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Mindfulness is the awareness, the deep awareness of our actions as we are doing them. Mindfulness is something that we all have and we can all use, at any time. However, it can be difficult for people who lead busy lives or who think quickly.
Children Love Meditation
Children, diagnosed with ADD, benefit greatly from practicing mindfulness and meditation. It makes sense to kids because they naturally give focused attention to whatever they are doing. Kids love the power and the "peace at ease" presence of both meditation and mindfulness. Once you have taught your children (or the children who you teach) to practice meditation, you can easily explain mindfulness to them. Mindfulness is an ability to be a state of active meditation and focused awareness while you are doing certain tasks. When the children you teach understand meditation and are able to practice it frequently, they will pick up mindfulness more easily.
Men Can Practice Active Meditation
Men, on average, have more linear thinking, which prevents them from having a distracted mind or a mind which tries to multitask. While some men may find this frustrating, this also gives them a definite edge in the mindfulness trade. Allowing their thoughts to be "light" and "clear" greatly reduces their stress levels, while also putting them into a more childlike, innocent state of mind. This simple, clear thinking particularly suits the way men think and they perceive and interact with their world.
Women May Find Mindfulness More Difficult in the Beginning
Women have more connections between their right and left hemispheres. This means that they are naturally programmed to switch back and forth between creative and logical thinking efficiently and without any difficulty. This also gives women the supercharged ability to multitask, keep track of a wide variety of things at one time (such as work, boss, coworkers, children, husband, car, home, AND the dog).
This also means that women are far more prone to NOT use lists or to-do tasks on their phone or in a notebook to keep track of their thoughts so that they are free and able to be mindful about each of their individual activities. Women would do well to remember that, just because they CAN keep track of everything in their mind, it does not necessarily mean that this is the best option for most of their day. Mindfulness can be achieved only through concentration on a single current activity, and this cannot be fully, 100% accomplished if you are remembering to-do lists in your mind, rather than on paper.
The mind is at its calmest and most peaceful when it only thinks about and focuses on one thing at a time. This is what makes practicing mindfulness so powerful. Be sure to set reminders for yourself throughout the day so that you can remember to bring your mind back to a state of calm awareness on its current activity and start building the habit of continual mindfulness all day long.
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text: Architecture has shaped in the past and is still shaping now and will shape the cities in the future. Especially in historical towns people can perceive different layers of architectural concepts of different architects from past to the future. In the past, the number of layers that influences cognition of man was fewer than that of nowadays. Today we see lots of environmental elements that interfere with man's reading the milieu. As these elements increase people become much more selective to find out what they need. This selection procedure becomes "baiting" data from a chaotic sea of information. In addition to this chaos we as architects mostly try to give different messages and feelings to citizens. In such a milieu, people try to find easier way of selection, so mostly the innocent environmental shaping effort of the designer is ignored. But to get rid of this oblivion, for a sustainable city life and comfort of man's mind, this flow of information must be organized by associative work of architects, urban planners and politicians. Aim must be the organization of the legibility of environment. In macro city scale the legibility of the environment is related to the geometrical formation of cityscape such as landmarks, nodes, districts, roads and borders. But in micro scale for example; in a part of a city such as a downtown square, the factors that affect the legibility changes according to space. Also in addition to these factors cultural and social symbolic elements and the complexity of stable and mobile elements can affect the cognitive map of that place in man's mind. The sustainability of a city is only possible with the revitalization of the main centers. Istanbul is the biggest metropolis in Turkey. Its cosmopolite citizen's structure is reflected to building pattern. This confusion is mirrored to the most important square: Taksim, Istanbul. Complexity is a dominant legibility factor and must be handled immediately for the future image of the New Millennium City of Culture: Istanbul. This paper aims to find out complexity factors affecting the legibility of Taksim Square with a case study and try to find out some suggestions for a future work studying in accordance with citizens of Istanbul


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Protect Your Digital Assets
It seems like we read about government agencies losing data nearly every day.
First came the news in early summer that thieves had their hands on personally identifiable information for 26.5 million veterans, data stowed on a notebook PC stolen from the home of an employee of the Veterans Affairs Department (my former employer). Then, soon after, the world heard about data losses and compromises of personal information by the National Nuclear Security Administration, District of Columbia, Agriculture Department, Internal Revenue Service and Navy. The scary thing is that these incidents are the tip of an ugly iceberg. There are undoubtedly more incidents that have yet to surface publicly.
