Feb. 26 2011 Session Details--"Chimposium" ( = chimpanzee + symposium)

Date/Time: Sat 26 Feb 2011, 1:30-3:30pm
Place: Youth Hub (a 1-min walk from Shandao Temple MRT station, Exit 6)
          31 Zhongxiao E Rd Sec 1   台北市中正區忠孝東路一段31號
          02 2356 0766#101

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Topic: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know about Chimpanzees But Didn't Know Who to Ask!
Guest Speaker Susan Shiau (one of our members!) will give us a "Chimposium" ( = chimpanzee +  symposium)
You'll learn about:
--The Chipmanzee and Human Communication Institute
--Chimpanzees that can use Sign Language
--Threats to Chimpanzees
 
Susan has not one, but TWO Master's degrees...and her 2nd one involved research about Chimpanzees and Sign Language. This session is a great opportunity to learn about a special, interesting topic from a special, interesting person!

For planning purposes, please register by Friday 25 Feb, 12 noon. Thanks, and hope to see you there!
:) Lynn

Feedback from last session-20110212

Hi everybody,

How are you all doing since last time we met?

The time was really too short for discussing this big issue with different parts that we could really have a good talk about. During the time of our group discussion,I jotted down something I wanted to say if there was time, but really didn't have the chance to say, so I'll just put it here.

It was fun to hear that Caroline's office held a "step-counting" competition for all the staff to encourage them to walk as much as possible. And because the office will make the ranking public, so people start to exercise more in order not to look bad on the ranking. No matter what the motivations are, the competition really worked! When I first heard about the weight-losing program in the news report, I doubted the effectiveness of it, cause it sounds like the authorities take people as children, and make them do things that they don't necessarily want to do, though it is something that would do them good. But in my mind, people should take the initiatives themselves on this matter. The government can help awake ppl's self-consciousness or give them a hand when the time is right. Holding contests/programs is compulsive and degrading as if saying" You're overweight, and the authorities think that you don't have the ability to take responsibility of yourself, so you have to join our weight-losing program." And I remember that Caroline mentioned that she stops doing it on holidays, if my memory was correct. From what's been collected, I think contests/programs CAN be effective, but only in short terms.

However, making this-- losing weight, caring about what you eat, making yourself healthy and strong, even changing your lifestyle-- to have long term effects, it takes a lot of work and determination, but it's not impossible. Lots of things can work, the company can help, the government can pitch in. For example, in the beginning of promoting healthier lifestyle, is it possible that companies let their staff to work out DURING office hours? It may sound a little bit crazy, but it's a good way for those companies to show that they value the health of their employees, and they also value these people who want to be healthy, productive, creative and efficient in work, and not those who work 18 hours a day and die at the age of 30. Or, as we discussed last time, work out a way to reduce the work load per person. Or, still there are other ways to lose weight if we don't solely take exercise and diet into account. Once I heard a sales person who sells some nutritional products that help lose weight said that the boss of a famous company told all their department managers to use their product in order to be more persuasive because they've “managed” themselves so well.

Has anyone heard of Jamie Oliver? He's an English cook who runs at least three restaurants both in England and Australia and makes cooking shows. With the advantage of media, he also promotes healthier eating habits. To name a few, he invited people to come to the show and piled real pork fat or sugar in front of people, or asked a volunteer to sit in a tub, and gradually poured oil into it to show them how many excess calories that they've taken each day or each month. In another series, feeling that process foods are jeopardizing children both in England and America, he challenged the school cooks and together they worked out how to make big portion, healthy, easily-cooked lunch for children! Not to mention in all his cooking shows, he puts emphasis on how easily it is to cook with simple and fresh ingredients.

Thank you for taking time to read. Hope we can have further discussions over this topic!


Julie

This Sat (12 Feb 2011) Session Details

2011.03.19 UPDATES with Session Summary

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1674Pg6DVSk0PZEm0O9Gi24d19WHeQ4v9L6shqQTa0wk/edit?authkey=CNv0ibcM&hl=en#

Session host: Anita
Time: 10:30am-12:30pm (Note the time change!)
Place: Youth Hub, a 2-min walk from Shandao Temple MRT station, Exit 5 (Note the venue change!) 台北市中正區忠孝東路一段31號 02 2356 0766#101

Why the venue change? Here's a note from Ellen:
W‎hen I informed Youth Hub that TIiA would not hold sessions in their place because of short numbers of attendance right before the Chinese New Year, Ms Huang who is responsible for registerations still invited us to go for both February's sessions we had had registered--even we expect to have attendants less than 20. She said that she looks forward to meeting our group and having better ideas of what we are doing. It seems that Youth Hub could continue lending us their place without sticting to the 20-people rule if they are quite happy with our group. ^^ http://maps.google.com.tw/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=youth+hub&fb=1&gl=tw&hq=youth+hub&hnear=%E5%8F%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%B8%82&hl=zh-TW&view=map&cid=373505062392310712&iwloc=A&ved=0CDYQpQY&sa=X&ei=kqNPTYaQDoOmugOy59jvDw

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Topic: Sh/e Works Hard for the Money: Working Overtime in Taiwan (Part 2)

We had such an interesting discussion last session on this topic that we decided to continue it...If we can come to a group concensus about how we'd like to see change about all the unpaid overtime work that's done, we'll write a Letter to the Editor.

Preparation: Read through Sylvia's Summary of the last session so we can all pick up where we left off.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gYqp9yUE9zQuV5-BkAudUWfDW3GqyXCCYKD5xiKSzpk/edit?authkey=CMuO6O0B&hl=en#

For planning purposes, please register for this session by Friday 11 Feb, 12 noon. Thanks! Hope you had a wonderful break over Chinese New Year...

:) Lynn

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