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The Coalition of Labor Union Women is America's only national organization for union women. Formed in 1974, CLUW is a nonpartisan organization within the union movement.
The primary mission of CLUW is to unify all union women in a viable organization to determine our common problems and concerns and to develop action programs within the framework of our unions to deal effectively with our objectives.
At its founding convention in Chicago, Illinois, CLUW adopted four basic goals of action: to promote affirmative action in the workplace; to strengthen the role of women in unions; to organize the unorganized women; and to increase the involvement of women in the political and legislative process.
These goals continue to be the cornerstone of CLUW's activities as members speak out for equal pay, child and elder care benefits, job security, safe workplaces, affordable health care, contraceptive equity, and protection from sexual harassment and violence at work.
With members from 54 international and national unions across the U.S. and Canada, CLUW has a strong network of more than 40 chapters. CLUW is endorsed by the AFL-CIO and its international and national unions. CLUW local chapters educate members, keep them up-to-date on a variety of issues of concern to working families, and provide a support network for women in unions.
CLUW's National Office is located in Washington, DC and is directed by the National President. The National Staff consists of an Executive Director and a Field and Membership Organizer.
Its governing body consists of a National Officers Council, composed of 19 women union leaders, CLUW's Presidents Emeritae, General Counsel, and a National Executive Board (NEB) elected at CLUW's Biennial Convention.
CLUW's National President is Connie Leak of the UAW.
The National Officers Council is representative of members from a diverse crosssection of unions within the organization. The council meets at least six times annually to act on business between Executive Board meetings and Conventions.
The National Executive Board (NEB) includes members of the National Officers Council, State Presidents, Chapter Presidents, Union Delegates and Chapter Delegates. Union and chapter delegates are elected in proportion to their membership in CLUW. Board meetings are held three times per year. Educational conferences are usually held the day preceding each NEB meeting.
The NEB maintains Standing Committees in the following areas: Affirmative Action, Archives, Constitution, CLUW Elections, Family Issues, Finance, Minority Issues, New Technologies, Legislative, Mature Women Workers, Organizing the Unorganized, Women in Non-Traditional Jobs, Media Recruitment, Women in Union Leadership. Task Forces are maintained on Women's Health Issues, Violence Against Women and Young Women Workers.
The CLUW Center for Education & Research located at the National CLUW office was established in 1979 as a separate non-profit, tax-exempt entity of CLUW. The Center was established to provide the necessary tools for union and CLUW members to become effective advocates for working women in the workplace and the labor movement.
Following months of discussion and planning, more than 1,200 union women from across the U.S. convened in Chicago, IL on March 12, 1974, to form an organization to address the critical needs of millions of unorganized working women and make unions more responsive to the needs of all working women. The organization they created is CLUW, whose primary purpose is to serve as an entity where working women could share common problems and concerns and develop action programs within the framework of unions to deal effectively with these objectives.
1974: March 23-24, Chicago, IL: Founding Conference elects Olga M. Madar as president. Delegates adopt as CLUW's mission four goals: organize the unorganized; promote affirmative action; increase women's participation in their unions; and increase women's participation in political and legislative activities.
1975: First Constitutional Convention. First National Women's Health Conference. After the AFL-CIO endorses the Equal Rights Amendment, CLUW becomes the first organization to move its convention from non-ratified Equal Rights Amendment state to ratified state. Publishes Women and Health Security.
1976: National Convention. First Conference on Pay Equity.
1977: National Convention. Joyce D. Miller elected president. CLUW joins with other women's, civil rights and religious groups to lobby for minimum wage increase. Participates in Decade of Women Conference. Publishes booklet Commitment to Child Care.
1978: National Convention. CLUW Center for Education and Research established.
1979: First Biennial National Convention: "A Woman's Place is in Her Union." Publishes Effective Contract Language for Union Women and a CLUW health and safety series.
1980: CLUW President Joyce D. Miller becomes the first woman elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council. First National Conference on Organizing the Unorganized. Publishes Absent from the Agenda, a survey of women representation within the leadership of the labor movement.
1981: CLUW participates in Solidarity Day. Publishes Lead: A New Perspective on an Old Problem.
1982: Second Biennial National Convention: "A Past of Progress ... A Future of Promise." Jointly sponsors Baltimore/Washington Women's Organization. Publishes A Handbook for Empowerment of Union Women.
1983: National Conference on Working Women and Substance Abuse, second National Conference on Organizing the Unorganized. Organizes the Women's Vote Project, a coalition of 38 national women's organizations to register and educate women voters.
1984: Third Biennial National Convention: "Women in Unions: A Decade of Progress ... A Future of Growth;" National Legislative Conference; National Affirmative Action Conference. CLUW activists register thousands of women to vote.
1985: Three national conferences on family and work issues. Publishes Bargaining for Child Care: A Union Parent's Guide.
1986: Fourth Biennial National Convention: "Challenged by Our Past-Forging Change for Our Future." First annual Working Women's Awareness Week. Conferences on older and retired women workers, minority women workers. Sets up CLUW sexual harassment hotline, files brief to US Supreme Court on sexual harassment case (Vinson v. Meritor Savings Bank). Participates in March for Women's Lives.
1987: Third National Conference on Organizing the Unorganized.
1988: Fifth Biennial National Convention: "Today's Challenge, Tomorrow's Change." National Conference on Legislation and Political Action. Joint sponsorship of four regional Bargaining for Our Families Conferences. Calls for a national family policy with the American Family Celebration (50,000 union, civil, religious and women's rights activists attend). Establishes annual Hits & Ms.'s List - the Best and Worst for Working Women.
1989: Three regional Bargaining for Our Families Conferences. Obtains funding for project to fight government intervention in women's reproductive freedom. Files brief in landmark case on hazardous chemicals and reproductive health (UAW v. Johnson Controls).
1990: Conferences on video display terminals; Maquiladoras and Immigration; Women in Non-traditional Jobs. Expands Reproductive Rights Project. Publishes Women and Children First: An Analysis of Trends in Federal Tax Policy.
1991: Sixth Biennial National Convention: "Decade of Empowerment - Union Women on the Move." Conferences on Women and Retirement; Women's Health; Fighting "isms." CLUW participates in Solidarity Day II. Publishes Bargaining for Family Benefits: A Union Member's Guide and Is Your Job Making You Sick?: A CLUW Handbook on Health and Safety.
1992: National conferences held on Sexual Harassment; Organizing the Unorganized; Communicating With the Media; Political Action, Recruitment and Communications; and Women and Economic Empowerment. Hundreds of CLUW activists participate in March for Women's Lives.
1993: Seventh Biennial National Convention: "CLUW: The Future ... Challenge, Change and Choice." Joyce D. Miller steps down as CLUW president to serve as Executive Director of Glass Ceiling Commission; Gloria T. Johnson elected CLUW president and AFL-CIO Executive Council vice president. Conferences on Breaking the Glass Ceiling; joint Women's Conference on National Health Care. Participates in National Conference on Women and Children. Charters chapters in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Moves CLUW convention from Denver to protest Colorado's anti-gay referendum. Publishes Union Women Speak Out on Health Care Issues Including Abortion; Women Care About Health; Family Medical Leave Act Resource Guide; and sexual harassment materials.
