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Tempest brewing over school district employees truck
Many residents of and visitors to Quincy have seen it. It's hard to miss when it's parked on the street. "It" is an old Ford pickup with numerous racist images and slogans. Sometimes it flies a Confederate flag. The slogans range from the merely crude — "Liberals suck and blow at the same time" — to the disturbing.
The line "At lest (sic) you can eat the hog" appears on one bumper. It is an allusion to a line from the movie "Glory": "I'd rather own a hog than a n-----; at least you can eat the hog."
The truck is offensive enough that authorities report multiple complaints about it. Sheriff Greg Hagwood said he had discussed the truck with other law enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, he said, no matter how repulsive the messages, the truck owner is not doing anything illegal.
But one of the truck owners may have crossed the line when she took the truck onto school district property.
Yvonne Bales, business director for Plumas Unified School District, sometimes drives the truck to work and parks it in the district office parking lot.
The district property faces Church Street between Jackson and Main streets in downtown Quincy. The parking lot sits on the corner of Church and Jackson. Adjacent to the lot on Jackson is the Plumas County Community School.
Here is where things get really sticky: J.C. Eaglesmith, a Native American, teaches a multi-racial student population at PCCS. Eaglesmith is currently in the middle of a complaint process with the school district. He is alleging he was discriminated against because of his race during his tenure as coach of the Quincy High School basketball team.
Eaglesmith has made discrimination claims before. In the early and mid-90s he filed suits against Mendocino County schools and the Boy Scouts of America.
Eaglesmith said in an e-mail that Bales' truck was parked within view of his classroom Nov. 3. He and several of his students took pictures of the truck.
This was not the first or only time Bales had taken the truck to work. According to two district employees, who requested anonymity because they feared retaliation, Bales regularly drove the truck to work.
School Superintendent Glenn Harris said later that Bales saw Eaglesmith and his students taking pictures of the vehicle and she approached them.
Harris reported the group told Bales of their concerns and she went back into the district office and told Harris of the incident, and said she'd driven her husband's truck to work.
Eaglesmith e-mailed the pictures to former Quincy High School teacher and teacher's union representative Piers Strailey, who forwarded them to Feather Publishing.
Strailey brought the truck to the attention of PUSD board members during public comment at their Nov. 9 meeting. Board members did not respond — they couldn't because the issue was not on the agenda.
Strailey followed up with a formal complaint Nov. 12, alleging "racial hatred, discrimination and sexual harassment."
He has asked the district to terminate Bales. He alleges the messages "constitute discrimination against and harassment of " Eaglesmith.
When first approached by Feather Publishing, Harris called the truck's presence on school property a First Amendment issue and said he couldn't do anything about it.
When pressed about district policy, Harris said he would have to have his administrative assistant research the question.
After further questioning, he said he needed to consult legal counsel.
Following a series of exchanges with PUSD attorney Michelle Cannon, Harris issued a statement Nov. 16: "The district believes the various statements on the vehicle are impermissible on school/district grounds … Speech that can be considered 'hate speech' or 'fighting words' or obscene, libelous, disruptive or otherwise not relating to matters of public concern, may be restricted.
"And in this case, we believe the statements expressed on the vehicle fall into several, if not all, of the above categories and should therefore be prohibited from district property."
Harris also referred to a federal Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights dictum that says, in essence, discrimination in an educational setting takes precedence over free speech rights.
According to Harris, the remedy — effective immediately — requires that "the pickup in question or other vehicles with disruptive hate messages not be allowed on district property."
Harris said Bales "has been cooperative, supportive and understanding of the issue throughout the entire process."
Harris gave Bales a letter spelling out the district's position and prohibiting her from bringing the truck onto school property.
Bales declined to comment on the controversy.
Harris' assistant eventually supplied two board policies, one which prohibits discrimination against district employees, "whether verbal, physical, or visual … that creates a hostile work environment." A district employee who engages in discrimination "shall be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal."
The second policy concerned student speech and its limits when "'fighting words' or epithets" are involved and there is "an actual danger" resulting from the speech.
After Strailey filed his complaint, Harris reviewed it and sent it to the human resources department. Harris said the district couldn't comment further on an ongoing personnel matter.
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What process do you go through when "cloning" a dough? I noticed in another clone thread that you hadn't even had the original (Sbarros maybe?)
I am surprised to find out that the corporate PJ's expects their stores to have a defined rim since all the PJ's pizzas I have seen look more like your pictures than the one on their website. I had a roommate in college that worked at a PJ's and would bring us pizza almost every night to the point where I was almost sick of it. I don't ever recall seeing any sort of rim definition like the one on their website.
When cooking on a screen with this PJ clone recipe, should I leave the pizza stone in and place the screen on top of the the stone? Or remove the stone so that the pizza is on the rack above the element? I am going to try this recipe again, I think the last time I placed it on top of the stone with a screen and it cooked unevenly (crust cooked too quickly). I can't remember too clearly though, almost all my pizzas have been baked on the stone since I got it :p


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noun em·cee \ˌem-ˈsē\
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- <acted as emcee for the evening's entertainment at the political convention>
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: to be the master of ceremonies for something
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KTM factory rider Christophe Nambotin laid down the E3 challenge this weekend in Talca, Chile with a perfect scorecard for the opening rounds of the World Championship and to top the score sheet of the "Mika Ahola Brave One Trophy".
It was the French rider's first competitive outing for the KTM Enduro Factory Racing Team and he immediately indicated his intentions for the season.
