TCOM 630

Junking Fat Foods in Schools

2007-12-10T03:11:00.000-05:00

December 10, 2007
Editorial The New York Times
Junking Fat Foods in Schools

As America’s youth have grown fatter and the number with adult diabetes continues to rise, there is one obvious way to help. Public schools should stop selling students so much unhealthy food. A worthy but imperfect amendment now pending in Congress would help curb junk foods sold in too many of the nation’s schools.

Senators Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, have won wide support from both industry and consumer groups for their amendment. The problem is, they are trying to attach it to the $286 billion farm bill due to hit the Senate floor this week.

So far, the farm bill is about as good for the American consumer as most of the confections in school vending machines. The White House opposes the bill because of the huge subsidies, which is to say corporate welfare, it provides to agribusiness. As we recently wrote about food stamps, something is very wrong when good initiatives must ride along on this regrettable package of special-interest subsidies.

The amendment’s broad support offers clues about its strengths and a few of its weaknesses. The American Medical Association and the Center for Science in the Public Interest are on board. Public-health watchdogs want the amendment because it would impose healthful rules on schools across the country, like limiting the drinks available in elementary schools to bottled water, juice or low-calorie milk. Foods outside the school lunch program would be required to have less fat and sugar and fewer calories.

The people who make Mars bars, Frito-Lay chips and Coca-Cola also back the amendment. That’s because it would not remove all junk food. It would allow diet drinks in high schools and require states like California, which currently bans them, to relent. Local districts would be allowed to impose tougher restrictions on the foods in their schools but states would not. The bill would also give industry a long time, until 2011, to adapt.

The Harkin-Murkowski amendment is not perfect, but it would be a major step toward weaning the nation’s students from the chips, sodas and sweets that are doing them so much damage right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/opinion/10mon2.html?ref=todayspaper

VINCE! VINCE! VINCE! VINCE!

2007-12-04T17:37:00.001-05:00

Vince!

You could use this picture for the front page: http://www.pineconefestival.com/Images/ClimbingWall1Full.jpg

It's got a woman climbing a climbing wall!

Duck Tape or Duct Tape?

2007-12-04T17:11:00.000-05:00

Change One Thing: Recycle

2007-12-04T16:25:00.000-05:00

Web page is at http://jajackson4.iweb.bsu.edu/test/630/movie.html

Files for web page at

http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/jajackson4/world_shared/changeonething.zip

Professor Popcorn Video + Site Revision

2007-12-04T05:15:00.000-05:00

Please visit Professor Popcorn Video to see two "Professor Popcorn: nutrition & health education" instructor, Kristin and David, from Fisher Center for Wellness & Gerontology in Ball State University talking about their creative way of introducing nutrition, health ideas to Delaware County kids (Royerton Elementary School). Also see 1-4 grade kids having lots of fun when gaining correct knowledge about food choosing.

Hydro Wall Site Address

2007-12-03T22:36:00.000-05:00

Here is the Hydro Wall Game site:

http://www.wiwutv51.com/hydro/

Sorry about the crappy gif transparency issue. I would use png but we were told not to. Martin is going to upload the newest version of the game on Tuesday, but that will not change the link. Thanks.

Kyle

My Site Address

2007-12-03T18:16:00.000-05:00

Preferably, the icon in your headers that I made should be made the links back to the main site. If you wish for me to make those into slices in Photoshop so it does it, I can, just comment to this post with your group's title in it. (Memory bad. Memory BAAAAD.)

As for my address if you just wish the whole thing to link back, for now, use http://jwmartin2.iweb.bsu.edu/wellness. If it changes, we will discuss it tomorrow in class.

Background Gradients

2007-11-28T11:56:00.000-05:00

Here are the gradients you will need to incorporate into each site before next Tuesday.

I don't have all the banner colors so if you don't see your group's link, please provide me a link to your current site so I can pull the color down and create the gradient.

Remember, your background color will be grey (hex number: a9acb1)
and you're background image will be this .jpg file repeated along the X-axis (left to right) along the top.

http://brhandler.iweb.bsu.edu/background/okmovegrad.jpg
http://brhandler.iweb.bsu.edu/background/changegrad.jpg
http://brhandler.iweb.bsu.edu/background/foodtubegrad.jpg
http://brhandler.iweb.bsu.edu/background/hydrowallgrad.jpg
http://brhandler.iweb.bsu.edu/background/popcorngrad.jpg

(just open the link, then right click and hit 'save image as' and use it as needed.

A piece of code similar to this will need to placed just below your header in your HTML/CSS

(it's an image because blogger doesn't like displaying code)

Ask Dr. Dailey if you need any help implimenting it as he knows a crapton more about CSS than I do.

Pointless post, just because I can.

2007-11-28T00:35:00.000-05:00

Tonight I decided to get a little outside prospective on our project. You'll all be happy to know that my kitten, Calliope, approves of all the work done so far. She especially seems to enjoy the giant drumstick on the foodTUBE blog.

That's It!

