Do you have an opinion? Your Letters 10-9
Thirty city residents, employees and elected officials gathered today (5/14/11) to learn how recent decisions by the governor’s office could impact the Lansing City budget.
Ask Tamara: Too Sexy for the Workplace!
Dear Tamara:
My boss dresses way too sexy for work. Even our male coworkers think her dress is excessive. On any given day she shows up to work with her cleavage hanging out, wearing short skirts and even tighter dresses that leave nothing to the imagination. Even her shoes are inappropriate for work.
Your Other 8 Hours: Boost Your Energy with Time-Shifting
By Robert Pagliarini,
Tribune Media Services
Two of the most exciting developments in personal productivity and achievement are time-shifting and work-shifting. Time-shifting capitalizes on your body’s circadian rhythm and deals with when you work, while work-shifting deals with where you work.
Interpersonal EDGE: Is Criticizing ‘Fat People’ Workplace Harassment
By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
Q. I work with a guy who has lost a lot of weight and now is constantly running down “disgusting fat people.” In every conversation, he brings up his healthy food choices and criticizes fat people. I’m overweight and starting to dread going to work. My co-worker brings up the topic at every chance (even in front of clients). My husband says this is harassment. What can I do?
The Kid’s Doctor: All About Tonsils
While tonsillectomy was almost routine 30-40 years ago, new guidelines limit the criteria for such surgery.
By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
www.kidsdr.com
If there’s one thing I know after looking down thousands of throats during my pediatric career, tonsils come in many shapes and sizes.
Tonsillar tissue is considered a “secondary lymphoid organ” and is most active in children between the ages of 4 and10. As youngsters go through puberty, the tonsils begin to shrink. As I like to say, “some things get bigger, while tonsils get smaller,” and by adulthood, the tonsils are so small that they can be difficult to see.
Retire Smart: Why Medicare Premiums Are Rising for Affluent Seniors: Part 1 of 2
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
The new health-care reform law aims to cover nearly all Americans and to get our exploding national health-care tab under control. But reform also calls for some upfront investment, and someone needs to foot the bill. Wealthy retirees-it’s time to grab your wallets.
Choose Privacy Week
By Youth Services Specialist Lynn H.
In May the American Library Association celebrated an initiative called “Choose Privacy Week.” With the constant advances in technology, there are more opportunities than ever for people to connect to information, services, and others-but also more opportunities for breaches and abuses of personal privacy.
Subway’s “Feed a Friend” Food Drive
Last month, SUBWAY restaurants in Lansing, Jackson and Hillsdale collected more than 13,000 pounds of canned good and other non perishable food items during a one-day “Feed a Friend” food drive event.
News Spotlight: Introducing The Newest Common Myths In Cardiovascular Disease…. The World’s No. 1 Killer
For both men and women of any age, cardiovascular disease could be the first
killer. It kills more people than ALL forms of cancer tumors grouped
together.
Rolling Out Wheels: Bike Blitz 2011
Left to right: GLAR Committee members Kim Whitcomb, Pete Holoway, Wendy Mackey and Beth Graham with Denny Shell (second on left)
By Amanda Oboza
and TNCP Staff
LANSING, MI — On Saturday April 30, children mostly from Lansing’s Walnut Neighborhood located on the Northside, starting gearing up for summer in a big way: they received a bike and helmet.