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A Disease on the Rise: More Than Half of California Adults Are Affected by Diabetes—and the State Is Doing Little to Prevent ItDecember 05 2017
A teenage girl walks the hardscrabble streets of Richmond, a Bay Area city, rapping about the challenges of drugs, violence—and diabetes.
Here, she says, big dreams are "coated in sugar," and innocence is "corrupted with Coke bottles and Ho Ho cupcakes."
She's performing in a video by a local youth group that counts diabetes—a national epidemic that has hit California hard—as one of the killers in her neighborhood. The disease, which is spreading and driving up health costs, now impacts more than half of the state's adults, especially people of color and the poor.
Experts say it doesn't have to be that way—that prevention programs can slow the march of the illness and save money at the same time. But efforts to legislate prevention—for example, taxing the sugary drinks whose consumption contributes to diabetes—have stalled in the face of heavy opposition by the well-funded beverage lobby.
The state will soon begin funding a program for anti-diabetes education, counseling and lifestyle coaching, but it's a modest investment regarded only as a start.
"Investing more now in diabetes prevention and education will save our state billions of dollars down the road," said state Sen. Bill Monning, a Democrat from Carmel who has proposed soda taxes in the past, and tried unsuccessfully this year to require warning labels on sweetened drinks.
A UCLA study last year found that 9 percent of adults in California have been diagnosed with diabetes, a chronic condition in which the body does not process sugar well, which can lead to blindness, heart disease, stroke and infections resulting in amputations. Forty-six percent—including about a third of those under 40—are pre-diabetic, with elevated sugar levels that will likely develop into diabetes.
That's 55 percent of the state's adult population swept up by the disease.
Treating diabetes costs government, private insurers and patients about $27.6 billion a year in California, for such expenses as doctor visits, testing, medication, surgery and hospital costs, according to the American Diabetes Association. The state and federal governments shoulder most of that expense through Medi-Cal, California's health program for those living in poverty, as well as the national Medicare system that covers seniors.
A state audit of the California Department of Public Health diabetes-prevention efforts released two years ago said that California lagged in such spending. The state spent about $1 million from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a sum that has since grown to $1.4 million, but did not devote state money to programs. New York, the audit points out, was spending $7.2 million, although some of that money went to anti-obesity programs.
Beginning in July, with the next budget, $5 million in state funds will go toward a nutrition and exercise program for pre-diabetic enrollees in Medi-Cal. That project, based on a CDC model called the Diabetes Prevention Program, can cut the risk of developing diabetes in half, according to the CDC. In addition, it is expected to save about $45 million in treatment expenses over the next five years, said Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, a Kingsburg Democrat and physician who co-chairs a health subcommittee.
Flojaune Cofer, an epidemiologist and director of state policy and research for the nonprofit Public Health Advocates, said that about 25,000 people will be able to participate each year.
"We can't just wait until people get sick, because it's not a viable system," Cofer said.
The largest state pension fund, CalPERs, began offering the CDC program to through its insurance plans this year, and Medicare will offer it nationally next year. It is also offered by some private insurers.
But adult-onset diabetes, or Type 2, doesn't get the same attention as some other deadly diseases, such as cancer. Nor is it considered as blameless as Type 1 diabetes, a childhood disease diagnosed when the body produces little or no insulin.
Type 2 is considered mostly preventable by changes in diet and physical activity. But its spread has increased 32 percent in California in the past decade, according to state statistics. The disproportionate impact on low-income communities and people of color may partly explain why it gets short shrift, experts say.
"There's a general belief that it's slothful, lazy people making bad choices," said Dean Schillinger, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; he's a leading expert on diabetes and prevention, and was chief of the state's diabetes-control program from 2008 through 2013. "But if you have to choose between buying a fast-food meal for your family of five for $15 or going to Whole Foods and spending $80 on health food, it's very rational what people are doing."
Add to those economics the marketing of beverages and snack foods to children, especially through targeted advertising in low-income communities, and you have a natural intersection for the disease, he said. A federally funded study released this year found that diabetes grew at a rate of 4.8 percent among children each year between 2002 and 2012.
"It's an unacceptable state of affairs," Schillinger said. "We can and must do something to prevent young people from having an amputation or being blind by the age of 30."
Diabetes is also increasing among white people, Schillinger noted, just not as quickly. Sedentary lifestyles, fat-rich diets and time spent in front of screens large and small cut across all communities.
Another contributor is a health care industry that has been primarily focused on treatment instead of prevention, said Monning: "Prevention, including diabetes prevention, is not profit-generating."
He and a handful of other state legislators have been trying to pass measures to slow the growth of diabetes for years, focusing on the role of sugar-sweetened beverages—because they are the leading cause of increased calories in children. The lawmakers' targets include not just sodas, but also other sugary drinks camouflaged as more healthful: sports drinks, juices and enriched waters.
Monning tried this year to require labels on certain drinks to state that "drinking beverages with added sugar contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay." Other efforts have involved a statewide tax on such drinks, but that requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature and has been a hard sell.
The beverage industry argues that the causes of diabetes are complex, involving much more than soda, and that the best way to build strong, healthy communities is to work together to "help people balance their calories and improve their diets," said Lauren Kane, a spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association.
The group says taxes don't work, and labels are misleading.
"America's beverage companies are already helping people cut their sugar intake from beverages through our collective efforts to reduce portion sizes and introduce smaller, more convenient packages with less sugar," Kane said.