On Saturday Nambotin set the fastest time in the first five tests to wrap up the day with a commanding 50 seconds lead and said it had been "a perfect day". But on Sunday he went one better being fastest over six of the eight tests to prove he intends to set the pace in this year's championship.
E3 factory teammate David Knight on Saturday fought his way back from a bad start to finish fourth in what was a close race for the minor places. Knight, who is making a comeback after double hip surgery took him out for most of the 2011 season was only four seconds off the pace of second placed Aigar Leok.
It was a different story on Sunday when he had a strong ride. He was second fastest in six of the eight special tests to finish the day on the podium in second place. Nambotin and Knight sent a strong signal to the opposition that they intend to be a fighting force in the 2012 season.
E3 Results
1. Christophe Nambotin (F), KTM
2. Aigar Leok (EST), TM
3. Oriol Mena (E), Husaberg
4. David Knight (GB), KTM
5. Joakim Ljunggren (S), Husaberg
Other KTM
8. Manuel Monni (I), KTM
10. Marcus, Kehr (D), KTM
E3 Standings after Round 1
1. Christophe Nambotin (F), KTM, 20 points
2. Aigar Leok (EST), TM, 17
3. Oriol Mena (E), Husaberg, 15
4. David Knight (GB), KTM, 12
5. Joakim Ljunggren (S), Husaberg, 11
E3 Results Round 2
1. Christophe Nambotin (F), KTM
2. David Knight (GB), KTM
3. Aigar Leok (EST), TM
4. Joakim Ljunggren (S), Husaberg
5. Oriol Mena (E), Husaberg
Other KTM
8. Manuel Monni (I), KTM
9. Marcus, Kehr (D), KTM
E3 Standings after Round 2
1. Christophe Nambotin (F), KTM, 40 points
2. Aigar Leok (EST), TM, 32
3. David Knight (GB), KTM, 29
4. Oriol Mena (E), Husaberg 26
5. Joakim Ljunggren (S), Husaberg 23
Mika Ahola "Brave One" Trophy
1. Christophe Nambotin (F), KTM
2. Ivan Cervantes (E), Gas-Gas
3. Simone Albergoni (I), HM-Honda
4. David Knight (GB), KTM


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Well what happens when you get one of the most outspoken female wrestling Vixxens Missy Hyatt with one third of the most famous heel trios in wrestling Buddy Roberts, and you throw in the top babyface Steve Williams and you mix it with another top heel John Tatumfrom the Mid South/UWF era? You get one hell of a Q&A as RF VIDEO presents: The Mid South Reunion Q&A!!!!
This is not your typical wrestling Q&A.....This Q^+A was hand picked and some of the best questions were picked for this panel of four legends. Here is a list of topics that each of these guests talked about:
Buddy Robertsexplaining what a Birdbath is and trying to give Missy one.telling a rib he received called "Mabel".getting into the business.breaking up the Freebirds.thoughts throat cancer.
Steve WilliamsComparing US and Japanese fans.the Varsity Club.Working in Deep South.Thoughts on Brawl for All and losing to Bart Gunn.Thoughts on the Oklahoma gimmick and any heat with Ross over it.Did Watts ever use him as an enforcer in the UWF.thoughts throat cancer.
Missy HyattTearing apart Eric Bischoff (You have to haer this to believe it).Going off on New Jack.Talks about Missy's Manor.Explains heat with Madusa.Feelings on Paul Heyman.Missy would have liked to mamage Hollywood Blonds (Pillman and Austin).Going off on Bill Watts.I talk to her about her brawl with Bobby Heenan at our Wrestlefest 05 convention giving her a chance to tell her side. I also put in my two cents, since I hate his guts.
John TatumWhat was real and what was a work in the Tatum/Missy/Gilbert Angle.Returning to Texas and deciding to retire.Missy ending up with Gilbert.UWF schedule.not to crazy about ECW.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Turmoil in Michael Jackson's family continued Tuesday as a family feud that has engulfed the singer's mother and children continued to play out in online posts, on cable television and in a videotaped driveway confrontation that authorities continue to investigate.
It should perhaps be no surprise that a family that has spent decades in the spotlight is airing its troubles in public, but the dispute has left many, including estate executors, worried.
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"We are concerned that we do what we can to protect them from undue influences, bullying, greed, and other unfortunate circumstances," executors John Branca and John McClain wrote in a letter posted on fan sites hours after deputies responded to a family disturbance at the hilltop home where Katherine Jackson and her three grandchildren live.
By day's end, Randy Jackson accused Branca and McClain of criminal misconduct and claimed his brother's 2002 will was a fake.
"They know that they've been caught, they know that they've falsified a document and they know that there are questions that we want answered," Randy Jackson told Rev. Al Sharpton in his MSNBC show. "This family is united to right a wrong."
He accused the estate of trying to keep the family's disagreements at the forefront to deflect attention away from questions about the will.
Jackson's estate has denied all claims of wrongdoing and hinted that further action may be taken to protect the singer's children. ""We believe measures are being put in place that will help protect them from what they are having to deal with," Branca and McClain wrote.
Michael Jackson's only daughter, Paris, has posted updates in recent days on Twitter, including her displeasure with not being allowed to speak with her grandmother for more than a week. On Tuesday, she wrote, "9 days and counting... so help me god I will make whoever did this pay."
