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POPSPolitics is Everything! 64% increase in pay rate is a fair increase for all you Rich Americans! Pay up, or don't eat tomatoes this year! What is CIW, the Coalition of Immokaklee Workers Union? There was an immediate payoff: Chipotle Mexican Grill, the enlightened burrito chain with nearly 900 restaurants across the country, agreed to buy its tomatoes from East Coast Growers (Chipotle had previously declined to support the Fair Food program). Despite the good news, the CIW still has plenty of work to do. Wonder why they changed their mind?
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POPSUnderstanding Vitamin D - the not-really-a-vitamin vitamin More: There are 3 ways for adults to insure adequate levels of vitamin D: * regularly receive midday sun exposure in the late spring, summer, and early fall, exposing as much of the skin as possible. * regularly use a sun bed (avoiding sunburn) during the colder months. * take 5,000 IU per day for three months, then obtain a 25-hydroxyvitamin D test. Adjust your dosage so that blood levels are between 50–80 ng/mL (or 125–200 nM/L) year-round. Is it just me, or is saying " cholecalciferol is pronounced cho·le·cal·ci·fer·ol " rather less than helpful? Dictionary.com says it's pronounced koh- luh -kal-SIF- uh -rawl .
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POPSHotel deals in Europe Tourist info for the different parts of Europe is really handy. Some pretty cheap room rates available and quite a bit of detail on hotel facilities and location (nearest airport etc).
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POPS "Who You Gonna Blame?" in the handling of cases that almost makes it sound like, I dunno, a government health-care system or something. Anyway, if they are looking for excuses not to close the place, here’s a good one. All that international pressure on Bush to let jihadis out? Here’s a couple. There’s an 11 percent recidivism rate for former Gitmo detainees that they know about. There’s two ways of looking at that number. It’s actually not bad as criminal recidivism rates go, and tends to undercut the argument that imprisoning terrorism suspects creates terrorists. Much like this report from last spring on Iraqi detainees. Maybe Gitmo isn’t so bad after all. The other way of looking at it is, it’s a war, what’s the rush to let jihadis return to the battlefield?
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POPSMusic enhances fitness Was searching for a clip to explain my experience ;-) "from the blog; What to play while you work out? * At 55 per cent heart rate: Rock -- Tina Turner 'Simply the Best'; Pop -- 'The Lighthouse Family' 'Lifted'; Soul -- 'Soul II Soul' 'Back To Life'; Classical -- Vivaldi 'The Four Seasons (Spring)'. * 65 per cent: Rock -- 'The Spencer Davis Group' 'Keep On Running'; Pop -- Michael Jackson 'Don't Stop Til You Get Enough'; Soul -- Gloria Gaynor 'I Will Survive'; Classical -- Johann Strauss 'Radetzky March'. * 75 per cent: Rock -- 'Steppenwolf' 'Born To Be Wild'; Pop -- 'Artful Dodger' 'Movin' Too Fast'; Soul -- James Brown 'I Feel Good'; Classical -- Prokofiev 'Troika'. * 85 per cent: Rock -- Glenn Frey 'The Heat Is On'; Pop -- 'S Club 7' 'Reach'; Soul -- 'The Blues Brothers' 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love'; Classical -- Rossini 'William Tell Overture'.
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POPSWhat The Media Didn’t Tell You About The Unemployment Spike Congress is to blame. Last year Congressional Democrats (along with some Stockholm-Syndromed Republicans) passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which started a phased hike of the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. Free market economists warned them that this would increase unemployment – that rapid increases in unemployment compensation hit teens and minorities the hardest. But the class-warriors are running the people’s house now, and they would hear none of that, so they took to the floor, let loose the dogs of demagoguery, and saddled America’s pizza parlors, municipal swimming pools, house painting businesses and lawn mowing services with a huge cost increase.
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POPSThe Last Days of Cheap Chinese More: China's Generation Y, the children born after the one-child policy came into effect, are increasingly aware of their rights to a legal wage, health insurance, and a certain number of days off every month. Their demands for better treatment will continue to drive up the cost of manufacturing in China. Already, southern China's Guangdong province, known as "the workshop of the world," is short 2 million workers, the equivalent of 14 percent of America's entire manufacturing workforce The problem for American retailers and consumers hooked on $3 T-shirts and $30 DVD players is that there is no other China waiting in the wings to make cheap goods reliably for American shoppers So importers are looking back to countries they once rejected in favor of China—Indonesia, Mexico, and Malaysia. And they are looking ahead to countries not yet integrated into the global consumer-goods supply chain, such as Brazil and Kenya
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