(CNS): Health Minister Mark Scotland opened a regional meeting of chief medical officers Monday with a call to improve healthcare throughout the Caribbean, while announcing that next month his ministry will undertake a risk-factor survey. CMOs and other officials from 13 countries are attending the two-day CARICOM meeting, which Scotland told the gathering was about "identifying priority health areas and promoting technical cooperation among all of us so that we can all optimize our resources".
Joining Scotland to open the conference, being held for the first time in Cayman, were Dr. Rudolph Cummings, Programme Manager, Health Sector Development, CARICOM Secretariat, and Dr. Delroy Jefferson, CMO of the Cayman Islands. As he opened the conference, Scotland said that it marked the 20th such meeting of CMOs, and the knowledge that participants gain could be used to influence relevant legislation and policies in their home countries.
"As you join here this week to discuss some of the region's more pressing health issues, you are sure to gain invaluable knowledge and new insights which you can take back to your legislators and policy makers so that these issues can be addressed pro-actively on a regional and global scale," he said.
Noting that the Cayman Islands is not a full CARICOM member, the minister said that "we have always supported, participated in and certainly benefited from regional health initiatives".
The issue of NCDs is being addressed locally, Scotland said, as his ministry has recently allocated funds to undertake a health-risk-factor survey in May, with the Pan American Health Organisation assisting in the training for and planning of the exercise. In previously announcing the launch of a committee to establish a framework for the survey, Scotland said the results will allow health professionals to identify specific issues that contribute to the rapid local rise in chronic disease.
PAHO is also assisting in developing Cayman's National Health Policy and Strategic Health Plan, he said, by providing a consultant to help facilitate the process, which will also start next month.
Following the CMO conference, from 19-21 April, Cayman is hosting for the first time the annual CHRC/CARPHA (Caribbean Health Research Council/Caribbean Public Health Agency) Scientific Conference, which will encompass almost 60 sessions covering research done in each country on such issues as communicable diseases, diabetes, obesity, and nutrition.
The three-day event, the 57th annual symposium, is the largest health research conference in the English-speaking Caribbean, with more than 200 delegates expected to attend, including researchers, policy makers and healthcare providers.
(CNS): The Independent member for North Side has called on the Dart Group to release the invoice that it received from government for the $5 million it paid recently before the ForCayman Alliance Investment deal had been agreed. Speaking at a public meeting in West Bay on Thursday hosted by activists against the closure of the West Bay Road and the crown land swap, Ezzard Miller challenged the developer to show the documentation explaining that cash payment. He said the proposed investment alliance was not a good deal and suggested that Dart was getting ten times the value that government and the people of Cayman would get out of the agreement.
Miller said the group's failure to wait on the findings of the review and just go ahead and start work on the Esterley Tibbetts Road extension showed a lack of respect for the wishes of the Caymanian people. He said he wanted Dart to produce the invoice for the payment it made to government as part of this side agreement between it, the National Roads Authority and the government.
He pointed out that the closure of the West Bay road would bring Dart billions of dollars in future as it would create significant beach front property for the group. Miller said it was time to start demanding a say in these issues. The independent member said the entire Dart deal was put together the wrong way because government should have spoken to the people of West Bay about closing the West Bay Road and giving away land before it spoke to Dart, Miller stated.
"It is time to start to do things for Caymanians … it is time to stop doing things for everyone else and we just tag along," he added. Miller told the people not to back down on this fight and to stand up for their children and grandchildren. The independent member pointed out that through perseverance, the Eastern Sea Port had been stopped, the referendum had been announced and so the fight to stop the closure of the West Bay Road had to continue until that was won.
Miller took aim at the premier and said the people could not place any trust in anything he was telling them. Bush had stated just a few weeks ago that the referendum on one man, one vote would be too expensive; the premier had claimed that the proposed November ballot held separately from a general election would cost around $750,000. However, on Wednesday the premier revealed that the referendum he was now planning for July would cost only $300,000, Miller noted.
Compared to previous meetings and the recent motorcade, the people gathered on the empty lot opposite Fosters were largely supporters but the activists pressed on with their presentations regardless. Railing against the deal government is proposing to enter into with the islands' biggest developer, the speakers vowed not to give up the fight.
The meeting brought together representatives of the West Bay Action Committee, Save Cayman, the Concerned Citizens Group and the Coalition to Keep Bodden Town Dump Free — the four major campaign groups opposed to the Dart deal — as well as East End MLA Arden McLean and Miller, who both called on the people not to accept what government was proposing.
(CNS): A UK expert who reviewed the Cayman Islands Public Management and Finance Law (PMFL) has pointed to the lack of consolidated government accounts as its biggest failing and urged government to rectify this problem with the closure of this year's accounts as soon as possible. A report by Keith Luck, the former director general finance at the FCO, was released by the Governor's Office on Friday following an FOI request by CNS and reveals further details of the failure of the Cayman government to account for its spending. Luck pointed to poor understanding and leadership and said the people of Cayman "are without their key controls" because of the failures, and recommended a radical simplification of the system.
The British bureaucrat said government had to get back to basics and then re-build, and strongly recommended that the extent to which outputs and output reporting are used to control and drive appropriations is seriously examined.
Luck found that IRIS, government's core accounting and information system, had contributed to the difficulties in PMFL but these were symptomatic of wider governance issues. While accrual accounting was now embedded in the system, it was not fully implemented and "understanding is still low in some areas even amongst senior managers," he said. Luck found that capital accounting still operates on a quasi-cash basis and compliance with International Accounting Standards was inconsistent.
Although less adjustment was required to the human resources element of government, he said that performance management was the biggest challenge and that reform would improve behaviour and outcomes across the civil service.
In his report Luck pointed to weaknesses in leadership and a lack of management sanctions, which meant no one was held to account for the failures. The lack of effective performance management and appraisal was an issue, along with the failure by management to properly delegate. "Some Ministries still double-check and micro-manage which adds to bureaucracy and reduces efficiency," Luck stated.
Of the many observations Luck makes about the PMFL and the subsequent reforms of the system which have led to the pressing problems is the abject failure of government to publish its accounts.
"The most telling indictment of the reforms is the simple fact that the Government, regardless of the party in power, has been unable to fulfil its legal duty to lay accounts in the Legislative Assembly since the reforms were introduced. These missing individual Departmental and Consolidated accounts date back in some cases to July 2003," he observed.
See the full Luck report below.
(CNS): With the increase in energy costs and a need for environmental responsibility, government has accepted a private member's motion to eliminate imposed restrictions by power providers on the domestic generation of renewable energy and send it back to the grid on a net metering basis. The motion brought by the West Bay UDP member Cline Glidden seeks to make it easier for people and businesses to use wind, solar or other renewable power while still on the local CUC grid, feeding excess power back when it is not needed and buy it back when it is at the same rate.