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Katherine Jackson was reported missing over the weekend but later was found to be with her daughter Rebbie and other relatives in Arizona. She has not spoken to her grandchildren — Prince, Paris and Blanket — since leaving the Los Angeles area on July 15.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said deputies continue to investigate the altercation that took place Monday afternoon, but he said there were no indications it involved the singer's children. He said the incident involved two adult males, but declined to identify them further. A battery case may be presented to prosecutors, but Whitmore added that decision has not yet been made.
Randy Jackson said he and brother Jermaine and sister Janet went to the home in Calabasas on Monday to invite his brother's older children, Prince and Paris, to join their grandmother in Arizona. Security footage of the incident was obtained by "Good Morning America" and celebrity website TMZ.
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Sandra Ribera, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, said authorities were called after the singer's children were accosted by relatives who followed them into their gated community in Calabasas.
"After exiting their vehicles, Jackson family members ran up to Michael's children as they yelled and began to aggressively grab at the cellphones in their hands," Ribera wrote in a statement.
Ribera claims "a plan has been in place for the last three years to remove Katherine Jackson from her home and her beloved grandchildren."
Jackson died in June 2009 at age 50 and left his estate to care for his mother and three children. He left nothing to his father or siblings, who have repeatedly tried to intervene in the estate. Several have expressed doubts about the validity of his will, but they have never mounted a formal court challenge.
Whitmore said the missing person's investigation into Katherine Jackson's whereabouts has been closed, as was an inquiry about possible elder abuse of the 82-year-old Jackson family matriarch.
He said deputies interviewed Katherine Jackson after a family business associate warned authorities that she was possibly being emotionally abused by a family member. Whitmore said the elder Jackson emphatically denied the accusations.
He said an abundance of caution has investigators still looking into claims that Katherine Jackson is the subject of financial abuse.
The estate and Katherine Jackson's guardianship of the children are supervised by a probate judge. The judge recently received a financial summary showing that Michael Jackson's estate has earned $475 million in gross profits since his death, and many of his major debts have either been resolved or are no longer delinquent.
The singer died with more than $500 million in debts.
Janet, Jermaine and Randy Jackson were joined by siblings Tito and Rebbie in a letter leaked last week, calling on Branca and McClain to resign and accusing them of manipulating their mother. The letter also claims that Jackson's will is invalid.
The estate has denied the accusations, and no challenge to the executors has been filed in court.
It appeared Tuesday that the battles would continue for the near future.
"This is not going to go away," Randy Jackson predicted.
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Technology Update: V-Commerce emerges as a tool to teach nutrition
For the past three years, school systems and legislatures have been struggling, mostly unsuccessfully, with ways to reduce childhood obesity. One reason most initiatives have accomplished little more than creating additional frustrations for all parties involved, not to mention untold financial costs, is they have targeted the existence of vending machines.
Vending machines, also referred to as unattended points of sale and cashier-less distribution points, are now taking on the opposite role – that of solution provider.
Thanks to new vending technology, vending machines are being used to identify students, authorize transactions, dispense healthy meals, chart nutritional consumption, and compile audit data for compliance with subsidized and reimbursable meals programs. Often described as a supplement or replacement for cafeteria-line service, the self-service aspects of "v-commerce" are beginning to revive school foodservice delivery.
Vending provides Student identification
A majority of school foodservice programs operate on a prepayment basis. Prepayments result in vending machine transactions being conducted on a cashless basis with dependence on accurate student account postings.
In addition to accurate transaction settlement, students using vending machines to purchase meals, beverages, a la carte items, or meal components must be identified to facilitate individual nutritional monitoring and foodservice compliance auditing. There are several options for vending machine based student identification, including:
1) PIN-pad reader. This is the most popular of the options for food service vending; a personal identification number (PIN) is entered onto the vending machine via a PIN-pad similar to an ATM keypad. A unique PIN authorizes and initiates the transaction and subsequent transfer of purchased product information to a central consumption database for tracking as well as to a subsidized or reimbursable meals settlement system, as applicable.
2) Contact reader. This is a magnetic stripe reader for swiping a student carried plastic payment card (credit card sized). The friction of the card swipe enables the device to capture data stored on the magnetic track of the card. Interaction between the card code and the reader enables exchange of data for account access and subsequent transaction posting to the purchased product consumption database and subsidized or reimbursable meals settlement system, as appropriate.
3) Scan reader. This is a machine mounted scanning device used to read a bar code printed on a plastic payment card or alternate media. The scanner simply reads the code as it passes in front of a beam of light. The verification and acceptance of a legitimate code initializes the transaction and allows subsequent data transfer of purchased products for subsidized pricing or qualifying reimbursable meal components.
4) Contactless reader. Still in early stages of development and currently cost prohibitive, some vendors intend to accelerate student identification processing through implementation of a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader. In this application, the student carries a payment card with an embedded RFID chip.
Waving the RFID card in close proximity of an RFID reader will enable the rapid transference of account information for transaction authorization. Purchased product data will be sent to the consumption database and the subsidized or reimbursable meals settlement system.
5) Biometrics reader. With biometric authentication, the student does not need to carry a payment platform for processing. Biometric authentication is based on a distinct physical characteristic (e.g., fingerprint or hand geometry) that is always with the student.
Projected to have a high rate of acceptance, biometrics ensures that the person conducting the transaction is the authorized user. Once the transaction is initiated, subsequent consumption database recordation and subsidized or reimbursable meal settlement will follow.
