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Pandemic NationMarch 17, 2020
Service-Sector Jobs, Sick Leave in Limbo
Today veteran journalist Mark Kreidler begins a new weekly column covering the coronavirus and its social impacts.
Co-published by Fast Company
Labor & EconomyOctober 29, 2013
Banning BART Strikes Is No Answer to Labor Disputes
On Friday, BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] employees at SEIU and ATU will likely ratify the deal negotiated last week and the following day BART's Board of Directors will likely vote to approve it. Apart from a few crazies on both the left and right who were hoping that the strike or the dispute kept going, most of us BART riders will be extremely glad that it is finally over and hoping that we never have to go through this again. It's not surprising, therefore, that some politicians have attempted to exploit public frustration. Orinda Councilman Steve Glazer, who is running for the California Assembly, has tirelessly promoted his campaign for change in state law to ban strikes by BART workers. It's an easy time to call for coercive legislation but a strike ban is the wrong solution for the Bay Area and it wouldn't work.
Are BART Workers Strike–
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BART Strike Over
A tentative agreement between striking Bay Area Rapid Transit workers and BART management has ended the employees' four-day strike. The new contract must be approved and ratified by members of SEIU 1021 and ATU 1555, the rail system's two largest unions.
Last night, in a statement released by Local 1021, John Arantes, BART Chapter President of that local announced:
"Tonight the hard working men and women who keep the Bay Area moving, can go back to work making BART the most efficient and successful system in the country."
Added Des Patten, President of SEIU 1021's BART Professional Chapter:
"Let us be clear that our commitment to improving the safety at BART doesn't end with these negotiations. With this agreement, we expect that General Manager Grace Crunican will continue the dialogue with its unions on working conditions and health and safety at BART."
According to SFGate,
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Three Important Facts About the BART Strike
After months of negotiating in bad faith, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) management Thursday night left BART workers no other option but to go on strike. What a shame. It didn't have to come to this.
With all the misinformation swirling about on the BART strike, there are a few things to clear up.
Here are the three things you need to know about the BART strike (h/t to Pete Castelli of SEIU 1021):
1) The strike is NOT about wages or benefits. BART workers made concession after concession on the economic proposals with the goal of averting a strike. BART workers and management agreed to a deal yesterday on wages, health care and pensions.
2) BART management pulled the rug out from under workers at the last minute by insisting on new workplace rules that infringed on the rights of workers.
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BART Directors Must Act to Avert Midnight Strike
Whether BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] closes down this week will come down to one issue and one issue only: whether the BART Board of Directors shows leadership or continues to act to hold Bay Area transit riders hostage by using the same playbook a small minority of elected officials in Washington, D.C. have used to close down our federal government.
No one in the Bay Area—whether they ride BART or not—wants to see a BART strike. This is especially true of BART workers, who live in one of the most expensive regions in the world and do not receive a paycheck while they are on strike.
To demonstrate their commitment to reaching a deal before a cooling-off period expires tonight, BART workers have put a proposal on the table that is fair and affordable and incentivizes BART workers to keep the system one of the nation's best.
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Labor & EconomyOctober 7, 2013
BART's Top Negotiator Living High While Avoiding Talks
BART's 60-day cooling off period is now heating up – but not in a good way.
When the Governor requested a 60-day cooling off period in Bay Area Rapid Transit negotiations in early August, there was a danger that this action would lessen pressure to reach an agreement. Unfortunately, this is exactly what has happened. In support of the cooling off period, BART management had told the Governor back in August that this would enable "us to continue negotiating…. The public should not be deprived of this essential public service unless all alternatives to avoid a work stoppage have been utilized."
This sounds like common sense: Give the parties more time to avoid a crippling strike that surely no one on either side wants. But no sooner had the 60 days started than management reconsidered its position on utilizing "all alternatives" to avoid a strike. Instead of bargaining around the clock,
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Labor & EconomySeptember 25, 2013
BART Management's Dangerous Game
Negotiating a fair contract is a complex process that involves hard work and commitment from both labor and management. When both sides bargain in good faith and share a goal of securing a deal, a deal eventually gets done. I've personally been involved in many tough negotiations that ended with a fair deal that both parties could live with. It takes patience and willingness from both sides to compromise.
In the BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] negotiations, unfortunately, that hasn't been the case. BART management paid Thomas Hock, an out-of-state lawyer with a history of driving disputes to a strike, nearly $400,000 to lead negotiations. Hock and his company have been responsible for seven strikes, 47 unfair labor practice charges and nine discrimination lawsuits. Not exactly a history of committing to compromise in order to secure a deal.
True to form, Hock hasn't been serious about negotiating a resolution at BART that would spare the Bay Area a strike.
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Culture & MediaAugust 29, 2013
Film Review: 'Fruitvale Station'
Fruitvale Station will not make many people's lists as the feelgood film of the summer – it's a semi-fictional account of the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, the troubled young black man who was mortally wounded by a transit police officer on an Oakland BART platform in 2009. Director Ryan Coogler's debut movie opens with actual grainy cell phone footage, taken by bystanders, of the chaotic moments leading to Grant's shooting after a melee had erupted on a train full of New Year's Eve revelers.
Yet the story remains a powerfully optimistic work that shows Grant (Michael B. Jordan), in his last day alive, coming to terms with his criminal past as a small-time drug dealer. We watch as he tries to move his life in a new direction and become a better husband and father. And, despite Grant's recurring moments of explosive personal confrontations, Coogler's film knows when to pull back and take a restrained,
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Labor & EconomyAugust 19, 2013
Scapegoating of BART Employees Continues
I've seen some pretty outrageous anti-worker opinion pieces written about the contract negotiations at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) over the last two months. But nothing I've read is as infuriating as a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed from Chuck and Barbara McFadden.
In short, the McFaddens assert that workers like those at BART are not deserving of the middle-class wage their unions negotiate. To make their point, they use an argument that's all too common today — private sector workers are suffering so public sector workers should too. What's so absurd about this logic is that the very reason so many private sector workers are struggling is because most don't have the ability to bargain with their employer for a decent wage in return for a hard day's work.
Workers should be able to negotiate with their employers over wages and benefits like health care and retirement security.
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Labor & EconomyAugust 9, 2013
Truth Gets Derailed in BART's Media Campaign
How did the BART dispute ever reach this point?
For several weeks now, BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] management has mounted a sophisticated PR campaign, stating that its workers are overpaid and unreasonable. But its evidence on employee pay and benefits has been misleading at best; its estimates of average pay include many highly paid managers, thus exaggerating significantly the pay of frontline employees. Likewise, management's statements on employee contributions to health benefits have failed to account for the significant out-of-pocket expenses incurred by many BART employees.
Denigrating your workers in the media may be a winning strategy in the battle for public opinion, but it's a foolhardy one for senior management running an organization whose success depends so heavily on employee commitment and flexibility.
