Doll Question, Politics, and Phone Fast

I have a blond doll who looks like a Maxie but is articulated at the wrists like a Jem doll.  She is not a Jem though, because she has no collar bone or interesting colors in her hair.  Who is she, Carcy?

I have a few particular Barbies whose legs have gotten sticky over the years, probably from their clothing.  They are Princess of Ireland, (plastic backed brocade?) and Fire and Ice, Salt Lake City Olympics 2002, AA version.  Also an Amazon Princess Gabriel wearing one of those horrid peeling fake leather skirts and a Barbie who Does have what feels like a plastic bonding on the inside of her fau brocade skirt, aqua in color, with a matching sweater.  Anyone else have this problem?  It just seems to happen to particular dolls, two Pricesses of Ireland, two AA Fire and Ice.  Strange.  I washed them in mild soap but Hot water, hoping to rinse away both soap and gummy surfaces.  Rubbed them dry with rough but clean towel and let them dry a few feet from warm air vent.  Seems to have worked.  Tomorrow I find out if I washed too much and they all have orange or turquoise legs to go with their "normal" skin tones.


Does anyone have any "Misfits" from " Jem and the Misfits" to sell?  I never watched the show, but love the Misfits.

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Champions for women in Congress like Nancy Pelosi, Jan Schakowsky and Rosa DeLauro

are asking: what are your biggest priorities for women this Congress?

Take our quick, easy survey today and we'll hand-deliver them to Leader Pelosi tomorrow.

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What's your #1 priority for this Congress?

Leaders in Congress like Nancy Pelosi, Jan Schakowsky, and Rosa DeLauro want to know.

More women are serving in Congress today than ever in history

1

, and they're fired up and ready to win some real victories for women.

Representative DeLauro and Senator Harkin have introduced the Healthy Families Act

that would give 90% of workers access to paid sick days.

2

 Senator Mikulski and Rep. DeLauro are fighting hard for the Paycheck Fairness Act

to help end wage discrimination against women.

3

 And Representative Maloney and Senator Lautenberg are working to make sure that

pharmacists can't refuse to sell women birth control that has already been prescribed

by their doctors.

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There's a ton of opportunity right now thanks to these congressional leaders who

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Of course, there are real obstacles to making progress in Congress--the right-wing

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had in a long time.

Pay discrimination is a major problem for women--the average, full-time working woman

in America makes only $0.77 for every dollar a man makes. And since mothers make

up 40% of the primary breadwinners in this country, entire families are affected.5

 That's why Rep. DeLauro and Sen. Mikulski introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act in

January, which would finally close the wage gap between men and women.

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Nearly one quarter of adults have either lost a job or have been threatened with

job loss because they took time off when they were sick, or they had to care for

a sick family member. 73% of food service, child care and nursing home workers have

no paid sick days at all--which means that countless women can't afford to stay home

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 But just this week Rep. DeLauro and Sen. Harkin introduced the Healthy Families

Act, which gives 90% of the work force access to paid sick days.

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And there's much more that Congress could do to help women and our families with

wages, childcare, reproductive rights, access to birth control, health care and more.

But they can't do it all at once, and champions in Congress want to know which issues

you want them to focus on.

Please take this short survey so we can send them your top priorities--it only takes

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Thanks for speaking out.

Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Malinda, and Karin, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

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 Women In Senate: 2012 Election Ushers In Historic Number Of Female Senators

, Huffington Post, November 7, 2012

2.

Healthy Families Act Fact Sheet

, National Partnership for Women and Families, March 2013

Harkin, DeLauro Renew Fight for Paid Sick Days

, Senator Harkin press release, March 12, 2013

3.

Paycheck Fairness Act Would Allow Workers To Share Salary Information

, Huffington Post, January 31, 2013

4.

Lautenberg, Maloney Reintroduce Bill to Ensure Women Are Not Denied Access to Contraceptives

, Sen. Lautenberg press release, February 14, 2013

5.