6) Pay key reader. A proprietary RFID chip is embedded in plastic casing no larger than the size of a standard mechanical house key. The pay key reader enables cash value to be loaded (and reloaded) to the chip through coin and bill acceptance at the vending machine, at a free-standing reload station, or through Website posting.
The pay key forms a closed transaction system and is an alternate to more traditional reader options. A proprietary pay key reader enables cashless purchases from stored value carried on the RFID chip in the key.
7) Proprietary reader. Several forms of non-standard payment formats exist, including proprietary smart cards, prepaid cards, key tags, and related payment media platforms. The processing of a transaction with this form of cashless settlement parallels pay key reader processing.
8) Combo reader. Although not yet in the field, there is interest in a double check system that requires two forms of identification to establish validation (e.g., PIN-code and biometric capture or RFID and biometric capture). Using both forms of proof ensures buyer authentication.
A combination approach provides a higher degree of security for traffic at an unattended point of sale. Data processing for a completed transaction parallels other outcomes with postings to a consumption database and subsidized or reimbursable meals settlement system.
Transaction Authorization
Student identification authorization is initiated by data capture at a machine mounted reader. This data is transmitted to a POS network database that verifies the student's identity and the existence of an active student account.
The account is considered active so long as it has available funds for product purchasing and/or qualification status for reduced price or free (reimbursable) goods.
Some meal vending machines may also be equipped for cash acceptance, through a coin mechanism and bill validator, during day parts when meal service is not offered.
Prepayments typify school foodservice
Regardless of ability to accept cash, there is a heavy reliance on prepayments in school foodservice operations.
Typically, deposits to establish or reload prepayment accounts can be completed onsite, via telephone or online. Forms of deposit may include cash, check, credit card, debit card, and e-bank transfer payment.
A prepaid system enables school administrators and authorized users (health care professionals) to review who is buying which products, where, and at what time of day. This data can be analyzed for food choice patterning, meal component preferences, nutritional valuation, spending habit trends, and additional dimensions of data mining.
Additionally, advanced software applications provide online parental access to the student's account. Parents can log in and review what has been purchased, when, and the nutritional value of purchases.
Parents may also be provided the ability to set parameters that block product categories, restrict choices, or limit dollar spending based on allergies, personal preference, healthy habit training, and budgeting.
Meal component Dispensing
Meal components can be dispensed as a complete meal when component parts are selected using a build-to-order (BTO) format. In this case, the student selects from among component category choices to form a custom-made complete meal.
Alternately, the foodservice department can pre-assemble meals and place packaged selections into the vending machine.
In either case, the machine offers another foodservice distribution point without the need for additional service personnel. Part of the motivation to address product delivery is adherence to subsidized or reimbursable meal requirements that student received all required parts (component-based meals or pre-packaged meals) to qualify for settlement.
Machine formats differ
Machine suppliers differ on the adequacy of various vending machine formats to accomplish this assembly of components or complete meals for dispensing.
The use of a modified snack machine (with spirals or coils), for example, may be well suited to dispensing meal components, but not most appropriate for delivering a complete prepackaged meal.
System must track component dispensing
A carousel-type food machine, on the other hand, with rotating shelves and individual compartments, may be best for marketing pre-assembled meals in clear bags or open boxes. The fact that all meal components are dispensed at once is an important consideration in establishing that all components were provided the student while at the machine.
One guideline suggests that machine-based pre-packaged meal authorization and dispensing should occur at a rate of three meals per minute (a selection every 20 seconds) or faster. Obviously, when the student has the option to custom build to order, the process will inherently be slower and may result in less than one meal being dispensed per minute.
Several advances in vending technology enable the meal machines to communicate alerts, events, and sales information. The fact that temperature conditions may be approaching a harmful level or that the stock of products in the machine require replenishment, and other situations, can automatically be communicated to management through e-mail, text messaging, or audible notification of condition.
Vending helps improve awareness
In addition to actual product dispensing, the vending machine location can also influence sales. The creative placement of meal vending machines in non-traditional locations – outside school cafeteria and foodservice operation areas – can increase awareness and elevate sales.
One company points to its innovative placement of healthy product and meal component vending equipment at the school bus discharge zone.
The encounter of an unattended point-of-sale (POS) device immediately upon arrival at school proved to be successful in expanded merchandising as well as overall sales, especially breakfast product sales.
Point of sale Integration
The software of a school's installed POS system can also be used to accommodate vending machine transactions. With this linkage, the vending machine is treated as another node in a POS network; a seamless integration.
For cashless transactions, the vending machine mounted identification reader can be used for data entry that can be immediately transmitted (cabled via Cat 5 wire or wirelessly using Wi-Fi protocol) to the POS database to obtain user authorization and active student account verification.
Account status is used as a basis for subsequent purchase activity. A completed transaction is processed and stored by the POS software as if it occurred at a cashier terminal. It is possible for the vending machines to operate on a cash basis, with or without student product tracking, depending on whether the identification phase is optional.
Linkage to the POS identification database also establishes a channel for charting, tracking, and monitoring nutritional consumption. The recording of purchased products enables an aggregation of nutrients across a broad spectrum of government eligible products.
Automation of purchase transactions enables a compilation, by individual student, of products purchased, time of day, and product quality.
Dieticians, foodservice administrators, and parents (as well as the student) are able to review consumed product contents and compare them to established benchmarks. In some systems, authorized account access enables the reviewer to set restrictions prohibiting the purchase of items not meeting a nutritional threshold. In this case, the student may attempt to purchase the item, but the machine will have the "smarts" to override or deny the transaction.
