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Make Me Stay review
Make Me Stay by Rebecca Brooks
Genre: Adult Romance
Publication Date: October 3, 2016
Format: I received an ARC of the book for review purposes from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
You can preorder a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stay-Men-Gold-Mountain-ebook/dp/B01LWI5U6W?tag=entangpublis-20&link_code=ur2&creative=9325&camp=211189
*This book is in the ADULT Genre so younger audiences should not proceed with this review. Other than that, hope you keep reading and like it!*
She's his…for now.
Samantha Kane is about to solidify her father's legacy by developing sleepy Gold Mountain into the most profitable ski resort in the country. There's one man standing in her way though. One very sexy, rugged man. When she shows up to convince Austin Reede to sell, she has no intention of hiding her identity. But with a body like his, she'll take a few risks to get closer.
Austin was the fastest skier on the U.S. Olympic team, until he shattered his knee. Gold Mountain became his refuge—and now Kane Enterprises is threatening that home. When he meets Sam, he has no idea she's the one to blame, he just knows the attraction between them is one he hasn't felt in years. A scorching hot one-night stand is just what he needs. Little does he guess that it will change everything…
My Thoughts:
Ok, so the first thing that I saw and drew me in was the fact that one of the main characters was on track to make the olympic team. I'm a huge sucker for a book about anything remotely related to sports and especially the Olympics so…
So the first thing I have to mention, this book is not in my normal genre, and some people might end up saying that I'm too young to read a book of the ADULT genre, but I have to tell you, before I got into the YA genre, all the books that I read were of the adult genre.
Now let's actually get into my thoughts about the book. Samantha is visiting the ski lodge in person, in order to meet with the one person that's holding back her plans to make the best ski resort in the area. Immediately, we get the sense that Samantha Kane is a very busy woman and doesn't take very many vacations, and obviously, the ski lodge means a lot more to her than most people realize. So just the fact that she is taking this vacation is a pretty big deal.
What book would be ready for some heart-wrenching drama and romance without a previous ex who just won't leave you alone and a new hot guy that you know you want but for many, many reasons, you know you just can't? Well this book has got it all. But to be honest, most people who would be reading this book would be the ones who are only there for the hot and steamy scenes, but other than that, there was other content in there as well.
Sam is a total boss, literally too. She's the CEO of the company that her father passed down to her, and she know how to get. what. she. wants. But like, not in a bad way.
The one thing I love about these books is that it's more or less predictable, and always have a happy ending. It's always so freaking cute and never disappoints. The characters were well developed, including most of the supporting ones as well. To be honest, I actually liked the interactions among the supporting characters just a tiny bit better than the main characters.
The ending was everything, but pretty much predictable. The one thing I wanted was to find out more about one of the skiers that was training under Austin, Amelia, because it was revealed that she made the Olympic Women's team, and that's pretty cool. Wouldn't it be amazing to have a book about her on the Olympic team and some hot guy?? Well, one can dream right?
Overall, I give the book a 8/10 (4/5 stars). There was nothing wrong with it, but I do feel like the plot could be driven a little further. I enjoyed the story and it was a fun and easy read, and I recommend it to people who enjoy reading in the adult genre.
So what did you guys think about this review? I believe this is the first one on the blog that is in the adult age range, and I will have at least 2 more coming up this month. Let me know all your thoughts and comments down below or you can find me on social media @BrookeEvans2001 on Twitter and @thecozylittlebooknook on Instagram. I will probably be back tomorrow with another post!
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I probably shouldn't rep too hard for something affiliated with one of my home teams, and I probably wouldn't even be talking about this if it wasn't such a slow day, but the new continuous DJ mix from JD Twitch, which Pitchfork made available for free download on Monday, is one of the best pieces of music I've heard in a while. Twitch is half of Optimo, a Scottish DJ duo who lean hard on psych-rock but who have a whole lot of fun grabbing from any available source, and this Pitchfork mix reflects their aesthetic beautifully. The Pitchfork mix is ostensibly a dance mix, and there's plenty of dance music here, both old and new, but the real joy here is in the connections that Twitch makes between that dance music and music that virtually no right-thinking club DJ would ever even consider pulling out. Some of the most devastating moments here come from recontextualization. Black Sabbath's "The Wizard" comes in after some old obscure French guy's Afrobeat tribute-song, and so the first thing you notice about "The Wizard" is the song's breathlessly funky drum-work, not the megalithic guitar-riffage. We hear a bit of John Cooper Clark's "Evidently Chickentown," an apocalyptic postpunk rant and probably the best end-credits song in Sopranos history, but they come with fluttery Italo-disco synths and drums layered underneath, and that makes for a neat contrast with the original track's stark menace. The same thing happens with "Shaking Hell," a particularly vicious early Sonic Youth song; in the accompanying interview, Twitch notes that he'd been dicking around with the song and he'd realized that it had a 4-4 beat that might actually work in clubs. The mix ends with Grinderman's "No Pussy Blues," a song I've been sort of obsessed with since I saw Grinderman absolutely murder at Madison Square Garden about a week ago. Twitch fades from Lee Douglas's "Breakwind," a straight-up disco instrumental, into "No Pussy Blues," and he leaves the former's drum-track in place until the latter's climactic guitar flare-up; Nick Cave sounds even sleazier with Douglas's drums burbling underneath him.
