Recalled Food May Have Been Served in Schools

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

On a daily to weekly basis, these reports surface, as reported in the attached article.

This blog has thoroughly demonstrated that the entire beef, pork, and poultry supply chains are laden with e.coli (fecal matter), salmonella, listeria, and other deadly microbial, bacteriological, viral and fungal contamination.

This blog has also posted increasing reports of BSE (Mad Cow) in humans, as reported by the US Center For Disease Control.

This blog has demonstrated a huge shift to genetically modified feed (corn, soy and millet) that is proven to be cancer causing.

This blog has posted the huge use of harmful and toxic chemicals, like: sulfates, sulfides, nitrates, nitrites, genetically modified maltodextrin, starches, gum, colloids, pink slime, artificial colorants, fake sweeteners, antibiotics, steroids, alcohol, antifreeze agents, chlorine, ammonia, gases, whiteners, arsenic, etc.

Things have been ‘codified’ by USDA inspection, but in point of fact are as bad, if not worse, in human ingestion safety, from when Upton Sinclair first exposed all this in THE JUNGLE.

Let the buyer beware, you are in clear and present danger in the deli meat section and butcher offerings of the bast majority of supermarket chains!

Want safe offerings?

www.healthymeats.net

~ Uncle Russ

Hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen food recalled amid an E. coli scare may have been served in schools, according to the company that manufactured the items.

Recalled Food May Have Been Served in Schools

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Health Officials: 1 in 50 School Kids Have Autism

In CategoryAutism, Baby/Children/Teen Health, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

Representations that autism is not more prevalent is a FLAT OUT REVISIONIST LIE in the attached article.

Only a decade ago, autism was in 1 out of about 24,000 children, not the sand bagged on the low side new 1 out of 50 estimate.

There is direct irrefutable evidence that the change in Big Pharma injection chemistry in the excipient bases of vaccines, injections, boosters and flu shots are directly to blame.

Combination vaccines, like the MMR, as well as the massively increase frequency of injections in children (dozens of unnecessary vaccine before the age of 7), as well as harmful nutrient void caloric intake are also contributing factor to this pandemic in childhood autism. These are facts and irrefutable.

~ Uncle Russ

A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the disorder.

Health Officials: 1 in 50 School Kids Have Autism

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Sweetener approval would stem US school milk consumption decline: IDFA

In CategoryBeverages, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

Aspartame and Neotame CAUSE seizures, strokes, cancer and are linked to heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

Argumentation for further chemically and economically adulterating stripped and nutrient dead reduced, low, fat free milk, proposed in school programs, is the height of demonstration how corrupt Uncle Sam, Monsanto lobbied Congress, the White House, and the USDA/FDA.

This attached article is further proof you cannot trust anything in the heavily dumbed down so-called mainstream food and beverage or drug chains.

Want real nutrition and wellness?

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~ Uncle Russ

Permitting the use “any safe and suitable” sweeteners – including aspartame – in milk flavouring ingredients would help to stem the current milk consumption decline in US schools, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has claimed.

Sweetener approval would stem US school milk consumption decline: IDFA

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USDA Allowing More Meats, Grains In School Lunches

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

In the attached article we see the out of control or “government gone wild” Feds (aka Uncle Sam/Congress/White House) harming children with chemically, drug, pesticide, fungalcide, pesticide, genetically modified and disease inducing UNSAFE meat and grains, proving the Feds have Zero interest in anything by growing themselves and harming those who pay, taxpayers.

~ Uncle Russ

The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids’ meals.

USDA Allowing More Meats, Grains In School Lunches

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Majority of US Schools Not Ready for Next Pandemic, Researchers Say

In CategoryEducation, Vaccines
ByRuss Bianchi

The attach is pure propaganda from Death Merchants in Big Pharma and their incumbent shill and lackeys on the take the US House, US Senate, The White House and Federal Government.

There is no pandemic, pending pandemic or next pandemic, this is all about FLAT OUT LYING you children need vaccines, boosters and flu shots, which they do not and CAUSE AUSTISM, disease, harm and death.

It is a US Supreme Court decision, and the law of the land you can refuse any vaccines, boosters, injections, flu shots for your children and NO ONE can deny them admission to any school!!!

~ Uncle Russ

 

Many U.S. schools are not prepared for bioterrorism attacks, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases or pandemics, despite the recent 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic that resulted in more than 18,000 deaths worldwide, Saint Louis University researchers say.

