possible to reach our goals."
The Meråker sports school accepts students from all over Norway, but a third of them are born and bred here in Trøndelag. And that third is disproportionately represented in the school's athletic bona fides. Of the 14 Winter Olympics medals won by Meråker graduates, natives of Trøndelag have accounted for eight.
—Matthew Futterman contributed to this article.
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Will your next big IT project be on time and deliver what was promised? Maybe — but maybe not. Accepting five inconvenient truths about project status reporting can greatly reduce the chance of being blindsided by unpleasant surprises.
Nobody anticipated the size and scope of the problems we experienced once the site launched."
The launch problems associated with the HealthCare.gov website — intended to provide a one-stop health insurance shopping portal for uninsured and underinsured Americans beginning October 1, 2013 — are now well-known. As Wall Street Journal reporter Clint Boulton wrote, "For the first couple weeks of October, it appeared that the Affordable Care Act, the centerpiece of the Obama Administration's domestic policy, was in danger of being undone by an IT project gone wrong. HealthCare.gov, the $630 million project meant to showcase the administration's tech savviness, was an end user nightmare."2
What went wrong with the HealthCare.gov launch? It has been reported that the implementation process suffered from a lack of clear direction, repeated changes in requirements (some less than two weeks before the anticipated "go" date) and a severely cramped test schedule, which allowed little time to uncover and address integration issues.3 Even so, some lawmakers have reported that Congress had been told as late as September 2013 that the implementation project was on track. These lawmakers have "accused both the contractors and the [Obama] administration of withholding information about the looming failure."4 It has been reported that an outside consulting firm "in late March [provided] a clear warning" that "foreshadowed many of the problems that have dogged HealthCare.gov since its rollout" and that some high-ranking White House officials were briefed regarding the report's contents in April 2013.5
While the problems accompanying the HealthCare.gov site launch were unusually high-profile, they are not uncommon; all too frequently, leaders in the private sector as well as the public sector are caught by surprise when projects — particularly complex IT projects — run into trouble. But complex IT projects do not fail overnight; they fail one day at a time, and generally only after numerous warning signs. Our research suggests that for many executives, accepting five inconvenient truths about project reporting can greatly reduce the chance of being blindsided by a troubled project launch. (See "About the Research.�


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Whether you're a prince on a hand-built Trek Madone 6 or a Pauper on a Huffy—stat tracking is the best way to improve your riding fitness. These two upcoming Garmin products will record what you need, regardless of your budget.
For the cash-strapped biker, the $150 Edge 200 GPS-enabled cycling computer tracks the essential stats—time, distance, speed, location and calories burned—without needing to install a separate sensor. It also stores 130 hours of previous stats and can upload them to Garmin Connect—the company's free data analysis and mapping website.
The Garmin Vector, on the other hand, replaces the stock pedal body and spindle and measures the force profile of a pedal stroke as well as total power and cadence—it even differentiates between right and left leg power. Connect it to either the Garmin Edge 500 or 800 to calculate Normalized Power, Intensity Factor and Training Stress Score data (and a bunch of other stats most people outside the Tour de France have never heard of). The price for this information does not come cheap, however. You'll be paying a trading your kingdom for this $1,500 horse when the Vector comes out next March—plus the cost of an Edge ($250-450) if you don't already own one.
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I had so much fun on my last trail run on the Lone Star Trail that I decided to check out another section before my departure back to California. This time I chose the Little Lake Creek Wilderness at the west end of Sam Houston National Forest. This small wilderness area protects a mature stand of pine and hardwood forest. The main Lone Star Trail runs through the center of the Wilderness while the South Wilderness and North Wilderness trails pass through the south and north respectively. The difference between the wilderness area and surrounding forest is immediately noticeable – the pine trunks are much larger and the understory is thick with brush and small trees.
The trails here are awesome. The whispering pines, the lushness, the solitude, it's an amazing place to run. On this day, there was even some great fall color. Since these trails and the entire Lone Star Trail are only open to foot traffic, they are not eroded and are well padded by leaves and needles. The terrain is gently rolling with some short steep bits climbing out of creek drainages but otherwise generally flatter so you can really pick up the pace and I was moving under 7 minute pace most of the time. It's an exhilarating feeling to move fast through a thick forest on single track. The North Wilderness trail was my favorite section of this run with twisty and extremely tight single track, branches to duck under, and logs to steeplechase.