The thing I really love about the mix's transitions is how unobtrusive they are. The DJs in the Hollertronix camp can bring playlists as stylistically divergent as Twitch's, but for them the whole point is the rupture, the instant and euphoric rush of recognition that comes when one style of music careens violently into another one. Twitch's transitions are a lot subtler and more intuitive, and his mix has a sort of organic wholeness to it. The straight-up dance tracks are, more often than not, great; he uses Lindstrom and Solale's "Let's Practice" and Carl Craig's remix of Faze Action's "In the Trees," two of my favorite dance singles of this year. And he uses the momentum he builds in those tracks to extend to the rock and funk songs, bringing out the dance-music undercurrents that I would've probably never recognized otherwise. It's not a perfect mix or anything; it drags a bit when he gets into horror-film music, and I wish rap would find its way onto Twitch's radar, though a house remix of an old Jodeci song is at least a step in the right direction. But the whole thing moves amazingly well, and it includes some amazing songs that I might've never heard otherwise. Johnny Wakelin's pulsating Ali tribute "In Zaire" was apparently a massive one-off hit in the 70s, but I'd never heard it, and holy shit it's awesome. This isn't even the first time that Optimo have pulled off miracles like that. 2005's mix CD How to Kill the DJ (Part 2) was some straight-up evilness: Cramps, John Carpenter, Soft Cell's "Sex Dwarf." And that same year's Psyche Out mix was a great history-lesson in drug-music. Optimo don't DJ in the US too often, and I've never heard them in an actual dance-club setting, but I have to imagine that my brain would probably melt if I did.
The mix has me thinking a lot about eclecticism, about the ways in which we broaden our scopes to let in different things. The most interesting part of a music genre's evolution is usually its beginning, since eclecticism is sort of a necessity. I'm thinking in particular about how David Mancuso would spin Led Zeppelin and Curtis Mayfield in the Loft before disco became an actual genre, how 70s hip-hop DJs would plunder Monkees and Steve Miller Band records for breaks, how the DJs at the Hacienda would apparently play any damn thing before acid-house matured into an actual thing of its own. One inevitable by-product of the internet's impact on music is that categorization becomes a whole lot more important. We have the entire history of recorded music at our fingertips, but that's way too much to ever make sense out of, so we cherry-pick our favorite styles to the exclusion of all else. And that ends up having an impact on music itself. We have hybridized micro-scenes and subgenres that have willfully isolated themselves from the rest of music, dance-nights that focus exclusively on minuscule individual crumbs of the dance-music pie. For better or worse, scenes are ossifying into distinct things more quickly than ever before. The DJs in Optimo clearly have wide and encyclopedic bases of music-knowledge, and they're not afraid to put those bases of knowledge toward some fascinating and satyisfying ends. They exist outside any genre I can name, and they've managed to carve out a niche by sounding like DJs who are on the verge of inventing their own scene. I hope they never quite get there; the journey is a whole lot more fun than the eventual destination could ever be.
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A scrapbook of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone...
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Draco's third year at Hogwarts. Sequel to Draco Malfoy and the Rejected Handshake, and Draco Malfoy and the Better-than-Potter's-Broomstick. Not at all serious in any way.
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Research at Hendrix
Coral snake venom, robots, digital circuit simulation, chemical communication
between elephants, large ring lasers, algebraic number theory, green chemistry,
science education, sleep and sleepiness, animal behavior, elementary particles and
fields, the structure of the universe. These are just a few of the subjects that
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Carl Burch
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Natural Sciences Area Chair
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Research interest: Digital circuit simulation, started open-source project called
Chris Camfield
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Research interests: Analysis on Metric Spaces, Geometric Measure Theory, Image and
Data Analysis.