But Monning blames the industry for pushing hard enough—and spreading enough money around Sacramento—to scare off the "yes" votes needed to pass preventive measures. The beverage group has spent $282,000 on lobbying in California so far this year, according to its required reports to the state. The two largest soda makers, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, have spent about $248,000. And in the last five years, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have contributed nearly $783,000 to state candidate campaigns, while the American Beverage Association gave $135,000, the filings show.
There has been a slight decline nationally in the consumption of soda, studies show, although the void may be at least partly filled with other sweet drinks. Experts credit local measures to tax sweetened beverages and require warning labels on billboards that advertise them, among other moves.
Such taxes have been imposed in Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland. Other cities, including Richmond, have tried and failed to pass them. San Francisco approved a requirement two years ago that certain beverage ads be labeled, but the beverage industry sued to block the measure in a case that is ongoing.
More local taxes and labeling requirements could prompt state lawmakers into action eventually, as plastic-bag bans throughout the state did, said Monning. Once a tipping-point number of cities outlawed the bags, it became easier for the Legislature to adopt a statewide policy.
Schillinger said he has seen firsthand that prevention efforts can stem, or even reverse, an epidemic tide. When he started his medical career, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, half of his patients were dying from HIV infection, he recalls. Within 15 years, that epidemic was pushed back by a combination of grassroots activity, well-funded public health work and scientific research, he said.
"At that time, one out of 15 to 20 of my patients had diabetes," he said. "Flash forward, and I have no patients with AIDS who are dying. Our AIDS ward is empty. But instead, we have the diabetes epidemic," and half his patients have the disease.
Schillinger lauds community awareness efforts, like the videos posted by Youth Speaks as part of its diabetes-prevention program. Even armed with statistics and an M.D. degree, Schillinger said, he has participated in too many disappointing policy discussions with lawmakers about diabetes.
"There has to be a different way to talk about this," he said, "and it has to come from different people."
CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.
Sickly Sweet: An Effort to Put Warning Labels on Sugary Beverages Gets Killed By IndustryMay 08 2015
The metal tab pulls back with a familiar click-click-hissssss as bubbles rush to the top of the can. The alluring scent wafts through the air, a familiar smell that hints at what's to come.
If you're drinking a 20-ounce Mountain Dew, you're consuming the equivalent of 18 teaspoons of sugar. A same-sized Pepsi equals 16 teaspoons, and a Coke comes out to 15. A 16-ounce Rockstar Energy Drink slams more than 15 teaspoons.
Here's the problem with what you're drinking, some scientists say: Humans are not biologically designed to deal with that much liquid sugar at once. Since there's no digestion involved, it enters the bloodstream and is absorbed more quickly than food.
As it does, the sugar overwhelms the pancreas, the organ tasked with regulating blood sugar, and over time wears it out. Welcome to Type 2 diabetes.
Harold Goldstein, a doctor of public health, is the founding executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA), a Davis-based nonprofit whose mission is to look for solutions to what scientists say is an alarming increase in diabetes and obesity in California.
About five years ago, the CPHA commissioned a study by the UC Center for Weight and Health to see if there was a correlation between obesity and sugary beverage consumption.
The UC study found that Americans on average were consuming 278 more calories a day than they were about 2 1/2 decades before, with 43 percent of those calories defined as new beverage calories.
"I had no idea what the answer was going to be, but what they came up with was simple and compelling," Goldstein says. "I was stunned. It was twice as much as I guessed."
We weren't just eating more. We were drinking more. And mostly, we were drinking more sugar, a phenomenon that coincided with the "soda wars" of the '70s and '80s, where Coca Cola and Pepsi went head-to-head on television advertising campaigns. It also coincided with an increase in portion sizes: In the '70s and '80s, a 12-ounce can was the norm. Now, fast-food restaurants offer 32-ounce cups with free refills.
Another surprising statistic, this from the National Institutes of Health, via Goldstein: A quarter of teenagers, or 23 percent, have pre-diabetes, an increase from 9 percent just 10 years ago.
"These beverages are tricking the body," Goldstein says. "The pancreas goes wild and the liver says, 'Look at all this. I'd better save it for a rainy day and turn it into fat.' There is a cohort of teens that will be entering the health-care system with higher rates of diabetes than ever."
The grim statistics are why state Sen. Bill Monning, a Carmel Democrat, backed by CCPHA and the Health Officers Association of California, continues a battle with the beverage industry.
On Feb. 11, Monning introduced Senate Bill 203, which would have required a warning label to be placed on the packaging of sugar-sweetened beverages including sodas, sweet teas, sports drinks and energy drinks. The label would have been required on drinks with 75 or more calories per 12 ounces and would read as follows: "STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING—Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay."
However, the beverage industry was willing not only to put a lot of muscle and money behind the effort to stop him, but also to try to stop information they deem harmful to their industry from reaching the public—and their efforts paid off on April 29, when the bill was effectively killed by Senate Health Committee. Only four of the nine members voted for the bill; one senator voted against it, with four abstaining.
Last June, on the same day Bill Monning's previous labeling bill died in the state Assembly Health Committee, PepsiCo spent $2,200 on a catered event for 13 legislators and more than three-dozen legislative staff members from the Latino Legislative Caucus, as the Sacramento Bee reported. Of the legislators who attended, two voted against SB 1000, the previous iteration of the labeling bill.
In 2014, the American Beverage Association California Political Action Committee, also known as the American Beverage Association Strategic Advocacy Fund, spent $11.8 million on various candidates and measures. Of that, $9.24 million went to the successful opposition of a soda tax floated before San Francisco voters. The group also spent $2.43 million to defeat a Berkeley soda tax, which passed despite fierce industry opposition.
The PAC donated $4,100 to Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, who this year became head of the Latino Legislative Caucus, and the same to the Senate campaign of Ben Hueso, the San Diego Democrat who is vice chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus.