1994: CLUW celebrates 20th anniversary. Conferences on Strategic Planning for CLUW; National Health Care Reform; and Women in the Global Economy. Conducts CLUW membership survey. Participates in DOL Women's Bureau "Working Women Count" survey. Testifies before Dunlop Commission on labor law reform. Protests NAFTA, GATT and sweatshops ("Come Shop With Me Campaign"). Publishes Shaping the Agenda: Women and Unions Moving Towards the 21st Century (update of Absent From the Agenda).
1995: Eighth Biennial National Convention: "Union Women: Power, Politics, Participation." Conferences on Surviving and Thriving as a Labor Union Woman: 1995 and Beyond; Women and HIV/AIDS; Young Women Workers: Solidarity Across the Generations; joint conferences on Campaign Skills Building; Workplace 2000: Women's Rights, Workers' Rights; and Strengthening Women's Voices in the Workplace. Participates in March for Women's Lives; 75th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment march/rally; affirmative action rally. Sponsors affirmative action "call-in day," and "write-in" to the U.N. protesting human rights violations in China. Publishes Affirmative Action: Dispelling the Myths.
1996: Conferences on Voter Education and Participation; Organizing and Political Action; and Union Women for Political Empowerment: '96 Get Out the Vote. Joint conference on Full Participation. Other joint campaigns/activities: Come Shop With Me; Stop Sweatshops!; Child Labor Coalition initiative; March to Fight the Right; Stand for Children Rally; America Needs a Raise Town Hall meetings/Labor '96 events; National AIDS Quilt Display; Women's Vote Project: Operation Big Vote; and DOL Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary. Survey/report on Mid-life and Older Union Women Talking About Health Care. President Johnson appointed to head AFL-CIO Standing Committee on Women's Issues. Publishes CLUW Leadership Directory.
1997: Ninth Biennial National Convention: "Women: Labor's Future," features Women's Health Fair and Young Women Workers Forum. Conferences on Building the Labor Movement Through CLUW Chapter Actions; Unionizing Technology; and jointly, HIV/AIDS. Events/campaigns: Strawberry Workers march/rally/boycott; UPS strike; CLUW Back-to-School Teamsters Project. Participates in "Ask a Working Woman" survey and conferences.
1998: Conferences on Developing Strategies for implementing CLUW's Goals; Working to End Violence Against Women: Union Strategies for Action; Taking Charge of Our Health; and Common Sense Economics for Working Families. Participates in AFL-CIO's Full Participation Conference; the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights conference in Seneca Falls, N.Y.; Equal Pay Day; and Union Women Vote '98. Gave 10 CLUW Labor Education Scholarships to members pursuing labor studies. Launched national recruitment campaign: "2000 New Members by 2000."
1999: Celebration of CLUW's 25th anniversary at the Tenth Biennial National Convention in Chicago, IL where CLUW was born. Convention theme: "We Didn't Come Here to Swap Recipes - Not Then, 1974 - not now, 1999." Conferences on Saving Social Security: Union Women's Tools for Action; and The Power of the Union Card. Published Sharing Our Stories: Voices at Work, a compilation of stories from 54 CLUW activists about their union experiences.
2000: Launched Election 2000 Project focusing on mobilizing women to register to vote, communicate on political issues, and participate in election activities. Political Action Conferences included Working Together For Change, held in conjunction with the Working Women's Department Conference of the AFL-CIO; and Women Count: If You Don't Vote You Won't; and A Woman's Vote = A Family Win! Participated with women's groups from 157 countries in International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Joined the Jubilee 2000 mobilization to support debt cancellation for developing countries. Participates in the U.S./African Trade Union Summit on HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC. President Gloria Johnson called on world leaders to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Platform for Action created at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Gave six CLUW Labor Education Scholarships to members pursuing Labor Studies.
2001: Eleventh Biennial National Convention: "Designing Our Own Future" held in Las Vegas in October. Held conferences on CLUW and the Family; Bargaining for Working Families; and Lobbying for Prosperity. Co-hosted Union Leadership Conference on Domestic Violence Training, with Family Violence Prevention Fund. Launched "BushWhacks," a series monitoring George Bush's anti-worker, anti-women policies and actions. Joined the "Fair Taxes for All" campaign calling for rejection of the Bush tax cut proposal. Participated in NOW's Emergency Action for Women's Lives. Initiated campaign for inclusion of contraceptives in union negotiated health care plans. Received $225,000 Centers for Disease Control grant for Labor Leader Initiative on HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention Program. Hosted forums for union women leaders from Scotland and Indonesia.
2002: NEB adopts a multi-year strategic plan aimed at getting more union women involved in organizing and political action. CLUW pledges support and action for the UFCW's Justice for Wal-Mart Workers campaign and UNITE's Behind the Label anti-sweatshop initiative. CLUW's 10-point political action plan for the 2002 elections mobilizes hundreds of activists to staff phone banks and get out the vote. CLUW representatives participate in Code Pink and other demonstrations to avert the U.S. war on Iraq; National Executive Board adopts resolution condemning unilateral U.S. military action. CLUW's Contraceptive Equity Project continues to advocate for all union-negotiated health plans to include contraceptive coverage. Receives $250,000 Centers for Disease Control & Prevention renewal grant for a Labor Leader Initiative on HIV/AIDS Awareness Program. Establishes a Project Advisory Committee and a Labor Leadership Forum staffed with reps from the AFL-CIO and NEA. Holds forum for young women workers, featuring NOW President Kim Gandy, among others. Conferences included Mobilizing and Organizing; and Political Action. Participates in nationwide "Wal-Mart Day of Action" in November.
2003: CLUW holds 12th Biennial Convention in Seattle, Washington, with the theme: "Vision, Voices, Votes: Building the Labor Movement." Works with other constituency groups to formulate a joint political action plan for the 2004 elections, and begins efforts to seek funding. Works with the AFL-CIO and other groups on the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride; America's Choices Forum; and opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas campaign. Receives $250,000 CDC grant in partnership with Academy for Educational Development for "Working Women ROCC (Reach Out on Cervical Cancer)," an education effort among union women to bring greater awareness about cervical cancer prevention. Conferences include Women in the Global Economy; and Educating to Fight for Economic Security.
