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WIVENHOE TOWN started the weekend in style with a crucial Thurlow Nunn League victory.
The Dragons notched a 1-0 win against Hadleigh United, at the GMP Plant Hire Stadium on Friday night.
The stakes were high, with both sides in the bottom half-dozen sides at the foot of the premier division table.
But Lewis Haughton's second-half strike – finishing coolly after getting behind the visitors' defence – proved all-important for the Dragons.
It was only their second win in a dozen games so far and their first clean sheet of the season.
Wivenhoe are third from bottom in the table but will hope to put more points on the board when they entertain Ipswich Wanderers on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, there was another important game on Friday night as in-form BRANTHAM ATHLETIC made it six straight wins, defeating Ipswich Wanderers 1-0.
Ben Newson tapped home their winner after Craig Hughes' corner was flicked on by Michael Murray.
Brantham are fourth in the table while COGGESHALL TOWN are third, following a 1-1 draw at Kirkley and Pakefield.
The hosts went ahead early in the second half but an own goal secured a share of the spoils for the Seedgrowers.
STANWAY ROVERS also pocketed a point from their 1-1 draw at Haverhill Rovers.
Toby Blanche put them ahead but the hosts were on level terms before the break.
Kem Izzet's side have a home date with Saffron Walden Town on Tuesday.
FC CLACTON are now unbeaten in six league games after beating basement boys Fakenham Town 1-0, at the Rush Green Bowl.
Terry Rymer notched their all-important winner, early in the second half.
Kevin Coyle had a free-kick and then a follow-up shot blocked but the ball deflected to striker Rymer, who coolly tucked his shot inside the right-hand post.
Clacton go to Coggeshall on Friday.
In division one, there was a county derby at BRAINTREE TOWN RESERVES as they welcomed HOLLAND FC.
And it was the hosts who were left celebrating after a 2-1 victory.
Holland also had two players sent off, following red cards for Tom Holdstock and Chris Ribchester.
Jimmy Shuttlewood scored the consolation goal for Ray Turner and Rob Batten's side.
HALSTEAD TOWN lost 1-0 at home to Debenham LC, with the only goal coming in the 89th minute.
Adam Hampson and Jordan Pavett both saw red for the Humbugs.
LITTLE OAKLEY were without a fixture on Saturday but return to action at home to Cornard United on Tuesday.


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Editor's Note: Welcome to Medical Economics' blog section which features contributions from members of the medical community. These blogs are an opportunity for bloggers to engage with readers about a topic that is top of mind, whether it is practice management, experiences with patients, the industry, medicine in general, or healthcare reform.
I had an interesting experience recently from two Yelp reviewers. One person gave me a one-star review because she got a bruise after Botox/Xeomin injection to reduce wrinkles in the forehead. Another left a one-star review because she was unhappy with her breast lift to correct very saggy (ptotic) breasts after massive weight loss.
Obviously if I'm using these examples, then I believe they were unfair complaints. In the first example, a bruise is a very normal potential outcome after an injection. Luckily, they're temporary. And in the second example, the patient's results were so amazing we would have posted a before and after photo online if she would have allowed. Clearly there were other issues at play in the second example. Some issues can't be fixed with cosmetic surgery and I should have identified those issues before the operation. So that's on me. But to be clear, we make patients happy every day and within the Yelp realm, we still have 4.5 stars out of 5 from more than 50 patient reviews.
So what's my point? It's not simply that the customer is not always right. These two reviewers actually revealed an interesting thought process, in statistical and psychological terms, known as a confirmation bias.


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The New Black of Business
BKindred Founder Penny Locaso shares her thoughts on the "human age" of business
It was November 2014 and I was sitting on the barstool, peering out the window of Kinfolk Café onto the bustle that is Bourke St, Melbourne. Waiting over the scent of my almond milk flat white, to meet a person that would fundamentally challenge my belief system on conventional business models and introduce me to a world where business was motivated by purpose and it's ability to positively impact the lives of others.
That person was Carolyn Tate, an unknown kindred spirit who had agreed to share an hour of her life with a random stranger. A random stranger in career limbo, adequately labeled a corporate refugee some months later.
We sat at that bench like old friends reunited and shared stories of frustration with a business world that appeared to have lost its way, with a drive for dollars over community prosperity. We spoke of the rise of the corporate refugee, a growing trend of well educated, talented professionals who were disenfranchised with their career choice, felt their values were compromised and challenging that there had to be a more meaningful way to make a living.
That conversation led me on a journey that crossed suburbs and states, connecting with small business owners who appeared to have found the holy grail of business, one would recommend another and the chain appeared endless. These business owners were highly motivated, extremely passionate and driven by wanting to have a positive impact through their business idea, they tended to work to together to elevate each other as apposed to compete and most interestingly they were not aspiring for the scale of google. They were business people, not charities, they just weaved the idea of purpose being the driver of business direction and consciousness into what they were creating.
From Meneka Premkumar at The Common Good Store in Kew to Jamie Green all the way up in Byron working on One Night Stand Sleepwear to Ruby Marsh who was working at Lulu Lemon whilst creating A Conscious Beauty, I was inspired, engaged and learning about business in a way I had never envisaged possible.
That's why this month our BKindred theme is BConscious, we want to give kudos to a new age in business "The Human Age" according to Carolyn Tate. There is so much for us to learn from these fish swimming against the school. It's early days but the rule breakers we spoke to are on the cusp of what is fast becoming the new black in business. The new black is business that is driven by purpose and focuses on prosperity for all stakeholders as apposed to one.
I challenge you to get curious about conscious business you may find your passion for work reignited.


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Why Corporations Need to Pay Attention to #BlackLivesMatter
(This article was originally published in Huffington Post Black Voices)
As outrage over young, unarmed black men being shot by law-enforcement officers fuels marches in America's streets from coast to coast, there's an awkward silence among corporate-diversity champions on how best to engage on the issue.
The discomfort is understandable. While corporations can have social impact when they choose to, they have very rarely been at the vanguard of social-change movements and, by definition, must act according to self-interest, considering what is best for their brand and place in the market. Given this, the bar is set very high on when company leaders feel they can and should weigh in on polarizing topics without risking a hit to their bottom line.
So yes, General Mills, with its family-friendly brand, chose to recast Betty Crocker's highly traditional father/mother nuclear family in the vein of Modern Family/Black'ish/Cristela. Starbucks stood up for LGBT rights in the state of Washington. Many companies are making glass-ceiling-shattering decisions when it comes to who leads them (#IBMGinniRometty, #YahooMarissaMayer).
But when it comes to race, and especially when it comes to violence on the streets, the terrain gets so much more complicated when it comes to how corporate decision makers feel they can and should respond.
In conducting my diversity and inclusion consulting work in corporate C-suites this past year, I have experienced a growing cognitive dissonance between what are genuine commitments on the part of leaders to achieve more diverse and inclusive workplaces on the one hand and, on the other, a near complete avoidance of reflecting on the implications of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin on their work.
Sure, it can feel like a leap to many. But here's where we need to make the link. While some may say that the issues between the police and low-income urban youth are too far removed from the corporate dynamics facing college-educated professionals of color, scratch the surface and there are significantly more psychosocial links than meet the eye.
In saying there are links, I am not saying these are parallel situations. The dynamics of law enforcement, public safety, and incarceration disparities have a life of their own that don't show up in corporations. But the realities of unconscious and conscious bias that lead to racial profiling and racial marginalization, which manifest in very different ways on the street, have a way of showing up under different guises in the corporation.
Take a moment and reflect.
The black male executives or high-potential talents swiping their ID card as they start their work day have just come in from a real world outside where they have a significantly greater chance of having been stopped by a police officer on their way to work, either driving or walking, than their white counterparts.
Check out these statistics about how real this kind of racial profiling is, and then ask yourself how much this may be weighing on the minds of Black and Latino employees. As reported by the ACLU in 2013, around 525,000 New York residents were stopped and questioned by police. Of those, 56 percent were Black and 29 percent were Latinos, though Blacks and Latinos collectively make up just over than 51 percent of New York City's total population. Eighty-eight percent were found to be innocent.
