National Nutrition Month - March, 2014

 

City Center Milwaukee |  Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC joins TEXT-4-BABY  Tuesday's report, March 4, 2014, in support of "National Nutrition Month"

Nutrition

Nutrition is defined as:

•  the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
• food; nourishment.
• the branch of science that deals with nutrients and nutrition, particularly in humans.

Basic Food Chart

My Plate - National Nutrition Month - 

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MyPyramid, released by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on April 19, 2005, was an update on the earlier American food guide pyramid. It was used until June 2, 2011, when the USDA's MyPlate replaced it.  The icon stresses activity and moderation along with a proper mix of food groups in one's diet. As part of the MyPyramidfood guidance system, consumers were asked to visit the MyPyramid website for personalized nutrition information. Significant changes from the previous food pyramid include:

• Inclusion of a new symbol—a person on the stairs—representing physical activity.
• Measuring quantities in cups and ounces instead of servings.

MyPyramid was designed to educate consumers about a lifestyle consistent with the January 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, an 80-page document. The guidelines, produced jointly by the USDA and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), represented the official position of the U.S. government and served as the foundation of Federal nutrition policy.   Wikipedia

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March 4, 2014 

Dear Mary,

Did you know that you only need to eat 300 additional calories a day while pregnant? And that you should avoid soft cheeses, but hard cheeses are safe to eat? These and other useful nutrition tips are available to Text4baby participants. During National Nutrition Month, please continue to support Text4baby and help pregnant women and new moms get critical health information in your community through these valuable messages.

Thanks for all you do to support Text4baby!

Sincerely,

Kathleen Murphy, Partner Outreach Director, Text4baby
National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition

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In today's message from Text4Baby Director Murphy, a cheese alert is present for pregnant women.

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National Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics

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MPA LLC promotes National Consumer Protection Week - March 3-8

March 4, 2014

Center Milwaukee | Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC, with the government and private organizations is promoting consumer education all through the year and especially during National Consumer Protection Week, which takes pace the first full week of March each year.  Visit ncpw.gov to read, watch, print or order free resources.  Do it for the betterment of our society and as a good steward citizen.

MARDI GRAS - Fat Tuesday African American Indian and Members of the Zulu Club

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According to author Willie W. Clark Jr., “in 1746 archives begin to refer to slaves dressing as Indians, as the African-Americans began to celebrate Mardi Gras in their unique customary fashion. These were in all likelihood, the first known “Black Indians.” So it begins.

Quite frankly, no other group in the entire world takes their costumes as seriously as the Mardi Gras Indians. The estimated cost of a suit if we look at materials, time and labor, can run anything from a low $18,000 to upwards of $60,000. People spend all year working on a new suit, and every spare pair of hands is put to work. It is truly a labor of divine love. The suits can weigh over a 100 pounds, and as someone who has had the honor of trying one on, I can truly say this is some “heavy” and powerful magic.

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Mardi Gras Day In New Orleans
Members of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club parade down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras, March 8, 2011. Zulu, a traditionally African-American Carnival organization has been parading for over a hundred years.

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Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC Creates DISTRICT Meetings

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City Center Milwaukee | Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC moves forward in addressing its Signature Smart Growth Initiative in AHOD/All Hands on Deck, WE CAN. Bringing together Hidden Talent and Vetted Businesses at the Census Tract and Neighborhood level with blueprinting the Infrastructure for now and long-term sustainability.  MPA LLC has started with addressing the "preparedness" of the stakeholders/voters of the 15th District for a NEW City of Milwaukee Common Council representative from the 15th District.  The two events are Candidates' Forums (March 15, 2014 & April 19, 2014 - 9:00 am - 12 Noon) at the Wisconsin Black Historic Society and Museum, 2620 W. Center, a landmark in the Amani Neighborhood.

District Meetings

The city of Milwaukee has 15 districts.  MPA LLC joint meetings are within a district and meetings of the 15 districts.  The starting date is April, 2014.

