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No one seemed less well-cast for the role of reformer, in an age of reform, than Abraham Lincoln. To begin with, he was a stranger, emotionally and intellectually, to evangelical Christianity, the great engine of reform in the nineteenth century. Raised in a household of uncompromisingly Calvinistic Baptists who abhorred slavery, the young Lincoln rejected the authority of any religion and never joined any religious congregation. His stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, remembered that her stepson "had no particular religion," and when pressed on the subject, Lincoln himself would only say that "when he did good he felt good, when he did bad he felt bad." That, said Lincoln, "is my religion."
Lacking that impetus, Lincoln had little interest in the network of reform movements spun-off by evangelical revivals. He was a tee-totaller, but largely on the grounds of health rather than moral purity, since drink, to him, tasted "unpleasant and always leaves me flabby and undone." He shunned all of the temperance societies of his day, except for the Washington Temperance Society, and even then, he espoused the Washingtonian movement only because of their secularized strategy of persuasion rather than condemnation. "The warfare heretofore waged against the demon of Intemperance, has . . . been erroneous," Lincoln said to a gathering of the local Washingtonians in 1842. "Too much denunciation against dram sellers and dram‑drinkers was indulged in," and precious few flies were attracted by the vinegar of damnation, compared to the Washingtonians' preference for the sugar of persuasion.
No would-be reformer should demand such a moral volte-face from the sinner; this would be to "expect a reversal of human nature," and Lincoln had none of the reformers' enthusiastic confidence that people could be upbraided into acts of disinterested benevolence. "What an ignorance of human nature does it exhibit, to ask or expect a whole community to rise up and labor for the temporal happiness of others," Lincoln warned.[1]
In the same way, Lincoln opposed slavery, going on record against it for the first time in 1837 when he joined with one other member of the Illinois state legislature in criticizing "the institution of slavery" as "both injustice and bad policy," and twenty-seven years later, he would still be insisting that "I am naturally anti‑slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think, and feel."[2]
But he joined no anti-slavery society, and he condemned as reckless the abolitionists' demands for an immediate elimination of slave-holding. His 1837 protest against slavery was followed immediately by the balancing concession that "the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils." As late as 1862, he told Horace Greeley that the most effective way to end slavery was through a stage-by-stage buy-out by the federal government. Ending slavery should have "three main features – gradual – compensation – and [the] vote of the people," and should be urged "persuasively, and not menacingly, upon the South."[3]
There was, deep in the grain of Lincoln's temperament, a prudence that resisted the demand that conversion and enlightenment be embraced now, totally, without any reckoning of the cost. He chided "Free Soil men" in 1848 for "declaring that they would 'do their duty and leave the consequences to God,'" since this proclamation of the relentless principle of fiat justitia ruat coelum ("do justice though the heavens fall")
merely gave an excuse for taking a course that they were not able to maintain by a fair and full argument. To make this declaration did not show what their duty was. If it did we should have no use for judgment, we might as well be made without intellect, and when divine or human law does not clearly point out what is our duty, we have no means of finding out what it is by using our most intelligent judgment of the consequences.
Much as he might cheer-on temperance and emancipation, Lincoln was too much a "fatalist," too much a believer that human behavior was guided by selfishness and self-interest, to be confident that the key to the new Jerusalem lay within Americans' grasp, if only they would put forth the will to seize it.[4]
Abolitionists feared that view as the real enemy to their cause. The Brahmin abolitionist Wendell Phillips complained angrily against "these men" who "are ever parading their wish to draw a line between themselves and us, because they must be permitted to wait, - to trust more to reason than feeling,—to indulge a generous charity,—to rely on the sure influences of simple truth, uttered in love, &c., &c." It was the duty of convinced abolitionists, wrote Arthur Tappan (the wealthy bankroller of the American & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society) in 1832, to "inculcate everywhere, the great fundamental principle of immediate abolition," to "insist principally on the sin of slavery," and "reprobate the idea of compensation to slave holders, because it implies the right of slavery. . . . The duty of whites in regard to this cruel prejudice is not to indulge it, but to repent and overcome it." Let "the woful, blood-stained facts" about slavery "be spread out" and "let the tale of a slave's wrongs enter the ear," declared Elizur Wright a year later, and converts to the gospel of abolition would "rise up" to overthrow the idol of slavery—and, as Lincoln feared, "trust God for the consequences."[5]
No wonder, then, that so many of the abolitionist faithful found Lincoln unexciting. "I do not believe in the anti-slavery of Abraham Lincoln," wrote the black Illinois abolitionist H. Ford Douglass, "because he is on the side of this Slave Power . . . that has possession of the Federal Government." Wendell Phillips dismissed Lincoln as "not an Abolitionist, hardly an antislavery man," and tolerable only to the extent that he "consents to represent an antislavery idea."[6]
And yet, it is the name of Abraham Lincoln that appears at the bottom of the most sweeping act of reform in the American nineteenth century, the Emancipation Proclamation; and it was Abraham Lincoln who, as president, strong-armed a reluctant Congress to adopt a Thirteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution banning slavery completely. "There are four millions of people in this country who now regard Abraham Lincoln as their deliverer from bondage," declared Massachusetts Congressman George Boutwell, four days after Lincoln's death, "and whose prosperity, through all the coming centuries, will render tribute of praise to his name and memory." But the contrast between the reality of a chilly and uncommitted Lincoln on one hand and the image of the Great Emancipator on the other continues to pose far more difficulties for placing Lincoln in the line of reformers than Boutwell anticipated.
