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Shailene Woodley is in the spotlight with her "Divergent" coming out this month, and she used that attention to voice her concerns over the "Twilight" books/films.
"'Twilight,' I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship," the 22-year-old star said in the April 2014 issue of Teen Vogue.
"She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and she's going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve," she continued.
She's not the only celebrity who has made their dislike for "Twilight" vocal. Stephen King called the series "tweenager porn," and "The Vampire Chronicles" author Anne Rice took a jab by saying her creations would "feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun."
Woodley is about to join "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart in a group of young actresses whose career get a serious boost from starring in young adult novels-turned movie series with her starring role in "Divergent," adapted from Veronica Roth's hit book series. The film hits theaters March 21.
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Indiana University is transferring 50 workers from its own payrolls to a temporary staffing agency.
The federal government has extended Indiana's pilot health insurance program for another year, while the state looks for other ways to expand health care.
A new labor agreement also includes pay increases and more benefits for part-time employees.
State lawmakers say Indiana can't afford to continue delaying implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
The speech will be Mike Pence's first GOP response as governor. He delivered it several times while in Congress.
The Obama administration is delaying the requirement that employers offer health care to their workers until 2015.
Some legislators say they worry Indiana will miss out on the first year of federal funding for healthcare expansion.
The state has created a new form patients will fill out to indicate their wishes for health care. The form will be used at any facility the patient visits.
The percentage of Indiana residents who have health insurance through their employers has fallen by about 15 percent over the last decade.
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ZuTara - Catch You Catch MeIt was a normal night for the GAang. Everyone was sitting around the campfire, eating. Appa snoozed not far off, and Momo chattered as he flapped from shoulder to shoulder. Sokka sat with Suki, and Katara, as usual, wouldn't speak to Zuko.Just why she wouldn't speak to him, had always been a mystery to Toph. Couldn't the two see that they were just made for each other? Why is it that I'm the blind one, but they're the ones who can't see something right in front of their faces? she thought to herself. She knew she would just have to hook them up, somehow. She was just looking for the perfect opportunity.That night, as Toph lay in bed with her arms under her head, an idea came to her. A devious grin stretched across her face. Oh yeah, she thought. It's perfect!She went to sleep with the satisfying thought of her plans for the next day.~~~~~During the quiescent hours of the morning, when the sun had just poked its face over the horizon, and a crisp chill w
Zutara: Come What MayFire Lord Zuko walked down the hall of the Fire Nation palace, thinking as he went. It seemed like lately, so much had happened, in so little time. It had been a rush for him as well as the other members of Team Avatar. Aang had defeated Ozai, mastering the Avatar State and becoming a fully realized Avatar. Sokka, Toph, and Suki had taken down the air ship fleet, saving the Earth Kingdom in the process. His uncle Iroh, along with the other members of the Order of the White Lotus, had re-taken Ba Sing Se. He and Katara had defeated Azula together... and he had become Fire Lord.Zuko shook his head in wonder. All those years I was at sea, becoming Fire Lord seemed like a dead part of my life. I never dared to hope it could actually be. Smiling, he thought, So much has changed since then. I've changed so much since then.And now, the war was finally over. Zuko had thought that when he reached this point, all his troubles for the moment would be over. But the members o
ZuTara: Things Left UnsaidKatara watched in horror as her friend threw himself in the path of a lightning bolt...a lightning bolt that was meant for her. It hit him in the chest, and he was thrown through the air by its force. Finally, after what seemed an eternity, he landed on his side. Her eyes widened as she watched electricity course through Zuko's body, causing him to convulse. When it subsided, he rolled onto his back and moaned, clutching his chest.If you fly away tonight..."Zuko!" She yelled out his name, desperately praying that he would be okay. She ran in his direction, bending water onto her hands as she went, hoping that somehow, maybe, she could help him. She had never realized it before, but...watching him risk his life for her, she was beginning to realize that she thought of him as more than just a friend.I wanna tell you that I love you.Before she could reach Zuko's side, a blast of fire in front of her caused her to stop. She looked up to realize that she was being attacked
ZuTara: BondZuko looked down at the face of his girlfriend. She looked so peaceful, so beautiful. Almost as if she were sleeping. But he knew that couldn't be further from the truth.Lying in the casket, Mai's lifeless form looked just like it had when she was alive. It almost looks like she could sit up at any minute, Zuko pondered, and be with me again. I just can't believe she's gone. He reached a finger down and caressed her face...so cold. So stiff. I'm so sorry, Mai. His shoulders sagged as he was hit with the full realization: Mai was gone.Katara was standing next to Zuko, looking into the casket. She hadn't known Mai; they had only met a couple times, and always it had been a fight. But still...I know that this girl meant a lot to Zuko. This must be so hard on him. She looked to her right, at the face of her friend, her brow knitted in concern. He just stood there...emotionless, as always. Trying to hold up the tough exterior, and not show what was really going


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Founded | 20 July 1931 (as Boston-Maine Airways) | |||
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Northeast Airlines was an American airline based in Boston, Massachusetts.
The airline began as Boston-Maine Airways, founded as a Pan Am contract carrier on July 20, 1931, by the Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad, flying from Boston to Bangor via Portland. It flew only abortively until August 11, 1933, when it began contract service for National Airways, an agreement which lasted four years. The name Northeast Airlines was adopted on November 19, 1940.
During World War II Northeast pioneered regular transatlantic service for the military under contract from the U.S. Army Air Force. After the war they applied for authorization to operate passenger service across the Atlantic but were stymied by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which awarded the routes to Pan American World Airways and TWA.
The January 1945 OAG shows Northeast flights to seven cities, from Boston to Moncton. Four departures a day from Boston and four return flights-- nothing else.
Northeast's Convair 240s and DC-3s did not fly south or west of New York/Newark until 1956 when they added flights to Washington National. In 1957 they added three DC-6B "Sunliner" nonstops from La Guardia to Miami.
A series of crashes damaged the airline's image:
Northeast ordered ten turboprop Vickers Viscounts in the late 1950s and used them until financial problems in the early 1960s forced the company to return them to the manufacturer. Northeast leased a single Boeing 707 from TWA for 1959-60 winter flights to Florida. In 1960 Northeast leased six Convair 880s and flew them to Florida for several years.