The joint district meetings of Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC gives the residential and commercial stakeholders a special and needed opportunity to address ECP/Enduring Concentrated Poverty that has a strangle-hold on economic viability that organically generate Upscalability in gross domestic product development at the census tract and neighborhood level.  Reform for removal of the ECP cancer in Center City Milwaukee is "by-design".  It requires "due diligence" by each one of the voters, their families, their business and residential associates to be of like-accord.  To make an assessment of options and opportunities and then to set-forth an aggressive and solidarity agenda of successful engagement.

Strategic Points of Engagement

• ANNUAL LOCAL, STATE & FEDERAL FUNDS.
• CDFI and FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
• CITIZEN INPUT - Law Enforcement Spring Petition.
• DISPARITY REPORT - DWilson.
• EB-5
• ELECTION - 15th DISTRICT.
• MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS new Superintendent.
• PARENT and NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT from public education - secondary, technical/vocationa and higher education - MPS/MATC/UW-M.
• PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2014 INITIATIVES for Empowerment - Education, Information. Technology, Employment Wages, Transportation models for census tract and neighborhood beneficiaries.
• URBAN POPULATION HEALTH CARE - Affordable Health Care law.

And the Oscar Winners are . . . 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

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HOLLYWOOD - OSCARS |  March 2, 2014, the 86 Academy Awards was saluted with historic value of outstanding talent and win by a Brit Black man, a Black African male Nigerian actor, a Black African female Kenyan actor and an African American male writer born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Mequon.  They captured:

• BEST PICTURE - Steve Rodney McQueen, Director
• BEST SUPPORTING ROLE FEMALE - Lupita Almondi Nyong'o, Actor
• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY  - John Ridley, Screenplay Writer

It was a first of many to come - soon and very soon.

Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter

We salute and thank the freeborn African American author, Solomon Northrup (1808-1863) for writing "12 years a Slave".

We salute and thank Bianca Stigter, Steve McQueen's partner for finding and sharing the book with Steve.

We  salute and thank Steve McQueen for pursuing the characters, funders, cast and wherewithal to make the film and share with the world Solomon's story.

We salute and thank each of the actors and contributors to 12 Years a Slaves; i.e., actors Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodward, Michael K. Williams, Paul Giamatti, Adepero oduye, Qwvenzhanie Wallis, Garret Dillahunt, Taran Killan, Scoot McNairy, Dwight Henry, Anwan Glover, Chris Chalk, Bryan Batt, Jay Huguley, John McConnell, Marc Macaulay, Marcus Lyle Brown, Thomas Francis Murphy and so many more.

The cruel and brutal chaining and beatings reality of how the Black man and his family were thrust into being service renderers without their permission, stolen and purchased at-will as products-of-sale for the Caucasians' selfish will.  It also speaks of the separation of families with no regard for the parents or family members.  There was also the wanton lust of the Caucasian man for African American females which was at-will with NO option of refusal from the female or any legal repercussions.  This history known by many and spoken too softy is how resilient African Americans have remained without retaliation in spite of the barbaric and horrific conditions their fore-parents and they find happening today in the public square.

"We must all work very hard to rid our society of this unacceptable "privilege-thinking" and actions of enslavement.  Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC has added a doctrine it will advocate for.  It is called, RESPECT-4-RESPECT.   We also have a REPEAL STAND YOUR GROUND PETITION for signers.  JOIN US," said Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.

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Lupita Nyong'o - A NEW and Exciting Actor w/charm and beauty @ Oscar Night

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o, 31 years - 12 Years as a Slave Actor

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March 2, 2014
HOLLYWOOD | Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico, to Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, a politician in Kenya.  It is a Luo tradition to name a child after the events of the day, so her parents named her Lupita (a diminutive of "Guadalupe," Our Lady of Guadalupe).  She is of Luo descent and is the second of six children.  Her father was the former Kenyan Minister for Medical Services. At the time of Lupita's birth, he was a visiting lecturer in political science at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, and her family had been living in Mexico for three years.

In 2013, her father was elected to represent Kisumu County in the Kenyan Senate.   Nyong'o's mother is currently the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation and her own communications company.  Her cousin Tavia Nyong'o is a scholar and professor at New York University. In 2012, her older cousin, Isis Nyong'o, was named one of Africa's most powerful women by Forbes magazine.  Her uncle, Aggrey Nyong'o, was a prominent Kenyan physician, killed in a road accident in 2002.