And even though the notebook containing the stolen VA data has since been recovered, there can be no assurance that a forensically savvy thief has not mirrored the hard drive. Nonetheless, the root causes of these data-loss incidents remain and won't go away unless senior officials take some drastic measures.
Falling Short
Overall, information security in the federal government is in bad shape. Part of the problem results from government enterprises being huge and highly decentralized. The complexities of putting robust information security programs in place across large, geographically distributed enterprises are enormous. Contributing to this problem is a lack of understanding by Congress and the Office of Management and Budget. Neither one has the experience and expertise of a true information security practitioner on its staff, and the result of that practical inexperience is the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002.
FISMA should provide an actionable framework by which all agencies establish, manage and measure information security programs. Unfortunately, the law mandates that agencies measure the wrong things in the wrong way. For example, an agency can receive 20 points of its annual FISMA grade for certifying and accrediting its systems, but certification and accreditation (C&A) is a paper process that documents the acknowledgment and acceptance of risk. It is therefore possible for an agency to have 100 percent of its systems undergo a valid C&A and yet not have one secure system. Another 10 points of the annual FISMA grade are assigned for training all agency employees in security awareness, but the points are assigned merely if all employees receive training and not on the content, effectiveness or results of the training.
Comptroller general David M. Walker told the House Government Reform Committee this summer that more must be done to help agencies gather the right information. "We have made recommendations previously to OMB and agencies to ensure they are adequately addressing privacy issues, including through the conduct of privacy impact assessments," he says. "We have also recommended that OMB implement improvements in its annual FISMA reporting guidance to help improve oversight of agency information security programs."
But the lawmakers who crafted FISMA failed to specify an extremely important organizational issue that is at the heart of most agencies' security challenges: decentralization versus centralization of security management. The culture at many agencies resists centralized authority, and senior executives who are the custodians of the culture do not realize that a central authority can best and most efficiently manage IT and information security.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee has approved a bill that would call for centralized security at VA, despite the department's current efforts to move toward a federated approach, which is in line with the broader governmentwide eAuthentication initiative. As a Congressional Research Service report this summer about the VA data loss notes, "It was the view of HVAC that VA should maintain a centralized IT management system to maintain control of all IT-related assets, and that a federated model would not optimize IT support and service delivery."
FISMA also fails to give the CIO and chief information security officer (CISO) enforcement authority and the ability to hold people accountable for violating security policies and directives. The law uses the word "ensure" rather than "enforce." According to the VA general counsel, "ensure" gives the CIO no authority and the conscious avoidance of "enforce," which is used in other, similar legislation, reinforces this lack of authority. House Veterans Affairs learned this distinction during hearings this summer about the data-loss incident, and the chairman, Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), has approached House Government Reform about amending FISMA to resolve this problem.
But FISMA problems aside, it's clear from Congress' annual security grades that security controls simply are not in place to prevent data breaches. The most recent ratings gave the government an overall grade of "D+", which would indicate that many agencies continue to struggle with security.
Where to Begin
Given the complexity and enormity of the security challenge, how can a CIO or CISO begin to improve security? To stimulate agencies to take corrective action, OMB issued a memorandum on June 23 recommending use of data encryption, two-factor authentication and time-out functions if users access information remotely. These are good recommendations, but that's all they are.
The good news is that some agencies are doing these things already. For example, Interior Department CIO Hord Tipton says, "Many of the requirements listed by OMB are already in place in Interior, although we have varying flavors of implementation and compliance. Each year, our programs for privacy and security become more tightly aligned with a constantly improving technical architecture that leads to constantly improving security."
Unfortunately, security practitioners across the executive branch are usually relegated to treating symptoms because their ability to get at the heart of information security problems generally exceeds their authority. The real problems — fragmented and decentralized information security management and the inability to enforce policies and directives under FISMA — cause senior federal information security practitioners to approach their day-to-day duties with tied hands. If agencies can follow these steps, far more effective information security programs can be put in place, even in otherwise recalcitrant enterprises.
First and foremost, an agency head must be a vocal and active supporter of and participant in information security. FISMA rightly placed ultimate responsibility for security on the shoulders of the agency head, but the reality is that the CIO and CISO handle the problem on a day-to-day basis. All too often, information security only comes to the attention of the agency head when a crisis occurs.
Recent data-loss incidents have made data security an executive-level management issue. Only in agencies where information security has executive-level support and participation is there any hope of improvements because the CIO and CISO are otherwise not empowered nor do they have appropriate resources.
