Womanist Musings smitten kitchen In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. On Monday night, Donald Trump’s wife Melania touched hearts as she addressed the Republican National Convention, sharing the lessons she learned growing up as a black girl on the South Side of Chicago. As first spotted by journalist Jarrett Hill, Melania’s speech bore more than a passing resemblance to another speech at another convention about eight years ago — Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention. The cribbed portion discussed the values that Michelle and Melania apparently share, including working hard for what you want in life and keeping your word. Read more → I apologize for Feministe’s long, long radio silence, and I hate that this is the occasion to break it. Read more → [Content note: mentions of transphobia and child sexual abuse] While Feministe has been down, an issue erupted in North Carolina about where trans people are allowed to pee. Here are some highlights, if somehow you missed it while you were missing us. Read more → Calm down. Read more →
The Abortioneers The Health Care Blog Democratic Diva Startup Princess – For Women entrepreneurs & business owners | The Pursuit of Harpyness - As narrated by the most charming and vicious women on the internet Hello Ladies | The intersection of feminism and life HealthBlawg The FDA, the FCC and ONC issued a long-awaited joint report with a proposed strategy and recommendations for a risk-based framework for regulation of Health IT. The report identifies four key priority areas and outlines next steps to take in each area: I. Promote the Use of Quality ManagementPrinciples;II. This report should be read together with the FDA framework for regulation of mobile medical applications which was supposedly up in the air pending release of this report. Continue reading "FDASIA Health IT Report Issued; Comments Welcomed on Three-Agency Approach" » On January 31, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that it had identified twenty provisionally-approved applicants for certificates of registration to operate medical marijuana dispensaries. Since the announcement, the local media have published innumerable stories raising questions about the medical marijuana dispensary application review process. Continue reading "Where are they now?
MOMocrats™ It all started with a smart, heated post cross-posted to the MOMocrats from Advocates for Youth (AFY), lambasting the Obama administration and the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ decision to override the FDA’s recommendation to offer Plan B as an over-the-counter drug. Plan B, of course, is known as the “day-after” pill, preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg in the womb, much as can happen randomly in any woman’s cycle without influence by any medicines. In backchannel emails, we each weighed in. Glennia: I'm all done making excuses for Obama. I can't even begin to describe my disappointment with Sebelius right now. ...I would have written something, but Kate said it all [in the Plan B post on MOMocrats], as far as I'm concerned. Julie: This is a lot of how I feel too. But then again, I'm the one who kept saying he was a lot more conservative than gossip had him. Still this stunned me. I'm not giving money to Obama or fundraising for him this time. Or I'm a big sucker.
Total Leadership » Reduce Stress by Pursuing Four-Way Wins The pendulum is finally swinging back from the apogee of complete immersion in work as the business ideal. A great hue and cry now strains to contain our out-of-control culture of overwork. We know it reduces productivity, destroys civic engagement, and produces all manner of stress-related health problems. The good news is that you can do something about it, for yourself and for your employees. For decades, I’ve been refining what is now a proven method for producing four-way wins that works because it’s customized for each person who takes up the challenge. Diagnose. This might be initiating an exercise program for yourself, carving out protected evening time for your family, or devoting attention to a project for your community, to name a few simple examples. Dialogue. Discover. Get Help. Get Moving. To overcome the guilt that often accompanies the desire for change, it’s crucial that your experiments are not selfish. Be Sociable, Share!
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