What’s Missing in Worksite Wellness? For Starters, How About REAL Wellness? A Suggested Focus for Better Programming

by Donald B. Ardell, Ph. D.  03.01.15

Introduction

Workplace wellness programs consist of screenings for health risks and disease states. Programs largely consist of lectures on illness prevention and managing stress, exercising, eating healthier foods and other offerings, the intent of which is to reduce medical utilization and sickness.

Little or no attention is devoted to quality of life enhancement. This is curious, since that is what wellness was designed to promote. This quality of life concept was first described by Halbert L. Dunn in the 1960’s and 70’s.

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Brave New World Order: the Difference between GOD and the GOP-PART II

By Mickey Walker-February 8, 2015

Turn, turn, my wheel, all things must change,
To something new, something strange;
     Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
     To-morrow be to-day.

‘Keramos-The Potter’s Wheel’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 –1882)  

Yes, it is quite certain that everything changes.  And that change we might call a perception, a belief.  Of what, one might ask?  Say a perception of reality, perhaps.  As a child we have little problem with our visual senses.  We come to count on certain realities we know to be in place.  Out skin tells us when it is hot outside and when it is cold.  

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BECOMING A LEFTIST: LEARNING FROM THE LIFE AND WORK OF MIKE GOLD

By Harry R. Targ - 01.22.15

Mike Gold, was a literary critic, novelist, playwright, journalist, who learned his politics in the era of the construction of various radical movements-anarchist, socialist, syndicalist, and communist. His lifelong activism was shaped growing up in impoverished tenements in the Jewish sector of the Lower East Side in New York City. In his twenties he became a member of the Communist Party USA and served as editor of the New Masses and a columnist in the Daily Worker. During this period he developed and articulated a critical stance and an analysis of the relationship between politics and art. He is credited with initiating an artistic genre he called "proletarian literature."

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WEASELS IN THE INBOX.

By Iris Vander Pluym - 02.02.15

My email inbox can sometimes be wildly entertaining. Sometimes...not so much.

From: "membership@dscc.org" <info@dscc.org>
To: Iris Vander Pluym
Date: January 29, 2015
Subject: GOP outrage (need you)

OMG outrage!

Iris -- You’ve been a great supporter of Democrats in the past. We know you understand the importance of electing a Democratic White House and Senate.

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The Greek Earthquake

By Conn Hallinan - 01.28.15

Almost before the votes were counted in the recent Greek elections, battle lines were being drawn all over Europe. While Alexis Tsipras, the newly elected Prime Minister from Greece’s victorious Syriza Party, was telling voters, “Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity, fear and autocratic government,” Jens Weidmann, president of the German Bundesbank, was warning the new government not to “make promises it cannot keep and the country cannot afford.”

On Feb. 12 those two points of view will collide when European Union (EU) heads of state gather in Brussels.

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JANUARY 27 2015: UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

By Michael Faulkner - 02.02.15

“We should properly use the term ‘Holocaust’ to describe the policy of total physical annihilation of a nation or a people. To date, this has happened once, to the Jews under Nazism.”                           Yehuda Bauer, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective. 1978.

 

January 27 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, less than three months before the final collapse of the Third Reich and the end of the Second World War in May of that year. The extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army on its advance into 

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