With a vending machine acting as an unattended POS terminal, the POS interface relies on a predetermined planogram or product map to interpret what product was selected, given a machine shelf location (column or slot). Not unlike reading a vending machine DEX report, the POS system will not know exactly what product is vended, unless the linkage between the machine shelf location and the item's coordinates in the product map determine what has been dispensed.
The POS database then computes the nutritional value of the product purchased and aggregates these values to the student's personal nutritional profile. This updating allows review of nutritional purchases by the student despite the vending machine's inability to independently provide this data.
Reimbursable Meal requirements
Reimbursable meals for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs have specific requirements based on the type of menu planning used. The three main menu planning approaches are: 1) traditional food-based, 2) enhanced food-based, and 3) nutrient standard menu planning.
The traditional food-based and the enhanced food-based menu planning approaches are made up of meal patterns. These are based on the type of meal being served (breakfast, lunch, or after school snack).
A school meal must contain a specified quantity based on the student's age and grade for each of the food components: a) meat or meat alternate; b) vegetable or fruit; c) grains/breads; and d) milk.
The nutrient standard menu planning approach involves schools conducting nutrient analyses on planned school meals. Instead of working with meal components like the food-based approaches, the menu planner averages all nutritional requirements across one week's meal plan. This analysis must meet the nutrition requirement for the market (age/grade level) being served. Information for meal planning approaches is available at: teamnutrition.usda.gov/Resources/menuplanner.html.
In order for vending machine delivered meals to comply with USDA requirements, schools can opt to dispense prepackaged meals (items bundled and bagged) or provide software enabling the student to elect a build-to-order (BTO) option.
Built to order option
In a BTO scheme, the machine's software is designed to direct forced choice construction of a reimbursable meal, given selections within each required component part.
In other words, the machine will not allow the student to continue creating a reimbursable meal until an item in each component segment is selected (for example, a meat item or approved alternate item must be part of the meal).
This type of lead-through programming provides operational controls that ensure no meal can be dispensed unless it is a complete meal that meets USDA standards. Once the meal is complete, all components are dispensed simultaneously to avoid the student only collecting portions of the final meal.
Machine-based nutrition Campaigns
The Healthy Child Campaign was launched in Fall 2006 as an initiative to help schools better educate children about the importance of healthy eating choices, portion control, and exercise.
The uniqueness of this program is that it is somewhat dependent on vending technology to monitor, control, and guide healthy choices while enabling parents to oversee their child's meal patterns and eating habits. Since the program integrates educational components, product choices, and parental involvement, it has been received as comprehensive and effective.
Horizon Software manages reimbursable meals
While Horizon Software has a large installed POS base, to date it has implemented approximately 30 vending machines across seven school districts. The company's two main competitive advantages appear to be its specialty software (component based BTO meals) that directs a student to make choices among required components for the reimbursable meals program and online accessibility of tracked transactions and account balances.
Vending technology suppliers step forward
eSecure Peripherals is a long-established cashless vending technology supplier that brings tightly controlled delivery methodology to the marketplace through its SnapPay product offering. The company uses its cashless vending technology to improve school foodservice operational efficiency through its role in managing the proper delivery of nutritional meals.
The company's strength lies in its ability to integrate a well-tested vending machine mounted payment platform with food service meal plan software to enhance student dining experiences.
VE Global Solutions LLC offers an effective vending program called StarFood that is intended to increase student participation in subsidized and reimbursable meal programs. One of the company's strength is its use of temperature-controlled food vending machines, as opposed to modified snack food machines, and emphasizes a first-in, first-out (FIFO) inventory basis.
Prepackaged meals ensure compliance
StarFood uses prepackaged meals to ensure compliance with government programs. The company uses non-proprietary POS software and employs a LAN or wireless system to connect its machines to the school's foodservice POS system.
PCS Software offers an array of foodservice solutions, including its EZeats meal machine. The machine was designed by IfeedU and is capable of dispensing both a la carte items and complete meals. It works in conjunction with the company's Web prepayment system (PayPAMS.com) and Fastrak business software.
The EZeats machine is intended to speed service so students can spend more time enjoying the meal, not waiting in line to be served.
Controlvend, Inc. relies on the Paykey platform as a cashless payment media for the company's Schoolvend application. The Paykey, a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, is configurable and reloadable and replaces cash for vending machine based transactions.
The Schoolvend system is centered on the schoolvend.com Website that allows parents to monitor and control what features are programmed into the RFID Paykey. The Schoolvend system starts with the foodservice operator providing a planogram or product map for items placed into a Paykey equipped vending machine.
Next, the parent can review the product plan and identify those categories or items deemed acceptable for purchasing. The system can then control purchases by allowable product choices, time of day, and total purchase amount, usually on a weekly basis. For example, five juices, three milks, and two bottles of water per week, or unlimited low-fat and organic snack products, but only three standard snacks per week. Reports can be generated indicating what products were purchased and when.
Vendor Programs
While there are several vendor programs that include vending machines in a technology configuration aimed at enhancing school foodservice delivery mechanisms, Horizon Software (HealthSmart), eSecure Peripherals (SnapPay), Vendors Exchange (StarFood), and PCS Software (EZeats) are briefly profiled below:
Horizon software launches healthy Child Campaign
Horizon Software International recently introduced the Healthy Child Campaign aimed at helping schools teach children about healthy habits, food product choices, and meal planning while enabling parental monitoring of student selections, nutritional content, and prepaid account review.