The principal difficulty in understanding Lincoln's place as a reformer may lie in how easy it is to miss his enthusiasm for a kind of reform that later generations have not often classified as a reform at all, but which was the real engine behind Lincoln's anti-slavery beliefs. When the American republic emerged from its colonial cocoon as an independent nation, its economic structure remained very much as British imperial planners had designed it—overwhelmingly agricultural, chronically dependent on imported manufactures, with poor internal transportation, and very little in the way of banks and investment capital to fund economic growth. When the United States went to war a second time with Great Britain in 1812, its feeble economic infrastructure virtually collapsed under British pressure.
As early as the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury, argued for the promotion of manufacturing and banking by the federal government as the surest road to security from the great empires all around America's frontiers. But Hamilton encountered strenuous resistance from Thomas Jefferson, the first secretary of state, who argued that an agricultural economy was precisely what promoted civic virtue and discouraged a different kind of peril to liberty within, from concentrations of too much economic power in too few hands. In a republic where farmers made up 90 percent of the population, Jefferson's arguments had long innings.
However, the debacle of the War of 1812 convinced many Americans that economic backwardness spelled an imperiled future for American liberty and independence. By the mid-1830s, American politics had become polarized into two well-organized political parties, Democrats (the heirs of Jefferson and acolytes of Andrew Jackson) and Whigs (led by Henry Clay). The Whigs promoted a three-point program of banking (to generate the capital needed for creating new manufacturing enterprises), tariffs (to protect the new manufactures from foreign competition) and "internal improvements" (transportation projects, funded by the government, to connect the rural hinterlands with manufacturers, and connect farmers with markets instead of merely subsisting on their own produce). And from his first moments of political awakening, it was the Whigs to whom Lincoln gravitated. When the Whig Party foundered in the mid-1850s, Lincoln attached himself to the new Republican Party because of its anti-slavery stance; but he was also attracted by how the Republicans embraced the Whigs' economic policies.
What the Republican agenda offered Lincoln was an entirely different species of reform—the transformation of the self. People like Lincoln, born in backwoods poverty, could climb the economic ladders of opportunity offered by markets and economic development to make for themselves landscapes entirely different from the isolated drudgery of the hinterlands. "We stand at once the wonder and admiration of the whole world," Lincoln said in 1856. And why? "This cause is that every man can make himself." Liberty, for Lincoln, was economic liberty, and the genius of the American republic was the allowance it made for everyone to re-make themselves. And no better example of that re-making existed than Lincoln himself. "There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us," Lincoln insisted in 1859:
Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account to-day; and will hire others to labor for him to-morrow. Advancement — improvement in condition — is the order of things in a society of equals.[7]
Lincoln was less afraid than his Democratic peers that a society in which some people could transform themselves into the prosperous and wealthy meant that others would be transformed downward into poverty. "I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich," he told an audience of workingmen in 1860, "We do not propose any war upon capital." What he wished instead was to give "the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else." And he did not mind aiding "the humblest man" through the three-fold government-sponsored mechanism of "internal improvements," banking, and tariffs. Government could—and should—"do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities." But that responsibility pointed government in the direction of economic enablement, not (as the Jacksonians wanted) economic restraint, and if after all the efforts of enablement had been expended, some people still remained mired in poverty, Lincoln saw no virtue in shedding tears over the failures. "If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system," he told the Wisconsin State Agricultural Fair in 1859, "but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune."
Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, "Lay it not too much to heart." Let them adopt the maxim, "Better luck next time;" and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.[8]
It was exactly the unpredictable spiraling of "better luck" in markets and manufacturing that appalled Jacksonian Democrats and fueled their resistance to banks, tariffs, and highways. And among slaveholders in the American South, the Whig agenda generated fears that a government big enough to build roads, levy tariffs, and charter banks would also turn out to be a government big enough to emancipate their slaves. And so a fateful alliance was struck between Jackson's Democrats and the plantation oligarchy of the South that persisted all the way to the doorstep of the Civil War.
But it was also Lincoln's advocacy of a market-driven society that lay at the root of his hostility to slavery, for if slavery was anything, it was a loathsome determination on the part of the slaveholder to deny at least one class of human beings—namely, black slaves—all hope of self-transformation, or even to deny that African Americans had even the capacity to improve themselves. Like most white Americans of his day, Lincoln took the superior "intellectual endowment" and "physical difference" of white people for granted; unlike many white Americans, however, he also insisted that "there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence," and that especially included the right to economic self-improvement—"to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns." What slavery symbolized to Lincoln was stasis—a society in which people were assigned a status, and in which government existed to preserve that status and prevent any disruption of it, using either the carrot of subsidy (for poorer whites who did not own slaves) or the stick of force (to suppress slave restlessness and restrain the possibility of black-white alliances).[9]
Slavery was the badge of a society that looked with suspicion upon self-transformation, as well as the labor that made it possible. Slavery "betokened not only the possession of wealth but indicated the gentleman of leisure who was above and scorned labour." Slaveholding was "highly seductive to the thoughtless and giddy headed young men" of America because it taught them that work, enterprise, and money-making was "vulgar and ungentlemanly." It represented a receding from the high promise of the American republic into "a British aristocratic" pattern. And when the Southern states attempted to secede from the Union in order to insulate slavery from federal tampering, he made very clear what he thought the stakes in the ensuing Civil War were about, at the highest level:
On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all — to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.[10]
Lincoln, unlike Wendell Phillips, saw slavery as an economic problem more than a racial one. But on either count, he found it difficult to prescribe a means for ending it. Slavery was legal in fifteen states in 1860, when Lincoln was nominated for the presidency, and in each case, its legalization was a matter of state statute, rather than federal law. "According to our political system, as a matter of civil administration, the general government had no lawful power to effect emancipation in any State," he acknowledged. Back in 1856, when he was prominent only in Illinois political circles, he had admitted that "If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution." He clung to the hope that "systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted," especially if slavery was prevented from expanding into the western territories. But legalizing slavery in the territories was precisely what had been sanctioned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 (the event that galvanized Lincoln politically) and been protected by the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857.[11]
Even after his election as president, Lincoln understand all-too-clearly that he had no civil authority to interfere with slavery; and if the South was successful in its fight to tear away from the Union, slavery would be even further beyond the reach of the United States government to deal with. Lincoln's impulse, in 1861, was to implement his federally funded buy-out plan in Delaware (one of the four slave states that remained loyal to the Union), as a way of showing how state legislatures could back their way painlessly out of slavery. But the Delaware legislature failed to act, and in the spring of 1862, the other loyal slave states—Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri—rejected Lincoln's proposal with contempt. By the summer of 1862, Lincoln's mind revolved to a different, but much more constitutionally controversial strategy—a "war powers" proclamation of emancipation, issued on the strength of his constitutional designation as Commander in Chief, and based on the premise that freeing the South's slaves would constitute a legitimate blow to the Southern ability to carry on the war.