Nyong'o attended college in the United States. After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies, she worked on the production crew of many films, including Fernando Meirelles'sThe Constant Gardener, with Ralph Fiennes, Mira Nair's The Namesake, and Salvatore Stabile's Where God Left His Shoes.  She cites Fiennes as another individual who inspired her to pursue a professional acting career.  Nyong'o landed her breakout role when she was cast in 12 Years a Slave immediately before graduating from Yale with an MFA in 2012.  The film was released in 2013 to great critical acclaim. Nyong'o received rave reviews for her performance, and has been nominated for several awards including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and two Screen Actors Guild Awards including Best Supporting Actress, which she won.  She co-starred in Liam Neeson's 2014 film Non-Stop.

Nyong'o cites the performances of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple with inspiring her to pursue a professional acting career.   Wikipedia

Milwaukee Professionals Association Open for Business - March 1, 2014

City Center Milwaukee | Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC Signature Initiative - AHOD/All Hands on Deck, WE CAN starts with the seven (7) Kwanzaa Principles and RESPECT-4-RESPECT doctrines of the public square for Re-defining, Re-branding and UN-trapping hidden talent and vetted businesses at the census tract and neighborhood level for eradicating "by-design" Enduring Concentrated Poverty in urban cities, especially Milwaukee.

MPA LLC AHOD/All Hands on Deck, WE CAN Initiative

AHOD is an "action" initiative that seeks informed engagement for "Skin-the-Game" that is solidified and codified by the People, the public square, especially People of Color.  BUY-IN. 

We remember the Kwanzaa themes (Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, Faith) and NEWLY added RESPECT-4-RESPECT doctrine throughout each month for building and substantiating the necessary infusion of capital investment by first the People and then their resources for the betterment of the census tracts and neighborhoods.   No one is exempt.

We seek LIKE-MINDS in forging the agenda of infrastructure change.

This month we will focus on:

• Kujichagulia/Self-Determination - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves; 
• Ujima/Collective Work and Responsibility - To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together; and, 
• Ujamaa/Cooperative Economics - To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Our 2014 special and year-long programs/projects include:

                       DEMO 10 NEIGHBORHOODS - City Center

Amani, Grandview/Walnut, Halyard Park, Harambee, Hillside, Metcalfe, Midtown, Riverwest, Sherman Park & WAICO/Y

MPA LLC 100 Census Tract & Neighborhood Businesses 

Tag - City Center 10

City Center is the trendy name MPA LLC has chosen to identify the urban city of Milwaukee. The 10-Neighborhoods are the hot zones for MPA LLC 2014 model for urban health care at the census tract and neighborhood level.

City Center 10-Neighborhoods is the tag for MPA LLC 10-Neighborhood DEMO.  The 10 neighborhoods (Amani, Grandview/Walnut, Halyard Park, Harambee, Hillside, Metcalfe, Midtown, Riverwest, Sherman Park and WAICO/Y) have a population in excess of 66,000.   The areas are not complete with each neighborhood.  It is an extrapolation based on the boundaries of:  

• North  - LOCUST
• South - VILET
• East   - HUMBOLDT
• West  - 60th STREET      

The densely populated belt within Milwaukee has a rich and urban culture that reflects Milwaukee population as well as its People of Color untold history.  It is the neighborhood belt that MPA LLC has chosen to lead the charge in "unearthing", by-design, Enduring Concentrated Poverty.  

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                           Host District 15 Candidates Forums - March & April, 2014

            

CITY CENTER MILWAUKEE | Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC will host historic forums for the Special election of the next representative at the city level of Milwaukee for District 15.  The Special Election follows the January 31, 2014 resignation of ex-Alderman Willie Hines.  The alderperson will start a new legacy of representation of District 15 and will complete 2 years before the full 4-year election time-frame.  The Candidates' Forums are:  

• Saturday, March 15, 2014 - 9:00 am - 12 NOON
• Saturday, April 19, 2014    - 9:00 am - 12 NOON

The Candidates Forums will be held in the Amani Neighborhood at:  WI Black Historical Society & Museum, 2620 W. Center Street, Milwaukee.

