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In my opinion, Nubian Heritage is the finest line of moisturizing products around, regardless of cost. Although some of their products are not vegan, meaning that I won't touch those, many of their products are. I just love their mango butter line. Not only are mango butter products vegan, they are also largely made up of organic ingredients, which is my second requirement. AND, the products work! My skin never felt so good, and my skin is dry and itchy if not properly conditioned. I can't recommend NH's Mango Butter line highly enough.
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Historic Waratah March Re-enactment, Saturday 12 December 2015
On Saturday 12 December, the Waratah March Re-enactment will take place in Helensburgh starting at the library at 10.30 am. It will proceed down Walker Street, along Parkes Street to the War Memorial in Charles Harper Park. At the Memorial a short service will be held. The Historical Society will be presenting a display related to World War I in the Rotunda in the Park.
One hundred years ago volunteers marched from Nowra through the Illawarra to Sydney to gather recruits to fight in the Great War.
On Tuesday, November 30, 1915, 50 men left Nowra, marching for Sydney as part of a recruitment drive for World War I. Those 50 men formed the nucleus of what became known as the March of the Waratahs. Along the way, the group visited towns and villages, recruiting volunteers, and by the time it reached Sydney had swelled to 117.
The volunteers marched under the Waratah Banner and wore civilian clothing including distinctive white hats and waratah badges. They entered camp at Liverpool on 17 December 1915. After training, most left Australia between March and June 1916 as 1st Battalion reinforcements to fight at Pozieres in France.
The Waratah March reached Stanwell Park and Helensburgh on Tuesday, 14 December 1915.
Nine men from the Helensburgh joined the March and enlisted. One of the men was William Barrie who was killed in Belgium on 4 October 1917.

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Call me old-fashioned, but whether it's a glittering palace in New York or a two-bit hovel in Los Angeles, I want my room service and I want it five minutes ago. The New York Hilton Midtown, however, despite being an impressive luxury hotel and the largest in all of the Big Apple,has dubbed the service no longer necessary.
For guests at a landmark hotel in the Big Apple, ordering breakfast in bed that gets wheeled in on a silver platter will soon be a thing of the past.
New York Hilton Midtown in Times Square, the biggest hotel in New York City, with nearly 2,000 rooms, says it will eliminate room service starting this summer.
"Like most full-service hotels, New York Hilton Midtown has continued to see a decline in traditional room service requests over the last several years as customer preferences and expectations continue to evolve," a New York Hilton Midtown representative said.
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text: Lets hear what sports you guys did in High School, and-or College. I played football and wrestled. I was a nose tackle in football and wrestled 171 pounds as a senior. I have found a lot of the very good skiers/wake-boarders I've met, :worthy: who are awesome athletes in every sense of the word, did nothing in high school. Anybody who is foot-in @ 44, trips and tumbles half way down the river, laughs and yells for the rope, is tough enough to do anything!


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FAIRBANKS - A member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough assembly has drafted an ordinance requiring a public vote on the plan to truck liquefied natural gas from the North Slope to Fairbanks.
Assemblyman Guy Sattley took the action after the borough attorney told the assembly she thinks there's a pending legal question as to whether voters were approving a trucking operation when they cast ballots a decade ago to create the Alaska Gasline Port Authority.
The port authority's official mandate is to advance a natural gas pipeline. Various endeavors to build a pipeline have yet to succeed, and the port authority developed the trucking plan as a stopgap measure to bring down energy costs.
"This is not a pipeline," Sattley said at a Borough Assembly work session Thursday. "It's a trucking company. I agree with our attorney."
Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins, who belongs to the governing board of the port authority, opposes Sattley's idea. Delaying the project for a public vote, he said, could mean higher interest rates when financing the $250 million project.
"If we stretch this timeline out, basically, the project is going to be very difficult to be financed in the way the port authority wants it to be," he said.
Sattley plans to introduce his measure July 15. The soonest it would be up for a vote is two weeks after that.
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Nonhle goes BOOM!
2011-07-20 15:49
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Nonhle Thema may have 52 000 followers, but her Twitter friends seem to be few and far between.
The Twittersphere has welcomed the news that Thema would "no longer be the face of Vuzu", with many relishing the opportunity to use her tweets to poke fun at her.
A favourite reply to her announcement was "BOOM" – a word Thema uses in almost every tweet.
In her now-infamous Twitter rants, she often used the phrase "sit down", something many were now happy to tell her to do.
In a spat with Yfm DJs on 8 July, Thema tweeted: "I dare any broke Yfm DJ to step up to me ... if you are broke sit down or i wll give you rent and food money ... LOL (sic)."
Vuzu TV is yet to make a comment on Thema's announcement.
Some of the tweets:
"She is a lunatic. An ego on legs."
– Paul Freathy
"Now you know why I said she needs an African solution?? (sic)"
– Kabelo Pududu
"Let her sit her rich ass down."
– Botshelo Ditsele
"SHE MUST NOW SIT DOWN (sic)"
– Sibs Macd
"BOOOOOM (sic)"
– Mathoba Ferguson
"It's about time."
– Karabo Molopyane
"The mighty Nonhle has fallen! Amen."
– Tumi Tswai-Keikantse
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Stephen Jones (British, b. 1957). "Crow" Mask, 2006. Black coq feathers, black plastic, black neoprene, and gold plastic and rhinestone. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2006 (2006.209).
The Costume Institute commissioned this mask for the 2006 exhibition "Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion." Milliner Stephen Jones was given the problem of creating a headdress for a Christian Dior Haute Couture gown by John Galliano (a designer whose long-standing collaborative relationship with Stephen Jones on both his own line and that of the House of Dior prompted the Museum's choice of milliner). The gown, of black silk, had been inspired by Marchesa Luisa Casati, the early-twentieth-century style icon and eccentric, and was to be shown in the Croome Court Tapestry Room in the English Period Rooms. The curator's conceit was to express a Francophilic phenomenon by placing the French dress by a British designer in the English room with Gobelins tapestries. The room with its avian subjects had been commissioned by George William, the sixth Earl of Coventry. His wife, the actress Maria Gunning, was a great Regency beauty and notorious narcissist who died of poisoning from the lead in her pallor-enhancing face powder. Jones's response to this pairing of the narratives of "death by vanity" and of the room's décor was to transfigure the voluminous black gown with a surreal anthropomorphizing of the bird motif and associate it with a portent of death, a crow's head. Jones's whimsy appears in his incorporation of an inexpensive metal hairclip for the bird's beak.


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Can Angels Be Channeled? Your Fate Told By Angel Tarot
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Jayne Wallace is an internationally acclaimed clairvoyant and the owner and driving force behind the world famous company 'Psychic Sisters'. Jayne has been a natural clairvoyant since the age of seven, and has studied across the world honing her craft to become a world-renowned and respected psychic. Psychic Sisters have been based within Selfridges, London for over 10th years – it is the first and only one of its kind in the world and remains so even today! She decided to recruit a number of skilled readers to join her and the company. Jayne has worked with Kim Kardashian West and has filmed for the TV Show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" at her hosts' own home in Los Angeles. Jayne has also worked with some amazing people including Kylie Jenner, Janice Dickinson and Diana Madison for USA Television. She was also interviewed by the esteemed chat show host, Larry King and described it as "an honour to work with such a legend". Having featured regularly in both national and international press like The Sun, Mirror, OK Magazine, and the New York Times and Russian Marie Claire to name just a few, Jayne also writes monthly columns for Spirit & Destiny, Soul & Spirit, and Fate & Fortune Magazines. Jayne Wallace also specializes in Corporate and Media Events and has worked with many brands including: Tracey Emin, Jimmy Choo, Bourque Makeup, Charlotte Tilbury Makeup & Anne Lenox in conjunction with Oxfam. Jayne is also an established author "My Psychic Stories" "44 Ways to Talk to Your Angels" "My Psychic Casebook" "Oceanic Tarot" Available on Amazon or via our online Shop.