2004: CLUW hosts in New Orleans the first of approximately 25 town hall meetings to be held from the spring until Election Day. Sponsored by the Labor Coalition for Community Action (LCCA), the town hall meetings give voters a chance to sound off on the issues they care most about. In addition to CLUW, the other LCCA organizations include A. Philip Randolph Institute, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and Pride at Work. CLUW is active and was co-sponsor of the March for Women's Lives which calls for guaranteeing women access to family planning, health care, abortion and reproductive health. CLUW celebrates its 30th anniversary at Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC. CLUW kicks off its "Count to 5" Campaign which mobilizes CLUW members to sign up at least 5 women who promise to vote for candidates who support issues of importance to working women in the general election. CLUW works with the Voices for Working Families' Women's Voices project to register voters, to share information about issues that affect women's lives and to provide opportunities to raise a unified voice for women's priorities. At the August NEB in New Mexico Gloria T. Johnson steps down as CLUW president and Susan L. Phillips (UFCW) assumes the presidency. Conferences include Working Women in 2004 and Women Voices for Change. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) renews CLUW's HIV/AIDS cooperative agreement to continue to conduct education and prevention activities in AFL-CIO unions and affiliates under the umbrella of the Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS Program (BRTA-LRTA). Working Women ROCC (Reaching Out against Cervical Cancer) begins with focus groups, a website and distributing information regarding the fact that this cancer is preventable and if found early curable. In October, the project partners with union rock musician and cervical cancer survivor Christine Baze in her 2004 Yellow Umbrella Tour, which featured concerts promoting cervical cancer awareness in cities across the U.S.
2005: CLUW's Contraceptive Equity Project scores a number of victories, including the passage of state mandates in Arkansas and West Virginia. CLUW starts its own cervical cancer prevention project, Cervical Cancer Prevention Works, which works in close partnership with Women in Government and the Balm in Gilead. The CLUW HIV/AIDS cooperative agreement completes its funding cycle of April 1, 2001-March 31, 2005. CDC announces that it will conduct an extensive assessment of the BRTA/LRTA Program with no guarantees that its funding will be renewed. CLUW's e-Activist network which provides e-mail alerts about issues important to union women has about 1,300 subscribers. CLUW NEB programs include Analyzing the New Political Landscape and Building CLUW Membership: The Role of the NEB. CLUW supports the Wake-Up Wal-Mart campaign to bring public attention to the anti-worker, anti-union practices of the nation's largest private-sector employer. In July Susan L. Phillips resigns as CLUW President and Marsha Zakowski (USW) becomes Acting President. CLUW participates in the Diversity Summit in conjunction with the AFL-CIO Convention. On August 26 (Women's Equality Day) CLUW members lobby on their home turf to support the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act and join in the national campaign on Human Rights Day in December. CLUW holds the 13th Biennial Convention in Detroit, Michigan, with the theme "Union Women: Building the Movement." Convention Conference focuses on the affect the global economy has on women here and abroad. Convention reception honors past president Gloria Johnson. Marsha Zakowski (USW) was elected president.
2006: CLUW launches campaign to protect and extend Family Leave. CLUW Conferences include Leadership Development and "Gotta CLUW: New Generation of Activists" which focuses on new ways to recruit more women -- especially younger workers -- into struggles for workplace issues. CLUW participates in the July Week of Action demanding that the NLRB do its job and protect workers' rights. CLUW joins with the Sister Study to help locate women whose sisters have had breast cancers in an effort to find the causes of this disease. During the 2006 elections CLUW members get out the vote and educate our members about issues of importance to working women. We participate in the AFL-CIO Voter Protection Program and in the all-women voter mobilization "Stir the Pot" events. Our conference "Framing the Debate" prepares our members to emphasize working family issues in the elections and learn how to combat the conservative agenda. CLUW's Contraceptive Equity Project scores a major victory when the largely male Masters, Mates and Pilots Union adds contraceptive coverage for its 6,800 member and spouses. Its Cervical Cancer Prevention Works project works closely with CLUW chapters and unions in CA to successfully secure HPV test coverage there.
2007: CLUW Conferences address "Organizing to Win" and "Run for Office? Sure You Can! Union Women and Politics: The Voice of Power." CLUW celebrates the reintroduction of the Women and Equality Amendment. CLUW participates in the Voices of Iraqi Workers Solidarity Tour which gives opportunity to dialogue directly with Iraqi workers and labor leaders. CLUW participates in AFL-CIO regional diversity dialogues to discuss full participation and inclusion for all members in the labor movement. CLUW continues to push for contraceptive equity. Cervical Cancer Prevention Works continues to use CLUW and labor communications and education channels to make certain that union women have the necessary information so that they will not contract this disease. 14th Biennial Convention takes place in October in Las Vegas with the theme "A New Direction for Working Women." Convention workshops cover "Policy and Politics: The CLUW to Reality, Issues and Action!" and include subjects such as Labor and LGBT Equality, 2008 Political Party Conventions: Be a Delegate and Voice for Labor, and Self-Defense Inside and Outside the Home. The convention emphasizes that union women can make the key difference in the 2008 elections if they assume leadership in their unions and mobilize around issues important to working families. A panel addresses "Diversity in the Labor Movement-Dialogue and Action". Delegates set policy thru support of 18 resolutions calling for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, emphasizing the need to make health care issues a cornerstone of CLUW's work, calling on complete withdrawal of all American troops and private contractors from Iraq, calling on more women and people of color in union leadership and support of USW's "Protect our Kids-Stop Toxic Imports" campaign to name a few.
CLUW chapters participate in the AFL-CIO's Women's Voices Women's Vote campaign by sending postcards to women urging them to vote.
2008: CLUW focuses on election issues and education thru conferences on "Out the Gate in 2008" concentrating on political activist training and "National Health Care and Paycheck Fairness: It's About Time" which includes a rally to end pay discrimination in front of the Federal Building in Cleveland and features special presenter Lilly Ledbetter. The last conference of the year "CLUW GOTV Activity and Working Women's Vote 2008" includes perspectives from the Younger Women's Task Force of the National Council of Women's Organizations, Planned Parenthood, Jobs with Justice, League of Women Voters and Missouri Women in the Trades. CLUW National Executive Board meetings take place in battleground states and include labor walks in Ohio and Missouri.
CLUW kicks off its GOTV campaign: "2008 Count to 5! Your Vote Counts" by talking to women about the issues and urging 5 voters supportive of working women's issues to vote. CLUW participates in voter protection activities thru the AFL-CIO "My Vote, My Right" project. The Labor Coalition for Community Action (composed of all the AFL-CIO constituency groups) convenes Town Hall meetings on nonpartisan election issues in strategic locations throughout the country.
CLUW serves as the leading organization during the Equal Pay Day observance with a press conference on April 23rd on Capitol Hill urging the Senate vote in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. We actively support the Million- Member Mobilization for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act and the health care reform campaign.
We participate in the "Walk to Beat the Clock! Help End Cervical Cancer" activity. The DVD "Say Something" is introduced as an educational tool on cervical cancer prevention.
2009: Central Florida and New Hampshire (Sisters of Solidarity) chapters are chartered and Kansas City and Cleveland CLUW chapters are revitalized.
"Change! A New Day for CLUW and Union Women" conference focuses on sharing experiences by CLUW chapter and state leaders on how to energize CLUW at the chapter level. "The Economic Recovery and Its Impact on Women" is the subject of our conference in Detroit in June and includes presentations on the Blue Green Alliance, Heath Care Reform, The Family and Medical Leave Act and Workplace Leave Policies and the Economy and its Impact on Michigan Workers.
We campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act thru creating and distributing leaflets specific to the impact on women, participate on radio talk shows and panels and create a CLUW song and video to the tune of Stars and Stripes Forever.
