Tacoma | 40 minutes
Butter may rule the pastry kingdom, where too often dry vegan offerings crumble sadly into an afterthought. Not so at Tacoma s vegan heaven, where multicolor flags snap in the wind outside the mint-green bakery, a party unto itself in an otherwise drab industrial stretch near Tacoma Mall. The place is more or less split in half, with cases on the vegan and traditional sides equally bursting and tables laden with more plastic-wrapped boxes of cookies in the middle. A rainbow of conchasâsweet bread treats with colorful clamshell tops, airy even while bearing a proud vegan stickerâmatches the bakery exterior. While churros get their own dedicated rolling machine by the register, a selection of bulk cookies in flavors from pineapple jam to corn travel better.
WORCESTER The 800 registered nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in contract negotiations with Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare voted Wednesday to authorize their negotiating committee to call for a strike if Tenet management refuses to increase staffing levels during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
David Schildmeier, spokesman for the Massachusetts Nurses Association, said there was an overwhelming yes vote to authorize the strike, which will take place in approximately 10 days if Tenet and the nurses negotiation committee cannot come to an agreement.
The vote came the day before the parties’ next negotiation session, slated for Thursday, according to the nurses.
According to a news release from the nurses, Tenet refuses to heed nurses’ call to increase staffing levels to better protect patients. Nurses at St. Vincent are each responsible for five patients, and they are asking that the nurse-to-patient ratio be reduced to one-to-four by adding more staff.
Recently, students from Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden, completed a unique project in collaboration with the Cluster of Forest Technology along with several major stakeholders in the forest industry. But the intended client was not industry, but nature.
âIn collaboration with these creative and smart students, we have had the pleasure of exploring new ways forward, with nature and man in focus. It is these types of ideas and concepts that are needed to take necessary steps towards the sustainable forestry of the futureâ says Linda Nyström, CEO of the Cluster of Forest Technology.
A platform for open dialogue between Sami people and forestry companies. Self-propelled forwarders acting as responsive employees in the forest. And drones that can be used both in forestry and in school education at the same time. These are some examples of what students at Umeå Institute of Design have come up with during the project. Most of them come from the