Majority of US Schools Not Ready for Next Pandemic, Researchers Say

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Genius female chimpanzee found to be smarter than U.S. high school students

In CategoryAnimals, Insects, etc, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

(Note Sarcasm) It brings a whole new meaning to ‘Going Bananas”

~ Uncle Russ

A twenties-something “genius ape” named Natasha has been found to demonstrate more intelligence than a typical U.S. high school student. The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed science journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Genius female chimpanzee found to be smarter than U.S. high school students

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DHA omega-3 linked to improved literacy for ADHD children: Study

In CategoryAttention Deficit Disorder, Baby/Children/Teen Health, Education, Nutrition Supplementation, Vitamins
ByRuss Bianchi

Naturally occurring and fully bioavailable Omega 3, 6, and 9 are found in the moringa proprietary blend at high levels offered only by ZIJA.

Argumentation one can get omegas from seaweed, fish, chia, oils, gel caps and other supplements FAILS to address one has to take up to 20 times these sources to get what is already naturally occurring in Zija at much lower cost.

~ Uncle Russ

Increased levels of the omega-3 DHA may be associated with improved literacy in children with learning abilities, according to a new study from Australia.

DHA omega-3 linked to improved literacy for ADHD children: Study

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US schools given choice to avoid ‘pink slime’

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

Was not “pink slime” the pure evil running under Manhattan in the movie ‘Ghostbusters’?

Why are not the USDA, FDA officials allowing this, meat executives, and their bosses in the US House, US Senate and White House, being FIRED and criminally prosecuted for premeditated GENOCIDE?

~ Uncle Russ

American schools will be able to opt out of serving lean finely textured beef (LFTB) at the beginning of the next school year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced.

US schools given choice to avoid ‘pink slime’

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NEW School prayer

In CategoryEducation, Spiritual Health
ByRuss Bianchi

This just in from Senior Physicist at a high security lab in America.

~ Uncle Russ

 
A kid in Arizona wrote the attached
NEW School prayer:
“New Pledge of Allegiance”
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Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That’s no offense; it’s a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God’s name is prohibited by the state.
We’re allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They’ve outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the ‘unwed daddy,’ our Senior King.
It’s ‘inappropriate’ to teach right from wrong,
We’re taught that such ‘judgments’ do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It’s scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school’s a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen

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Junk Foods Widely Available In Schools

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

Junk food remains plentiful at the nation’s elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests.

Junk Foods Widely Available In Schools

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School Obesity Programs May Promote Worrisome Eating Behaviors and Physical Activity in Kids

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Behavior, Education, Exercise, Fitness, Sports, Etc, Weight Health
ByRuss Bianchi

I TOLD YOU THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE CHAIN ARE NUTRIENT VOID!

The Proverbial Canary In The Mine Is Not Only DEAD, But Long Ago Decomposed, With Only Trace DNA Left In The Cage, And The Mine Is Collapsed!

In The Lyrics Of The John Fogerty Tune:

“Nobody Here Anymore, No One Minding The Store, They’ve All Gone To Another Dimension, Nobody Here Anymore…”

Sigh,

~ Uncle Russ

PS – Save Yourselves, Your Families, And Friends – DRINK LIFE IN!

ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) — In a new poll, 30% of parents report at least one worrisome behavior in their children that could be associated with the development of eating disorders.

School Obesity Programs May Promote Worrisome Eating Behaviors and Physical Activity in Kids

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School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

First of all, “whole grains” is a lobbied and made-up term, with no scientific basis of real improvement in nutritional content: genetically modified corn (frankenfood) is a “whole grain” under Uncle Sam’s bought and paid for, by industry, lobbied definition, as a prime example!

Secondly, “more veggies” is hardly an improvement, when High Fructose Corn Syrup laden ketchup is defined as a vegetable by Congressional lobbyists, as well as their bribed and bought-off shills in the US Senate and US House.

Even if there were way more “veggies” in the school lunch programs, the nutrient content of said so-called vegetables is radically void of such needed vitamins or minerals, and is dumb-downed, even from a few decades ago.

For ANYONE, irrespective of political affiliation, to argue current school lunch programs are being improved in base absorbable nutrients, for children, is not only totally insincere and inauthentic, but (pardon the pun) A BIG FAT LIE!

Hard current (not projected) actuarial numbers, sold on current life insurance policies (real money – real facts) show that one out of three children in America, now, irrespective of socio-economic category, is UNINSURABLE for life insurance, by their 18th birthday, because they are already BOTH OBESE AND DIABETIC!

But it gets WORSE, currently boys or girls, ages 11 to 15, again irrespective of socio-economic upbringing, will be DEAD 15 YEARS EARLIER than a current 55 year old in life span!