It put $27,200 into Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign and $3,000 into Attorney General Kamala Harris', too. It gave $46,000 to the Democratic State Central Committee of California and $10,000 to the California Republican Party.
Fast-forward to this year. The PAC started 2015 with $504,000 in the bank. The spokesman for the Latino Legislative Caucus PAC and foundation, Roger Salazar, is now the spokesman for CalBev, also known as the California-Nevada Beverage Association, the trade association representing the non-alcoholic beverage industry in California and Nevada. The Cal-Nev Soft Drink Association PAC spent $37,371 on various campaigns in 2014, mostly as $1,000 contributions to individual legislators.
In the hours and days that followed Monning's announcement of his labeling bill, CalBev went on the offensive.
In a written statement, CalBev Executive Director Bob Achermann said obesity and diabetes are more complicated than a warning label. Monning's bill is "misguided," and singles out soft drinks while ignoring sugar-rich cupcakes, donuts and processed foods. It's also riddled with loopholes that will confuse consumers, according to the statement.
For example, the release says, fountain sodas purchased at restaurants with table service will be exempt from labeling. The release also calls out milk-based products like Frappuccinos and lattes, which contain as much sugar and more calories than soft drinks.
Salazar says the industry has taken on an initiative to reduce sugar-sweetened consumption 20 percent by 2025.
"There are ways you can have a collaborative effort, but bills like this seek to demonize an industry with a shocking label when there are other, broader causes to obesity and diabetes we should be looking at," Salazar says. "It's about balancing calories, and there's no question we support programs that educate people about nutrition and exercise."
But the statement that there could be a collaborative effort came as news to Monning.
"They haven't proposed any compromises to us that would work for them," Monning says. "I think we've maintained open and cordial conversation. Their position on labeling is: They provide caloric information on the label, and consumers have that at their fingertips."
Monning acknowledges other sources of sugar are out there, but says none are as dangerous.
"While sugar is in other foods," he says, "medical evidence is clear that liquid consumption of sugar is more immediately damaging. When you eat it, more is eliminated through digestion."
A version of this story first appeared in the Monterey County Weekly.
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A battery-powered revolution
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Battery megafactories are on their way, heralding a potential "battery revolution," says Simon Moores. Although they're already ubiquitous, much more widespread than only a decade ago, he says batteries remain in a relatively "young stage of development." Electric vehicles and large-scale storage for utilities could bring on a new phase demanding much more of the minerals and metals they require.
Speaking at this year's Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, Moores dated the first commercial battery-powered watch to 1969. By the late 1990s, battery-powered tools, cellphones and mp3 players became common. By the mid-2000s laptops attained widespread use, followed by the "2007 smartphone revolution powered by Apple." Tablets and other devices gained popularity. "It's only now that we've evolved into a truly mobile world. You can just tell by the amount of mobile devices you have in your pocket now compared to 10 years ago," the Benchmark Mineral Intelligence analyst pointed out.
But we're now entering a new phase of fully electric vehicles—not hybrids—and electricity storage for utilities, he said.
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The impending revolution wouldn't be the first. The Apple iPhone triggered the "hand-held revolution" in 2007, not just outselling competitors but creating enormous additional demand. Its predecessor, the Nokia N70, sold a million handsets in a year, making it the best-selling smartphone of the time, Moores said. Less than two years later the iPhone emerged, selling a million handsets in 72 days. Last September the iPhone 6 sold 10 million in 72 hours.
Obviously that calls for more batteries, but there's an additional factor that's often missed, Moores emphasized. Notwithstanding miniaturization of electronics, batteries are getting bigger. In 2012 the iPhone 5 used roughly nine grams of graphite, he said. Two years later its successor took up to 19 grams. Similar increases apply to lithium and cobalt.
As for electric vehicles, the Nissan Leaf remains the top seller. But Tesla Motors' approach "could be the tipping point," Moores thinks. A key innovation was to build a car around the battery, "basically about the size of the chassis of the car" and more than twice the size of Leaf's battery.
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Tesla's factory, which the company hopes to see operating in 2017, would have a 35-GWh capacity. "The biggest plant today is about two gigawatt-hours."
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday: Books That People Have Been Telling Me That I Must Read
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Great list! JoJo Moyes is definitely one I've heard raves about. Of course, John Green is one you see everywhere too. I've yet to read any of his books but I know that I should.ReplyDelete
I need to read some JoJo Meyers and I have also been recommended Graceling a lot! I read Looking for Alaska recently and really liked it, more than I thought I would. Great list!ReplyDelete
Cassi @ My Thoughts Literally
I loved Thirteen Reasons Why! I hope you get to read it soon :)ReplyDelete
Great list -- I didn't get the Graceling hype. It was just ok for me but people love that book!!ReplyDelete
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Great list!! I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school and enjoyed it. Game of Thrones and Looking for Alaska are both still on my TBR list as well.ReplyDelete
Here is my TTT: http://www.jacquesbooknook.blogspot.com/2014/08/top-ten-tuesday-books-people-tell-me-i.html
Nice picks! Read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school as well, but I guess I was always the odd duck out because I didn't enjoy many of the classics thrust upon us!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 19, 2014 at 5:32 PM
I loved To Kill A Mockingbird, it really captures something about the time and the place, to my mind. But I hate being told I have to read something, really; it makes me all stubborn. So I don't say you have to read it!ReplyDelete
My TTT.