The goal is to eliminate fuel bills for green consumers as presently they are restricted in the amount of renewable energy people can move back and forth to CUC.
Speaking in the Legislative Assembly last week, Glidden toldhis parliamentary colleagues that net metering would give people a way to reduce the strain of energy bills in face of the high cost of living as they were fast becoming the second, if not the largest, bill in the house. As Cayman is dependent on oil price fluctuations and the challenges that come with that, he said, encouraging people to install alternative energy options at home would cut costs, reduce the islands' carbon footprint and create new jobs.
He acknowledged that CUC had made various efforts to encourage people to reduce their consumption and introduced the CORE and FITS programmes to deal with renewable energy. But while they have their benefits, he said, not many people had taken them up as there were too many challenges that were discouraging to the regular consumer.
The latest one is the feed-in tariff system, he said, but all electricity consumers had to be allowed to be as creative as possible about energy use to reduce fossil fuel dependence and Cayman needed to do more to encourage people to turn towards renewable energies. He said he did not want to eliminate the feed and tariff option for people that were interested in the commercial generation of power for sale to CUC, but for people who had their own turbines or panels at their home or business a better system was needed.
As he expanded on his motion in the debate, Glidden said that what he wanted to propose was a system that would allow a home owner to generate their own electricity via solar or wind, and sell back any extra power to CUC at the same rate as it would buy it from the grid, making a net zero bill at the end of the month.
He said that some people had already made significant investments in solar and wind systems and needed to be able to feed back to CUC without limits and at a fair rate, and therefore the limits needed to be removed. The MLA said he wanted people to be able to send power to CUC during theday and buy it back in the evening and eliminate the need for them to have to spend thousands of dollars on batteries, making the purchase of wind and solar power systems even more attractive.
Glidden said his proposal might well have an impact on CUC earnings but it would be beneficial for consumers and would encourage the development of an alternative energy business.
"This motion seeks to take away restrictions and encourage individuals to benefit …reducing their costs and dependence on fossil fuels, making us more environmentally friendly and providing jobs for those installing the systems," he said.
The deputy premier, who has responsibility for energy, said that the government supported the motion and was already working on the issues Glidden had raised and it would form part of the energy policy which would be revealed later this year.


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Is it possible to work in advertising and still have a life?
by Nicola Kemp March 09, 2017
The empty rhetoric of 'work hard, play hard' is falling out of favour - the creative industries need to flex to attract and retain the best talent, and ensure that employees can have a life outside work.
Have you heard the one about the agency that rates potential employees on how quickly they walk into their interview? In the drive to prove who is the busiest, and thus be perceived as the most important or talented, even walking can become a competitive sport.
While this story could well be an industry myth, the irony is that in the creative industries where space from the noise, literally and metaphorically, is often the spark of true inspiration, the drive to do more for less is omnipresent. This has the potential to stifle not just creative excellence, but also a fulfilling life outside the confines of an office, airport lounge or meeting room.
You have a lot of people saying they are very busy; but doing what? It is all too easy to slip into a vortex" Neil Hughston, Duke
Anna Hickey, UK managing director at Maxus, says there is a real split emerging between agencies taking genuine action on staff wellbeing and those that merely talk about it.
"Presenteeism, and this 'performance' way of working, is implicitly about not trusting people enough to do the work," she contends.
"If we want to move from being suppliers to true collaborators, we have to have the best people with both a broad and deep understanding of the business – and we have to have a culture of trust to do that."
Such a culture is not yet the norm, however. Amelia Torode, outgoing chief strategy officer at TBWA\London, believes it is a sad state of affairs that we even need to have a conversation about whether you can work in advertising and have a life.
"It's a damning indictment of our industry," she says. "This has always been an industry of long hours, impossible deadlines and creative chaos,
but it was balanced by enormous fun, long lunches, nights out and a bit of naughtiness. Too often it strikes me that the fun in our industry seems to have seeped away."
While the fun might be draining away from some agencies, the glorification of working long hours appears to remain sacrosanct.
Neil Hughston, a founding partner at creative agency Duke, says that for many years the unwritten rule of advertising was that you had to sacrifice your life to your career: "For a lot of people there was this 'chest-beating gorilla' mentality that you had to be working 18-hour days."
This is a mentality that leads to missing out on myriad important moments, from friends' birthdays to first days at school, that you won't get back.
"The industry suffers very badly from 'busy fool' syndrome," Hughston explains. "You have a lot of people saying they are very busy; but doing what? It is all too easy to slip into a vortex."
With criticism of the "liberal metropolitan elite" never far from the headlines lately, questions must also arise over the innate shortcomings of keeping employees hemmed into an office, and therefore firmly in the "advertising bubble", through a toxic combination of long hours and presenteeism.
Jo Coombs, chief executive of OgilvyOne UK, believes the danger is that sometimes we get so consumed by what we do that it is easy to lose perspective – the very thing that is so crucial to creative success.
"If we are not out there living our lives in the real world, then we cannot do our job in creating communi-cations that engage consumers," she argues. "The more we can do, see, read [and] embrace with both arms, the more we can bring to our jobs."
The talent crisis
From the untouched drinks trolley at WPP's recent graduate recruitment day to the willingness of junior employees to see 5.30pm as a hard full stop on a day's work, some believe that the historic "work hard, play hard" culture of the advertising industry is no longer much of a lure when it comes to attracting the best talent.
The uncomfortable suggestion from recruiters that prestige about working in advertising does not extend beyond the industry itself further compounds the issue.
With companies such as Unilever actively seeking employees with start-up experience, it is hardly surprising that a greater number of graduates are heading to tech and start-up jobs at the expense of the advertising industry. Even specialist recruiters in the creative industries confide that "a Facebook or a start-up is more impressive on the CV" than an advertising network. Through providing greater flexibility, these organisations also offer their more junior employees greater autonomy over how they spend their time.
In contrast, the advertising industry remains largely wedded to traditional working practices.
Russ Schaller, creative director of film at Cheil London, says that younger employees do not share that old sense of peer pressure to be the first one in and the last out.
The young people don't think it's cool to be the last in the office, they think it makes you a mug" Russ Schaller, Cheil London
"I feel the winds of change are coming," he says of the old mentality. "The young people coming through see their time and experiences outside work as more valuable, and they won't put up with it. They don't think it's cool to be the last person in the office, they think it makes you a mug."
When the industry's biggest differentiator is its people, the fact that it is failing to change fast enough or significantly enough to attract the best talent is a major issue.
