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- High Food Prices Changing Diets, Survey Says
- Facebook Hires Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart
- The telltale signs of a Rick Perry 2012 campaign
- LA School District Votes to Ban Flavored Milk
- Virginia Men Live 15 Years Longer than Mississippi’s
- Tampa 9/12 Group Offers Founding Fathers Summer Camp for Kids
| High Food Prices Changing Diets, Survey Says Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:37 AM PDT By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg.com Almost two-fifths of consumers surveyed in 17 countries said high food prices have changed their diets, with people in poorer nations hit hardest by increased costs. More than half said they eat different food than two years ago, mainly for cost and health reasons, according to the survey of more than 16,000 people by Globescan Inc., a Toronto-based researcher, for Oxfam International. Global food prices have increased 37 percent in the past year, the United Nations says. "Huge numbers of people, especially in the world's poorest countries, are cutting back on the quantity or quality of the food they eat because of rising food prices," Raymond Offenheiser, the president of the U.S. affiliate of Oxford, UK- based Oxfam, said in a news release. The results of the survey were released today. The world's population is forecast to jump to 9.3 billion in 2050 from an estimated 6.9 billion in 2010, requiring a 70 percent increase in food production, according to the UN. In February, when the rise in food prices peaked, the World Bank said the increased costs had pushed 44 million people into "extreme poverty" in a little over half a year. Costs or Health? Corn, wheat and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade were all up at least 49 percent in the past year as of yesterday. The U.S. is the world's biggest exporter of all three crops. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/food-prices-changing-global-diets-oxfam-backed-survey-says.html |
| Facebook Hires Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:34 AM PDT By Sam Gustin, Wired.com Facebook is beefing up its public relations power as it mulls an IPO that could value the company at over $100 billion. The online social networking giant said Tuesday that it has hired former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart (above, center) as VP for corporate communications, reporting to Elliot Schrage, Facebook's VP of global communications. Lockhart knows a thing or two about crisis communications: he manned the White House press podium during the Clinton impeachment trial following the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Lockhart joins Facebook from Washington, D.C. consulting firm Glover Park Group, where he was Founding Partner and Managing Director. Earlier this year, rumors surfaced that Facebook was talking to former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Those discussions didn't pan out. Facebook has had its share of PR gaffes, most recently with the brouhaha over Facebook's facial recognition feature, and the Burson Marsteller debacle. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/facebook-lockhart/ |
| The telltale signs of a Rick Perry 2012 campaign Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:31 AM PDT From: Los Angeles Times There are several ways to tell if someone is really running for president. One is for them to comment publicly that today’s voters are obviously seeking other options from the current field. A second is to say 1) you are exploring the possibility and then add 2) a gratuitous pitch that your state has created more private-sector jobs in the last decade than all other states combined. Who cares, unless…… Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry did both Tuesday. (And produced a surprise video below.) Speaking self-servingly on behalf of millions of Americans he did not identify, Perry told the Texas Tribune, “People would like to have some other options in the race, obviously.” With his top campaign strategists having deserted Newt Gingrich last week, Perry is manned and ready. And who wouldn’t want to escape Austin in the summer? As chairman of the Republican Governors Assn., Perry’s on the horn every day with political and financial heavy-hitters nationwide. On Fox Business Network on Tuesday, Perry was asked if his aides’ return was a clear sign of a candidacy. The longest-serving governor in Texas history told Neil Cavuto, “I think it's a clear sign that I'm certainly giving it an appropriate thought process. Six weeks ago, this was not on my radar screen.” In fact, on Tuesday night he was in New York City speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner, and he’s to meet Wednesday morning with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. To read more, visit: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/rick-perry-texas-gop-presidential-race-.html |
| LA School District Votes to Ban Flavored Milk Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:28 AM PDT By CHRISTINA HOAG, ABCNews.com Los Angeles Unified on Tuesday became the nation’s largest school district to stop serving flavored milk in a move to combat child obesity. The school board voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk from schools as of July 1. LAUSD joins a growing number of school districts nationwide, including District of Columbia, Boulder Valley, Colo., and Berkeley, Calif., that serve only plain milk because of the added sugar contained in flavored versions. The proposal by Superintendent John Deasy came after popular British TV chef Jamie Oliver criticized the district in recent months for serving flavored milks, saying they contain the sugar equivalent of a candy bar. In one TV stunt, he filled a school bus with sand to represent the amount of added sugar LAUSD students consume in a year through flavored milk. Some board members were rankled by the perception that the district was caving in to Oliver, who unsuccessfully lobbied the district to be allowed to tape shows in local schools. To read more, visit: |
| Virginia Men Live 15 Years Longer than Mississippi’s Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:25 AM PDT By Meg Tirrell, Bloomberg.com A man in Fairfax County, Virginia, can expect to live 15 years longer than one in Holmes County, Mississippi, according to a study released today that illuminates health disparities across the U.S. A woman in Collier County, Florida, has 12 years on a woman in Holmes, in the Mississippi Delta region of the southern state, said researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. The study examined life expectancy in 3,147 U.S. counties through 2007. Tobacco use, obesity and high blood pressure have dropped life expectancy in Appalachia, the Deep South and northern Texas, said Christopher Murray, the institute director and a report author. He called for more investment in public-health programs and increased emphasis on primary care so doctors can catch and control high blood pressure and cholesterol levels. "Eighty-five percent of counties in the U.S. are not keeping up with what's possible for women, and 81 percent of counties in the U.S. are not keeping up for men," Murray said in a telephone interview. He defined "what's possible" as progress made in the top 10 countries, including Canada, Australia and Japan, in extending human lifespan. "It's an achievable thing, to do better," Murray said. "The question is: what can we do to reorient our medical care system and public health to get better outcomes?" Health Spending While the U.S. spends more per capita on medical care than any other nation, it lags more than 30 others in life expectancy, said the report, which was done in collaboration with Imperial College London. More than $2.3 trillion was paid out for health care in 2008, or about $7,681 per resident, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research group in Menlo Park, California. Before the University of Washington report, the most recent available county data were from 1999, the researchers said. To read more, visit: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/virginia-men-live-15-years-longer-than-mississippi-s-in-study.html |
| Tampa 9/12 Group Offers Founding Fathers Summer Camp for Kids Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:22 AM PDT By: Jonathan Seidl, TheBlaze.com We all probably have summer-camp horror stories. From poison ivy, to diving board flubs, to finding and losing the love of your life all in one week. And in the end, maybe we learned a couple rudimentary survival skills, but mostly we learned how to launch a perfect water balloon. But what if you could find a variation of summer camp that was more about enduring principles and the founding fathers than chasing fireflies? One 9/12 group is making that possible. The Tampa 9/12 project is planning a summer-camp variation this July that will introduce kids to ideas such as, "America is good," "I believe in God," and "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable." The Tampa Tribune has more about the project, called "Tampa Liberty School:" Organized by conservative writer Jeff Lukens and staffed by volunteers from the 912 Project, Tampa Liberty School will meet every morning July 11-15 in borrowed space at the Paideia Christian school in Temple Terrace. Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages. "We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told," Lukens told the Tribune. He later added, "We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing." To read more, visit: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tampa-912-group-offers-founding-fathers-summer-camp-alternative-for-kids/ |
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