This week's public hearing in Oakland before Governor Brown's three-member investigative panel provided an entirely different version of events from BART's media campaign.
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The characters are so believable and life like, I just didn't want to put it down! Seller Inventory V9780755329861 Book Description Headline, 2007. But when the Second World War begins it seems that her blessings may have run out. Your own responses to lease Moonlight and Ashes : other readers will be able to determine about a ebook. But when the Second World War begins it seems that herblessings may have run out. I really wonder how much research the author had done? As Maggie and Lucy struggle to survive the German bombings, the twins face danger of a different kind. We may receive commission if your application for credit is successful.
I think she could have written several novels concentrating on the different strands rather than throwing them in one novel and not doing justice to any. What Amazon readers are saying about Moonlight and Ashes: 'Once again Rosie has written another gripping tale with fantastic plots, events and realism. With the threat of war looming, she has to make the heartbreaking choice to evacuate her children in order to keep them safe. I was thrilled to discover that I'd become one of the top 250 most-borrowed li Before becoming a writer, I was a Placement Support Worker and foster carer, and worked in the social services department after completing a teacher training course. Rosie has children and lives in Warwickshire with her husband and her four Shihtzus.
For additional information, see the Global Shipping Programme Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. I love meeting my readers and am always pleased to hear from you. There were a lot of anomalies, for instance her husband Sam a wrong 'un somehow manages to become a corporal even though he had gone awol when he was called up!! As Maggie and Lucy struggle to survive the German bombings, the twins face danger of a different kind. Before becoming a writer, I was a Placement Support Worker and foster carer, and worked in the social services department after completing a teacher training course. But appearances can be deceptive, and while Maggie struggles to survive the bombings at home, her children face danger of a different kind. Title: Moonlight And Ashes Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. But when the Second World War begins it seems that her blessings may have run out.
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Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Programme This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. But appearances can be deceptive, and while Maggie struggles to survive the bombings at home, her children face danger of a different kind. The characters are all excellently written and Goodwin has the knack of getting into children's minds. We've got all the examine, and when everything are usually correct, we shall distribute on our site. Lizzie seems to be in the perfect family, while Danny is left with a man who seems to resent his presence.
Although the war means that Maggie can escape her abusive husband when he's sent to the front line, the twins are evacuated to Wales and separated for the first time in their young lives. Despite being trapped in an abusive marriage, Maggie still feels blessed with her eight-year-old twins, Danny and Lizzie, and baby girl, Lucy. If you like your stories and your people simple, you'll like this book. Art and Coventry Wonderful story of hate of the war ,and how Coventry was bombed so badly, and how the ghost of a lad and another young lad gave up their lives for the friendship of the twins. Lizzie seems to be in the perfect family, while Danny is left with a man who seems to resent his presence.
The good mother who martyrs herself and is a victim, the abusive husband, the perfect good man who loves the good mother, the sweet unselfish children, kindly grandmothers, the apparently slutty unlikable co-worker. Maggie is an amazing heroine with everything that she goes through. Seller Inventory V9780755329861 Book Description Paperback. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. But appearances can be deceptive, and while Maggie struggles to survive the bombings at home, her children face danger of a different kind. Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.
Maggie Bright's family, 8-year-old twins, Danny and Lizzie, and baby Lucy mean the world to her, especially as her husband Sam abuses her physically and verbally. But when the Second World War begins it seems that herblessings may have run out. But appearances can be deceptive, and while Maggie struggles to survive the bombings at home, her children face danger of a different kind. Used-Very Good: The book will be clean without any major stains or markings, the spine will be in excellent shape with only minor creasing, no pages will be missing and the cover is likely to be very clean. .
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Ignore CCB's "Provocative" Summon, South-South Governors Tell Onnoghen
Four of the south-south governors
By Sadiq Umar – Five governors of the South South zone on Sunday condemned what they called a "provocative" summon by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, asking him to ignore the summons and the call for his resignation in some quarters.
The governors said the call is directly aimed at humiliating the nation's highest judicial officer and a prominent son of the region, describing it as "totally unacceptable".
The CCB had on Friday filed a six-count charges bordering on non-declaration of assets against Mr. Onnoghen, summoning him to appear before the tribunal on Monday.
Rising from its emergency meeting in Abuja, Sunday, the governors said the summons is "provocative."
In a communique signed by Governors Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Ben Ayade (Cross River), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta), it condemned "without any equivocation, this assault on the CJN and the judiciary especially coming after similar assaults on the National Assembly, to save the country from this embarrassment and global contempt."
"We note that the attempt to drag the CJN to the CCT is also a grave and dangerous escalation of the assault on institutions of state including the National Assembly and the judiciary
"We believe that the President, Muhammadu Buhari has a constitutional responsibility and huge moral obligation to defend our democracy.
"While we are not opposed to a genuine fight against corruption, such an action must always be anchored on the rule of law.
"We also decry the massive buildup of arms by APC leaders and members across the Niger Delta with the intent to cause mayhem and a general breakdown of law and order during the elections.
The Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, the only APC governor from the south-south, did not attend the meeting.
FULL TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE
An emergency meeting of the governors of the states of the South South geopolitical zone, held at the Bayelsa State Governor's Lodge, Abuja on Sunday, January 13, 2019.
The meeting, called at the instance of the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, who is also Chairman of the South South Governors Forum, was attended by the Governors of Cross River State, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta States.
The meeting deliberated on the recent happenings at the Supreme Court involving the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen and resolved that the action against him constitutes a setback to the gains of the nation's democratic experience of 20 years.
We note that under Section 158(1) of the 1999 Constitution, the National Judicial Council, has ample powers to deal exhaustively with matters pertaining to allegations of misconduct and discipline of Judicial officers. Specifically, the NJC has the powers and clear procedures for investigating allegations, and recommending appropriate sanctions or disciplinary measures against judicial officials as a matter of first instance before any further steps.
The judicial pronouncements in the cases of FGN Vs Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court (January 9, 2018) and Justice Ngajinwa Vs FGN 2017 at the CCT have given validation to the express provisions of the constitution on this issue.
Therefore, we consider this step, which is directly aimed at humiliating the nation's highest judicial officer and a prominent son of the region, as totally unacceptable as it is reflective of the South South story of endless marginalization and intimidation. The unceremonious removal of former Acting Director General of the Department of State Service, Mathew Seiyefa and his replacement is still very fresh.
We note that the unfortunate action against the CJN further reinforces the perception that the Buhari administration has no regard for the sentiments of Nigerians, in particular the people of Niger Delta, and the rule of law
It is a fact that this administration has a penchant for flagrant disobedience of and disregard for legitimate and valid court orders.
We expect President Buhari to know that democracy cannot survive without respect for the constitution, strict adherence to the rule of law, and separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution.
We strongly believe that the regrettable development at the Supreme Court at this critical time, when preparations for the general elections are wobbling (with serious concern about INEC and security agencies) is capable of causing avoidable anxiety, tension and possible breakdown of law and order in the country.