"The talent crisis is happening right now. We are in it," Coombs argues. "It's one of the reasons why flexibility in the workplace can't happen fast enough. It's not 'pandering to mollycoddled millennials', as the baby boomers might think; it's because technology is enabling human desire for 'better' to move at breakneck speed and the old rigid rules and ways of working simply can't keep up."
Creating spaces
According to Hughston, when it comes to attracting graduates, money often isn't a motivating factor. "You have to have a philosophy of understanding what people want and create the space for that," he says.
When junior employees look at the top of their organisation and don't aspire to fill those roles, the implications for businesses are dramatic.
"It's more of a hard slog now at junior levels, compared with the adventure when I was starting out" Juliet Haygarth, BMB
As a junior creative from one top London agency succinctly puts it: "The chief executive of our agency has two nannies, is constantly travelling and doesn't seem to be present in his own life. Am I ambitious? Yes. Would I want to do that? Not even for a single second."
Of course, not everyone wants to be a CEO, but the fact that young people may not be realising their full creative potential should give the industry pause for thought. In fact, some argue that the space, time and investment needed to grow a creative career is not always readily available. The economic climate, or at least the excuse it affords agencies, is creating a situation in which many agencies are recruiting fewer people than they really need.
"It really hampers our creativity at work," Juliet Haygarth, chief executive of BMB, says. "That is the difference I see at the more junior levels of the agency. I probably worked as hard, but I had more fun and was challenged with creative problems, not just logistical and financial ones."
She adds: "I worry that it's more of a hard slog now, compared with the tumultuous adventure I experienced when I was starting out."
According to Haygarth, while this hard work can be the source of learning and inspiration, hard slogs that go on forever lead only to burnout.
This sentiment is echoed by a junior account manager, who confides that her agency, while successful, feels like it lurches from one pitch to the next. "There is never that space to enjoy our achievements; it is simply relentless," she adds.
Doing things differently
Relentlessness, once a badge of honour, is in danger of alienating both current and potential employees. However, new role models and a new breed of agencies are emerging, born out of the desire not just to create great work but to create it differently.
Haygarth recounts a conversation with friends who were questioning her on her ambition as a CEO and she replied instinctively that her aim was "not to be as big a dick as the ones I grew up with". She explains: "It was one of those moments when you surprise yourself – I had no idea I was going to say it until it was out there. So, in my own experience, a lack of role models can produce a desire to do things differently."
"Only a minority choose flexible working. Leaders need to set an example" Jo Coombs, OgilvyOne
However, she adds that it would be "happier, easier and more fulfilling" if we could see a whole plethora of leaders doing their own thing in their own way, having a fulfilling life both in and outside of work.
Indeed, many in the industry, rather than seeing the sacrifices they made on their way up the ladder as a reason to inflict similarly oppressive structures on their staff, are instead using them as inspiration to challenge the status quo.
Jane Asscher, chief executive and founding partner of 23red, missed her oldest child's first nativity play because her boss declined her request for leave to attend.
"My daughter won't remember she was a sheep, but to this day I beat myself up for not making it and I vowed never to let that happen again," she says. It was an experience that shaped the approach to work/life balance at 23red. The agency actively discourages a long-hours working culture and actively promotes flexible and home working.
Meanwhile, self-confessed former "workaholic" Sergio Lopez, head of integrated production at McCann Worldgroup, has worked with great sensitivity to foster a culture where people can create great work but also have a great family life. He believes the industry needs to shift its approach to talent beyond the transactional to focus on what makes people happy.
"Very few people can articulate what makes them happy," Lopez says. "If spending time with your child is the most important thing to you, then being a global executive on 12-hour days, travelling all the time, isn't going to work for you." Authenticity and bringing your whole self to work must work both ways: "We tell people that the only way is up and we live in a society where people want more. But not everyone wants to be a CEO – a lot of people want to make great work."
The whole self
The idea of "bringing your whole self" to work may appear to live in the realms of thought-leadership rather than reality. Nonetheless, feeling free to be the individual you are, without self-editing or self-consciousness, is viewed by many as key to creative success and wellbeing at work in the creative industries.
"There is this sense that younger employees are fickle, but this isn't the case if you build a connection" Anna Hickey, Maxus
"The notion that people need to conform to a type or a standard is deeply problematic, makes people less creative and takes us backwards in terms of diversity," Haygarth says. She cites the advice of her first boss in advertising – Jonathan Mildenhall, now chief marketing officer at Airbnb – who taught her that the strongest agencies are made up of a "bizarre but brilliant collection of individuals".
Harriet Shurville, head of people at McCann London, says that "bringing your whole self" to work can have tangible business benefits. She explains: "If we can encourage our people to express their true creative selves within the work environment, then they'll be happier and deliver better work for our clients too."
This means giving senior creatives time out when needed. For example, creative director Mike Oughton recently wrote Keeping Rosy, a film for the BBC starring Maxine Peake.
"It's not always about creating a greater division between work and personal life, but just as important to recognise what is important to our people – and helping them to achieve their goals. That also helps to avoid a box-ticking, clock-watching mentality," Shurville adds.
Fragile relationships
Despite widespread understanding across the industry about the need to adapt and change, the often unspoken issue underlying the conversations about wellbeing at work remains the behaviour of clients.
One of the big challenges for the industry is creating a parent-to-parent relationship – between employer and employees as well as client and agency. The irony is that while a steady wave of talent has flowed from advertising agencies to client-side roles in the pursuit of better working practices, the behaviour of these clients toward their agencies contributed to the culture of overwork in the first place. Agencies with employees bouncing from one "emergency" to the next often blame "unreasonable" marketers.
Yet not every agency is resigned to this state. "Does this business ever really deal in emergencies?" Hughston asks. He believes that simply "removing the pressure and the bullshit" can fundamentally change the nature of the creative industries.
In essence, when agencies talk about a "client emergency", often what they are really describing is a breakdown of communication. "It is about shifting the attitudes of the business. We want to do bold work but it is about creating an environment where people are respected."
The truth is that simply blaming clients for imposing life-strangling working hours on staff is a cop-out. The best agencies recognise that retaining their top talent can often mean disposing of those most difficult clients, even in the midst of economic uncertainty.
An over-reliance on email and hierarchy can also feed a toxic culture in which staff are overworked and feel that they lack autonomy.
Sharon Whale, chief executive of Oliver, says that fragile relationships with clients and the agency being subservient can combine to create an environment in which employees are overworked as they waste time with bad briefs and miscommunications.
"There is that element of the client demanding what they want when they want it, but, with more of our people on-site with their clients, the friction of 'always-on' – but perhaps never really listening – communication is avoided," she claims. "In a traditional agency you are in the midst of the electronic ping-pong game, but when you have a conversation face to face it is much faster and more effective."
