After a late breakfast, too.
"Summer programs offer kids nutritious meals" by Sarah Shemkus | Globe Correspondent August 09, 2014
PEABODY — This afternoon dance party is just one of scores of activities held at more than 600 sites statewide to encourage participation in the Summer Food Service Program, a federally funded extension of the school lunch program that aims to make sure low-income children get enough to eat when classes are not in session.
Is that why food stamps were cut?
Related: Globe Serving Students Shit
Can't you smell it coming from the Globe kitchen?
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“What matters is that large numbers of low-income kids in our state get a lunch and they feel OK getting it, that they don’t feel like poor kids that are being fed,” said Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread, a nonprofit that works with the state to administer the summer lunch program.
To achieve this goal, the state generally selects nonprofits and other organizations with experience engaging children, said Kathleen Millet, executive director of the state’s Office for Nutrition, Health, and Safety Programs. Libraries, YMCAs, and Boys and Girls Clubs are frequent partners. Sites are in communities with high concentrations of low-income families, but once a location is running, any child can get lunch.
In Peabody, daily activities include dancing, painting, and crafts. For Kaylee Dinkle, 3, of Salem, the dancing is the best part of the program. Her mother, Megan Dinkle, also appreciates the chance to get her two children out of the house and eating a wholesome meal. “It’s nice to have the free lunch, especially now — it’s difficult times for people,” she said.
In Southbridge, the summer food program is at the heart of a six-week camp called Cops ‘N’ Kids. Serving about 120 children free of charge, the program offers breakfast and lunch as part of daylong activities, said director Sergeant Jose Dingui of the Southbridge police.
The children work in a garden, go hiking, and take field trips to places such as Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut and the Massachusetts State House. They even get to try their hands at police work, taking fingerprints at a “crime scene” set up by the staff, identifying a suspect, and holding a mock trial of the alleged bad guy.
Once again my bastion of corporate liberalism is up to the agenda-pushing offensiveness.
This is all about INDOCTRINATING and INCULCATING KIDS with the message that this government loves and protects you even better than family -- until these low-income (and likely minority) get out into the big world where cops kill them and no one bats an eye.
Where the same authorities that love them so loot their futures and send them to into wars based on lies.
What we are looking at here is something akin to the NAZI YOUTH, folks.
The program aims to create strong ties between police and the community, while giving children somewhere safe to go . “Some kids, unfortunately, you can tell that is one of the only times they’re going to have a good meal,” he said.
(At this point blog editor shoved the tray of "food" away)
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Most summer food sites qualify for federal funding, which comes through the US Department of Agriculture, by being in a community where at least half of children qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program. But nearly 100,000 children eligible for the school-year program but do not live in one of these communities.
The U.S. is second to last in child poverty.... but FIRST in MILITARY SPENDING!
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That should help you get launched, 'eh?
"MIT trains teen business titans" by Hiawatha Bray | Globe Staff August 09, 2014
Related: Corporate Peace Corp
This is getting gross, this wholesale war corporatism that dominates everything in my paper.
The program, called Launch, was founded by Laurie Stach, an MIT mechanical engineering graduate who has worked at General Electric and BMW, and earned an MBA from Harvard....
Launch’s first session was held last summer and attracted 30 students. This year’s edition has two four-week sessions, with 84 students from 23 states and 13 foreign countries. The students are assembled into small teams and put to work on creating a business based on their own ideas or suggestions from Launch staffers....
The Astute network would profit by taking a percentage of the tutors’ fees. The company is scheduled to launch in the fall, but the team on Sunday began raising seed capital through the Indiegogo crowdfunding network and within days was more than halfway to its goal of $5,000....
Crowdfunding is simply a way for the elite that have money to direct it where they want and to what well-connected, agenda-pushing causes.
What do you want them to do, pay taxes so you could get decent health care or something?
Tuition for the program was $5,290, including room and board on the MIT campus. Launch offers need-based aid to ensure that any student who is accepted into the program can afford to attend.