The Paycheck Fairness Act Fact Sheet

, National Partnership for Women and Families, October 2012

6.

Paycheck Fairness Act Would Allow Workers To Share Salary Information

, Huffington Post, January 31, 2013

7.

Healthy Families Act Fact Sheet

, National Partnership for Women and Families, March 2013

8.

Harkin, DeLauro Renew Fight for Paid Sick Days

, Senator Harkin press release, March 12, 2013

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Phone Fast.

I didn't answer the phone this weekend and got a Huge amount of work done!  I didn't even slow down when it rang, just kept on working until I heard a voice, or not.  Many Nots!  Amazing what a time waster phones can be and I only use a Land Line!

Revolting!

Aspartame has serious Negative health effects on some people.  And they want to put it in milk, Unlabeled?

The dairy lobby is pressuring the FDA to get permission to put aspartame in our milk

without a label.

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Lobbyists for mega-corporations are hell-bent on redefining one of the few foods

that is still safe for our kids -- milk.

For three years, the uber-powerful dairy lobby has pressured the FDA to approve the

artificial sweetener aspartame as an additive to milk without a label.

Now, for the first time in three years, the FDA’s public comment period for the proposal

has finally begun. To make public opinion absolutely clear, we’re going to:

1. Blanket the FDA headquarters' zip-code with ads

 targeted at employees, and

2. Send people dressed as cows to the entrance of FDA headquarters to hand out milk

and

ask employees the simple question:

Do you want Aspartame with that?

Can you chip in $3, or whatever you can afford, to help us get FDA employees to stand up to dairy lobbyists and stop them from putting aspartame in milk unlabeled? With $3, we can hand out milk and information to 5 FDA employees.

In just the last week, over 100,000 SumOfUs.org members signed our petition telling

the FDA not to buckle under the dairy industry’s pressure. But if we want to compete

with the lobbyists, we’re going to have to make sure that FDA employees hear about

our petition and know that we’ll stand with them if they stand up to the dairy industry.

If all according goes to plan,

FDA employees will arrive at work one day and see people dressed as cows standing

at the FDA entrance.

 As they approach, wondering what in the world is going on, a cow will offer them

milk. When they roll down their window, we’ll ask them the simple question:

Do you want aspartame with that?

For employees who drive to work, we’re going to

buy targeted radio ads

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place ads on the sides of the buses

 that stop right outside FDA. And when they’re sitting at their computers, they’re

going to

see our ads when they’re browsing Facebook and using Google

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We’re going to make sure that the dairy lobby’s efforts to get aspartame in milk

is the

topic of thousands of water cooler conversations in the weeks to come

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Help us make this a reality, by chipping in just $3 you can send people dressed as cows to FDA headquarters to stop them from putting aspartame in unlabeled milk.

This proposal to redefine milk to include aspartame is particularly worrisome, and

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linked to increased rates of Type 2 diabetes and obesity

. Hyper-sweet additives like aspartame have been proven to rewire children’s brains

so that they

constantly crave sugary foods

. According to a 60 Minutes report, “aspartame’s approval was one of the most contested

in FDA history.” The FDA’s own toxicologist told Congress that the chemical is

likely to cause brain tumors

.

If the FDA decides in May to allow this proposal to go through, then pretty soon

kids won’t be able to tell without carefully reading the fine print -- and, let’s

be real, what kid carefully reads any fine print -- if the “milk” they’re picking

up in school cafeterias is

real milk or Diet Milk, chock-full of chemical sweeteners

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SumOfUs.org exists to counter corporate lobbyists whose only interest is advancing

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 NPR and the Huffington Post are telling the story

 of how the dairy industry wants to put our kids’ health at risk to sell more super-sweet

beverages to our kids. We've already changed the conversation, but if we can just

get the folks who work at the FDA -- scientists, public health officials and the

like -- to take notice, then

we can stop this threat to our kids’ health once and for all

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Thank you for standing up for against corporate lobbyists,

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