No such proclamation had ever been issued by an American president—no such "war powers" had even been defined judicially—but by that time Lincoln "had about come to the conclusion that we must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued." On July 22, 1862, Lincoln laid before his Cabinet a preliminary draft of an Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that "all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." His secretary of state, William H. Seward, urged him to sit on the proclamation until a Union military victory could bolster its credibility. But when such a victory came at Antietam on September 17, 1862, Lincoln waited only until he had confirmation of the event before re-assembling his Cabinet and issuing the proclamation as military law, to become effective on January 1, 1863.
On the other hand, invoking the "war powers" as a justification limited Lincoln to freeing slaves only "within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States," and so he was forced to exempt Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri from its application (they were not, after all, at war with the United States) plus a number of zones within the South occupied by federal forces that were already under the civil jurisdiction of "reconstruction" governments. As he explained to his impatient abolitionist secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Chase, he could not extend the Proclamation further than "any state, or designated part of a state" actually in rebellion without undermining the legal rationale of using his "war powers." And that would leave the whole emancipation project liable to interference from the same Supreme Court that had given the nation the Dred Scott decision. "The exemptions were made because the military necessity did not apply to the exempted localities," Lincoln explained. If, as Commander in Chief, he tried to emancipate slaves outside the war zones, he would have no more justification for doing so than saying, "I think the measure politically expedient, and morally right." This would surrender "all footing upon constitution or law" and plunge him into "the boundless field of absolutism." Abolitionists might not worry about the consequences of absolutism, but he did.[12]
At the same time, though, as many slaves as he could free, would be free forever. He assured one inquirer in July 1863, that "I think [the Proclamation] is valid in law, and will be so held by the courts," but even if not, "I think I shall not retract or repudiate it. Those who shall have tasted actual freedom, I believe, can never be slaves, or quasi-slaves again." And he frankly warned Congress in his annual report at the end of 1864 that any move which required him to step back from the Proclamation would result in his resignation. "If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it." Finally, in January 1865, he was able to obtain from Congress what he described as the "king's cure for all the evils" of slavery—an amendment to the Constitution, not merely emancipating slaves, but abolishing the entire legal institution of slavery throughout the nation.[13]
Perhaps it was only an after-thought on Lincoln's part to have included in the Emancipation Proclamation a recommendation to the newly freed slaves that their next step as free men and women should be into the openness of the markets, that "in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages." Even in what he termed "an act of Justice," Lincoln still saw the ultimate realization of freedom in economic terms. This raises the potent question for modern Americans about what constitutes reform itself, and whether the emergence of the United States as a great world market-power in the 150 years since Lincoln's day should be considered a reform, or the object of reform—whether the operation of market-driven forces carries within it more hope of ameliorating injustice than political ones. These divergent strategies formed the substance of the great debate between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington over civil rights in the early twentieth century; it formed the core of the argument over the New Deal and the Great Society; and it continues to agitate voices all along our political spectrums. At least we know where Lincoln placed himself in this debate, and where he believed the ultimate reformation of American life would always lie.[14]
[1] William Henry Herndon interview with Sara Bush Lincoln (September 8, 1865) and Dillard C. Donnohue interview with Jesse Weik (February 13, 1887), in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews and Statements About Abraham Lincoln, eds. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 107, 602; Herndon, in Jesse Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), 110; Lincoln, "Temperance Address" (February 22, 1862), in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy F. Basler et al (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1:271-272, 274.
[2] Lincoln, "Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery" (March 3, 1837) and "To Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864), in Collected Works, 1:75, 7:281.
[3] Lincoln, "To Horace Greeley" (March 24, 1862), in Collected Works, 5:169.
[4] Lincoln, "Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts" (September 12, 1848), in Collected Works, 2:3-4.
[5] Phillips, "Philosophy of the Abolition Movement" (January 27, 1853) in Speeches, Lectures, and Letters (Boston: J. Redpath, 1863), 100; Tappan, "Particular Instructions," to Theodore Dwight Weld, in Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Grimke, 1822-1844, eds. G. Barnes and D.L. Dumond (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1934), 1:124-128; Elizur Wright, The Sin of Slavery and its Remedy; Containing Some Reflections on the Moral Influence of African Colonization (New York: Elizur Wright, 1833), 9, 39.
[6] H. Ford Douglass, in James M. McPherson, The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union (New York: Pantheon Books, 1965), 7; Phillips, "Lincoln's Election" (November 7, 1860), in Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, 294.
[7] Lincoln, "Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan" (August 27, 1856) and "Fragment on Free Labor" (September 17, 1859), in Collected Works, 2:364 and 3:462.
[8] Lincoln, "Fragment on Government" (July 1, 1854), "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin" (September 30, 1859), and "Speech at New Haven, Connecticut" (March 5, 1860), in Collected Works, 2:220, 3:479, 481, and 4:24.