We note further that the action undermines confidence not only in the judiciary but also the electoral process that has already commenced, in view of the pivotal role that the judiciary plays in the process of electoral adjudication.
We affirm President Buhari should know that the continuous assault on critical institutions of state is a defining feature of a dictatorship, and that the President is obliged to live up to his word that he is a born-again democrat, as he assured Nigerians in 2015.
Based on the foregoing, we hereby call on the President:
1) To condemn without any equivocation, this assault on the CJN and the judiciary especially coming after similar assaults on the National Assembly, to save the country from this embarrassment and global contempt.
2) We call on the CJN to ignore this so-called Court summon from the CCB and the provocative call for his resignation in some quarters.

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What, PACT has an HR Specialist?!
Q: So you're PACT's HR Specialist, What does that mean for members?
My name is Alicia Cachia, and I have a formal education in Human Resources, Criminology & Teaching and was previously a Musical Theatre Major in High School at Etobicoke School of the Arts. When I was much much younger, I attended Avenue Road Arts School and was exposed to a wide variety of arts mediums such as sculpture, painting, drawing, cartooning, and acting. In my personal time I enjoy baking, cooking, reading, movies, and photography. I've worked as an HR specialist in many different industries including hospitality, landscape/construction, retail, and building maintenance. I am also an animal lover and have two cats.
Q: Will this be your only blog post?
Of course not! Every 5 weeks or so, you can expect a new blog post on a different HR topic from upcoming legislation that affects theatre, to HR best practices, to motivating your team and resolving workplace conflict. Most posts will have a longer follow-up in the Peer to Peer Forum which will provide you with more resources, templates and detailed information pertaining to the topic at hand.
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UPDATE: PRES. BUSH SIGNS OMNIBUS AID BILL ALLOCATING $58.5 MILLION TO ARMENIA;MAINTAINING MILITARY AID PARITY WITH AZERBAIJAN
WASHINGTON, DC – President Bush signed the fiscal year (FY) 2008 overall appropriations package this week, known as the omnibus bill, which included $58.5 million in economic assistance for Armenia and maintained Armenia and Azerbaijan military aid parity, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA.)
The Armenia economic aid figures are $17.5 million less than the FY 2007 figures but represent a clear increase over the Administration's request of $35 million. Congress also approved $3 million in foreign military financing (FMF) assistance to Armenia and Azerbaijan, reversing the Administration's latest bid to retreat from its 2001 pledge to maintain parity in military aid to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"We are troubled by the reductions in aid to Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh, particularly in light on the ongoing economic costs of the Turkish and Azerbaijani blockades, as well as Baku's increasingly violent rhetoric about restarting its war against the Armenians," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We thank all of our friends in the Congressional appropriations process who, working against significant competing budgetary pressures – were able to deliver figures higher than the President's request, and also to maintain military aid parity."
In addition to the Armenia allocation, the omnibus aid bill also includes $50.5 million for Georgia and $19 million for Azerbaijan. Millennium Challenge Account funding is set for $1.5 billion, half of President Bush's request.
The final compromise aid legislation does not stipulate a specific amount of aid to Karabagh, urging the State Department to be guided instead by the individual Senate and House recommendations adopted earlier this year, one of which did allocate $6 million in aid to Karabagh.
On June 12th, the House Appropriations Committee adopted its version of the FY08 foreign aid bill, allocating $68 million for Armenia, $6 million in direct assistance to Nagorno Karabagh, and maintaining parity in the levels of U.S. military aid to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Senate version, adopted by the Appropriations Committee on June 28th, called for only $39 million in aid to Armenia, $4 million above the President's request, but considerably less than the previous year's appropriation. Although the Senate called for direct assistance to Nagorno Karabagh, it did not set a specific dollar amount. In addition, the Senate did not address the issue of military aid parity.
Other specific measures of interest in the omnibus bill include a recommendation for funding of an Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) exchange program with Armenia; Monmouth University sponsored professional exchanges with Armenia, as well as activities of the University of California, affiliated with the American University of Armenia. Appropriations Committee member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced last week, his efforts in support of an allocation of $47,000 for an after-school tutoring program sponsored by the Glendale "Ararat" Chapter of Homenetmen.
In the days leading up to the omnibus bill vote, thousands of Armenian Americans communicated with their legislators on this issue via an ANCA Congressional Call In Campaign: http://capwiz.com/anca/home
In testimony submitted to the Foreign Operations Subcomittee on March 29th, ANCA Government Affairs Director Kate Nahapetian touched upon a number of key issues, including: 1) Restoring parity in all military aid to Armenia and Azerbaijan; 2) Increasing economic assistance to Armenia to at least $75 million; 3) Expanding U.S. assistance to Nagorno Karabagh to at least $10 million in both humanitarian and development aid, and; 4) Preserving Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. Click here for the full text of the ANCA's testimony.
In February of this year, in letters to leading appropriators in the House and Senate, the ANCA outlined the Armenian American community's foreign aid priorities. Click here for the full text of these letters.


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Zanders and MML agree on strategic investment to drive future growth
Zanders, the leading global treasury and risk consulting firm, has entered into an agreement with international investment firm MML Capital. To support Zanders' accelerated growth strategy, MML will invest in Zanders as a minority shareholder. Under the terms of the transaction, the existing Zanders' management team will remain majority shareholders.
From its foundation in the Netherlands in 1994, Zanders has grown strongly to become the leading independent treasury and risk consulting firm globally with over 200 employees across seven offices in Europe, the US and Asia. Zanders combines thought leadership with a high-quality approach and client involvement 'from ideas to implementation'.
Luke Jones, Partner at MML, explains "We are thrilled to be partnering with the existing Zanders' management team to support the firm's next phase of growth. Zanders has a highly specialized proposition and its expertise in treasury and risk is unparalleled. The team has sustained strong growth over a number of years, and we are backing them to do more of the same."
With a specialized focus on treasury and risk, Zanders has been 100% committed to providing best-in-class advisory services to 750 customers, such as large multinational corporates, financial institutions, public sector and non-profit organizations, in more than 40 countries. In addition, the company has developed its own suite of innovative cloud-based solutions on the Zanders Inside platform, which it will continue to scale with MML's investment.
"We are very excited that MML is going to support us", comments Laurens Tijdhof, CEO and Managing Partner at Zanders. "We have been searching for a genuine strategic partner to help accelerate our international expansion and execute on our growth strategy. MML's strong track record of scaling people businesses, across multiple geographies, was immediately attractive to us. The experienced investment team felt like the perfect cultural fit for our business, and we look forward to working alongside them to deliver our strategic objectives."