It does not take a great leap of logic to consider that the level of paranoia this may induce on the street is likely to show up in some ways at work. I saw this firsthand when I was the chief diversity officer at a global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm headquartered in a white neighborhood. African Americans were indeed pulled over not infrequently as they were just trying to get to work. They were also more fearful of leaving after dark, therefore often showing less willingness to stay longer to finish a job.
And beyond fearing being stopped for driving or walking while Black, there are the too-many-to-name instances where a highly accomplished professional gets given the keys by a driver at valet parking, or gets asked for the aisle number for the paprika, or gets tapped for a glass of wine at a reception. Just ask President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, who shared with People that even they have not been spared from this type of indignity.
Back to the workplace. Even with the consistently dropping unemployment rate, there is a persistent discrepancy between the unemployment rates for various racial groups in the U.S. In November 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for whites and Asians was 4.9 percent, while the Latino rate was 6.6 percent, and for Blacks the rate is 11 percent.
And for those who are employed, the prospects of leadership promotions are dismal. According to DiversityInc magazine and the Alliance for Board Diversity, in the Fortune 500 only 1.2 percent of CEOs and 6.3 percent of board directors are Black. The representation of Asians and Latinos among Fortune 500 CEOs is no better, at 1.8 percent and 2 percent, respectively, and board membership has been reported at just over 2 and 3 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, out in broader society, compared with whites, Blacks and Latinos experience disparate results in health care, long-term savings, and educational achievement and face greater obstacles to being able to vote easily and suffer greater discrimination in housing and bank financing.
What does it mean to say that race still matters? It means that race has an influence on individual outcomes. From the moment a person is born in America, his or her race matters. Race matters at birth, and it matters at death. Race matters in the food we eat and in our health. Race matters in education and in justice. Race matters in politics; it matters in housing. Race matters in employment; it matters in wealth. Race matters in the U.S.A. from cradle to grave.
If we declare that we value diversity and inclusion in our corporations, then we must face this moment-of-truth question: Today, as protestors step into the streets, football fields, and basketball courts declaring that #BlackLivesMatter, are we ready to do the necessary soul searching and organizational changes to bend the narrative that race still matters in the workplace?
Globalization's Good News for the U.S. Workforce
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There's good news on the globalization front for America's diverse talent. Increasing numbers of corporations are bringing jobs back to U.S. shores as Asian and European companies open up more plants here. Taking advantage of this good news represents challenges and opportunities for diversity and inclusion professionals. Are our workers and students of color ready for these jobs? Can CDOs step to the forefront of tying diversity to bringing jobs back home? Read more in the November/December 2013 issue of Diversity Executive Magazine.
Diversity and the Rise of America's Second-Tier Cities
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In my work as president of Diversity Best Practices, I travel around the country a lot—meeting with members, consulting, giving speeches. While my engagements often take me to the usual big cities—New York City; Boston; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco—increasingly my work is pulling me to second-tier towns. Like most people, I had preconceived ideas about our country's smaller cities—slower paced, homogeneous, lacking in resources and amenities. To my surprise, there is a fervent movement around diversity and inclusion in these secondary cities that I believe is evolving into a national trend.
From Pittsburgh to Columbus to Omaha to Grand Rapids to Milwaukee to Indianapolis to Minneapolis, cities that people have typically assumed lack diversity are more diverse than people think. In fact, the percentage of racial minorities in Pittsburgh; Columbus, Ohio; and Milwaukee surpasses that of New York City. And Grand Rapids and Milwaukee come close to rivaling the Big Apple in terms of the percentage of Latinos.
What's more, because many of these cities are experiencing economic growth the imperative of diversity is growing right along with their rising economic indicators. Omaha has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, Columbus one of the fastest economic growth rates, and Pittsburgh is the poster child of a city making the pivot from an industrial economy based on steel to the new economy of finance, healthcare, and technology.
In their growing dynamism, companies in these second tier cities are awakening to a realization that not only do they need to leverage the diverse talent pool already in the city; they need to bring in more talent from outside to keep their economic growth momentum. This means attracting more diversity—racial/ethnic, immigrant, LGBT—to cities that on first blush may not be seem to be magnets for big-city types from groups that historically may not have felt welcome.
It's this legacy perception that they lack the diversity and amenities found in major metropolitan areas that poses a fundamental challenge to these second-tier cities. If they don't overcome it, their economic growth may stall out due to lack of talent.
So companies in these markets are working together to get their diversity story out. I have been with passionate diversity leaders in Milwaukee, Columbus, Omaha, and Cincinnati, where they have banded together through city-wide diversity councils where big and medium-sized companies (even competing organizations) are addressing their common diversity challenges. They're also partnering with their local Chambers of Commerce and city development organizations to make their cities more attractive. Because when it comes to attractive city life its not just about seeking tolerance; it's also about finding a place to do my hair, find my spices, boogey to my music. So these diversity leaders are helping their cities with the following three-prong communications effort.
- Spread the word about the economic opportunities as the nation as whole struggles with a sluggish recovery. These cities are home for some of the largest companies in the nation, many of them in the FORTUNE 100. Mutual of Omaha, Union Pacific, and ConAgra in Omaha; Cardinal Health, Abercrombie & Fitch, Nationwide, Limited Brands, Huntington Bank in Columbus, Ohio; Fifth Third, Macy's, Procter & Gamble, Kroger in Cincinnati; 3M, Target, Cargill, Best Buy, General Mills in Minneapolis; PNC, Humana, US Steel, Heinz in Pittsburgh; MillerCoors, Manpower, Rockwell, and Harley Davidson, Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee. And then there's the largest employer in the world in the middle of Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart is so much of a force in its headquarter town that some of its vendors have set up large facilities in the southern town specifically to serve the big box retailer—supersizing the retailer's already outsized economic influence on the town.
- With economic strength comes the benefit of increased tax revenues. Increased revenues have fueled a civic renaissance providing residents and visitors alike with a very cosmopolitan experience. In Omaha's Market Square, the small-town quaintness of horse-drawn carriages meandering down cobblestone roads meets a metropolitan menu of sushi, Indian, French, and Latin fusion restaurants representing a savory selection of international cuisine typically reserved for the big city. Pittsburgh has transformed from a soot-producing steel town to a clean, landscaped happening urban hub. Cleveland's Historic Warehouse District with its potted flower lined sidewalk cafes is reminiscent of European scenes. Milwaukee's shuttered factories have been reborn as funky lofts for artists and restaurants and night clubs for hip professionals. Cincinnati's historic riverfront on the Ohio River offers a large urban park experience that can be topped off in the evening with a cabernet sauvignon and a prime rib cooked medium rare.
- Confront and cast off the legacy that these cities are not welcoming to racial and ethnic minorities and other underrepresented groups. A Cincinnati study found that despite the city's growing diversity, a majority of its residents feel that still more diversity is needed and that they still fall short of providing a truly inclusive and welcoming spirit to outsiders. Cincinnati's findings likely represent the feelings of those in many of our country's second-tier cities and these cities know their work is not done.
These systematic, city-wide approaches already in action are the key to achieving greater diversity in these smaller cities. The next step involves metropolitan-wide collaborations with local businesses—grocery stores, beauty salons, barbershops and more—in an effort to truly meet the needs for lifestyle amenities that potential residents seek when contemplating a new home. The effort is a win-win for all involved—these cities and their residents and the companies located there. For an influx of greater diversity will mean a growing population with needs for all kinds of mainstream and exotic goods and services.
This trend is still evolving. Keep your eyes open. There's an emerging diversity story here, in a second-tier city near you.
People of Color Feel Uncomfortable at Work
Many people of color feel that they can't share their true selves in the workplace. They lead dual lives – one at work and one everywhere else. This is happening even as business leaders say they value diversity and multicultural fluency. Check out the piece on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network that talks about the latest study by the Center for Talent Innovation. Let me know what you think.
Tattoo Barbie and the Power of Pop Culture
Pop culture has a way of both reinforcing traditional cultural mores and also of mainstreaming outlier messages and attitudes. And particularly in the era of diversity and inclusion, Barbie has unexpectantly played a cultural changing role in this way.