[9] Lincoln, "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois" (August 21, 1858), in Collected Works, 3:16.
[10] Joseph Gillespie to W.H. Herndon (January 31, 1866), in Herndon's Informants, 183; Lincoln, "Fragment on Free Labor" (September 17, 1859) and "Message to Congress in Special Session" (July 4, 1861), in Collected Works, 3:462 and 438
[11] Lincoln, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854) and "Annual Message to Congress" (December 8, 1863), in Collected Works, 2:255-256 and 7:49
[12] Gideon Welles, diary entry for July 13, 1862, in The Diary of Gideon Welles, ed. John T. Morse (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911) 1:70; Lincoln, "Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation" (September 22, 1862) and "To Salmon P. Chase" (September 3, 1863), in Collected Works, 5:434, 6:428-429.
[13] "To Stephen A. Hurlbut" (July 31, 1863) and "Annual Message to Congress" (December 8, 1864) and "Response to a Serenade (February 1, 1865) in Collected Works, 6:358 and 8:152, 254.
[14] Lincoln, "Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863), in Collected Works, 6:30
Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and director of the Civil War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He received the Lincoln Prize in 2000 for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999) and in 2005 for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004).
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No sweeteners, when added as in ingredient, are allowed on the Daniel Fast. This includes honey, syrups, date sugar or date honey, natural sweeteners (stevia or agave nectar) and any other sweeteners. As you make decisions when you create recipes or choose menu items, keep the Daniel Fast Guidelines in mind. Seek the counsel and guidance of the Holy Spirit and make good choices that aligned with the boundaries of the fast.
With that said, these sweeteners are excellent alternatives to sugar and should be considered after the fast.
I am pregnant. Can I still engage in the Daniel Fast?
First, you will want to contact your doctor and explain that the Daniel Fast is a vegan diet with additional restrictions (leavened breads, caffeine, alcohol, sweeteners and chemicals).
Generally, pregnant and nursing mothers follow the Daniel Fast guidelines, but add enough chicken or fish to meet the additional protein demands.
Are there ever situations when I should "pause" from the fast?
Yes, there are times when it would be appropriate to briefly pause from the fast, but do so after consulting with the Holy Spirit. For example, last year when I was fasting I visited my son and his wife who live about 120 miles from me. My son is adopted from Ethiopia and three years ago he returned to Ethiopia and while there married a lovely woman. They now live in Seattle.
During my visit, she had prepared a very special Ethiopian meal for me (parents are very honored in Ethiopia) with lamb. I quickly consulted the Holy Spirit who showed me the way of love for her would be for me to pause my fast. She followed the meal with an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony, again an act of honor toward me. I felt the freedom to engage in both the meal and coffee ceremony and then returned to my fast the next day. It was the loving thing to do.
How much food can I have on the Daniel Fast?
The Scriptures don't really state an amount of food that can be consumed. However, I do encourage people to keep in mind that this is a fast (restricting food for a spiritual purpose). With that in mind, eating no more than three moderate meals and two small snacks would be appropriate.
Can I eat food during the daylight hours?
Many fasts begin at sunrise and end at sunset. However, the Daniel Fast does not require this modification to our eating patterns. If you choose to add this step to your fast, then that would still be okay, but it is not a required step for the Daniel Fast.
How do you know what Daniel really ate?
I don't! That's why the fast is based on the fasting experiences recorded in Daniel 1 and Daniel 10. If you want to "eat as Daniel ate," then I encourage to research what that could have been. But my guess is that you will soon realize that you can't be sure. That's why the fast is only based and modeled after Daniel 1, Daniel 10 and typical Jewish fasting principles.
Can I have (fill in the blank)?
You can have all foods that include ingredients that comply with the Daniel Fast approved food lists. READ THE LABEL on any prepared or packaged foods to make sure all of the ingredients comply. Even foods marked as "natural" my still contain sweetener or other foods that are not allowed on the fast.
What foods can I eat straight from the grocery store?
You will quickly learn that most of the prepared foods found in grocery stores include sweeteners, chemicals or other ingredients that are not allowed on Daniel Fast. That's why most meals are made from scratch and the reason I've written two eCookbooks and included a cookbook in the new paperback edition.
What if I want to do the Daniel Fast for dietary reasons and not spiritual purposes?
The definition of fasting is to restrict food for a spiritual purpose. Using the Daniel Fast eating plan for strictly health purposes would be a Daniel Diet rather than a fast. Many people do use the Daniel Fast eating plan to improve their health and for weight loss.
What about gum and breath mints?
I have yet to find either gum or breath mints that don't have sweeteners or chemicals included in the ingredients. So alternatives like mint leaves, parsley, whole cloves and cinnamon sticks can be used. Also, adding lemon slices to your water will freshen your mouth. You will also find that eating a plant-based diet produces a "sweeter" breath than eating meats and animal products.
Are marital relations allowed during the Daniel Fast?
The Bible teaches that spouses are to be available to each other for marital relationships unless both choose to abstain for spiritual purposes (see 1 Corinthians 7). You and your spouse may choose to abstain from sex during your fast and instead use other ways of showing love and commitment to one another. Couples who do this often times experience great growth and value in this way.


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Bruno Mars Upsets New Jersey Residents as Choice for 2014 Super Bowl Halftime Performer
The NFL scored a major touchdown by selecting Bruno Mars as their halftime entertainment for the 2014 Super Bowl in February. However, some fans from the Garden State are not happy that the singer was chosen to perform at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., where the football game takes place.
Several fans have voiced their displeasure on Twitter and asked why the NFL didn't select a hometown act to perform like rock icons Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi or both? As spotted by EW.com, some would rather see Bruce or even Jay Z headline the halftime show.