I definitely recommend To Kill a Mockingbird and Thirteen Reasons Why. I forgot to put Game of Thrones on my list, but that is one of the ones that I'm recommended the most by people in my non-blogger life. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete


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Ginger-headed coke-monkey Lindsay Lohan may actually get away with having blood in her cocaine system, because that clearly has worked for her in the past.
The second test Lindsay failed was positive for Adderall --a delicious, and legal, meth substitute-- but the Court may not give any jail time, because of some wackiness with the paperwork that went from the court to the Probation Office.
The Probation Department is recommending 30 days probation for the first failed drug test which showed a positive reading for cocaine.
"After a few hours of quiet reflection, and playing bongos on my girlfriend's face and upper torso, allegedly, I have come to a conclusion," said Lohan's failure of a father, Michael. "I believe that her probation violation should be punished with more probation. That'll... that'll help her, right?"
Sources say Judge Fox could sentence Lindsay to 30 days in jail for the cocaine violation, which will translate to less time than it'll take to braid her cellmate's hair, because overcrowding will force them to release crackhead Lohan the same day.
"The Judge could just revoke her bail, send her ass to jail, and set a hearing date 30 days later,"said the Los Angeles prosecutor, whose 0.0005% conviction rate is the highest in the county. "This way, she can't be released early."
"I want to cut her a break," said Judge Fox. "I'm sure she won't reoffend. Wait... why are you laughing?"


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ASG ups credit facility to $300 million
BELTSVILLE, Md.—ASG in January upped its credit facility to $300 million.
This is the second time the super-regional has increased its credit limit in 10 months. In April 2013, ASG increased its credit facility from $250 million to $270 million.
At that time, Ralph Masino, ASG CFO, said that the super-regional had the opportunity to up the revolver by another $30 million. The same is true this time. "We increased it by $30 million and we reset the ability to add another $30 million if we'd like to do that at some point," he said.
Led by CapitalSource, it involved the same nine lenders who were a part of the revolver in April 2013. "We feel good about the current bank group [that all came through with] a commitment," Masino said.
Also in January, ASG acquired National Alarm Systems of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., a buy that is expected to propel the super-regional to $10 million in RMR by the end of 2014.


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This has nothing to do with the actual act of breastfeeding. I'm a loud and proud breastfeeder, 9 months and counting. I'm not committed to child-led weaning, but I am happy to go on nursing past a year and have absolutely no problem with anyone breastfeeding her child for as long as either she or the child wants. Comments like "You're going to have to wean her once she gets teeth,"* or "If they can ask for it, they're too old" make me roll my eyes so hard that I fear they'll get stuck in the back of my head some day.
But I haaaaate the word "breastfeeding." Why? The word "breast." I'm no prude, I just don't understand why we can't just call it "feeding" or, my preferred word, "nursing." ("Nursing" gets at all those lovely non-nutritive reasons to, you know, nurse.) Notice that no one ever says, "Excuse me while I go bottle-feed my baby," and certainly no one ever says, "It's fine with me if you want to bottle-feed your baby." Adding the word "breast" just drives home the singularity of the act: breastfeeding in our culture is non-normative to the extent that it has to be specified.
So, you'll know the breastfeeders have won when we can all stop using that stupid word.
*Yeah, tell that one to the little teething shark-baby I am currently nursing.


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PDFA | Pole dance in Amsterdam
The biggest…
and most modern studio in the Benelux
Come and dance in this beautiful studio in Amsterdam!
2 Locations
Locations in Amsterdam Oost & Noord
Check out our schedule with more than 70 classes a week!
16 poles of 4.5m height
Pole dancing is a sport that combines strength, flexibility, elegance and focus. It has many influences from acrobatics and dancing, from modern to sexy.
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Pole Dance Factory Amsterdam is the biggest pole dance studio in the Netherlands. Join us for classes for classes either on a recreational or professional level!
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Anastasiia Iamshchikova
Anastasiia is a Russian Exotic Pole Dancer and makes sure PDFA gets it's shot Russian style with her classes Russian Exotic and Exotic Floorwork.
Anastasiia Iamshchikova
Anastasiia is an Exotic pole dancer and she was born and raised in Moskou, Russia. As a young girl she did Ballet, you'll see this in her elegant movement and flexibility. In 2008 she started het professional carreer as an Exotic pole dancer. She taught pole dancing, gogo dance and striptease at different dance companies. Since she has been living in Amsterdam she became part of the PDFA team to enforce it with her Russian influences. In her classes Russian Exotic and Exotic Floorwork you will learn that famous Russian style. Anastasiia is a great teacher who loves to share her passion for pole dancing with her students.
Anouk Blom
Anouk is a true powerchick and helps everyone to nail that Iron X in her Power Pole classes.
Anouk Blom
Anouk saw the pole dancing light in March 2011 en she has been addicted tot he sport ever since. She had been dancing for fun her entire life, from ballroom to streetdance, but this felt like true love. Her focus is strength and she makes an Iron X, Human Flag and deadlift look easy, but she also loves to give you all her tips and tricks in her Power Pole classes to nail them. She also teaches Beginners 1, Beginners 2 and Intermediate and she likes seeing her students progressing the most. After that she likes looking for fun eighties and nineties music to play in her classes.
Ilse Winter
Ilse has a natural flexibility and loves to focus on technique. You'll find both in her classes Get Flexy and Beginners 2.
Ilse Winter
Ilse started classical ballet as a little girl. Soon Modern Jazz, Streetdance, Gymnastics and Ballroom Dancing followed. In 2012 Pole Dancing draw her attention because she wanted to combine acrobatics with dancing. Because of her background and natural flexibility pole dancing suited her like a glove. At PDFA she developped a love for Exotic and Sexy Pole and she' crazy about handstands and flexitricks. She teaches Beginners 2 and Get Flexy. What she loves about teaching is seeing students grow in their own way and see them being amazed by what their bodies are capable of.