For more than 50 years, Barbie, that mainstream America icon has enchanted or annoyed girls and women of all ages. It could be that Barbie's pop culture stature has been a mirror of the ever changing mainstream society's views of what it means to be a young woman. After decades of traditional beauty queen obsessions with shopping and looking great, she started crossing gender role lines as an astronaut, a pilot, and a Nascar driver among 120 other occupations. As times changed, so have her friends who've become more multicultural: African American (Christie), Hispanic (Teresa) and Asian (Dana).
And now, to both the horror and delight of millions, we have Tattoo Barbie. The recently released tattoo Barbie is providing new fodder for debate. Women, both for and against tattoos, have weighed in on this latest Barbie version.
The negative comments surface on a cyclical basis every time Barbie pushes the envelope. Some concerns are about whether she contributes to young girls' and women's insecurities about their body image. Do her impossible body dimensions encourage eating disorders and low self-esteem? Is she an appropriate role model for what adults want girls to think and believe? So while Mattel blew it when a version of talking Barbie said, "Math class is tough" Tattoo Barbie is hip and tough while still maintaining that ability to connect with the mainstream. And that very ability to normalize the cultural edge is precisely where her power for influencing and changing cultural interpretations lies.
While many may still cringe at Barbie's materialism and impossible figure, Mattel has helped manstream diversity that has been scary or mysterious for many. She becomes a channel to try out new ways of being a girl and young woman. Now a group of Barbie fans is petitioning Mattel to create a bald Barbie. This is to help girls still feel pretty even though they've lost their hair because of chemotherapy treatments for cancer. The bald Barbie Facebook page has been "liked" by nearly 150,000 visitors as the momentum continues to grow.
Another group has taken a more do-it-yourself approach. African American women in Ohio have taken donated Barbies and restyled their hair to reflect a more natural hairstyle for black girls. Fro-lific, a Columbus, Ohio group of women committed to natural hair, admits that Mattel offers various African American versions of Barbie and her friends. Still, Fro-lific members maintain that most black Barbies have hair that seems more chemically straightened than a reflection of the typical texture of black girls' hair. They donated the "naturalized" Barbies to a local girls' organization during the Christmas holiday.
Whether sporting "tats," going bald, or naturally "tressed," whether she's a bride or a Nascar driver, Barbie can play a role in influencing a change in cultural attitudes toward difference.
Getting Minorities Outside and Into National Parks
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Although I grew up in Lima, Peru, my urban upbringing was tempered by frequent forays into the countryside–hiking in the Andes, traveling to the Amazon rainforest, and visiting my maternal grandparents in a rural area of Washington State. Being outside was a regular part of my childhood. But that's not true for too many minority youngsters and their families.
According to several studies, including a presentation by the National Park Service (NPS), visiting a national park is overwhelmingly a white family's experience. About 91% of national park visitors are white. Even when you look at all outdoor recreation, minority participation lags far behind–80% of all outdoor recreationists are white, according to the Outdoor Foundation. That situation hasn't changed much since the 1960s.
Yosemite Park Ranger Shelton Johnson, who is African American, has said numerous times that he is more likely to meet a visitor from Japan or France than an African American or Latino family in the park. Getting minorities into our national parks has become such a big deal that Oprah devoted a 2-part program to the subject, where she admitted to never having visited one before. Even the Obama family vacation to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon sparked national attention.
Black, Latino, Asian and Native American families just aren't going outdoors, let alone visiting a national park. The NPS, headed by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, has recognized this gap and, as it approaches its 100th birthday in 2016, is trying to do something about that situation.
Part of that effort was the 2009 partnership with noted historical documentarian Ken Burns and his 6-episode documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Check out a video preview here.
An offshoot of the documentary is the Untold Stories Project, where NPS stories focus on the contributions of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and American Indians to the park system. The Project seeks to engage under-represented minorities in the nation's National Parks. Here's one video about the project.
As with many diversity initiatives, a critical issue behind this push (aside from the NPS' legal and ethical mandate) is the realization that much of the future support for our national parks will fall to the same ethnic groups that are not visiting the parks today. If today's minority youth don't develop a connection to our national lands, it's likely they won't support the park system as adults.
Interestingly, some of the research behind this attendance gap delves into what discourages minority families from visiting the parks. Once the studies adjusted for socioeconomic factors, the main difference was…yes…culture. Those of us on the crosscultural front lines understand that what motivates, engages, and appeals to mainstream sensibilities may not hold similar attraction to families coming from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. For instance, where a white families may find the iconic view of the sun setting over the rim of the Grand Canyon appealing and engaging, Latino and African American families may prefer their nature forays to include a gathering of friends and relatives. Increasing diversity in our national parks–in attendance and employment–means more than just making them available and accessible. It means confronting the different experiences and expectations that all guests seek from these national treasures.
A you can see, the Inclusion Paradox, the power of constructively calling out differences, shows up in all aspects of society…even outdoors.
U.S. Women's Soccer: Not Quite America's Team
This article was published by the New America Media.
What a thrill. What pride. What a show of skill and prowess by the US women's national soccer team in the 2011 Women's World Cup even as they lost in penalty shots to Japan on Sunday.
Too bad that this fabulous squad does not yet quite look like America.
Wambach made magnificent header goals. Rapinoe great centers. Boxx streaking shots from outside the box. I cheered them along, as they deserved to be cheered, and relished their hard fought battle on behalf of a nation.
But my feelings were bittersweet. In a roster of 21 players, there are only two Latinas and no Blacks or Asians. In the team picture of bright, young, exuberant, and inspiring faces, the hues and shades of a multicultural America that is 30% racial/ethnic are quite limited.
There is something deeply amiss in the lack of diversity in both the women and men's national soccer teams. Not only because 1/3 of the nation is missing in their composition, but because when we look at the age range of those who play professionally the gap is even more striking: 40% of this age group are people of color.
Further, given soccer's popularity, particularly in the Latino community, this lack of diversity can't be excused. While it can be said legitimately about golf, tennis, and swimming that the pipeline of diverse talent in the game is significantly limited given low participation numbers by minority children at the entry point of the pipeline, the same cannot be said about this most populist of sports, futbol.
Yes, golf, tennis, and swimming must find ways to get more minorities involved, not only for the sake of these marginalized communities, but also for the sake of the vitality of these sports. By limiting the talent pool it draws from, is it any coincidence the US has not dominated in golf or tennis in the past decade? But soccer has a huge built-in advantage over these other sports even as the US Tennis Association (USTA) significantly steps up its efforts to introduce tennis to ten-year-old kids of color. But the massive numbers of female and male participants of color in soccer are getting bypassed by colleges, US Soccer teams, and pro-soccer farm systems.
As one looks at the player roster both in women and men's soccer, how is it that diversity, in this sport has been whitewashed?
When I played on the varsity soccer team at Northwestern University, I was the only Latino on the team — and a walk-on from South America and not a Hispanic American at that — and Floyd the only black. Granted, NU was not that diverse to begin with, but surely, in the soccer subculture there should have been some sort of over-indexing of diversity.
To increase the diversity of the US teams – not only to be truly America's team, but also to ensure that US teams remain competitive – an all-out diversity effort must be launched.
First, more minority children must be enrolled in the largest soccer youth programs around. When I coached my daughter's AYSO (American Youth Soccer Organization) girls' soccer team, the $100+ fees were out of reach for many working class Latino families. To Highland Park AYSO's credit, it began instituting a sliding scale fee funded by local individuals and companies. But while this upped participation some, the lack of relations between the white and Latino communities made it hard to spread the word about the program.
And even when more Latino youngsters did participate, coaches — many new to the sport of soccer themselves — did not know how to reconcile the differing expectations from Latino parents when practice schedules conflicted with work schedules at the family store or other business. And given standard "fairness" principles, the "no practice, no play" policy killed any nascent enthusiasm among working-class and immigrant kids and parents.
The barriers to entry in the more competitive youth travel soccer leagues are even higher given the $1000+ fees and far away road games that assume parents have cars and free weekends to schlep their cleat-clad kids.
But the institutions that truly have no excuse for their lack of diversity on their soccer teams are colleges. Thousands of girls and boys nationwide are playing on public middle-and high school soccer teams. Here participation is free, school busses transport the teams to their matches, and immigrant parents have at least some working knowledge about school culture that they don't have about para-organizations such as AYSO and travel soccer.