Part of the company's success is its creative machine placements outside traditional cafeteria areas. For example, locating a vending machine stocked with breakfast meals at the school bus unloading zone for added exposure, convenience and revenue.
The HealthSmart nutrition education curriculum provides teachers with background information, lesson plans, classroom discussions, student activities and worksheets. It provides a separate grade level program for K-12 classrooms and presents current nutrition and activity information in a fun format using videos, games and quizzes to reinforce learning.
The objective of HealthSmart is to educate children in the classroom about healthy eating habits that will enable them to make healthy choices in the cafeteria.
The Horizon OneSource is a foodservice management software application designed to manage aspects of back office and point of service operations. These enable users to plan healthy meals that meet federal guidelines for daily nutritional requirements. Nutritional analysis of meals can be performed quickly to help students receive proper meals and snacks.
Point of service software manages the payment aspects of the system and can display student identification photos, messages, notes, and dietetic information. Parents are able to block food choices based on preference or health conditions (allergic reactions) through the POS message system to the cashiers.
Horizon Healthy Vending
Remote machine monitoring is used to connect all vending machines to a central POS system; machines are described as OneSource Smart Enabled since they are unattended and rely on media recognition to identify purchasers and communicate selections to a database.
Parents can monitor purchases via Internet connectivity using child-specific information. Nutritional values of items in the machine can be viewed prior to purchase. Products appearing in the machine are the result of menu planning and nutritional analysis via OneSource. Machines can be configured as specialty product dispensers (e.g., meals, milk and beverages, a la carte, and meal components).
Another aspect of the program is Horizon MealPayPlus, a prepayment system that enables parents to make online or phone payments for their child's school meal plan. Parents are able to view account balance and payment history on demand. Data available for online review includes product purchase history, enabling meal plan review.
eSecure Peripherals
eSecure Peripherals has implemented a cashless system called SnapPay for school foodservice vending machines. SnapPay works with installed POS technology to effectively monitor subsidized and reimbursable meals.
The SnapPay solution integrates with meal planning software to produce efficient and controllable unattended point of sale transactions.
SnapPay is designed to improve and expand meal plan solutions by integrating cashless terminals into vending machines so that the machine is basically an extension of the POS network. In essence, SnapPay is described as a means to transform vending machines into cashless reimbursable meal delivery devices.
eSecure Peripherals offers three options related to cashless transactions: standard accounts, subsidized accounts, and reimbursable accounts. Standard accounts rely upon student identification to verify and authorize purchases.
SnapPay controls access. The meal plan software used by the foodservice operator manages user authentication and monitors account balances.
A subsidized account adheres to governmental guidelines and manages student qualifications for vending machine dispensed meal access.
The meal plan solution software manages student access and control and transaction reporting. A reimbursable meal account operates similar to a subsidized account with superior controls to ensure that meals are only provided to those students who qualify for the program.
The delivery of subsidized and reimbursable meals through vending machines can enhance efficiency in school district foodservice operations while providing several benefits, including: increased meal delivery options without expanding the workforce; tracking of student purchases; elimination of unauthorized purchases; increase in non-subsidized product sales through increased convenience and exposure; and centralized management and control of vended products and meal service.
VE Global Solutions
The StarFood solution from VE Global Solutions involves biometric technology, POS integration, optional cash transaction options, and local area networking. The company emphasizes product freshness through a first-in, first-out (FIFO) delivery system. Reimbursable meals are prepackaged to ensure that the student selects a meal that has the requisite components to comply with government requirements.
The food vending machine can be equipped with a PIN-pad, bar code reader, or biometric reader to establish a transaction authorization. Either can be used for student authentication, purchase authorization, and account access.
The installation of refrigerated carousel food vending machines is intended to improve and expand meal plans by placing complete meals in non-traditional areas (outside cafeteria locations).
PCS Software
The EZeats Meal Center from PCS Software works with the company's Web prepayment system to enable online account access. The machine is a multi-function, temperature controlled device that can be seamlessly integrated to the PCS Fastrak POS system. The meal center functions on a FIFO loading and distribution rotation scheme and can dispense both a la carte items and complete meals.
The Fastrak school meal software is designed to effectively manage a wide range of student account functionality, including account creation, prepayment posting, maintenance of eligibility status, and production of account balance reports.
It supports single or multi-line POS operation, keypads and/or cards, touchscreen POS terminals and network and serial communications. The Fastrak software provides a comprehensive transaction audit trail and can be configured to work with event catering and vending machine service options.
The EZeats Meal Center is a machine designed by IfeedU to supplement or replace cafeteria-style line service with self-service. The machine connects with the company's PayPAMS Web prepayment system and Fastrak software. EZeats machines are seamlessly integrated with PCS Fastrak POS system.
The student enters a PIN code or identification number and chooses the desired products. Subsequent recordation of the transaction and analysis of nutritional values follow. The machine is equipped with a dispenser sensing system for assured product delivery.
Paykey USA uses RFID chip
PaykeyUSA's Schoolvend software relies on Paykey payment technology. A Paykey involves the embedding of a RFID chip into a plastic fob or tag device. It functions as a stored value purse that is used in place of cash for purchases at specially equipped vending machines.
The Schoolvend program is designed to provide parental control and oversight over a student's school foodservice purchase habits at a Paykey-based vending machine. Parents are empowered through an ability to custom configure a cashless, stored value Paykey capable of restricting permissible products, quantities, and time of day transactions.