The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
Luke Jones Laurens Tijdhof
Partner at MML CEO & Managing Partner
at Zanders
For direct questions related to the press release please reach out to :
Sjoerd van Zoelen
Laurens Tijdhof
communication@zanders.eu
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A letter to the editor is presented about the clinical case of a 4-month-old boy who was diagnosed as Chiari II malformation with lumbosacral meningomyelocoele and congenital hydrocephalus and was treated for postoperative hyperpyrexia.


Language is the code we use to understand and communicate our ideas as well as to express our wants and needs. Speech is the spoken form of our language. Children hear language by listening and then practicing what they hear. This is the way they figure out the rules of our language code. Children do not learn language at exactly the same rate. They learn in stages, over time, not all at once.
Help your child listen and follow instructions by playing games: "pick up theball, " "Touch Daddy's s nose"
Expand what the; child says. If he or she says, "more juice", You say, "Adam wants more juice."
Children should be able to produce all the sounds they need to communicate effectively by 8 years of age or at around 3rd grade. There is no "set-rule" as to when a child can produce various sounds. There are exceptions, for example, some children may produce "later" sounds at an early age or "early" sounds at a later age. Most children learn to produce the various sounds, but they may not produce them in the suggested developmental order.
Speech-language pathologists (SLP) in the district are available to answer questions, evaluate and provide therapy to those who qualify under MN State criteria for children from birth to graduation. Most SLPs have a Master's Degree plus national certification from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
If your child does qualify for speech and language therapy a plan will be written with specific goals and objectives that will address your child's needs. These communication skills may be taught in several ways - drill and practice, play interactions, communication classes, through literacy, conversation or with the assistance of communication devices. Session length and frequency varies depending on age and the nature and severity of the disorder.
If you have specific concerns regarding your child, talk to your child's teacher to see if their speech and language patterns are interfering with communication at school. If so, a referral may be made for an assessment by an Speech-Language Pathogist.


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Ahhhhh! Nothing much to really say...I'm just enjoying my week of rest. The Royal Shakespeare Company moves into my house at the end of the week (well, the assistant directors, anyway), so I've managed to pack up all the stuff I'll need for three weeks and will be squatting for a bit. But I hardly think I'll notice, since March will be busy and pretty much fly by.
Oh, and a very Happy Birthday to Britt! And to great, great uncle Kenneth on the day before tomorrow (leap year, that is).
Exhausted after five days of buying for the gallery (one more left!), we've left the Philadelphia show and have begun to conquer the Baltimore. My brain is pretty much fried from the overwhelmingness of so many very talented artists under one roof...well, two roofs. It'll be exciting to watch everything arrive back in Davidson, because I can't even remember what we bought the first three days.
We delivered Bill's bed to him since he's living right here in Baltimore, and it turns out that he's a huge Jamie Cullum fan as well (due to the year he lived in London), and so we're planning to maybe go see him at the Louisiana Jazz Festival in April. But meanwhile, I'm enjoying the new (to me) old tracks from a rare CD of his from 1999. Thanks, Bill!
Friday night was the gallery's first artist visit since the guest house was ready, and the event went really well. As to the house, well, let's just say that the heater picked the most inconvenient time possible to stop working. So we woke up Saturday morning to sub-50 degree temperatures -- brrrr! But Libby was a good sport and luckily there were lots of blankets. And to further my luck, I'd planned on visiting the Squirtus at Furman until Monday, which was the soonest the heater could be fixed, so I really didn't have to brave the cold long at all. When I got back today, the heater was in the process of being fixed, and that poor little thing heated the house back up super-fast. And so all is well for now.


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Infowars' Alex Jones forced to pay £76,000 to father of Sandy Hook victim
Conspiracy theorist claimed 2012 shooting a hoax to try and confiscate firearms
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones addresses his thoughts on Sandy Hook shooting being a hoax
A Texas judge has ordered InfoWars founder Alex Jones to pay $100,000 (£76,000) in legal fees in a defamation case brought against him by the father of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim, the latest court setback for the conspiracy theorist.
In a 20 December ruling, judge Scott Jenkins of Travis County District Court said that Mr Jones and his lawyer intentionally disregarded an October court order to produce witnesses and other materials to the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Neil Heslin.
Jenkins said the defence's failure to cooperate "should be treated as contempt of court". In two separate orders issued the same day, the judge told Jones to pay $65,825 (£50,000) and $34,323 (£26,000) in lawyer fees incurred by Mr Heslin. He also denied Mr Jones' motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which argues that Mr Jones and InfoWars defamed Mr Heslin by calling his account of his son's death a lie.
Mr Heslin lost his son, Jesse Lewis, in the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a heavily-armed gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators before taking his own life.
"Mr Jones is learning that he cannot treat the courts with the same contempt he showed my clients," Mark Bankston, Mr Heslin's lawyer, said in an email Monday night.
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"In disobeying court orders, Mr Jones has shown how desperate he is to ensure nobody finds out how InfoWars really operates, or the lengths the company went to carry out its five-year campaign of malicious harassment against these parents."
The Daily Beast first reported the ruling against Mr Jones, who is facing lawsuits on a number of fronts filed by several families of the victims.
Sandy Hook families gain victory in lawsuit against Alex Jones
A lawyer listed for Mr Jones and his InfoWars website did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday night.
Jones has used his platform to spread the false narrative that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax or "false flag", an event staged by the government as part of an effort to confiscate Americans' firearms, and that the parents of the children killed were "crisis actors".
Mr Bankston said he expected a trial in the defamation case to be scheduled before the end of next year.
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Greetings from Mars
an Interview with Roger Weins
Artist's depiction of ChemCam laser at work
Last year on the former "God and Nature" blog, we published a feature about the life and work of Roger Weins, an ASA member and scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He's also P.I. of the NASA Curiosity rover's "ChemCam," a laser gun that's vaporizing rocks for identification on Mars. We caught up with Roger for an update on how the project is going and what it's like behind the scenes of the Curiosity mission.
Life's been quite a blur for Roger Weins since we last spoke.
His voice sounds faintly weary over the phone as he tells me the pace of work for his team has increased by a factor of two or more since the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory Mission touched down safely in early August.
"It's been 54 days since the landing," Roger said.
"54 days," I repeated, marveling.
"No—wait a minute." Roger jumped to life, "It's been 55 earth days. Sorry. We're operating on slightly longer timescales here at JPL [NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA], since Mars rotates about 40 minutes slower than Earth."
Roger and his team work through the night on Mars, because that's the best time to analyze what the rover did during its eight hours of operation the previous day. "We don't operate Curiosity at night," Roger says, "we could, but nights on Mars get down to negative 200 degrees, and it's better to be moving when the sun can warm the rover's joints and wheels. So we use the night hours to look at data and write new commands."
ChemCam, Roger's primary project for the past few years, is the first instrument ever taken to Mars that can actually determine the elemental composition of rocks without having to deploy an arm or use scooping and grinding mechanisms, which are energy-depleting and wear down over time. Instead, the small, efficient laser Roger and collaborators in France and the U.S. developed can analyze an area up to twenty feet away without any physical touch besides its pulsing beam of photons.