Title IX, which demanded the playing field be evened out for collegiate women in terms of budgets, facilities, and scholarships, is the number one reason women's sports in the US has risen to the world-class caliber we saw in Sunday's World Cup. But like in corporate America, women's gains have unfortunately ended up being white women's gains, with Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women conspicuously absent as beneficiaries of powerfully important gender diversity programs.
To break through we need US Soccer, college soccer scouts, and parents to shift their assumptions and behaviors.
In machista societies like the Latino one, girls have to be seen as legitimately able to compete in sports for fun or career just as boys are. Scouts need to get comfortable going into barrio and inner city schools and to suburbs dominated by immigrants just like football and basketball scouts started doing a generation ago.
And US Soccer can up the ante by insisting its scouts and coaches source greater diversity for players considered for the US uniform.
Because that uniform belongs to all of us.
Corporate Boards Continue to Miss Out on Diversity
by Andrés T. Tapia –
You would think that by now we would still not be hearing the clichéd excuses of "we can't find any," or "it will take too long to find someone," or "is it even that important?"
What the excuses are defending is the lack of diversity on corporate boards. Unfortunately, we'll probably hear these excuses even more as explanations to Janell Ross' article in the Huffington Post where she reports that "white men's already dominant control of the boards that oversee the nation's largest corporations widened during the last six years," according to a new report issued by the Alliance for Board Diversity.
For the Fortune 100 between 2004 and 2010, white men gained 32 board seats while African American men lost 42. According to the report, there are nearly 900 companies in the Fortune 1000 that do not have a single Hispanic board member, and of the Fortune 100 only half have a Latino board member. This growing homogeneity is occurring at the same time as the Hispanic population is exploding and the country grows even more diverse. Such an increase in white male representation defies not only common sense but also business sense.
As diversity and inclusion (D&I) champions understand, but the reluctant CEOs and board members in this report don't seem to realize, the business and financial benefits of diversity can intensify an organization's competitiveness, innovation, and connection to customers. Just look at these stunning findings on gender diversity on boards:
A 2007 Catalyst study examining corporate finances between 2001 and 2004–a period of boom and bust–found that companies with women on their boards outperformed those without women in several key ways. Among the study's findings: Fortune 500 companies that ranked in the top 25 percent for female board member inclusion produced on average a 53 percent better return on equity, a 42 percent difference in profits, and a 66 percent difference in return on invested capital when compared to companies with the least gender-diverse boards.
So the low diversity on boards not only causes dismay from an inclusion perspective, but companies with little board diversity make themselves vulnerable to blind spots to threats plus they may be limited in seizing economic opportunities.
Perhaps a key issue concerning board diversity, according to Lissa L. Broome, a professor at University of North Carolina School of Law who researches the issues of diversity on boards, is the tendency for key players to ignore or at least avoid talking about difference. Such hesitancy represents the underlying issue in the Inclusion Paradox, which provides ways to lean into and make the most of that discomfort.
If we don't find ways to do this, our companies will be forfeiting a major trump card in high stakes global competitiveness.
Keiko Fujimori Loses Peru's Election, But Diversity Message Struck a Chord
by Andrés T. Tapia –
This article was published by the New America Media.
Keiko Fujimori lost Peru's presidential election Sunday. But don't expect the dynamic, if difficult, Keiko–age 36, female, Gen Xer, of Japanese descent, mother of two toddlers, spouse of an American and daughter of a former president, who is now incarcerated–to fade into the shadows of Latin American politics.
Keiko–as she's known universally in Peru–has been the candidate of the unexpected and a force that likely altered Peruvian national politics for years to come.
At the presidential debate last week with her second round opponent–and Peru's new president–Ollanta Humala, her opening statement had a greeting in Quechua–the language of the descendants of the Incas in the Andes of Peru. And her closing statement concluded with sign language.
What's more, Keiko appealed to the youth vote by laying out her "Mi Primera Chamba"–My First Gig–scholarship program and to the Mom vote by promising to create nutrition programs and quality education for children.
This is not just typical political pandering in Peru, but stem from who Keiko is. She allowed TV hostess Magaly to come to her home. After they chatted like two girlfriends, she gave Magaly a tour of her middle-class home. Along the way she showed off Peruvian Andean landscape paintings her imprisoned father has done in jail, and then the pair ended up in Keiko's kitchen, where she expertly chopped vegetables for that evening's dinner.
Defying Expectations
Keiko–as everyone calls her–has become adept at presenting herself in visuals that defy traditional expectations.
When her parents split up in a bitter divorce during her father's presidency, Keiko, then age 19, officially became First Lady to fill in for her exiting mother's responsibilities.
Despite ample opportunities to go anywhere for college, she headed to Boston University to earn a degree in business administration. She returned married to Mark Vito, an U.S.-born IBM consultant, who did not speak Spanish.
Without a hint of self-consciousness, Keiko projected her Japanese visage on big screens at political rallies surrounded by a sea of dark-skinned indigenous Peruvians. Though her roots are Asian, she appealed to them as one of them, her racial minority physical features presenting a kindred-outsider status to the marginalized people of Peru–just as happened when her father ascended to power.
The elements of her biography don't merely translate into images defying the status quo; they drive her fusion of a right-of-center and a populist political platform. Her ease with crossing socioeconomic and racial barriers has influenced a right-brain/left-brain, left-wing/right-wing heterodoxy that is both pragmatic and passionate.
Despite deeply held reservations by many Peruvians about her filial links to her father, jailed for corruption and human rights abuses, Keiko's implicit and explicit diversity and her messages of inclusion, helped propel her into the second and final electoral round having beat out another former president, Alejandro Toledo, and a successful former minister of finance and economy, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski–a graduate of both Oxford and Princeton Universities, no less.
Presidential Candidate Mom
Keiko was also nearly the first Latin American female president with young children and, therefore, the first high-profile role model for work-and-family flexibility. As is typical of middle-class Peruvians, she has live-in childcare help. But her fluid movement in and out of her roles as leader and mother seems remarkably seamless.
After the first-round election results were announced and Keiko was declared one of the two finalists, Keiko handled her press conference with ease.
Afterward as she exited through the phalanx of journalists, her 18-month-old, Kaori Marcela, straddled in her left arm, Keiko took impromptu questions shouted out by journalists. As the child began to fuss, she switched from potential president of Peru to attentive Mom. With a smile, Keiko said, "Ok, it's time–got to go."
And with no apology, she left. Whatever else may come for Keiko, that's what her multicultural country folk will remember. Keiko–young, centered and, without apologies, very much herself.
Now in her loss, she must plot out her next career move while Dad sits in jail with no chance of a pardon and her children continue to make their toddler demands. Meanwhile, she will watch as her rival takes the reins of the future she had been so certain was destined to be hers.
She has time – a lot of it – to let things play out. Five years from now Keiko's Magical Diversity Tour still likely to be fueled up and waiting for her to lead the way.
Peru Election 2011: Keiko Fujimori's Magical Diversity Tour
by Andrés T. Tapia –
This article was published by the New America Media.
Keiko Fujimori–age 36, female, Gen Xer, of Japanese descent, mother of two toddlers, spouse of an American and daughter of a former president, who is now incarcerated–may be Peru's next president.
If chosen in Sunday's election, Fujimori would be Peru's first woman president and one of four today in Latin America—and one of only seven in the region's history. Like Laura Chinchilla in Costa Rica, Cristina Kirchner in Argentina and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, her gender will influence her agenda. But so will her youth.
At the presidential debate last week with her second round opponent, Ollanta Humala, her opening statement had a greeting in Quechua–the language of the descendants of the Incas in the Andes of Peru. And her closing statement concluded with sign language.
What's more, Fujimori appealed to the youth vote by laying out her "Mi Primera Chamba"–My First Gig–scholarship program and to the Mom vote by promising to create nutrition programs and quality education for children.
This is not just typical political pandering in Peru, but stem from who Fujimori is. She allowed TV hostess Magaly to come to her home. After they chatted like two girlfriends, she gave Magaly a tour of her middle-class home. Along the way she showed off Peruvian Andean landscape paintings her imprisoned father has done in jail, and then the pair ended up in Fujimori's kitchen, where she expertly chopped vegetables for that evening's dinner.