Second, agencies must give someone with the appropriate substantive expertise and stature the power to set and enforce privacy and security requirements, including physical security for maintaining records and personnel security for controlling who gains access to records. This person needs to be, at minimum, a chief security officer (CSO) and a co-equal with an agency's CIO, and he or she must have a seat at the executive table.
Pat Howard, CISO for the Housing and Urban Development Department, says, "The primary thing we are doing is reviewing security controls with program offices and system owners, with a particular eye toward either strengthening or affirming the effectiveness of safeguards designed to prevent the disclosure of sensitive data. We are taking a hard look at how users are handling sensitive data — including personally identifiable information — to ensure that it is being properly handled, transmitted, stored, copied, printed and disposed of."
Large agencies such as HUD might want to consider establishing the job of undersecretary for risk management. This would be the executive position with authority for managing all of the risk factors associated with the delivery of the agency's mission and integrating all security disciplines. Not only must this person be an expert in information, physical and personnel security issues, but he or she must also be a thought leader on mission assurance, business continuity, emergency preparedness, process innovation and organizational efficiencies.
Third, the mission-focused interests of high-ranking officials must not hold policies, procedures and assignments of accountability regarding security and privacy issues hostage. In many agencies, CIOs and CISOs must obtain approval from these officials before getting their ideas vetted by the agency head, which results in watered-down policies that are all bark and no bite.
Fourth, agency heads must ensure operating administrations and bureaus don't misapply the information security budget, including funds for cybersecurity and privacy. Appropriations typically fund programs along missions or business lines and not directly to the CIO, so security and privacy initiatives depend on the funding support from the offices that have historically been the cause of the problems that the security practices must address.
The IRS' work points up how crucial it is to allot funding appropriately, based on security need versus by program or mission. "The IRS has a particularly challenging situation as our workforce spends a lot of time on the road conducting audits involving meetings with taxpayers, small businesses and other entities. Our mobile workforce needs to carry sensitive information with them to perform their jobs," says Dan Galik, chief mission assurance officer. "Our data protection strategy is heavily focused on the use of encryption. The applications that the agents use include features that provide for automatic encryption of data on their laptops."
Fifth, agencies should suspend all executive and senior bonuses until the environments for which the executives are responsible receive clean bills of security health from a qualified and competent individual in charge of information security. Agencies do use incentives and special bonuses, although not usually as big or flashy as those of industry. No other single measure will ensure that information security receives the attention and priority it deserves. And if you don't believe it, just suspend all executive bonuses in any agency that has received a failing FISMA grade over the past five years and watch how quickly grades rise.
Set Your Own Course
Although not difficult to implement from an operational or technical perspective, these five measures are tough from a political and cultural perspective. But without taking action, agencies will continue to experience data losses, potentially more serious security breaches and low annual security ratings. One thing is for sure, if agencies don't centralize security management and begin holding senior executives accountable for security failures, then the symptoms of the deeper problems will continue.


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The nullification crisis:
involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
By the time of Jackson's presidency, politics:
often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:
Indians were wards of the federal government.
The nullification crisis ended:
with a compromise tariff.
Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:
revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.
The Panic of 1837:
was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
Which is NOT true about the Whigs?.
Their strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry.
In the presidential election of 1840:
the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats.
Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:
a large, rowdy event.
The Dorr War:
divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.
By the 1830s, the term "citizen" in America had become synonymous with the right to:
How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?
He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.
The Force Act of 1833:
gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.
Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?
John C. Calhoun
"Hard money" in the 1830s referred to:
gold and silver, also called "specie."
The Second Bank of the United States was created:
by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison.
The national political parties of the second American party system were:
Democrats and Whigs.
In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:
did not exist for white males in the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen.
What was President Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal government's relationship to banking?
He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.
A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:
that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.
The Monroe Doctrine:
declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
Democrats in the 1830s generally believed that:
new corporate enterprises were suspicious.
In the 1830s, Andrew Jackson believed all of the following about the Second Bank of the United States EXCEPT that:
the Bank did not allow for the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand.
In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison:
called for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals.
Many of the members of Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:
newspaper editors.
The Panic of 1819:
prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors.
In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional.
The term "Era of Good Feelings" refers to the period of American history when:
there seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:
promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.
The controversy over Peggy Eaton:
helped to enhance Martin Van Buren's influence during the Jackson administration.
In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun:
continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nation's economic independence required a manufacturing sector.
The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville's Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
the spoils system.