Ultimately, the best agencies create and steadfastly protect their company culture. Stephen Corlett, managing director at 180 Amsterdam, points to the example set by former US vice-president Joe Biden, who wrote to his staff: "I do not expect nor do I want any of you to miss or sacrifice important family obligations for work."
Corlett explains: "Not only is it a wise strategy to follow for any leader who wants a motivated team, it is also a reminder to us that it's highly unlikely any of our to-do lists are more important than his team's were; it's only advertising, after all."
From culture to community
While the ad industry talks a good game on working culture, this doesn't always filter down to employee exp-erience. Even so, according to The Future Laboratory's research, the ad industry shows lower level of stress and burnout than other sectors. With the industry predominantly popu-lated by smaller companies, collaboration may be achieved more easily and successfully within workplaces with fewer employees to manage.
"There is a focus on grouping employees around work rather than role. We see agencies dividing teams into clusters around the work, so it's about the collaboration and flow of the work, but also flattening the structure," Tom Savigar, a senior partner at the trends consultancy, explains.
In an era of near-constant feedback through social media, many believe that fostering these communities of collaborators is key to building staff wellbeing. This requires a more fluid approach to talent management.
Rob Hunter, managing partner and founder of Hunterlodge Advertising, says that rather than yearly appraisals, the agency runs a best-in-class monthly, one-to-one appraisal system that covers key areas pertinent to staff happiness. The first thing discussed in the meetings is how happy each individual is in their role and how they would rate their work/life balance. "This ensures our managers are thinking about each staff member's happiness on a monthly basis and having 360-degree conversations around how we can help influence this," he says.
Whether or not you believe junior staff to have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement and be too delicate, or the forerunners of refreshingly ego-free and effective new ways of working, even the best agencies need to think carefully about whether, and how, their culture translates to community.
Hickey warns that the sector is deluding itself with talk of being an "aggressively competitive industry" where employees are constantly attempting to outdo each other to get to the top. "There is this prevailing sense that younger employees are fickle and jump around a lot; but this isn't the case if you can build a sense of connection," she argues. "What I see is an incredibly connected set of communities working within a supportive and open culture."
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Q: Penrose's remark on impossible figures I'd like to think that I understand symmetry groups. I know what the elements of a symmetry group are - they are transformations that preserve an object or its relevant features - and I know what the group operation is - composition of transformations. Given a polyhedron or wallpaper tiling or whatever, I could probably start spotting the symmetries, which would entail listing out elements of the symmetry group, and then I could start filling in the multiplication table.
Penrose attaches a group to impossible figures to capture their inherent ambiguity, and I'd like to grok these groups like I do symmetry groups. Take a prototypical example, the tribar:

He names the "ambiguity group" $G=\Bbb R^+$ (positive numbers under multiplication) to describe possible distances of points. We can split the figure up into three components, as above, and interpret them as being disconnected from each other in three-space but from our perspective they seem to make a single figure. For convenience, I think we should let $A_{ij}$ denote points on the figures as well as represent their distances from the origin, interchangeably.
One can define the relative distances by $d_{ij}=A_{ij}/A_{ji}$. Since $d_{ji}=d_{ij}^{-1}$, there are only three relevant proportions: $d_{12}$, $d_{23}$, and $d_{31}$. According to Penrose, the $d_{ij}$s do not actually depend on our choice of overlapping points $A_{ij}$, but this seems wrong to me: varying the points $A_{ij}$ through the overlap regions will change them linearly and so any ratio $d_{ij}$ will only remain invariant if $d_{ij}=1$ to begin with. But probably this quibble is unimportant.
One can scale the distances the components $Q_1,Q_2,Q_3$ are from the origin without affecting our perception of them. (Perhaps consider our "perception" of them to be their radial projection onto the unit sphere, or something.) The effect of scaling one of these $Q_i$ by a factor of $\lambda$ on the $d_{12},d_{23},d_{31}$ is to scale one of them by $\lambda$, a second by $\lambda^{-1}$, and leave the third unchanged.
If the $Q_1,Q_2,Q_3$ were compatible and could be combined into a single figure, then such a configuration would have $(d_{12},d_{23},d_{31})=(1,1,1)$. If they were compatible but the components were separated by independent scalings $q_1,q_2,q_3$ (respectively) then we'd have
$$(d_{12},d_{23},d_{31})=\left(\frac{q_1}{q_2},\frac{q_2}{q_3},\frac{q_3}{q_1}\right). \tag{1}$$
Note that $\tau=d_{12}d_{23}d_{31}$ is an invariant, in the sense that scaling the components independently does not change the value of $\tau$. The compatibility situation $(1)$ occurs precisely when $\tau=1$.
Penrose defines the group $H$ to be the tuples $(d_{12},d_{23},d_{31})\in(\Bbb R^+)^3$ modulo the rescalings by $\lambda$ and modulo the elements of the form $(1)$. As I understand it, the invariant $(d_{12},d_{23},d_{31})\mapsto\tau$ is a bijection $H\to\Bbb R^+$. But now here are my questions.
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$\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(A)}$ How do we know what the ambiguity group is? The tribar's ambiguity group is $G=\Bbb R^+$. With the Necker cubes above, Penrose says the ambiguity group is $G=\Bbb Z_2$. Is the ambiguity group meant to parametrize the possible positions of the individual pieces of the figure? Where does the group operation of $G$ actually come into play?
$\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(B)}$ How do we know what pieces to cut a figure up into? Since the tribar has obvious threefold symmetry, that kind of inspires the choice of three pieces. But it seems that with the congruence relation used to define $H$, we could choose to put any two of those pieces together into one component and fix its position, only letting the last component vary (which would be one degree of freedom, exactly as $H\cong\Bbb R^+$ predicts). So we could have cut into two pieces. Or we ould cut into six pieces, or any number of pieces. Will it never matter how many pieces we choose? Why would we break apart the tribar's corners but not break apart the faces of the Necker cubes? What figures would we cut into pieces, and what figures would we do something else to? And with the latter figures, what would we do to find their $H$ group?
$\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(C)}$ What are the group elements and what is the group operation? As I mentioned with symmetry groups, it's intuitive what their elements are and what the operation is. But what about with $H$? It seems the elements are physically realizable configurations consistent with our perception, modulo altering the configuration in a way that wouldn't change our perception. The identity element would be the configurations in which our perception is actually correct and sensible. And the group operation seems to be ... I don't know. Presumably we could use componentwise multiplication of the representative tuples $(d_{12},d_{23},d_{31})$, or equivalently multiplication of the invariants $\tau$, which would make $H\to\Bbb R^+$ a group isomorphism, but how would this operation be meaningful or relevant?