In 1965 the airline was bought by Storer Broadcasting, who tried to rejuvenate Northeast with a new marketing campaign and new aircraft. Northeast ordered a fleet of Boeing 727s for their Florida routes, and Douglas DC-9 twinjets and Fairchild FH-227 turboprops for shorter routes. These "Yellowbirds" had a new two-tone yellow and white livery. In 1966 Northeast was the launch customer for the Boeing 727-200, which they began flying in December 1967. Except for Florida their network was all north and east of Washington National until 1969 when they added three 727 nonstops Miami to Los Angeles, with Fort Lauderdale getting a short-lived LAX nonstop soon after. (Fuel stops were sometimes needed.)
Despite a modern fleet and the Yellowbird marketing campaign, Northeast remained at a disadvantage against larger competitors such as Eastern Airlines and National Airlines. By the early 1970s Northeast's financial condition was such that they sought a merger or a sale. On August 1, 1972 Northeast merged with Delta Air Lines. Northeast's contribution to Delta included access to the Boston market, which Delta did not serve under the then-regulated airline industry. Delta added the Boeing 727 to their fleet, a type they did not operate prior to absorbing Northeast. Delta used this tri-jet airliner as the workhorse of their fleet during the 1970s and 1980s.
Northeast Airlines served the following destinations:[7]
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Essential Back-to-School Medical Checkups
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Send your kids back to class healthy by making sure to schedule these important checkups.
Head-to-Toe Physical Examination
Why: To track healthy development and pinpoint problems. Essential if your child will be involved in school sports.
When: Every year on his or her birthday (if before September) or in summer
Who to See: Pediatrician or primary-care physician say ahhh! Send your kids back to class healthy by making sure to schedule these important checkups
Flu Vaccine
(kids under 10 getting it for the first time need 2 doses, at least 4 weeks apart)
Why: Kids are at a higher risk of hospitalization from flu complications. when Every year in October through January
Who to See: Pediatrician or primary-care physician
Review of Prior Vaccinations
Plus: booster for tetanus and diphtheria (Tdap) if 5 years have passed; meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MC V4); human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) for girls, 3 doses over 6 months
Why: Protection from earlier vaccines can begin to wear off; MC V4 prevents deadly bacterial blood infection and meningitis (which adolescents are more prone to); HPV guards against cervical cancer and genital warts.
When: By middle school (age 11 to 12)
Who to See: Pediatrician or primary-care physician
Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Exam
Why: To screen for ear infection, hearing loss, sleep apnea, allergies.
When: Between ages 6 and 8; also if child snores, has chronic congestion, stuffy nose or other sinus symptoms, speech delay, or hearing problems
Who to See: Otolaryngologist; allergist as needed
Dental Exam and Cleaning
Why: Dental and related conditions are the #1 reason kids miss school, more than 51 million hours a year.
When: Every 6 months beginning at their first birthday
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Laurie Lawrence, equine nutritionist at the University of Kentucky, suggests ways growers can provide horse owners with the quality of hay they want while at the Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium held in mid-December.
If you weren't able to attend the 2013 Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV, you're still in luck. Videos, PowerPoints and proceedings papers of nearly every session have been posted on University of California Extension's alfalfa and forage website.
Among topics covered at the two-day meeting were hay-price forecasts, dairy-industry developments and long-term trends for hay exports. There were also presentations on pest management, water challenges facing Western producers, preventing hay fires, producing quality hay for the horse market and more. To see the complete listing of speakers and topics, click here.
In all, this year's symposium featured 35 speakers and more than 70 trade show exhibits. Nearly 600 people attended.
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Rochdale boss Keith Hill believes there is no disgrace in losing to Scunthorpe United in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
Dale lost their area quarter-final 1-0 to the League One leaders following a late David Mirfin winner at Glanford Park.
"Obviously it is disappointing to lose to a goal so late in the game when it looked like going to penalties," said Hill.
"But performance-wise I have nothing but praise for my players. They were superb.
"Scunthorpe are currently the best team in League One and yet they have had to change formation to nullify our threat.
"We have got to take that as a great compliment and on another day it could so easily have been us going through to the next round."
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Heavenly angels were singing when two Democratic state senators in Colorado were defeated in a low-turnout recall election that focused on the lawmakers' support for tougher gun laws, at least according to "Dr. Chaps" Gordon Klingenschmitt. The exorcist and former navy chaplain actively campaigned for the Republican challengers, the Colorado Independent reports:
"I was praying tonight that God would inspire His people," Gordon Klingenschmitt, assured Linda Herpin, wife of the GOP recall challenger, minutes before El Paso County Republicans announced that her husband had unseated Morse, a Democrat.
"I wanted to help recall John Morse specifically because of 2nd Amendment issues," he said. "As a Christian, as a person who follows Jesus, I believe in the 2nd Amendment. I believe that when Jesus said, for example, 'sell your cloak and buy a sword,' that he endorsed the idea of self-defense, that defending yourself is not a crime. In fact, it's a moral obligation to defend your wife, to defend your family, and John Morse stands against families who want to do that —stands against people who want to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights."
In an email to members of his Pray In Jesus Name Project, Klingenschmitt writes that Jesus was the real winner in Colorado:
Victory! Jesus and 2nd Amendment win Colorado Senate races
Not only do I live in southern Colorado, where conservatives just successfully recalled two gun-grabbing liberal Senators who voted to restrict our 2nd Amendment rights, but I got personally involved in the local politics (block walking, petition gathering, donating, making phone calls, and praying) that helped elect a new Republican State Senator Bernie Herpin and throw out the Democrat Senate President John Morse. This internationally-watched race confronted President Obama himself, who sent VP Joe Biden to lobby the Colorado Senate to punish gun-owners, but those efforts backfired.
That said, I still believe religious freedom is the First right, because even if you have the right to bear arms, assemble, speak, and petition, but you don't have the right to worship Almighty God or pray in Jesus' name, then the government still owns your soul. Let's tell them "not my soul" today.
Today's WorldNetDaily News Alert was a true double-whammy, with two heavily slated reports phrased as questions so as to not take actual responsibility for the incendiary claims made in the articles.
"Are Terrorists Setting U.S. Wildfires?' Joe Kovacs asks, relying on unsupported claims that Islamic extremists were maybe behind a Colorado wildfire.
As WND reported in June, an expert on Islamic terrorism believes a wildfire that ravaged the outskirts of Colorado Springs, Colo., killing two people and destroying more than 500 homes, should be examined by terror investigators.
"One thing that my investigators have given me the authority to state is that they have all but ruled out natural causes as the cause of this fire," said Sheriff Terry Maketa at the time. "I can't really go any further on that, but I can say we are pretty confident it was not, for instance, a lightning strike."
In a message to WND's Muslim readers, the NewsAlert offered this message: "If you are a Muslim … a Sunni Muslim … and you dream of the day the caliphate will be restored … then thank Allah for this man …"
Obama, of course!