We applaud the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
We participate in the "Power in Diversity" Conference as part of the AFL-CIO Convention supporting "A Diverse Movement Calls for Diverse Leadership" resolution.
We participate in the Pearl of Wisdom campaign to educate our members about cervical cancer prevention.
15th Biennial Convention takes place in Los Angeles in October with the theme "The Rising Tide of Change". Karen J. See (APWU) is elected president. Through constitutional amendment, four additional seats are added to the National Officers Council specifically for representation from previously non-represented unions. The convention mandates thru resolution a "Committee on the Future of CLUW" to analyze and recommend organizational changes. Other resolutions call on CLUW to renew its commitment to ensure that women have safe, legal, accessible health services including preventive care and all reproductive health services, call on CLUW to join efforts to advocate for universal single payer health care coverage and demand that a strong public option be included in any health plan considered by Congress, call on CLUW to join the Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition commemorating a defining moment in Women's and Labor History, call for fair trade laws that raise living standards and human rights, call on the ratification of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) and call to support an exit strategy from Afghanistan. Also support commemoration of Dred and Harriet Scott who filed suit to obtain freedom for their family in 1846 but were denied by the Supreme Court that determined that those of African race were not to be afforded the rights so afforded to the white race thru the Constitution. First Gloria T. Johnson Women in Union Leadership Scholarship awarded.
2010: Three Leadership Academies take place in Washington, DC, Ft. Worth, Texas and Reno, NV in conjunction with NEB meetings. Subjects cover: Leadership Styles for New Union Women, How to Put Your CLUW Chapter on the Map, Building a Public Message, Recruiting and Mentoring the Next Generation of Labor Women, Robert's Rules of Order, Planning and Decision Making in Your Chapter, Immigration Reform, Jobs and the Economy, Getting out the Vote in 2010, How to Create Fun and Effective Meetings, The Health Reform Law and its Impact on Women, The Family Friendly Workplace: How Unions Win It, What Unions Can Do So the Next Generation of Union Activists Become Leaders and Strategies to Address the Distortions in the Movie ("Don't Wait for Superman") and to Push for Balanced Education Reform.
Congresswoman Edie Bernice Johnson addresses the group in Ft. Worth. Delegates vote to condemn Arizona's SB 1070 which codifies racial profiling by mandating police officers to stop anyone they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is not authorized to be in the US. Support green schools resolution. In Nevada Sen. Nina Turner (OH) and Assemblywoman Debbie Smith (NV) speak to the delegates.
Hold our first Working Women's Award Celebration in March where we honor some of the working women who have made a difference through their service to working families. Hold a lobby day on Capitol Hill focusing on the Paycheck Fairness Act, Healthy Families Act and Health Reform.
Add 5 new chapters: Northern VA, Milehigh (Denver), Northwest OH, Central CA and Kate Mullany (Albany, NY) Partner with the Women's Campaign Forum, She Should Run program to encourage more women to run for office and to seek political appointments. Mobilize our members to take part in One Nation Rally in DC. We support efforts to organize airline employees at Northwest and Delta and efforts to represent Transportation Security Administration employees. We participate in the "Strengthen Social Security--Don't Cut It" coalition. Support the Women & Workforce Investment for Nontraditional Jobs Act. Equal Pay Day focuses on passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act (that would ensure remedies for wage discrimination and make it easier to sue on behalf of groups of women) but the bill was killed in November by a minority of senators who prevented it from coming to the floor for a vote. Support passage of CEDAW in the Senate (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women).
CLUW NEWS publication is reinstituted.
Active in Health Care Reform Campaign, working with women's groups in lobbying against restrictive anti-choice measures.
CLUW partners in the Pearl of Wisdom campaign that serves to heighten cervical cancer awareness and prevention in the labor community.
CLUW membership mobilizes to get out the vote.
Here are a list of some of the Programs that CLUW Supports


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The boys and girls from Finland are once again actively tweaking their system apps for their Windows Phone 8 Lumias. We've received a few tips this morning that their Network+ app has been updated and indeed, we can confirm.
The app is now being bumped to version 22.214.171.124. What's changed? Heck if we know though we can tell you that the app, formely called Calls + SMS, deals with some cell network settings and is considered pretty important, especially if you're experiencing any oddities in cell behavior.
One possible fix with this update is mentioned by reader Andre B., who noted that the "… 4g signal status shows immediately after pressing the clock". We think we know what he means as on occasion we've seen all our info pulled down by tapping the clock in the upper right hand corner (e.g. battery, vibrate, WiFi) but the network configuration at times was missing.
So maybe that's all this addresses, in which case it's hard to get excited about but of course we'll take it.
You can update Network+ for your Lumia (Windows Phone 8) here in the Nokia Collection. Thanks, Andre and 5tephen, for the tips!

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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Motorist Group Boycotts Traffic In Santa Monica Today, Local Traffic Congestion Clears
The SMCDFC steering committee has put out a statement today sharply critical of city policy, and outraged at "...the daily traffic nightmare, and unrelenting wave of apocalyptic destruction that new development is having on our former beachside hamlet community."
In the parking front, the Trader Joe's parking lot appears as though it will not need an orange vested traffic wrangler at all today. Not since the 1979 oil crisis has the Santa Monica Trader Joes parking lot had entire rear sections of the lot unoccupied. The store manager has called today "a parking lot miracle". And despite the reduced parking demand, she said sales were "largely unaffected". An outcome believed to be the result of people living within a quarter mile radius walking to the store instead of driving 3 blocks, and increased ridership on the #7 bus line.
Talking to a few bike riders around town, there was a palpable celebratory enthusiasm. Many streets normally congested with drivers upset at life while behind the wheel, and who ordinarily might honk or yell at those on bikes, were no where to be found. Talking to some of the drivers still out and about, some were in shock, and wished that everyday could be like this.
Final figures of just how many participated in the boycott is not yet known. However as I rode around to various neighborhoods, it was apparent that while many were in fact still driving, simply removing a modest percentage of the most frustrated drivers is sufficient to alleviate the typical gridlock hotspots. I think the lesson we can take away from all of this, is that if the people who complain about being stuck in traffic, simply take the logical step to boycott traffic all together, their chief complaint ceases to exist.
4 comments:
- Laura Matthews said...
This is terrific. Those of us who walk and bike wherever we can don't experience traffic like the poor car-slaves do. People ask me why I love Santa Monica with all its traffic, and I say, I never have to deal with it. I just get the beach. :)
- April 1, 2012 at 2:22 PM
- Gary said...
Yes exactly, skip the traffic, and it's quite easy to get around Santa Monica, and just get to the beach.
The fairly compact scale makes even the further points within city lines a fairly easy distance to ride a bike. Many trips are entirely walkable, and our level of local bus service is much higher than most cities our size because of ridership drawing from those visiting Santa Monica.
- April 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM
- April 2, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- joseph schuster said...
Bravo. I wish that this was not an April Fools Day joke. If those car fools would really abandon their vehicles for even a day everyone would be better off.
- May 1, 2012 at 8:05 AM


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Training is essential for any recreational athlete in order to excel in a given sport, but without proper exercise form and technique, you may place yourself at greater risk for injury.