Defying Expectations
Keiko—as everyone calls her—has become adept at presenting herself in visuals that defy traditional expectations.
When her parents split up in a bitter divorce during her father's presidency, Keiko, then age19, officially became First Lady to fill in for her exiting mother's responsibilities.
Despite ample opportunities to go anywhere for college, she headed to Boston University to earn a degree in business administration. She returned married to Mark Vito, an U.S.-born IBM consultant, who did not speak Spanish.
Without a hint of self-consciousness, Keiko projects her Japanese visage on big screens at political rallies surrounded by a sea of dark-skinned indigenous Peruvians. Though her roots are Asian, she appeals to them as one of them, her racial minority physical features presenting a kindred-outsider status to the marginalized people of Peru–just as happened when her father ascended to power.
The elements of her biography don't merely translate into images defying the status quo; they drive her fusion of a right-of-center and a populist political platform. Her ease with crossing socioeconomic and racial barriers has influenced a right-brain/left-brain, left-wing/right-wing heterodoxy that is both pragmatic and passionate.
Despite deeply held reservations by many Peruvians about her filial links to her father, jailed for corruption and human rights abuses, Keiko's implicit and explicit diversity and her messages of inclusion, helped propel her into the second and final electoral round having beat out another former president, Alejandro Toledo, and a successful former minister of finance and economy, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski—a graduate of both Oxford and Princeton Universities, no less.
Presidential Candidate Mom
Keiko would also be the first Latin American female president with young children and, therefore, the first high-profile role model for work-and-family flexibility. As is typical of middle-class Peruvians, she has live-in childcare help. But her fluid movement in and out of her roles as leader and mother seems remarkably seamless.
After the first-round election results were announced and Keiko was declared one of the two finalists, Keiko handled her press conference with ease.
Afterward as she exited through the phalanx of journalists, her 18-month-old, Kaori Marcela, straddled in her left arm, Keiko took impromptu questions shouted out by journalists. As the child began to fuss, she switched from potential president of Peru to attentive Mom. With a smile, Keiko said, "Ok, it's time–got to go."
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Arsonists in northern Israel set fire to a couple of storerooms housing 4,000-year-old artifacts and other antiquities salvaged during an excavation at Tel Kishon, reports The Times of Israel.
In a statement issued Tuesday morning, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed that the intentional fire "inflicted irreparable damage to the antiquities."
Local police launched an investigation after the authority filed a report.
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- Kylie Jenner isn't the only celeb to date a much older person. See who else has too – Teen.com
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What: Just for Children Gourmet Luncheon
When/where: Saturday; doors open at 10:45 a.m., lunch at noon; St. Dominic's Parish Hall, 822 A St., Orland.
Cost: Advance tickets $25, call 865-4045; tickets at the door $30.
Orland >> For more than two decades families suffering financial hardship because they have seriously ill or injured children have been able to turn to Just for Children for a helping hand.
"Our group focuses is on families who do not qualify for the governmental safety net of social and health services, but who are suddenly in an economic free fall due to child having an illness or injury," said Diantha Candieas, advisory committee member.
The nonprofit does not help pay for medical expenses but rather assists families with covering ancillary costs including expenses such as gas, food and lodging associated with travel to medical treatment facilities in Davis, Sacramento, the Bay Area and Palo Alto.
"We target the working poor who are not eligible for other assistance. It's not unusual in families with an ill child that the mother has to quit her job to care for the child. The loss of that income creates a huge hardship," said Candieas.
Many of the children served through the organization have cancer while others have genetic disorders or have been in serious accidents. These injuries and illness may require months or years of treatment.
Once taken on as client of Just for Children, the families are supported as long as treatments are needed or the children turn 18 at which time they age-out of the program.
"After they age-out we do try to help them get set with Medical," said Candieas.
There may be a dozen or more children and families being served by the all-volunteer organization of 30 women at any time.
"We had a little boy who was in a fire and his lungs were damaged from the chemicals in the smoke. His treatments lasted 18 months. We've had other children we've helped for 10 years. We've lost a lot of children too. I couldn't tell you how many have died but I've been asked to speak at least two funerals. They have been such brave little fighters who have battled until they just couldn't any more," said Candieas.
Just for Children does not give cash to families. Instead it gives gift cards or pays a bill by check directly. In addition to the travel expenses, the group has also assisted families in purchasing special equipment for the child or for other necessary services.
"We do what we can and if that means buying a specialty stroller or a device that translates things to braille for a blind child or getting new tires for the family's car so they can travel safely — well, we look to see what they need and try to get it for them," said Candieas.
The per-month financial cap for clients is $250 to $300. On average, Just for Children spends $10,000 in support of families annually.
Its members, fundraisers, donations from individuals, groups and businesses as well as through small local grants including those from the Willows Community Thrift Store and the employees at Rolling Hills Casino, fund the organization.
The largest fundraiser is the annual Just for Children Gourmet Luncheon. This year's country western-themed event scheduled for Saturday, features a beef pot pie lunch, live music, raffles, door prizes, a cookie sale and "country boutique" where folks may purchase homemade gifts and food items including jams and jellies.
"It's a really fun event and 98 percent of the proceeds go directly to the families. The other 2 percent helps us cover administrative costs for things like paper, copying and postage," said Candieas.
What: Just for Children Gourmet Luncheon
When/where: Saturday; doors open at 10:45 a.m., lunch at noon; St. Dominic's Parish Hall, 822 A St., Orland.
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As my previous post was so long trying to cover my actual 90-day plan, I also wanted to reflect on my take-out from The Body Coach, so here are my thoughts…
Is this plan worth the £147 you pay? YES.
For me, this was a small fee to pay (which I paid over 3 months at £49 per month). You get a personalised plan, a set menu and food list, and an education in nutrition, fitness and cookery.
Is it as straight-forward as it seems? NO
The way Joe presents the plan on his website and through his Instagram account, it makes out that the training isn't time intensive, and you can do it at home. I agree and disagree with this.
Yes, you can do it at home no problem, but he does recommend that you do your exercise fasted (meaning as soon as you wake up), but also expects you to drink supplements 30 minutes before starting to train. Therefore I was getting up at 5.30am to drink my supplement, and then start training at 6am, to be finished by 6.30am to either get to work on time or have it completed before my 18-month old got up. With the warm-up and cool down plus your 20-25 minute HIIT workout, it was at least 30 minutes per session sometime longer, opposed to the 20 minute work-out described.
Can you do it all from home? YES and NO
I was also a little annoyed about the variation of weights in Cycles 2 and 3. If I were to buy all of the weights needed, especially as you are expected to increase and decrease the volume of KGs in Cycle 3, you would need a whole family of weights. I had started this plan so I could do it at home, and didn't have to sign-up to a gym. Now I have finished, and I do want to continue to workout, I will probably look to invest in some weights, and actually set-up a home-gym, but that's beside the point.
The above two points were the only two cons for me, there were plenty more pros:
Is it another fad diet or truly a lifestyle / mindset change?
Even though I have moaned about the above points, there are so many pro's to doing this plan. I have been truly educated on the various food groups, and what is good for my body, and why it is so important to refuel your body post exercise. I hear and see all of these fad diets, which I have also fallen victim too , and see that they are never going to be sustainable. I do treat myself now and then to a glass of wine, or a piece of cake or (dark) chocolate, it might even be once every couple of days, whereas I had those treats multiple times a day prior to this plan. Now when I do have them, I enjoy them much more!! Since starting this plan, I can't remember the last time I walked in to a shop, and bought a chocolate bar, such as Wispa or Snicker. This would be something I would do every time I filled my car up, or each time I popped to the shops at lunch.
This 'mindset' change, really hit me when I went food shopping a friend, and they picked-up completely different foods for me. My shopping list is predominantly meat and veg, I don't go near any pre-packaged, refined foods, I swan through the bakery sections, no cheeses or desserts. In fact the majority of our food shop now comes from a local farmers market, where we get everything fresh, and cheaper.