Parents of school children can access the Schoolvend Website to custom configure a Paykey to deny choices or purchase options. In other words, a parent can veto product selections to modify student behavior during the purchase process.
System gives parents more control
Based on the planogram selected by the school foodservice management, a parent can identify on a permission grid the items they wish to allow their child to purchase. For example, in a beverage machine, the parent may allow water and juices to be chosen, but prohibit carbonated selections.
In other words, just because a product is offered in a machine for sale does not mean the key will allow that item to be selected. In addition, a parent can also restrict or limit the number of items that can be purchased during a specific time frame (e.g. no snacks before or after lunch period).
The schoolvend Website can also be used to load (and re-load) cash value to the embedded chip through credit/debit card payments.
A parent can add value to a student's Schoolvend account or re-configure the Paykey at any time. In addition, a Paykey recharge station or kiosk can also be used for in-person configuration and reloading.
Vending: The school foodservice solution
A variety of vending solutions that have emerged to not only help foodservice directors improve student access to meal programs, but to assist them in their efforts to educate youngsters about nutrition. In addition, these technologies have proven to be an invaluable tool in monitoring students' meal choices.
As school districts recognize the way in which technology enhances the education function and the monitoring of student choices, government entities at all levels will realize there is more to gain from vending than most have ever imagined.
About the Author:
Michael Kasavana, Ph.D. is the NAMA endowed professor in hospitality management at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. He has been researching vending technology for several years.


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Hong Phat Lu
Date: 04-06-04 00:49
To Whom might it concern
I need your advice
Dear sir or madam,
They intercepted in all attempts to complain. They eavesdropped on my familys home 24 hours
My name is Lu Hong Phat. Fourteen years ago I arrived from Vietnam as a refugee, having previously worked for UNHCR in Thailand. The Finnish Delegation approached me at UNHCR and took my family to Finland offered me a highly paid job in a small Finish town.
Although I received a high wage, I wished to attend college, and there was no college in the small town. I accepted a low wage job in Helsinki to allow me to study, but a government worker from the small town was against me moving to the city. She asked my boss to return me and threatened him. She tried to force me to return to the town many times and told bad things about me to people in Helsinki. My boss didnt listen to her, and I continued to study and work in the city. However, the city workers had people follow and control me. They were unjustly suspicious of me, due to my low salary. They classified me as a bad person, and because of their position of authority, other workers began to believe them. They had security men and dogs threaten me. I thought that the threatening would stop automatically when they realised that I had done nothing wrong, and that I did not pose any threat. But after 12 years they still threatened me. They listened in on my home 24 hours a day and threatened me every day for 12 years. I have always kept the police informed, but they just to turned a blind eye. They witnessed that I was cheated by some people in Helsinki. They didnt say but co-operated with these people to discriminated me
In the 12 years since the move, my family and I have been subjected to constant and unprecedented harassment, persecution and surveillance at the hands of a section of some Finnish people. They have invaded our lives on every level, stripping us of the basic human rights of privacy, dignity and quality of life.
In one instance I had a medical operation and the doctor made a mistake in Hyvinkaa hospital. I did not complain, but went to another country to have it corrected. They questioned where I got money to see private doctors
and some people in Finland told lies to the police and hospital in the country where I sought medical attention causing trouble and then send me back to Finland. I believed they might have done this to save the doctor reputation. However, they interfered in any hospital where I could go, irrespective of my urgent need for medical attention. They tried to cover up the problem and sent wrong medical data on purpose. I had second operation in private hospital in Helsinki and third operation in London but they still followed claimed there was no problem with the first operation. They told people around me. The symptom I got I made it by myself.
The people who wished to harm me were extremely manipulative, influential and skilled in getting others to threaten and disturb my family. They could took the private info from hospital, social worker and public offices. They abuse power from government and police to isolate victim from public knowledge. They controled and prevented me from justice.
My brother worked in a company Espo Finland they had people threatened him just because he said that those people can not do anything when he knew some redcross workers visited my home and jealous with one another. He did not say direct to them but some finnish police listened to my home 24 hours. They stoped visiting then criticized, threatened and play on his work when he was working. He was discriminated and threatened by other workers many times systematically He became seriously ill He went to hospital three.
They forced my second younger brother to separate from our family to please their interests when we just came to Finland, and threatened and controlled him in a similar way.
My Second brother He worked very hard for the Kone Company in Hyvinkaa, Finland, for 11 years. Some people constantly took advantage then discriminated against him. In one instance they threw his furniture out into his garden and took over his apartment. There was a fire, which resulted in my brothers death. The events surrounding his burning are extremely suspicious and I hold them responsible for my brothers death.
The police in Riihimaki dealt with my brothers body with disrespect and utter disregard for his familys mourning. A wedding ring and golden bracelet were stolen from his body and told the lie to stop people see evidences or meet persons knew the polices crime and co-operated with other departments controled people investigated the case. The doctor in Hammenlinna Hospital took his brain and organs. They tried to cover this up by filling the cavity with paper and stitching the skin together again. Security and police forced me out of the hospital when I requested to see the body. The Police hurried his funeral so the case could be closed as soon as possible. I was intercepted in all my attempts to complain. I could not report to police anything in any country.