WND reporter Aaron Klein's post, "'Manchurian President' Ushering In Islamic Caliphate?," argues that Obama has "empowered Islamic radicals" in order to create a global Islamic government. Klein, the author of "The Manchurian President," is publicizing his new book "Impeachable Offenses."
Since assuming office, President Obama has weakened America both domestically and abroad by emboldening U.S. enemies and tacitly supporting Muslim Brotherhood revolutions that have empowered Islamic radicals, charges a new book.
In "Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office,"New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott demonstrate that Obama's policies have been helping to install Muslim Brotherhood-friendly regimes to the detriment of U.S. national security and world stability.
"Obama's policies are installing political Islam throughout the Middle East and North Africa in a tidal wave of change already reaping disastrous results for those regions as well as for U.S. interests there," write Klein and Elliott.
Islamic caliphate?
Mubarak was only the beginning, write Klein and Elliott. Obama's support for a U.S. ally's ouster and replacement with radical Islamic elements would be repeated numerous times in the Middle East and North Africa, to the great detriment of the American war on terror, the authors write.
In today's legal landscape, "following the money" is tricky – but a new report released yesterday shows why this work is critical to anyone who cares about progressive change. The latest digging from the Center for Responsive Politics' Open Secrets blog has uncovered new information about a multi-tiered money laundering operation through which tax-exempt groups funnel millions to groups supporting right-wing causes and candidates.
Operating behind a thick veil of secrecy, groups like TC4 Trust and the Center to Protect Patient Rights – which Open Secrets describes as "'shadow money mailboxes' – groups that do virtually nothing but pass grants through to other politically active 501(c)(4) organizations" – are able to hide both their donors and their recipients. By funneling grants through "sub-units," which are owned by the larger groups but have different names, groups like TC4 Trust put millions into the pockets of 501(c)4 organizations supporting Republican causes in the 2012 elections, such as the advocacy arm of Focus on the Family.
As Open Secrets reports,
[T]heir financial ties run far deeper than previously known. The groups, TC4 Trust and the Center to Protect Patient Rights – both of which have connections to the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers – have been playing a high-stakes game of hide-the-ball, disguising transfers of millions of dollars from one to the other behind a veil of Delaware limited liability corporations.
The source of political advocacy matters. This latest example of dark money donor groups obscuring the links of their money trail underscores the urgent need for legislation like the DISCLOSE Act. This act would bring some basic transparency to the electoral system and require outside groups spending money in elections to disclose their donors – including the original source of donations. The measure, which was blocked by Senate Republicans in both 2010 and 2012, is a common-sense solution that would help the American people understand who is trying to influence their political opinions and their votes.
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer yesterday tied together the closure of an Oregon bakery that refused to serve gay customers who were trying to find a wedding cake and the rapidly-collapsing story of an Air Force officer who insists he was punished by a superior over his views on gay marriage. Fischer said that the two accounts were proof of growing anti-Christian persecution in Obama's America.
Lifting a line from WorldNetDaily, he accused gay rights advocates of using mob-like tactics and shouting "Homo Akbar!"
"This is happening everywhere," Fischer argued. "That bakery couple in Oregon had their bakery completely shut down by a homosexual mob, a homosexual mafia; they cried 'Homo-Akbar!' and assaulted, stormed metaphorically, the bakery and got it completely shut down."
Later in the segment, the Focal Point host maintained that President Obama "has made it a criminal offense to be a sincerely devoted follower of Jesus Christ in the United States Military" and accused Obama of "leading this purge of Christians from the military. This is ethnic cleansing, this is spiritual cleansing."
Zack Taylor of the National Association for Former Border Patrol Officers has been a leading voice against immigration reform, charging that "America's immigration laws are not broken" and estimating that there are around 20 million undocumented immigrants in the US. In an interview with the American Family Association's Sandy Rios today, Taylor claimed that of the 20 million (a grossly inflated number), "potentially thirty percent" have criminal records – and that immigration enforcement officials must "cull the herd" of immigrants.
Actually, immigrants – both documented and undocumented -- are far less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans, and many of those who are in prison are there as a result of immigration violations rather than violent crimes.
Taylor then went on to falsely suggest that the Obama administration is ignoring laws and not targeting immigrants with criminal records. But as Beth Caldwell notes, two million undocumented immigrants have been deported in the last five years and the Senate reform bill "categorically excludes most people with criminal convictions from relief."
"It's just like having a garden; you have to weed the garden. If you're raising animals; you have to cull the herd. That's what needs to happen," Taylor said.
This whole business about legalizing an unknown—when I talk about unknown, we're talking about potentially 30% of the people that are here have criminal records. Why don't we just go ahead and enforce the current immigration laws? It's just like having a garden; you have to weed the garden. If you're raising animals; you have to cull the herd. That's what needs to happen. We need to turn our law enforcement people into a screw to where the people that are taken full custody arrest of are processed for immigration backgrounds and those that have criminal records removed. That's not so hard to understand because these people are being picked up committing other crimes.
In last month's edition of The Liberator [PDF], Liberty Counsel president Anita Staver blasted public school as "dangerous, anti-God indoctrination camps" that "threaten our nation's very survival." Pleading with parents to homeschool their children in a column titled "Stealth Creation of Government Indoctrination Camps Underway," Staver lamented that "millions of helpless people are taken there on busses to be brainwashed and victimized" in "repressive" schools controlled by "secularists, humanists, and socialists."
"Public schools have indeed, become some of the most dangerous places in America," she writes. "We cannot stick our head in the sand while our nation's children are held hostage in government indoctrination camps."
"Resist the godless, socialist indoctrination before it's too late!"
Most Americans are blissfully unaware that dangerous, anti-God indoctrination camps have been opened in every state in our nation!
A further outrage: You and I are being forced to support these socialist camps that threaten our nation's very survival.
Under the guise of bringing positive reform, these camps are undermining the American way of life. Every day, millions of helpless people are taken there on busses to be brainwashed and victimized. In fact, our government has created an entire bureaucracy dedicated to advancing these repressive institutions.
You probably even have relatives or friends who are mandated to live in these camps for countless hours of the most impressionable and formative years of their lives. Of course, these government indoctrination camps are also known as "public schools."
Public schools have indeed, become some of the most dangerous places in America, not just because of potential violence, but due to humanists with revisionist textbooks espousing anti-God lies to throngs of unsuspecting indoctrinees.