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Thank you for visiting my website. I invite you to enjoy some music, read an article or two, and allow your heart and mind to be turned toward The Creator. I pray you will be impressed by His lavish love and grace. Anything worthwhile, either in me or in these pages, is all because of Jesus. He continually astonishes me with His willingness to use an ordinary woman with the audacity to say, "Here I am. Send me."
My mission is to inspire and encourage others—through word and song—to live the boundless adventure of faith so that Christ may be glorified.
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In two powerful and heart-tugging statements released by two women who worked very closely over the years with daytime legend, Jeanne Cooper of The Young and the Restless, today Lauralee Bell (Christine) and Kate Linder (Esther) put down their thoughts on working with, and knowing the grand dame of Genoa City on set and off the set. Here is what Lauralee, and then Kate stated in their tributes to the passing of Jeanne earlier this morning!
Lauralee Bell: "Jeanne was the matriarch of the show in every sense of the word. When you did work you were proud of, you'd hope for approval or a 'good job' from Jeanne as a child would from a parent. When things got too tense, she'd break the tension with her amazing wit. She would teach the younger actors without ever talking down to them. In fact, she would raise them up. She always had my back and my parents (and our whole family) always had hers. I am so grateful that Jeanne and I were on "Marie" together last month with my mom — what a gift to sit next to her and hold hands. When she saw me breaking down watching a clip of my late dad, she rescued me on camera by speaking of her gratitude towards him and the ways he had helped her. She squeezed my hand harder and had my back yet again. Like everything else Jeanne did, she was very brave. I know she was the light of her family. I will miss her so much!"
Kate Linder: "My heart is breaking for Jeanne Cooper's wonderful family and for all of us who truly loved Jeanne through the years. Jeanne was my mentor and an amazing actress and friend. We've been through so much together and I loved her like family. She and Bill Bell were the two people most responsible for my career on "Y & R." and the world is a darker place without them. When Jeanne welcomed you into her life, you knew it and it was a fantastic feeling. This is truly the end of an era, not just for fans of "The Young and the Restless" but for all of the people she touched throughout her long and distinguished career and life. She's always been larger than life and an inspiration to me and so many others. I can't imagine a world without Jeanne Cooper — it won't be the same without her fighting spirit and lust for life and to say she will be missed is an understatement for what we are all feeling today."
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The Valle Verde Retirement Community, an American Baptist Homes of the West continuing care campus, on Monday unveiled its new 24-passenger Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bus.
Valle Verde residents and staff were on hand to celebrate with a champagne toast. The addition of the new CNG bus expands Valle Verde's Green Footprint program to improve the local environment through eco-friendly means, such as solar production, increased recycling, native landscaping, reducing water use and much more.
"Today marks another key green accomplishment for our campus," said Suzie Swenson, director of Life Enrichment at Valle Verde. "We have been working hard to provide our residents with a more environmentally conscience means of transportation. Now they can go shopping, to doctor's appointments or out to lunch with friends knowing that they are polluting less and saving money."
The new CNG passenger bus will run entirely on natural gas, which on average is 30 percent to 50 percent less expensive then gasoline. Natural gas is one of the cleanest fuels available today, and when compared to gasoline produces 85 percent less carbon monoxide and 50 percent less nitrogen oxide. In addition to fuel savings and emission reductions, CNG vehicles have a longer engine life because of the clean burning attributes of natural gas.
Over the past eight years, Valle Verde has created and expanded its campuswide green initiative and continues to reduce its dependence on electricity, decrease waste, improve air quality, compost green waste, use reclaimed water and buy local produce.
Valle Verde's Green Footprint program includes:
» 72,000-watt solar electric generation system
» Local produce — up to 85 percent of produce consumed on campus is purchased from local farms
» Electronic records in the medical center
» Solar residential water heaters
» Reclaimed water used for all irrigation
» Climate sensitive irrigation controllers for minimal water usage
» Drought tolerant, native plants
» Campuswide recycling and waste reduction program
» Employee and senior resident alternative transportation programs
» Built Green practices on campus remodels
Valle Verde has received the following awards for its green program:
» CalRecycle Waste Reduction Award 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
» International Council on Active Aging 2010 Green Award
» City of Santa Barbara Solar Energy System Recognition Award & Certificate 2007, 2009 and 2011
» AAHSA Leading-Edge Care and Services Award 2008
» Central Coast Magazine Green Award Nominee 2008
» Santa Barbara Green Award 2007
Valle Verde has been located at 900 Calle de los Amigos in Santa Barbara since 1966. It is a nonprofit retirement community committed to helping people live full, happy and long lives.
— Toby Ayars is a publicist representing the Valle Verde Retirement Community.


text: Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: Bug#584881: Lockups under heavy disk IO; md (RAID) resync/check implicated"): > We really need to see the kernel messages reporting soft-lockup. There aren't any. Or, if there are, it isn't printing them to the serial console. Perhaps it is trying to send them only to syslogd which obviously can't write to the disk either. I know that the serial console is working after the crash as it echoes my first carriage return (although then login or the shell wedges before being able to print a prompt). I could have asked for a magic sysrq process dump but given that the process table is probably full I expect this would take many hours at 9600bps. > Note that your disk configuration is unusual and probably not > well-tested by others. It is unlikely that anyone in the kernel team > will be able to debug this as I don't think any of us have particular > expertise in this area. Search the web suggests that symptoms very similar to mine are not uncommon, including instances without soft lockup messages, and none of the other users seem to have a similar disk layout. I can't easily test this theory but I think the unusual disk layout is probably simply making a race easier to trigger. > If you have the opportunity, it would be > helpful if you could test a newer kernel version. This would give us a > clue as to whether the bug has subsequently been fixed upstream, and if > not then it would be the basis for an upstream bug report. Unfortunately testing this bug on the live system involves (a) risking a crash and then if the test fails (b) an extremely vulnerable system without backups for the following four days. I'll see if I can borrow a spare R210 from Jump, in which case I may be able to reproduce the problem in controlled conditions on my coffee table at home (and with access to the VGA console). Which kernel should I test in that case ? Ian.


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We sat down with Tom Melling, president of Serengeti Law, a Thomson Reuters business, and spoke about the ever-changing world of corporate counsel. You may recall that late last year, Serengeti released the 10th Annual ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel survey, which analyzed a decade's worth of information about the in-house/outside counsel relationship. I thought it would be great to continue our discussion on the changes in our profession, and I welcome you to share your comments and experiences with us as well.
Westlaw: Tom, you have seen significant changes in a decade of conducting this survey. Can you highlight a few of these for us?