The 15th and 19th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to vote.  It must be monitored with urgency, revered and forthright - mindful and corrective of infringements.

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       BORN FREES & MILLENNIALS 

Born Frees and Millennials are individuals born 1980 - 2000.  They are also called Generation Y.   Born Frees Millennials or Generation Y age groups are the young and the smart with needed responsibility ties and appreciation of cultures and value-added historic connections with Gen X and Gen Z.

• The infusion of global links - emerging markets - is essential to the success of the Born Frees and Millennials group.
  
  
  MPA LLC Born Frees Millennials group for All Hands on Deck, WE CAN focuses on aspects affecting quality of life and economic development in the public square.  
  
  
  MPA LLC Born Frees/Millennials group for All Hands on Deck, WE CAN focuses on preventing the "cycle of poverty".
  
  
  MPA LLC Born Frees/Millennials group for All Hands on Deck, WE CAN supports education attainment and IT attainment at the census tract and neighborhood level.
  
  
  MPA LLC Born Frees/Millennials group for All Hands on Deck, WE CAN offers specific channel development in pipelines for talent development.

We seek involved   "case-learning" with junior/senior - POSSE, technical, 2-year and 4-year higher education students.

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       DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH VETTED BUSINESSES

DIAMOND In the Rough vetted businesses are those census tract and neighborhood businesses that have been "vetted" by the People with the "test-of-time" endorsement customer support.  

Today's focus for MPA LLC is ease-of-access to laws and programs available to them.
It is exposure to and access of information technology, co-location networking and the economic marketplace for scale.   Recent programs like Our Brother's Keeper, voc ed training and employment, transportation engagement at the census tract and neighborhood level with Milwaukeeans and technology investment. 

DIAMOND in the Rough vetted businesses are a No. 1 employer of stakeholders of the neighborhood.  They lack capital investment, connectivity to marketplace tools on an ongoing basis, linked and supported by the city government coffers, national funders with engagement for census tract and neighborhood level, and CDFI annual funds geared to empower economic and quality of life growth in the city of Milwaukee.

They also lack RESPECT of ENGAGEMENT by those elected-appointed-hired-volunteered-donor-for-hire represented.  Therefore, DISTRUST is rapport. 

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URBAN POPULATION HEALTH CARE

MPA LLC & Text4Baby Collaboration

• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE sign-up for every Milwaukeean.
• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE w/Population-chronic care accountability.
• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE PUE/primary, urgent and emergency care for City Center. beneficiaries.
• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE Insurance providing connectivity with City Center for ongoing input for care and services.
• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE providers with specific inclusion of board members, administration leaders, strategists and in-the-neighborhood care best practices.
• AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE practitioners, pharmaceuticals, suppliers, and academic networks with specific representation of leadership inclusion of the beneficiaries at the census tract and end-user level.

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                                    MPA LLC WELCOME Wagon - Domestic & EB-5

City Center Milwaukee - Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is increasing its Domestic and Global performance level at the census tract and neighborhood level of Milwaukee with leadership in customer care and reporting in its Welcome Wagon "Cross-Culture" Immigration Visas and Employment Based -1, 2, 3, 4, 5 expectations and snarls. 

Creating a state-of-the-art, census tract, and competitive economy that attract known talent, hidden talent and vetted businesses to create family-supporting and career jobs with gainful employment and business development to spike the infrastructure at the census tract and neighborhood level of City Center Milwaukee.

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                                               MPA LLC WELCOME Conference 

City Center Milwaukee - Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is tasked with preparation events to help ensure informed decision making for ownership, scholarship, fellowship, citizenship and stewardship.

Communication, day-2-day - 24/7 access to internet and information technology as well as access to financial capital is a must for data-status change in urban Milwaukee.  Being emerging, competitive and innovative in the marketplace are pathways to Upscalability.

