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Nestlé bottled-water company seeks to take more Michigan water
Posted on November 22, 2016 by barbara
by Keith Matheny and Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press
Nestlé Waters North America's plans to increase its Michigan groundwater withdrawal by more than 2 1/2 times would unravel an accord reached with environmentalists seven years ago that was aimed at protecting the water table and wildlife.
Nestlé announced a $36-million expansion at its Ice Mountain bottling operations in Stanwood, in Mecosta County, on Oct. 31. The addition of two water-bottling lines — the first to begin operation next spring; the next opening by 2018 — is expected to add 20 jobs to the plant, which employs more than 250 people.
But the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has not yet approved the company's request to increase its groundwater withdrawals by 167% — from 150 gallons per minute to 400 gallons per minute — at White Pine Springs well No. 101 in nearby Osceola County. The DEQ has, however, recommended approval under the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act.
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation sued Nestlé in 2001 over the potential damage to lakes, rivers and streams that its bottled water plant's groundwater withdrawals would cause. After years of court battles, the two sides reached a settlement agreement in 2009, reducing Nestlé's siphoning to 218 gallons per minute from 400, with additional restrictions on spring and summer withdrawals. The litigation cost the nonprofit more than $1 million, which was covered by supporters.
Now, the proposed permit from the DEQ would take the bottled-water plant's groundwater withdrawals back up to the level that prompted the lawsuit.
"I'm not sure if there is a reasonable amount of water that should be allowed to be taken from an aquifer," said Jeff Ostahowski, vice president of the nonprofit Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation. "But 400 gallons per minute seems more than a bit too much."
The controversy highlights the sometimes-contentious balance between protecting Michigan's most important, abundant natural resource — its fresh water — and using it as an economic commodity. It's particularly heightened after the months of fierce debate this year over a Wisconsin community, Waukesha, which lies just outside the Great Lakes Basin, being approved to use the basin for its water supply by Great Lakes Compact member states — over howls of protest from local governments throughout the Midwest.
The DEQ requires use of its Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool, an interactive, online evaluation of proposed water withdrawals in the state that looks at impacts to fish and stream flows through comparative data and modeling, prior to any proposed large-quantity water withdrawal.
"When Nestlé ran the Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool" last December, "they didn't pass," said Jim Milne, the shorelines unit chief in the DEQ's Water Resources Division.
But as state regulations allow, the company then requested a site-specific review by DEQ staff. That review, which included looks at the geology in the area and Nestlé's own compiled stream-flow information, led the DEQ to determine the increased pumping "is not likely to cause an adverse resource impact," in January, he said, meaning it won't impact populations of fish in the Chippewa Creek watershed, a tributary to the Muskegon River, or decrease stream flows to the point of natural resource impacts.
It's not unprecedented for DEQ staff to override the findings of the agency's Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool. From July 2015 to July of this year, the DEQ authorized 123 withdrawal requests rejected by the computerized modeling after site-specific reviews, Milne said.
The Stanwood plant receives its water supply "from diverse sources that we manage in a sustainable manner," said Christopher Rieck, a spokesman for Nestlé Waters North America.
"The increase would also allow us the ability to balance the use of our water sources to ensure long-term sustainability and support future growth."
The DEQ notified the public of its impending decision on the Nestlé permit via its biweekly environmental calendar, a little-read regulatory notices clearinghouse, and announced that public comment on Nestlé's request would close Nov. 3, sparking outrage from many because of the short notice.
"The MDEQ's handling of the Nestlé application is as lax as the handling of the Flint water crisis. Nothing has changed," said Jim Olson, an environmental attorney and founder and president of the environmental nonprofit For Love of Water, or FLOW.
"Rights to public notice, public information, hearings and public participation in government decisions over water and quality of life, health — even our economy — have been diminished to the point of absurdity. MDEQ didn't even post the underlying documents to the application summary online for interested people to review before public comment, and the notice was so hidden and late in the game that no meaningful comments can be made by Nov. 3."
Added Ostahowski : "I think they were trying to slip it through. It's disappointing but not uncommon."
Responding to such criticism, the DEQ has announced it would extend the public comment period 30 days, and will make available the documents it used to recommend approval of the Nestlé application. A public hearing will also be scheduled in the area during the 30-day period, with a date and venue yet to be determined, said Carrie Monosmith, the DEQ's Environmental Health Section Chief in its Office of Drinking Water.
One reason the Nestlé operation in Michigan has been controversial is that Deb Muchmore, a lobbyist and public relations consultant who has served as a Michigan spokeswoman for the company, is the spouse of Dennis Muchmore, who until January was chief of staff to Gov. Rick Snyder.
The Free Press reported in February that in March 2015, Dennis Muchmore proposed spending $250,000 to buy bottled water for Flint from either Nestlé or Absopure, a competitor.
"How about cutting a deal with Ice Mountain," which is bottled by Nestlé, "or (Absopure Water board member) Bill Young and buying some water for the people for a time?" Muchmore asked in a March 3, 2015, e-mail. He added that "$250,000 buys a lot of water, and we could distribute it through the churches while we continue to make the water even safer."
Neither deal happened, officials said.
Nestlé's large-scale withdrawal of low-cost Great Lakes water while Flint residents have not had clean tap water to drink has not sat well with many in Michigan.
State Rep. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, said Nestlé has increased the amount of water it's pumping over time and that he feels the company's permit application shows the latest proposed increase would negatively impact the environment. Nestlé said its plans would only "minimally" affect the levels of nearby creeks, when it should be having no impact on surface waters, he said.
"Nestlé is essentially appropriating what is a common good for their personal corporate utility," he said.
Given the track record of the DEQ under Snyder's administration, it's reasonable for people to question whether a decision will be made based on the environment and the public good, or on corporate interests, Irwin said.
"Michigan citizens need to understand that part of the legacy we have is the unusual amount of fresh water we have. It's not a given that it's going to be around forever. With a company like Nestlé, it appears there is no end to what they think they can sell," Ostahowski said.
Written comments on Nestlé's proposed increased water withdrawals can be submitted until Dec. 3 to the DEQ via e-mail at deq-eh@michigan.gov or mailed to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance, P.O. Box 30241, Lansing, Mich., 48909-7741.
Source: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/11/20/nestl-bottled-water-company-seeks-take-more-michigan-water/93175144/
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Alliance's Ruth Caplan and Nancy Price on WBAI's "Eco-Logic"
Posted on March 17, 2016 by barbara
On Tuesday, AfD's co-chair Nancy Price and Defending Water for Life campaign chair Ruth Caplan were guests on Eco-Logic, broadcast on WBAI in New York City. Ruth and Nancy were joined on the show by Susan Shapiro, of the Radiation and Public Health Project. You can listen to the show on WBAI's online archive
1. here
; the conversation starts around 15 minutes in.
The show focused on the safety of our drinking water, a topic that's gotten more media attention in the last month due to ongoing crises with lead contamination in Flint and before that, shutoffs in Detroit, and the damage done there and elsewhere by austerity measures that seek to balance city and state budgets by putting the most economically-vulnerable citizens at risk. But as the guests emphasize, the problems with access to water and water contamination go far beyond one state or a few cities. Nancy, Ruth and Susan talk about the past, present and potential impacts of Wall Street deals, privatization, the nuclear industry, and international trade agreements.
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Nestle Adds Premium Brand in Still Water Arena
Posted on June 11, 2013 by nmatela
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
DRINKING tap water is essentially free, but even during the economic downturn, consumers have sprung for bottled water, with sales in the United States increasing 6.7 percent in 2012, to $11.8 billion, according to the International Bottled Water Association. Americans on average drank 30.8 gallons of bottled water, 5.3 percent more than in 2011.
Ads for Resource, which are being introduced on Monday, are aimed at a stylish, higher income woman.
Now Nestlé Waters North America, the top producer with about a third of the domestic bottled water market, hopes to make a splash with a new brand it is introducing nationally, Resource.
Larry Cooper, group marketing manager for Resource, said the brand, which was introduced in Whole Foods in 2009, then Southern California in 2012 before its national rollout early this month, is intended for the most discriminating water drinker.
"We look at bottled water as being at a more value, mainstream or premium level," Mr. Cooper said. "And we have incredibly good coverage in those first two tiers, but we haven't in all these years had a premium entry to compete with the Smartwater, Fijis and Evians of the world," he continued, referring to the Glacéau, Fiji Water Company and Danone Waters of North America brands.
While Nestlé owns premium sparkling water brands like San Pellegrino and Perrier, Resource is what it calls its first domestically sourced premium brand of still water, meaning noncarbonated and noneffervescent.
Nestlé Pure Life has a narrow lead in the bottled still water category, with a 10 percent share, followed by Dasani, a Coca-Cola brand, with a 9.7 percent share, and Aquafina, a PepsiCo brand, with a 9.4 share, according to data for the 52 weeks ending May 19 from SymphonyIRI Group, a market data company. Other Nestlé brands include Poland Spring, with a 6.3 share, Deer Park, with a 4.4 share, and Ozarka, with a 3.4 share.
Resource is being aimed primarily at "a woman who is a little more on the trendy side and higher-income side, and the bull's-eye is 35 years old," Mr. Cooper said.
New print ads show the bottle in lush woodland settings, and highlight "100 percent naturally occurring electrolytes — for taste, never added" and that the bottle has 50 percent recycled plastic content.
"It's more than hydration, it's total electrolytenment," says the headline in the ads, which will be introduced on Monday in publications including People, Vanity Fair, In Style and Fitness. The campaign, which includes online advertising, is by McCann, New York, part of the Mediabrands division of the Interpublic Group of Companies. Public relations efforts for the campaign are by Cone Communications in Boston.
Nestlé, which declined to reveal expenditures for the new campaign, spent $51.5 million in 2012 on domestic advertising for its bottled water brands, according to Kantar Media, part of WPP.
Environmental groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council generally discourage drinking bottled water because of resources required to source, bottle and ship the water, not to mention the impact on the waste stream. But Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, commended Resource for using bottles that contain 50 percent recycled plastic.
"The fact that they are using recycled content in their bottles is something that all beverage companies should emulate," Mr. Hershkowitz said.
In the United States, Coca-Cola brands use an average of about 5 percent recycled content in plastic bottles and PepsiCo soft drink brands average about 10 percent, the companies said.
As for promoting electrolytes, David G. Schardt, a senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, noted that Resource stopped short of explicitly claiming they benefit health.
"They're trying to stay away from F.D.A. interference but it also allows them to leave it up to the consumer to imagine the benefits that might come from electrolytes," Mr. Schardt said.