The food and beverage chain are radically dumb-downed, as allowed, (bought and paid for) by CONGRESS, from lobbyists to these processed, chemical, genetically modified, drug, harmful. and for profit, death merchant racketeers.

Michelle Obama’s legalistic smoke and mirrors spin on school lunch programs, is nothing more than another Washington DC PR Stunt, so the very politicians that caused the problem, can get re-elected, pretending they are solving something.

I remind you it was a “front” (as in lobbying group to hide this scam) for processed, industrialized, and harmful food and beverage industry, The Grocery Manufacturers Association, who heavily bribed the White House and Congress to make sure none of their clients would be in anyway harmed in revenue loss, on this multi decade taxpayer rip-off, while harming children.

As I have said before, because it is TRUE, Uncle Sam wants you DEAD by your 16th Ponzi Scheme Social Security Check; that’s the hard actuarial number.

Want real absorbable and economic nutrition for your kids, your family, friends and yourself? Want to make real residual income (plus getting your product for FREE) through a simple referral model?

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DRINK LIFE IN!

~ Uncle Russ

(AP) — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings – including the always popular pizza – will come with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side.

School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains

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Academics who lend their names to Big Pharma ghostwriting schemes should be charged with fraud, say university professors

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

A college student who pays his friend to write a paper for him is guilty of plagiarism — and if he is caught, he could receive a failing grade or even be expelled from school.

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Exposed: Illinois law financially penalizes public schools when vaccination rates drop below 90 percent

In CategoryEducation, Vaccines
ByRuss Bianchi

One of the primary reasons for the big push among public school districts across the country to vaccinate as many students as possible appears to have a lot to do with maintaining their eligibility to receive local and state funding, at least in the state of Illinois.

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Thousands Entering Calif. Schools without Vaccines

In CategoryEducation, Vaccines
ByRuss Bianchi

The parents signing letters of objection, which do NOT have to be morally or religiously based, are correct, there is a real CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER between the MMR causing Autism and Gardasil (Merck makes of genocidal Vioxx) causing sterilization and cervical cancer. This is fact.

Anyone trying to refute the published multiple medical studies showing the causal danger from vaccines, boosters, inoculations, flu shots, and their harmful ingredients and excipients, as well as causal harm in frequency and dosages, is an agent for Big Pharma revenue generation, or a real LIAR…Bill Gates name comes to mind.

~ Uncle Russ

Last year’s class of California kindergartners had a record high percentage of parents who used a personal belief exemption to avoid immunization requirements, a development that concerns state health officials.

Thousands Entering Calif. Schools without Vaccines

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Music can spark creativity in math and science (w/ video)

In CategoryEducation, Music, Television, Technology, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

From records to boom boxes to CDs and iPods, music has long been part of the lifeblood of being a teenager. Learning math and science in class is not always such a priority.

Music can spark creativity in math and science (w/ video)

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70% of Science Award Finalists Are Children of Immigrants

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

Immigration is a boon to American science and math, a new report asserts, noting that 70 percent of the finalists in a recent prestigious science competition are the children of immigrants.

70% of Science Award Finalists Are Children of Immigrants

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Public school bans students from bringing lunches from home, forces them to eat cafeteria food

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

Frankenfood.

~ Uncle Russ

Individual responsibility and personal freedom are becoming a thing of the past in the nation’s public schools, as strict control over what students can and cannot eat — or bring to school to eat — escalates to near-dictatorial levels.

 

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Math meets music

In CategoryEducation, Music, Television, Technology, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University composer-theorist Clifton Callender, whose work explores and maps the mathematics of musical harmony.

Math meets music

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Breastfed children do better at school, study finds

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

I Told You So!

~ Uncle Russ

(PhysOrg.com) — Researchers have shown that breastfeeding causes children to do better at school. The research conducted by Oxford University and the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex University, found that as little as four weeks of breastfeeding for a newborn baby has a significant effect on brain development, which persists until the child is at least 14 years old.

Breastfed children do better at school, study finds
 

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As We Sleep, Speedy Brain Waves Boost Our Ability to Learn

In CategoryBrain/Mental Health, Education, Sleep/Insomnia
ByRuss Bianchi

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2011) — Scientists have long puzzled over the many hours we spend in light, dreamless slumber. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests we’re busy recharging our brain’s learning capacity during this traditionally undervalued phase of sleep, which can take up half the night.