In fact, according to published reports (April 2011) by the American Journal of Sports Medicine, 970,000 people were monitored during bouts of exercise, and 82 percent of these subjects (men) were injured during activity. This fact goes without saying that many people are training incorrectly.
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Mackie Shilstone,
Contributing writer
James Rizer, a certified sports physician at the Provance Chiropractic Clinic in Metairie, finds that often patients will "sacrifice technique and form for heavier weight and higher repetitions (in hopes of becoming bigger and stronger)."
Of course, poor form may surely lead to injury as the heavier weight could place stress not only on your muscles, but also, on your joints (responsible for all compound movement in the body). For example, the basic squat is one of the most commonly practiced weight lifting exercises today, as it is great for building mass and strength in the legs, but this exercise is also one of the highest to induce injury if not properly performed.
There is a debate as to whether squats should be performed below parallel (legs bent parallel to the floor) or above parallel to prevent trauma to the knee. Rizer claims, "because (this idea) is still in debate, and since my job is to help repair injuries and prevent them from occurring, I recommend stopping at parallel. Not to mention that the deep squat causes the lower back to lose its natural curvature and sets the stage for it to become sprained and/or strained."
Other commonly overworked and poorly performed exercises are those involving the pectoral (chest) muscles. Rizer warns that too much focus on the chest without any counter balance to the back muscles can cause rounded shoulders to occur or worsen leading to a condition known as Upper Cross Syndrome.
"In our society we already spend too much time in a forward flexed position, sitting at desks, texting, riding in vehicles, etc., and by overworking the (pectoral) muscles we are pulling our shoulders forward and rounding our backs even more." It's important to focus on strengthening the back as much as possible (allowing for adequate rest) in order to prevent poor posture, which could worsen as we age. I recommend exercising the larger and the more abundant back muscles with frontal pull downs and seated rows.
Even without the use of weights, it is easy to place strain on the body, if form is not taken into consideration, when performing a specific routine. Rizer believes abdominal exercises like "V-ups" or "Jack-Knives" can place strain on the neck, hips and lower back. "The rectus abdominal muscles only induce a few degrees of core flexion and mainly serves to hold our body upright as we walk."
When performing an abdominal routine one should consider starting with "crunches." In order to perform a crunch properly, lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor, while interlacing your fingers behind your neck. When coming up, exhale while keeping your eyes focused on the ceiling and bringing your head off the ground only seven or eight inches. Your fingers should only support, and not pull, on the neck.
Rizer suggests the following tip to test your core strength: First, stand with one hand feeling the muscles of your lower back right next to your spine and then raise your other hand slowly into the air above you head. You will notice that the muscles of the back engage. Now imagine lifting a weight or swinging a tennis racket and your lower core muscle activating improperly and weakly. There will be a "wobble effect" throughout your body. This instability adds unnecessary muscular stress and may cause you injury.
Shoulder muscles are prone to injury as many times the deltoid muscle is placed under heavy strain due to misguided and potentially dangerous exercises like a barbell shoulder press behind the neck. The deltoid serves as the shoulder's cap, and if over trained, it can pull the arm bone (humerus) into the shoulder joint. This situation can lead to all types of problems such as ligament sprains and shoulder impingement.
"If you're going to workout the shoulder, then emphasize strengthening the rotator cuff over deltoid muscles. In addition, avoid pushing weight up and above shoulder height (like) military presses," Rizer said.
Keeping your body warmed up will allow you to better tackle any exercise, while keeping your mental focus sharp. "When it comes to exercising," Rizer said, "we must always remember that progress not only comes from the outside in, but also from the inside out."
Always warm up by doing the motions of the exercise you choose to perform with little to no weighted resistance (called dynamic and functional stretching). It mimics the movements you will be performing and brings blood out from the core and into the extremities. For example, prior to running or jogging, swing your legs forward and backward as you walk, or perform incline bench presses with only the bar and no added plates before performing a weighted set.
If you feel like you may have injured yourself during while exercising, stop all exercise and seek medical attention, as your condition may worsen and cause discomfort if left untreated.
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Imagine waking up to find out that as much as 40 percent of the money you thought was safely deposited in the bank was seized, without your permission, to bail out a near-bankrupt government.
That's just what thousands of large depositors in Cyprus woke up to Monday morning after European Union officials accepted a last-minute deal offered by the island's lawmakers to secure a $13 billion bailout to avert imminent financial meltdown.
The deal, which also slashed the island's oversized banking sector, came as euro ministers in Brussels threatened to cut off crucial emergency assistance to Cyprus' embattled banks after business on Monday if no agreement was reached.
Without that EU funding, Cyprus' banks would have collapsed, dragging the country's economy down with them and threatening the small Mediterranean island's membership of the 17-strong group of European Union countries that use the euro -- all of which would have sent the EU's markets spinning.
"It's not that we won a battle, but we really have avoided a disastrous exit from the eurozone," Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said in Brussels.
"This decision is painful for the Cypriot people. This decision was a defeat of solidarity, of social cohesion, which are fundamental freedoms, fundamental principles of the European Union," Parliament President Yiannakis Omirou told AP.
The deal also angered Russia's leaders. It is believed that many of the affected large accounts belong to Russian depositers, and Moscow has been a major lender to prop up the Cypriot banking system. It's been estimated that Russians have more than $31 billion deposited in Cyprus banks.
Dmitry Medvedev reportedly likened the deal to "the stealing of what has already been stolen continues," the Telegraph reported, a reference to Vladimir Lenin's explanation of the Bolshevik seizure of capitalists' assets and property.
Last week Medvedev likened the bank seizure to "a certain period of time by Soviet authorities, who did not stand on ceremony when it came to people's savings."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, ordered the government to look into restructuring the terms of a more than $3 billion loan, a move that appeared to please EU ministers.
Cyprus banks, meanwhile, were rationing the amount of money they were dispensing to 100 euros, trying to avert a run on cash from nervous depositers.
Under the deal, Laiki, the country's second-largest bank, will be restructured, with all bond holders and people with more than 100,000 euros in their accounts facing significant losses. The bank will be dissolved immediately into a bad bank containing its uninsured deposits and toxic assets, with the guaranteed deposits being transferred to the nation's biggest lender, Bank of Cyprus.
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The Antelope Valley Big "T" Bridge and some adjoining roadways will be closed to all traffic for several hours the morning of Wednesday, November 4 for a bridge deck sealing operation. The bridge as well as all roadways between Military Road and "Y" Street will close beginning at 9 a.m. The west leg approach of Salt Valley Roadway also will be closed at 14th Street. prohibiting any traffic from going eastbound. The bridge and roadways will reopen once the material has time to dry, which is usually three to four hours.
The City's Engineering Services Division and the Nebraska Department of Roads will spray a concrete sealant on the bridges. It prevents road salt and de-icing chemicals from penetrating the new concrete and extends the life of the bridge decks. The product is very sticky, so the roadways are being closed to reduce the risk of spray affecting passing vehicles.
StarTran buses and UNL Shuttle bus routes will be altered to accommodate the bridge closure. Lighted message boards will be posted to help route traffic around the area.