With the exception of distilled water, all water contains some naturally occurring electrolytes like sodium and potassium, he said, adding that the added electrolytes in sports drinks are necessary only for extreme exertion.
"Replacing your electrolytes is only an issue for endurance athletes sweating for hours, not a jogger going out for a half-hour," Mr. Schardt said.
Electrolytes and recycled content aside, Mr. Cooper said the real goal for Resource is to transcend mere beverage status.
"We want to raise it to the level of a lifestyle brand," he said, "where she's proud to carry around Resource as her bottled water accessory, so to speak."
In a deal with "Project Runway," the reality show on Lifetime, Resource will be featured throughout the 12th season, which will begin on July 18. In one episode the water will be integral to the theme of a design challenge, when fashion designers will be taken to a pastoral setting and challenged with reflecting elements of the natural environment in their designs.
Resource also has signed endorsement deals with Bobbie Thomas, the style editor on the "Today" show on NBC, Aida Mollenkamp, the host of "FoodCrafters" on the Cooking Channel, and Brett Hoebel, a fitness trainer who starred on "The Biggest Loser" on NBC.
It also will participate in fund-raising events for Dress for Success, the organization that provides professional clothing and confidence training to woman struggling to join the work force.
"As we're trying to reach this new target, the brand is saying we've got to come at what their interests are and support their endeavors and causes," said Leslie Sims, an executive creative director at McCann. "You have to be more interesting than just touting product benefits."
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/business/media/nestle-adds-a-premium-brand-in-still-water-category.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1370959302-fdHWUOe8cno5xPontB9p3A
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Just Say No to Multinationals? For Rural Communities, It's Not Always That Simple
Posted on April 24, 2013 by nmatela
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 00:00 By Alissa Bohling, Truthout
The people of economically depressed Cascade Locks, Oregon, are divided about a proposal by Nestle to go into business with the city to extract spring water from its cherished watershed, bringing jobs and sorely needed revenue.
Nestle Water North America's makeshift office in Cascade Locks, Oregon, is two doors down from the post office. Most people on their way to get their mail on a rainy Thursday morning at the end of February pass the same tableau, if they bother to look. And they might not have looked, because so many of the storefronts in Cascade Locks are empty these days, have been for years. But framed in one of the twin picture windows of the building he shares with a vacant ice cream parlor is Dave Palais, behind his desk in a plaid shirt, communing diligently with his computer, looking for all the world like a still life and nothing like the storm cloud of multinational doom he could be said to symbolize in certain environmentalist circles.
For a few days every couple of weeks, Palais makes the seven-hour trip from Redding, California, on business for Nestle, where he works as a natural resource manager. Cascade Locks, about 40 miles east of Portland in the scenic Columbia River Gorge, has a lot of natural resources: salmon in the Columbia River (where dams have cut their habitat by more than half), timber on the craggy hills unfolding from Mount Hood 50 miles away, to the cliffs backdropping the town (where the logging industry all but died decades ago) and water that melts off the slopes of the mountain and flows into town in creeks known for their excellent fishing and hiking.
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Palais and the Nestle Company – purveyor of Pellegrino, Perrier and 10 other brands of bottled water – are here for Oxbow Springs, which flows onto a mossy tumble of rocks above a fish hatchery a few miles out of town. But before that water can be sealed in a plastic bottle and slapped with a label ("Arrowhead ® Brand 100% Mountain Spring Water"), there are three legal challenges to face, all compliments of environmental organizations Bark, and Food and Water Watch. The legal hurdles are expected to delay a proposal by the company for two or three years, if they don't kill it altogether.
The challenges stem from an unconventional proposal that Nestle, the city and the state's business development agency put to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) back in 2009. Nestle is proposing to gain access to the spring via a water exchange with Cascade Locks. Through the exchange, the city would supply the state hatchery with municipal well water in exchange for about five percent of the spring's volume, which the city would in turn sell to Nestle.
ODFW tends not to dabble in trade – it's got its hands full raising the next generation of endangered salmon, for starters – but the state's former governor said it should go ahead and look into the deal; jobs are jobs, and Cascade Locks needs them. And about that municipal water? Nestle would buy it too, to market under its Pure Life brand. Nothing in the deal has been finalized, and the environmental challenges get pretty technical; suffice it to say that selling public water to a private company is not as popular with conservationists as it is with Nestle, which managed to pull in over $4 billion with its 2010 bottled water sales.
Considering the vocal opposition that has rallied over the years, Palais' office is remarkably quiet. Maybe that's because much of the pushback is unfolding silently in briefs being filed before the administrative law judge expected to hear the first challenge in June. And maybe it's because much of the opposition is from outside Cascade Locks.
Palais says nearly 90 percent of the town's residents want his company to set up shop here. He admits it's a ballpark number, and what he says next would sound like standard PR, except that it's also true: "They're extremely frustrated that outside activists are trying to control this." Maybe not everyone, and maybe not 90 percent – but yes, they are. In the words of one local person, "The people who are opponents are from Portland, and that really pisses everybody in this town off."
Rich in Resources, Economically Poor
Martha La Mont has worked hard to improve the Cascade Locks food bank since she moved to town four years ago from Southern California after retiring from a career in real estate. She's proud that people can now get milk and eggs with their monthly supplies, and her no-nonsense manner waxes almost ecstatic over a recent donation of olive oil and top-shelf jelly. She's got plenty of energy left over to say what she thinks of the out-of-towners who oppose the Nestle project. "How about each of you fork over $5,000 a year and then we can take Nestle away?" said La Mont. "We've got people here who need food."
Nestle has been criticized for targeting economically depressed rural communities, and Cascade Locks certainly fits the bill. In the town of about 1,150, the unemployment rate was reported at 16 percent this year. Over 50 families use the local food bank while others travel the 20 interstate miles to another one in more prosperous Hood River. In 2009, fewer than 10 percent of adults had four-year college degrees, less than half of the state average. The municipal government is desperate for revenue. The chief of the city's fire department resigned in 2011 from his post as the sole paid staff member in the wake of cuts to the department's budget and his salary; now, a single paramedic does double duty as fire chief while the rest of the department remains volunteer. The city's museum and youth recreation programs were recently put on indefinite hold. The town's main street is checker-boarded with empty storefronts. Its volunteer mayor also works as a riverboat captain, park maintenance person and ski lift operator, depending on the season.
Tom Cramblett was elected to the mayoral seat in January after five years on the City Council. He's lived in Cascade Locks all his life, and he remembers it as a different town before the 1988 closure of the sawmill that sat on part of the oak-dotted swathe of land that is the town's mostly vacant industrial park, where Nestle would build its bottling plant. The mill closed along with hundreds of others around the country in the wake of new protections for wildlife habitat and was key in funding the city's power, sewer, water and cable services. Nestle says it would create about 50 jobs, and the city estimates the operation would add about $50 million in property tax and utility fee revenue to Cascade Locks' current budget of $70 million.
While Cascade Locks' dire economic straits may be convenient for Nestle, the town's draw for the company is also a matter of basic logistics.
"The good spring water is out in the rural regions," says Palais. At the fish hatchery just below Oxbow Spring where Nestle wants to build its pipeline, fish outnumber people by the hundreds. (The spring also happens to emerge mere feet from the national forest boundary, where Nestle would have been subject to a stricter set of environmental regulations.) It pours from a mossy concrete block in silver ribbons flashing underneath a crown of white spray. Sipped from a cupped hand it tastes slightly metallic and more like air than water. The hatchery is deserted at the lunch hour, and a buzzer sounds across the property in time with the ring of an unattended phone, overtaking the sound of the miniature waterfalls feeding the runways where fish dart back and forth.
Hatcheries can be a divisive topic in conservation circles, where some maintain the operations are a Band-aid for more systemic problems like dams and pollution, and studies have raised questions about genetic viability. But, at least for these fish, they seem to be a good thing. The bigger fish are silver-blue, and they swim fast, scattering and disappearing, turning turquoise when the light is right. The younger ones are a duller color and they move like they're just waking up, their short bodies barely bending. ODFW says it will only go through with the exchange if it's best for the fish, and there's been talk that the swap could supply the agency with extra water in the summer and allow it to raise more sockeye, one of the most stressed species of the embattled salmon populations.
An Easier Place to Raise Fish Than People?
Back in town, Cassie Madrid answers the door with her 1-year-old. The rainbow-lettered banner from his birthday party still hangs behind the television. Marcos Madrid flips through a catalogue, expertly ignoring the dog growling under the couch. He and his wife are hospitable and easygoing, warning visitors to watch their step on the rain-slick ramp up to the entrance of their trailer home. They say raising their children in Cascade Locks has been a slippery prospect, too. Marcos was laid off around the holidays when the pub he worked for came under new ownership, and Cassie, who cooked for two years at the local drive-through and another restaurant across the Columbia River in Washington State, is enrolled in a class for job-seekers.
Marcos loved Cascade Locks when Cassie took him to see where she spent her summers growing up. He's an ex-gang member, and he liked the idea of raising his kids away from the city life that cut his childhood short. But since the high school closed in 2009, and the middle school followed the next year, graduating elementary school here means an interstate commute to class. Plus there's that hold on the youth recreation program.
The Madrids say drugs are a problem with young people here in a way they weren't when Cassie was young, and they blame the lack of opportunities and sheer boredom. Cassie has no qualms about snatching cigarettes straight out of the mouths of other people's kids when she catches them smoking, but she's not waiting around for her own to pick up the habit.
The Madrids plan to move as soon as they can. While they're not exactly apathetic about the Nestle project, their take on the debate, which has risen and fallen in time with the slow march of public meetings since Nestle approached city leaders in 2008, is on the dispassionate side. "I have nothing against it," Cassie says evenly. If small towns had diplomats, she would make a good one. Bottled water sounds a lot better to her than a casino, another candidate for industry in town that ultimately fell flat, but not before years of false hope for a cash infusion and worries from people like Cassie, who feared it would bring prostitution and a hard-partying clientele.
When her daughter calls from her after-school program, Cassie answers her phone on the first ring; she needs her mom's help filling in the blanks on her family tree project. Growing up, Cassie says, she only had to go as far as the grocery store to be introduced to another long-lost relative, but things are different now. At least her daughter seems to like the after-school thing, and what kid wouldn't love to build a robot out of a toothbrush like she did last week? But besides that, "There's nothing for them to fall back on," Cassie says, shaking her head for the sake of her own kids and everyone else's. It's easy to follow the dismissive wave of her hand out the window, where playing outside looks pretty unappealing as the rain pours down in sheets.