$\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(D)}$ Why is this called a cohomology group? Yes, our $H^1(Q,G)$s are being called cohomology groups. I deliberately put off using that word as long as possible. (And so you've read this far. Suckers.) But in what sense are these groups cohomological? Are there higher cohomology groups $H^n(Q,G)$ and coboundary operators? Is this cohomology dual to some kind of homology of impossible figures? Probably I will be unable to understand answers to this question, as I don't really know what cohomology is in the first place. No time like the present?
Ultimately, I'd like to be able to look at an impossible figure and systematically derive its cohomology group, just like I can derive a figure's symmetry group. Or alternately, create impossible figures with given cohomology group. But perhaps the analogy isn't tenable, as cohomology groups aren't really symmetry groups at all.
Source: On the Cohomology of Impossible Figures.

A: To answer $\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(A)}$, one has to understand the meaning of the ambiguity group clearly first - indeed, your interpretation of the group is not entirely correct.
The punchline here is that the ambiguity group measures ambiguity, not quite impossibility (which is the job of the cohomology group defined later), of the given figure. For example, consider the tribar, and piece it up into $Q_1, Q_2, Q_3$, as done by Penrose. If you stretch $Q_1$ by a factor of $\lambda > 0$, shrink $Q_2$ by a factor of $\lambda$ (that is to say, stretch by $\lambda^{-1}$), and leave $Q_3$ as it is, the resulting object is really the same tribar, which is what Penrose was trying to convey through the following picture from the paper.

That is to say, modifying $Q_i$'s in this way gives you a symmetry of $X$. And you have such a symmetry for each $\lambda > 0$. Of course, collection of such symmetries $G$ is a group: consider one symmetry which stretches $Q_1$ by $\lambda$, shrinks $Q_2$ by $\lambda$ and leaves $Q_3$ as is and another one which does the same thing with $\lambda'$ this time instead. You can of course compose them, and the resulting symmetry stretches $Q_1$ by $\lambda \lambda'$, shrinks $Q_2$ by $\lambda \lambda'$, and leaves $Q_3$ invariant. This is the ambiguity group. This partially answers $\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(C)}$. Note that the origin of the name comes from the fact that the tribar is ambiguous in the sense that you can have different $Q_1, Q_2, Q_3$'s matching up to produce the same tribar. You can never tell the length of a bar in the tribar - it'll depend on the point of view you're seeing it from. And the "group of symmetries" $G$ captures all the ambiguity there is.
It is now clear that there is a bijection $G \to \Bbb R^+$, sending a symmetry to the corresponding $\lambda > 0$ in $\Bbb R^+$ (group under multiplication), which is in fact a homomorphism. Thus, $G \cong \Bbb R^+$.
That said, given the Necker cubes, the ambiguity is in the vertices. Pick any vertex $v$ from the figure. There are two point of views here - $v$ can either point upwards, or point downwards. If $v$ points upwards, then so does all the other vertices, and similar for the other choice. So two point of views, two choices - hence, the ambiguity group is $\Bbb Z/2\Bbb Z$. More formally, the symmetry is obtained from reflecting the whole figure (imagined as sitting in $\Bbb R^3$) along an appropriate hyperplane. Obviously, the symmetry group then is the cyclic group of order 2.
To answer $\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(D)}$. Yes, this is indeed a variant of Čech cohomology.
First, let me explain what cohomology really is. If $X$ is a sufficiently nice topological space, you can always set up a homeomorphism $X \cong T$ of $X$ with a simplicial complex $T$. Such a homeomorphism is called a triangulation of $X$. Note that there need not be a unique such homeomorphism, so there may be lots of ways to triangulate a given nice topological space.
Declare $\Delta_n(T)$ to be the free abelian group generated by $n$-simplices of $T$. Let $\Delta^n(T)$ be $\hom(\Delta_n(T), \Bbb Z)$, the dual of $\Delta_n(T)$. Elements of $\Delta^n(T)$ are called $n$-cochains. There is a natural map $\partial : \Delta^{n-1}(T) \to \Delta^n(T)$ taking an $n$-cochain $\psi : \Delta_{n-1}(T) \to \Bbb Z$ to the $n$-cochain $\psi \circ \text{bd} : \Delta^n(T) \to \Delta^{n-1}(T) \to \Bbb Z$ where $\text{bd}$ sends an $n$-simplex in $T$ to sum of signed faces of that $n$-simplex (signs chosen appropriately to take care of orientation). $\partial$ is called the coboundary map. One can check that the map $\partial \partial : \Delta^{n-1}(T) \to \Delta^n(T) \to \Delta^{n+1}(T)$ is the zero map. The sequence of maps
$$\cdots \to \Delta^{n-1}(T) \to \Delta^n(T) \to \Delta^{n+1}(T) \to \cdots$$
is then a cochain complex, that is, going two steps in the sequences lands you into $0$. As a consequence of $\partial \partial = 0$, we have that $\text{im} \partial \subset \ker \partial$. Elements of $\text{im} \partial$ are called coboundaries, and elements of $\ker \partial$ are called cocycles. As everything is abelian, $\text{im} \partial$ is also normal in $\ker \partial$. We set $H^n(X; \Bbb Z) := \ker \partial/\text{im} \partial$. This is called the simplicial cohomology of $X$, and is indeed independent of the triangulation $T$ we chose. It's a topological invariant of $X$. We'll see something similar happening in Penrose's paper.
If $X$ is the given ambiguous figure, let $\{U_i\}$ be a good cover of $X$. That is, $X = \bigcup U_i$ and each of $U_i$, $U_i \cap U_j$, $U_i \cap U_j \cap U_k$ and further intersections, are homeomorphic to balls $B^n$ (a more general condition would be that they are all contractible). Let each intersection $U_{i_1} \cap \cdots \cap U_{i_n}$ be denoted as $U_{i_1 \cdots i_n}$. Treat these sets as symbols (i.e., formal intersection), and distinguish $U_{ij}$ from $U_{ji}$ even though they are the same set.
$G$ be the ambiguity group of $X$. Define an $n$-dimensional cochain to be a function $\varphi^n : \{U_{i_1 \cdots i_n}\}  \to G$ such that $\varphi^n(U_{i_1 \cdots i_k \cdots i_l \cdots i_n}) = \varphi^n(U_{i_1 \cdots i_l \cdots i_k \cdots i_n})^{-1}$ holds for any $k, l$, where $\{U_{i_1\cdots i_n}\}$ is the collection of all possible intersection of $n+1$ many sets from the cover. When $n=0$, it's just an assignment of a an element of $G$ to each $U_i$.