Juul de Metz
Juul is our pole artist by heart. She comes up with the most creative combo's and choreo's for her Sexy Pole and technique classes.
Juul de Metz
Juul did martial arts since the age of fifteen. Taekwondo, Capoeira, Kickboxing and Mixed Material Arts gave her strength and technique, but she missed music and grace in her sport. During her internship in Great-Britain she tried pole dancing and that changed her world. Back in Holland she kept pole dancing and nowadays it's part of her lifestyle, she couldn't live without it. She teaches, but she is also a great and unique performer. Creativity, cool combo's and perserverance is what you'll find at her classes. She teaches Beginners 1, Beginners 2, Intermediate, Advanced and Sexy Pole.
Aline van Vlodrop
Aline is one of the PDFA oldies: she started pole dancing in 2012 at USC together with instructors Sharon and Juul.
Aline van Vlodrop
Aline is one of the PDFA oldies: she started pole dancing in 2012 at USC together with instructors Sharon and Juul. When the first PDFA studio opened in 2013, it felt like her second home. From an early age she always loved to dance. She did ballet, streetdance, gogo dancing and a pre-course at Lucia Marthas. She found the perfect combination in pole dance and her pole dance goal is to become more flexible and to nail her Iron X. She now teaches the pole dance courses at USC herself and she substitutes for our regular instructors. She loves giving tips to her students to help them reach their pole dance goal!
Maria Kuchowicz
Maria is a modern dancer by heart. She combines het dancetechniques with the pole in an unique way in her Pol'ography classes.
Maria Kuchowicz
Maria has been dancing since she was five years old and is a modern dancer by heart. She is an educated modern ballet dancer and did her education at the National Ballet Academy in Poland, where she is from. She continued her studies at the Brucker Private University, Austria. Her first encounter with pole dancing was in 2014, when she saw a pole performance by Tatjana van Onna. She started following classes and after a year of pole training she started to combine her own dancing style with pole techniques. The result of this is an unique polestyle which she is happily to teach you in her Pol'ography classes.
Yasmin Delil
Yasmin is our handstand queen but she is also crazy about pole dance.
Yasmin Delil
She started taking classes at PDFA in 2015. A colleague convinced her that it would be totally her cup of tea. As a kid she was always into dancing: tap dance, hiphop, contemporary dance, so why not try pole dance? After her first class she was hooked and she has been with us ever since. She totally rocks the spinning pole. Her ultimate pole dance goal is to be able to deadlift and to master the janeiro. She started teaching at PDFA in 2018 and loves to share her passion with others.
Sharon Gieske
Sharon is PDFA sweetheart from the start and she has a very accessible and fun polestyle. Try out her techniqueclasses and Sexy Pole.
Sharon Gieske
Sharon tried a lot of sports before she started pole dancing. Dancing, ballsports, martial arts, but nothing could really hold her attention for a longer time. Out of curiosity she tried poledancing in 2013 and it became clear pole dancing was here to stay. Sharon likes the endless challenge pole dancing gives her. Whether it is learning new tricks, discovering you're dancing style or getting more flexible, you're never done. Since February 2014 Sharon teaches Beginners 1, Beginners 2, Sexy Pole and Spinny Pole. Pole dancing is not just sports, it's a lifestyle.
Tatjana van Onna
Tatjana is the owner of PDFA and one of the best pole dancers of the Netherlands. She teaches almost all the advanced classes.
Tatjana van Onna
Tatjana started pole dancing in 2011 and with her background of gymnastics and fitness she developed quickly and became one of the best pole dancers in the Netherlands. She participated in a lot of competitions, had pole dancing classes abroad, performed a lot and became a teacher in 2012. Early 2013 she decided to open her own studio and Pole Dance Factory Amsterdam was born in september that year. In 2017, the second studio opened. Besides being the boss, she loves teaching Spinny Pole, Sexy Pole. Advanced and Get Flexy. It gives her energy and satisfaction, and she hopes to transfer this energy to her students.
Valentina Zaytseva
Valentina loves to push herself and you will never hear her say 'I can't'. She teaches her technique and get flexy classes this way as well.
Valentina Zaytseva
Valentina has always been into sports. For ten years she did athletics and ballet. She felt greatly attracted to both sports. In 2015 she took her first pole dancing class. In pole dancing she found the combination of the two sports she practised before: the combination of flexibility and strength. She finds the harmony between gracefulness and power in pole dancing breathtaking. Pole dancing enables her to seek the boundaries of what the body is capable of. In her classes Beginners 1, Beginners 2 and Get Flexy she helps her students to seek the boundries as well.
Feliz Eykenloof
Feliz is our quiet one, but don't underestimate the tricks and combo's she can do! Try it yourself in her beginners 1 and Intermediate classes.
Feliz Eykenkloof
As a young girl Feliz loved to do acrobatic tricks with her friends at the schoolyards. When she turned eight years old she started gymnastics but when puberty kicked in she stopped. After highschool she picked up sports again, but she couldn't find any sport where she felt at home. Athletics, badminton, swimming and fitness couldn't steal her heart. But luckily pole dancing did when she tried it in 2013. She never stopped pole dancing since, in fact, she is more sport-obsessed than ever. In her classes Intermediate and Pole Beginners 1 she will try to get you as obsessed as she is with pole dancing.
Gabriela Bartonkova
Gabriela was born in the Czech Republic where she was trained as a classical ballet dancer since an early age.