Although public schools were started to spread and affirm Christian morals and the Bible, government schools have become hostile places for God's Word. The tragic fact is that the lack of morals in our public school classrooms is endangering our nation's future.
These days, when parental authority is overruled by bureaucrats and activist judges, leaving parents as mere caretakers, Christians need to heed the warnings and take control of the public schools while they still can. And while we are working on school reform, we need to be sure our own children do not fall victim to the brainwashing.
I believe that many Christians will need to ask God's forgiveness for neglecting His most precious gift: our nation's children. And while we are training up our own children, we must also take the public schools back from the secularists, humanists, and socialists who have gained a stranglehold on their curricula. Even if we do not have children or grandchildren in the government controlled school systems, we must be deeply concerned about those who will someday govern our nation.
We cannot stick our head in the sand while our nation's children are held hostage in government indoctrination camps. We dare not leave our most precious resource – our children – to the humanists. Secularization has deeply infected many school systems nationwide, spurred on by anti -Christian groups like the ACLU, People for the American Way, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and other radical groups that systematically coerce administrators into kicking God out the door.
The threat posed to our constitutional republic by socialist indoctrination in government school systems is very real and very present. But the good news is that Liberty Counsel and other pro-liberty groups are standing up against this subversion and are winning the battles! Join with us for the sake of our children and grandchildren. Resist the godless, socialist indoctrination before it's too late!
Two days following 9/11 terrorist attacks, televangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blamed the attacks on "the pagans, the abortions, the feminists and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way."
Today, Robertson remembered 9/11 by attacking former president George W. Bush for calling Islam a "religion of peace."
"They believe that anybody who doesn't submit is at war with them and they are prime targets, and for the Western nations to welcome this fifth column into their midst is just committing suicide," Robertson claimed.
"The reason is they have lost their faith in God, they have lost their faith in Jesus Christ, they don't believe in what the Bible says and the core values of our society have gone away," Robertson continued. "We've done it here in America, we've abolished prayer in the schools, we've taken out Bible-reading in the schools and little by little by little we've eroded the rights—we keep talking about separation and this that and the other."
Robertson made the remarks following a report by Dale Hurd which linked radical Islamic groups to liberals. "Muslims and the European left continue their strange political partnership; while they're polar opposites when it comes to women's rights, abortions and homosexuality, Muslims vote for the left while the left grows its constituency by encouraging Muslim immigration and the spread of Islamic values," Hurd claimed. "America too has been knowingly trying to advance the cause of Muslim radicals in Syria and Egypt."
Linda Harvey of Mission America is deeply troubled that Dr. Eliza Byard of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network addressed the ceremony marking the 50th Anniversary on the March on Washington. According to Harvey, "GLSEN's idea of promoting homosexuality and gender confusion to kids is deeply harmful and these behaviors are certainly not anything close to civil rights."
She took it one step further by reiterating her belief that GLSEN and similar groups focusing on LGBT-inclusive education actually promote abuse. "These actions are pure evil and should be declared child abuse," Harvey charged, demanding that conservatives begin "calling this lunacy what it is."
Last week the executive director of one of the nation's most radical homosexual groups, GLSEN, spoke at the civil rights commemorative march in Washington. Eliza Byard of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network is, I'm sure, sincere in her beliefs. But GLSEN's idea of promoting homosexuality and gender confusion to kids is deeply harmful and these behaviors are certainly not anything close to civil rights.
Why are we in such a place friends where children learn that homosexual behavior is noble, that amputating healthy body parts is admirable but the mention of Jesus Christ during a graduation ceremony is controversial? I'll tell you how: it's because not enough of us are calling this lunacy what it is. We need to have a clear idea about what is evil and speak up about it in order to preserve the good. These actions are pure evil and should be declared child abuse. This all starts with the lie that homosexuality can ever be a good thing or that changing one's gender can ever be in the child's long-term best interest when it's easy to demonstrate that it's not.
The anti-immigrant group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), headed by activist William Gheen, chose to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks today by very literally comparing undocumented immigrants to the 9/11 hijackers, sending out an email with the subject line: "Illegals are hijacking our government: Let's roll Americans."
"Today, let us bow our heads in prayer for those lost on 9/11 and the thousands of Americans that continue to be slaughtered each year by illegal immigrants who are being supported by large corporations and our own government and politicians," Gheen pleads in the email.
He goes on to suggest that recipients "honor the fallen" by contacting elected officials to urge them to oppose comprehensive immigration legislation: "Let's hit these office phone lines, twitter accounts, and Facebook pages hard today, and instead of pro amnesty supporters, let the Americans speak against amnesty on 9/11!"
Illegals are hijacking our government: Let's roll Americans
Today is the 9 year anniversary of the founding of ALIPAC. We chose to launch on 9/11 in honor of the victims of the terror attacks that occurred because our government failed at its most basic responsibility to protect our citizens from those who would enter our nation to do us harm.
That is what continues to happen each day our government leaves our borders wide open and our existing immigration laws virtually unenforced.
Today, let us bow our heads in prayer for those lost on 9/11 and the thousands of Americans that continue to be slaughtered each year by illegal immigrants who are being supported by large corporations and our own government and politicians.
We can also honor the fallen by fighting to secure our nation from those who plan to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens this October. We just received word that Congressman Bob Goodlatte plans to get a bill passed in October and this will translate into Amnesty for illegals once any immigration bill passed this year is reconciled with the Senate Amnesty bill in conference.
…Let's hit these office phone lines, twitter accounts, and Facebook pages hard today, and instead of pro amnesty supporters, let the Americans speak against amnesty on 9/11!
The illegals are trying to hijack the cockpit of America's government!
Let's roll!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
To: Editorial boards and journalists
From: Marge Baker, Executive Vice President, People For the American Way
Date: September 11, 2013
Re: On D.C. Circuit, Senate GOP Faces Choice Between Governance and Obstruction
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today on the nomination of Judge Robert L. Wilkins, one of President Obama's three nominees to the influential Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Wilkins, like his fellow nominees Cornelia "Nina" Pillard and Patricia Millett, is indisputably qualified. In fact, the Senate unanimously confirmed him in 2010 to his current position on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. But Wilkins' nomination, like those of Pillard and Millett, risks being caught up in political gridlock that has nothing to do with his qualifications.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Millett's nomination last month along party lines, with Republican senators making clear that their objections were all about politics and not about the nominee's merits. The committee will vote on Pillard's nomination next week.
We urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to fairly consider Wilkins and the Senate GOP to allow yes-or-no votes on all three nominees.