One person sarcastically tweeted, "Hawaiian singer Bruno Mars will do the Super Bowl halftime show. It's in New Jersey. Too bad there aren't any musicians from that state." Another tweeted, "Bruno Mars?! You're in Jersey. Haven't you heard of Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen? Even Billy Joel or JayZ!!!"
Historically, the NFL never picks their performers based on regional location of the Super Bowl. However, they did break that trend when Beyonce performed at this year's Super Bowl XLVIII, which took place in her hometown of Houston.
Here's the deal: Who's to say that Bruno Mars might not create a special New Jersey-themed halftime show. The Grammy award-winning singer-guitarist is a versatile performer who has worked with artists in the rock, pop, hip-hop and country genres. He is well-respected and well-liked by all his peers.
So, we might see the 'Locked Out of Heaven' crooner perform a medley with Bon Jovi and then switch it up and let Jersey rap icons Naughty By Nature and Redman rock the mic. It could happen.
In the end, let's give Bruno Mars a chance. No matter how it goes down on Feb. 2, you are almost guaranteed an entertaining show.
What do you think? Did the NFL make a wise decision in tapping Bruno Mars for their Super Bowl halftime show? Tell us in the comments below.


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Hi All,
It has been suggested that the relationship between some exam board syllabuses and certain Microsoft products is not in the interest of fair competition. In my involvement with schoolforge.org.uk I have been asked to investigate this and see if there is grounds for a complaint to the Offiice of Fair Trading.
Could anyone who has been influenced by this relationship in any way and is prepared to discuss it and/or be cited in the communication with the OFT please contact me at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Further, if anyone has suggestions or other examples of this relationship please mail me? I'm aware that if all the messages hit this list then it could be overwhealming - I will either post a summary or try to collate them on the web in some way.
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Yes, definetely worth their papa's time and effort, the lunch box is very nice! And most importantly your princesses like them!ReplyDelete
Haha, good trick! Next time your daughter will become messenger if you wanna buy something :P
The FOC item is very useful indeed and I like it so much - it's a bento box!! Yay!ReplyDelete
Funny... I seldom success with this trick of yours on my hubs T___T
Yeah, April & May got new lunch box to school!ReplyDelete
Well, I was planning my son from Enfa to Sustagen (both oso from same mead johhson eh). I heard they have new flavor - plain one!
The lunch box is very nice. I saw a red one in Tesco that they displayed as sample. I think I also want to get one lah, although Chloe is not on Sustagen but she is a milk addict and will drink any flavour, any brand haha.ReplyDelete
The lunchboxes are very nice and come with utensils too. Definitely worth papa's time and effort to get for his princesses. :) Haha...Mummy is very smart huh.ReplyDelete
LOL... the pestering part, sound familiar... I reckon it works on all loving papa!ReplyDelete
So nice, I found sustagen always has gift tagging along, unlike my girl's milk, Dutch Lady 123... even a measuring spoon is not given!:p
Have a great wekend with your family ya!
LOL, yes, you definitely found a new way that work wonders for you! About whether it's worth their papa's effort and time to search high and low for the thing, I personally think it's worth it from the aesthetic perspective (make your loved ones so happy and satisfied!) but yet if viewed from practical sense, then not quite loh unless all the shops are nearby. About searching for something high and low for the sake of the kids, I can say I'm more like your hubby - I'm willing to drive here, drive there just to look for something that I really want. But had it been my hubby, strightaway if one place he cannot find, he won't bother looking for it anywhere else, not even if it is for the sake of the child. For him, his motto is "If cannot find, then forget it-lah!" ^_^ReplyDelete
Btw, I love the lunch box design, looks very cute! Too bad, my son is on GainPlus EyeQ to which they will only give free things if bought at the normal price which is about RM94.++ for 1.8 kg tin whereas I normally stock up when offer price ranges at RM 85.95 to RM88.99.ReplyDelete
For Alice Law's note, I saw before - Tesco having offer for Dutch Lady 123, priced at RM17.++ for the 1kg packet and comes with a free Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Tigger & Pooh or some other Disney series characters storybook. I was very tempted to buy it too but unfortunately that time I had already stocked up on a total of 13 packets ( no free gifts some more!) and dared not stock up some more becos Juan Or was still at the rejecting milk stage. Moreover, if MIL and FIL saw me stocking up on more Dutch Lady, they will have a lot of things to say and comment on why I give him Dutch Lady instead of Pediasure...you know what I mean? ^_^
I saw these lunch boxes too at Tesco. Indeed very nice lunch boxes.ReplyDelete
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Top seeds continue progress at Acapulco
The top seeds dominated proceedings once again on day four of action at the Quiksilver Surf Open Acapulco in Mexico.
In two-to-four foot waves at Playa Revolcadero, Gavin Gillette of Hawaii notched the day's highest single wave score and heat total after a massive backside air reverse in the dying moments of his last-32 heat saw him earn 8.83 and 13.76 respectively.
"I was pretty nervous because second place is not a good spot to be in," Gillette said.
"I knew the Mexican guys could get barreled or do an air and they didn't need much of a score. I knew I had to come back and battle with those guys and I'm glad I did."
"I've been surfing out here two or three times a day just to try and figure it out. My first session, I didn't catch any waves and it's difficult. When it comes, there can be a bunch of close outs, so you've really got to be on it."
Fellow Hawaiian Dege O'Connell also impressed after finding the sole barrel in his round of 64 heat to score an 8.00 and claim victory.
"I paddled out early because I wanted to check out the lineup and saw a drainer in the heat before so I knew there were a couple of barrels," O'Connell said.
"I just dropped in to that one and all I had to do was ride it. It was just a perfect barrel."