Cascade Locks gets over 75 inches of rain a year. (By comparison, nearby Portland averages 39 inches annually.) The impressive number is not lost on Mayor Cramblett: "What we feel good about is that we have an abundance of water. There's a lot of places in the world that are hurting for that, and they're fighting over that." So as far as the Nestle proposal goes, "We look at it as a way to help people out with their water issues." Cassie also figures all that water could do some good closer to home. After all, Nestle is already showing its support for the community. At the going-away party she attended for the two women who staffed the suspended youth recreation program, the company made sure everyone had enough bottled water to drink.
In a small town, a little corporate goodwill goes a long way. Martha La Mont says Nestle has donated $3,000 to the food bank in the past two years. In 2009 and 2010, according to a company fact sheet, the company gave $3,500 to the Port of Cascade Locks for a tourism festival, another thousand dollars or so to sailing organizations, plus close to 20,000 bottles of water for local sporting events.
Cause for Skepticism
The company is clearly good for a few grand here and there. But Kate Stuart is not impressed. "All we're going to get out of this is one large water customer and the taxes," she says. "I think we should get more from a multinational corporation."
Stuart moved to town from Sonoma County six years ago. Her group of friends first came together to organize against the casino, and now they have their eye on Nestle.
Stuart is a lively skeptic and the fleece bandana wrapped around her head seems like the only thing holding her features on her face as they dance in time with the argument she's mapping out at a diner booth overlooking the Columbia River.
The waterway is basically an interstate for barges and the trains that run on the banks on both sides, but from this height it's easy to imagine it's pristine.
"I have breast cancer, so I obviously have a reason not to like plastic," says Stuart. But the fact that the illness she's spent nine years battling has been linked to certain plastics by some studies is more of an addendum to another concern: "I don't like water leaving watersheds."
The Oregon law placing strict limitations on removing state waters from their basin of origin acknowledges that messing with a natural water network can be risky for ecosystems. Now environmental groups say the state is endangering the Herman Creek watershed that feeds both Oxbow Spring and the municipal well.
"We don't know what a sustainable long-term withdrawal [from the municipal well] looks like for Cascade Locks," says Food & Water Watch's Julia DeGraw. She said the amount of well water Nestle plans to pump was even redacted from the documents the government provided in response to a public records request about the proposal. Without more details, who knows? If the aquifer is drained too low, says DeGraw, "the Columbia could infiltrate the groundwater system."
As far as the spring water, DeGraw says the swap would set a "dangerous precedent" by creating a "de facto partnership" between the state and Nestle. ODFW makes a point of emphasizing that its agreement to consider trading water with Cascade Locks is between the two governments and does not include Nestle. But DeGraw isn't swayed by the technicality; ultimately, she says, the deal would "give away public water resources for a water bottling company's gain."
In the inexact science of local word of mouth, the pro- and anti-Nestle camps split down a line between dyed-in-the wool old-timers and relative newcomers like Stuart. But on the subject of kids, she doesn't sound that different from Cassie Madrid. She has a protective streak, and she makes a point of keeping friendly tabs on the young people in town. "It makes me feel like everybody's kids are just a little bit of mine," she says, her eyes for once leaving her notebook to look down at the river. "I don't know what we're going to leave them."
Privatizing Water on a Warming Planet
Olivia Schmidt with Bark, the organization joining Food & Water Watch on the legal challenges to the water swap and the wider campaign against Nestle, shares Stuart's concern. "Selling off access to clean water resources is absolutely not what we need to be doing from a public policy perspective at a time when we have begun to feel the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest," says Schmidt. "That's like a small island in the South Pacific saying, 'Well, the water isn't drowning us now, so we're going to be fine forever' – and now those communities are all climate refugees. It's irresponsible to be looking at what's happening right now without looking at the population growth that's going to be happening in this area because of this climate change." A 2012 report by Oregon's transportation agency acknowledged that some of the state's projected population increase is expected to come from people fleeing areas more vulnerable to drought and other climate change impacts.
But some things have a way of focusing the mind on surviving the present, and poverty and unemployment make the top of the list. Palais says bottling plant jobs will pay in the upper half of the wage scale for similar jobs in the region. That sounds good to Debbie Gunter. Her husband has been out of work for two years since he was laid off from his job at Wal-Mart in a Portland suburb about 40 miles away, where he worked the 3-to-11 shift and got home around 1 AM. That was hard, and then gas prices went up. And Gunter is a little more familiar than she'd like to be with the city's funding challenges. A health problem caught up with her during a gap in emergency services that followed the fire chief's resignation. Despite her medication and a new Jazzercise regimen, she found herself in need of an ambulance. The closest one took 45 minutes to get to her from across the river in Washington. Gunter says she almost died. These days, the Gunters are considering a move to Portland.
People stay in Cascade Locks for a reason. Property is relatively cheap, and the landscape is stunning. The river has earned a reputation as a world-class sailing destination, and a hiking trail that stretches from the Mexican border all the way to Canada runs right through town. The Outdoor Industry Foundation estimates that outdoor recreation contributes $4.6 billion in revenue via retail and service statewide and supports 73,000 Oregon jobs, but Cascade Locks isn't seeing enough of that money. The town's tourism council is trying to change that, but efforts like a new mountain biking trail and extending the beach near the sailing club are works in progress with no clear payoff yet. "Things are getting tougher here; it's not getting better," says La Mont. "I think too many people were planning on that casino." So maybe it's not surprising that the campaign groups like Bark and Food & Water Watch are waging against Nestle is regarded with some suspicion. "It becomes a fundraiser for them just as the casino became a fundraiser for organizations that didn't like casinos," says Cramblett.
Bark and Food & Water Watch both say that's not true. (In fact, Bark's internal bylaws forbid taking public positions solely for fundraising purposes.) And while Food & Water Watch might not be putting 50 jobs on the table, DeGraw says her organization does have something to offer low-income communities. "In Oregon and throughout the US, we have been very involved in the movement to increase public investment in water infrastructure, which benefits low-income consumers who are often hit the hardest when water systems fall into disrepair and who often cannot afford the very water that's being pumped from the ground and sold back to consumers at an exorbitant markup." Nestle says most of its bottled water is sold in multipacks that pencil out to about 22 cents a bottle, but the company has come under fire for trying to strike deals like one that ultimately failed in McCloud, California, in which it would have bought water for .000081 cents per gallon.
Cascade Locks officials are still poring over science and case studies while they wait for the state side of the deal to shake out. "I admit Nestle is one of those things that to us seems like a no-brainer, but obviously in this world, nothing's a no-brainer anymore," says Cramblett. "We're trying to attract people but it seems like every time we attract somebody, it's the wrong person."
His words go to the heart of the struggle of many rural and small town communities, which must often choose between welcoming a corporate giant in exchange for modest or meager jobs or fighting an increasingly difficult battle to survive. Cramblett's father was a hunter, trapper and fisherman from Cascade Locks; he even foraged for cascara bark, an ingredient in natural medicine. There's nothing new about counting on the land for a living in a place like this, but in a globalized era, the line between subsistence and exploitation has come into sharper focus – even for those who would rather look away. (That isn't lost on Nestle: The glossy info packets overflowing the table at the front of Palais' office are an object lesson in sustainability-as-selling-point: "Our second generation Eco-Shape bottle uses 25 percent less plastic than the previous Eco-shape bottle"; "The amount we use is far less than the water needed to produce other beverages, such as beer and soft drinks.")
But Schmidt is not convinced. "When white settlers came into the Pacific Northwest, it was really well-forested, and now, it's not," she says. "If our policymakers are subsidizing this kind of extractive development, we need them to shift; we need them to focus on other things than making it easier to take our resources," she says. "Part of getting us as a global community moving toward that direction is being a stopgap toward extraction."
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Nestle chairman says water is not a human right
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In a candid interview for the documentary We Feed the World, Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck makes the astonishing claim that water isn't a human right. He attacks the idea that nature is good, and says it is a great achievement that humans are now able to resist nature's dominance. He attacks organic agriculture and says genetic modification is better.
Nestlé is the world's biggest bottler of water. Brabeck claims – correctly – that water is the most important raw material in the world. However he then goes on to say that privatisation is the best way to ensure fair distribution. He claims that the idea that water is a human right comes from "extremist" NGOs. Water is a foodstuff like any other, and should have a market value.
He believes that the ultimate social responsibility of any Chairman is to make as much profit as possible, so that people will have jobs.
And just to underline what a lovely man he is, he also thinks we should all be working longer and harder.
Consequences of water privatisation
The consequences of water privatisation have been devastating on poor communities around the world. In South Africa, where the municipal workers' union SAMWU fought a long battle against privatisation, there has been substantial research (pdf) about the effects. Water privatisation lead to a massive cholera outbreak in Durban in the year 2000.
The Nestlé boycott
Nestlé already has a very bad reputation among activists. There has been a boycott call since 1977. This is due to Nestlé's aggressive lobbying to get women to stop breastfeeding – which is free and healthy – and use infant formula (sold by Nestlé) instead. Nestlé has lobbied governments to tell their health departments to promote formula. In poor countries, this has resulted in the deaths of babies, as women have mixed formula with contaminated water instead of breastfeeding.
Tell Nestlé they are wrong – water is a human right
There is Europe-wide campaign to tell the European Commission that water is a human right, and to ask them to enact legislation to ensure this is protected.
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Spring breakout will take place on May 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 23, 2011. The final schedule appears below. To register, those with SUNY-Oswego e-mail accounts should visit the registration page . If you do not have a SUNY-Oswego network id, but wish to register, send an e-mail to celt@oswego.edu.
Whether you are new to editing web pages or just need a refresher, we will show you how to create and edit pages in our CMS (Content Management System). We will start with an introduction to Ingeniux, how to log in, and a review of the interface. Then the hands-on part of the training begins. We will create and edit a file and review components. Next we will upload and link an image and document. Lastly we will discuss how the publishing process works. This workshop is for people who edit departmental web pages on the SUNY Oswego website.
Too many students are approaching graduation with problems that could have been avoided. In this workshop, Associate Provost Rameen Mohammadi and Associate Registrar Shelly St. John discuss how these reports should be used to help ensure that your advisees graduate in a timely manner.