Let $C_n(X)$ denote the group of all $n$-dimensional cochains, where we multiply two cochains by multiplying their values in $G$. Define the coboundary map $\partial : C_{n-1}(X) \to C_{n}(X)$ given by sending $\varphi^{n-1}$ to the $n$-cochain $\varphi^n$ assigning to each $U_{i_i \cdots i_n}$ the number $\prod_j \varphi^{n-1}(U_{i_1 \cdots \hat{i_j} \cdots i_n})^{\varepsilon_j}$ where $\varepsilon_j = (-1)^n$ if $j$ is even and $(-1)^{n+1}$ if $j$ is odd, and $\hat{i_j}$ means that term is missing from the indices. So for example, in the tribar example, assigning to each $Q_i$ the number $q_i$ is a $0$-cochain and applying the coboundary map one gets an assignment of each (oriented) intersection $Q_{ij} = Q_i \cap Q_j$ to the number $q_i/q_j$, a $1$-cochain in our language.
The final thing to check is that $\partial \partial : C_{n-1}(X) \to C_{n}(X) \to C_{n+1}(X)$ is the zero map. This is a rather tedious and technical thing to check, but if the readers try verifying it, they will understand the motivation behind the rather bizarre definition of $\partial$ above. To sum up, we have that
$$\cdots \to C_{n-1}(X) \stackrel{\partial}{\to} C_n(X) \stackrel{\partial}{\to} C_{n+1}(X) \to \cdots$$
is a cochain complex. We can thus take it's cohomology $H^n(X; G) := \ker \partial/\text{im}\partial$ (the $G$ is there to indicate that the cochains are $G$-valued. Indeed, we could have put any group to be the coefficient group there, but it seems Penrose finds it natural to use the ambiguity group of $X$). For $n = 1$, this is precisely the $1$st cohomology group of Penrose.
Let us compute the cohomology group of the tribar. $H^1(X;\Bbb R^+)$ is the group of $1$-cocycles modulo $1$-coboundaries. As there are no nontrivial $2$-cochains, every $1$-cochain is a cocycle. That is to say, we're computing $1$st cohomology of the two-term cochain $$0 \to C_0(X) \stackrel{\partial}{\to} C_1(X) \to 0$$ which is just $C_1(X)/\text{im} \partial$. Note that this has a slight similarity with your interpretation (the definition of $H$), but is not quite the same. In any case, I can find a $1$-cocycle in $C_1(X)$ which is not a coboundary using the clever technique devised by Penrose: the $1$-cochain $\psi^1$ sending $Q_{ij} = Q_i \cap Q_j$ to $d_{ij} = A_i/A_j$ is independent of the choice of $A_k$'s, and I claim that it is a nontrivial cochain (i.e., is not a boundary). Well, if it was a boundary, then the equality $d_{ij} = \psi^1(Q_{ij}) = \psi^0(Q_i)/\psi^0(Q_j)$ would hold for some $0$-cochain $\psi^0$. But then we'd have $\tau(\psi^1) = d_{12}d_{23}d_{31} = 1$.
However, if we choose the placement of tribar appropriately so that $A_{12}$ and $A_{21}$ has the same distance from origin (i.e., $d_{12} = 1$) and $A_{23}$ is farther away from origin than $A_{32}$ (so that $d_{23} > 1$, then $A_{13}$ would automatically be closer than $A_{31}$ (that is, $d_{31} = d_{13}^{-1} > 1$), which implies $\tau(\psi^1)$ is strictly greater than $1$, forcing $\psi^1$ to be nontrivial. Once we have this nontrivial cochain, we can get $|\Bbb R^+|$-many nontrivial cochains by multiplying $\psi^1(Q_{12})$ by $1$, $\psi^1(Q_{23})$ by $\lambda$, and $\psi^1(Q_{31})$ by $1/\lambda$ for each $\lambda > 0$. This gives a natural identification with $G$. I think with some work you can show that these are all the nontrivial $1$-cocycles there are, and conclude $H^1(X; \Bbb R^+) \cong \Bbb R^+$. In general, it need not be true that $H^1(Q; G)$ is the same as the ambiguity group $G$, but the $1$-st cohomology group $H^1(Q; G)$ would be a module over the ambiguity group $G$.
I picked the open cover $\{U_i\}$ of $X$ to be good, i.e., all sets and all intersections are contractible. The reason is that by the nerve theorem, $X$ would have the homotopy type of the nerve $\mathcal{N}$ of $\{U_i\}$. Čech cohomology just computes cohomology of the nerve $\mathcal{N}$, but since this is homotopy equivalent to $X$, that is the same as taking cohomology of $X$, so it's independent of whatever good cover we chose. I think something similar must be at work for these ambiguous/impossible figures. This probably answers $\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(B)}$, but only Penrose knows what he had in mind.
One more thing I haven't addressed yet.

Ultimately, I'd like to be able to look at an impossible figure and systematically derive its cohomology group, just like I can derive a figure's symmetry group. Or alternately, create impossible figures with given cohomology group. But perhaps the analogy isn't tenable, as cohomology groups aren't really symmetry groups at all.

The first part of this answers gives a rough overview of how you could recognize the ambiguity group from a given ambiguous picture, so I presmume I have answered that bit. I do not know what a rigorous definition of the ambiguity group might be, but I presume it's some sort of inherent symmetry group of the chosen cover $\{U_i\}$. Also, certainly the analogy is tenable: if you read my answer to $\sf \color{Fuchsia}{(A)}$, you'd see that this ambiguity group is indeed some sort of symmetry groups which captures symmetries "induced from ambiguity". However, I do not know if you can construct an ambiguous figure such that the ambiguity group $G$ is isomorphic to a given group. Here's some food for thought: Assume $G$ is a finitely presented abelian group. Pick generators $x_1, \cdots, x_n$ of $G$. $F$ be the free abelian group generated by these. If $Y$ is some ambiguous figure with infinite cycle ambiguity group, then disjoint union of $n$ copies of $Y$ gives you a figure with ambiguity group isomorphic to $F$. Now given relators $r_i = 1$ for $G$, try identifying the copies of $Y$ appropriately to kill the symmetries corresponding to $r_i$. Can this be done?
PS: I wanted to add an explicit computation of the Penrose cohomology $H^1(X; \Bbb Z/2)$ of the Necker cube as a summary, but I'd need some pictures for that and I'm too ashamed of my drawing skills to add it. Maybe if OP (and others reading this) are really interested.

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Write your clues, number them sequentially, and write up an outline for yourself that links them to each other. Some clues might lead to small treasures to keep up morale. In the big hunt I made a diagram for myself, numbered all the clues, and put together a bag with all the treasures and boxes and bags full of juice boxes and cookies.