Melling: I think we all realize that in-house counsel, now more than ever, are focusing on the need to drive efficiency in legal costs. This leads to more value-based policies to reduce overall legal spend, especially from outside the firms. Look at the stats from this year's survey: in-house counsel are embracing business-oriented techniques to reconnect the cost of legal services with value, including:
• Requiring project budgets: 65 percent of respondents now require project budgets.
• Client consent for firm staffing: 63 percent insist on no change of assigned attorneys without approval.
• Early case assessments: 60 percent require risks and potential resolution strategies.
• Issuing competitive bids for new work: 25 percent of respondents use requests for proposals (RFPs) for work to be performed by outside counsel.
• Technology requirements: 25 percent of respondents have specific technology requirements of their outside firms, like submitting bills through the client's e-billing and matter management system.
Westlaw: What is gained from this shift?
Melling : In the past, in-house counsel said to their law firms, "Build a house for me, do whatever you think is best and then send me the bill." Nobody builds a house that way, partially because of the cost, but more importantly because you really don't get the results you need or want. Now the in-house counsel attorney serves as the foreman on the site, driving the quality, cost and output. Because of this, corporate counsel can focus on both the result and managing costs.
Westlaw: How has technology supported these changes?
Melling: In-house counsel are more carefully monitoring work that is outsourced. They are turning to new client-centric technologies to better manage legal projects. From 2000 to 2009 there was a 285 percent increase in the adoption of Internet-based systems to manage legal work and a 3,064 percent increase in the adoption of e-billing. For a legal department attempting to control costs, the savings from these systems can be significant. For example, according to the survey, the average savings from electronic bill review was more than 20 percent.
Westlaw: There continues to be much discussion around AFA's. What specifically did the survey show, and how have you seen this play out with clients?
Melling : Despite the amount of publicity surrounding AFAs, a majority of work continues to be done under hourly rates. What has changed, however, is a greater willingness by both outside and in-house counsel to discuss their use. In negotiating these arrangements, savvy in-house counsel are mining data from their electronic bills and systematically collecting evaluations of outside counsel to identify high-performing law firms. Like true business managers, they are making data-driven decisions about the work they outsource. Additionally, in-house attorneys are taking the lead from other similarly situated legal departments. They are asking: "Are my peers using alternative fees? What types of retention terms are they using with their law firms? What other strategies are they employing to lower legal costs?" We have posted benchmarks from the survey on our website: http://www.serengetilaw.com/Survey/default.htm. In-house counsel can benchmark their performance against their peer legal departments.
Westlaw: In closing, I've heard you speak recently about recruitment. How have changes in the role of in-house counsel in the past decade affected how law students and high performing mid-career associates view the corporate environment?
Melling: In the past, the best and the brightest law students flooded into the arms of the law firms, or shifted from law firm to law firm or boutique. Certainly there is still some of that today. But now more than ever, the best law students see corporate counsel as the gold standard of practice. As young attorneys, they want to emulate the business-minded decision making of in-house counsel.Seasoned associates who are working with corporate counsel see in-house counsel in a new light: not only as a client, but in terms of a career path, they see in-house as a destination.


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In a competitive jobs market, promoting yourself and getting your name out there have become an important part of branding yourself, making contacts and meeting people who can push your career in the right direction.
But in a world where #braggingrights and #blessed have become common practice, how do you talk about your achievements without coming across as pompous?
1. Know the difference between self-promotion and bragging
Self-promoting yourself is about telling relevant people i.e. recruiters, your colleagues, industry contacts, etc., about your skills and how they add value to your career goals. On the other hand, bragging is telling anyone and everyone who cares to listen about your value with the sole purpose of making yourself superior.
2. Know how to strike a balance between bragging and telling the facts
You can tell a recruiter you're interviewing with about growing the client base of your previous employer. That's simply stating a fact. You can also speak about the hard work that went into finding creative strategies to get the new clients onboard, and how that took you many hours of research and fine-tuning the marketing concept. That's still not bragging.
But when you start saying things like, "I'm a marketing guru who can easily reach targets without flinching", now that's bragging.
Here's why:
When talking about yourself there is a major difference between mentioning something inherent, like being smart or having good looks, and something you did, such as being innovative.
3. Don't avoid talking about your achievements
Exposing yourself to people's judgements is hard, we understand. But avoiding talking about your accomplishments at all costs can cost you more than you may realise. Self-promotion has become even more important in an economy where job stability is not guaranteed. Those who get promoted or get an increase in their salaries are usually the ones who aren't afraid to speak up.
If nothing else, remember that self-promotion can literally mean the difference between an empty pocket and getting more money in the bank.
4. Be honest and genuine
When trying to build a network of people who can support your ideas and help you find career opportunities, it can be easy to give yourself more credit than is due. If you're serious about getting people to buy into what you have to offer, don't make the mistake of pretending to be someone or something you're not. Pay close attention to the message you want to send out, and be ready to answer for it.
For instance, if you call yourself a "Business development guru" or a "Social media expert", make sure you can walk the talk when you need to.
5. Avoid feeling guilty
Think of it like this: You're bringing home the bacon. Therefore, by being good at what you do, doing it well and telling those who need to know about it, you're pushing your career forward.
Self-promotion is something that you need to practice every single day. In fact you need practice it to the point where you don't even feel like you're doing it anymore. Once you're comfortable with talking about your achievements, your career will prove it.


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Nordkapp or North Cape is Europe's Northern-most Inhabited Point: Reaching the North Cape (Nordkapp in Norwegian), gives us a sense of achievement – not that we've scaled the steep cliff to get up here nor did we do it tough like the early explorers. On the contrary, our very comfortable coach from Honningsvåg deposits us […]
Tromsø – Hunting the Northern Lights
Tromsø has Many Northernmost Claims: Tromsø is a town that can boast of many things. This capital of Arctic Norway is the gateway to the Arctic Ocean and is the largest town in the polar region of Scandinavia. Tromsø is a very important research town and at Polaria, the national centre for research and information, […]
So What's a Trollfjord Drink?
A Hurtigruten Tradition on Crossing the Arctic Circle: We reached the Arctic Circle this morning and as we pass the entrance of the Trollfjord, it is a tradition on a Hurtigruten cruise that you have a Trollfjord drink. Our invitation says to put on warm clothes and to be out on the deck at 23:30 […]
Alesund – Norway's Art Nouveau Town
A fairytale town of towers, turrets and ornaments, Ålesund is Norway's art nouveau town.
Trondheim – Norway's Coronation City
Trondheim has a special place in Norwegian culture and history. As Norway's first capital, Trondheim is up till today Norway's Coronation city and a popular destination for pilgrims.
Norwegian Christmas Traditions
Christmas is a very special time for Norwegians and in many parts of the country it is still celebrated in a very traditional way. With the whole country pretty much covered in snow, it's a truly White Christmas in Norway.
Kirkenes Snow Hotel – A Cool Hotel Experience
A night at the Kirkenes Snow Hotel promises to be the ultimate in Arctic experience.


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Surrogate says unaware twin had Down syndrome until late in pregnancyREUTERS
August 04. 2014 8:33PM
BANGKOK — A Thai surrogate mother left with one twin by his Australian biological parents after the child was born with Down syndrome said on Sunday she was not informed of his condition until late in her pregnancy.
Pattaramon Janbua said her doctors, the surrogacy agency and the baby's parents knew he was disabled at four months but did not inform her until the seventh month when the agency asked her — at the parents' request — to abort the disabled fetus.