Another highly qualified, principled nominee
As President Obama made clear in his Rose Garden speech announcing the nominations of Wilkins, Pillard and Millett, all three are highly qualified, principled individuals who will be an enormous asset to the D.C. Circuit, frequently referred to as the second most influential court in the nation. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Judge Wilkins served for over a decade at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he was recognized by the Legal Times as the []office's "premier advocate." In 2002, Wilkins joined the respected law firm Venable LLP, where he oversaw complex financial industry cases and was recognized as one of Washington's top lawyers by Washingtonian Magazine and the Legal Times.
In 1993, as a private citizen, Wilkins led one of the nation's most influential legal battles against racial profiling. After his car was stopped and searched for drugs by Maryland state police while he was driving home from his grandfather's funeral, Wilkins filed a lawsuit against the state. The suit revealed that the state police had directed its troopers to target African American motorists for highway drug searches. The case, Wilkins, et al. v. State of Maryland, influenced the entire country: 46 states now collect data to detect and prevent racial profiling of drivers.
Wilkins has been a leader in the effort to establish and create the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2000, he left his job to work full-time on the establishment of the museum, working with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to establish a commission to plan the museum. The Senate later appointed Wilkins to chair the commission's site and building committee. The museum is set to open in 2015.
In 2010, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Wilkins to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The American Bar Association has rated him Unanimously Well Qualified for the D.C. Circuit, its highest rating for judicial nominees.
Senate Republicans' persistent obstruction
Senate Republicans have threatened to filibuster Wilkins' nomination, along with those of fellow nominees Cornelia "Nina" Pillard and Patricia Millett, simply because they do not want President Obama to fill vacancies on the D.C. Circuit.
This is the most extreme manifestation yet of the Senate GOP's campaign of delays and inaction against President Obama's judicial nominees. Because of Republican slow-walking, President Obama's confirmed judicial nominees have been forced to wait nearly three times as long for a yes-or-no vote from the Senate than were President George W. Bush's nominees by this point in his presidency. During George W. Bush's entire eight years in office, the Senate minority filibustered 18 judicial nominations; in the first five years of Obama's presidency, there have already been 31 judicial filibusters. Many of these filibusters have had nothing to do with the nominees themselves: Nearly half of the Obama circuit court nominees who Republicans have filibustered are people they ultimately supported overwhelmingly.
The result is that more than ten percent of seats on lower federal courts are now or will soon be vacant. More than one third of current vacancies are in courts so over-extended that the Judicial Conference of the United States has declared them "judicial emergencies."
This pattern holds true at the D.C. Circuit, where three of eleven active judgeships are vacant. The Senate has confirmed just one Obama nominee to the D.C. Circuit, in contrast to the four George W. Bush nominees, three Clinton nominees, three George H.W. Bush nominees and eight Reagan nominees.
This persistent obstruction has been detrimental to the federal court system, causing delays for individuals and businesses seeking their day in court.
But it has also delayed President Obama's efforts to put qualified nominees with a diversity of backgrounds on the federal bench. Forty-one percent of President Obama confirmed nominees have been women, compared with just 22 percent of President Bush's nominees. Likewise, 38 percent of President Obama's nominees have been people of color, in contrast to just 18 percent of President Bush's nominees.
The nominations of Wilkins, who is African American, and Millett and Pillard, who are both women, to the D.C. Circuit represent President Obama's commitment to picking highly qualified, diverse nominees to the nation's courts. Senate Republicans should give these nominees the respect of reviewing them on their merits, rather than using them as pawns in destructive political infighting.
Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver won't be the only person honored at this year's Ex-Gay Awareness Month festivities. The event's organizers, Voice of the Voiceless, announced today that a former "Satanic Drag Queen" will receive their "Courage Award."
Trace McNutt said in an interview with ex-gay leader Christopher Doyle that he became involved in drag when he learned that "the rock stars and the royalty of the gay world were the drag queens" and as a result turned into "an alien, sexual deviant creation…satanic version of a drag queen." After battling drug addiction and homelessness, he realized that homosexuality was a choice and started attending church where "some of the most masculine, butchest men reached into my life and loved me."
One of the chief players in Republican politics in Iowa yesterday praised Russian president Vladimir Putin for his role in criminalizing speech supportive of gay rights as part of a larger crackdown on the country's LGBT community. Bob Vander Plaats, head of the group The Family Leader and recent host of a summit with likely presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum, defended the ban in an interview with conservative talk show host Steve Deace.
While speaking about the crisis in Syria, Vander Plaats commended Putin for appropriating American "strengths" like "military might, decisive action, core values, morality, beliefs," which have now "defaulted into our weaknesses because of Barack Obama."
Vander Plaats praised Putin for taking a stand and saying "don't bring this homosexual propaganda into my country for the Olympics; we believe in one man, one woman marriage; there is no homosexual marriage in Russia."
Deace interjected that Putin shouldn't be deemed a hero of the "pro-family" movement since he recently divorced his wife, Vander Plaats but said "it doesn't matter."
Vander Plaats: He has taken what used to be our strengths — military might, decisive action, core values, morality, beliefs — and he's saying, those are being turned into your guys' weakness and guess what I'm doing? I'm taking those. I'm taking decisive leadership, you're following my lead. As a matter of fact, Obama's now agreeing with Putin, 'oh you know maybe we've got some other options here now.' So he's taking Putin's lead. Putin's saying, 'you know what don't bring this homosexual propaganda into my country for the Olympics; we believe in one man, one woman marriage; there is no homosexual marriage in Russia.'
Deace: Says the guy that just kicked his wife of four decades to the curb.
Vander Plaats: It doesn't matter. He's taken what used to be our strengths, which has now defaulted into our weaknesses because of Barack Obama, no leadership, and he's making them his strengths and he's emerging now on the world stage as a newly discovered leader. Ladies and gentlemen this is why you need to rise up, this is why we rise up, to demonstrate, we do have a voice in this process.
Of course for gay people and gay rights advocates in Russia, they will no longer have a voice in the already-undemocratic state.
By Yolanda "Cookie" Parker
I almost heard one of the most famous speeches in American history from a first aid tent on the National Mall.
On August 28, 1963, when I was 17 years old, my older sister and I snuck out of our house in Maryland at 6:00 am and traveled to the March on Washington, despite our parents' objections. The day was hot and I hadn't eaten anything. Standing in the front row, listening to the day's first speeches, I fainted. The next thing I knew, I was in the first aid tent and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was about to begin his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. My sister and I rushed back out into the huge, alive crowd. It was a sight I will never forget.