As these pinpoint-focused beams zap the surface of a rock, they excite atoms within it, which emit light of different colors depending on what elements are present. This light is seen by a telescope that's built into ChemCam, which then transfers the colored light, or spectra, through an optical fiber into the body of the rover. Inside the rover, a spectrometer sees the colors as if they were flags representing the elements, themselves.
"We're trying to understand what the environment of Mars was like in the distant past, including whether life ever developed there, by doing just what we do on earth when we're searching for ancient life forms: looking under the surface," Roger told me a year ago. "ChemCam is able to analyze the presence of elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, the 'building blocks' of life, as well as take higher resolution images of Martian rocks than any camera NASA has yet deployed. The surfaces of these rocks, the grooves and knobs and bumps on their faces, give us clues as to whether they formed in the presence of water."
The mission has already amassed several gigabytes of data, and found some interesting things, but it's a lot to process. "You can't just joystick a vehicle on Mars," Roger reminds. On a regular shift for his team in Pasadena, two members begin work by checking the health of the instruments and taking inventory of what they asked the machine to do, then downloading and processing the data into more useable form for further analysis. They then give a report to the team on whether the activities were successful, and a group of scientists decide what to do next based on what they see and how much time is available on the rover the next day. After they recommend these activities, another team builds the software commands needed to turn the mast a certain direction, fire the laser, or take pictures.
The information being radioed to and from Curiosity is most often relayed by two satellites that fly over Gale Crater at heights of 160 to 250 miles, eliminating the need for the rover to spend extra energy sending a signal all the way to earth. This system also allows scientists to communicate more frequently with their machines, rather than having to wait for a direct line.
"On our team, there are 40 people; 20 U.S., 20 French, half of them engineers, half scientists. A few of us have overall responsibilities," Roger says. "My job is to oversee the project and make sure everyone is getting along well. Relations have been fabulous so far, although sometimes I have to send people home so they don't get sick or desert their families…"
Roger chuckles, but it has been taxing. "I spend about two thirds of my time at JPL. It's pretty much go, go, go, right now. Because of the extra 40 minutes Mars takes to rotate, shifts have been occurring later and later in the day. I eat, sleep, call home, work—well, I hate to call it work—I explore…"
After they've been together for three months at JPL, the bi-national ChemCam team will go back to operating from two different stations, one in France, one in New Mexico.
Overall, Roger says he is pleasantly surprised that the Curiosity mission has worked out so well—from a tremulous yet well executed landing to some fascinating early days. "I was working on another mission to Mars that crashed, the Genesis mission, and the difference is night and day," says Roger.
In closing, I asked Roger whether he had any thoughts or reflections that might especially resonate with the members of the ASA and CiS.
Roger paused for a moment, then said, "You know, working on this planet, you really start to place yourself into the 'eyes and ears,' so to speak, of the rover, itself. On Mars, a planet that's empty of life—no plants, no animals, no humans—a place that's completely uninhabited… Well, that's a strange feeling. The sun rises and sets on a roughly 24-hour schedule, and there's wind blowing—and yet, there's nobody there. It's really a strange feeling to realize in this way how special our earth really is."


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'Natural' products adulterated with banned ingredients
Weight-loss pill, Figure Up, which contained banned ingredients. PHOTO: HEALTH SCIENCE AUTHORITY
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A 23-year-old woman made close to $18,000 in profit in just six months by selling a weight-loss pill called Figure Up for $40 a bottle.
It was touted to be "100 per cent natural" but it was adulterated with undeclared ingredients sibutramine and diclofenac.
Sibutramine has been banned as it can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, while diclofenac is a potent painkiller that may cause serious gastric bleeding, heart attacks and strokes when used for a prolonged period.
The self-employed woman was convicted in September last year and fined $9,000.
Another peddler, a 41-year-old system administrator, sold the Nutri Drops Grapefruit Diet, which claims to work in "seven miracle ways" to increase metabolism and burn fats.
Quick fix for weight woes online? Don't buy it
The woman took it herself at first and decided to buy it in bulk to sell online. She paid about $41 per bottle and sold it for $65.
Kidney failure, hallucinations after taking pills bought online
Within five months, she sold more than 100 bottles and made an estimated $3,000 profit.
It was labelled as containing only natural ingredients, such as grapefruit, green tea and pomegranate but it had undeclared potent ingredients, such as sibutramine and phenolphthalein. Phenolphthalein can cause abdominal cramps, breathing difficulties and kidney disorders.
One of her clients, an 18- year-old student who wanted to be known only as Amanda, suffered hallucinations after taking Nutri Drops. She weighed over 80kg and wanted to shed the pounds.
She found Nutri Drops through the online marketplace, Carousell, and was thrilled when she lost about 10kg in a month. She was onto her second bottle when things got out of hand.
Her mother said: "She had mood swings, started talking to herself and said she heard voices."
Amanda had to be hospitalised but has since recovered after she stopped taking the pills.
She warned: "Don't take these pills as you are risking your life."
The peddler was fined $7,000 last December.
Theresa Tan
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Former News Journal staffer Dyson writes fourth book
Mark Caudill
MANSFIELD - Rachel Anne Maddon is about to become a big movie star.
Neither she — nor her studio — can afford a scandal.
But that's what they get when her mentor and lover, a man old enough to be her father, turns up dead.
That's the plot in "The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers," the latest book from longtime News Journal staffer Ray Dyson.
The book is a sequel to last year's "The Ice Cream Blonde," a murder mystery set in 1930s Hollywood. Dyson's newest work again features protagonist Neil Brand.
Brand, the studio's security chief, uncovers a blackmail scheme over illicit sex films that threatens other major movie stars.
"He's not looking for the killer; he's trying to protect the studio," Dyson said. "He doesn't even want to be involved in this one. (But) he just gets deeper and deeper into it."
For Brand's second adventure, Dyson moved the action up three years. Early in the story, Brand gets married. Both his job and his friendships change.
"I try to advance him, too, rather than just have him be a cardboard character," Dyson said. "There's a big change in his life about halfway through the book."
Dyson researched the 1930s, along with Los Angeles politics and police during that era to make his story fit the period.
He discovered some interesting information about police work back then.
"They were a whole lot different than they are today. They had a lot more freedom," Dyson said. "This was before Miranda (rights). They could rough people up. A lot of cops in those days were just tough guys."
Dyson worked in a variety of roles during his 38 years at the News Journal. He retired in 2009.
These days, Dyson spends his summers golfing and his winters writing. He hopes "The Naked Nymph in the Dark Flickers" does as well as "The Ice Cream Blonde," which his publisher nominated for best first mystery novel.
The early reviews are promising.
"The book is well-written, the plot strong with plenty of twists and turns," reviewer Taylor Jones wrote.