This area has numerous loop possibilities off the main Lone Star Trail and I did an 11.7 mile loop combining the North Wilderness Loop and the Sand Branch Loop. Other loops in the area that can be added on include the South Wilderness Loop, Richards Loop, and Lake Conroe Loop. A single loop of over 40 miles can be designed in this area! I look forward to checking out the South Wilderness Trail and other sections of the Lone Star Trail next time I am in Houston!
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TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Kelley Godbout (Matthews, N.C.) scored a career high 21 points with 10 rebounds, but the Cobra women's basketball team lost a heartbreaker in overtime, 67-64, to North Greenville University in the Quarterfinals of the Conference Carolinas Women's Basketball Tournament.
In addition to Godbout's 21 points, Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) and Hailey Yohn (Durham, N.C.) each scored 11 and senior Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) added 10 points in her final game as a Cobra.
The loss brings Coker's season to an end. They finished the season with a record of 11-6 in conference play and 11-16 overall. The Cobras close out the season having won 11 of their final 15 games.


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Timothy Geithner's realm grows with passage of financial regulatory reform
Half a year after some predicted he would be booted from the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner stands to inherit vast power to shape bank regulations, oversee financial markets and create a consumer protection agency.
Few Treasury secretaries have had such sweeping influence over such a wide realm as Geithner will wield once President Obama signs the new financial overhaul legislation passed this week by Congress.
The effort to dramatically expand financial regulation bears the stamp of no one more than Geithner. The bill not only hews closely to the initial draft he released last summer but also anoints him -- as long as he remains Treasury secretary -- as the chief of a new council of senior regulators. The legislation also puts him at the head of the new consumer bureau until a director is confirmed by the Senate, allowing Geithner to mold the watchdog in coming months. And it will be up to him to settle a raft of issues left unresolved by the bill -- for instance, which financial derivatives will be subject to the tough new trading rules and which risky activities big banks will be required to spin off.
The legislation "will help restore the great strength of the American financial system, which -- at its best -- develops innovative ways to provide credit and capital, not just for our great global companies, but for the individual with an idea and a plan," Geithner said to reporters shortly after the bill was approved. Obama will sign the bill in the middle of next week, according to White House officials.
It has been a remarkable turnaround for the 48-year-old Treasury secretary, who endured repeated calls for his head from lawmakers a few months ago. Anger over the Treasury's bailout of troubled banks was high. The unemployment rate was soaring. In a January interview, Geithner called the hubbub over his job security "a price of this office."
In the wake of the bill's passage, there is recognition within the administration as well as on Capitol Hill that Geithner is not going anywhere anytime soon. White House officials said the speculation earlier this year about his tenure misunderstood his standing within the administration.
These officials said Geithner endeared himself to Obama and senior White House advisers by advocating a response to the financial crisis that later proved correct. Geithner vigorously resisted calls by some lawmakers and financial experts to nationalize the nation's largest and most troubled banks during the most perilous days. Instead, he helped get the financial system back on its feet, in particular by pressing for stress tests of big banks. The results of these tests showed that nearly all the banks would be able to weather the financial storm and quickly restored investor confidence.
The campaign to win passage of the financial regulatory bill has been driven primarily by the Treasury, showing that Geithner has gained significant latitude within the administration, a far cry from the early days when senior White House officials kept close watch over his public statements and sought to burnish his image.
"This is a very substantial victory for the president, and it is a credit to Tim's leadership that we have achieved so comprehensive a reform so quickly," said Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council and a senior adviser to Obama.
Geithner has not won every battle over the legislation. Notable losses include measures added by lawmakers that would exempt auto dealers and banks with less than $10 billion in assets from new consumer protection rules. These firms represent a significant proportion of the financial industry.
But the bill broadly reflects his faith in regulators and his overriding belief that large financial companies can be protected from upheaval if they set aside large enough capital reserves. His has been a middle course, rejecting the era of deregulation that preceded the financial meltdown but also dismissing proposals to fundamentally restructure the financial industry, for instance by cutting the nation's biggest banks down to size.
In an interview last summer, as his team was drafting its version of the bill, Geithner said the heart of any financial reform effort must consist of "three things: capital, capital, capital."


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Some less than welcome residents enjoyed the mild temperatures that led up to spring this year.
Some less than welcome residents enjoyed the mild temperatures that led up to spring this year.
Snakes are showing themselves this season.