Pattaramon, 21, told Reuters Television she refused the abortion on religious grounds and carried both him and his twin sister to term six months ago. The parents, who have not been identified, took only the girl back with them to Australia.
The boy, Gammy, needs surgery for a congenital heart condition, according to media reports. An online campaign in Australia had raised nearly A$200,000 ($186,200) in donations so far for the operation.
"I want to warn those who are considering becoming a surrogate mother, don't only think about the money," Pattaramon said. "If the child is born with an unusual condition or if anything goes wrong, it will become a burden for you and society."
The case has caused controversy in both Thailand and Australia and brought calls for commercial surrogacy to be banned in the Southeast Asian country. Thailand is a top destination for medical tourism and many couples come for services such as fertility treatment and some for surrogacy.
Pattaramon said she agreed to a fee of 350,000 Thai baht ($10,900) to carry the twins for the couple. She said they agreed to pay her another 150,000 baht to keep Gammy.
She declined to identify the agency or give details of the providers of medical services to her during the pregnancy.
Gammy is being treated for a lung infection.


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With election day coming up next Tuesday, a food-related ballot issue that may be of great significance to the citizens of central Ohio has been getting a lot of attention: Issue 2, an initiative to create a Livestock Care Standards Board. Our national office has sent us information on the subject. Our friends at other food-related organizations like OEFFA and Local Matters have made their positions clear. We've received requests for information about it; people have asked us what our position is, and what we think theirs should be. Our silence on the subject is becoming difficult to sustain. So we thought we should clarify our position.
Slow Food Columbus has no position on Issue 2, except to urge the citizens of Ohio to examine it carefully and to take the time to vote on it.
People on both sides of Issue 2 can agree on one thing: This is an important issue. Its implications for good, clean and fair food in Ohio could be very wide-ranging. It deserves your careful scrutiny and your vote. Please take the time to do both.
Our position may come as a surprise to those who know us individually and know that, as individuals, we do have positions on Issue 2. But Slow Food, historically, has not been very involved in politics, and the issue of how much it should be has been discussed quite a bit over the past year. From what we have been able to discern, the following statement captures the sense of our members: "Slow Food Columbus is not a political organization. We do, however, stand ready to assist anyone engaged in improving the American food system in a manner that is both effective and consistent with our mission." Of course, we welcome further feedback from our members on this issue.
We did not anticipate that a question like Issue 2 would arise so soon to test our commitment to this principle. But in a way, we're glad that it has. Because although all of us are dissatisfied with the status quo in the American food system, and most of us would be very happy if Slow Food USA could help bring about positive change in it, we also see great potential in Slow Food's ability to bring people together at the table, and we believe that preserving our ability to do so is among our very highest priorities.
How, not whether, to bring about change in the food system, is therefore the issue. The main argument in favor of direct political action, quite simply, is that it works. Indeed, it works so well that it has become the default vehicle for special-interest political lobbies in American politics in the 21st century, and many complaints about the inability of American democracy to overcome the grip of special interests are founded precisely on the power of well-funded Washington lobbyists. Given that a restructuring of the American political order is not realistically in sight, it may be most effective to work within the system as it is currently constructed.
There are, however, many daunting arguments against a transition to a more overtly political mode of operation that are worth considering. First is the point that Slow Food has built up substantial goodwill and respect in large part by remaining above politics, and that losing that goodwill and respect would not only be tragic but would cripple Slow Food's ability to serve as a nonpartisan actor in the world of food policy. Utilitarian calculations aside, each of us has experienced the instantaneous goodwill and spontaneous friendship of farmers, chefs, and food enthusiasts who have just learned that we belong to Slow Food. If we contrast that experience with the polite reserve and occasional outright hostility encountered by members of (say) the American Civil Liberties Union or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, we can understand what Slow Food might have to lose at the community level.
Moreover, in the political realm, impartiality is immensely valuable, hard to obtain, easy to lose, and, once lost, virtually impossible to regain. Slow Food has largely obtained it by focusing on the table as a meeting place for people of all different persuasions and backgrounds—precisely like the Roman convivia that give our chapters their name. That timeless tradition of bringing people together over food is, arguably, the organization's greatest strength. Losing it could be both easy and irreversible.
We do believe that change in the American food system is a critical goal, and we recognize that we cannot do so in isolation from the political system. But we are deeply sympathetic to the response of Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini to the question, "Do you intend to be political?": "Yes," Petrini replied, "with our own methods."


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That changed last Friday as West Washington earned the trophy in convincing fashion, 42-0.
The Senators, who have won the last three meetings in the series by a combined 126-28, didn't waste anytime taking control of the contest.
Floyd Central's girls' cross country team claimed last Saturday's regional championship at Crawford County.
The Lady Highlanders scored 46 points, Perry Central and New Albany each scored 96 and North Harrison's girls were fourth with 114 points.


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One of the first groups of volunteers on the ground following the April 27 tornado was the Arkansas Dream Center, which has sent 2,000 workers into Mayflower and Vilonia to help with the cleanup efforts.
Arkansas Dream Center is a nonprofit organization that partners with New Life Church in Conway but is financially unaffiliated. In addition to mobilizing during disasters, the organization has a feeding program in Little Rock and Conway and serves meals regularly in local low income neighborhoods.
Dr. Quentin Washispack of Arkansas Dream Center said, "We just want to be out there helping people, serving people. We have the word 'serve' on the back of our shirts. It's a reference to several verses in the Bible, such as Ephesians 6:7, which says, 'Serve wholeheartedly, as if serving the Lord.'"
After the tornado hit, Washispack said, "I went out Sunday night to make assessments. We sent people out at 8 a.m. Monday morning. We've sent out close to 2,000. We sent out 200 a day last week and 50 a day this week and 400 on Saturday into both Mayflower and Vilonia. On Friday HP (sent) 150 in the morning and 150 in the afternoon."
The Arkansas Dream Center has traveled to disasters in other states, Washispack said, and he was glad to see people from out of state coming to Arkansas to help with the cleanup effort.
"It's encouraging not only to see the way our people go out and help but also how people drive across country. We had two Canadians and a family from Delaware and some from Wisconsin this weekend, in addition to local people who are helping."
"I've also seen an outpouring of donations, supplies, companies out there cooking to help the volunteers, trucks that drive around giving food to the people working. It's a lot of people coming together to help. Vilonia and Mayflower are flooded with supplies. A lot of companies all over the country have sent truckloads of supplies."
He continued, "I remember when the tornado hit (Vilonia) in 2011. It hit almost the same spot in Vilonia (this time). One couple said in 2011 it took them three or four months to clean up. We sent a crew this time and it took days.
"We're helping families. People are in shock. The first couple of days we were trying to find personal belongings, maybe photos. Beyond that we're trying to clean up and rebuild. We try to pray with people, offer them hope, help them clean up things and get their lives back in order.
He said the big task now is to get people into permanent housing. The Arkansas Dream Center will send out volunteers on Monday and will continue sending them out on weekends after that, he said.
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Olympics 2012: With Poor NBC Coverage, Does ESPN Have Chance to Win Future Bid?August 1, 2012
It is no secret that a lot of people are discontent and relatively unhappy with the way that NBC has been handling its coverage of the Olympic Games.