Duff Campbell
Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., Boston University
Research interest: Algebraic number theory
Andres A. Caro
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires
Research interest: The biochemical mechanisms by which alcoholic beverages produce
liver damage.
Jennifer L. Dearolf
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Cornell University
Research interest: Muscle form and function in cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and
porpoises), guinea pigs and other mammals.
Andrea A. Duina
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph. D., Northwestern University
Research interest: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate the expression
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Robert W. Dunn
Professor of Physics and Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Research interest: Hendrix College Ring Laser Undergraduate Research Project
Gabriel J. Ferrer
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research interest: Robotics, software specification and verification
Thomas E. Goodwin
Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
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David A. Hales
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Courtney Hatch
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J. Brett Hill
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Dionne Bennett Jackson
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Research interest: Science teaching and the professional development of science
James M. Jennings
Professor of Education and History
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Research interest: The Above the Line Project, testing the effectiveness of research-based
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Lindsay A. Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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Randall A. Kopper
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Matthew D. Moran
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behavior and decision-making in humans and non-human animals.
Jennifer J. Peszka
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Research interest: Combinatorics
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Assistant Professor of Biology
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Whiskey traditionalists (some, not all) think that what we do is heresy. In a way, they're right. We approach this very differently. A technology and innovation company disguised as a "whiskey" company. We don't care how old a whiskey is and certainly don't have a story about our great, great grandfather's bourbon recipe (believable or not). We're changing a long-stagnant space, making it better, faster and smarter.
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We've been told that good whiskey takes time, that we shouldn't change the status quo, that technology can't possibly improve on a process that has stayed the same for generation after generation. We disagree.
With traditional processes, whiskey is continually absorbed into and subsequently released from the pores of an oak barrel. This subtracts undesirable flavors and adds more of the desirable ones. It's a passive process that can take years. Daily temperature and humidity changes impact internal barrel pressure and keep the fluids moving through the pores. You'll notice that Scotch is typically aged for a longer time than American whiskies. Temperatures, on average, are milder in Scotland and daily differentials are smaller, which account for a less active and therefore slower process. At Cleveland Whiskey, we dramatically accelerate the cycles of temperature and pressure change associated with the aging of whiskey. Increasing surface area as well as the frequency and range of pressure differentials, all within a controlled and oxygenated environment radically changes the status quo, shifts dependence from passive barrel aging to an active, flavor-focused process which facilitates the development of unique, interesting and award-winning whiskies.
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A strategic response to Tackling the threat of knife crime
The incidence of knife crime, may not be as prevalent as the media would have us believe, but nor can we be deliberately indifferent to the likelihood of its occurrence!
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Due diligence and good governance, are key components of an organisation, when it comes to the safety and security of its employees. As an organisation you may not be responsible for the actions of others, but you may be held accountable if you fail to maintain adequate duty of care!
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Support for President Trump among black voters hit 36% according to a new Rasmussen poll released on Thursday - nearly doubling his approval rating among African-Americans from the same day last year, which stood at 19%.
Today's @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36%— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 15, 2018
This day last year: 19% https://t.co/mazBCWoIMy @POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/uIqYxoBn6w
The boost corresponds with all-time low unemployment among blacks of 5.9% in May, which President Trump and others have been touting:
Record JOBS DAY!! 223K jobs added. Unemployment is 3.8%, lowest in 50 yrs. Black and Asian unemployment hit historic new lows. Adult men and women, and teenagers, are at lowest since 2000. Hourly earnings are up! Tax CUTS are working. America is WINNING BIG under President Trump!— President Trump (@POTUS) June 1, 2018
Breaking News— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) June 1, 2018
Black Unemployment Rate All-Time Low
What's really amazing is not only did the rate plunge to 5.9% from 6.6% in a single month 76,000 joined the labor force (the only racial group that increased last month) - really great news. #Winning
Thank You President @realDonaldTrump for making leadership decisions that allowed the Black Unemployment rate to fall under 6%..! The Lowest in History!— Pastor Mark Burns (@pastormarkburns) June 1, 2018
What's more, the Rasmussen poll comes amid controversy over the reported existence of a tape which contains Trump saying the N-word. The curiously timed allegations were brought by former White House aide and apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman - who was fired from the Clinton administration after being shuffled around four times.
That said, the Washington Post refutes Rasmussen's results with a Friday article entitled "No, one-third of African Americans don't support Trump. Not even close."
Polling firms that have interviewed far more African Americans, and that are much more transparent than Rasmussen, all show that Trump's black approval rating is much lower than 36 percent.