Gabriela Bartonkova
Gabriela was born in the Czech Republic where she was trained as a classical ballet dancer since an early age. As a teenager she moved to London where she started her aerial education at The Circus Space. Her passion for aerial arts was a fact. At the moment Gabriela lives in Amsterdam where she works as an aerial performance artist with Sol'Air and Flying Artwork companies and as an Aerial Arts teacher. Gabriela's main focus is on aerial silks and aerial loop. She likes to bring strength and flexibility moves into flawless aerial dance and pays attention to performance skills. She loves sharing her passion with her students.
Nicole Cole
Nicole is our Twerk Queen by heart. If you think Twerk is easy, think twice and try out her hard but fun twerk classes.
Nicole Cole
Nicole is originally from Poland and she has been dancing since the age of five. She started with gymnastics but soon she discovered dancestyles like cheerleading, modern jazz, showdance, gogo dancing, salsa, twerk and dancehall. As long as it is sexy and feminine, Nicole knows how to handle it. She is known for her feminine and sensual style which is a mix of everything she learned so far. Her true love is Dancehall combined with Twerk, so this is what you will mainly find yourself doing in her Twerk classes. She a a true animal on stage and she dances a lot in (inter)national clubs and on parties.
Daisy van Dort
Daisy van Dort teaches Aerial hoop at PDFA. She combines her love for dance, pole and hoop at Pole Dance Factory Amsterdam.
Daisy van Dort
She danced since an early age, but once she discovered that Dance Academy just wasn't her thing, she let go of this passion. Soon after this decision she was asked to teach jazz, ballet and contemporary dance and just like that, dancing was back in her life. A couple of years later she left The Netherlands to travel, work and study abroad and once again she left dancing behind. Finally in New Zealand she bumped into pole dancing and half a year later she started teaching. Four years later she moved back to Amsterdam where she started her journey into aerial hoop. Besides hoop she loves pole and Daisy is determined to never leave her passion behind again!
Maroussia Molimard
Maroussia is our energetic French instructor and totally obsessed with pole dance in a good way.
Maroussia Molimard
Her dance story started when she was 3 years old with ballet dance and later on modern ballet. When she turned 18, she saw a documentary about pole dancing and she loved it. Sadly there weren't any pole studios in France in 2008. Faith works in mysterious ways: years later she moved to Amsterdam and in 2015 she found us! She loves Power Pole and all kind of strength moves, but what she loves most is the confidence and strength in being a woman which she gained through pole dancing. Pole dance makes her happy and teaching others how to pole dance even more. It is simply her biggest passion in life.
Lianne Brand
Lianne is our go to girl if you have any problems with your account, but she is also a great instructor!
Lianne Brand
Lianne is our go to girl if you have any problems with your account, but she is also a great instructor! She teaches Beginners 1 and Beginners 2 on Tuesday mornings at PDFA-Oost. Lianne has a big talent for managing pretty much everything, before she started her job at PDFA she worked for 10 years as an international football agent and artist manager after finishing her studies International Business at Tilburg University. When she was young she used to do horse back riding, dancing and gymnastics, so it was no surprise she felt in love with pole dancing a few years ago. Now this hobby turned into her job, lucky us, because we can't imagine PDFA without Lianne!
Nicole Geldens
Nicole is our allround instructor, there is nothing she cannot do!
Nicole Geldens
Nicole is our allround instructor, there is nothing she cannot do! She teaches Kids Pole on Saturdays and she substitutes pole, twerk and aerial classes if the regular instructors are on vacation. Nicole started pretty late with dancing, when she was already 13 years old. Her first love was hip hop and later burlesque and twerk. In 2014 ago she started pole dancing. She just loves to perform, but she also likes begin an instructor since she loves to inspire students, both adults and kids, and help them developing their skills.
Lizzl Winkelman
Lizzl has been doing aerial silks since 2003. Teaching and performing is what she loves doing!
Lizzl Winkelman
Her background in gymnastics, dancing and circus helped her develop a unique silks style. It is a mix of drops, tricks and flexy poses. Besides teaching she is a true performer. She performs with aerial silks but also on stilts. She loves to literally 'hang out' in silks, so she invites you to join her aerial silks classes every Monday.
Marcelina Hajduga
Marcelina is dancing since she was a child and she can't imagine her life without pole dancing and sports.
Marcelina Hajduga
In 2016 she did her first pole dancing class and felt this was her thing! When she's dancing, it takes away her problems and it feels like a moment of magic. She hopes you will feel the same in her classes! Marcelina just moved to Holland and found out about PDFA a while ago: 'This place makes me feel like home and I'm super happy that I have the opportunity to teach you and show you a little bit of my world.'
Miguel Matias
Miguel is teaching silks and get flexy. His way of teaching is dynamic and encouraging, you will definitely love his classes.
Miguel Matias
Miguel finished his professional acting theatre course in 2016 and worked in several plays and cinema productions in Portugal where he's originally from. In 2016 he graduated for his BA in performance arts. Around 2010 he starts to explore body movement. His interest is triggered by aerial acrobatics but also contemporary and jazz dance, and burlesque. His teacher career starts in 2015 when he decides to open a show venue and performance arts school in Lisboa. His most recent interest is genderbending, which is one of the reasons he moved to Amsterdam in 2016. In his classes he brings all the influences from his past to create a unique and fun Aerial workout.
Amarens Greidanus
Aerial hoop is for her the perfect combination of acrobatics and dancing, sports and arts, strength and flexibility.