Regan Murphy, another reviewer, added, "Dyson has crafted a tale that takes you back in time to the era of noir and black-and-white movies, when the Hollywood elite were in a class of their own and could get away with murder — literally."
Dyson's latest is published by Black Opal Books. It is available through the publisher or through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
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Crossing A Line
Stacy Gittleman
Emory Douglas showed this slide of his work during an Oct. 4 Stamps Speaker Series lecture from the U-M School of Art & Design.
Artist's lecture features slide of his work equating Netanyahu with Hitler.
Above: Emory Douglas showed this slide of his work during an Oct. 4 Stamps Speaker Series lecture from the U-M School of Art & Design.
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Emory Douglas, a California graphic artist and former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, drew the ire of University of Michigan students, parents, alumni and Jewish community members when, as a guest lecturer Oct. 4 at a Penny Stamps School of Art & Design program, he presented a slide of one of his artworks comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
The image labeled both men "guilty of genocide" and gave the definition of genocide at the bottom of the artwork.
Douglas' lecture, "Designing Justice," also included two pro-Palestinian, pro-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) pieces and his depictions of oppressed people around the world. Slides also showed satiric images of Henry Kissinger, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and others accused the U.S. of genocide for perpetuating war in the Mideast and blamed the U.S. for advancing diseases like sickle cell anemia.
The artist showed a brief film about his life, then presented his 200 or so slides with little context or commentary, other than reading the text in his art.
The lecture at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor was free and open to the public. The lecture series is a one-credit mandatory course requirement for Stamps students. They must attend all 11 lectures; if they miss more than two, they fail.
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Stamps senior Alexa Smith of Livingston, N.J., attended the lecture and then posted the offending slides on social media.
Smith, a graphic design student who has created her own works focusing on promoting social justice, said she is no stranger to the controversial nature of art when used in politics. She knew the political and radical nature of Douglas' work and knew he had created a pro-Palestinian mural in favor of the BDS movement in Oakland, Calif.
But she said his poster juxtaposing Adolf Hitler with Benjamin Netanyahu with the definition of genocide underneath crossed a line for her.
"That was no longer about boycotting Israel," said Smith, who is active in pro-Israel activities on campus and designed the logo for the campus pro-Israel group WolvPAC. "It was a complete attack against Jewish students and it made me sick to my stomach that he equated the atrocities of the Holocaust to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. When things like this become the norm, it makes Jewish and pro-Israel students feel they don't have a big voice on campus."
Smith said her frustration was compounded because two years ago the Stamps series invited graphic novelist Joe Sacco to speak. In his novels Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco did not draw faces of Israeli soldiers because, he said, it would humanize them.
After Sacco's lecture, Smith went to the Stamps administration asking to invite Artists 4 Israel, a group that uses art to treat Israelis traumatized by war. She said this suggestion went ignored.
U-M spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said the Stamps speaker series is intentionally provocative.
"(Douglas) presented and discussed a wide array of topics, much focused on the oppression of people across the globe by governmental powers," Fitzgerald said. "The university understands how people may react differently to different speakers and disagreeing with controversial speakers is part of the learning process. Pertaining to its lecture series, Penny Stamps clearly states on its website that discovering what you do not agree with will help you find your voice as much or more perhaps than the things you find resonance with."
On Monday, U-M Hillel leaders sent a letter to students and parents concerning this incident, noting it comes just weeks after a professor refused to provide a student with a recommendation letter to study abroad at an Israeli institution.
"We at Michigan Hillel share your concern that this image denigrated the memory of those killed in the Holocaust by suggesting a false equivalence to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today," the letter stated. It went on to say Hillel staff and students have been communicating with U-M top administrators, expressing concerns about these incidents and "the broader concern of professors and lecturers inserting anti-Israel politics into the classroom or their actions without regard to the impact on the student."
"We have suggested avenues and resources for more training and understanding around modern-day anti-Semitism and have offered steps to ensure a more inclusive classroom atmosphere," the letter stated. "We were pleased to hear the university leadership's repeated rejection of BDS, including the specific boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Based on our conversations, we are confident the university is taking these issues very seriously."
Carolyn Normandin, Michigan director of the Anti-Defamation League, said since the Emory Douglas lecture, ADL has been in close contact with Michigan Hillel and with U-M administrators.
"Any time a person equates Israeli leadership to Hitler, it crosses a line from criticizing Israel into anti-Semitism," she said. "It is one thing to criticize Israeli policy, as any country's policy should be criticized in an open and free society … but no Jewish student in a required lecture should feel so blindsided."
On Monday, news media in Israel reported that Israeli Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett sent a letter to U-M President Mark Schlissel voicing strong condemnation of the comparison between Hitler and Netanyahu, which, he, says breached the accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
Bennett cited the recent U-M study abroad recommendation letter refusal and writes: "The time has come for you as head of the university to take a strong stand against what has clearly become a trend of vitriolic hatred against the Jewish state on your campus."
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Joseph Zaffern 10/10/2018 12:32 PM at 12:32 pm
It is time for Jews to stop funding the University of Michigan. And for all the leftist Jews who think this is anti-Zionism and not anti-semitism, send your kid to campus wearing a kippah. If you are afraid to do that than you are willfully ignorant and merely useful fools.
Ivan Drak 10/18/2018 3:08 PM at 3:08 pm
This lecture was misinterpreted and the slide was misread. In order to criticize Emory Douglas's work it is important to understand the process behind his artistic practice. Douglas presented unabashed criticism of many world leaders, not on the basis of race but on the basis of humanitarian practices. It's important to understand the social context surround the lecture as well as the black panther movement which inspired the works in question. Before dishing out biased criticism fully understand your subject.
This quote form the Washington post is relevant to this present situation.
"Despite what some pro-Israel organizations would have us believe, not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. Like all countries, Israel has a duty to uphold international human rights laws and to protect the rights of those living under its control. One may protest the use of live fire on unarmed protesters, the closure of the Gaza border and the subsequent humanitarian crisis, the military occupation of the Palestinian territories, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attacks on democracy and incitement against human rights leaders without invoking anti-Semitic tropes. Such policies would be wrong in any country, whether carried out by Jews or other people."
I can attest that this piece draws a fine line between criticism and anti-Semitism. However I would argue that it falls on the side of criticism. Intent must be considered. What was the artist intending to say? Develop an intellectual response to the art in question before you respond in a reactionary manner.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-to-tell-when-criticism-of-israel-is-actually-anti-semitism/2018/05/17/cb58bf10-59eb-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bc69978b46ef
Jasmine Kay 11/28/2018 11:44 PM at 11:44 pm
It's misleading to say that he blamed the US government for diseases "like sickle cell anemia." He ALSO blamed the US goverbment for AIDS and syphilis, which are uh pretty different for sickle cell anemia. I'm not going to go into his arguments here. Either way, the statement you made is misleading and that's just one small part of your article. Makes me question the article as a whole a bit more because if such an I consequential statement is misleading, what else is?


