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It doesn’t take much for a food industry freak-out over potential government action, but this latest corporate outcry is especially galling and self-serving.

After more than 20 years of “assessment” the Environmental Protection Agency is finally expected later this month to release limits for safe exposure to dioxins, nasty industrial pollutants that cause cancer, among other health harms. You may have heard of dioxin as the military herbicide Agent Orange used in Vietnam, where it earned its distinction as “the most toxic compound synthesized by man.”

Unfortunately for the food industry, dioxins accumulate in the fatty tissues of animals that Americans consume. According to the Food and Drug Administration:
Although dioxins are environmental contaminants, most dioxin exposure occurs through the diet, with over 95% coming through dietary intake of animal fats.
The feds have further identified the highest levels in fish, followed by eggs, and then cheese, as Dr. Michael Greger* explains in his scary “Dioxins in the Food Supply” video. Although some dioxins have been banned for decades, they persist in the environment, sort of like nature’s way of punishing humanity in perpetuity for its arrogance and stupidity. (Thankfully, levels have been declining.)

Here is how a meat industry-friendly media outlet describes the problem:
Pretty scary stuff, and even scarier when you realize everyone eats a certain amount of dioxin every day. That’s because dioxins are found in meat and dairy products, and most other foods. Animals absorb dioxin, which occurs naturally in the environment and moves through the food chain via the food animals consume, especially forages. Consumed at high levels Replica Cartier watches, dioxins are linked to various human ailments including reproductive problems and cancer.
So, might industry want to help the feds warn Americans about this persistent, extremely toxic chemical in the food supply? Of course not, instead, they’ve formed (what else?) a lobbying group, complete with the Orwellian name: The Food Industry Dioxin Working Group.** The group worked very hard on this letter to the White House complaining Replica Cartier Watches, that as a result of EPA’s impending action:
… consumers may try to avoid any foods “identified” as containing or likely to contain any dioxin. The implications of this action are chilling. EPA is proposing to create a situation in which most U.S. agricultural products could arbitrarily be classified as unfit for consumption.
Further, Steve Kopperud, coordinator for the Food Industry Dioxin Working Group is afraid the media will have a field day with the EPA limits. And then what might happen? “You will have a whole lot of folks running in circles saying there’s nothing safe to eat, it will scare the crap out of people.”

Maybe, but if all those scared people running in circles don’t get cancer, isn’t that more important?

*Thanks to Michael Greger for his blog post on this topic.
**Members of the The Food Industry Dioxin Working Group:

American Farm Bureau Federation
American Feed Industry Association
American Frozen Food Institute
American Meat Institute
Corn Refiners Association
International Dairy Foods Association
National Chicken Council
National Grain & Feed Association
National Meat Association
National Milk Producers Federation
National Oilseed Processors Association
National Pork Producers Council
National Renderers Association
National Turkey Federation
Pet Food Institute
United Egg Producers

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I love Michelle Obama and I love clothes.

No “but” here, just a little yet. Something about this new book “Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style”and all the attention on how she dresses makes little post-feminist alarm bells go off in my head.

After looking at all the ensembles and outfits and get-ups something just feels costumey about all of this, and a worry this complex, beautiful, smart, admirable, patriotic working mother and First Lady is getting objectified. Willingly so.

When I was working in my 20s it was very important that women fit in and looked professional — which meant not feminine Replica Cartier Watches, not girly and plenty of shoulder pads and floppy ties. (I know). I’ve been happily re-educated in recent years that young women can dress the way they want to, including sexy Replica Rolex watches, pretty and feminine, and not only get away with it but establish a new standard. A “this is how I dress, deal with it” bravado that I applaud.

It’s not Michelle Obama’s freedom of choices that bother me as much as the intensity of and focus on her wardrobe and the ever-changing frequency of new looks and hairstyles and all the time and effort we all know goes into that, along with the complexity of some of these ensembles that reminds me of a single and beautifully simple paper doll with just too many tabbed outfits.

So yes, I’m conflicted and decided to ask some friends and family for a reality check — here’s what they had to say:

-Costume is a good word. For women of power/intelligence, costume is something they have to consider when clothing themselves. Even those awful Wall Street outfits that women in finance usually don. Fashion is costume on some level. Being objectified comes with the territory for first ladies.

-In order to be taken seriously, we used to wear pant suits… or at least a tailored jacket and skirt – stockings and pumps. Michelle Obama shows us that a woman can be taken seriously as a strong woman — not dressed like a man, but outfitted in elegant fashion, or in jeans, or barefooted and in shorts or whatever. (The fact that she’s a Harvard MBA probably helps!) No more “wife wear”; Obama’s clothes communicate her individuality — that she is her own person and at the same time we know her to be a dedicated partner and mother. She’s definitely comfortable in her clothes — and in her own skin. The criticisms of her clothes are a reaction to this subtext of independence — breaking out of the old mold and “violating” traditional expectations – that her choice in clothes convey.

