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Archive for July, 2007
Boston Red Sox trade for former all-world closer Eric Gagne from the Texas Rangers.
Papelbon, Okajima, Gagne. We’re a long way from the days of Timlin, Embree, and Urbina.
Go Sox!
Sphere: Related ContentFormer U.S. soccer phenom Freddy Adu is out of the MLS and off to Portugal to play for Benfica.
No doubt a few sports networks are crying after putting together Adu vs. Beckham promos for this year in the MLS.
Didn’t turn out to be the American Pele’ like some hoped, but hopefully the time abroad makes Adu even more of a force for the national team.
Sphere: Related ContentDue to the limited size of my camera’s memory card, here’s a video clip that I shot of Carrie Underwood’s first ever performance of “So Small” in Dixon, California this past weekend.
Sound is good, clip is short.
Sphere: Related ContentSecond graders partake in letter writing campaign to get green beans off the cafeteria menu.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Even someone who believes you can fight city hall might think twice before taking on the lunch lady. But some second-graders who raised their voices over reheated frozen green beans are being rewarded with tastier vegetables.
Hated on.
Pupils are beginning to speak up about the quality of food at school cafeterias.
The menu at William V. Wright Elementary School is getting a makeover after Constantine Christopulos’ class went on a poignantly polite letter-writing campaign aiming to see less of that particular vegetable in the cafeteria.
“A little boy said, `Anything, anything, I’ll even eat broccoli,”‘ said Connie Duits, the lunch lady. “So that one touched my heart.”
The children were careful to offer praise as they expressed their concerns.
“Dear Mrs. Duits, The food is so yummy and yummy. But there are one proplem. It is the green beans,” wrote Zhong Lei.
“We love the rest but we hate the green beans,” wrote Viviann Palacios.
The Las Vegas students undertook the exercise in mini-democracy after the class read a book called “Frindle,” in which a boy contemplates organizing a boycott of the cafeteria.
“I asked the kids, ‘Is that a respectful way of doing it?”‘ Christopulos said. “And they said, ‘Oh, not at all.”‘
As a result of the students’ campaign, the food service department of the Clark County School District sent staff to the school to see what alternatives they preferred.
With a handful of reporters watching, two dozen students sat down Monday to a veritable salad bar of cooked, frozen and canned vegetables, from baby corn to cherry tomatoes, and filled out a survey.
Because of cost restrictions, the children’s only real choices were between canned and frozen green beans, corn, cooked or raw carrots and cooked or cold peas.
Corn and carrots were popular; cooked peas, not so much.
“The cooked peas, it’s warm and all, but inside of it, it’s all soft and stuff and I don’t like it,” said MacKenzie Rangel.
Brenden Lucas said he liked the raw carrots, “Because it’s hard and crunchy.”
Some children got downright prolific when asked to write what other foods they would like for lunch or breakfast. Viviann requested “stake” and lobster, while Logan Strong wanted “chocolate filled panda cookies” and “chicken cordon blue.”
While not all the requests would be accepted — and green beans would still occasionally be served — district supervisor Sue Hoggan said the survey will help district dietitians “tweak” the menu.
“They were so excited to get a response back,” Christopulos said. “I taught them the pen is mightier than the sword, and hopefully they remember that forever.”
This story warmed my heart, but WTF are “chocolate filled panda cookies?”
I also feel like there had to be one or two kids who really liked green beans, which would turn this exercise into a dual lesson on not only making change, but succumbing to horrific peer pressure.
Sphere: Related ContentWelcome to Boston, Kevin Garnett.
KG, I know you didn’t want to come to Boston initially, but I didn’t either when I moved from Seattle during the summer before my first year in middle school. Eventually, it became home to me and it can be for you too!
Have the Celtics turned into the less flashy, more East Coast version of the Gary Payton-Karl Malone-Shaq-Kobe Lakers of a few years back?
We might as well eat a huge luxury tax, get Lebron, and call this a day.
Go C’s! Not since the days of Marty Conlon and maybe Travis Knight has there been as celebrated of a big man in Beantown.
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Pac-Man Jones set to “make it rain” in the TNA Wrestling Ring?
Defending passes, cutting crazy promos and hitting people with chairs, same thing.Not so fast, looks like if this deal goes down, Pac-Man will be in more of a manager role than a wrestler role. However, I have no doubt that Pac-Man would end up hitting a person or two with a chair, which would inevitably culminate with Pac-Man being taken away in handcuffs and arrested yet again, despite not being convicted for anything.
However, at the end of the day, doesn’t everyone just want to see Pac-Man in a lucralibre mask doing splashes onto people? I’d watch.
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Many thanks to everyone at CarrieFans.com for your support of my Carrie Underwood concert review for Billboard.com!
Thread here.
Gaby took a great video of Carrie’s new single “So Small” at the concert I attended in Dixon this weekend. If you can’t wait to hear it on the radio, here’s a listen!
Thanks so much for commenting on my Billboard blog, Gaby!
Sphere: Related Content Please check out my Carrie Underwood concert review on Billboard.com!
It’s just Carrie Underwood-mania here at DaveChung.com. Give me some time to get back to normalcy…