Room: Mahar 210This workshop is for those using the OU Educate product to edit personal web pages and who wish to migrate their site to either LakerApps Sites or ANGEL. To register for this workshop, please visit the CTS workshop registration page.
Ingeniux enables us to use components, pieces of reusable information, that can be placed on multiple web pages. During this session we will create, edit and insert an alternate left nav component. We will also create a right column component. This workshop is for people who edit departmental web pages on the SUNY Oswego website who have already attended Getting Started with Ingeniux.
Learn how to prepare an image so that it is web-ready. Why bother? Simply put, large images take longer to download and you will lose folks who are still using dial -up or other slow connections. In this hands-on workshop we will use Paint.net to edit images.
All student records needed for advisement will only be available digitally, starting with the incoming first-year and some transfer students this Spring 2011 semester. Come learn more about document imaging and the system we will be using next semester to view student records. The new system will replace paper advisement folders and will allow faculty/staff to access information electronically. At this session, you will hear more about the benefits of this project as well as some strategies to redesign your approach to academic advisement.
Learn how to create an online form using LakerApps. The information that people submit into your form is automatically collected in a Google spreadsheet.
Session Title: Which smart phone is right for you?
A comparison of the features of Blackberry, iPhone, and Android smartphones.
Session Title: Which eBook reader is right for you?
A variety of Kindles, the Barnes & Nobles Nook, the Sony ebook reader, the iPad, and the Edge ebook reader will be discussed. Participants will be able to compare and contrast the displays and features on each of these devices.
In their roles as Associate Provost, Director of General Education, and coordinator of First-Year Programs, the presenters have observed a variety of advisement issues that may interfere with a student's progress toward his or her degree. As an adviser, you can avoid these issues. Attend this session to find out how.
Since 1994, college textbook prices have been rising four times faster than inflation. EBooks and eBook readers may help to contain these costs. In this workshop, Joe Moreau, Rameen Mohammadi, and John Kane will lead a discussion on the possibilities for using eBooks.
Local and national media -- newspapers and radio and television stations -- seek independent, knowledgeable sources on current issues and commonly turn to colleges and universities to find them. SUNY Oswego's Public Affairs staff together with talented faculty members who have a wealth of media interview experience share some advice about how to talk with reporters in a way that the media, the source, the reader/audience and the college all benefit.
Looking to create a personal web page? LakerApps Sites allows you to do just that. Creating a page with or without a template, adding themes, editing site layout and sharing your site will be demonstrated.
Our recent administration of the Information Literacy Test (ILT) from Madison Assessment has given us a quantitative measure of our students' abilities in finding and using valuable information sources. Our SUNY GEAR assessments of information literacy have used rubrics applied to worksheets from library research exercises--a qualitative approach. Departmental assessments of information literacy have also used the qualitative method of rubrics applied to authentic projects, usually capstone experiences.
Information literacy is an integrated view of reading, writing, thinking and information seeking skills. It has no content independent of other disciplines. It is about the personal and social uses of informative sources.
Office 2010 is Microsoft's newest version of the MS Office suite. Come to this workshop to see the new features that span the entire suite and new features specifically within Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
This session will have no formal presentation. Instead, attendees may ask questions related to using the LakerApps Gmail, Calendar and Docs applications. Presenters will be available to answer questions.
After a brief overview of the ANGEL Gradebook feature, we will offer one-on-one consulting to assist you in creating a gradebook in ANGEL.
Bring your iPhone or Droid smartphone to this session and CTS staff will assist you in getting it configured to work with LakerApps. iPhone and Droid devices only, please.
Rubrics as a means of quantitative assessment can align with course and program level learning outcomes. Learn how to develop rubrics for grading, and how to create rubrics for ANGEL assignments.
Come to this workshop to see how you can update software on your campus-owned computer using the LANDesk Desktop Manager. In the past, the software versions that came with your computer were often the same versions that stayed on your computer until the next time your machine was replaced. There was not a means of updating to the latest campus-approved software versions that did not require CTS support staff visiting each machine. In this workshop, you will see how you can update to some of the latest campus-approved versions of certain software. See how you can install Microsoft Office 2010, a newer version of Firefox, SPSS and more - all with a few clicks of your mouse!
This session will present information about the Elluminate pilot project scheduled for the fall 2011 semester. Elluminate is web-conferencing software that allows you to either present or participate in a conference all from the Web. Listen to or give a presentation from your office, home, wherever you can find a computer connected to the Internet! Common uses for Elluminate include online workshops, online meetings, and general presentations. We are actively seeking pilot project participants for the fall. If you think you might be interested in participating, please attend!
This session will show you how to add video content to your ANGEL course shell.
Have you ever seen a great web resource and forgotten where it was? Have you ever been overwhelmed by the variety of blogs, news sites, and other resources available? In this workshop, participants will create free accounts for Diigo and Google Reader and explore how these tools may be used to more efficiently find, view, and keep track of information that is useful for teaching, research, and other applications.
Google Reader makes it possible to easily view new information posted at your favorite web sites, blogs, and news sites, Delicious or Diigo allows you to save, index, and access web bookmarks from any computer or mobile device that is connected to the internet. A discussion of how these may be used for class and research use wiill also be provided.
This presentation will discuss the results of a student-run focus group on the usage of media and popular culture in the college classroom. We will discuss the 5 key themes that emerged, as well as suggestions for best practices when using media and popular culture in the classroom. The presenter would like to acknowledge the work of researchers Katrina Webber and Andrea Biedny on this project.
Jon Rubin will discuss the SUNY-COIL initiative. Faculty using the COIL approach pair with a foreign faculty member to create sets of assignments in which students work with their foreign counterparts individually, in small groups, or en masse. This approach provides an opportunity for students to directly interact with students from other countries.
This presentation will revisit some of the basics of creating PDFs with bookmarks, internal/external links, and publishing stand-alone PDFs. The new ability to create a PDF portfolio, which organizes and displays a variety of media/documents, will also be demonstrated. The PDF portfolio is easy to create and has a variety of uses, including faculty portfolios, student portfolios, and learning units/modules.
How much should WAC teachers do with respect to issues like grammar, citation, and the writing process? How explicitly should they discuss writing issues in their courses? This session will invite registrants to participate in a conversation about the different roles of Composition courses and Writing Across the Curriculum courses in writing instruction on campus.
student resistance that could well lead to decreased learning.
This session will review best practices and provide attendees with numerous resources, including ones from their discipline. Campus clicker policies, hardware, and software will also be described. This session assumes no knowledge of clickers on the part of attendees.
In this session, Susan Coultrap-McQuin will introduce some of the ways in which universities across the nation define and assess their students' intercultural and global competencies. She will provide an overview of some of the results (updated and expanded since her Quest presentation) of the SUNY Oswego Senior Survey of Global Competence administered early spring semester. In the open discussion we will consider: What do these results suggest? Where do we need to improve learning? How should we change General Education? How could we change learning in the majors? Do we need to be more intentional in learning outcomes for study abroad, Hart Hall, or other activities? What should learning outcomes for global competence be?
Session Title: What Does Peer-Reviewed Research Tell Us About Improving Learning?
This will provide an examination of cognitive science findings concerning how people learn and implementations of these findings in college classrooms. Examples of successful applications across disciplines will be illustrated.
The assessment of student learning is an integral part of effective teaching. It is the means by which we determine whether our students are realizing their potential and meeting our learning expectations. It also enables us to determine if our academic programs are effectively designed to enable students to meet these goals. Working on program assessment is also a constructive way to build collegiality in departments, as faculty work together to determine their priorities and values with respects to students learning, and share their experiences of effective teaching.
Dr. Barbara Wolvoord, emeritus professor from the University of Notre Dame and a nationally recognized expert on assessment, will be running a two day workshop on campus. She will meet with a variety of groups on campus, including campus leaders, assessment leaders, and faculty members involved in both program or major assessment and General Education assessment. Prior to her arrival on campus, she will review our current assessment practices, policies, and some assessment data in an effort to design workshops that meet the specific needs of our campus.
Jim Russell will discuss some of the basic principles of good picture making. Time will be provided to discuss camera options.
Abby Wiertzamia will demonstrate how Prezi may be used to create interesting interactive multimedia presentations.
In this hands-on session, individuals will create an avatar in Second Life, learn how to customize the avatar's appearance, and learn how to navigate around this virtual world. Participants will learn how to communicate and how to find people, places, and events occurring this virtual environment. Participants will receive a tour of the SUNY-Oswego island and will explore the HCI building, the CELT building and movie theater, a technology class project site, a replica of the Japan Pavilion at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and visit Richard Zakin's art exhibit and video presentation in the virtual SUNY-Oswego art gallery.
Abby Wiertzamia will demonstrate how Poll Everywhere and Edmodo may be used with smartphones to increase the student engagement and provide more immediate feedback to the instructor on student learning.
This hands-on session will provide participants with an opportunity to use the 3D building tools in Second Life to create useful objects.
The digital revolution has put powerful storytelling tools into the hands of educators and students. Digital storytelling, in which images, words and music are combined into short films that are easy to share with a wide-audience, has the potential to enhance the liberal arts learning process. Digital storytelling projects can facilitate focused reflection and concise articulation of experience and its impact onpersonal or intellectual development. Participants in this workshop will learn about digital storytelling first-hand, by making their own digital story. Along the way, the group will discuss the myriad ways digital storytelling can augment and enrich classroom practice across a wide range of fields. The workshop is designed for participants with little to no video experience.
In the spring 2011 semester, Camtasia Relay was used to record the audio and video presentations in several classes in Economics, Math, and Native American Studies. A discussion of the process and a summary of student and faculty reactions will be provided.