Authors can design interactivity into a scene that responds to user actions.
A scene can sense when the viewer's cursor is over a shape, has touched a shape, or is dragging atop a shape. A scene can also trigger animations on a viewer's touch, enabling the viewer to move and rotate shapes. There are four main action sensor types: TouchSensor senses touch, SphereSensor senses drags in a spherical way, CylinderSensor senses drags cylindrically, and PlaneSensor senses drags around a plane.
Figure 09 1 Spinning Cube Touch Sensor A cube that spins when the cursor moves over it. Also see Figure 9.2 for comparison.
Figure 09 1 Spinning Cube Touch Sensor With Axes A cube that spins when the cursor moves over it, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions. Also see Figure 9.2 for comparison.
Figure 09 2 Spinning Cube Touch Sensor Clicked A cube that spins when the viewer touches it. Also see Figure 9.1 for comparison.
Figure 09 2 Spinning Cube Touch Sensor Clicked With Axes A cube that spins when the viewer touches it, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions. Also see Figure 9.1 for comparison.
Figure 09 3 Cone Plane Sensor A Cone that translates in the vertical XY plane when the viewer drags it. Also see Figure 9.4 for comparison.
Figure 09 3 Cone Plane Sensor With Axes A Cone that translates in the vertical XY plane when the viewer drags it, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions. Also see Figure 9.4 for comparison.
Figure 09 4 Cone Plane Sensor Constrained A cone that translates within a limited range of the XZ plane when the viewer drags it. Also see Figure 9.3 for comparison.
Figure 09 4 Cone Plane Sensor Constrained With Axes A cone that translates within a limited range of the XZ plane when the viewer drags it, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions. Also see Figure 9.3 for comparison.
Figure 09 5 Four Stacking Blocks Four stacking blocks, select and drag to see each of them.
Figure 09 5 Four Stacking Blocks With Axes Four stacking blocks, select and drag to see each of them. Coordinate axes are superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 6 Sphere Sensor Two shapes that rotate when the viewer drags them, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 6 Sphere Sensor With Axes Two shapes that rotate when the viewer drags them, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 7 Cylinder Sensor Two shapes that rotate about an axis when the viewer drags them, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 7 Cylinder Sensor With Axes Two shapes that rotate about an axis when the viewer drags them, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 8 Click Drag Touch Sensor Plane Sensor Two shapes that rotate about an axis when the viewer drags them, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 8 Click Drag Touch Sensor Plane Sensor With Axes A cube that spins when the cursor moves over it and translates when the cursor drags it, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.
Figure 09 9 Desk Lamp A desk lamp with arm angles that can be adjusted using nested sensors.
Figure 09 9 Desk Lamp With Axes A desk lamp with arm angles that can be adjusted using nested sensors, with coordinate axes superimposed to show X3D/VRML directions.


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'Need for greater focus on fish and legumes in food at day-care institutions': Danish study
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30-Aug-2019 - Last updated on 30-Aug-2019 at 10:47 GMT
A government-commissioned study has investigated whether Danish daycare centres are complying with official nutrition recommendations ©GettyImages/FamVeld
A study commissioned by Denmark's food administration has found that nutrient-rich protein sources such as fish, legumes and eggs should be served more frequently in day-care institutions.
In Denmark, the term 'day-care' covers nurseries (children aged 0-3 years), pre-schools (3-6 years) and integrated institutions (0-6 years). While not all day-cares serve meals to children, when they do, they are required to be 'healthy'.
To help kitchen staff and nursery teachers better understand what 'healthy' means for these age groups, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration published a Guide to healthier food in the day-care institution in September last year.
So how inline are Denmark's day-care centres with these nutritional guidelines? The administration tasked the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) to investigate.
The resulting study (available here in Danish) was conducted as a cross-sectional survey examining 1,053 day-care institutions in Denmark.
Lunch tops breakfast
According to the findings, the food administration's guidelines were best implemented for lunch and drinks at day-care centres.
"Overall, the survey finds that about 40% of the guidelines are well implemented in Danish day-care institutions with an in-house food supply for at least one meal a day. This means that at least three out of four day-care institutions are meeting the guidelines," Lene M. Christensen, academic officer at the National Food Institute at DTU, told FoodNavigator.
"The best implementation is seen for the guidelines of beverages and lunch meals, where 70% and 60% of the guidelines respectively are well implemented."
These meals outperformed breakfast and snacks: the research revealed that less than half of the food agency's guidelines were adopted by three out of four centres.
DTU stressed, however, that the Danish food administration made health guidelines available for lunches almost 10 years earlier, in 2009, meaning that centres have had time to implement change. Recommendations for breakfast and snacks came in just last year.
Push for more legumes and eggs
The researchers reported that day-care centres are 'diligent' in serving wholegrain products for breakfast and lunch meals. Further, the institutions appeared to have strong focus on reducing the intake of salt and sugar, particularly for the youngest children.
A higher degree of compliance could be achieved, Christensen wrote in the report, if "more day-care institutions use oils and fat spreads – where the main source of fat is vegetable oil – as an alternative to hard fats such as butter, coconut oil and high fat dairy products".
Increased fruit and vegetable intake could also be encouraged, Christensen continued. "Some day-care institutions need to pay attention to the amount of fruit and vegetables, in order to serve at least one-third vegetables and/or fruit in each lunch meal."
With regards to animal-based protein, meats were regularly offered at lunchtime. Yet fish was offered in hot dishes less frequently. Just 60% of day-care centres offered fish as a hot meal at least once a week.
Overall, a majority (81%) of day-care centres meet the agency's recommendations of offering meat, fish, eggs or legumes at least four out of five days.
However, the researchers noted that some institutions offered porridge, soup, or vegetarian dishes without legumes or eggs for lunch too frequently. There is a risk that children will not be satisfied, nor consume enough nutrients, on these days, suggested the DTU.
As a result, the researchers have advised day-care centres to increase the number of servings of fish, legumes, and/or eggs per week. "This is particularly true for day-care centres that offer a diet with less meat," they noted.
A similar issue was observed in the afternoon meals. Denmark recommends that fish or meat, or fish and legumes, be served at least once a week, however just 26% of pre-schools and 45% of nurseries appeared to comply.
"A piece of fruit and bread without fat or cold cuts cannot satisfy your hunger long enough," the researchers noted.
What do these findings mean for policymakers? "By monitoring the compliance to the guidelines the policymakers can learn how to target future efforts aimed at promoting healthy diets in day-care institutions and among pre-schoolers in general," we were told.
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You Got Lymphedema? Now What?
If you are newly diagnosed with lymphoedema – whether primary or secondary – you surely have many questions and concerns about it now. I am a primary lymphoedema patient of 24 years and based on my experience these are my top 3 tips for you.
1) Become a member of a national patient association.