Fifty years later, I listened to President Obama speak in the same place as Dr. King. I have come a long way since then – besides being lucky enough to have a chair this time – and, so has our country. Returning to the site of the 1963 March, it was impossible not to be moved by the sight of our first African-American president speaking in the same place that Dr. King had spoken.
My own story speaks to the extraordinary success of all those who fought for Civil Rights when I was growing up. However, it also reminds me that we have not achieved an easy pat ending of racial equality simply because we have our first African-American President as many on the political right would like us to believe.
I grew up in a military family – my stepfather was in the Air Force – which meant that my mother had to bring her own civil rights movement with her as we moved from base to base.
I started high school at a segregated school in Biloxi, Mississippi, where all girls in the 9th grade were not allowed to take science, and instead had to take home economics. After my parents went to the school board and got a special dispensation for me to take science, I was forced to sit in the back of a classroom full of boys. I still won the school's science contest.
We then moved to Hamilton AFB in Marin County, California and lived on base. A little more than a year later my stepfather was transferred and since we could not go with him we had to move off base. The only area we could move to in those days was pretty dilapidated so my Mother repeatedly petitioned officials in the Kennedy Administration, and refused to move off base for months until my family was allowed to move into decent housing, which was in an all-white neighborhood. Before we could move in, Air Force officials went door-to-door, checking to see if any of our new neighbors minded if a "colored family" moved in. They didn't – and ultimately, some of those neighbors became good friends.
In the last semester of my senior year in high school, we were transferred to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland where I had to attend a newly integrated high school in Suitland, MD. I remember one teacher who was astounded that I had an aptitude for math and science. When I did well on my initial exam, she said in astonishment, "Oh, Yolanda, I didn't know colored people could do math!"
Eventually, I built a career at IBM, worked for a tech startup and then started my own company with software I developed.
Throughout my career, I've known that none of this would have been possible if not for the relentless determination of my mother and the principled impatience of civil rights leaders like Dr. King and Whitney Young, Jr. As President Obama said on the anniversary of the March, "The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own." There were a lot of hands bending that arc.
Although I've come from being banned from science class to starting a tech company, from fainting in front of the Lincoln Memorial to working as hard as I could to help elect our first African-American President, I know that achieving Dr. King's dream, and my mother's dream, is still going to take a lot of work.
When my son got his driver's license in 1993, my husband and I still had to give him "the talk" about being a young black man in America – the same talk my husband's father gave him. And today, my friends who have young children of color must explain what happened to Trayvon Martin and why, heartbreakingly, they need to understand it.
Decades after my mother fought to get my family into decent housing and to give me an equal education, the income and wealth gaps between African-Americans and whites are continuing to widen. The unemployment rate for African-Americans is still twice that of whites. Our schools still provide a wildly different quality of education to children of different races. And even the protections for voting rights that were secured by the Civil Rights Movement were just torn apart by the United States Supreme Court.
Coretta Scott King once said, "Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation." When I hear that, I think of my mother and of the young people today who are now picking up the mantle.
The truth is that for all of us, the story of the progress of our nation is the story of our own individual lives. And in all of our stories, we have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go and therefore must keep fighting for economic justice, voter justice and educational justice.
Yolanda "Cookie" Parker is the founder and president of KMS Software Company and a member of the board of People For the American Way. She also served on President Obama's National Finance Committee.
Creationists advising the Texas Education Agency, the state's board of education, are no longer even trying to hide the fact that they want to insert pseudo-scientific material grounded in religious beliefs into public school science textbooks. Terrence Stutz of the Dallas Morning News reports that evolution detractors appointed to the review boards are urging the textbook publishers to ignore the Supreme Court (along with science) and push Creationism, or be rejected.
One of the panelists reviewing the biology textbooks, a nutritionist, said that "creation science based on biblical principles should be incorporated into every biology book that is up for adoption."
Religious conservatives serving on state textbook review panels have criticized several proposed high school biology textbooks for not including arguments against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The review panels include several creationists. They urge the State Board of Education to reject the books unless publishers include more disclaimers on key concepts of evolution.
One reviewer even suggested a rule requiring that each biology book cover "creation science." That would run counter to a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The decision banned the teaching of creationism in public school science classes.
"I understand the National Academy of Science's strong support of the theory of evolution," said Texas A&M University nutritionist Karen Beathard, one of the biology textbook reviewers. "At the same time, this is a theory. As an educator, parent and grandparent, I feel very firmly that creation science based on biblical principles should be incorporated into every biology book that is up for adoption."
"Now the veil is dropped," Dan Quinn of the Texas Freedom Network writes. "Some of the reviewers are clearly oblivious to the fact that teaching religious arguments in a science classroom is blatantly unconstitutional."
The National Center for Science Education and Texas Freedom Network found that the Creationists on the textbook review boards have also:
• asserted that "no transitional fossils have been discovered"
• insisted that there is no evidence for a human influence on the carbon cycle
• claimed that there is no evidence about the effect of climate change on species diversity
• promoted a book touting "intelligent design" creationism as a reliable source of scientific information
• denied that recombination and genetic drift are evolutionary mechanisms
• mischaracterized experiments on the peppered moth as "discredited" and as "fabrication[s]"
Due to the size of the Texas market, textbooks tailored to the state's standards could be used across the country, making the ramifications of the Creationist influence even greater.
The Religious Right has gone into overdrive to fight a San Antonio ordinance that added "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the city's non-discrimination policy [PDF], which already included bans on discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex…veteran status, age or disability." But despite their hyperventilating, the measure passed anyway.
The ordinance's opponents were certainly not helped by their strategy of using far-fetched, over-the-top arguments to mischaracterize the ordinance…because that it was just too easy to point out where went wrong.
Take, for instance, pastor Charles Flowers, a vocal opponent of the ordinance, who appeared on The Janet Mefferd Show on September 6 to charge that councilmembers who backed the measure "don't deserve to serve any longer" because they "assaulted" the rights of Christians.
His main complaint about the ordinance was that homosexuality is a "sexual lifestyle choice" and not an immutable characteristic…like a person's religious beliefs.
"There is a strong response coming from this community to rid our city council of people whose judgment -- this is the issue, they could not judge the difference between the sacred suffering of someone involved in the Civil Rights Movement to gain basic human rights based on immutabilities like race, sex, where you were born and your creeds, that don't change," Flowers charged. "They couldn't tell the difference between that and some group that has a sexual propensity or making as sexual lifestyle choice and now seeking protection in order to persecute and punish anybody whose ideology is different from their own."
That's right; the arguments from ordinance's opponents have come down to the claim that a person's religious beliefs are unchangeable.