Visual unity for the clues comes in handy. So, write them all on blue paper, or roll them up and tie them with a string, or put them in envelopes of a particular type marked with numbers or secret symbols. This helps the hunters to know they've found something significant. Plus it's stylish and adds to the atmosphere of a hunt.
It's a good idea to print out a cheat sheet of all the clues and carry it with you if you're hovering nearby… as we were.
We had kayaking and rowing lessons with all the kids before the hunt started. I told them that at some point in the hunt, they would need to get into the boats.
There are several places on the boat with pirate flags, including the welcome mat, a hanging sign on deck, and the flag at the bow. Only Moomin knew what "Jolly Roger" meant. I figured that would be the case and that it would lend him authority from the start of the hunt. But while he was looking under the mat, Oblomovka's daughter found the clue on the flag — which, since she was the youngest of the bunch, helped give her ideas some respect.
Much further from our watery home.
That just might be homes for sailors.
And the Marine Science Institute.
Half burned, like muddy, dirty blocks.
Inside that pile, you'll find a box!
This clue had both the end goal directly described with names (Phoenix Point) and a gradual progression, to assure the hunters they were on the right trail. I used this technique several times, and it was often confusing. It's a way of thinking, and not everyone has been exposed to it – like doing British style crosswords – it has its own internal puzzle-logic. Our crew of 10 year olds and one 7 year old tended to fix on the first thing mentioned in the clue and assume it was the goal. Over the course of the hunt, they began to catch on and would argue a lot about the importance of reading and listening to the entire clue before running off to pursue a concept of the FIRST THING MENTIONED.
All of the hovering adults (me included) had a hard time with non-interference. In other words – we often intervened or hinted.
A phoenix a bed of ash.
And I wish I had some cash.
I'm close by to The Waterfront.
That should help to give you hope!
Stick pins me me and I won't mind.
Come here to sell or here to find.
I tell of cars and things afloat.
So, would you like to buy a boat?
Only Moomin would really be able to figure this one out. The Waterfront is the name of the harbor's restaurant. Near it, there's a little building with showers and the laundry room, and outside that, a bulletin board. Moomin did get the part about the soap, so led everyone to the right area. But it was his friend Andrew who first spotted the big corkboard.
For homeless wanderers, here there's shelter.
Each morning at the breakfast bell.
This roof protects our eyes that glow.
Our wandering feet and fur stays dry.
Moomin liked this one for "rodent's bane". It was funny to watch the kids all slowly realize this was about cats. Every morning (or nearly) at 7am, a kind lady who used to live aboard at the marina comes to put out cat food for the strays in a shelter she built from a plastic tub and some bricks. This was quite near the laundry room bulletin board and I thought it improved morale for there to be two clue solutions in a row, quickly solved.
me guard the way with red and green.
And Welcome to the U.S.A.!
I greet and welcome passers-by.
In some ways I'm a broken wreck.
Come aboard and take the wheel!
Even though for weeks beforehand I pointed out the "Welcome" sign at the harbor entrance, and the way everything in the harbor is painted in the colors of the Italian flag, nobody got the idea. "Out of my element" finally clued someone in. The next paper was taped to the underside of a shelf you could only see if you got inside the boat. I think at this clue, someone hinted to the kids that it was at the harbor entrance. That backfired, because they thought first of the entrance to the harbor by water and if we hadn't intervened they'd have all gotten into boats!!
Take them with you! And bring them back.
which sinks into the sea when day is done.
You will see just what's in store.
Feel free to walk upon the wall.
Continue in on the dry land.
Your reward will be a snack.
If you've followed all these words.
And the history of the bay.
You might look up — in a cave!
Down the little trail along the marsh between the water and some apartments, there were a couple of signs with information about birds and the salt marsh harvest mouse. At a tiny playground – some rocks in a sand pit – the kids finally found a very tiny cave (suitable for 3 year olds) and duct taped to the roof of it, the next envelope.
Minnie, Vim, and Moomin's 3 year old cousin Mr. Pants were at the sand pit already in place. It was too hard for Mr. Pants to keep up with the running pack of 10 year olds, so I thought it might work to place him near the end of the hunt.
Cross the street, pass homes of Bairs.
Behind a fence and hedge where children play.
And how pirates do when they hide treasure.
100 paces across the gopher's lawn.
That lead the way to water's edge.
Will lead you to the pirate's store.
At TP-2, a ledge, beware!
You are near the pirate's lair!
And at the end of Good, what will you find?
They really should make sure that they can float.
And some on foot, you'll raise the stakes.
And paddle out to raise your hopes.
Go further on to see what you can see.
As you keep searching low and high.
Providing caves for grebe and coot.
The Killer Duck comes into sight.
You're Feeling Good. And now turn right!
You have gone around the bend.
The last clue's near, then our quest's end.
Stand and brave the seagull's call.
You'll need some skill and also luck.
I'm bobbing in the water like a duck!
Okay here is where they get in boats and go paddling off. It was an exciting part but it caused some trouble. I thought this clue was going to be very clear in telling the hunters exactly where to be and where to look and where to stop. But it wasn't!
The other problem that caused hurt feelings and screaming was the next clue, the last one, which was in code and included a pen for decoding.
So while everyone was boating themselves back to the houseboat (which it wasn't clear they should do, but I just told them to), H., the oldest kid, did the decoding very quickly in the rowboat as another kid rowed and all the other kids screamed at him to stop it because they should decode it together. Moomin was super mad. I should have predicted this and had some way for the clue to be on several cards with several pens.
Despite tiny moments of surliness, resentment, competition, and foot-dragging, all the kids were good sports and got it into their heads that they all had good ideas, all should listen to each other, and that when one person "got" the clue before the others, appreciation and congratulations are in order rather than jealousy.
In the chain locker in the bow at the head of Moomin's bed, all the presents were hidden in bags. I put in the party favors here too.
It was successful and memorable!
I ran a very difficult hunt at my house for grownups a few years ago while I was obsessed with making complicated geocaches. The only clue I remember from it was a paper hidden in a book of Greek Drama that said simply, "Oh, Hero's boyfriend!" and the answer of course was "Leander" with the next clue hidden in some oleander bushes. I wish I had all the clues – they were good. Someday i'd like to do the MIT hunt (which I talked with mako about) and make up very complicated multi-stage clues with more math and elliptical thinking.
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I always do an Easter Egg Hunt by taking a famous story and changing all the names and incidents to sweets and cooking related stuff.Then break it into sections for each clue.Amazing time saver is using the Wikipedia synopsis. 'Battlestar Galaxybar' and 'The Princess Brioche' were particularly popular.
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These type of puzzles help students in their creativity increasing. The major source of idea generation for students is their surroundings which help them to think about.