They work to inform the patients, so they can make better choices when it comes to managing the condition. You stay up to date with new research and initiatives which can benefit you. They can advise you on your rights as a patient and give you direction in the pathway. They represent you and work to change local and national policies to ensure lymphoedema is part of health care budgets. They are your voice when guidelines are written on the proper management of your condition. They create awareness with doctors and nurses, so they are better equipped at recognising the condition. Subsequently they might even provide educational tools for clinicians. They might organise educational events and meetings where you can connect with other patients.
2) Join at least one online patient community such as a Facebook group, patient forum or create a profile on Instagram.
Nobody can understand you like another patient with lymphoedema. Finding and connecting with likeminded patients can give you a great sense of relief. You are not alone. As a community we share information and advice, allow venting and frustrations, lend a shoulder to cry on, cheer the successes no matter if it is about finding a pair of shoes that fit or starting bandaging sessions to reduce the oedema. We all know how life can be with lymphoedema and online communities gives you access to support 24/7.
3) Learn to understand your lymphoedema.
ALL patients are different, and our lymphoedema responds differently. We all have a list of things that works well and things that works against us. This can be what food you eat, the compression garments you wear, what kind of exercise you can do or how much stress you can tolerate. You need to compile your own list. And be prepared to adjust as your needs will change during the seasons, depending on your work and life situation and as time passes. Lymphoedema is never stagnant. Every day is a new day, but the golden treatment always includes; compression, exercise, skin care and manual lymphatic drainage.
You can find me on Instagram @the_lympha for more tips and inspiration on how to live your life with lymphedema.
Hai il linfedema? Allora che cosa?
Se ti è stato diagnosticato con linfedema – primario o secondario – hai sicuramente molte domande e preoccupazioni al riguardo. Sono una paziente di linfedema primario di 24 anni e in base alla mia esperienza questi sono i miei 3 migliori consigli per te.
1) Diventa membro di un'associazione nazionale di pazienti.
Lavorano per informare i pazienti, in modo che possano fare scelte migliori quando si tratta di gestire la condizione. Rimani aggiornato con nuove ricerche e iniziative che possono aiutarti. Possono consigliarti sui tuoi diritti come paziente e darti una direzione nel percorso. Ti rappresentano e lavorano per cambiare le politiche locali e nazionali per garantire che il linfedema faccia parte dei budget sanitari. Sono la tua voce quando le linee guida sono scritte sulla corretta gestione della tua condizione. Creano consapevolezza con medici e infermieri, quindi sono meglio equipaggiati nel riconoscere la condizione. Successivamente potrebbero anche fornire strumenti educativi per i medici. Potrebbero organizzare eventi educativi e riunioni in cui è possibile connettersi con altri pazienti.
2) Unisciti ad almeno una comunità di pazienti online come un gruppo Facebook, un forum paziente o crea un profilo su Instagram.
Nessuno può capirti come un altro paziente con linfedema. Trovare e connettersi con i pazienti con problemi simili può darti un grande senso di sollievo. Non sei solo. Come comunità condividiamo informazioni e consigli, permettiamo lo sfogo e le frustrazioni, prestiamo una spalla per piangere, rallegriamo i successi, non importa se si tratta di trovare un paio di scarpe che si adattano o iniziano sessioni di bendaggio per ridurre l'edema. Sappiamo tutti come può essere la vita con il linfedema e le comunità online ti dà accesso al supporto 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7.
3) Impara a comprendere il tuo linfedema.
TUTTI i pazienti sono diversi e il nostro linfedema risponde in modo diverso. Abbiamo tutti una lista di cose che funzionano bene e cose che funzionano contro di noi. Questo può essere il cibo che mangi, i capi di compressione che indossi, che tipo di esercizio puoi fare o quanto stress puoi sopportare. Hai bisogno di compilare la tua lista. E sii pronto ad adattarti man mano che le tue esigenze cambiano durante le stagioni, a seconda del tuo lavoro e della tua situazione di vita e col passare del tempo. Il linfedema non è mai stagnante. Ogni giorno è un nuovo giorno, ma il trattamento d'oro include sempre; compressione, esercizio fisico, cura della pelle e drenaggio linfatico manuale.
Puoi trovarmi su Instagram @the_lympha per ulteriori suggerimenti e ispirazione su come vivere la tua vita con il linfedema.
Har du lymfødem? Hvad nu?
Hvis du for nyligt er blevet diagnosticeret med lymfødem – enten primær eller sekundær – har du måske mange spørgsmål og bekymringer om det nu. Jeg er en patient med primær lymfødem og baseret på min 24 års erfaring er disse mine top 3 tips til dig.
1) Bliv medlem af en national patientforening.
De arbejder for at informere patienterne, så de kan træffe bedre valg, når det gælder om at håndtere deres tilstand. De holder dig opdateret med nye undersøgelser og initiativer, som kan gavne dig. De kan rådgive dig om dine rettigheder som patient og vise dig vejen for hvem indenfor sundhedssystemet der kan hjælpe dig. De repræsenterer dig og arbejder for at ændre lokale og nationale politikker for at sikre lymfødem behandling er en del af sundhedsbudgetterne. De er din stemme, når de kliniske retningslinjer bliver skrevet. De skaber bevidsthed hos læger og sygeplejersker, så de er bedre rustede til at konstatere lymfødem. Efterfølgende kan de endda tilbyde undervisningsværktøjer til sundhedspersonalet. De kan organisere uddannelsesarrangementer og møder, hvor du kan knytte dig til andre patienter.
2) Tilmeld dig mindst et online patientfællesskab som f.eks. Facebook-gruppe, patientforum eller opret en profil på Instagram.
Ingen kan forstå dig som en medpatient. At finde og knytte sig til ligesindede patienter kan føles meget befriende. Du er ikke alene. Som et fællesskab deler vi information og rådgivning, tillader frustrationer, låner en skulder til at græde på, glæder os over succeserne, uanset om det handler om at finde et par sko, der passer eller at begynde med bandagering hos fysioterapeuten. Vi ved alle, hvordan livet kan være med lymfødem og onlinemiljøer giver dig adgang til support 24/7.
3) Lær at forstå dit lymfødem.
ALLE patienter er forskellige, og vores lymfødem reagerer anderledes. Vi har alle en liste over ting der virker godt og ting, der arbejder imod os. Dette kan være hvad mad du spiser, de kompressionsstrømper du bruger, hvilken sport du kan tåle, eller hvor meget stress du kan tolerere. Du skal lave din egen liste. Og vær forberedt på at tilpasse efterhånden som dine behov vil ændre sig i løbet af årstiderne, afhængigt af dit arbejde og livssituation, og som tiden går. Lymfødem er aldrig stillestående. Hver dag er en ny dag, men "golden standard" omfatter altid; kompression, motion, hudpleje og manuel lymfedræning.
Du kan finde mig på Instagram @ the_lympha for flere tips og inspiration om hvordan du kan leve dit liv med lymfødem.


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