As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for an activist state, which called for all of the following EXCEPT:
free homesteads for settlers on western public lands.
Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828?
Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the "corrupt bargain" of 1824.


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The instruments maximize efficiency and space in the laboratory by accommodating both conventional tube and gel blood typing.
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These precious seven-week old husky-shepherd mix puppies are Athena's babies.
Some may remember Athena as the mom who was rescued from Arkansas, having recently given birth in a trash can.
Helping Strays is happy to report that shelter director Bill Dahlkamp is adopting Athena, but her eight babies are looking for their forever homes.
Sundance, Black Jack, Butch, Cassidy, Wyatt, James and Mae West are in foster homes, learning manners and potty training.
In order to meet one of these beauties, call the shelter at 939-7389 to schedule and appointment for a meet-and-greet.
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To fill out an adoption application on the Helping Strays website, click here.
For more information about how you can help out at Helping Strays, click here.
Helping Strays shelter is located at 4221 Hanover Road, off the west side of Route 3, between Waterloo and Columbia. Their hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 2 to 7 p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. The shelter is closed Monday. The shelter can be reached at 618-939-7389.


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The confidential marriage counselling service in West London offered by Nicholas Rose & Associates can offer appointments during the day time and in the evenings Mondays to Saturday. The team can offer experience of working with couples where relationship difficulties include cultural difference, power in-balance, infidelity, anger, communication breakdown, age differential, financial issues, starting a family and sex. Clients include couples from a range of backgrounds and professions.
Our Marriage Counselling sessions involve us meeting, talking and listening together with the mutual purpose of paying careful attention to your concerns and gaining a greater understanding of your own particular situation.
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What to know: a winning plaintiff will usually recover interest from the date the debt came due. But, not always. Equitable considerations can result in the complete denial of prejudgment interest.
The general rule is that prejudgment interest is simply another element of a plaintiff's damages that is awarded to make the plaintiff whole. If payment is due to a contractor on July 1, 2014, but payment is not made until December 30, 2017, then the contractor has been denied the use of that money for all that time, and the law says that the contractor should be paid for the loss of use of that money. The general rule is to allow a plaintiff to recover interest from the date the payment became due. Argonaut Insurance Co. v. May Plumbing Co., 474 So. 2d 212, 215 (Fla. 1985). Unless the parties' agreement establishes the interest rate to be applied, it will be calculated at a statutorily prescribed rate.
As with most rules, there are exceptions to this one, too. Under Florida law, "Interest is not recovered according to a rigid theory of compensation for money withheld, but is given in response to considerations of fairness." Broward Cty. v. Finlayson, 555 So. 2d 1211, 1213 (Fla. 1990) (internal punctuation removed). So, trial courts are under an obligation to consider arguments for the reduction or complete denial of interest that generally would be awardable under the general rule or even to deny all recovery of interest. Leila Corporation of St. Pete v. Ossi, 2017 WL 3089659 (Fla. 2d DCA July 21, 2017). This has been referred to as an equitable reduction of prejudgment interest.
So, what "considerations of fairness" might result in a reduction or denial of prejudgment interest? One example occurred in a case of a government employee's recovery against the government. There, the Florida Supreme Court reasoned that between two innocent victims – on the one hand, the employee who recovered back-pay from the government and, on the other, the citizens who would have to pay the interest if judgment was entered requiring the government to pay it – that it "would be grossly inequitable to make the citizens of Florida also pay interest." Flack v. Graham, 461 So. 2d 82, 84 (Fla. 1984). As a result, the government employee who won a judgment for back pay did not recover interest.
Generally, a plaintiff who wins can expect that interest will be awarded. However, every plaintiff must be prepared to continue the battle, which will take place after trial, to obtain an award of prejudgment interest.
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When high security and a private test track are needed for your specialist vehicle applications, Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground has everything all in one place. We are a unique testing facility for the automotive and defence sectors, preferred by many manufacturers and organisations due to our extremely secure premises and active airfield advantages. We understand the importance of confidentiality and ensure the details of all projects are protected with the utmost care and attention.
The 670-acre main site is perfect for military vehicle test and evaluation (T&E) activities and military vehicle trials. There is the opportunity to use our off-road 4x4 track, main 6.5km circuit, and Rough Terrain Centre for a number of specialist testing applications. Our onsite Boeing 747 is also suitable for special forces training, a unique service offered within the industry.