Spanish straight hunk León is an energetic martial arts teacher from Barcelona with a passion for acting.
Though very well mannered and kind, he's direct and down-to-earth.
He knows how to make the most out of what he's got and to "make love to the camera".
More tickling clips with León bound and tickled please!


Kalam boarded the INS Sindhurakshak, a Russian-origin kilo class submarine, from the Naval dockyard at around 11 am.
APJ Abdul Kalam on Monday created history by becoming the country's first President to undertake an undersea journey.
Kalam boarded the INS Sindhurakshak, a Russian-origin kilo class submarine, from the Naval dockyard at around 11 am, a naval spokesman said.
The duration of the journey is around three-and-half hours during which Kalam would have lunch with the crewmembers, he said.


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France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital...
Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches...
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe with thousands of islands throughout the Aegean and Ionian seas. Influential in ancient times...
Italy, a European country with a long Mediterranean coastline, has left a powerful mark on Western culture and cuisine. Its capital,...
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Portugal is a southern European country on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain. Its location on the Atlantic Ocean...
Capital city Madrid is home to the Royal Palace and Prado museum, housing works by European masters. Segovia has a medieval castle (the Alcázar)...
Switzerland is a mountainous Central European country, home to numerous lakes, villages and the high peaks of the Alps. Its cities contain...
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Four primary schools in London have told its students that they will not be permitted to fast during the holy month of Ramadan without special permission from school administration.
The headmaster of Barclay Primary School – one of the four schools – Mr Wright, revealed the new rules in a letter to parents, in which he cited health concerns as the primary reason behind the ban.
"Previously, we have had a number of children who became ill and children who have fainted or been unable to fully access the school curriculum in their attempts to fast" read the letter.
Sybourn Primary School – a member of the "Lion Academy Trust" – has also upheld the ban.
Justin James, the Chief Executive Officer of the "Lion Academy Trust" – which represents the four schools upholding the ban – later reaffirmed Mr Wright's reasoning, and confirmed that the ban applied to all schools within the trust.
In the UK, primary schools admit students between the ages of 5 and 11. Unlike some European countries such as France, there are no state laws that forbid the expression of religion in schools.
A spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) declared the ban unnecessary, stating that Islam holds enough rules in place to protect the vulnerable from fasting.
In the letter from Barclay Primary School, various outreach initiatives were mentioned, including a school-wide assembly about "what Ramadan means to Muslims, and how our Muslim families will be observing the month of Ramadan" along with class activities led by Muslim students sharing their customs and beliefs with their peers. However, many still share the views of MAB, criticising the ban as the schools' inappropriate school interference in a private family decision.