Although they may be covering more events than ever before, it seems that this has come at a cost in terms of choosing what to air live and what to air later as part of their go for the ratings prime time coverage. It is already difficult negotiating the time zone difference, but in this day and age, it is also difficult to avoid the inevitable spoilers of what happened online before there is a chance to watch it on TV.
Essentially, NBC has mismanaged the way it is covering the Games. As a result, it is just giving the IOC reasons to find a new TV host. Fox, Time Warner and ESPN especially have already expressed interest in the television rights.
They lost the bidding, however. Ultimately, the rights went to NBC, whom we should get used to going to for our Olympic coverage; they will be hosting the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 Winter and Summer Games.
After this year, however, other networks may become a more palatable choice, especially if this dissatisfaction continues. It will come down to money and influence, but if there are a significant amount of complaints, which so far has been the case, the televising rights could be awarded elsewhere. ESPN, among others, could steal the Games out from under NBC.
Spoiler Alert! Ryan Lochte beat Michael Phelps for 400 meter IM gold!
It was, perhaps, the biggest race of this lifetime. Phelps and Lochte, Lochte and Phelps. The four-year rivalry came to a splashing halt as the first swimming competition of the Olympics. People couldn't wait to see this event.
In terms of airing live, it did. It aired live on NBC's online stream at 2:30 PM ET on a Saturday afternoon. Did I tune in to watch it live? No, I stupidly made the decision to wait until the blockbuster night one prime time coverage aired at 7:30 PM.
Bad decision.
The second the race was over, the results and varied headlines of Lochte taking the mantle from Phelps ran rampant on the internet. I tried to stay away from any site that might have this headline, but as a writer who needed to publish pieces with the keyword, "Olympics," I really didn't have a chance.
I tiptoed around the internet, but then I saw it. On the sidebar of a website, the simple three words were written: "Lochte beats Phelps."
I don't know how many of you experienced this issue, but judging from the media criticism, including the Washington Post link listed above, I was not the only one to have one of the biggest races of the decade spoiled.
Yes, the Olympic enthusiast in me still watched the prime time coverage. I watched the race. I knew who won, but I didn't know who finished on the medals. I do know Phelps didn't medal, but if I could get any sort of surprise out of this race, it would be seeing who did.
The first ever "Sociolympics"
Four years ago in Beijing, the top events—swimming, gymnastics and track and field—were all aired live. Spoilers weren't even possible. It was a beautiful time.
This year, however, the prime time coverage isn't live. On top of that, we now live in a world where Facebook and Twitter are dominant. Athletes are tweeting their results, congratulating their teammates, applauding their country and more. Not to mention NBC's Twitter with up-to-the-minute results, perhaps assuming that everyone already knows the outcomes of the best events.
When something breaks, you find out in 140 characters or less. Facebook is a close second, and your up-to-minute news sites are third.
Nobody wants to be left behind, and the media world is one of immediacy. If you don't break it first, there is really no point in you reporting it at all. This is exactly NBC's thinking when the network themselves, not just their Twitter page or Facebook account, is giving the results of the streamed online events.
NBC is ruining their prime time coverage themselves
NBC is encouraging people to watch their online live streams, but they are also attempting to get their best ratings from the prime time television coverage. They have to know that most people aren't going to watch the prime time if they already know the results. You can't prevent them from knowing these results elsewhere, but you certainly can prevent them from seeing it on your own website.
Online stream is less-than-reliable
Not wanting to have the men's Gymnastics team final spoiled and since it was on at a reasonable hour, I decided to watch the stream online. I liked that there was an alert telling when the U.S. was on a certain apparatus so I could see exactly what I came to watch.
The problem, however, was the stream. It was lagged, froze and, at one point, just totally blacked out. I tried refreshing the page and coming back, but the same inevitably occurred.
I decided to watch something else, a diving event. As I clicked on the stream, it wasn't diving, but rather a beach volleyball match between countries that I don't even remember their names. I suppose this kind of thing is acceptable on television, but online, when you claim to be live streaming? There really is no reason to get volleyball when clicking on a headline that says diving.
Does ESPN have a shot to host in 2022 and beyond?
With all of NBC's miscues and struggles, one has to wonder if the IOC will take that into account when awarding the bids for the 2022 Olympics and beyond. As reported above, ESPN is one of several networks that have thrown their name into the hat, and if they get it, will be the first cable network to host the Games.
That in and of itself provides a problem. Not everyone has cable, and it would be unfair to not broadcast the world's biggest event for all to see.
But ESPN can rectify this.
They happen to have a very lucrative partnership with ABC that pairs with them to host NBA Basketball games and the X Games. In this scenario, ABC could serve as the linchpin to getting ESPN the hosting rights to future Olympic Games.
In addition to ABC, ESPN has a handful of partnering networks they can use to broadcast events: ESPN 2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, the Disney Channel—they do have options. Plus, they have an online feed that they have had a few years to tinker with and improve upon. It is now one of the better sports feeds out there.
Ultimately, it will come down to revenue, but ESPN could make a strong push once again. They will, of course, be fighting NBC. While NBC is receiving complaints, it is still bringing in better viewership than in the past and is expected to actually break even instead of taking a loss like they did on the 2010 Winter Olympics.
In the internet age, for those of us that still like our television coverage, the best we can hope for is no time difference. At least then spoilers really won't come into play, and it won't even matter which network has television rights.


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Update April 2013: This story is currently being revised to treat the writing errors that I'd made in the original versions of the chapters. However, nothing in the story will be changed. The original plot, characters, and events will remain the same.
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Love Unexpected chapter 1
Not caring, not curious, not interested—those were the three things that described May Maple as she sat at her desk in Room 249C of Lilycove University High, where her Pokémon Contest Appeals class was taking place. She appeared for all the world to be paying attention to the lesson when in reality, she was secretly thumbing a text on her PokéNav to her one of her best friends, Gary Oak, under her desk.
Two seats behind her, another one of her best friends, Dawn Berlitz, had put down her own PokéNav to look up to the front of the room—just like everyone else in the class—where a new male student was being introduced by the teacher, Mrs. Pennington.
"Class, I'd like you to all meet Andrew Hayden. He has just transferred here from LaRousse City and will be joining us for the rest of the year, so please help make him feel welcome," the kind fifty-seven-year-old woman said in a friendly tone, completely oblivious to the way the class had already welcomed Andrew.
The guys had all looked away from Andrew, either from loss of interest or jealousy at their new threat. Meanwhile, the girls remained transfixed by him, their mouths slightly agape in awe. His tousled green hair, his emerald green eyes, his chiseled face, his tall, toned body—everything about him captured their attention. They found themselves unable to look away.
The boy was not unaware of this fact. "Please call me Drew," he requested with a smirk on his face as he scanned the females in the room. He was rather pleased when he noted that he had dazzled them more with his handsome smirk.
But then his pleasure was met by disappointment when his eyes fell on a girl in the room, the only one not looking at him. Her eyes were suspiciously glued to something in her lap. He took note of this and resisted the urge to frown in dismay. He was not accustomed to being ignored by members of the opposite gender. The feeling was foreign to him and he loathed it, but he refused to show his irritation over some girl who had yet to show her face. Perhaps she had not yet seen his face from behind the curtain of her brunette hair. Surely she would become interested when she got a look at him.
At least the rest of the girls in the room were clearly attracted to him.
Beside Drew, the short Mrs. Pennington continued to smile.