I have also learnt to cook, and actually enjoy thinking about what foods I can have, and what sauces, or marinades I could add to them. Most of the recipes are based on TBC menus, but I know how to mix them up. I eat a lot more fish and eggs than I previously did, and include a wide variety of veg with every meal – sometimes even for breakfast. My whole outlook on food has changed.
I would advise anyone of thinking of doing this, listen to Joe when he tells you to prep. Week 1 of Cycle 1, I didn't do this, and it was time intensive every night, and not the best way to kick off the plan. For the remainder of Cycle 1, I pretty much cooked everything in bulk batches, and it saved a lot of time, and made it much easier to stick to the plan. Come Cycle 2 and 3, you get to know the meals, the healthiest ways of cooking food, as your mindset is changing, prepping just becomes part of your day-to-day life, whether that is physically cooking or mentally preparing your meal plan for the days / week ahead.
Finally, I have an exercise schedule and a goal. Previous to TBC, I would run a lot, and do some HIIT training with FitStar, but I would never know what I was aiming for. I would just do it in the hope some weight would fall off and I would be super slim again. Now I have a focus every session, and each session I try to push myself harder with heavier weights or more intense HIIT sessions.
Would I recommend people to do this? DEFINITELY YES.
The fact this is tailored to your body, your strengths and weaknesses. It would never be unachievable for anyone. It isn't a fad diet, it is a mindset change. Even though I didn't get the final results I wanted, I have made huge progress. I never thought I would start to see the definition I had at 18, but I can. I actually have a shape to my biceps, no more bingo wings!
I have also seen lots of people drastically change their bodies. One being my elder sister, who in Cycle 1 alone lost 12 inches across her body! I can't wait to see her results of Cycle 2 and 3.
If you have any specific questions let me know, or tweet me @jenuine_1 .
Its been a while since I wrote on my blog….5 months and 2 days in fact. However I have good reason. Back in April I decided to sign up to 'The Body Coach' AKA Joe Wicks. Joe is a strong believer that through eating the right food at the rights times, combined with short bursts of training, anyone can look super lean, and feel great for it, without it taking up too much of your precious time.
This ticked all the boxes for me. I couldn't be doing with tons of time in the gym, and hours slaving over a hot stove. With the promise of a 'hot bod' in 90 days and a personalised plan for a £150 (which I paid for over 3 payments interest free), how could I refuse. I had two beach holidays looming, and near enough packed away my treadmill never to be seen again.
So I signed up and literally hit the ground running on April 20th. You do three cycles over the 90 days, each cycle has a different purpose. Cycle 1 is about melting fat. My first HIIT session (You have to do 4-5 of these a week), took 25 minutes, but I thought I was going to vomit It was so hard, and that was doing the 'Basic HIIT' you-tube video. The first week, I had caffeine withdrawal, I was bloated as the meal portions are so large, I just couldn't physically eat it all, however the meals did taste pretty good.
During Cycle 1 I struggled with cutting back on lattes and chocolate, they are my weak points. My energy levels did increase hugely within a week, but come the end of week 3, I couldn't see much change in my shape, and I was starting to feel quite demotivated. I emailed my personal coach, Gemma, who gave me a good pep-talk. Plus I had read from others doing The Body Coach (TBC) that week 3 was always their lowest point, so I knew I wasn't alone. FYI Instagram is a great way to find others who are doing the plan, check-out mine to see more pictures of my experience.
I was so surprised by week 4, I could feel the difference in my clothes, which really spurred me on. End of Cycle 1 arrived and I was so excited to get on this scales and get my tape measure out, but I hadn't lost as much as I had of hoped. I weighed in at 1lb less, but had lots 3.5 inches from around my body. I got straight on to cycle 2.
Starting Photo / End of Cycle 1 Photo
Cycle 2 was harder for me, they introduced carbs for entire days on training days. I had this fear what I had lost before, was going to go straight back on, as I didn't eat a huge amount of carbs before I started this process. You are also given a list of ingredients apposed to a menu of set meals, and I am really crap at thinking up new things to cook, so I actually ended up just making most of the meals from Cycle 1, and now and then I would have a go at something new.
What I loved about Cycle 2 is you are introduced to weight training called GVT. However this did mean, unless I wanted to go out and spend a fortune on free-weights – even though TBC suggest you can get them at low cost from eBay etc – I don't have time to scourer the net searching for cheap deals or second hand goods. I decided if I was going to continue and see this through I would need to sign-up to a gym, even if just to see this plan through.
It was towards the end of Cycle 2, that I started to see a difference in the tone of my arms and legs, and a little on my torso, but again not as much as I would like. I still felt I had fat to melt, especially on my back, and that even though I was training 4 times a week, burning up to 600 calories a session, and eating all the right foods, I was gaining muscle but not loosing any more weight. My measurements confirmed my fears, I had lost no weight, but had lost another half an inch from my waist, my hips and my chest.
I had a holiday to ibiza for two weeks between Cycle 2 and 3, I took my training kit with me, not expecting to train much, but I did manage one session – which was better then none. I tried to stick to mainly protein and vegetables as my source of carbs, week one was better than week two. This holiday was one of my main goals for doing TBC. I wanted to be confident when I was by the pool or by the beach, but I also wanted to enjoy our time off as a family. it was our first family trip to a hot country, and my first two week trip for nearly 20 years. I didn't want to be restricted by a 'diet', so I did treat myself to ice-cream, cold beers and bowls full of pasta, but I was still always conscious to not have more than one meal of refined carbs, and I didn't see that as a bad mindset to be in, I certainly didn't feel like it prevented me from enjoying my holiday any more.
I picked up Cycle 3 when I got back.
Thank-god I was back to carbs post-workout only. Cycle 3, followed a similar format to Cycle 2, just less carbs, and a choice between a set of ingredients and a set menu. Most days I went for the set-menu, or the menus I had been given in the previous cycles. Also my weight training changed to DTP. I could barely walk after my first session, but it felt amazing! I was enjoying this even more than Cycle 2. You have 4 workout days, Legs Abs and Core, Shoulders, Arms, Chest and Back. They were killers, but each week got easier, so each week I pushed myself harder. (My first attempt at Leg day reminded me of going in to labour!!!).
Before I reached the end of Cycle 3, I had a boozy girls holiday in Tenerife, so I did an extra two weeks to compensate for the volume of carbs and alcohol I had consumed. I guess I was also holding out for some extra weight to drop off, or toning to happen, but I came to realise, I wasn't going to end this plan as toned and lean as I had hoped. Come my final measurement day, since day one, I had only lost 1lb, 0.5 inches from my chest, 2 inches from my waist and 1.5 inches from my hips (I some how managed to but weight back on my chest which isn't a bad thing!). However my none scale victory of being between 1 – 2 dress sizes smaller trumps all of those.
Starting Photo / End of Cycle 3 Photo (4 months later!)
At the end of the day, I feel like I have lost weight, I am a hell of a lot fitter, I am much more educated on what I should and shouldn't be putting in my body, and last but not least, combined with this and having a baby, I have realised how precious my body is, and how important it is to take the best care of it. I may not have the results I want yet, but I haven't given up.
If anyone is considering signing up to The Body Coach or have any questions, just let me know, or check out my next post 'Does The Body Coach really work?' for my pros and cons of the overall experience and whether I will be continuing with my plan.
So I have come up with four resolutions, these are long-term, with no specific end point like quit smoking or stay sober for January, they are more lifestyle changes.
1a. Plan more, capture more!
As a family, we're not great at planning things to do on our weekends, and I am always seeing pictures of my friends on weekends away, or at the theatre, the park etc. most of the time we are just glad it's the weekend. Now I am back working five days a week, I want to makesure our weekends are filled with cool activities, creating memories and going on mini adventures.
That's my four!
One final thought, which isn't really a resolution, but something I learnt from my aunty (who sadly passed away way before her time), life is too short and you only get one go at it. No regrets, don't stress, and make the most of each day, as you don't know when it will be your last.
So I promised I would update on my fitness progress after my June update. So here I am!
So, I thought I'd post an update of my June fitness progress, especially as I am having a total fat day so need to get motivated!!!!!!
Week 1: 2nd – 8th – disappointing!