The wide and varied facilities also lend themselves well for testing of construction and other off-highway vehicles. The facilities at the Rough Terrain Centre can be used in conjunction with the asphalt surfaced tracks and other durability features to cover a number of appropriate duty cycles and test procedures. Programmes ranging from vehicle performance testing through to accelerated durability cycles are all possible due to the relevance of the bespoke test features available on the site.
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Beth Adcock, Hillcrest Elementary (HCRES) Pre-Kindergarten teacher, was on the playground ushering her young students down a slide and sitting with them on a buddy bench when she was pleasantly surprised by DECAL Commissioner Amy M. Jacobs and her staff. They came bearing a cash gift and classroom prizes as they officially congratulated her on the selection as a finalist for Georgia's Pre-K Teacher of the Year.
"I am just so excited, overjoyed, and a little overwhelmed! I didn't expect this, but it shows that I am doing the right thing for my students here at Hillcrest. I hope they are proud of me," Adcock said while smiling through tears. She is a 19-year veteran educator with Troup County School System.
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The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) yesterday announced the list of 33 commercial banks eligible to stand security for investors of future property projects.
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On the same day, SBV also sent a document proposing commercial banks to lower interest rates of working capital loans for offshore fishing to 6.5 percent from the current rate of 7 percent a year.


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BOULDER, Colo. –August 27, 2012–David Reyes, principal of Altitude Edge and partner for Capstone Performance Systems, announced that Dr. Richard Schamp has been selected chief executive officer. Capstone Performance Systems works with Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) organizations to demystify Medicare Risk Adjustment and enhance performance, compliance and revenue. PACE organizations provide community-based, comprehensive care to frail seniors; they are sponsored by Medicare and Medicaid.
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Dr. Richard Schamp is the chief executive officer of Capstone Performance Systems. He has an extensive background in primary care and geriatrics, as well as strong administrative experience in a variety of health care settings. He brings a unique combination of talents to Capstone Performance Systems, supporting PACE providers in the areas of Medicare risk adjustment, medical quality management, documentation improvement and PACE-specific primary care practices. Richard was the medical director for Alexian Brothers Community Services, a PACE based in St. Louis, Mo.
Before being selected as CEO of Capstone Performance Systems, Schamp worked with Altitude Edge Companies AEC Consulting and Peak PACE Solutions. He will continue his roles as a senior medical consultant for AEC Consulting and partner with Peak PACE Solutions. He has fifteen years private practice experience in rural Pennsylvania, where he also served on the board of directors for a rural AHEC. He was selected for a two-year rural leadership program at Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he was faculty at the Family Medicine Residency at Forest Park Hospital as Coordinator for Geriatric Curriculum and is a clinical professor at Saint Louis University's School of Medicine Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics. Schamp is a certified Medical Director and is a frequent speaker on topics of interest to PACE. He has served as the Chair of the National PACE Association's Primary Care Committee and the Board of Directors for the National PACE Association. Richard earned his Doctorate of Medicine degree from the University of Kansas.
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Having cold milk with lunch would seem a given for school cafeterias, but due to aging equipment, some schools have struggled to do that. Recently, the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council (MDNC) and its Fuel Up to Play 60 program, funded by Maine dairy farmers, awarded six Maine schools grant funds to purchase new milk coolers.
Included among those schools were three in the greater Bangor area – Ella P. Burr Elementary School in Lincoln, Center Drive School in Orrington, and Beech Hill School in Otis. As Oct. 11-14 was National School Lunch Week and October is Farm to School Month*, representatives from MDNC visited those schools during lunchtime to celebrate the new coolers, hand out fun dairy-related items and answer questions about milk and dairy farming. Dairy farmer Jim Howard joined them at Center Drive School on Wednesday, and Heath Miller of Green Valle Farm in Newburgh was able to attend Beech Hill School on Friday.
In February, the USDA and National Dairy Council announced the availability of a total of $35 million in federal and private grants to help schools upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure. Eligible school districts nationwide had the opportunity to apply for funds to support the purchase of large and small items including utility carts, utensils, large-capacity food processors, industrial scales, steamers, freezers, etc.
Since 2009, USDA has awarded $215 million in school nutrition equipment grants. USDA provides this funding to states, which then competitively award grants to school districts in order to purchase necessary equipment, giving priority to high-need schools where 50 percent or more of the enrolled students are eligible for free or reduced price meals. This year, National Dairy Council and its network of local Dairy Councils across the country, joined USDA's effort by providing an additional $5 million through a separate, but concurrent, grant application process.