"Of course, Drew. You may take the last empty seat beside Lily," she said, giving him a pat on the back before she turned to the class. "Lily? Could you raise your hand please?"
Lily, a pretty girl with long, plum colored hair, shot her hand up into the air. Her eagerness to have the hot new student sit beside her was evident, earning her a couple of dirty looks from her fellow female classmates. She received more after Drew sat down in his assigned seat and gave her a smile. The poor girl nearly shriveled up under their heated glares.
After Drew's introduction was over, Mrs. Pennington retired to her desk to prepare for the day's lesson. Animated conversations buzzed in the air as everyone began to discuss Drew, who had already begun to chat up Lily. The girls who sat around them made their attempts to enter the conversation, some succeeding and others failing. Dawn, who sat two rows down from where Drew was sitting, studied him inconspicuously. When a thoughtful opinion of him developed in her mind, she turned her attention to her PokéNav to thumb a text to May, whose attention had yet to leave her own.
December 2, 8:13am
To: May
From: Dawn
New kid's pretty cute, don't you think?
May frowned down disapprovingly at the text message that her PokéNav currently displayed on its screen. Her thumbs danced across the keyboard to type a response.
December 2, 8:13am
To: Dawn
From: May
Don't you have a boyfriend?
December 2, 8:14am
To: May
From: Dawn
Yes, but he's not here now is he? ;)
At the last text, May snapped her head up and swept her hair back from in front of her face to look over at Dawn. The girl stared back at her with a naughty glint and a mischievous grin, eliciting a loud laugh from May. Some students broke away from their conversations to look over at her. Mrs. Pennington peered up from her glasses.
"That's not a PokéNav in your lap, I hope, Ms. Maple," she expressed disapprovingly though her face clearly hid amusement.
May hiccuped a final giggle and indiscreetly cupped her PokéNav in between her hands. "Absolutely not, Mrs. Pennington," she assured with an exaggeratedly innocent smile.
Mrs. Pennington simply chuckled and looked away from May to shuffle some papers.
Drew, on the other hand, found himself unable to look away from May. She sat a few seats away from him, but she had caught his attention the second she had laughed—and she was continuing to hold it. She had already returned her attention to her PokéNav when the teacher had looked away, but her hair was tucked behind one ear this time, allowing him full view of her face. His mouth was slightly agape as he took her in.
She was a modest kind of attractive, yet impossibly alluring. Her skin was a creamy ivory tone, void of any blemishes save for the bit of darkness beneath her eyes, but it did not take away from their beauty. They were a brilliant sapphire blue color, framed by her full and slightly arched eyebrows. Her nose was not too high though it was slightly too wide, but it did suit her. Her pink lips were the only feature that seemed to be unfit for her face. They were almost too sexy for her otherwise youthful features, and Drew wondered how it would feel to kiss them. He unconsciously licked his own lips as he pondered over the feeling.
She was intriguing. Beautiful. Breathtaking. He could not look away from her, even when she and the rest of the class looked up at the front of the room. It was not until an amused smile began to play at the corner of her lips that he actually turned away to follow her stare.
The room had gone quiet when a girl with black hair appeared in the doorway. It was clear that she had just run to class as she gripped the doorway to catch her breath. An exasperated grin stretched across her lips as she heard the snickers of some of her friends in the class, including Dawn and May. When she was able to compose herself enough, she began to make her way to Mrs. Pennington's desk.
"I'm sorry I'm late, Mrs. Pennington. My usual ride to school failed me, so I had to ride my dragonite, but I ended up getting lost," she explained, offering the teacher a sheepish smile.
"You're only lucky that the lesson has yet to start, Ms. Ko," Mrs. Pennington said with a stern expression. But then, she chuckled and waved her hand dismissively. "Go to your seat, Natalie."
"Thank you, Mrs. Pennington!" Natalie said, smiling graciously, and then turned in the direction of her seat.
She walked a few steps before she realized that there was someone occupying her desk. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion as she turned back to look at Mrs. Pennington.
"Uh, Mrs. Pennington? There's someone in my seat," she noted.
Mrs. Pennington's eyes traveled up from the binder that she was flipping through to look up at Natalie, and then over at Natalie's seat. Her eyes landed on Drew, who was slightly slouched in the seat with his hands in the pockets of his jeans. He cocked an eyebrow at both of them, wondering if he was about to be asked to moved and not liking the idea.
"Oh goodness, how silly of me, I assigned Drew the wrong seat," she chuckled with a shake of her head. "Drew, honey, you can take the seat in the seat next to May. May, raise your hand please."
Said girl flinched at the sound of her name and directed her glance to the front of the room. With the hand that she had been using to text, she quickly slipped her PokéNav into her boot while she raised the hand that she had been propping her head on. Her eyes were wide with surprise and exaggerated innocence.
Drew suppressed the urge to chuckle as he turned his head to look at her along with most of the class. One look at her and he immediately rose from the seat, convinced that this class was going to be a fun one. He struggled to contain his excitement as he waited for Natalie to arrive at her seat.
"I'm sorry for taking your seat," he apologized with a charming smirk as he gestured to the chair. "You can have it back now."
"Thanks," Natalie replied sweetly, the corner of her lips raised in a smirk of her own.
She managed to catch a good glimpse Drew as he passed her, noting that she had never seen him before. After a quick assessment of him from head to toe with her eyes, she decided that he was rather attractive. The moment she slipped into her seat, she pulled out her PokéNav to send texts to Dawn and May to inquire details about him.
December 2, 8:19am
To: Dawn, May
From: Natalie
Has that guy always been in our class?
December 2, 8:19am
To: Natalie
From: May
December 2, 8:19am
To: Dawn, May
From: Natalie
Thought so. I'd notice someone that hot.
December 2, 8:20am
To: May, Natalie
From: Dawn
See? I'm not the only one that thinks so!
December 2, 8:20am
To: Dawn, Natalie
From: May
You both have boyfriends!
December 2, 8:20am
To: May
From: Natalie
December 2, 8:21am
To: May
From: Dawn
At the last sent text, Dawn stifled a giggle and Natalie bit back a laugh. Snapping their PokéNavs shut, they turned to look at May. She rolled her eyes at them for their behavior, but it was evident that she was not actually annoyed.
As Mrs. Pennington stepped up to the board at the front of the room, May shut her PokéNav, too, and retrieved her pen in preparation for any notes. From the corner of her eye, she saw Drew kid sitting down in the empty seat beside her, but she paid him no mind until he spoke up.
"Hi, I'm Drew Hayden," he said, a kind smile in place of his smirk as he offered his hand.
"Hey. May Maple, nice to meet you," she replied, returning his smile as she took his hand.
The handshake between them lasted longer than average, making May slightly uncomfortable. When Drew finally let go, she immediately tucked her hand in toward her stomach and returned her full attention to the front board.
Drew watched her as she did so, noting her disinterest again with frustration. He didn't understand it, didn't understand her. He didn't understand why she wasn't immediately inquiring details about him, or at least showing interest like all of the other girls. They had all pined for his attention, nearly squealing with delight when they managed to capture some of it. This girl, May, didn't even seem to care whether or not she got any of his attention. In fact, she didn't even bother to give him any of hers. And it annoyed him. Annoyed him beyond belief.
"Do you not like me very much?" he blurted, unable to contain himself as his frustration grew with every second he spent pondering over her lack of interest in him.