Amarens Greidanus
As a little girl Amarens started with gymnastics and practiced this until the age of 25. In 2006 I was a year abroad where she attended the Dance Academy in Panama City. Since she always loved heights, she decided to try Aerial silks by the end of 2016. Soon after doing some classes, she discovered Aerial hoop which she loved straight away. Amarens started teaching at PDFA in 2019. She really enjoys seeing students getting enthusiastic about making progress and learning new tricks. In her classes she likes to combine strength elements and flexy poses in flowy transitions, without forgetting a nice drop or roll once in a while.
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Mizon Good Night White Sleeping Mask Review:
As far as I can remember this was the first overnight sleeping mask I bought. Since it was winter at that time I was looking for something hydrating and I liked that this mask was suitable for all skin types and was especially recommended for dehydrated skin. Plus, it was really inexpensive so I decided to give it a try. And I am really glad I did.
Mizon claims this is a moisturizing sleeping mask that works overnight to brighten skin, while also leaving it more radiant, translucent and hydrated.
Aqua, Cyclomethicone, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Trehalose, Glycerin, Alcohol, Dimethicone, Sodium Hyaluronate, Polysorbate 20, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/Vp Copolymer, Triethanolmaine, Carbomer, Sclerotium Gum, Broussonetia Extract, Morus Alba Bark Extract, Pantethine, Placental Protein, Natto Gum, Biosaccharide Gum-1, Disodium Edta, Methyl Paraben, Propyl Paraben, CI17200, CI42090, Fragrance
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As a last step in your night skincare routine. Apply a generous amount to your face and neck and leave it on overnight. Wash it off in the morning.
My Skin Type: Combination, acne-prone, sensitive and on occasion – dull and with dry patches
Mizon Good Night White Sleeping Mask Review:
The texture of this mask is very nice, light, gel-like. It has a clear milkish color. The mask spreads smoothly and sinks into the skin almost instantly with a nice soft finish and no sticky feeling whatsoever.
I love that I am able to apply it and go to bed immediately without having to worry that I will stain my pillowcase. I have also noticed that it helps other products sink in faster.
There is a faint fresh fragrance, barely detectable. Lavender maybe. But it is definitely a nice soothing night scent.
You can see in the ingredients that it contains niacinamide, which inhibits melanin synthesis so it both reduces the appearance of sunspots and prevents new ones from developing, hyaluronic acid and glycerin for hydration and some botanical extracts to protect the skin.
However, it does contain silicones so be cautious if your skin is sensitive to them or you are prone to breaking out from silicones. Also be wary if you are using some Vitamin C treatment because some studies suggest that Vitamin C and niacinamide cancel each other out.
The packaging is a plastic blue tube, quite sturdy. And perfect for this type of product.
I used it all winter and as you can see I still have a bit left. I like that it adds a little extra moisture to my skin and also seals in the moisture from my moisturizer.
I also like that it contains niacinamide so I think it has helped me deal with some hyperpigmentation and evening my skintone in general or at least I would like to think that. In the mornings when I have used this mask my skin has always appeared brighter and smoother.
Overall I think it is a nice additional last step in my skincare routine. Great for those days my skin needs a little pick-me-up but I don't have the time for an extensive procedure.
I should also mention that this mask comes in 2 sizes – this 50 ml one and an 80 ml one in a tub. Like I said I prefer the tube type, it just seems more comfortable and hygienic. Plus, it is easier to take it with you when you are traveling.
I liked the overall effect of this mask on my skin. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a non-sticky, slightly moisturizing, brightening sleeping mask. For combination skin like mine it was perfect during winter but if you have dry skin you might prefer using it during the summer months and finding something more hydrating for the winter. I would probably repurchase it again since I really do like it and it is fairly inexpensive.
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On Sept 11, my mother died at Hartford Hospital – of complications that arose from a broken hip. We will all someday die of complications; life is a very complex business. She died, at age 95, full of years rich in memory and love. I was asked to do the eulogy. The Mass of Christian Burial was said by Fr. Richard Bollea – Ann's son, you know – in the small church she attended throughout her life, St. Mary's in Windsor Locks. I was fortunate to have given the eulogy in this same church for two of my uncles and my father. Rose was the last of the First Family of Mandirola's, the matriarch of the family. In beginning the eulogy, I chose a passage from Blaise Pascal, because Pascal is the poet of dying among Christian saints and theologians. His own life was brilliant. He was a precocious child and one of the foremost mathematicians of his day before, after having had a profoundly affecting religious experience involving his near death, he retreated to a simple, austere life, giving up – with one rare exception – his mathematical pursuits. He started the first bus line in Paris, invented the calculator (and calculus), wrote the finest piece of French prose of the day, The Provincial Letters, an attack on Jesuits who, Pascal thought, in their theology were denying the freedom of God and God's grace. And then he died, at age 39, of complications.
"In the end, they throw a little dirt on you and everyone walks away. But there is One who does not walk away."
That was said by Blaise Pascal – a 17th century mathematician and physicist – about the God of Promises, Who is faithful to those who love Him.
May the God of Promises, faithful to His word, now receive the irreducible soul of my mother, Rose Pesci.
In life, you know, Mom was a little like that – irreducible, and as full of stories as any library.
One of the great joys of my life for the past few years was to sit at her kitchen table – the Grand Central Station of our family, in the golden days of our youth, an endless procession of uncles, aunts, friends of the family, enemies of the family, superintendents of the town dump my father had brought home to ply with pastries and coffee. The dump guy provided some shutters my father put on the house and Dad wanted to repay him with a donut.
There, at the kitchen table, Mom would work her magic on the past – which is always a sore burden unless it has been molded by the fingers of the imagination.