As We Sleep, Speedy Brain Waves Boost Our Ability to Learn

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As we sleep, speedy brain waves boost our ability to learn

In CategoryBrain/Mental Health, Education, Sleep/Insomnia
ByRuss Bianchi

Scientists have long puzzled over the many hours we spend in light, dreamless slumber. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests we’re busy recharging our brain’s learning capacity during this traditionally undervalued phase of sleep, which can take up half the night.

As we sleep, speedy brain waves boost our ability to learn

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How much is a college education worth?

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

From Dr. Mike West, Physicist, a contributor to this blog.

How much is a college education worth?

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Obama dines with tech stars of Silicon Valley

In CategoryEducation, Government, Music, Television, Technology, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

“Why we have the best government money can buy.”  Will Rogers

~ Uncle Russ

President Obama – on his first official trip to the Bay Area that didn’t involve political fundraising – held a dinner meeting Thursday to talk job creation and education with a star-studded team of Silicon Valley executives and leaders, many of them past generous contributors to Democratic causes.

Obama dines with tech stars of Silicon Valley

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Exercise Helps Overweight Children Think Better, Do Better in Math

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Education, Exercise, Fitness, Sports, Etc, Weight Health
ByRuss Bianchi

ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2011) — Regular exercise improves the ability of overweight, previously inactive children to think, plan and even do math, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report.

Exercise Helps Overweight Children Think Better, Do Better in Math

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Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Education, Food and More, Weight Health
ByRuss Bianchi

Researchers say they have identified another risk factor for childhood obesity: school lunch.

Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches

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To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

“Never confuse activity with results.”  Richard Feynman

~ Uncle Russ

Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

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The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny

In CategoryEducation, Science
ByRuss Bianchi

The very reputation of so-called “science” has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term “science” by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side.

 

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Better learning through handwriting

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

Associate professor Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger’s Reading Centre asks if something is lost in switching from book to computer screen, and from pen to keyboard.

Better learning through handwriting

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Middle school is when the right friends may matter most

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

As adolescents move from elementary school into their middle or junior-high years, changes in friendships may signal potential academic success or troubles down the road, say University of Oregon researchers.

Middle school is when the right friends may matter most

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College students lack scientific literacy, study finds

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle – an essential skill in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, according to research published in the January issue of BioScience.

 College students lack scientific literacy, study finds

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Stanford faculty still taking drug firms’ money

In CategoryDrugs and Drug Companies, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

Drugs KILL, Plants CURE.

~ Uncle Russ

As medical schools wrestle with how to keep drug companies from corrupting their faculties, Stanford University is often lauded for its tough stance.

Stanford faculty still taking drug firms’ money

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In St. Paul schools, the not-so-sweet life

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

The St. Paul school district will make all public schools “sweet-free zones” by the end of the school year.

In St. Paul schools, the not-so-sweet life

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City Sparring With the E.P.A. Over a Plan to Check Schools for PCBs

In CategoryEducation, Toxins, Pollution, Contaminants, Chemicals, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin inspecting school buildings in New York City next month for contamination with the toxic chemicals known as PCBs in response to a pilot study that found that the substance was leaking from old light fixtures in some schools.

City Sparring With the E.P.A. Over a Plan to Check Schools for PCBs

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Using Digitized Books as ‘Cultural Genome,’ Researchers Unveil Quantitative Approach to Humanities

In CategoryBooks, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2010) — Researchers have created a powerful new approach to scholarship, using approximately 4 percent of all books ever published as a digital “fossil record” of human culture. By tracking the frequency with which words appear in books over time, scholars can now precisely quantify a wide variety of cultural and historical trends.

Using Digitized Books as ‘Cultural Genome,’ Researchers Unveil Quantitative Approach to Humanities

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Preserving America’s Birth Certificate: Engineers’ Case Protects America’s Birth Certificate

In CategoryEducation, Science
ByRuss Bianchi

July 1, 2008 — Engineers designed a case to protect the map that first used the word “America” to describe the land masses now called North and South America. The air-tight container is made of two large sheets of aluminum and a double piece of non-reflective laminated glass. It also includes a system dedicated to maintaining the proper temperature and replacing all potentially destructive oxygen with inert argon gas.

Preserving America’s Birth Certificate: Engineers’ Case Protects America’s Birth Certificate

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White House to put 6,000 salad bars in schools

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

More political stunts, want real PROGRESS, ban all HFCS in all food and beverages, period.

~ Uncle Russ

First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

White House to put 6,000 salad bars in schools

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An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math

In CategoryEducation, Science
ByRuss Bianchi

Papyrus, parchment, paper … videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs — long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform clay tablet of ancient Mesopotamia, may still endure.

