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duce from three main vendors: Tomato Allie and Pendleton's Country Market, Lawrence, and Britt's Garden Acts in Manhattan.
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Traver said most of the dishes with local food were offered in Impromptu Cafe and KU Catering as a way to jump-start the University's initiative. The local food in these dishes range from zucchini and watermelon to buffalo meat and tortillas.
She said she also used Missouri pecans for desserts and salads throughout campus as well as popcorn for catering from Schlaegel's in Whiting.
Heather Whitten, Eudora sophomore and server at Impromptu Cafe, said she always mentioned to customers when a dish used local food in it.
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And Traver said the local purchases would only increase in the coming years.
"When people find out a dish has local food, it's exciting for them and they're more likely to order it," she said.
That's because KU Dining Services switched vendors July 1 to Sysco Corp. The change was both an effort to save money and to participate in the Sysco Corp.'s progressive approach toward local
food purchases, she said.
Sysco Corp.'s initiative, called "Buy Fresh, Buy Local," helps larger food operations connect with vendors in the region to reduce the miles over which the food is shipped and to support local farms. Traver said the University's partnership through Sysco Corp. was called Good Natured Family
Farms, a co-op of 18 family farms out of Kansas and Missouri.
She said the partnership had helped KU Dining Services secure more locally grown produce.' She also said it had
"When people find out a dish has local food, it's exciting for them and they're more likely to order it."
started discussions with local dairy farmers to get cheese and milk on campus.
To help KU Dining Services continue to move in the direction of getting local food on campus, KU Environs has created a committee called Local Food and Sustainable Dining. KU Environs is a student organization that advocates responsible environmental practices on campus, throughout Lawrence and surrounding areas.
"In buying local, you're helping the environment and making sure that your food doesn't contain pesticides or any harmful chemicals from the environment." Margaret Tran, Derby senior and one of the committee coordinators, said. "It's also helping the local economy by supporting local businesses and growers. It serves your health. I could go on and on."
HEATHER WHITTEN
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Tran said the KU Environs committee had two goats; bring more local, natural food to campus and make students aware of the local initiatives already available.
She said even she didn't know the extent of the. University's
local food purchases until last week, when she learned the tomatoes she got in her salad from the Underground were from Tomato Allie or Syso Corp.
"Students should be more aware of local food options on campus," Tran said. "It's about allowing people to have decisions about what they eat."
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The Roasted Vegetable Press (6.95) has zucchini and yellow squash from Lawrence's Farmer's Market and Sysco Corp.
Here are some of the local food dishes offered at Impromptu Cafe:
The Cabo Tostadas ($8.25 with coconut crushed shrimp) uses tomatoes grown from Pendleton's, Tomato Allie and Sysco Corp., and tortillas processed in Kansas City
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■ The Watermelon Lemonade ($1.50) uses watermelon from Britt's Garden Acres.
The buffalo meat for the Buffalo Slider ($8.25) comes from Lonestar Bison Ranch, in Lonestar.
Janna Traver, executive chef with KU Dining Services
The fresh fruit that comes with the Quiche of the Day (S6) has peaches from Missouri and Kansas.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Judge Elizabeth Louro sentenced ex-officer Julio Cesar de Paula to 480 years in prison and Marcos Siqueira Costa to 543 years for homicide and belonging to a criminal organization. The length of the sentences was largely symbolic because under Brazilian law no one can serve more than 30 years in prison.
Ex-police sentenced to around 500 years each
The ex-police officers joined three other former colleagues already sentenced to long terms in the case, dubbed the Baixada massacre after Rio de Janeiro's poor northern outskirts where prosecutors say a group of police officers fired on pedestrians, bar patrons and a crowd in a public square in 2005.
A statement from Rio's Tribunal of Justice said the men were found guilty by a jury after two days of hearings.
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Sultan Kosen from Turkey stands in front of Tower Bridge in London Wednesday. Kosen was officially crowned the world's tallest man Thursday, after his Ukrainian rival dropped out of the running by refusing to be measured. Guinness World Records said that 8-foot-1 Kosen, from the town of Mardin in eastern Turkey, is now officially the tallest man walking the planet.
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8-foot Turk named world's tallest man
Guinness World Records said that 8 foot 1 inch (2.47 meter) Sultan Kosen, from the town of Mardin in eastern Turkey, is now officially the tallest man walking the planet. Although the previous record holder, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, reportedly measured 8
LONDON — A towering Turk was officially crowned the world's tallest man Thursday after his Ukrainian rival dropped out of the running by refusing to be measured.
feet 5.5 inches (2.57 meters). Guinness said he was stripped of his title when he declined to let anyone confirm his height.
Stadnyk,39 told The Associated Press he refused to be independently
"If I have to choose between prosperity and calm, I choose calm..."
SULTAN KOSEN
Guinness record holder,
world's tallest man
measured because he was tired of being in the public eye.
"If I have to choose between prosperity and calm, I choose calm."
of girls. I'd like to get married."
"Up until now it's been really difficult to find a girlfriend," Kosen said through an interpreter. "I've never had one, they were usually scared of me... Hopefully now that I'm famous I'll be able to meet lots
"If this title had given me more health or a few extra years, I would have taken it, but the opposite happened, I only wasted my nerve cells," he said.
Kosen, 27. told reporters in London that he was looking forward to parlaying his newfound status into a chance at love.
Kosen is one of only 10 confirmed or reliably reported cases in which humans have grown past the eight foot (2.44 meter) mark, according to Guinnes s.
The record-keeping group said he grew into his outsize stature because tumor-related damage to his pituitary triggered the overproduction of growth hormones. The condition, known as "pituitary gigantism," also explains Kosen's enormous hands and feet, which measure 10.8 inches (27.5 centimeters) and 14.4 inches (36.5 centimeters) respectively.
The tumor was removed last year, so Kosen is not expected to grow any further.
"I can't fit into a normal car." he said.
The part-time farmer, who uses crutches to stand, said there were disadvantages to being so tall.
"I can't go shopping like normal people, I have to have things made specially and sometimes they aren't always as fashionable. The other thing is that ceilings are low and I have to bend down through doorways."
But he noted some advantages too, including the ability to see people coming from far away.
"The other thing is at home they use my height to change the light bulbs and hang the curtains, things like that," he said.
Kosen's trip to the U.K. — his first outside Turkey — was organized by Guinness to publicize the release of its 2010 Guinness World Records book, this year's repertoire of weird and wonderful records.