In Maine, a large number of schools applied with a variety of needs. In whittling down the selections based on available funds, the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council looked at the most basic of needs – keeping milk cold.
"Response to the small equipment grant was overwhelming," said Catherine Hoffmann, school programs manager for the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council. "We are proud to support local school nutrition programs efforts to feed all Maine students. The coolers provided by Maine dairy farmers not only add color and excitement to the cafeteria, they ensure that milk served to students is cold and delicious with every meal."
"Our old one was held together with a bungee strap," said Beech Hill School's Food Service Manager/Administrative Assistant Liz Flood.
School Nutrition Director Lisa Morin of Lincoln said it was "touch and go" with the school's old milk cooler. Milk had to be kept in a separate cooler until lunchtime because the temperature was never constant with the milk cooler.
"In regards to our budget, salaries and food come first. There's never enough left over to upgrade equipment. This is a huge help," she said of receiving the new cooler.
For more information regarding the School Nutrition Equipment Grant: http://www.fns.usda.gov/2016-nslp-equipment-assistance-grants
*For more information about National School Lunch Week and Farm to School Month: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/10/0219.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent
About U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Under the leadership of President Obama and Secretary Vilsack, USDA has made significant and transformative investments in the lives of Americans living, working and raising families in the United States. In the area of nutrition, since 2009, USDA has made significant progress in maximizing the ability of our nutrition programs to fight hunger and improve health, while also ensuring that benefits are delivered efficiently and with integrity. USDA's implementation of the historic, bipartisan Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 has led to more than 98 percent of schools meeting updated, science-based nutrition standards for school meals, as well as ensuring that more than 50 million children have access to a healthier school food environment.
About National Dairy Council (NDC)
For 100 years, National Dairy Council (NDC), the non-profit organization founded by dairy farmers and funded by the national dairy checkoff program, is committed to nutrition education and research-based communications. NDC provides science-based nutrition information to, and in collaboration with, a variety of stakeholders committed to fostering a healthier nation, including health professionals, educators, school nutrition directors, academia, industry, consumers and media. Established in 1915, NDC comprises a staff of registered dietitians and nutrition research and communications experts across the country. NDC is dedicated to promoting child health and wellness through programs such as Fuel Up to Play 60. Developed by NDC and the National Football League (NFL), Fuel Up to Play 60 encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. See more at: www.nationaldairycouncil.org
About Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council
The Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council is a non-profit, USDA qualified, nutrition education organization established in 1949 and funded by Maine dairy farmers and processors. As an affiliate of National Dairy Council, our staff works closely with Dairy Management, Inc and MilkPEP to extend nutrition education programs to health professionals, schools and media here in Maine.


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Thank you for addressing a very important issue that needs to be brought to light. As a parent of a son that was adversely impacted by vaccines in 1993, after being born healthy, I feel if this had been broached then we'd not be discussing the epidemic increases in what is causing a vast degree of illness in American children today. We have to look at why our children are amongst the sickest in the world for a nation that is suppose to have a high quality of health care. Vaccinations are not working and environmental factors are also key. I applaud your excellent story on this and Ms. Spencer's courage to share her family's story along with the others in the book. Hopefully people will start listening, educate themselves on choices, and realize that if they did so two decades ago we'd not have this transpiring now. Thank you again.
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After fifth win without Drew Brees, Saints expertly troll Stephen A. Smith on Twitter
When New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was sidelined with a thumb injury in Week 2, ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith — like always — had a take.
"The Saints are done without Drew Brees. Period," Smith said at the time on ESPN's "First Take."
However that take, like many of Smith's, didn't quite pan out.
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The Saints have won five straight games without their future Hall of Fame quarterback, and appear to have had little trouble doing it, too. New Orleans knocked off the Seattle Seahawks and handed the Dallas Cowboys their first loss of the season, and then grabbed wins against Tampa Bay and Jacksonville before Sunday's dominant 36-25 victory against the Chicago Bears — which they did without running back Alvin Kamara.
Teddy Bridgewater has looked solid in Brees' absence, too, compiling nearly 1,100 yards with seven touchdowns while completing nearly 70 percent of his passes. He went 23 of 38 for 281 yards and had two touchdowns on Sunday, too. Most importantly, though, Bridgewater has kept the Saints winning.
So, following the win at Soldier Field on Sunday, the Saints decided to troll Smith on Twitter in perhaps the best way possible: sith Michael Scott.
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) October 21, 2019
Better luck next time, Stephen A.
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