For example, Gallup has interviewed thousands of African American respondents in 2018. Its polling suggests that Trump's black approval rating has consistently been around 10 to 15 percent through 2018.
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June 24, 2009 – CircuLite Inc. today announced the publication of positive data from its ongoing CE mark clinical trial for the Synergy Pocket Micropump for chronic heart failure in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The data demonstrated that partial circulatory support with Synergy yielded statistically significant long-term improvements in cardiac function, hemodynamic benefits and evidence of myocardial recovery. These results were originally presented in a late-breaking session at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Synergy is a microblood pump, the size of an AA battery that can be implanted superficially in a pacemaker-like pocket. Synergy is the first and smallest device designed for partial circulatory support (up to 3 L/min) and long-term use in patients with class IIIb and early class IV heart failure.
"Data from the ongoing CE mark trial continue to show that Synergy provides significant hemodynamic benefits to patients and prevents progressive hemodynamic deterioration," said senior author Daniel Burkhoff, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical officer of CircuLite and adjunct associate professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical School. "Synergy, with its small size and minimally invasive procedure, could result in quality-of-life improvements for patients – CircuLite's ultimate goal for this device."
The company is currently pursuing CE mark approval for Synergy and anticipates launching the device in Europe later this year.
At the time of its writing, the article details results for 17 patients (14 males) who were implanted with Synergy. Significant improvements in hemodynamics were observed in the first day of support. Additionally, nine patients had since completed their follow-up right heart catherization at a mean of 10 weeks, and the data demonstrate that the significant hemodynamic improvements were sustained. Mean arterial pressure increased from 67 mmHg to 80 mmHg and mean cardiac index increased from 2 to 2.8 L/min/m2. Large reductions in mean capillary wedge pressure were observed (30 to 18 mmHg). In addition, mean peak VO2 increased from 9.7 to 14.1 ml/kg/minute. The median duration of patient support with Synergy was 81 days, with the longest support period of 213 days. Eighty-two percent (14/17) of patients were alive and nine received heart transplants. The study also demonstrated relatively quick patient recovery following the 90-minute minimally invasive procedure.
The article, titled "Proof of Concept: Hemodynamic Response to Long-Term Partial Ventricular Support with the Synergy Pocket Micro-Pump," was published in the current print issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Vol. 53, Issue 26, June 30, 2009).
For more information: www.CircuLite.net


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Thomas Mann once said
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
I don't much like ANZAC DAY.. too many bad memories.
As I sit and reflect, my thoughts are of my grandfather, not a hero, just a simple man that embarked on an adventure 97 odd years ago.. He was wounded and returned home.. His adventure over.
He, like alot of young men of the time, changed his surname and added a year or so to his age, just to enlist. He achieved this, but lived to regret the decision for the rest of his life.. You see, it was like this…He, along with many thousands of others had no idea of what they had let themselves in for… We can't even begin to imagine!! There are countless stories of this horrific time in our history. Nightmares that lasted a lifetime.. Families torn apart by the ravages of war.. How many times have we heard this? Thousands!!
Every year at this time, these memories are relived over and over.. My grandfather married a young lass from Victoria. Like lots of young blokes at the time, they married quickly.. I once asked him why.. His answer.."We were in Love" Stupid of me really..of course they were in love.. He with the adventure and a married man to boot.. My grandmother, put through a living hell.
He went off to foreign shores, she not knowing if he would ever return. He was one of the lucky ones…He did return, but his life was never to be the same.. My recollection of him was that of a "hard bastard" with a deep dark secret, one I never really understood in my growing years.. His medals are confined to a display in an army museum and that's where they will stay. He wanted no reminder of that time..
He moved to New Zealand and was given a government ballot farm.. 100 acres of prime farmland. He worked it hard, raised a family and tried to put the past behind him.. He could not! Every year at this time, he was reminded of the brutality of Gallipoli, the landing, the slaughter, disease and infection, mud and trenches and "Johnny Turk"
As the years passed, his body slowed, but his mind never did…He never forgot! Every ANZAC day he cried.. I learned this from my father, something I could not understand as a youngster, but in later years, came to know the reason. His tears were filled with sadness and joy. Sadness for those he left behind. Joy, that he was wounded and his hell was over.