-I think people are interested in how she dresses because she’s African American and that’s different, the same way it was with Jackie O, who was also different because of her youthfulness. Think about Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan and my personal fav, Barbara Bush… all so appropriate, so post-menopausal, so friggin’ boring. A couple of years back, I went to a wonderful exhibit at the Kennedy Library which showcased Jackie’s look. I doubt that type of show would happen for the other First Ladies, but I bet it will for Michelle

-I go to this wonderful female radiologist for my mammograms. One day I’m thumbing through a magazine and there’s a full page ad for some designer showing women of all types modeling the fashions. My doctor was one of them. When I next saw her we talked about it and I asked why she did it. “To show my daughter that you can be a serious, substantial woman but also care about fashion.” This woman diagnoses breast cancer everyday but has a strong enough sense of herself to know that caring about what she wears in no way diminishes who she is.

-Ask any First Lady and my guess is they don’t want to be defined by what they wear — I’m sure she’d rather be remembered as a champion for fighting childhood obesity and working for military families. But on the other hand, what woman wouldn’t want to be known as a fashion icon?

-I think in some ways it makes Americans proud to see the first family looking regal at the appropriate function. Barbara bush had her fake pearls that she bragged about but she was never considered stylish. Michelle Obama is young and beautiful. She has shown off her great arms in some beautiful dresses. I think we all want to look up to her and admire what she is wearing. I think the problem is she has to walk a fine line between being sensible and not overspending but also looking stylish and elegant as a representative of our country.

-Back off! Michelle Obama is showing Americans how to dress affordably, eat healthy and exercise. What could possibly be wrong with that?

I don’t stand corrected, just shushed. Which is fine with me- as I said, I love Michelle Obama and I love clothes. I just want more reasons to love.

Dr. Gabriel Feldman and the Justice Department said New York was improperly assigning home health care; the city settled the suit for $70 million.Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Time

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His determination to do the right thing paid off on Monday, when he was awarded $14.7 million from a $70 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud case against New York City. When his mother heard about the award, she said: “Good. Now I hope you’ll get married,” Dr. Feldman, 50, said Tuesday.

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For his part, Dr. Feldman, a squarely built man with black-framed glasses, seemed shell-shocked by his newfound wealth. He had brought the case against the city under the federal whistle-blower law, which usually entitles whistle-blowers to 15 percent to 25 percent of the ill-gotten gains that the government recovers. He got 21 percent.

After taxes and fees to his lawyers, Alan J. Konigsberg and Theresa A. Vitello, he will get to keep about $4.9 million, he said. He was not certain what he would do with the money. Life in New York is expensive, he said. Maybe he will just take care of his widowed mother, a former Hebrew school teacher who lives in Riverdale, he said. “But as my lawyer said, ‘Hey, I’m not turning down the money either Replica a lange sohne watches,’ ” he added.

Dr. Feldman said he planned to stay in his apartment and to keep showing up for his job every day, in a cubicle in an office building on 125th Street in Harlem. The job – reviewing what kind of care to give to the elderly and disabled for an agency that has a contract with the city – pays about $105,000 a year.

“Everybody has to decide what they get up for in the morning,” he said. “I like this job.”

In his lawsuit, filed in 2009, Dr. Feldman contended that the city was giving people services that squandered taxpayer money. Often, he said Tuesday, people got 24-hour services that included dressing, bathing and feeding, from shifts of workers that cost $150,000 a year, when much the same care could be had from one worker sleeping over for $75,000 a year.

The $70 million settlement is one of the largest whistle-blower awards the city has paid. In a case against the city and New York State that was settled in 2009, the whistle-blower, a speech therapist, was awarded $10 million.

Dr. Feldman’s mother, Bernice Pohl Feldman, said she was proud of her son. “He is just a wonderful person,” Mrs. Feldman said. “My three sons, they are the soul of integrity.”

But she could not resist adding her hopes for her now richer son: “I hope he can find a Jewish wife who is caring and wonderful and observes Passover. If she observes Passover, then I don’t have to ask any other questions.”

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The stock surged 71 percent to S$4.15, after rising as much as 86 percent to S$4.50 earlier, with 69 times more shares traded than the average daily volume over the past six months. Creative began trading on the Nasdaq exchange in the U.S. in August 1992.

Creative unveiled a platform called HanZpad, a new media processor named ZMS-40 and a Chinese operating system, according to a statement after the market closed yesterday. The Singapore- based company said the tablet computer platform is focused on the Chinese market, where it wants to take advantage of the government’s aim to embrace “digital textbooks, digital classrooms and the digital school bags” in the education system.

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