Round of 32 results:
Heat 1: Colin Moran (USA) 11.23, Jeffrey Lukasik (USA) 6.87, Cristobal De Col (PER) 5.94, Jeremy Johnston (USA) 4.60
Heat 2: Tanner Hendrickson (HAW) 11.23, Michael Powell (USA) 11.17, Guillermo Satt (CHL) 10.17, Tim Reyes (USA) 8.87
Heat 3: Gavin Gillette (HAW) 13.76, Dane Anderson (USA) 12.93, Blas Bacardo (MEX) 5.47, Phillip Goold (USA) 4.60
Heat 4: Jose Trujillo (MEX) 10.40, Diego Cadena (MEX) 9.83, Dylan Goodale (HAW) 9.57, Camilo Hernandez (CHL) 6.10
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Heat 13: Miguel Tudela (PER) 11.16, Shane Beschen (USA) 9.67, Cesar Petroni (MEX) 6.80, Enrique Ariitu (PYF) 3.04
Heat 14: Leigh Sedley (AUS) 11.83, Ian Crane (USA) 8.17, Hunter Lysaught (UAS) 5.88, Travis Southworth (MEX) 4.80
Heat 15: Dege O'Connell (HAW) 10.47, Ricky Whitlock (USA) 7.43, Marcelo Rodriguez (ARG) 7.33, Eala Stewart (HAW) 6.90
Heat 16: Hank Gaskell (HAW) 13.00, Chris Tucker (USA) 5.83, Christian Corzo (MEX) 5.06, Sebastian Correa (PER) 4.53


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Apparently, I messed up the address on this one. I thought it
was worth resubmitting, but as this sub-topic is way off topic
for this list, I'll refrain from pursuing it further.
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JoAnne Marie wrote:
> If at some later stage they'd like to explore
> the rich history (possibly even 'epistomology') contained in
the etymology > - they are so much the richer, but we are
presently 'condemning' large
> numbers of 'native English speakers' to 'functional
illiteracy' by
> 'cleaving to' the out-dated mishmash which is 'traditional
> orthography'!
Sorry, JoAnne Marie, but CC would impose functional illiteracy
on a rather larger proportion of the population for at least
the following reasons:
- The significant information is represented by very subtle
graphical distinctions (e.g. stroke weight or length) that
hinder reading fluency. As Markus (I think) pointed out, fluent
readers process entire chunks of the graphical representation
at a time, but the subtle distinctions would result in so many
spellings that are very nearly similar that there would be a
much higher error rate.
- The subtle graphical distinctions would very definitely be
lost in handwriting, unless we all used brushes or used nibbed
pens and learned to rotate the pen properly. Even then, there
will be lots of problems: How heavy can a stroke get before it
changes from "thin" to "thick"? Users will not be consistent in
stroke weights, and ambiguity will result.
- In spite of the inconicity, the interpretation is not at all
intuitive, but interpretation is expected to be done in terms
of the iconicity. People will not likely master that well and
will take longer in learning to recognise chunks (see above),
and they will have a much harder time coping with words that
are new to them.
- The graphical representation uses presentation space
extremely inefficiently.
- The need to jump up and down and, in many situations, to
write multiple strokes in the same horizontal but different
vertical positions is a severe obstacle to writing fluency.
- The need for exactness in detail (e.g. is that stroke right
on the line - a consonant, or just off the line - a vowel) is a
severe obstacle to writing fluency. In practice, the necessary
level of exactness in detail could never be achieved adequtely,
with the result that there is a lot of ambiguity (the stroke
seems to start on the line and drift off), resulting in big
obstacles to reading fluency.
These factors would have a *far* worse impact on English
literacy than does the influence of etymology on English
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MAULDIN, S.C., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Meeting with about a dozen veterans in South Carolina, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney suggested privatizing the healthcare system of military veterans.
At a campaign stop at Mutt's BBQ restaurant in Mauldin, S.C., Romney discussed his vision for veterans' healthcare, which is similar to his vision for Medicare -- introducing "private sector competition" through vouchers instead of the government-run TRICARE, which provides civilian health benefits for military personnel, military retirees and their dependents, ABC News reported.
"If you're the government, they know there's nowhere else you guys can go, you're stuck," Romney told the veterans. "Sometimes you wonder if there would be some way to introduce private sector competition, somebody else who could come in and say each solder has 'X' thousand dollars attributed to them and then they can choose where they want to go in the government system or the private system with the money that follows them. Like what happens with schools in Florida where people have a voucher that goes with him."
In Washington, Democrats pulled out an old proposal of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to privatize the VA in 2008 and said veterans groups did not embrace the proposal then.
In a statement to the Talking Points Memo Web site, Jerry Newberry, spokesman for Veterans of Foreign Wars, said: "The VFW doesn't support privatization of veterans healthcare. This is an issue that seems to come around every election cycle."
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A graffitied former Chase bank branch on New York's Lower East Side and an uptown Park Avenue storefront will soon play host to a group of new bronze sculptures by Urs Fischer. The downtown show, "mermaid / pig / bro w/ hat" (Apr. 3-May 23), is in a temporary space at 104 Delancey St. The uptown show, "last supper" (Apr. 3-May 8), will inaugurate Park & 75, the latest outpost of the international megagallery Gagosian, located at 821 Park Ave. at 75th Street.
Fischer, 41, is known for work in the widest range of modes and mediums, from gargantuan sculptures that are metal casts of roughly formed handfuls of clay to mirrored boxes with images of everyday items adhered to their surfaces. In 2008, he dug a giant hole in the floor at Gavin Brown's Enterprise (his other New York dealer), and called the piece You.