To his relief, May actually turned to him despite her not being sure if his question was directed at her or not. When she saw that he was looking at her, her eyebrows knitted together.
"What makes you think that?" she asked.
"Well, for starters, you don't seem to be as interested in me as your other female classmates are," he told her, sounding like a professor who was trying to decipher a new discovery, as if her disinterest was truly something mind-boggling and unexplainable.
May rolled her eyes at him, unable to believe his arrogance. "Not every girl is going to swoon over you. There's bound to be one who isn't interested," she deadpanned and turned away, prepared to leave their conversation at that and ignore the arrogant boy for the rest of class. Or the school year.
Drew, however, did not seem ready to drop their conversation. He ignored the sting of her comment and forced a smirk.
"There never has been," he remarked in response.
That got May's attention. She snapped her head in his direction, her mouth slightly agape in disbelief. How was it possible that someone could be that openly conceited? His smirk seemed to be screaming the word arrogant while his eyes twinkled with a naughty glint similar to that of Dawn's earlier in the class. But unlike Dawn's, Drew's did not make May laugh. She would have gotten more pleasure from wiping it off of his face.
"I guess I'm the first then," she retorted and then turned away, determined more than ever to ignore him.
Luckily for May, Mrs. Pennington had turned around to shush the class in order to teach the lesson. It helped May for a moment, but after a few minutes, Drew was back to trying to draw her into conversation. May found herself constantly checking the clock and rolling her eyes.
The end of class just could not come fast enough.
Author's Note: Well, what'd you think? Did you like it? Hate it? Think it was okay? What? Tell me in the reviews! Thanks for reading :)
Oh yeah, the character Natalie is basically based off of me. Just saying. :P


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Bentley has taken off the wraps of the Bentley Continental GTC Speed.
The Continental GTC Speed is visually distinguished by subtle design enhancements which emphasise its higher performance credentials. At the front, the radiator and lower air intake grilles feature a dark tinted matrix as standard. Larger diameter 9.5J x 20-inch, multi-spoke alloy wheels with Bentley-bespoke Pirelli PZero ultra-high performance (UHP) tyres, lowered and uprated suspension, wider twin-rifled exhaust tail pipes and a new boot-mounted lip spoiler that enhances high speed aerodynamics, reinforce the sporting character of the Speed model.
The GTC Speed's 600bhp (610PS) W12 engine develops 9 per cent more power than the standard GTC. However, it is the 15 per cent increase in torque that really distinguishes the Speed model, which now develops an impressive output of 750 Nm (553lb ft). This is achieved across virtually the complete rev range, from just 1700 to 5600 rev/min, delivering that characteristic Bentley wave of torque.
The 0-60 mph sprint is despatched in a mere 4.5 seconds (0-100km/h in 4.8 seconds) and 0-100 mph in 10.6 seconds (0-160 km/h in 10.5 seconds).
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2003 School Lunch Report Card: Introduction
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As children head back to school this fall, many face a daunting array of diet-related health problems—and a challenging environment in school cafeterias. Because meals eaten at school play a major role in childhood health and adult eating habits, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) graded the nutritional quality of the menus offered by 18 of the nation's largest school districts participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
The results, which are summarized in a "report card" found on page nine, demonstrate a wide range of commitment to nutrition among the nation's schools. PCRM nutritionists handed out grades ranging from the "A" awarded to the Detroit City School District to an "F" given to District of Columbia Public Schools. PCRM also found innovative nutrition programs, special challenges confronting food service coordinators, and opportunities for school districts to dramatically increase the nutritional value of school lunches.
The NSLP was established in 1946 with the goal of reducing malnutrition caused by a shortage of food. The program now operates in nearly 100,000 schools and residential childcare institutions and serves almost 27 million lunches a day. Schools participating in the NSLP receive cash subsidies, donated commodities, and free bonus shipments for each meal served. In return, they must serve lunches that meet federal nutrition requirements, as well as offer free or reduced-price lunches to eligible children.
But times have changed. Today, many children in the United States suffer from an over-consumption of calories, fat, salt, and sugar. Consequently, the prevalence of obesity among our nation's youth has more than doubled in the past 20 years, with close to five million youths aged 6–17 seriously overweight or obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently found that 60 percent of overweight five- to ten-year-olds already have at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as raised blood pressure or insulin levels.
In response to these serious health concerns, PCRM, a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine through healthy nutrition, has encouraged lawmakers, the USDA, and school districts to achieve the PCRM Healthy School Lunch Campaign goal of assuring that foods served at school promote the health of all children.
Numerous scientific studies have concluded that vegan diets—those built from whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans/legumes—satisfy hungry children and offer the most weight-controlling and disease-fighting protection of any dietary pattern.
Encouraging children to eat plant-based diets from the start has a positive impact on their health, weight, and need for medical treatment. These positive effects continue into adulthood.
Making the Grade
For the third year, PCRM nutritionists conducted a review of elementary school lunches served through the NSLP. This year, nutritionists focused on meals served in schools in the nation's largest districts. PCRM then graded lunches based on the presence of low-fat vegetable side dishes, fruit offerings, meatless and vegan entrées, and non-dairy beverage sources of calcium, and whether or not the district elementary menus met the USDA nutrition guidelines.
A recent government study found that many of the nation's school districts do not meet the USDA's basic nutritional requirements. However, all school districts graded in this report say they are in compliance with these rules. Thus, if these school districts were graded based solely on meeting the USDA requirements, all would receive an "A."
But many leading experts believe that the USDA requirements are profoundly inadequate, in part because the department downplays the fact that plant-based meals and menu choices are crucial for health. Therefore, PCRM grades districts based on more meaningful criteria. School districts are not yet required by the USDA to serve vegetarian or vegan meals, nor are they required to offer non-dairy sources of calcium, so districts that score well on this report deserve special recognition.
Encouraging Trends
This year, PCRM saw improvement in the types of foods offered to kids in some elementary schools. Despite USDA barriers to serving healthy vegetarian and vegan entrées in elementary schools (these barriers are discussed in detail below), a number of districts have made these items more available to the kids.
This year's report differs from those of previous years in that more credit is given for vegetarian entrée items available in school districts. Previously, vegetarian entrées were only counted if they appeared as featured items on the menu. This year, vegetarian entrées are credited if they are simply available to kids. Some grades improved this year solely because of this change. For the most part, however, improved scores indicate that districts have made notable changes in their overall menu and nutrition programs to promote the health of children.
The "most improved player" award goes to the Detroit City School District, which scored 94 percent this year—a remarkable improvement over last year's score of 57 percent. The menu changes triggering this improvement include daily offerings of fruits and vegetables, calcium-fortified juices, meatless entrées, and whole-grain breads, as well as vegan burgers three times per week. The district is also investigating the possibility of offering calcium-fortified soymilk and more soy-based and legume-based entrées for the lunch menu.
Innovative Nutrition Education Programs
This year's report also highlights innovative nutrition education efforts. Most districts surveyed this year appear to recognize the need for imaginative nutrition education programs in the schools.
For example, the Philadelphia City School District has teamed up with Drexel University to offer several programs in elementary schools to help children learn about nutrition and health. These programs include "Dragon Detective Agency," which helps kids discover the world of nutrition with lessons such as "ReThink Your Drink" and "Inspector Veg. E. Table," and a healthy eating and physical activity program for weight management with "Power Down to Power Up" and "Go for the Green" lessons.