Stach said that Launch has had an impact. Some first-year students have continued running their startup businesses, while others have set up entrepreneurship clubs at their schools....
I'm not opposed to entrepreneurship, but nor am I in favor of it in the context of a corporate whoreporate paper. The schools are nothing more than politically-correct brainwashing centers these days, and here it is again.
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Maybe I will go out for lunch:
"Food safety scare puts dent in McDonald’s sales" Associated Press August 09, 2014
NEW YORK — McDonald’s says a global sales figure fell 2.5 percent in July, dragged down by persistent weakness in the United States and a food safety scare in China.
The world’s biggest hamburger chain said Friday that the decline included a 3.2 percent drop in the United States and a 7.3 percent drop in the unit encompassing Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The results reflect what is likely to be just the beginnings of the fallout from a Chinese food scandal late last month. A TV report at the time showed workers at a McDonald’s supplier, OSI Group, repacking expired meat.
Maybe not.
McDonald’s subsequently stopped using the plant in Shanghai, which left many of its restaurants unable to provide a wide range of items including Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets.
The company has since been working with other OSI plants to restore supplies to the affected restaurants. Still, sales are likely to continue suffering given the sensitivities around food safety in China.
Where is it not a sensitive issue?
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It's not just China. Eat at McDonald's? Never!
Related: Chinese Leftovers
"China jails British-US investigator couple" Associated Press August 09, 2014
SHANGHAI — A Briton and an American were sentenced to prison on Friday on charges of illegally trading in the personal details of Chinese citizens after they testified they bought such information to help companies combat fraud.
Peter Humphrey and Yingzeng Yu, a married couple, operated a firm in Shanghai that helped companies screen potential business partners and employees. Their arrest last August sent a chill through foreign businesses. It came as Beijing tightened controls on information and prompted warnings that investigation of legitimate matters might be curtailed.
See: China probes automakers, technology firms
Humphrey was sentenced to 2½ years in prison to be followed by expulsion from China. Yu was sentenced to two years. Humphrey was also fined $32,000 and Yu $25,000. The maximum penalty for illegally selling or providing personal information about Chinese citizens is three years in prison plus fines.
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I feel like something was missing there:
"Police in China arrest British executive" New York Times Syndicate, August 22, 2013
SHANGHAI — Police in Shanghai have arrested a British investigator who specialized in advising foreign investors on fraud, cheating and other business risks in China, a spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Beijing said Wednesday.
The investigator, Peter Humphrey, has been held by the Shanghai police
since early July. He is managing director of ChinaWhys, a risk
management consulting firm that has done work for GlaxoSmithKline, the
British pharmaceutical group that is facing graft and bribery
allegations in China, raising speculation that his detention might be
linked to that case.
A spokeswoman for the British Embassy, Hannah Oussedik, would say only
that he had been formally arrested. “We can confirm the arrest of a
British national, Peter Humphrey, in Shanghai, China, on Monday, 19th
August,” Oussedik said in a brief telephone interview.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported Humphrey’s arrest, said that his wife, Yu Yingzeng, was also formally arrested in Shanghai, and that the couple are both accused of illegally purchasing information about people. Oussedik could not confirm those details. Yu is a US citizen. US officials in Beijing and Shanghai declined to comment Wednesday.
One person who knows Humphrey and who asked not to be identified said he
appears to have been arrested in connection with his work for
GlaxoSmithKline.
That link was it!
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"US-British couple in custody apologizes on China TV; Charges related to
crackdown on foreign firms" by Simon Denyer | Washington Post, August
28, 2013
BEIJING — A British man and his American wife, detained last month for
allegedly selling private information about Chinese citizens to foreign
companies, were shown on state television in orange prison tunics
Tuesday, offering a confession and an apology.
‘‘We obtained personal information, sometimes through illegal ways,’’
Peter Humphrey, 57, said in Chinese, sitting with his handcuffed hands
just below his chin. ‘‘I am very regretful for this, and would like to apologize to the Chinese government.’’
I'll bet that was tough to get out.