Antelope Valley is a flood control, traffic improvement and community revitalization project in the core of the City. More information is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: antelope).


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The first chance to breathe underwater comes with the age of 8. You can try the fun of diving in a swimming pool or confined water.
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You will first get a 30 minutes theory lesson before you go in the shallow water to do some skills and make you feel comfortable with the dive equipment. After that you will make one exciting open water dive to maximum 12 meters depth.
The instructor will show you some fascinating fishes and corals. This course is only to introduce you to the underwater world and to give you an insight about what scuba diving is all about. A certificate that enables you to go diving will not be issued.
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The Open Water Course is considered the entrance level course. In 3-4 days our instructor will teach you how to use the scuba equipment and you will make some dives in the confined water where you will get familiar with the basic skills.
You will then have 4 open water dives in which you discover some great marine life.
The goal of the course is to make you feel comfortable with yourself underwater and learn how to communicate with your dive buddy. The theory is divided into 5 chapters with videos and a manual, which is included in the course.
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5 dives are included in this practical orientated course.The mandatory dives are the deep dive and the navigation dive. For the other 3 dives you can choose from night, multilevel, computer, boat or the naturalist dive. The deep dive we usually do at the dive spot Monad Shoal to a maximum allowed depth of 30 meters.
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This course is your step to become a professional and will give you an insight on how to guide divers underwater and assist an instructor when conducting a course.
You will be able to start a career as a dive guide after completing this course. For teaching dive courses you will need to do the PADI IDC course.
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SMS120 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
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Spruce Mountain Skiboards is a small design and manufacturing company based in New Hampshire, U.S.A. Our skiboards are short snow skis that turn easily and yet are completely stable at high speeds. We are currently in need of a new graphic design for our 120cm skiboard. We sell through retail dealers on the Internet such as http://www.skiboardsonline.com that specialize in skiboards. Our products have been sold world-wide for the past eight seasons and have a reputation as being one of the best-performing skiboards on the market.
Target Audience
This design contest is for a new graphic for our 120cm length skiboard which we have been selling for the past five years. The typical person that buys and rides these skiboards is 30 to 65 years old and can range from first-timers on skis to people with many years of skiing experience. Many of our customers ride only on this product, and almost all ride only on skiboards.
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The topsheet graphic (top side of the skiboard) can be different on each ski (left and right). Text should not extend from one board to the other, however. The graphic on the top of each board should be right-side-up from tip to tail. (No mirror imaging.)
Because the demographic for this product is generally mature, we are looking for a fairly conservative design that wears well over time. Shock value in the graphics is not required, nor are design elements usually thought of as appealing to a younger demographic desired. Please, no bombs, guns, violence, naked babes, skeletons or skulls. Trees seem to be a popular theme in ski graphics, but at this point are somewhat overworked as are the take-offs on the Japanese rising sun. Examples of the range of good current skiboard graphic design can be seen here even though a few of the designs don't meet all the criteria of this contest: http://www.skiboardsonline.com/Merc…=skiboards
Skiboard graphics tend to avoid emphasizing the length of the board unlike many Alpine ski graphics. The brand for this design is "Spruce" and the model name is "120". The brand name design should go only on the bottom of the boards in two colors and run lengthwise on the board. It should be the same on both boards. An example on one of the Revel8 brand boards is here: http://www.skiboardsonline.com/Merc…rvl8_emp06
The model name "120" shouldn't be overly prominent in the topsheet graphic. It can be somewhat integrated into the graphic as it is in the Revel8 "Condor" model here: http://www.skiboardsonline.com/Merc…_large.jpg
Requirements for colors are that they stay interesting to the customer over time. If customers are excited when they first see the graphic design, that's good, but if they are then tired of them after two months, that's not good.
We require Adobe Photoshop files for the topsheet graphic and Adobe Illustrator for the base graphic.
The three graphic designs, (two topsheet and one base) should each fill a rectangle 125cm long by 15cm wide. During manufacture, the graphics may be misaligned to one side or another or toward one end or another by as much as 0.7cm, so the designs will always bleed off around the edges of the skiboards and should not have critical design elements close to the edges.
Our website is: http://www.spruceski.com
A dimensioned drawing of the skiboard has been provided.
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When Colonial Williamsburg staged its first Antiques Forum in 1949, it hoped the art historians, antique dealers and antique collectors who gathered from across the country would leave the pioneering event feeling enlightened.
Instead, the remarks made by legendary curator Joseph Downs left many listeners with Southern roots wondering if their hearts and souls — if not their hair — had caught on fire.
Delivering a talk on regional furniture, the head of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was merely giving voice to the predominant opinion of the day when he observed that "little of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore."
But when he begin taking questions, a woman remembered only as "a little old Southern lady" responded as if he'd thrown down the gauntlet.
"Mr. Downs, did you make that statement out of prejudice or ignorance?" she asked.
"I had better plead ignorance," he replied, taking the first quick backward steps in an argument that was plagued by lack of knowledge from the outset.
Sixty-five years later, so many well-placed volleys have been fired in answer to this once-prevalent assumption that the question of artistic merit in early Southern decorative arts has been largely settled. But if any doubts remain, the latest salvo from Colonial Williamsburg breaks so much new ground that — its curators say — it's not just a celebration of an overlooked legacy but also a definitive rebuttal.
"Thirty years ago, we couldn't have done an exhibit as large and comprehensive as this — because we didn't know these things the way we do now," says chief curator Ronald L. Hurst, describing the encyclopedic array of 350 objects found in "A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South."
"As one of my colleagues has said, this is the largest exhibit of Southern material culture ever mounted — and part of the reason behind that diversity and depth is to reinforce the idea of just how much the South made. The idea that it didn't is a myth."
Funded by Williamsburg donors Michael and Carolyn McNamara, the landmark show was more than two years in the making, during which Hurst and Senior Curator Margaret Beck Pritchard spent long stretches of time studying early objects in scores of public and private collections throughout the South.
But its roots reach back to the milestone 1997 book "Southern Furniture, 1630-1830," which Hurst co-wrote with former CW furniture curator Jonathan Prown, now executive director and chief curator of The Chipstone Foundation in Wisconsin.
Where that widely admired study and an accompanying exhibit focused on 150 pieces of furniture, however, Colonial Williamsburg's new and much more comprehensive survey also embraces an extended range of media, including painting, prints, metals and ceramics as well as mechanical arts, firearms, architectural artifacts, rare books, maps, clothing and musical instruments.
"This is one of the most important shows in the history of Southern decorative arts — and it's the first that explores such a complete range of media," says Robert A. Leath, chief curator of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in North Carolina, who served as consulting curator.
"It's a very dense exhibit — and it's filled with great objects that we will never see come together again in our lifetime."
Among the flagship examples in the show is MESDA's great late-1700s Charleston library bookcase, which hasn't left the pioneering museum's building in Winston-Salem since it opened nearly 50 years ago.
Scores of other seldom or never-loaned masterpieces from more than two dozen collections across the region are also on view, underscoring the momentous nature of the exhibit.