I met some of his mates… Hard men, scarred for life because of that horrendous time. Many had turned to booze to help them overcome their youthful adventure, sometimes described as worse than hell itself.. We all have our own stories from family and our own reflections of ANZAC DAY.. The forging of mate-ship between equal men from both sides of the Tasman, fighting for their King & Country. A bond that is still very much alive today and will continue long into the future…
It brings me to a story about a forgotten group of heroes, not from Gallipoli, but from a little known island in the Pacific.. It's a story, of 17 men who were beheaded on October 15, 1942, along with five other white men on Tarawa in what is now Kiribati.These men were Coast watchers. They had all been tied up to coconut trees in front of Commander Keisuke Matsuo house on Betio.
What happened at around 2pm on 15 October 1942 is not clear. Some say a US warship shelled the island and two aircraft attacked Japanese ships in the lagoon. One of the prisoners may have waved to the planes.
One Japanese soldier stepped forward to the first European in the line and cut his head off. The rest followed in quick succession. They were New Zealanders. Nothing was found of these dead men..
The Americans erected a small memorial to them. They were pretty much forgotten about until recently… But despite orders not to get close to the locals, the radio operators and the soldiers had relationships with the women of the atolls. And they left a number of children. Discretely the New Zealand Government paid for their education. Their many grandchildren can still be found in Kiribati. A monument was erected – paid for by the Australian Government – but had been unable to fend off continued vandalism. Instead of a solemn moment, it is stained with fish guts and human excrement.
The New Zealand bodies were never found although the US Army last year found human remains that may well be New Zealanders. Testing has yet to be completed to confirm it.
There is one last survivor..John Jones. He is 91, and will lay a wreath, driven by the passion that he is the only survivor of a unique group of men. Jones was also the first New Zealand Japanese prisoner of war.
He doesn't much like Anzac Day either… too many bad memories.


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Wheat Berry Salad*
1-1/2 cups wheat berries
1/2 cups pomegranate seeds
1 lemon, zest & juice 1/2 cup parsley, chopped
3 tbsp sesame oil
mineral salt & pepper
Bring wheat berries to a boil and cook uncovered for 1 hour, or until tender. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients by hand and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Paco's Failsafe Soup
1 onion, fine chopped
1-2 leek, fine chopped
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1-1/2 cup dry bean mix i.e. lentils, split peas, barley*, black eyed peas
White wine OR rice wine vinegar
1 carrot, chopped
1 cup crushed tomatoes
1 cup tomato paste
1 cup veggie stock
2 cups water as needed
Mrs Dash OR herbs of choice i.e. thyme, bay leaf, salt, pepper Steamed kale and hemp hearts to garnish (optional)
Saute onion and leeks in olive oil until soft (avoid caramelizing but that won't hurt), add garlic and stir until fragrant. Add grains/dry bean mix and stir for a few minutes until well coated. Pour in white wine or rice wine vinegar to deglaze the pan, stirring until liquid has evaporated. Mix in tomatoes, carrots, tomato paste and herbs. Add veggie stock bring to a boil then let simmer for 12-20 minutes. Add water as needed and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Note from PA - don't worry about following the steps exactly - it's pretty failsafe.
*Sorry kids, wheat berries and barley are not gluten-free


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Project aim
Gordon Matthews, one of our long-standing volunteers, has been researching the reasons why even good Volunteers stop Volunteering. He has now finished his work and we wish to get this report published. The draft report can be accessed here
We have been using Gordon's work with both volunteers and organisations over the past couple of years and it has been very successful in enabling
- organsations to evaluate their current procedures
- volunteers to understand thier roles and the expectations from organisations
About the project
As a Volunteer Centre, we are acutely aware of the many issues around volunteering and have been concerned for some time that many of the volunteers we assess and refer are not retained by the organisations they may be referred to.
In this age of austerity, organisations need vlunteers more than ever yet have ever-dwindling resources to enable them to recruit, induct and support volunteers.
The research Gordon has carried out is essential reading for both volunteers and organisations alike. Our aim is to mount an on-going campaign to get the messages contained in this publication out to as many people as possible so that anyone interested in volunteering or recruiting volunteers will:
- be better prepared
- stay volunteering or keep volunteers longer
- provde or have a more enjoyable and worhtwhile volunteering experience.


text: Value of Donated Foods SY2016-17 Announced 2016-08-09The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service has announced the national average value of donated foods from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017 for each lunch served by schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and for each lunch and supper served by institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). The national average minimum value of donated foods, or cash in lieu thereof, per lunch under the NSLP and per lunch and supper under the CACFP is 23 cents. This is a decrease of three quarters of a cent from SY2015-16. This decrease reflects changes in the average value of the Producer Price Index for Foods Used in Schools and Institutions for March, April and May. View a preview of the Federal Register notice here.