The Agenda | Tuesday, Aug. 4
A look around the Virginia and Valley politics landscape as we head into Tuesday, Aug. 4 …
- Creigh Deeds continues his Deeds Country Tour. The updated schedules that we keep getting haven’t let us in on when and where the Creigh Deeds campaign will make it here to the Staunton-Waynesboro area, and I haven’t gotten any phone calls or e-mails asking me to help coordinate a Waynesboro event, so … .
My guess is we’ll get a Staunton visit on Thursday or Friday. Read more
Voting trends and distracted drivers on today’s ‘Chris Graham Show’
It’s talk radio on the web the way it oughtta be. “The Chris Graham Show” returns with an interview with Virginia Commonwealth University professor Cary Funk discussing a recent study showing that despite recent voting results in Virginia trending blue, the political direction of Virginia is still very much up in the air. Also featured is an interview with a Virginia Tech researcher confirming what we would all expect about cell phones and their impact on us when we use them while driving. Length: 19:31. Read more
RMH adds two to breast health navigator team
Patricia Cheeks, RN, MSN, and Libbi Fitzgerald, RN, have joined RMH Women’s Health Focus as breast health navigators.
The RMH breast health navigator position was created in 2005 to provide help for women diagnosed with, or undergoing evaluation for, breast cancer. Annually, more than 300 women receive integrated care provided through this role. Read more
EMU forges ties with Korean school
A little over one year ago, representatives of two schools with similar values, including a strong commitment to international learning, gathered on the Eastern Mennonite University to get better acquainted and to formalize an agreement between the two institutions. Read more
Earth Talk | Cosmetics testing
Dear EarthTalk: Is the “Draize Test” using live animals still used to test cosmetics?
- Jim M., Bridgeport, Conn.
The Draize Test was devised back in 1944 by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toxicologist John H. Draize to evaluate the risks of normal short-term exposure to new cosmetics and other personal care products. Still used today by some companies, the test involves applying a small amount of the substance under study to an animal’s eye or skin for several hours, and then observing whether or not irritation occurs over the following week or two. In most cases the animal subjects—usually albino rabbits bred for the lab—are put to death after the sometimes maiming and often painful test. Read more
A Dad’s Point of View | Summer vacations are for parents, too
Remembering Chevy Chase in those summer vacation movies reminds me of the fact that most so-called “family vacations” are, at best, vacations for the kids and torture for the parents. I’m generalizing, of course, but most generalizations as well as clichés, have a strong basis in truth. I stand by the proposition that we parents usually need a vacation after our family one, if only to recover and rest. Read more
Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
Posted August 3, 2009
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