The humiliating footage was the latest salvo against foreign business practices in China, which has cracked down this year on issues ranging from food safety to price fixing and poor customer service.
Some foreign business people complain they are being unfairly targeted, but the Chinese government insists it is merely protecting consumers and enforcing the law.
It's about time the Chinese did that.
China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Humphrey and his wife, Yu
Yingzeng, 60, were formally arrested Aug. 16. They are accused of
operating illegal research companies and trafficking ‘‘a huge amount of personal information on Chinese citizens to seek profits.’’
The US and British embassies in Beijing said they were in contact with
Yu and Humphrey, respectively, and would continue to provide them with
consular assistance. Yu was born in China, but she earned a business
degree in California and became an American citizen.
The couple runs a firm called ChinaWhys, an ‘‘international
business-risk advisory service with eyes in China.’’ The company’s
website says it promotes ‘‘transparency, ethical business practices, and
international governance, to mitigate risk and reduce losses in
multinational operations in China and across Asia.’’
They look like spies to me.
The business offers intelligence services to companies looking to do business with China,
including ‘‘the vetting of partners and the screening of employees.’’
Yu, according to the website, is general manager of the firm and has
spent the past 10 years as a fraud investigator in China.
China Central Television showed Yu and Humphrey, in handcuffs and
wearing V-necked tunics, being escorted down a corridor by police
officers, their faces blurred. Humphrey, a bespectacled, gray-haired former reporter for the Reuters news service, was then shown speaking to the camera.
Oh, man!
Shanghai police said the pair had traded personal information about
Chinese citizens, including home addresses, the names of family members,
exit-entry information, car ownership, and real estate details.
Of 500 company investigative reports seized by police, more than 10 were found to have infringed on Chinese citizens’ right of privacy, the Xinhua report said.
What is sad is it is more than you have here, Amurkn.
The information was sold to multinational companies, including manufacturing enterprises, financial institutions, and law firms, making profits running into millions of yuan annually, Xinhua reported (there are just over six yuan to the dollar).
Yu and Humphrey both confessed and apologized, the report quoted police as saying.
Lu Wei, an officer with the criminal investigation team of the Shanghai
police, told CCTV the pair had registered their company in Hong Kong in
2003 but had no office or staff there. Rather, Lu said, the Hong Kong
operation was a ‘‘shell company,’’ while the operation in China had more
than 10 employees.
Ironically, consumers’ private information is routinely traded in China, while the government constantly monitors communications by citizens and foreigners. Still, police said they were merely applying the law in arresting the couple.
Ironically, it is the same in AmeriKa -- if not even worse!
‘‘The police will resolutely crack down on illegal activities made by
either foreigners or Chinese,’’ Xinhua quoted the police as saying. ‘‘In
accordance with the law, the Chinese government protects not only the vital interests of Chinese citizens but also the legitimate interest of foreign enterprises and foreigners in China.’’
I wish I had a government like that.
Last month’s detention of Yu and Humphrey came at the height of an
investigation into British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline, which
is accused of using bribes to expand its business operations in China.
ChinaWhys reportedly did work for GlaxoSmithKline. But Tuesday’s reports in the Chinese news media made no mention of the pharmaceutical company, and it remained unclear whether the two investigations were linked.
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Time to choke down a pill.
Also see:
Chinese rights lawyer freed from prison
China tightens grip on instant messaging services
They were being used by terrorists.
WTO upholds ‘rare earth’ ruling against China
Those minerals and the yuan are why war must be made on China.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Georgia trial shows food safety relies on honor system
No worries or sensitivities, though, and it is obvious by the attention it has gotten from the Globe. You need not worry about the safety of the corporate and global food supply.
"Bus falls over cliff, causing fatalities
BEIJING — A tour bus carrying about 40 people fell off a 30-foot cliff in southwest China’s mountainous region of Tibet on Saturday, causing some fatalities, the country’s official news agency reported. The bus crashed in a pileup involving a sports utility vehicle and a pickup truck in the county of Nyemo in southern Tibet (AP)."
