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...Storefronts, a collaboration between the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the San Francisco Arts Commission that will fill 20 unused storefronts in four neighborhoods with the work of local artists. The goal is twofold: to spruce up areas that have seen high vacancy rates and to help support artists in a down economy...
Patti Montet, who divorced Halderman in 2004 and lives in Colorado with their sons, ages 11 and 18, told local newspapers that she was saddened by the news. In 2007, Halderman was ordered to pay Montet $6,800 a month in child and spousal support until 2011, when the payments would be reduced to about $6,000, according to papers filed in Stamford Superior Court in Connecticut. His salary at the time was about $214,000. (See the top 10 late-night jokes...
...Through events like Friday's Synchronized Breastfeeding Worldwide, advocates like Henares-Esguerra have helped make the Philippines, which has one of Asia's highest birthrates, one of the leaders in the international legal effort to support women's right to breastfeed. Aimed at controlling aggressive marketing of formula-milk companies, particularly in developing nations, pro-breastfeeding laws target corporate practices like sponsoring maternity-related events, giving out formula samples to new mothers, and indicating on labels and advertising that their products make babies smarter. "Breastfeeding can save the lives of both mothers and infants. It may be the single most...
...Macapagal-Arroyo is not the first Philippine president to come out in support of breastfeeding. In 1986 President Corazon Aquino signed into law Executive Order 51, the National Milk Code - designed to implement the objectives of the WHO's 1981 International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, which bans virtually all forms of advertising and marketing of infant formula, as well as forbidding milk-company representatives from contacting pregnant women and mothers, or distributing gifts to health workers. In its annual meeting in 1974, the WHO determined that breastfeeding was in decline around the world, and soon after drafted...
...Asked how breastfeeding advocates in other nations can follow her country's example, Henares-Esguerra has this advice: "Promotion, protection, and support. You have to do all three together - you can't do one without the other." As the synchronized breastfeeding participants and nursing mothers around the world know, the right to breastfeed is something worth fighting...