Kenzie Tilley of Mount Holly lives near a creek in the Runnymeade subdivision, where she had an encounter with a black snake Monday evening.
It was on the street near children and she was afraid they might get hurt. So she ran over the snake with her car, then hoisted it on a tree limb and posed for a picture.
�I think that they�re out more because they do like warm weather,� she said. �There are tons of snakes out here. I�ve seen bigger ones this year than I have in years past.�
She walked around the block near her home last Wednesday and spotted another small snake.
Chrissy Felton of Dallas sent an email to the Gazette saying two black snakes, each 4 or 5 feet long, got into her chicken coop Wednesday night. She caught one swallowing an egg and captured close-up pictures of the creature.
She said her husband, Tim Felton, later removed the snake. The couple own five chickens.
A few weeks ago, while enjoying Memorial Day at Lake Wylie, S.C., Trent Thomasson of Belmont said spotting a brown snake in the water inspired him to take hold of the reptile.
Thomasson then released it into the water, in the direction of the shore, he said in an email to The Gazette.
Mild winter to blame?
A mild winter in Gaston County helped bring out a good supply of insects and rodents for snakes to feed on this year, said Jim Burke, natural resources extension agent with the local N.C. Cooperative Extension office.
He said recent hot days could also explain why residents are seeing snakes in their neighborhoods. The slithering creatures don�t have a means of regulating their internal temperatures, other than moving in and out of sunlight.
�They like heat but they can�t stand intense heat for long periods of time,� he said. �You see them more at night because it cools off a little bit. They can be out and about on sidewalks and roadways, anything that soaks up heat from the sun.�
He recommends keeping lawns mowed so weeds don�t grow tall. Also remove piles of dead tree branches, lumber and bricks from yards.
Those spots provide havens for mice to hide and build nests. That attracts snakes.
If you encounter a snake, Burke recommends backing away and leaving it alone. He said trying to kill it can put you at risk of being bitten.
Burke has recently seen a couple of black snakes and picked one up from a Dallas woman�s home. It seemed to be tormenting songbirds in her yard.
That type of snake is one of the most common in the area, he said. It�s also non-venomous.
Among other snake species found in Gaston County: black racer, king, and garter snakes.
He said copperhead snakes, which are venomous, can also be found in Gaston County, although they�re rarer. And timber rattlesnakes inhabit some areas of the region.
You can reach Wade Allen at 704-869-1828 or twitter.com/GazetteWade.


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No pressure, as Brian Faughnan points out; it's not like Nebraskans hate ObamaCare or anything. (Oh, wait, yes they do.) Governor Dave Heineman called the bill "bad news for Nebraskans" and urged Nelson to block a vote on it:
The governor said Wednesday that a new analysis by Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services indicates that while state spending on Medicaid, the health care system for the poor, would be less in the first three years after the bill took effect, Nebraska, after six years, would have $45 million in extra expenses.
"America's health care system needs improvement, but this bill is not the answer," Heineman said in a letter to Nelson. "You are now the 60th vote, and as Governor of the State that we both represent, I urge you to vote against this bill and against cloture."
This just gives Nelson a little more incentive to stick to his guns on abortion. In fact, Heineman may have intended this as a lifeline to Nelson to give him a handy excuse for remaining stubborn. Besides, Nelson has more objections to the ObamaCare Rump bill than just the fact that it will use federal monies to fund abortions for the first time ever:
The Nebraska centrist on Wednesday outlined concerns with a disability insurance program the bill would create, cuts in Medicare payments to home health care providers and nursing homes, and unspecified tax increases. In addition, he expressed concerns that the bill would underpay some Medicare providers while not doing enough to contain long-term health care costs.
"Until those things are corrected, it's not something I can vote for right now, and not something I can vote for cloture right now," Nelson said on a conference call with reporters…
An aide to Nelson said that, taken individually, the several problems he has with the bill were not deal-breakers, but that together they were enough for Nelson to withhold his vote.
That list keeps getting longer, and nothing that has happened in the last few days has resolved any of those issues. He's also opposed to the CLASS Act, a portion of the bill addressing the needs of the disabled, as a new entitlement that will quickly drown in a sea of red ink. Given that he wants compensation to providers increased and better savings at the same time, it will be difficult for Reid to accommodate him without hefty tax hikes that will not just kill the bill outright but also any slim hopes for Democrats in 2010.