At the Delancey Street bank branch, after entering through doors spray-painted with graffiti tags, visitors face a row of gaping holes where there used to be automated teller machines. "When there are ATMs there, it has a certain authority," Fischer told A.i.A. on Tuesday, walking through the space. "Without the machines it's just Sheetrock and cables."
The dual-venue show comprises over two dozen works based on objects made during the artist's 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). Over the four weeks preceding the show, 1,500 visitors created clay sculptures in collaboration with Fischer and his studio staff.
This resulted in rough-hewn, naive-looking depictions of subjects ranging from Saint Sebastian to a giant foot, from a fluted column to a police officer arresting a naked man. A selection of the sculptures from MOCA have been cast in bronze for the upcoming show, complete with handprints and other imperfections. Each comes in an edition of two plus an artist's proof. The gallery declined to divulge prices. Fischer's 23-foot-tall bronze sculpture Untitled (Lamp/Bear), 2005-06, sold for $6.8 million at Christie's New York in 2011.
The former bank walls are still painted in brown and beige tones ("cat-food-colored modernism," Fischer called it), and the Chase logo glows above the counter where tellers once worked. It makes for an unusual venue for a gallery whose facilities are normally considerably more posh. At the same time, the site's former identity as a branch of an enormous financial institution ironically underlines the status of Gagosian Gallery as a multinational corporation.
Fischer played down the bank venue, saying he and the gallery had considered various spaces during a two-week search. He was happy enough with what he called its "glued-on corporate image," though.
Uptown, at the 1,000-square-foot Park & 75, Fischer is showing a 25-foot-long sculpture of the Last Supper. "The last supper was the last thing we made [in L.A.], on the last day," he said. The new venue is in a six-story brick building that, Fischer said, provides a break from the giant, imperial-seeming residential buildings that surround it. It was formerly a kids' store, a deli and a florist.
Fischer remarked that working with the public at the L.A. exhibition offered freedom from restrictions, which he opined is much needed in today's art world. "It was out of control, not controlled like in the studio, where you might overthink things," he said. "It's about making things, in the broadest possible way. In art school now, you have to write essays before you can make art."


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We use the tomatoes from our garden and this package of salsa mix (found in the produce section). We chop up the tomatoes real small and stir in the package of salsa mix. We then grab a bag of tortilla chips and enjoy! It is so simple, so good, and is often a meal at our house.
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The Alhambra Police Department joked on its Facebook page that the giant reptile was captured Saturday afternoon after a brief pursuit.
"The tortoise did try to make a run for it; but, our officers are pretty fast," the post said, adding that "our cuffs…well, not practical in this situation."
It took two officers to heft the hard-shelled creature into a patrol car. They then took the reptile to the station.
There's a happy conclusion to this tale as well: The reason cops learned the tortoise's name is because his "human family who actually live in Alhambra" claimed him, according to the Alhambra Police Department's Facebook page Sunday update.
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Hi Ank. Thank you for your nice comment. There is a little trickle of water over on the left near the riverbank. When I posted this picture I thought I had checked off "for everyone" but it was posted as "private". When I asked jigidi about it they changed it to public but it went back to page 26. Oh well ! I guess it's a semiprivate puzzle.
A beautiful dry river. I can't wait to see it in November. Thanks
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2014-12-16 09:46:15 by Dr. Joe Congeni - Director of Sports Medicine, as posted on the inside.akronchildrens.org blog.
Pain areas associated with plantar fasciitis. Click image to enlarge.
Plantar fasciitis is a common sports medicine injury that has recently taken out some big-name athletes. It's extremely painful and can take years for athletes to recover from it.
Today, I had the chance to speak with WAKR host Ray Horner about these athletes and their plantar fasciitis.
We discussed the details of this painful injury and some of the treatments we employ to help relieve them. In some instances, however, the body will eventually heal itself.
Below is an audio file and transcript of our discussion.
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Theres a real common injury that we see a lot in sports medicine, but its really affecting a lot of high-profile athletes. These athletes that have been taken out of their sport include:
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by Christopher Freeburn | August 28, 2013 9:49 am
[1]While a number of companies are considering workforce changes in advance of the implementation of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, the nation's leading coffee shop chain won't be one of them[2].
On Monday, Starbucks (SBUX[3]) CEO Howard Schultz told Reuters that the chain will keep its current employee benefits and working hours in place. He said that Starbucks "won't use the new law as an excuse" to reduce benefits.
Under the Affordable Care Act, businesses with more than 50 employees must provide health care coverage for those who work at least 30 hours a week. The law was originally scheduled to take effect next year. However, the Obama administration recently delayed implementation of the provisions covering businesses[4] until 2015.
A number of companies, including a variety of fast food chains, have begun trimming employee hours[5], in order to lower their numbers of full-time employees since the law was passed.
Shipping giant UPS (UPS[6]) announced this month that it would stop providing insurance to employee spouses who have jobs and are eligible for coverage by their employers[7].
Schultz has long been a political supporter of the president, endorsing him during both his presidential campaigns[8].
Shares of Starbucks edged up slightly in Wednesday morning trading.
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Issue No. 05 - May (2006 vol. 39)
pp: 20-22
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2006.174

Scientists Develop New Digital-Content Protection Technology
Researchers have developed a new digital-content protection technology that is designed to eliminate unauthorized usage, copying, and distribution of multimedia and text.

US Tests Energy-Monitoring Grid Program
A new US Department of Energy project will utilize computer technology to monitor participating consumers' electricity consumption in real time to help decrease usage, particularly during periods of strain on power systems.

Cognitive Radios Address Spectrum Allocation
Rather than operating in a preset frequency range, cognitive radios use software to dynamically detect and exploit unused or underused radio frequencies.

