This is a very beautiful song...not my style of playing but I like it!
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:D Happy birthday Laurrrrenn at 3am. ;D For the... third or fourth year in a row- Happy birthday! This is the first time, however, I'm on time. xD! And it wouldn't be your birthday video unless I added funnies at the end. :D love ya Lauren! Song: Catch Your Wave - Click Five Anime: 07- Ghost **I don't own a single thing in my video!
Rooooar. Music: Winter by Bayside
Dogs playing tag in the living room. My Shih Tzu Snickers playing with my moms Husky Cookie..
In the last 30 years, childhood obesity has tripled in the United States, and if no action is taken today's children will be the first generation in recorded history to be less healthy than their parents. Hundreds of lifestyle and culture changes have combined to effect this change, and hundreds of action steps will need to be taken to combat it. One important step should happen in schools. Many children eat two meals a day at school, and many more eat at least one. They deserve the best, and schools are just starting to understand that.
While some districts are completely overhauling their school lunch program - Boulder, Colorado among them - others don't have the resources to make such big changes so fast. Installing healthy vending machines can solve both problems at once: a substantial and immediate change that generates revenue for bigger changes down the road. What's more, healthy vending machines in schools can help students build life-long habits and learn about healthy lifestyles.
Choosing the Right Snacks
Along with hot lunches, most schools offer a number of other snack options to students via vending machines and snack bars. This is to help the school make money, but should such enterprises be done at the cost of student health? Nachos, candy bars, and cookies are hardly fair for lunch, but kids don't know any better; when given the option, they go for what tastes good. Even adults are guilty of that, so no one would expect more self-denial from kids. However, recent brain research suggests that even into the teen years the frontal lobe - the part of the brain that regulates self-control and judgment - is being re-structured and developed. That means it is even harder for young people to resist the urge to have a candy bar than it is for an average adult. Therefore, it is even more critical that responsible grown-ups make important choices for students that will help them eat right now and learn to choose to do so in the future.
A healthy vending machine in the school building is one way to start that process. Filled completely with nutritious options, kids can learn that "healthy" doesn't mean "gross" and can find themselves coming to enjoy the taste and effects of fueling their bodies with something substantial. That is a lesson that will pay dividends for the rest of their lives.
Multi-Media Health Education
Today's youth are a technology generation, and no doubt about it. Texting, gaming, social networking, and YouTubing all comprise the language kids speak, however foreign that language is to parents. To educate them effectively, anyone with a message for students needs to communicate in a way they understand. No one would guess a vending machine could do that.
Some innovative healthy vending machines include LCD screens that come with educational information both on the snacks in the machine and on healthy tips in general. With state-of-the-art technology and bold graphics, these machines market themselves to young people, but instead of deceiving consumers into buying something they don't need, they encourage them to make the best possible choice when it comes to snacking at school.
Generating Profit for Extra-Curricular Activities
The LCD screens also serve as valuable advertisement space that can be sold to augment even more the profit of owning a vending machine. The reason why many schools have soda machines and snack machines in spite of the obvious health concerns is they are so lucrative that administrators feel it is worth the risk of childhood obesity in order to avoid cutting back already tight budgets on opportunities kids need. How much better to retain the profit and encourage student health? In fact, those extra curricular activities that need the funds are often exactly the same ones that get kids exercising and socializing - the ones that teach them how to live healthy lives outside of school as well as in it. Who knew a vending machine could be so powerful?
However valuable such an investment will be, it still might be a hard sell at the beginning. Working with a trusted vending franchise that specializes in health-food machines is important to avoid mistakes that lead to unsuccessful experiences. For instance, if a Snickers bar is sold next to a granola bar, it's rare that a teenager will be able to resist the former. In fact, having unhealthy snacks available at all, even in another machine, will lead to smaller profit margins than if only nutritious options are presented. That's just common sense, remembering the under-developed frontal lobe of adolescents and children. On the other hand, if someone's hungry for a little something and they look into a window that offers pita chips next to vitamin water next to whole grain honey graham sticks, something is bound to look tasty. If a district is interested in going healthy, it's going to be a commitment. The process of throwing out old junk food habits and creating new one may take a while, but it's worth it.
Your kids will thank you.
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Most of us, who work in the corporate world, spend about 8 -10 hours in the office and the inhabitants of the office are our co-workers, with whom we spend almost one half of the working life. Cut to the holiday season, you definitely need to show you appreciation and wish them well .But, the challenge is what gift is appropriate for your male or female co-worker in terms of price and also whom you are giving to as seniority, professionalism and office politics can come into play.
Now since the most of the times you would be giving gifts to your co-workers who are large in number, which means you definitely set yourself a price range as even small numbers can add up a lot when the number of co-workers is huge.
Remember a few golden rules of gift etiquettes in the office and these help you select a nice gift. Set up a price range as expensive gifts at the office can make others uncomfortable. No personal or religious flavor things and always acknowledge the gift that you have received.
Here are a few ideas that make for inexpensive gifts for co-workers.
Get a Christmas Ornament with a year and space for the name of each co-worker on it. A never fail gift for the co-workers.
Another favorite and great gift is a bag of candies and snacks like snickers, Hershey kisses. Make hand made tags for each bag and I am sure your co-worker will love it. I have had lottery tickets given to me as gift. Though, not my favorite but people were happy as it is a change from the traditional gifts.
Homemade Goodies or foods would be good idea especially like bake a cheesecake or bring a turkey. Or home made rum balls. Another favorite is wood crafts and handmade special effect cards printed out from a lot of websites online.
Another thing to remember if you are buying individual gifts for your co-workers make sure to buy different gifts for your male and female co-workers.
For male co-workers, the best is getting each of them a coupon for two rounds of beers at a local pub after hours and they love that. Starbucks gift cards still holds to be the best as it is inexpensive, though I must say it is for both the sexes. Another favorite with the guys is cookies, make some big sized cookies at home and pack them in a nice bowl you get at dollar store.
Inexpensive gifts for female co-workers?? The bets gift is body lotion from body shop. They have it in all price ranges and in all sizes, so choose the one that fits your price range. Another gift which is appropriate is the movie tickets or a blockbuster gift card or a popcorn gift basket.
Choose wisely as it can get tricky giving gifts co-workers but make sure to give gifts on Christmas or other occasions like winning a project or completing a big assignment.
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