An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math

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Invention helps students learn surgical techniques before operating on patients

In CategoryEducation, Music, Television, Technology, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

In the last 50 years, modern medicine has made astounding advances in surgery, yet many of today’s veterinary and human medicine students still hone basic surgical and suturing skills on carpet pads and pig’s feet before transitioning to a live patient. An invention by Colorado State University veterinarians provides students with artificial body parts that look, feel, behave, and even bleed just like real skin, muscles and vessels.

Invention helps students learn surgical techniques before operating on patients

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Lessons of Hate at Islamic Schools in Britain

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

A British network of more than 40 part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students has been teaching from a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, including a textbook that asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of Jews, according to a BBC documentary broadcast on Monday.

Lessons of Hate at Islamic Schools in Britain

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New Words, New Definition

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid..

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon : It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

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Pfizer Unveils Academic Network

In CategoryDrugs and Drug Companies, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

Another death nail on the coffin of honest independent medical R&D, the vast majority of medical schools are now in the pockets of the drug companies. 

Read THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DRUG COMPANIES by Dr. Marcia Angell, MD, Editor & chief of the New England Journal Of Medicine for 21 Years.

~ Uncle Russ

Pfizer is forming a network of academic collaborators to accelerate the translation of basic science into biologics-based drugs. The University of California, San Francisco, has signed on as the first of what are expected to be multiple partners in Pfizer’s Global Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), based in Cambridge, Mass.

Pfizer Unveils Academic Network

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Free school milk: the white stuff might not be the right stuff

In CategoryBeverages, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

In Hindu culture, the cow has been a sacred object for thousands of years. In Britain, its milk is rapidly being accorded the same status. When David Cameron disowned a plan to abolish free milk for under-fives, floated by Anne Milton, a junior health minister, it was remarkable not just for the speed of the U-turn, but for how little explanation it seemed to require.

Free school milk: the white stuff might not be the right stuff

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As Bloomberg Fought Sodas, Nominee Sat on Coke Board

In CategoryBeverages, Education
ByRuss Bianchi

Directly out of The Big Tobacco Playbook…die, lie, deflect.

~ Uncle Russ

By her own account, Cathleen P. Black, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s choice to be the next New York City schools chancellor, has had almost no experience with the public education system.

As Bloomberg Fought Sodas, Nominee Sat on Coke Board

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China Drives the Boom in Foreign Students at U.S. Schools

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

The Red Godless Chinese Evil Empire is taking over even here.

~ Uncle Russ

China now leads the world in sending students overseas to study in the United States. An annual survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of International Education released today, known as the “Open Doors” report, shows China has surpassed India, which dropped to second place in the 2009-2010 academic year.

China Drives the Boom in Foreign Students at U.S. Schools

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Educated families increasingly refusing vaccinations

In CategoryEducation, Vaccines
ByRuss Bianchi

I told you so.

~ Uncle Russ

Educated Americans with private insurance plans are becoming increasingly less prone to vaccinate their children, according to this year’s annual State of Health Care Quality report released by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Educated families increasingly refusing vaccinations

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State considers banning sweets at school parties

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

Birthday celebrations for schoolchildren that involve cupcakes, brownies, and other sweet treats could soon be a thing of the past in Pennsylvania.

State considers banning sweets at school parties

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Four years after Clinton’s victory over sugary drinks in public schools, they’re more widely available than ever

In CategoryBaby/Children/Teen Health, Beverages, Education, HFCS & Sugars
ByRuss Bianchi

 It was only four years ago that, with much fanfare, former President Bill Clinton announced the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association. This project was supposed to drastically reduce junk food and soda availability in public schools.

Four years after Clinton’s victory over sugary drinks in public schools, they’re more widely available than ever

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Serving Up Healthful School Lunches

In CategoryEducation, Food and More
ByRuss Bianchi

If this were a sincere effort, how come those in charge of these federally funded programs are not fired for having systematically destroyed most of the nutrition is such school lunch programs to begin with?!

It’s the HFCS and dumb-downed highly refined and chemically processed food and beverages, stupid.

~ Uncle Russ

Today’s Patient Money focuses on school lunch money, how it’s spent and what you get for it.

Serving Up Healthful School Lunches

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Alice Dancing Under the Gallows – Official Trailer

In CategoryEducation
ByRuss Bianchi

Official Trailer for new documentary short about the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world Alice Herz-Sommer

Alice Dancing Under the Gallows – Official Trailer

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