Flowers later contended that "speaking out against the homosexual or lesbian agenda could garner you a fine of $500 per day."
"That's $15,000 a month that you could be fined in the seventh largest city in America for expressing a difference between the ideology proposed by a city, where homosexuality and lesbianism is concerned, and your personal belief and personal faith."
"This is like a police state," Flowers said, adding that employers who don't believe in gay rights won't be able to win city contracts.
His claim that people will be fined for speaking out on homosexuality was so blatantly false that Mefferd had to ask him if pastors could be fined. Flowers alleged that the ordinance would only affect businessmen who seek to fire their openly gay staff members or refuse to serve transgender customers.
Now there is a huge difference between a government fining a person for speaking out against homosexuality or for harboring anti-gay views and prohibiting businesses from discriminating against LGBT employees and customers in public accommodation.
Does he really not see the difference or is he just hoping that listeners will fall for the blatant falsehood?
Furthermore, "religious organizations" are clearly explicitly exempted from the ordinance's provision on public accommodation, employment and housing, so the Christian businesses Flowers mentioned wouldn't be impacted.


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Vietnamese culture health refugees immigrants
The vast majority of the approximately 700,000 Vietnam-born persons living in the U.S. arrived here as refugees from 1975 to the present. While there are many shared cultural traits among all the Vietnamese-Americans, such as the Vietnamese language and strong emphasis on the extended family, there are also marked differences. This heterogeneity is represented largely by the refugee "wave" in which the individual or family arrived.
The first group of refugees to come to the U.S. in 1975 were educated and urban professionals (and their families) who were airlifted directly from Saigon. They were closely associated with American interests in Vietnam, so many spoke English and were familiar with American culture. This group has for the most part gone on to resume their professional lives in the United States, including serving as staff members of social service agencies which assist more recently-arrived Vietnamese.
In contrast, the second wave of Vietnamese refugees, arriving from the late 1970's through the mid 1980's, included a much higher proportion of merchants, farmers and other rural Vietnamese who escaped Communist Vietnam in small boats. These "boat people" suffered extreme hardship and loss through the refugee process, often remaining in harsh refugee camps for years. Many who came from rural origins or limited educational backgrounds have had a more difficult time adapting to urban U.S. life - while others from rural backgrounds found that intelligence and persistence are stronger than 100 generations of rural deprivation. The photograph is of a woman and children shortly after being picked up in the South China Sea in 1979. Lady, where are you now?
Finally, the third wave, continuing to arrive to the present, come to the U.S. under more "orderly" programs, typically on the basis of their statuses as political prisoners in Vietnam, or offspring of Vietnamese women and American fathers ("Amerasians"), two groups who faced serious discrimination in Vietnam. They come with their families; in the case of Amerasians, more often than not the father is unknown or otherwise out of the picture.
Because of their experience as refugees, Vietnamese-Americans on the whole are at high risk for many communicable diseases like tuberculosis, hepatitis B and parasitism as they arrive to the U.S. Over time, as many face accessibility barriers to medical care because of such factors as limited English skills, transportation difficulties, and cultural misunderstandings, they are at risk for more chronic problems like hypertension, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. In addition, many Vietnamese refugees also suffer mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a result not only of the horrors they experienced as refugees but also due to the adjustment difficulties in attempting to retain their traditional values in the face of the dominant American culture.
Buddhism and Health
Although some Vietnamese refugees are Catholic or have been converted to other branches of Christianity, most Vietnamese follow Buddhist concepts. Buddhism on the whole is best understood not as a religion in the Western sense but more a philosophy of life, and it impacts profoundly on the health care beliefs and practices of Vietnamese. For example, Buddhists profess profound respect for elders and those in authority. This means that many Vietnamese in this country will rarely be confrontational with their American counterparts; in disagreement, a "face-saving" measure of avoidance or superficial acceptance is preferred to questioning or defiance, especially of those in positions of superiority, such as doctors and teachers. Even direct eye contact or physical positioning of elevation over one's superior is considered forward and impolite by some traditional Vietnamese.
Buddhism also teaches that life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth; if one lives life in adherence to the Buddhist path, one can expect less suffering in future existences. Buddhism stresses disconnection to the present, especially materialism and self-aggrandizement. Hence pain and illness are sometimes endured and health-seeking remedies delayed because of this belief in fate. Similarly, preventive health care has little meaning in this philosophy.
Another tenet of Buddhism holds that the family unit is more important than the individual, with less emphasis on the "self." Accordingly, health care decision-making is frequently a family matter. Concordantly, the family would typically be involved in treatment.
Respect for and veneration of ancestors is associated with Buddhism and Confucianism. The prospect of burial away from ancestral burial sites is a source of significant distress to older Vietnamese. Difficulty visiting burial sites in Vietnam is also distressful.
Health Care Beliefs and Practices
The diagnosis of illness is frequently understood in three different, although overlapping, models. The first, the least common, is what could be considered supernatural or spiritual, where illness can be brought on by a curse or sorcery, or nonobservance of a religious ethic. Traditional medical practitioners are common in Vietnamese culture, both here and in Vietnam; some are specialists in the more magico-religious realm. This specialist may be called upon to exorcise a bad spirit, for example, via chanting, a magical potion, or consultation from and recitation of ancient Chinese texts.
The use of amulets and other forms of spiritual protection are also commonly employed by Vietnamese. For example, babies and children commonly wear bua, an amulet of cloth containing a Buddhist verse or is blessed by a monk, worn on a string around the wrist or neck. For spiritual illness of a more Buddhist etiology, religious practices may be intensified, such as the burning of incense at the home altar to appease the ancestors, or a Buddhist monk may be consulted for prayer.
Vietnamese traditionally do not have a concept of mental illness as discrete from somatic illness, and hence are very unlikely to utilize Western-based psychological and psychiatric services. Instead, most mental health issues such as depression or anxiety fall into this spiritual health realm and are treated accordingly. Similarly, physical expression of spiritually-based illnesses (known as somatization) is common, and treatments overlap with the realms of health understanding which follow below.
