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Post by Tim on Nov 3, 2019 19:16:36 GMT -5
Have these authors been reading Days Of OTMA's Lives?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Nov 3, 2019 19:19:17 GMT -5
Have these authors been reading Days Of OTMA's Lives?
I doubt it, though. It does have a sort of happy ending, Maria’s husband was actually taken to a gulag and was released after Stalin’s death, she has grandkids and is retired
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Post by Tim on Nov 4, 2019 12:03:44 GMT -5
It does have a sort of happy ending, Maria’s husband was actually taken to a gulag and was released after Stalin’s death, she has grandkids and is retired
Glad she got a happy ending here.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Dec 18, 2019 8:15:49 GMT -5
I’m reading Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie, it’s excellent and lives up to its reputation as the definitive book on the family. I’m up to part 3 when WWI just started, it’s wanting to make me start writing again
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Post by Tim on Dec 18, 2019 12:08:48 GMT -5
I’m reading Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie, it’s excellent and lives up to its reputation as the definitive book on the family. I’m up to part 3 when WWI just started, it’s wanting to make me start writing again
Yeah, for its time, it was a good source of info.
Back then there wasn't as much information available on the Romanovs as there is now.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Feb 12, 2020 20:50:15 GMT -5
I finished reading Rising out of Hatred this weekend, it's about the son of a prominent White Supremacist who abandons the movement. Derek Black is the son of Don Black and the godson of David Duke, he grew up in a white supremacist family and was at one point groomed to be his dad's successor. Derek went to college and befriended people of different backgrounds including an Orthodox Jew and an immigrant from Peru, along with his girlfriend being a sociology major. After meeting with and hanging out with different people, he realized his family had been lying to him about whites being superior and other races inferior and repudiated the white supremacist movement. Unfortunately he was disowned by his family and had to legally change his name and move because he was getting death threats from white supremacists.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 4, 2020 7:22:39 GMT -5
I’ve just finished reading Kid Food by Bettina Siegel and I completely relate to it since I work with kids: books.google.com/books?id=kZOzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=falseThis chapter about school cafeteria food really hits home since I work in schools, the hot lunches are disgusting with lots of processed chicken nuggets, frozen pizza and tacos and nachos served with Doritos. Schools are supposed to serve fruits and vegetables but since many kids won’t eat them, they go in the trash. Schools serve frozen junk food because many kids won’t eat normal food and the cafeteria doesn’t want waste, plus they don’t have much of a budget. Also, many schools sell chips, candy and sodas for cash at snack bars in order to raise money since many schools are underfunded, many kids will buy this instead of the hot lunch. Sadly many poor kids who get the free hot lunch would rather buy snack bar junk food since they might look poor if they’re seen getting the free hot lunch.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Mar 4, 2020 14:22:47 GMT -5
I know what you mean about school meals Vanessa.
There was a British chef named Jamie Oliver who petitioned the government a few years ago to serve fresh fruit, veg and healthy meals in schools which he went into across the country filming a tv series called 'Jamie's Schools Dinners' which also an accompanying book was released showing dinner ladies how to make things like homemade Shepard's Pie using locally sourced food at a deal cheaply with suppliers to get kids being healthy.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 5, 2020 17:23:04 GMT -5
It is a real problem since obesity is a problem in the USA, even with kids. It doesn’t help that much school food is junk, at the school I worked today the kids had Cocoa Puffs and Trix yogurt for breakfast. Most of the kids didn’t bother with adding milk to the cereal and ate it right out of the plastic bowl, they were hyper and then listless and cranky by 11. Plus lunch was a sort of ersatz lo mein which was spaghetti with chicken nuggets and frozen broccoli and an orange sauce, the store bought “Chinese” sauce which is loaded with sugar and the kids tossed out the broccoli. So the kids more or less ate junk food for both breakfast and lunch
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Post by Tim on Mar 5, 2020 18:00:16 GMT -5
Breakfast? Since when do schools have that?
They didn't when I was that age.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 5, 2020 18:06:31 GMT -5
Breakfast? Since when do schools have that?
They didn't when I was that age.
Schools now serve breakfast for all the kids, it’s free. Unfortunately it’s mostly junk like sugary cereals and yogurt, Pop Tarts and juice in a box. They can’t serve eggs or anything with eggs because they might go bad and poison the kids, and kids won’t eat oatmeal. Many kids will just eat the cereal without milk and it might as well be candy, real life Chocolate Covered Sugar Bombs ala TvTropes
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 5, 2020 18:30:46 GMT -5
The free breakfast started because poor kids were going to school without eating, then it expanded when cereal companies made contracts with school districts to provide breakfast. Cereal and Pop Tarts are cheap and don’t go bad like eggs or dairy plus kids love them, even if it’s junk food. When parents complain and the schools serve healthy food, the kids don’t want it and it goes to waste. It’s a Catch-22 where it’s either serve junk food the kids like or healthy food they hate and won’t eat
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Mar 5, 2020 19:53:35 GMT -5
Vanessa right. Schools do have breakfast available for kids like we do in Britain which pupils pay a small price for that helps parents who have to go to work early usually ate in the school hall before going to class.
UK kids normally have a choice of bagles, cereals, toast, waffles, pancakes, crumpets, and yoghurts with apple, orange, blackcurrant juice, or milk as drink options.
Outside companies who run breakfast clubs also provide the same thing before either walking or driving kids to school like the YMCA I work for used to do either offsite in a school setting or inside the actual building which both no longer run at, at the moment of course.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 5, 2020 20:11:23 GMT -5
Wow Katherine, that school breakfast sounds amazing! Our school breakfasts here in the USA are terrible, they’re free for all students but are mostly sugary cereals and yogurt, Pop Tarts, juice from concentrate, animal crackers and milk but the kids rarely drink it. The cereals are junk like Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, Froot Loops and other sugary cereal and many of the kids just eat out of the box without milk. It’s pretty much like having candy for breakfast, but since most schools are underfunded it’s the cheapest food they can afford.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Mar 5, 2020 20:22:24 GMT -5
Unfortunate to say but UK schools serve sugary breakfast cereals too and not all the options I listed above altogether.
Most of it's processed stuff like American food anyway.
When I used to do breakfast myself the food we bought from supermarkets we're their value ranges because each setting had a budget of course.
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