"We had the gall to ask them all for five-year loans — and they all said, 'Yes,'" Hurst says.
"That's a long time for these places to be without so many key masterpieces. But they all bought into it because they wanted people to see their best things in a setting that would show off their importance."
In addition to established stars, the exhibit bristles with surprises, too, showcasing many objects that have only rarely or never been in a museum setting before, including a large number from regions that decorative arts scholars describe as the South's "Back Country."
Among them are a Kentucky chest of drawers blending influences from both the mid-Atlantic and New Orleans, an exuberant Georgia slab table and a Tennessee corner cupboard fabricated from wildly figured walnut.
"While many of the objects produced in the Chesapeake and Carolina Low Country display a heavy reliance on British taste, the adventurous and entrepreneurial character of the ethnically diverse populations that migrated in to the Back Country is immediately apparent," Pritchard says.
"These artisans produced highly sophisticated objects that exploited the availability of local materials, often profusely decorating them with motifs that reflect a wide array of cultural backgrounds."
Such discoveries sparked numerous revelations when Hurst and Pritchard returned to Williamsburg, bringing newly enlightened eyes to the study of their home collection.
Among the unexpected finds made in plain sight was a fancy painted writing chair previously believed to hail from Ohio or western Pennsylvania.
"It's now crystal clear that this is actually from central Kentucky," Hurst said, "and it's the best example that there is."
Similar surprises were found in a massive dresser that bears all the hallmarks of a Pennsylvania piece yet was actually made by Pennsylvania immigrants living and working in Chatham, N.C.
"We've had it for 50 years — and I didn't put it in the 'Southern Furniture' book because — like everybody else — I assumed it was Pennsylvania," Hurst says.
"That tells you something about the strength of that old bias. People thought it couldn't possibly be Southern. It was too good."
Erickson can be reached at 757-247-4783.
Want to go?
"A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South."
Where: DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, entered through the Public Hospital of 1773, Francis and Henry streets, Williamsburg
When: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily
Cost: $12.95 adults, $6.50 children 6-12
Information: 757-220-7724 or http://www.history.org/museums


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It's never too early to teach your children Elvish, and just as when learning real-world language, visual aids are often helpful. These pastel animal prints will get a child (or adult) started on their Elvish alphabet. It's as easy as Tinco, Ando, Súlë.
Denise, who runs the Etsy store tiedyejedi sells all manner of J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired prints and jewelry. These alphabet prints (which I'd love to see more of), would be perfect for a future Lord of the Rings fan's nursery. Each shows off a word in the Elvish Tengwar script: Aras for deer, Brôg for bear, and Cabor for frog. She'll also write a child's name and birthdate out in Elvish script, and has a few goofier prints on hand, like her "Keep Calm and Carry On" Elvish posters.(Good advice for any bearer of the One Ring.) Personally, I'm partial to her line of Middle Earth microbrew labels. Think we could get the Tolkien estate to license Mordor Imperial Stout?
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Ectodermal dysplasia is a group of conditions in which there is abnormal development of the skin, hair, nails, teeth, or sweat glands.
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Many gene defects can cause ectodermal dysplasias. The most common form of ectodermal dysplasia usually affects men. Other forms of the disease affect men and women equally.
People with ectodermal dysplasia may not sweat or may have decreased sweating because of a lack of sweat glands.
Children with the disease may have difficulty controlling fevers. Mild illness can produce extremely high fevers, because the skin cannot sweat and control temperature properly.
Affected adults are unable to tolerate a warm environment and need special measures to keep a normal body temperature.
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- Absent or decreased tears
- Decreased skin color (pigment)
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- Large forehead
- Lower than normal number of teeth
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- Poor hearing
- Poor temperature regulation
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- Thin, sparse hair
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There is no specific treatment for this disorder.
Some things you can do include:
Wear a wig and dentures to improve appearance.
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Spray the nostrils with saline nose spray often to remove debris and prevent infection.
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Having ectodermal dysplasia will not shorten your lifespan, but you must pay constant attention to temperature regulation and other problems associated with this condition.
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Here are some helpful hints to improving your epilepsy treatment
- Tell a physician immediately if you don't feel well when you take your medication, because in most cases, it is possible to adjust the medication or change to another one. It is important to always first talk to your physician before stopping or changing your seizure medication.
- Keep a "seizure log" or write down on a calendar when you have a seizure and any relevant details to bring to your appointment. This will help your physician help you better.
- Keep in your wallet or purse at all times a complete list of your medications with the names, doses, and times you take them.
- Check with your physician or pharmacist before taking any new medications, over the counter drugs or herbal treatments to make sure they will not interact with your seizure medication.
- If you start having more frequent or severe seizures than usual, call your physician.
- Make sure you understand how you can reach your physician when you have a problem.
- Most importantly, when something is unclear to you, ask questions! You are the most important partner in your epilepsy treatment.
Non-pharmacologic therapy (treatment other than medications)
- Other treatment options are available when medications are ineffective and disabling seizures continue. A Neurologist can determine which options are best for each patient. Here is a brief description of each:
- Ketogenic Diet: A special diet rich in fats and low in carbohydrates which must be carefully administered by a Physician and Nutritionist. This option is used with severe and multiple types of generalized seizures most frequently in children.
- Vagal Nerve Stimulator: This device is implanted in the chest wall and has a wire ("lead") which connects to a nerve in the neck. The device is programmed to deliver regularly timed electrical impulses to the nerve which are then relayed to the brain. This sometimes reduces seizures.
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- Disconnection Procedures: For some patients with disabling seizures, surgical procedures can be performed to limit the spread of seizures. This type of surgery is performed when it is not safe to resect the seizure focus. Examples are callosotomy or multiple subpial transections.


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Captain America Arrested For Texting D*ck Pics To Teen
Before you go any further hyperventilating, rest assured that we're not talking about Chris Evans/Captain America. Nope, instead it's James Weldon Alton, 29, who stars as Captain America at Universal Studios has been arrested on felony charges of transmitting harmful material to a minor (aka: he sent a teen girl his dick pics).
After the girl posted a picture of her posing with Cap on Instagram, the actor apparently struck up an online and texting relationship. Upon learning she's 16, the girl claims, he amped up his efforts by texting her a dick pick along with graphic sex talk.
Alton defends himself by saying he thought the girl was joking when she told him that she's underage. He's been fired from the theme park where he's worked since 2010.
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How pathetic. Age consent is dubious for a good percentage of teens. If you're sixteen you're not a child anymore. The world has seen fit to deem it so.
Each individual is different and people mature at different levels and most are not "coerced" out of their innocence.
I don't believe he was smart to do something like that, but I do believe it takes two to tango, as others have said. If she was truly uncomfortable, she could've blocked him. Simple. It's social media ffs.
People start going on their cute little rants, well here's a thought:
16 is not too young - that may depend a bit on the individual, but that's a completely normal biological and mental age to lose one's virginity.
If it's consensual, don't give me this statutory rape codswallop.
I've seen someone's life ruined with legal battles because the parents (like some of you) made a tempest in a teacup, when they didn't like the relationship their boy was having (albeit at the time, 3 months away from 18, AoC in Oz, but then, the other was only 20 at the time), and basically made my friend's life hell.