In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.
Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent years. Ghetto youth are transferred from their decrepit, underfunded, racially segregated schools to brand-new high-tech prisons located in white rural counties.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed, and controlled.
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.


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What is Racist
It was big news. Prime minister Justin Trudeau was wearing blackface or brownface. The pictures were from an Arabian Nights party in 2001 or earlier. The election campaign faltered. Trudeau apologized. Some people were shocked. Others were unconcerned.
Was it the return of the colonial attitude of white people towards people with black or brown skins? In those days, white Europeans saw the natives of Africa, Asia, and the Americas as savage people. They were uncivilized and inferior. They had a savage language and savage religion. Of course, we see now that this was a generalization and a stereotype.
We all have a fear of people who are different from ourselves. This attitude comes from a need to predict quickly who might be a friend and who might be an enemy. It's quite natural, a first impression. It's something that most people learn to suppress or to overcome through exposure to other people and respect for them. This feeling couldn't be racism.
What then is racism? The obvious example is discrimination because of apparent differences.
There are many borderline cases. They might be just a milder form of racism. In this specific instance, it was a prime minister wearing blackface. Dressing up like a person of another race would be similar. This behavior may not be explicitly racist. It is, however, symbolic of past injustices. It's a racist act if non-white people are offended by it. Some were and some were not.
What then is racism? We need a definition that works. It's usually expressed by overt actions or words, but it could be anything that promotes hatred towards or discrimination against other groups of people.
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"I lived with my widowed father after the death of my mother before the war. Like most families in Gettysburg, we took in wounded soldiers during the battle. I cared for Lieutenant James Purman of the 140th Pennsylvania Regiment in our home. Purman's injury was so severe that it required the amputation of his left leg.
Later, I married this courageous soldier, creating a touching story of love against the hardship of war."
In 1896 Purman was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts during the Battle of Gettysburg. He and his Gettysburg nurse-turned-wife are both buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. Ironically, Arlington had been the pre-Civil War home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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The marker is a window display to the left of the door.
of Baltimore Street (Business U.S. 15) and Breckenridge Street, on the left when traveling south on Baltimore Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 302 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Annoying " . . . the enemy very seriously " (a few steps from this marker); "I can see them yet . . . " (a few steps from this marker); Matilda June "Tillie" Pierce (a few steps from this marker); Schriver's Saloon and Ten-Pin Alley (within shouting distance of this marker); 267 Baltimore St. (within shouting distance of this marker); A Union General Escapes Capture (within shouting distance of this marker); Mary Virginia Wade (within shouting distance of this marker); Jennie Wade Birthplace (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gettysburg.
More. Search the internet for Mary Witherow.
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The 10 Best Lunch Spots in South Carolina!
Stuck in a PB&J lunch rut? If so, it's probably because you haven't experienced the culinary diversity in South Carolina. If there's one thing that South Carolinians do well, it's food. From international flair to deep-fried everything to flavor combinations you'd never think possible, you'll never have to settle for the basic peanut butter sandwich ever again with South Carolina's lunch scene. If you're not hungry now, you will be by the time you discover these 10 best lunch spots in South Carolina.
This "farmhouse chic" café specializes in locally sourcing ingredients to bring you a fresh look at what fresh lunch can be. Here you'll find fun combinations like their arugula, tart cherry and pumpkin seed salad, a variety of quesadillas, organic tempeh, falafel, and portabella burgers.
Croissants is the perfect destination for a lighter fare lunch that won't weigh you down as you trek through the rest of your day. Their menu includes a healthy variety of fresh salads, fruit, sandwiches and soups that taste every bit as good as they look. The onsite bakery is an added bonus, as you can sate your sweet cravings before you leave.
If you're craving variety, go grab a seat at Atlantic House Restaurant. Their menu features many traditional lunch staples, along with not-so-common items like chutney, portabella mushroom sandwiches and burgers, jalapeno pimiento cheese, and frogmore stew, to name a few.
If you're looking for a delicious deal, head to Village Deli & Creamery. Their freshly-made Boar's Head sandwiches and paninis are so big many visitors can usually get two meals out of each. Reminiscent of a New York-style deli, they've got a large variety of classic and unique lunch meats and toppings, along with homemade chips and French fries. And their hand-dipped ice cream puts the cherry on top to a tasty lunch.
Locally sourced ingredients, in-house roasted lunch meats, hand-prepped pizza dough— could it get any fresher than Summa Joe's? Not likely. Aside from high standards for freshness, this lunch spot has created an eclectic variety of lighter entrees to sate your midday appetite. Here you'll find delicious, offbeat offerings like shrimp cakes, horseradish beef crustinis, chicken cordon bleu, gyro wraps, and plenty of other delectable that can transform your lunch to an extraordinary culinary experience.
Who says fine dining is only for dinner? Vangeli's Bistro has changed the concept of lunch as most people know it. They deliver an upscale dining experience tailored for a middle-of-the-day meal, featuring fun dishes like braised lamb paninis and blackened shrimp wraps. The menu isn't as diversified as their dinner offerings, but it's certainly a welcome relief from the typical burger and fries.
Dining out doesn't have to kill your diet, especially with clean eating-focused restaurants like Magnolia. You can rest assured that whatever you order is health-conscious. They offer foods for organic, gluten-free, and non-GMO diets, and take pains to make many of their sauces, breads, and other items in house. On the menu you'll the find likes of cedar plank salmon salads, turkey burgers, hot and cold sandwiches and wraps, flatbread pizza, and hummus.
Aside from the yummy eats, Lulu's Café features amazing ocean views that can easily turn your lunch hour into a midday vacation. This little family-style diner serves a balanced variety of soups, salads, sandwiches (including four varieties of grilled cheese!), and the best fried pickles in the city.
This farm-to-fork eatery gives you a straight-from-the-farm taste. Sourcing local, fresh ingredients, The Farmer's Table revitalizes traditional offerings like burgers and sandwiches, along with offerings like hummus, seafood tacos, fried green tomatoes, and pulled pork barbeque. You might be waiting a few extra minutes for your meal here, but that's because you can't rush perfection—and it's well worth the wait.
This Italian-style deli is a favorite among locals and travelers to the city. They feature delicious sandwiches, salads and soups that are perfect for a dine-in meal or to take back to the office. With a diverse menu, you could eat here for lunch every day for a month and get something different—and once you take your first bite you might be tempted to do just that!