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What will we focus on?
In 6th grade, students will be introduced to approximately 7 of the following mindful lessons/strategies. The curriculum we use is designed by Mindful Schools, an organization which began their work in Oakland public schools. We will continue to practice as a whole school on Wednesday mornings.


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After a successful stint with INSANITY, Donnie and I started doing to T25 a few weeks ago. We decided it was too difficult to do 50 minutes of insane cardio every day, "Ain't nobody got time for that!" If you're not familiar with INSANITY, it's basically a workout for college sprinters/basketball/football players. Luckily Shaun T (creator of INSANITY) made a shorter, more convenient workout called Focus T25. I'm not sure what we're focusing on, but if I had to guess, I'd say hamstrings because that is what hurts the most right now.
T25 is 10 weeks, 5 days a week, 25 minutes a day of nonstop cardio, lunges, pushups, burpees, squats, planks, jabs, etc. No breaks. Basically, it's a hellacious 25 minutes of torture that seems to last at least an hour.
At first we thought it'd be easier because it was shorter than INSANITY. Nope! It's just as hard. It might even be harder. Either that, or I'm super out of shape. It takes me a while to warmup and about halfway through I'm dripping in sweat and wishing it was over.
Week 1 we did workouts on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday were busy nights and then Friday came and we thought, "Let's not workout tonight and start over again on Monday." So we did.
Week 1: Part 2 was more successful. We made it all the way through, with burning calves and aching hammies.
Week 2 was alright. I skipped one day because I played volleyball all night and by the time I got home at 10 pm, I was not feeling like doing a 25-minute workout.
Week 3: I did the workout Monday and Tuesday. Went on a bike ride Wednesday and justified no workout. Played volleyball Thursday, no need to workout. Walked 3-ish miles on Friday (75% humidity) with the kids (which felt like 10 miles)… no workout.
Week 4 starts today. I'm really feeling guilty so I'm going to force myself to do the workout.
It's a lot of work staying in shape, but there are results to be had so I can't quit now!
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Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper Linked to Multiple Deaths
By Consider The Consumer on April 10, 2019
This past Friday, The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Fisher-Price issued a warning citing reports of 10 infant deaths since 2015 that are possibly linked to use of the Rock n' Play Sleeper.
However, this was quickly followed on Tuesday with an announcement by the The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists, calling for the immediate recall of the popular sleeper due to links with up to 32 deaths between 2011 and 2018.
For some of the infants, the cause of death listed was asphyxia, or the inability to breathe caused by the babies' position, but all of the reports involved infants who were unrestrained and rolled from their back to their side or stomach.
Fisher-Price has actually issued a warning in the past for parents to stop using the product once their infants are able to roll over on their own due to the possibility of falling out of the sleeper. However, the reported deaths indicated that some parents were still using the sleeper without the three point harness restraint even though their infants are capable of rolling over.
As the majority of the incidents involved children above 3 months old or able to rollover on their own, the repeated warning this past week to stop using the product was directed at parents of children that fell within those areas.
But the AAP feels that the warning didn't go far enough to protect infants and issued a call for parents to completely stop using the product and stores around the country to remove it from their shelves.
Dr. Kyle Yasuda, the President of AAP, said 'This product is deadly and should be recalled immediately" and went on to state that the evidence shows that the sleeper "puts infants' lives at risk, and CPSC must step up and take immediate action to remove it from stores and prevent further tragedies."
The alert from AAP states that Consumer Reports concluded that the 32 deaths included babies younger than the 3-month threshold cited in the initial warning, which concerned them greatly. Additionally, because of the risk that an infant could roll or turn into an unsafe position and be incapable of moving, increasing the risk of suffocation or strangulation, the AAP advises against using car seats, strollers or other devices for sleep.
However, in addition to improper use, Fisher-Price has said that some of the deaths may have been caused by existing medical conditions. Their General Manager, Chuck Scothon, issued a statement that said ""It is essential that the product warnings and instructions are always followed. We will continue to do all we can to ensure that parents and caregivers have the information necessary to create a safe sleep environment for infants."
The statement went on to say that the sleeper meets all "applicable safety standards" and that the "safety of children is our highest priority. The loss of a child is tragic and heart-breaking."
Another manufacturer has faced recent criticism over product safety and failing to issue recalls. Ikea has been taking heat for not taking more action with the safety of the eight-drawer model of their Hemnes Dresser that has been linked to a child's death and other accidents involving toddlers.
The problem with the product is that it is prone to tip-over if not secured to the wall, a warning that is not included with the product according to parents and safety advocates.
The stability test for dressers like this model, which the Hemnes Dresser passed, involves closing all drawers and opening one at a time with a 50-pound weight attached to determine whether the dresser is prone to tip overs.
According to public documents filed in a lawsuit against Ikea, in 2017 one of the dressers fell on a 2-year old boy just after he woke up. According to the police report, the boy's mother found him trapped and unresponsive under the dresser and unfortunately he did not survive.
The mother recently pointed out that her son weighed considerably less than the tip over test and that children don't necessarily open a single drawer at a time. "What that says to me is that this standard is not good enough," she said.
The parties recently settled this lawsuit but despite this tragedy and even an incident that was recorded on home security that went viral thanks to the extraordinary efforts to rescue him by the trapped toddler's sibling, Ikea still has not recalled the dresser.
While some companies may be slow to issue recalls due to meeting current safety regulations or consumers not heeding product warnings, safety advocates like the AAP are pushing them for action. Please take the time to read all product safety sheets and of course, it's always best to act on the side of caution whenever there are reported safety concerns.
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Early summer sunlight fell across the deep lines etching the old man's face through the front window of his ground floor flat in the seniors' residence. He liked to sit there during the day, watching. Soon the woman would trot up the sidewalk to pretend to clean his flat, which he kept immaculate himself. He was still very fit, had all his own teeth, and performed his exercises each day without fail. His eyes were bright blue and very clear.
He glanced down again at the letter on good quality, creamy paper that had arrived in his mail along with the usual printed rubbish from the stores, car dealerships, and electronic outlets all offering him things he didn't need or want. The letter was official, from the Government of Canada, Department of Justice; a notice of intent to begin citizenship revocation proceedings against him. He would have to telephone the lawyer, the fat little man who spoke to him as if he was an idiot, who wouldn't have made it into the Deutsches Jungvolk, let alone his own unit.
He glanced at his old Breitling, the square face leather-strapped and positioned on the inside of his wrist, though he always knew what time it was. The woman was late, as usual. He enjoyed staring at her, to make her uncomfortable, as she "dusted". She was mixed race. Some Asian, some black. A prostitute, no doubt.
He sat, remembering, watching out the window.