Who's the biggest winner if Nelson holds out? Brian argues that it's Blanche Lincoln, who desperately needs this bill to die in order to have any chance of winning her own election next year. He may be right. If Nelson successfully torpedoes the bill without Lincoln having to take any position on cloture — assuming Reid doesn't call Nelson's bluff and holds that cloture vote — then Lincoln will be free to spin herself as a fiscal conservative, despite waffling on ObamaCare.


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School meals are a healthy option, a great value, and are convenient for busy families! Here at Whitsons, we are committed to providing wholesome, high quality menus, prepared fresh daily from locally sourced ingredients whenever available and in season. To us wholesome foods are much more than just the ingredients found (or not found) within our meals; we also consider the methods used to grow and harvest these foods. As such, we work with our manufacturers and local vendors to offer our customers the most natural, wholesome ingredients possible, all while continuing to be socially responsible. We are working to continually add more organic and non-GMO food items to our offerings. This is all part of our Simply Rooted™ food philosophy and sustainability platform. We promise to bring our customers clean ingredients, wholesome and all-natural meals, all while continuing to nurture the environment.
Whitsons offers a variety of meal choices and Smart Snack options that meet NSLP (National School Lunch Program), HHFKA (Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act) and state nutrition guidelines and are analyzed and approved by a Registered Dietitian. We also collaborate with parents, students, and school nurses to accommodate the dietary requirements of students with food allergies and other special diets. We are Simply Rooted™ in food and family, it's as simple as that!
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Our program is focused on high quality food, progressive nutrition education programs, and excellent service. Key program features:
- We emphasize wholesome, natural ingredients, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and healthy snacks.
- We offer a variety of allergen-free foods to accommodate students with allergies.
- Our menus comply with the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and state and local wellness guidelines.
- We educate children about making healthy choices, using our award-winning Nutrition Safari® and Smart Choices™ nutrition education materials.
- Menus are changed monthly to introduce new seasonal specials, incorporating community feedback and the latest menu trends.
- We support our menu offerings with comprehensive, age-appropriate marketing materials that encourage students to make healthy meal choices.
Food Waste Reduction
Whitsons is committed to doing our part when it comes to food loss and waste reduction. By keeping wholesome and nutritious food in our communities and out of our landfills, we are helping address far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation, and climate change. As a U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champion, Whitsons is striving to reduce food loss and waste in all operations by 50 percent by 2030 through activities targeting the prevention of food loss and waste before it arises, recovery of wholesome otherwise wasted food for donation, and recycling of food loss and waste to other uses such as animal feed, compost, and energy generation.
Whitsons is pleased to introduce Meatless Monday to your school cafeteria!
Meatless Monday is a science-based public health initiative associated with Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Its goal is to reduce chronic preventable diseases by encouraging less consumption of meat. This campaign will enable school staff and students to make even more nutritious choices, as well as help improve the health of the planet. By adopting Meatless Monday, we are helping to move towards a more sustainable food system and healthier eating habits that last a lifetime.
Meatless Monday will feature meal options made without meat each Monday. To be clear, dishes with meat will still be offered on Mondays; we are just providing new meatless options. We hope that students will enjoy our new meatless menu offering and will support the Meatless Monday campaign along with us.
Understanding the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA)
The purpose of the HHFKA is to ensure that meals are healthy and well balanced and provide students with all the nutrition they need to succeed at school. The good news is that much of the components of the HHFKA final ruling have already been in place in our school programs for some time, such as:
- Whole grain offerings
- Variety of fresh fruits and vegetables
- Focus on lean protein choices
- Smart Snack options
- Fat-free and low-fat milk
- Reduced sodium content
HHFKA mandates that school lunches have:
- Age-appropriate calorie limits
- Larger servings of vegetables and fruits
- Increased vegetable protein offerings, such as beans
- Smaller servings of proteins and carbohydrates
- For additional details on the HHFKA,visit the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service information site
About Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act
The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires all School Food Authorities (SFAs) to inform families about the availability and location of free meals for students over the summer months through the Summer Food Service Program. This is required even if the SFA is not participating in the Summer Meals Program. Families can use any of the following methods to locate sites that serve free meals to children during the summer:
- Call 211
- Call 1.866.3Hungry or 1.877.8Hambre
- Text "FOOD" to 877-877 during the summer months for English
- Text "COMIDA" to 877-877 during the summer months for Spanish
- Visit the USDA Summer Food Rocks Information site.
- Use the site locator for smartphones - Rangeapp.org