Only did two Fitstar sessions and still no runs! Harry has cut down his morning naps to about 40 mins – 1 hour so I chose to do Fitstar, as these only take 30 mins and my run is at least 40 minutes, and I hate having to stop before my app program finishes. I was eating unhealthy but I did probably have a drink every night! I vowed the rolling week I would be better.
Week 2: 9th – 15th – an improvement
I did 3 Fitstar sessions this week, and three two mile walks with Harry, plus I cut down my alcohol consumption! I also started hula hooping. This was really hard, I did ten minutes, and in that only managed to continuously spin for 25 seconds! I have got a play hula hoop, after a quick Google I soon realised I needed a proper fitness hula hoop if I want to take this seriously. I read an article written by a mum vying to loose her baby weight through hula hooping. This has inspired me to continue, but not sure I want to invest in the real deal hoop until I know I will continually make use of it.
Week 3: 16th – 22nd – getting motivated
I am writing this on the 22nd, having been on holiday with my parents, Rich an Harry in Cornwall most of the week. I did my Fitstar, and a 4 mile hike on Monday and Fitstar again on Wednesday and Thursday and I did ten minutes of hula hooping too. I am really proud I still did my exercise whilst away, my healthy eating went a bit off track as mum only bought white bread (rich is in heaven as I only buy wholemeal) and we have had a couple of drinks each night. Today I am having a day off, mainly so I can get this blog post out!
As motivation to continue my exercise, I decided to take a picture and post it on here (feeling brave!!!!)
Waist: 30″ / Hips: 36.5″
In August I am going to post an update picture (gives me chance to recover and make up for holiday drinking in July). Fingers crossed I will have trimmed at least an inch.
I am also considering buying a FitBit Flex, my sister has one and loves it, and a couple of my friends have them. This is a wristband that records your daily movement and documents everything in an app. It also monitors your sleep (and I am not a great sleeper). Recording how long you slept for, how many times you woke up and also wakes you up silently so you don't wake your partner up. This may help me find out why I don't sleep great, whether it's my diet, my exercise or lack of.
If anyone has used a Fitbit please let me know whether you would recommend one? They are fairly expensive so would be a big investment for me.
Hints and tips welcome for eating health eating as I really struggle for non-carb based breakfast and lunches. I am having a juice for either one at the moment.
Wish me luck!!
In school I was always a keen runner, I don't think many would believe me now, but I actually ran cross country for my school. I gave it up at 16, as I wanted to be out with all my mates rather than training. Its one of those 'told you so' moments from your parents, when you look back, and think 'what could of happened' if I had stuck to what I was actually good at. Well I would be skinnier and toned for a start!
I have never struggled with my weight, and I took this for granted. I have (mostly) good skinny genes, but even they don't keep you skinny forever. The usual happened, I got in to a relationship, settled (and my fiancé being a superb cook hasn't helped), and put on a stone. This happened gradually over 5 years, so I only really noticed when looking back at Facebook photos for some 'thinspiration' to loose my baby weight, did I realise how much I had let myself go.
As mentioned in my earlier post No more (baby) weighting around, I bought a treadmill and downloaded a couple of new apps as a replacement for my gym membership. Between Rich and I, we were paying over £1,000 a year for our gym memberships, which neither of used since Harry arrived. Our Treadmill was a steal at £350, thats a saving of over £650 a year on our membership. Plus it folds-up, so doesn't need much room.
The apps I found via Facebook were advertised on my feed, I never click those ads as I always think they are scams – I was pleasantly surprised. Running for Weight Loss is the first app, this does exactly as it says on the tin. You loose weight by following a ten-week running program. I have been using this app for 12 weeks, and I am still only up too week 6 (oops!). You have to do 3 runs a week. I always find it better to run first thing in the morning, before any breakfast, but this isn't always easy with Harry. Each run is about 40 minutes, and I can't always guarantee he is going to sleep for that long, or I sometimes have chores to do during his morning nap. Ideally I would like to do two a week, and if I can manage three then great.
Running for Weight loss App
I am not going to lie, the runs are not easy, and throughout each run I battle in my head 'should I stop?', 'can I carry on?'. I know that my body shouldn't be tired, that most of the battle when running is in my head. I try to motivate myself by thinking about why I am doing this, to be healthy for Harry, to feel confident in myself, and so I can get in to my Zara Skinny Jeans!!
I have been combining my running with a bit of core training, using Fitstar . This is a free app, but if you want a specific training program i.e. to loose weight you have to upgrade to the premium at £2.99 a month. I used the app a couple of times before signing up, and I loved it. It was really easy, each session was only 30 minutes, and wasn't exhausting. The sessions are based on your fitness levels, and it continuously asks to asses your fitness through-out the programmes. I have never been one for doing push-ups, crunches etc but I knew I couldn't tone my body by just running. I decided to upgrade to the 'Get Lean' program, and to alternate between this and running, for at least 4/5 days a week. I had been looking at 'Results with Lucy' by Lucy Meck, there was a lot of positive press and success stories flying about, and this uses the same format as Fitstar, but it was £12 a month! I think I got a better deal.
I used both of these apps through-out the whole of April, as planned doing 4-5 days of training a week, along with eating 1,500 calories a day, and even though I didn't loose any weight, I could notice a huge difference in my body shape, especially towards the end, I was fitting in to my pre-pregnancy jeans with ease, I was starting to see some definition in my stomach, and my energy levels where through the roof. I didn't DREAD each run like I did at the beginning and I looked forward to my Fitstar training, as it was fairly easy, and I was seeing results.
May, however was a busy month, we were away every weekend, and my exercise plan pretty much stopped, with the exception of a run and a couple of Fitstar sessions.
I decided to pick back up my training and healthy eating from June onwards. I am on day 5, and 2 Fitstar sessions done this week, but still to do that first run!! eek!
It shows you don't have to spend a fortune, have a fully equipt home gym or a personal trainer to get fit. By cancelling my gym membership, buying the treadmill (shared with Rich), the two apps (£39 for the year) and a yoga mat (£8) I saved myself £294!!
Download the apps! They really work, and let me know how you get on, it would be great to hear someone else's results and experiences.
So starting day 1 of my detox! Due to not finding my juicer till about midnight the day before starting, I only managed to do my shopping on the morning of day 1. So when bubba woke from his morning nap, I dashed out to ALDI and picked up my ingredients, by the time I made it back and got juicing I was having my 'breakfast' juice at 11.30am (only 4 hours after I would usually have my breakfast, so I was starving).
You have 4 juices in day 1, the first two being the same (JuiceMaster Super Detox), so I could of skipped a juice given it was almost lunch time, but I wanted to stick to the plan as much as I could. Therefore I just prepared and juiced enough for two batches and stuck one in the fridge.
The ingredients for the first juice included apples, cucumber, celery, carrot, lemon, yellow pepper, avocado and ice. You juice everything but the avocado and ice (obviously). Once everything is juiced you whack it in a blender with the avocado and ice. You need a really good blender, preferably one that is for using ice, which mine wasn't, so I was a little limited to how much ice I could use, and I had to blend for about a minute to make sure the avocado was complexly liquified.
This resulted in a PINT of juice!!! It was not what I expected, the avocado had really thickened it up, so it was like drinking yoghurt. I could really taste the pepper, I think in the future I maybe not add this, as even a small piece seemed to overpower the other flavours. I managed the whole pint, and it was so filling, I wasn't sure how I was going to fit 3 more of these bad boys in before the end of the day.
I decided to have my second, as an afternoon snack about 3.30pm. By now I was starting to miss my food, I wasn't hungry, more so the physical action of eating, like a biscuit with a cuppa.
The third juice was actually more of an energy drink, so the consistency was similar to water and squash rather than a thick yogurt. This was a relief as after my second juice I was feeling really full. This drink was to be drunk throughout the day instead of water, or to help you along when exercising. Called H20 Detox, it was made up of apples, lemon, pineapple, betroot and water (water being 75% of the drink).
I decided to use this when I was doing my core strength training (post to come on this). It had a strong betroot taste and with the sweetness from the pineapple, I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was, and was perfect for during and after my exercise. I would definetely make this if I was going on a long walk or doing a charity run! I felt it really made a difference to my energy levels.