2007-11-27T21:20:00.001-05:00

Or at least it should be. All should have their headers and all should be right with the world. As the sun sets over some western land this evening, I head off to retire. I have had a good run, but my Tuesday is over and done.

Good Evening.

Professor Popcorn!

2007-11-27T21:18:00.001-05:00

I has come back from the dinings! I bring gifts of black and white popcorn!

PNG | PSD

Breaking!

2007-11-27T20:28:00.000-05:00

For Dinner!

PNwait...

foodTube!

2007-11-27T20:24:00.000-05:00

You too can have a header! Just click the links below and surrender .99 fake cents!

PNG | PSD

Change One Thing!

2007-11-27T20:07:00.000-05:00

One Header, Coming Right Up! ...PERHAPS TWO.

PNG | PSD

Hydro Wall!

2007-11-27T19:56:00.000-05:00

Here be a header. Choose a format for your leisure.

PNG | PSD

Professor Popcorn Site

2007-11-13T12:29:00.001-05:00

Please visit: http://bchiou.iweb.bsu.edu/popcorn/

foodTube Update

2007-11-12T21:52:00.000-05:00

Hello,

Here is our updated website for our project. Hope you find this well. Thanks.

http://food-tube.blogspot.com/

Group Check In

2007-11-12T10:11:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone!

If you could be so kind as to let me know in the comment section which school your group is working with, the program and the message you hope to convey, I would appreciate it.

Curt Sutterfield
Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology

Action Group 3 update

2007-11-06T14:31:00.000-05:00

Keepin it Real: ...shot the Band Vathika and had some interviews with band members on Sunday....

Martin_11_I

2007-10-31T10:00:00.000-04:00

Ha, it looks like Simmons shares my distrust of stories about animals doing something that teaches us a valuable lesson. They just aren't very effective among adults, especially in a business setting.

Simmons also wrote, a little too late, that we shouldn't focus on the outcome too much while telling a story. That was a problem that I'm sure many of us had. There was the time limit (which wasn't really a big problem and added some degree of strategy, which was nice) and there were the 6 categories that Simmons mentions and to which we had originally planned on adhering. I'm not sure if these things actually negatively affected our storytelling. What do other people think? Let's see if anyone reads this extremely late blog post.

Overall, I've had to read some pretty terrible books in my college career and this was not one of them. Really, this was an easy read and, content-wise, was great. I can't help but feel that Simmons sees too much power in storytelling and her own methods, though.

Links of Goodness

2007-10-31T01:30:00.000-04:00

Here are some links that were mentioned in class tonight!

The Color Wheel for the groups.

And Colorzilla, a plugin for Firefox that can tell you the RGB or Hex data of any color you browse to.

Till next Tuesday,

Vince

Han_11

2007-10-30T17:25:00.000-04:00

We have heard that some people can mak a lot of many just by talking. Is that really easy to make money only by talking? Many people must think being a storyteller is not a difficult job because talking is the only thing needed. Actually it is not as easy as what we thought. The stories we talk not only should be meaningful and the people who talk stories also should know how to make stories be interesting.

I don't think every one can talk stories well. I don't think every one can make stories be intriguing. Some people can stories in a very interesting way even though the stories are boring. This kind of people definately can make a lot of money by talking because he/she is talented to make the stories not just the words.

I think some poeple might not be born as a storyteller, but they can train theirselves to be a good storyteller by learning from others. I believe being a professional storyteller must have been trough a lot of experiences.

Matt_11_I

2007-10-30T15:47:00.000-04:00

Overall, I think I learned a thing or two from this book. Though, as Sarah said earlier, I think we may have learned a little more from each other in class. No offense to Simmons, but I doubt that I will refer to this as being among my favorites. But it was a little more enjoyable than your average textbook. In this last chapter, I'd say the part that stuck out for me was where Simmons acknowledges that storytelling is a two-way street with the audience.

John B_Chpt 11_I

2007-10-30T13:30:00.000-04:00

I appreciated the way Simmons finished off her book. This chapter had several great points throughout it, especially the last few paragraphs. I like the idea that "control chases stories away." I like control in just about every aspect of my life. When i (i'm sure like most others) are not in control, i certainly feel way out of my comfort zone. Here Simmons continues on by telling us to have faith and confidence in what we tell, and that it's ok to step out of our comfort zone as long as we follow our instincts and emotions. This will lead us to more meaningful stories.
When I think about it, this class was a perfect example, I always needed to think about what story I was going to tell. I needed to control my stories by telling myself them in my head, going over certain details, before telling them aloud to the class. I think this is the practice that Simmons is referring to (for me).

Brandon_11_I

2007-10-30T13:22:00.001-04:00

“Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network has turned thin air (radio waves, music, and stories) into $2.2 billion for 170 nonprofit children’s hospitals.”

I think this is a great way to exemplify the power of good storytelling. Simmons tells us that storytelling can generate great things from “thin air.” If you are a good storyteller, you can get what you need.

It’s not the product you are selling, it’s the packaging. Included in the packaging is the pitch that’s given to sell it, the story. So true.