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Martin Andermatt (21 listopada 1961 w Baarze) – szwajcarski piłkarz grający na pozycji pomocnika. Od 2013 roku jest trenerem AC Bellinzona.

Kariera klubowa
Karierę piłkarską Andermatt rozpoczął w klubie FC Baar. W 1977 roku został zawodnikiem FC Zug i w latach 1977-1979 grał w jego barwach w drugiej lidze szwajcarskiej. Następnie odszedł do FC Wettingen. W sezonie 1981/1982 awansował z Wettingen do pierwszej ligi szwajcarskiej.

Latem 1983 roku Andermatt przeszedł do FC Basel. W klubie z Bazylei spędził dwa sezony, po czym trafił do Grasshoppers Zurych. W sezonie 1989/1990 wywalczył z Grasshoppers swój jedyny w karierze tytuł mistrza Szwajcarii. W sezonach 1987/1988, 1988/1989 i 1989/1990 trzykrotnie z rzędu zdobył z Grasshoppers Puchar Szwajcarii. W Grasshoppers grał do końca sezonu 1989/1990.

Latem 1990 Andermatt wrócił do FC Wettingen. Występował w nim przez dwa lata. W 1992 roku został zawodnikiem amatorskiego FC Emmenbrücke, w którym w 1997 roku zakończył swoją karierę.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Szwajcarii Andermatt zadebiutował 2 grudnia 1983 roku w przegranym 0:1 towarzyskim meczu z Wybrzeżem Kości Słoniowej, rozegranym w Abidżanie. W swojej karierze grał w eliminacjach do MŚ 1990. Od 1983 do 1989 roku rozegrał w kadrze narodowej 11 meczów.

Kariera trenerska
Gdy Andermatt występował w FC Emmenbrücke, był jego trenerem. Następnie w 1997 roku został zatrudniony na stanowisku trenera FC Winterthur i prowadził ten klub do 1998 roku. W latach 1998-1999 był trenerem FC Baden. W 1999 roku objął niemiecki SSV Ulm 1846. W sezonie 1999/2000 awansował z nim z drugiej ligi niemieckiej do pierwszej. W trakcie sezonu 2000/2001 został zwolniony.

W 2001 roku Andermatt został trenerem Eintrachtu Frankfurt i prowadził go do marca 2002 w drugiej lidze Niemiec. Od 2002 do 2003 prowadził FC Wil, a następnie pełnił obowiązki trenera FC Vaduz oraz reprezentacji Liechtensteinu. Kadrę Liechtensteinu prowadził w eliminacjach do Euro 2004 oraz do MŚ 2006. W Liechtensteinie pracował do 2006 roku.

W latach 2006-2008 Andermatt prowadził BSC Young Boys. W latach 2009-2010 był trenerem FC Aarau, a w 2011 roku objął AC Bellinzona.

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Piłkarze Grasshopper Club Zürich
Piłkarze FC Wettingen
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Trenerzy piłkarzy BSC Young Boys
Trenerzy piłkarzy Eintrachtu Frankfurt
Trenerzy piłkarzy FC Aarau
Trenerzy piłkarzy FC Vaduz
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Weber State softball picks up 5-1 victory over Utah
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Published: March 27, 2019 8:17 pm
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Chloe Camarero throws the ball for an out in a game last week against Utah State. Camarero hit a three-run homer to give WSU a 5-1 victory over the University of Utah Wednesday afternoon.
OGDEN — The Weber State softball team picked up an impressive 5-1 win over the University of Utah Wednesday afternoon.
How it happened: In the top of the first inning, Chloe Camarero started the game with a single to left center for an RBI to get the Wildcats on the board early. Ashlyn Visser and Faith Hoe followed suit, each rocking doubles to load up the bases.
Brooke Moeai hit one deep to right field; however, it was tracked down and caught by the Utes, but WSU was able to tag up and get another runner across the plate. WSU finished the first inning with a 2-0 lead over Utah.
The next two innings went scoreless for both teams, but in the top of the fourth WSU found themselves in a predicament. Utah loaded up the bases and was able to score one run, cutting Weber State's lead in half. With bases still loaded, Courtney Pestka had an impressive catch in left field to get WSU out of the inning, maintaining the lead.
In the top of the fifth, Sydney White started everything off with a double to right field. Landi Hawker was able to get on thanks to a dropped ball by the first baseman. With two runners on, Camarero jacked one over the left field fence for three RBIs.
WSU defense held strong the remainder of the game and the Wildcats walked away with their 10th win of the season thanks to the 5-1 victory over the Utes.
At the plate: Weber State finished the game seven hits. Camarero went 2-3, including three RBIs and her home run. Visser also went 2-3 on the day. The Wildcats had just five strikeouts and left four runners on base. WSU came away with four RBIs on the afternoon.
In the circle: Kate Donaldson started in the circle for WSU and got the win, bringing her record to 4-5. Donaldson gave up one hit and one walk in three innings and the 11 batters she faced.
Addie Jensen came in and pitched two innings for WSU and ended up with two strikeouts and only gave up two hits.
Tatiana Su'esu'e closed it out for the Wildcats for the final two innings.
Stats to know: This is the second time in school history WSU has defeated the Utes and the first time the Wildcats have picked up a win at home.
Up next: Weber State will continue Big Sky Conference play this weekend by hosting Sacramento State March 29-30 in a three-game series. WSU's next five games will be in Ogden.
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The following list sorts all cities (including towns) in the Japanese prefecture of Miyazaki with a population of more than 5,000 according to the 2015 Census. As of October 1, 2015, 21 places fulfill this criterion and are listed here. This list refers only to the population of individual cities, towns and villages within their defined limits, which does not include other municipalities or suburban areas within urban agglomerations.