Educate yourselves and stop acting like a raging mob.
You, my good sir, are an ignorant idiot. Just because gay people like guys, it does not mean they like anything with orifices. They have standards too. More than half of society is at least bisexual. Heterosexuality is of the minority. So I'm pretty sure that you have spent time with a homosexual male and not known about it. How come, then, you are not "fag"?
I am going to have side with common sense and the absurdity of our own legal system... and well, the fact we are young country compared and really should take a beat from cultures centuries and centuries older than ourselves... If law allows for 14 to 17 year old minors to be tried as adults for murder it stands to reason that there are minors out there who are adult enough. Sexually to be disclosed as minors... However, that is not the case with all... We have to evolve with the times and evolution of our young culture... Perhaps instead of making blanket statements... We should look at individual cases...
If I have learned anything since I was working and going to school at the age of 15 yrs of age. There is always two sides of the story. It takes two to tango. In todays world, children are not children anymore. They know very well about the birds and he bee's. I did not have my first intimate incounter until I was about 30yrs of age. Of course, I was very dedicated to the Catholic Church and was taking care of Mother whom died of Bone Cancer on my arms at the age of 57. I am 53 years of age and am a 15 year survivor. (I come from a family of Cancers). I digress, I will mention that you can try a minor for murdering someone, as an adult, but their is double jeoperdy. A judge and jury will always side with the sad little girl......LOL!!!!!. Mr. America can show me his PeePee any time. After mother died and I retired as a Bank Official , I promised myself to speak out against Stupitiy that I saw much of from my clients. I initiated Global Accounts and the worst clients I encountered were from Mexico , yet I am Latin. Mother being from Mexico did not like her own kind. You don't like what I have said....to bad.
In regard to the theme park, obviously they have a duty of care to their customers and it was from the theme park in which they met so really Captain Cock Pic should have had some professionalism and intelligence about him to have known that sending these texts was inappropriate. Despite being way to soon in their relationship. I agree that both boys and girls at 16 years of age in today's society are far from angels and know a hell of a lot more about sex than I did at 16, an I'm 36 now; they are sexual ticking time bombs, we've all been there. I fully support the theme parks decision. Lets hope Captain Cockshot uses this as a learning experience and finds suitable employment soon :)
What he did is wrong, legally and ethically. Nonetheless, your comment about "neglecting her innocence' is hysterical. Do you know any average 16 year old girls? I do - my own granddaughter. Trust me! A 16 year old girl in this culture is NOT innocent by any means unless she is sheltered within an Amish community, a right wing Bible School, or a nunnery. Get real, man.Before I came out as gay in college, I had a highschool girl friend (to fit in). She was constantly urging ME to have sex with her. This country's continual denial of sexuality in teens is just absurd.
16 is the age of consent in most states. This would be a non-issue outside FL. Is she legally allowed to work and pay taxes? Is she able to drive a motor vehicle, which could be used as a deadly weapon? Is she able to own a rifle and hunt? She's a young woman NOT a child. Didn't a 14 y/o boy just get tried as an adult for forced sex? Hypocrites.
In the state of Florida a 16 year old girl does not have the rights to consent to acts deemed to be adult in nature; these acts can even be as stupid and simple as holding the hands of a partner outside or exchanging a kiss with someone.
So in this case she actually is a child, as an adult man was sending nude photos of his genitals to her in a state that the age of consent is 17 within 2 years of their age.
Or in English, unless she is 17 and he was 19 this is a felony; and as a former Floridian he got off easy.
honestly, i kind of agree. If you can try a 14yo as an adult, how can you try an adult for texting dick picks to a 16yo calling her a minor. it is a double standard. Well he should be fired, he should get in legal trouble for it, but she isn't a little girl she is a young woman and hes probably going to get some kind of sex offender rap for it which is completely overboard.


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Monday, October 3, 2011
How to turn a girl into Abe Lincoln
I started with a fairly thin, dry scumble to partially cover the old paint. Then I drew the new subject with a brush. Then shadows, halftones, reflected light, and background.
Painting a new study of an old one is an old tradition. Sargent did it often with his oil landscapes. One reason for doing this (apart from being a cheapskate and reusing old panels) is that the old painting suggests random colors and textures that are fun to build over.
One caution. For finished work, it's not really conservationally sound because of the risks of pentimenti, but it's OK for studies.
This was a sample demo for my recent workshop on painting in colored light.
Previously: Painting in Colored Light
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4 comments:
- My Pen Name said...
Wish i had a sub par like that. Also good that you turned it over, especially when doing another head study that way it's not 'looking at you' pulling you back to painting its lines rather than the new subject (this happens to me when i paint over old studies)
- October 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- Rich said...
A nice way of recycling - sub par or not.
I hope your Abe Lincoln will be keeping on a par with your future painting progress.
Wouldn't be surpised if he'd be overpainted as well in the near future; by another fantastic Gurney Journey product;-)
- October 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- Steve said...
I certainly produced some pieces in that workshop that deserve this treatment. Thanks, as always, for a great idea.
- October 3, 2011 at 8:19 PM
- mica-to said...
mind sharing what exactly about the old study you found sub-par? help the rest of us understand better the way to look at your own work :-)
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Surenkamp Sends Wabash to 15th Victoryby Brent Harris • January 22, 2011 Share:
Sophomore guard Jordan Surenkamp exploded for a career-high 15 points to lead the Wabash basketball team to an 83-55 win at Oberlin Saturday afternoon.
Surenkamp, whose previous scoring best came in a six-point effort against Earlham as a freshman, was perfect from the field. He connected on all six shot attempts, including two 3-point attempts, to lead the Little Giants in scoring. He also grabbed four rebounds, handed out three of Wabash's 19 assists, and made two steals in just 17 minutes of court time.
Wabash took an early 4-2 lead on consecutive baskets by Wes Smith before Oberlin's Pat Bernhard drilled a three for a 5-4 Yeomen lead. Wabash would answer with 13 consecutive points to take a 12 points advantage that would never fall below double digits for the rest of the afternoon.
Surenkamp tallied his first assist with 11:23 left to play in the first period when he found Derek Bailey open for a trey to give Wabash a 22-7 lead. Surenkamp added his first basket two minutes later with a layup to put the Little Giants up by 19. Wabash would take a 50-28 halftime lead before outscoring the Yeomen 33-27 in the final period.
Smith finished with 13 points in 26 minutes of action. Bailey added 10 points, as did senior Ben Burkett. Burkett led Wabash with 11 rebounds to record his first career double-double.The Little Giants shot 50.9 percent, hitting 29-of-57 shots. Wabash was 9-of-17 from 3-point range and 16-of-21 from the free throw line. The Little Giants outrebounded Oberlin 39-24.
Andrew Fox led Oberlin (1-17, 0-9 NCAC) with 14 points. Charlie Crawford-Silva added 13 points.
Wabash moves to 15-2 overall and 7-2 in North Coast Athletic Conference play with the victory. The Little Giants travel to Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday night.