Digital-content protection technology, Collusion attacks, Security, Grid computing, Intelligent technologies, Cognitive radios, Spectrum allocation
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YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- New Zealand resident Philip Blackwood is set to be one of more than 100 prisoners released from a Myanmar prison after he was arrested for using images of Buddha in his bar.
Blackwood was arrested alongside two Burmese business partners in December of 2014 for posting an "offensive" image of Buddha wearing headphones. He received a 2 1/2 year sentence of hard labor in March 2015.
He and 120 other prisoners are to be released as part of an amnesty program, although it is unclear if his business partners will be freed as well.
"It's come as a shock - we weren't expecting it," Blackwood's mother Angela told the New Zealand Herald. "We're still a bit shell-shocked at the moment and we're just waiting to hear when he will actually be released."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed Blackwood's presence on the amnesty list.
"[The Ministry of Foreign Affairs] through the New Zealand Embassy and consular staff - has been providing consular assistance to Mr. Blackwood and his family since his first arrest and detention," the ministry said.
The window for Blackwood's release can range anywhere from 24 hours to a full week and his mother stated that the Myanmar government still has his passport.
Blackwood's family last visited him in June, but his fiance Noemi Almo remained in Myanmar on a business visa and visited him every two weeks.
Almo gave birth to Blackwood's daughter three months before he was imprisoned.
Laura Haigh of Amnesty International New Zealand expressed happiness that Blackwood would be set free but noted that "scores remain behind bars, while hundreds of other peaceful activists are on bail facing jail time".


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Cosplayer Kurzes Haar > Costume of Villetta Nu (Code Geass)
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A lot of my friends are really into Code Geass and they convinced me that I needed to do a Villetta cosplay. Of all the characters in the series, I probably do like her the best, so it was a good choice =D
The jacket and skirt were very simple to make. I used plum/wine colored Casa satin with gold crepe satin for the trim. All the black fabric was a polyester suiting. I used parts of patterns I had drafted from previous costumes with similar jackets and modified them where it was needed.
The part of the costume that gave me the most trouble was the wig. I sharpie dyed a white wig to get the periwinkle color of her hair, added tons of extensions and then pulled it into a ponytail, stubbed it and glued it, then formed the ponytail extension around that. What gave me the most trouble was supporting the weight of the ponytail in the base of the wig, which I didn't quite do correctly, as the ponytail sagged a bit while wearing it. Still, it was a lot of fun to wear this costume, especially since I made an Ougi costume for the hubs!
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East Central College enrollment has slightly declined for the third consecutive year.
The total fall enrollment, including ECC locations at Rolla, Sullivan, Warrenton and Washington, is down 3.5 percent, a trend college administrators attribute to a slightly improving economy.
"This trend is not unexpected and is consistent with what most community colleges across the state and nation are experiencing," President Jon Bauer said.
A total of 3,901 students are enrolled at ECC, down from 4,043 last fall. They are taking 37,670 credit hours.
"Since we're an open admission, we tend to be somewhat countercyclical, meaning that when the economy worsens, our enrollment goes up," Bauer said. "Flat or shrinking high school graduation class sizes also are a factor."
Bauer said demographics also work against the college.
"The number of traditional college-age people is diminishing," he said. "Largely, we're seeing a decrease in the returning nontraditional age students, and I think some of that is actually positive, community wise. We're seeing some improvements in the economy."
Bauer said the large number of adults who enrolled in 2009 and 2010 have completed their programs and moved into the work force or transferred on to a four-year college or university.
Nevertheless, Bauer said he is encouraged by the number of returning students this semester.
"We saw an increase in sophomore students, with 60 percent of the students who were enrolled last fall taking classes at ECC again this semester," he said. "Retention is something we focused on the past year. We are excited that our efforts to help students on the path to graduation are working out."
Part-time students outnumber full-time students this semester. Those taking less then 12 credit hours account for more than 52 percent of the student population.
Bauer said that the number of first-time degree- seeking students stands at 782, a drop of 48 students from last year.
Almost 44 percent of ECC students are classified as transfer majors who intend to move on to a four-year college or university after ECC.
Women make up 62 percent of the student body, an increase of 2 percent over last fall. The mean student age is 24.
While enrollment is down this semester, it still remains significantly higher than a decade ago, when fall enrollment totaled just more than 3,200 students.
ECC's peak fall enrollment was in 2010 with 4,471 students.


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The open-world samurai game is coming exclusively to PlayStation 3 in North America courtesy of publisher Xseed. This is good news for fans, considering that the localization and release of the series' latest entry was up in the air.
According to an entry on the PlayStation blog, the sandbox-style game puts players in control of a samurai in Japan just as the country is seeing an influx of foreigners. However, according to the post, the game is "nearly surrealistic" and features "wildly anachronistic gear," so don't expect the story to be too gritty or serious.
No price or release date has been revealed, but the site promises more info "soon."
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Council President Herb Wesson visited with students at the Dorsey High School's Hospitality Training Facility. Joining Wesson and the students is Dorsey's Principal, Dr. Reginald A. Sample.
Council President Herb Wesson recently visited Dorsey High School's Hospitality Training Facility, home to its Food Service & Hospitality Program.
With funding provided by the 2006 Proposition 1D Public Education Facilities Bond, the facility serves 150 students, and over a 5-year span their goal is to educate and prepare 750 students for careers in the food service and hospitality industry.
On his visit, Wesson had an opportunity to observe student prepare lunch, and over lunch the students had an opportunity to share with Wesson their hopes and aspirations in the industry.
"In today's world, chefs and culinary artists have become celebrities," said Wesson. "So it was a real treat to visit this world-class facility and get acquainted with these great students and learn about their dreams for the future."
The hospitality, tourism, travel and recreation industries are among the largest and fastest growing industries in the world, providing millions of new jobs each year.