If any of us have any aptitude in the direction of story telling, I like to think it comes from the Mandirola side of the family. Talents are like seeds in a garden; if they are in the ground and you nurture them, they grow. Somehow, I have the fancy that my mother was the planter of these seeds; my father was the nurturer. She sowed, he reaped. My brother and sister – and anyone else here who knew my mother and father well – will know what I mean. My father kept my mother on a good track. My mother kept my father from giving away all his money to the poor.
Of the two, my mother was, as she would say, more of a realist. "What is is," was pretty much her philosophy. If my father was the endless blue sky, tapering off to infinity, my mother was the solid, rich earth, both in her humor and in her prevision of a spectral future, which sometimes frightened her. My father was never frightened of any man, or of any of the nightmares that sometimes haunted my mother. Both of them loved each other and us. My father especially, openhearted and always ready for a new adventure, was the most courageous, hopeful man I ever knew.
And together, they complimented each other.
With a little prodding, anyone could get my mother to spill the beans – about anything. We all plundered with reckless abandon the rich store of her memory – which remained undiminished, the last time I saw her.
At that table, Rose would remember her grand daughter Lisa, as a little girl, rummaging with her in the attic, searching for prom dresses; her grandson David eating grilled cheese sandwiches with her after he had moved the lawn and the discussions they had; babysitting for Jake, her great grandson, in Stamford while her grandson Jay went to school and his wife Madelyn tended the store; the time she spent in teaching my brother's wife Madelyn how to sew so she could make the vestments her brother wore when he said his first mass as a priest. An early conquest of hers was getting my cousin, Billy Mandirola, to eat his vegetables. This was considered something of a minor miracle at the time.
We all have our memories of her. But Billy will tell you that she was at the center of what we have become, the last Mandirola of the first family. None of us will forget that she was, as my sister says, a woman who loved her family and who enjoyed the simple pleasures of life. Her's was a life lived for others.
In the last few years, over that kitchen table, I got my mother to explore that moment in her life when love drew her into my father's heart. He loved her right from the beginning. When he thought it was proper, he asked her to marry him. But she kept putting him off, and putting him off. Finally, armed with a calendar, he went to confront her where she was working as a nanny for the Fuller family.
"Rose," he said, "here is a calendar. I want you to pick a day when we are to be married. If you do not do this, I will not ask you again."
She hesitated. "What is it? What's the matter?"
She had made a promise to her dying mother to take care of her brother Charlie, and she did not want to burden my father.
"That's it? Charlie will come and live with us."
"You say that now," my mother said.
But he was not saying it now. He was making her a sacred promise. These were people who either kept silent or kept their words. Every word was a commitment, a promise.
And because of the promises they kept, because of who they were and the way they were – Look around you; see what they have given to us all, to me, to my brother and sister and to their children. Look at us all here – her children, and her children's children: These are fruits of love that have grown from promises kept.
When my father died, the rest of us tried to help fill the gap that opened when he left us. But there are some holes in the heart that only infinite love can fill.
When Rose took her last breath – I believe this -- her heart was healed. Today, we commit my mother to the rich earth and throw ourselves on the promises of the God of promises, the same faithful and good Father – like my own father -- about whom Pascal said, "In the end, they throw a little dirt on you, and everyone walks away. But there is One who does not walk away."


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When Pappe left Haifa University in 2004 amid the controversy surrounding the student Teddy Katz who, according to an Israeli court, "fabricated" a massacre in Tantura allegedly committed by the Alexandroni Brigade in 1948, academic authorities breathed a sigh of relief. But Pappe secured a position at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University, where his career of exaggerations, inventions and fabrications took off dramatically.
Of late, Pappe has expanded beyond the incessant focus on the alleged misdeeds of Israel in 1948 that, in his view, included wholesale ethnic cleansing, massacres and labor camps. He teamed up with Noam Chomsky to publish a book on the Gaza War, and edited a book on South Africa and Israel to show the alleged apartheid similarities.
If Pappe was employed by Walmart he would surely be made the "employee of the month" for his faithful service. As it happens, he is employed by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University, but the principle is the same. Exeter University is one of the largest recipient of Arab money in Great Britain and the Institute, founded by Tim Niblok, has had a highly activist agenda of whitewashing the developments in the Middle East and blackening Israel.
This much should be clear from the list of conferences and events organized by the Institute since January 2014. As well known, the period has coincided with the immense turmoil introduced by ISIS and its brutal hold on large swath of territories in Syria and Iraq.
The list indicates that about a quarter of the talks were devoted to Israel, including Pappe's conference discussed in the previous post. Uri Davis, the former Matzpen member who converted to Islam and a member of the Fatah since 1984 was invited to speak on "(What is Palestine?; What is political-Zionism?; What are Zionist Institutions?; What is ethnic cleansing?; What is apartheid?) and after considering the analogies and the specificities of Israeli apartheid versus past South African apartheid as well as the political implication of declaring Israel an apartheid state under international law."
The talk by Professor Simona Sharoni on March 25, 2015, is especially ironic in this context. Sharoni spoke on "gender and resistance" in the occupied territories: "There is much to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the analysis of community-base research conducted by the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University in Palestine or from listening to the accounts of Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories."
Needless to say, the Institute did not deem it important to organize an event on the treatment of women by ISIS. According to a detailed report compiled by Amnesty International and carried by numerous media, ISIS has codified sexual slavery for non-Muslim women, including the Yazidi minority, Christian and Jews, and created a bureaucracy for auctioning women in ISIS run auction houses.
Still, it is not likely that the Institute would discuss the treatment of women in the ISIS- occupied territories. The constant emphasis on Israel is a good diversion technique, it is politically correct, and pleases the Arab funders to boot.
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