I went to school in Oslo Norway. I moved to live in Norway, I thought that I could go to work soon. But they threatened me every day and listen to my home 24 hours. They continue to tell very bad things about me to make people dislike me in Norway
I went to school in Oslo I thought that I could have peaceful time to study. Even in Oslo they continue to harass me and they got some policemen protected them because they told the lie about me and said I got mental problem. People believed them easily Therefore I could not complaint or even appeal. They tried to tell people that I had mental problem but There was no doctor said that I had problem but only because they were afraid the government and public knew about their mistakes and they did harassment they made people believed so and I could not complain. I have no basic civil or human rights. Our lives mean nothing to them. They just make our lives terrible.The telephone operator called people spy me every day. They listened my home and told the tram security men the time I went in order to catch me when my bus ticket was over.
On 16 July 2003 at 12:00. I went back to my home. I said to my brother that I forgot my ticket. They secret listened that then had secret control persons to follow me. I took the tram from Tinghuset to Holberg Plass ( 3 tram stops ). The control persons stopped me at 17:00 the same day on the tram at Tullilokka to check my ticket. I showed them my ticket but the control woman still looked very discriminated. They knew that I bought the ticket but tried to check me even when they heard I had a forgeting gap.
Some finnish persons caused my younger brother death they always kept an eye on me where I go and sometime threaten me also when I see lawyers or government officer. They often interfered by all means They used many people to stop a single e mail and letter from me as individual and did the international propaganda against victims. I came to Norway I did not tell people about my sad story for almost one year but wherever I went people were just angry with me and laughed at me and some said If they had family member died in their family they would give organs to people and I was harassed all the time. I could not study
I went to a lawyer. They harassed and took the info. I gave the lawyer. Then I visited the lawyer union. They had people see my number and let me meet 3 lawyers on their side three times. The worker said it was coincidence . They cheated police or government officers and to fool the public. They attacted victims every day. They are real professional criminals. Any time I visited a police station They had people took part as a circus in police station to prevent police take my report
They must stop eavesdropping on my home and on the street every day.
Our life is worth nothing to them, they treat us like toys to manipulate. They make our lives terrible. I have been studying in London , but even there the harassment continues. I was kicked, punched by 4 Finnish people and I was put into a cell with no reason on Friday evening 23rd August 2002. Then I complaint to the government in London in Nov 2002. They made my grandmother die on the same day. I went back to Finland did the funeral for her,
On Thursday 07 August 2003 at 5 PM
There were some people were waiting for me on the tram number 12 to direction forner plass It has number 158. The driver was a woman about 40 years old. I took the trick from Grunerlokka to Oslo city
A boy about 20 years old and the persons waited for me harassed me and the He said He thinks that I am crazy I said back to him and he hit me, I went to told to the tram driver, the driver came to speak with the boy and after that a man a bout 30 years old. He hold my shirt and pulled me to back the tram, He tried to push me out of the tram and I resisted He pulled me to the front door near the driver he made physicly hurt me on my left hand and my neck He tried to forced me out off the tram and hit me
A norwegian woman came to rescued He and the boy ran away. They had mobile phone on their hand contact with persons organize the harassment
If there had not been the rescue from the norge woman It would have happened more serious to me. They had foreigners to attact me to avoid I complain that the finnish did it
I went to Oslo police station and. I resquest to make a report to the police.
I told the police that I was harassed then hit and pulled to force me out off the tram number 12 at brugata and I show him my wound on the left hand
But the police said It is small and if I did not know the name of the person I could not make a report. I asked for a form to write my report he took the blank paper, I asked for the form for report to police. He said it is illigaly to take the form. I said why is illigaly. I said if he tried to protect the persons attact me and I asked his police number and He changed his mind he took the police form to gave me. I insisted to ask his police number He wrote 8903
There were many time I was victim from the finnish harassment and mistreatment but on the police computer they wrote a lot of stories that I was the person caused problems. I never got a chance to report normally to police
In Oslo because the persons harassed me had accessed to police department and told lies to fool police and other officers. And they called persons to go to police station before I arrived then made the police station like a circus for their propaganda against victims. It repeated many times. It has been two years
My brother became ill because of the harassment at work
He was in Hospital for months in 2000
My second brother died on 6 Feb 2001 in Riihimaki Finland
I moved to Oslo Norway July 2001
I tried to study and work to find a flat for my grandmother
But they harassed me by threatening with dogs every day I went to school, they made security men discriminated me and police threatened me and with cars or vans made loud noise
I had to stop going to school after 7 months at the middle of the course in Rosenhof school.
My grandmother waited for me came to help her. She got sorethroat
I was in trouble in Oslo
My grandmother died on November 2002 because doctors mistake
In Marian Hospital in Finland. After they examed they put the tube look inside her stomach but found not thing wrong and she was tired and died in the evening the same day. They just let she died.
I was threatened and attacted every day. Some finnish persons did the harassment, my brother became seriously ill, my second brother was burnt alive and my grandmother died because of them. I could not complaint or even appeal. Justice was only on one side in my case and It seemed would last for my all life
If they had not harassed me I would have taken my grandmother to live with us in Norway. Threre would not have been the same mistake in Norway
I had saved my grandmother.
The finnishes who made the harrassment still claimed their rights following and help me in Oslo.
Every day they fooled hundreds of people to take their mobile phone follow me or dogs threaten me
The police protected the harassment and threatened innocent victims all the time. I ve been mistreated by police and doctor for over 10 years
Please forward my letter to whom it might concern
My address : Holdbergs gate 11 166 Oslo mobil phone 41690506
My E-mail address : email@example.com
Yours faithfully,
Lu Hong Phat
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