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The following table lists the 21 cities and towns in Miyazaki with a population of at least 5,000 on October 1, 2015, according to the 2015 Census. The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census.

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Miyazaki Prefecture cities


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The plains of Barrowdwon have always known war. Every spring and summer, armies of the barons converge on the long fields, clashing in battle, destroying the fields of crops, and soaking the earth in blood. Farmers tending the land have learned to survive in lean times by looting the bodies of the dead and selling the arms and armour to young adventurers. Now, bits of broken, rusted weapons and old bones wash to the surface with the spring rains, and no field can be ploughed without uncovering dead warriors from long-vanquished armies.
Twenty years ago, the wizard Solom Quor came to these blood-soaked fields on a quest for knowledge. Solom discovered a curious worm with the twisted, tormented face of a human. The plains, drenched in blood and the anguished souls of the dead, had given rise to a new horror: the war-worm.


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Phanas de Pellène () est un vainqueur olympique originaire de la cité de Pellène (sur le golfe de Corinthe).

Il réalisa le triplé en remportant la course à pied du stadion d'une longueur d'un stade (environ ), le díaulos (double stade, soit environ 384 m) et la course en armes lors des  Jeux olympiques, en 512 av. J.-C. Il fut le premier athlète à réaliser cet exploit et donc à être triastès.

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Vainqueur du stadion aux Jeux olympiques antiques
Vainqueur du diaulos aux Jeux olympiques antiques
Vainqueur de l'hoplitodromos aux Jeux olympiques antiques


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It seems like TikTok isn't the only social app popular with young consumers facing recent drama. On Thursday, it was reported that Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store after its developer Epic Games "implemented its own in-app payment system" that bypassed Apple's standard 30% fee. Hours later Google Play Store followed suit. Android users can still download the game using Epic Games' app. The decision to kick the gaming platform off their store marked a "significant escalation" in the feud between Epic Games and Apple, and comes at an "especially fraught time" for Apple who is currently navigating antitrust concerns over how it operates the App Store and the rules it imposes on certain developers. Hours after it was removed, Epic Games sued Apple and Google. And they went even further by unleashing a social media campaign against the tech company with a "parody" ad mocking one of Apple's "most iconic" commercials inspired by George Orwell's 1984. On YouTube, the ad has received more than a million views, while it has accumulated millions of views across other social platforms like Twitter and Instagram. The caption of the video reads: "Epic Games has defined the App Store Monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite from a billion devices. Visit fn.gg/freefortnite and join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming 1984." In the original ad, Apple used the Orwell novel to debut the original Macintosh computer by positioning themselves as a "rebellious upstart" willing to challenge the status quo with the tagline "You'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." But in Epic Games' version, they've reversed that position and portray Apple and its App Store policies as the "oppressive regime." The new ad is promoting a short film Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, which will premiere in the game. The developer has even been using the hashtag #FreeFortnite to promote the short film and rally support from fans. Gamers have taken to YouTube to show support. On Twitter, the hashtag began to trend immediately after the ad was released, and has received more than 21 million views on TikTok. And even companies like Spotify and Match Group have expressed their support by siding with Epic Games. However, some have speculated that Epic Games already had this planned considering the quick turnaround. During the pandemic, Fortnite has gone beyond just being a gaming app and transformed into even more of a social platform as well as an entertainment venue for virtual concerts.
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YouTubers Tim and Fred Williams (who post on their channel "TwinsthenewTrend," which has 429K subscribers) are known for posting reaction videos while listening to songs from classic artists that range from Dolly Parton to the Spice Girls. At the end of July, the twins shared a video of themselves (which garnered more than 5 million views) listening to the 1981 Phil Collins song "In The Air Tonight" for the first time. And their reaction is priceless. At the beginning of the track, the duo carefully listen and critique the opening minutes ("This is like a WWE entrance where I can see somebody walking down to the ring to this," says one of them.) It's the drum break at the 3-minute mark that causes them to "lose" it. "He killed that, bro," the teens exclaim with a shocked reaction on their face. They continued to say that they never heard anyone "drop a beat" like that in a song. Of course, the internet is loving the reaction video too and even celebrities like director Ava DuVernay have been resharing it across various platforms. Journalist Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) tweeted: "out of curiosity i played "in the air tonight" for my toddler this afternoon and sure enough he lost his mind at the drums" in a post that received 10.5K likes. The now viral reaction video has even caused "In The Air Tonight" to surge in streams and sales. According to Deadline, the song has reached the top of the iTunes Top Songs chart taking the third spot behind Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" and Daris Rucker's "Beers and Summer." The video follows the trend of how Gen Z have been listening to older music. Using YPulse's real-time data tool PULSE, we found that young music goers are actually more likely to be listening to "older songs" right now than "new songs." Recently, TikTokers have made songs of Taylor Swift and Lily Allen from the 2000s go viral proving how '00s nostalgia is hot right now.
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The pandemic has inspired a lot of fashion trends so far and young people who are spending more time working and learning from home are fueling the athleisure and loungewear industry. There was even the nap dress. But of course, while there's a lot of leisure and "at-home" clothing trends, there had to be a prominent dressy trend to take over during the summer of COVID. And this year, it seems to be a colorful, fruity one. Known as the "Strawberry Dress," it's been spotted all over Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, where the hashtag #StrawberryDress has 5.7 million views. It is made of pink tulle with a deep V-neckline and ruffles along the calf-length hem, a cinched waist, and covered in red sequin strawberry embellishments. In January, model Tess Holliday even wore a custom version of it to the Grammys, which she described as "If Strawberry Shortcake & Lana Del Rey had a baby." The $490 dress is designed by Lirika Matoshi. Many influencers have been seen donning it on their feeds, and it's become so popular that even other companies have been trying to make "cheaper" knockoffs of it, while some social media users have documented videos of themselves attempting to design similar styles of it. But for those who can't afford the hefty price tag of the dress in real life, there's ways to virtually wear it on Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While Matoshi said the dress has been available since last July, she said sales for it have "exploded" in August increasing 1,073% compared to the same time last date period last month. According to Google Trends, searches for Matoshi's name and the term "strawberry dress" spiked at the end of July. While Matoshi isn't exactly sure why, many believe it's because of the rise of the cottagecore aesthetic, which has been used as a form of "fashion escapism" during this difficult time. The dress is even frequently seen under the #cottagecore hashtag (which has 3.3 billion views) on TikTok. Throughout the pandemic, many clothing companies and celebrities (like Taylor Swift) have adopted the cottagecore look into their branding.
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