I was starving after my training, my sister and boyfriend were both making their dinner, I was feeling really jealous, but not tempted, I wanted to stay on track. I made my final juice Beyond Detox, this included apples, baby spinach, betroot, parsley, cucumber, avocado and ice. Same as before you juice everything but the avocado and ice. I was really surprised you could juice spinach and parsley! This was probably my favourite of the day, still thick, but quite sweet.
I had made it through day, I felt really full, and very proud, only two more to go.
Juice detox: Day 2to follow soon…
As mentioned in my post No more (baby) weighting around , I am doing a 3-day juice detox in a last minute attempt to shed some lbs before a trip to Paris with my best friend . I have a wedding the week after my Paris trip, and can't risk not fitting in to my dress! Therefore my plan is to loose at least 3lbs with this detox, then I can indulge when visiting Katy, as she is forever telling me about the delicious food and wine she has been consuming since her move to france, and still fit in my dress.
I originally heard about Jason Vale / Juice Master from a friend who is also trying to shed those post-baby pounds! She is doing the 5-day juice detox, at the same time as me. I think she is a little crazy going straight in at the 5-day but she has more will-power than me.
Detox in summary: I can only have juice and water for 3 days!!! You are meant to loose between 3-7lbs and cleanse your body.
In preperation
I searched my loft for the juicer I bought about 6 years ago (if not longer), it had all the main components, few extras missing, but it would do! Dusted it off, now I just needed the app and my ingredients.
I downloaded the app (cost £2.99), and got my shopping list. You can buy a book for £9.99, but I thought I would try the app first and if it is something I want to continue with, I can buy the book. Even though they recommend buying the highest quality fruit and veg (they recommend organic), I knew this would cost a fortune, and I am on maternity leave so I dashed to my favourite supermarket – ALDI – got all my ingredients (bar the yoghurt and spinach) for £20! That's less than £7 per day.
The app is great, it has videos, instructions and the reasons why you are consuming such foods. The videos I find very helpful, there is one each day to coach you through the day and also explain how you are likely to be feeling, and why.
I've completed my first day of my detox and will be writing up my experience in my next post.
Fingers crossed it works!


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The Sierra College Construction and Energy Technology program offers students a chance to learn hands-on skills that they'll use in their careers.
Rocklin CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2016
Sierra College students Lizzie Hinkey and Jordan Pinkham have benefited from course work in Construction & Energy Technology (CET) as they prepared for careers in the building industry.
Those interested in construction and energy careers and who want to learn practical in-demand skills can attend the Sierra College CET Open House on Wednesday, April 27 to meet the faculty and learn more about the program. It will be held from 6 PM to 8 PM in Building H, 5000 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin, CA. RSVP to Steve Geiger (916) 660-7843 or sgeiger(at)sierracollege.edu to get a parking pass.
Pinkham currently attends Sierra College, works full-time as an Engineering Technician for the City of Rocklin, and plans to transfer to California State University Sacramento (CSUS) in Spring 2017 to continue his studies in Civil Engineering. Hinkey has also worked full-time in construction while attending Sierra College, and currently works for A-Tach Construction & Engineering, Inc. in Loomis. She took advantage of the Sierra College transfer agreement to enroll in the CSUS Engineering -- Construction Management B.S. program.
Hinkey indicated that when she started Sierra College, she aimed to become a high school teacher. "Then I started working in construction," said Hinkey. "I fell in love with the work. After I took some construction classes, I decided to make this my career. I really liked the well-rounded business perspective of the instructors and their knowledge of the industry. I decided to get a double major in business and construction management."
Both Hinkey and Pinkham feel that what they learned from the Sierra College faculty members who work in the industry gave them advantage in pursuing further education and employment. Hinkey enjoyed the industry speakers and field trips most of all. "The best part was hearing real life stories," said Hinkey. "The faculty helped me develop an idea of what I wanted to do in construction. Once I figured out that out, it was a huge motivator to finish school."
Pinkham took a contracting class that provided background that he uses on the job. "In class, we learned how to write specifications, develop an estimate and schedule projects, such as remodeling a bathroom, from a private sector perspective," said Pinkham. "A lot of what I do as an Engineering Technician for the City of Rocklin is project management, developing five year budgets based on engineering estimates and planning with other city departments and outside agencies. The class gave me a better sense of the workflow and who is involved - developers, contractors, architects, landscape architects, engineers, electrical and plumbing."
The industry connections were invaluable, explained Pinkham. "The instructors shared real experiences about what they had encountered at jobsites. It was also helpful to network with industry mentors who were guest speakers."
"The Sierra College Construction and Energy Technology program offers students a chance to learn hands-on skills that they'll use in their careers," said Pinkham.
Hinkey also feels that Sierra College prepares students to pursue opportunities in this field. "The construction industry provides a variety of career opportunities." said Hinkey. "The classes that are offered through the Sierra College CET program will give you a good base to identify what you want to do in the industry. You are guaranteed to learn something new every day."
Those who like working with their hands may be interested in coming to Sierra College to earn certificates or degrees in Residential Building Construction or Construction Management, or Photovoltaic Advanced Skills Certificates.
About Sierra College
Sierra College District is celebrating its 80th Anniversary in 2016, and the Nevada County Campus in Grass Valley is celebrating 20 years. Sierra College serves 3200 square miles of Northern CA with campuses in Roseville, Rocklin, Grass Valley, and Truckee. With approximately 125 degree and certificate programs, Sierra College is ranked first in Northern California (Sacramento north) for transfers to four year Universities, offers career/technical training, and classes for upgrading job skills. Sierra graduates can be found in businesses and industries throughout the region.


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Keesa + Robert
October 23rd, 2016
Venue: Castaway, Portland • Oregon
Bride's Dress: Anna's Bridal
Groom's Tux: Men's Wearhouse
Florals: DIY
Officiant: Friend of the Bride & Groom- Seth Weber
Day of Coordinator: Katie Gonsiewski
Catering & Rentals: Chef Du Jor
DJ: DJ Suave
Towncar: Pacific Cascades Towncar
Cake: Cheri Held
October 23rd, 2016 couldn't have been a more beautiful day for a wedding here in the great Pacific Northwest. Not too cold, not too warm and there weren't any rain clouds looming overhead. Robert and Keesa wanted a wedding surrounded by family and friends, a good time, great food, and memories to remember forever. Their wedding certainly over delivered on all of those aspects.
Keesa had eight bridesmaids and Robert had seven groomsmen. Keesa said she was kind of going for the "sister" feel as all of her bridesmaids were either her sisters, sister in laws, or soon to be sister in laws. The Castaway has a gorgeous bridal suite that allows the brides to get ready in a spacious room and away from everything going on in the ceremony and reception area.
The groom and groomsmen got ready off site but had the groom's mother pin their boutonniere's on.
The ceremony was incredibly beautiful. Keesa and Robert both looked amazing and you could see the love that just poured off of both of them. Happiness in its truest form.
After the formals and signing of the marriage certificate we were ready to announce the new Mr & Mrs and get ready for the reception. The groomsmen really were amazing sports during all of their formal portraits even if all they really wanted to do was "get their drink on."
Time to announce Mr & Mrs. A beer in the hand of the groom and a flute of champagne in the hand of the bride. Starting the reception off with a bang!
After all that partying guests lined up to give the bride and groom a send off with sparklers. Truly a magical night and send off!
And they lived happily ever after...... Congratulations to Keesa & Robert! May they have the greatest adventures that marriage gives them.
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Scully is back on his feet after an unspecified medical procedure and still very much intending to broadcast Dodgers games next season.
In an interview Wednesday morning with Alanna Rizzo of SportsNet LA, Scully said he was eager to return for his 67th, and likely final, season broadcasting the Dodgers next year.
"Oh yeah, definitely," Scully said. "I'm looking forward to next year, maybe because it's my last year.
"I'm looking forward to it as much as my second year because I got by the first year and I was so thrilled that there was another one coming up, well that's how I feel about '16. I am chafing at the bit."
The Dodgers announced on Oct. 8 that Scully, 87, would miss broadcasting the Dodgers' postseason after undergoing a recommended medical procedure.
The comments made to SportsNet LA were his first in public since the procedure. The full interview is scheduled to air Thursday at 7 p.m. on SportsNet LA.
Credit to the LA Times who originally published this article


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