Three (3) types of events are:

•  Monthly 15-District meetings
• 1 annual neighborhoods meeting
• 1 urban and rural meeting
• 1 farmers meeting 

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 Co-Location Partnerships

                            MPA LLC ANNUAL INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE Directory

City Center Milwaukee  | Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC developers are at again with the latest "customer care" tool for residential and commercial Milwaukeeans at the Census Tract and Neighborhood level.  The NEW tool is called:

• Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC Inter-Neighborhood Services Directory 2014.

Over the next six (6) months, March to September, MPA LLC will document services of health insurers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and private), health providers (hospitals and home care), health practitioners (doctor, nurse, specialist), pharmaceuticals (local and national), suppliers (local and online), academic networks 2-year, technical, 4-year higher ed, Medical College of Wisconsin and other networks for better access and selection of services after 2014.

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    MPA LLC CONSUMER PROTECTION GROUP

City Center Milwaukee  | Call for Reporting

On March 13, 2013, Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC announced Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC adds CONSUMER PROTECTION.

MPA LLC adopted goals and expectations to align with the federal Consumer Division at the federal level.  They include:

• To FOSTER solution-building with local-state-national government and other organizations for short and long-term planning and channel development that help prevent bias and DISCRIMINATION of all businesses, especially for-profit businesses.
• Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is prepared the next year (August 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014) to investigate, research, plan and announce strategies for overcoming biases, discrimination and non-productive practices that create non-engagement of African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged.   This includes tort reform and use of legal measures to ensure that movement takes place.
• To IDENTIFY leaders and organizations for collaboration and sustainability.
• To STRENGTHEN "people protection" rights with enhanced civil and criminal enforcement efforts.
• To CREATE PARTNERSHIPS through outreach in federal-state-local government agencies, People of Color business chambers, neighborhood businesses, neighborhood community-based organizations, urban health care partners - health practitioners, health providers, insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
•  To EDUCATE the public to curb victimizing.

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                                                MPA LLC JOURNAL Newsletter

City Center Milwaukee  | MPA LLC JOURNAL Newsletter provides "follow-up" of issues, topics, events, blueprints, business summaries, "special editions" and projects in the marketplace by Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.  It captures MPA LLC "body of work" to the People.  The first edition was published January 8, 2014.  The next is due by March 8, 2014.

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                               MPA LLC ANNUAL URBAN HEALTH CARE AWARD

City Center Milwaukee  | Prior to selection of Health Care selection for 2015, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC will host the annual evaluation of health providers, health practitioners, pharmaceuticals, suppliers, and academic networks.  individuals, residential and commercial, will be asked to participate in the "caliber-of-service", employment of Milwaukeeans, especially city center employees, inclusion of Milwaukeeans, especially city center stakeholders at board levels and administration for health care providers and practitioners - hospitals, home care sites, doctors, nurses and practitioners.  Show-n-Tell. 

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City Center Milwaukee | Welcome to eight (8) of our bank of websites.  They are:

• www.mpapublicpolicyreview.blogspot.com - MAIN
• www.cncfnbamilwaukee.newsvine.com - CNBC blog
• www.mpallcbusinessonlineshop.webs.com - Online business promotion shop
• www.safetymattersexploratoryteam.blogspot.com - Born Frees, Millennials & POSSE
• www.mpallchealthpulsealliance.blogspot.com - Health Alliance Council
• www.cafepress.com/mpallcbusinessshop - Special Edition-Busy Beaver-Safety Shop
• www.cafepress.com/mpallcbusinessshopno2jewelry - Fashion Jewelry Shop
• www.neighborhoodlink.com/CNI-Fondy-N_Business - Neighborhood 

MPA PUBLIC POLICY REVIEW
Our main website is:  www.mpapublicpolicyreview.blogspot.com

It provides a bandwidth of what we do and our coverage of our local "work-campus" - 97 square miles/15 Districts and over a half-million folk in the City of Milwaukee.  Our myopic focus is neighborhood and census tract preparedness and Upscalability.  The website provide blogs, news clippings, stock ratings, economic reports, editorial comments, reviews, pop culture, music, spiritual thoughts, and public policy statements by the Chairwoman, Mary Glass.