Clark County School District in Las Vegas also has numerous nutrition programs and has conducted acceptability studies for fruits and vegetables. One unique curriculum, titled "Calcium Isn't Just Milk," focuses on such calcium-rich foods as beans and dark green, leafy vegetables.
Roadblocks to Health
This year's report recognizes that school districts face a number of challenges in serving low-fat vegetarian and vegan meals and non-dairy, calcium-rich beverages to kids participating in the NSLP. These problems include a lack of financial and programmatic support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and lawmakers.
The USDA commodities program, which supplies food items to the NSLP, puts the needs of U.S. agriculture ahead of the health needs of children and provides few low-fat, plant-based entrée ingredients for use in school lunch menus.
Every year, the USDA buys millions of pounds of excess beef, pork, milk, and other meat and dairy products to bolster sagging prices in the livestock industry. These high-fat, high-cholesterol products are then distributed at very low cost to the NSLP, where they fuel many children's life-long struggle against obesity and heart disease.
Meanwhile, the USDA drops the ball on providing healthy foods. For example, it costs a school district more than twice as much to provide a high-fiber, low-fat, cholesterol-free veggie burger than it does to provide a higher-fat, fiber-free hamburger. That's because the government subsidizes hamburger meat, but not veggie burgers.
Also, despite enormous public interest and input from health experts, the NSLP has not made the provision of calcium-fortified soymilk or calcium-fortified orange juice a reimbursable option for school lunches. This forces schools to shoulder the financial burden of providing these beverages as an alternative to cow's milk. Moreover, if soymilk is offered in place of cow's milk, the USDA will not reimburse school districts for the entire meal.
The USDA does not provide recipes featuring plant-based entrées, purchasing or distribution support, or any incentive to encourage schools to better serve children's nutritional needs in this way.
Additionally, while federal law requires schools to ensure their menus meet the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, including creating menus that derive less than 30 percent of their calories from fat, this is not well enforced.
Indeed, a large proportion of schools still do not meet these USDA requirements, yet they are not held accountable. The most recent School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study showed that, on average, 33 percent of calories in elementary school lunches came from fat, with only 20 percent of schools keeping calories from fat under 30 percent, and only 14 percent keeping calories from saturated fat under the recommended 10 percent. Moreover, even most schools that comply with USDA regulations still offer more fat than should be found in a healthy diet. PCRM's research has demonstrated that a diet deriving 10 to 15 percent of calories from fat offers benefits ranging from cholesterol reduction to weight control.
As the scores below indicate, many of the nation's largest school districts still have a long way to go to achieve an outstanding grade with PCRM's nutrition criteria. But many are making an effort, and some districts are doing extremely well. To fully succeed in offering healthy lunches, school districts need help from Congress and the USDA.
Review Process and Grading System
PCRM dietitians looked at 15 days of recent elementary school lunch menus for 18 school districts in the following cities and counties: Detroit, Miami, Gwinnett County (Georgia), Charlotte, Fairfax County (Virginia), Pinellas County (Florida), Broward County (Florida), Hillsborough County (Florida), New York City, Philadelphia, Montgomery County (Maryland), Prince George's County (Maryland), Dallas, Palm Beach County (Florida), Los Angeles, San Diego, Clark County (Nevada), and the District of Columbia.
One point was awarded each time the menu included a low-fat vegetable side dish, a whole or dried fruit, a vegetarian entrée (meatless, hot or cold), a featured vegan entrée (meatless, dairy-free, and egg-free), and a vegan option by request over the 15-day period, for a total of 75 possible points.
Twenty points were then awarded to each school district meeting the NSLP nutrition requirements, which include a menu featuring less than 30 percent of calories from fat, less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat, and one-third of the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories.
An additional five points were given to school districts offering non-dairy, calcium-rich beverages, such as calcium-fortified orange juice or enriched soymilk or rice milk, on a daily basis to help meet the calcium needs of students who either cannot or do not drink cow's milk.
A district could score a total of 100 possible points.
PCRM dietitians mailed elementary menu questionnaires to the nation's 25 largest school districts, plus the organization's home district of Washington, D.C. These questionnaires asked food service directors about the meatless and vegan entrées and options available in the schools, the frequency of low-fat vegetable and fruit side dishes offered, the availability of non-dairy, calcium-rich beverages, and whether or not their menus met the NSLP nutrition standards. The questionnaires also asked respondents to describe healthy nutrition programs, changes, or initiatives taking place in their districts.
When a school district did not respond to the questionnaire, PCRM attempted to consult directly with the school district's nutrition staff. Eight of the 25 districts did not provide enough information to permit PCRM to evaluate their programs. Each district that did respond received a percentage score, which was then converted into a letter grade.
Note: All of the school districts included in this survey are using the "Offer vs. Serve" (OVS) menu system. OVS is a federal regulation designed to reduce food waste in the lunch program by allowing students to choose only foods they intend to eat. The school lunch pattern includes five food items: 1. meat or meat alternative, 2. bread or bread alternative, 3. milk, 4. fruits, 5. vegetables. Students are permitted to select from three to five of the five offered components of the meal. Students are not allowed to choose two of the same component, but they can request a second portion of fruit or vegetable at no extra charge.


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The finishing touches are being made to plans for a Christmas extravaganza in Bourne next weekend which will see the community come together to celebrate.
Bourne Traders, the town council, schools and the churches in the town are coming together to hold a joint Christmas event on December 1.
In the past they have held separate events.
The event will be held in the closed-off North Street and Abbey Road from noon, running to about 7.30pm, although the funfair will run later.
Traders will also extend their opening hours.
The Christmas lights switch-on by mayor Helen Powell will return to North Street in front of the town hall – for the last three years it has been held outside The Corn Exchange.
Children's choirs from Bourne Westfield Primary Academy, Bourne Academy and Bourne Abbey Primary Academy will perform a selection of Christmas carols from about 4pm on a stage in front of The Angel Hotel.
The Christmas lights will be switched on at about 4.30pm.
Event organiser Gordan Cochran of Gordon's Photographic in North Street, said: "I hope everyone turns up and I hope everyone enjoys themselves.
"We want people to just come and have fun."
Members of the public can still get involved by taking up a stall for food or goods along the closed-off streets.
Anyone interested should call Cake Kabin on 01778 393769.
Almost every shop in the town is also taking part in the popular prize draw again this year.
Customers who spend £5 or more in participating stores will be entered into a draw to win festive hampers worth hundreds of pounds.
Much like during the BRM Day celebrations in October, groups in the town will run their own events to coincide with the main celebration. Bourne Methodist Church in Abbey Road will be holding its eighth Christmas Tree Festival.
This year there will be 44 trees on display. The doors will be open on Saturday from 10am to 6.30pm and from noon to 4pm on Sunday, finishing with a Christmas Songs of Praise.
All Donations from the Methodist church event will be given to Dementia Care South Lincolnshire who offer support to families in this area.
On Saturday a Christmas fair will be taking place at the Abbey Church Hall, from 10am to 1pm with various stalls and refreshments. A fete will also be taking place at Digby Court Care Home in Christopher's Lane from 2.30pm until 4.30pm with a visit from Santa Claus, stalls selling jewellery, crafts, jigsaws and cakes.