Secondly, a very widespread belief is that the Universe is composed of opposing elements held in balance; consequently, health is a state of balance between these forces, known as "Am" and "Duong" in Vietnamese, based on the more familiar concepts of yin and yang in China. Specific to health, these forces are frequently translated as "hot" and "cold," although it is important to understand that these concepts are not necessarily referring to temperature. Illness results when there is an imbalance of these "vital" forces. The imbalance can be a result of physiological state, such as pregnancy or fatigue, or it can be brought on by extrinsic factors like diet or over-exposure to "wind," one of the body forces or "humors." Balance can be restored by a number of means, including diet changes to compensate for the excess of "hot" or "cold," western medicines and injections, and traditional medicines, herbs and medical practices. These practices and medications include:
Thirdly, most Vietnamese-Americans also recognize the more "western" concepts of disease causation, like the germ theory. There is widespread understanding, for example, that disease can come from contaminants in the environment, even if full concepts of microbiology or virology are not grasped. Concomitantly, through decades of French occupation and more recently the American influence, even the most rural Vietnamese has come to know the life-saving power of antibiotics.
When Vietnamese enter the American health care setting, they do so frequently with the goal to relieve symptoms. In general, the Vietnamese patient expects a medicine to cure the illness immediately. When a medication is not prescribed initially, the patient is likely to seek care elsewhere. In addition to the myriad of traditional healers and other traditional medicines and practices available to resettled Vietnamese, Western pharmaceuticals, especially vitamins and even antibiotics, are obtainable, either through specialized "injectionists," or from relatives in other countries such as France where some of these medicines are available without prescriptions.
Vietnamese frequently discontinue medicines after their symptoms disappear; similarly, if symptoms are not perceived, there is no illness. Hence preventive, long-term medications like anti-hypertensives must be prescribed with culturally-sensitive education. It is quite common for Vietnamese patients to amass large quantities of half-used prescription drugs, even antibiotics, many of which are shared with friends and even make their way back to family in Vietnam.
Western medicines, especially oral medications, are held in general to be "hot" medicines, in their effect on the balance of the body. When medicines are prescribed for a condition like skin irritation, which is understood traditionally as a hot illness, the excess force erupting through the skin, a compliance issue may result. In this case, alternatives like a balm or poultice may better meet the patient's understanding of balance. Similarly, Vietnamese commonly believe that Western pharmaceuticals are developed for Americans and Europeans, and hence dosages are too strong for more slightly built Vietnamese, resulting in self-adjustment of dosages.
As mentioned above, Vietnamese hold great respect for those with education, especially physicians. The doctor is considered the expert on health; therefore, the expectation is that diagnosis and treatment should happen at the first visit, with little examination or personally-invasive laboratory or other diagnostic tests. In fact, a doctor who probes a great deal into symptoms may be held incompetent by some traditional Vietnamese for not being able to diagnose readily.
Commonly, laboratory procedures involving the drawing of blood are feared and even resisted by Vietnamese, who believe the blood loss will make them sicker and that the body cannot replace what was lost. Surgery is particularly feared for this reason. Overall, as health is believed to be a function of balance, surgery would be considered an option only of last resort, as the removal of an organ would irreparably alter the internal balance.
In sum, Vietnamese view health and illness from a variety of different perspectives, sometimes simultaneously. In other words, it is not uncommon for a sick person to interpret their illness as an interaction of spiritual factors, internal balance inequities, and even an infective process, for example. Accordingly, Vietnamese will combine diagnostic and treatment elements from all three models in order to get the maximum health benefits. This broad perspective suggests an understanding of mind-body interactions and predisposing factors to illness that Western medicine is only beginning to fully appreciate.
Health Risks in Refugees from Asia (Also see the Infectious Diseases web site for updates and details)
Recommended Laboratory and Other Tests for Refugees from Asia
VDRL should be considered.
Author: Lance A. Rasbridge, PhD


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Running Shoes
What Are The Best Buys For April?
At the start of each month, the WCCO Morning Show likes to give you a spending forecast, so here is the inside scoop on what experts say are the best things to buy in April.
What You Should Wear When Running A Marathon
The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is less than two weeks away. Though the presumption is that you need to really loosen the purse strings to buy the appropriate pieces of clothing for running, the truth is that you don't need to spend a lot of money to get the right kind of gear.
How To Break In Your New Running Shoes
The first Wednesday of June is National Running Day. If you're using this opportunity to start a new running routine and just got a new pair of shoes for the effort, here are some tips on how to break those shoes in.
Good Question: What's The Right Type Of Running Shoe?
More than 17,000 people are expected to run Grandma's Marathon this Saturday in Duluth.


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When its time for a change in your interior design, its time for a new wall clock. Our range of large wall clocks are extremely fashionable, and a great way to accessorise your home.
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"Hey Kiku, how would you want a girl to confess to you?" you asked nervously, fiddling with your fingers. "N-Not that I'm gonna confess to you or something, n-no! I'm just... curious, is all..."
"Oh... very werl then," Kiku said as he took a sip of his tea.
You two were sitting in Japan's house, enjoying an afternoon together since you were bored and Kiku had invited you over. You thought it was going to be a great opportunity to confess your feelings to him, but first you wanted to know how he'd want a girl to confess to him.
"Hmm... If a girl were to ever confess to me, I wourld rike it to be in my native ranguage," Kiku started as he rested his hands on his chin. "I wourld arlso prefer it to be outside, where the sakura trees are." he gestured to his yard, where a few pretty sakura trees stood.
He then added under his breath with a light blush," and I wourld rove it if you were the one confessing to me..."
"What was that last part?" you questioned. You heard him mumble something under his breath, but you couldn't hear it.
"I-It was nothing," Kiku lied as his blush darkened a bit. "So, why did you want to know this again, ______-san?"
"J-Just curious!" you said, averting your eyes from his. An awkward silence settled, but you decided to break it.
"So, uhm... how do you say 'I love you' in Japanese, anyways?"
Kiku seemed to look surprised and even blushing by your question, but you dismissed it as your imagination that could rival Arthur's.
"It is 'Aishiteru'," Kiku said. "If you want to say something rike 'I rike you very much', then it wourld be 'daisuki."
"Oh... alright." a small smile tugged at your lips. "Hey Kiku, can we go outside? I wanna go see your cherry blossom trees... they're really pretty."
"Werl, arlright," Kiku said with a faint smile as he stood up. "Come on, _____."
They truly were beautiful, the sakura trees; they were also in bloom, which made it even better. Mustering up as much courage as you could possibly have, you gently cleared your throat once you and Kiku were outside.
"Hey, um, Kiku?"
"Yes, _____-san?"
Taking in a deep breath, you said, or rather shouted," A-Aishiteru, Kiku!"
A silence followed after your outburst, and your hand flew up to your mouth as tears pricked at your eyes. "I-I..."
You were surprised when a gentle thumb wiped at your eyes, and a hand gently pried your hand away from your mouth before it tilted your head up.
"Anata o hontōni aishiteimasu, _____," Kiku murmured, dropping the suffix. He hesitated before pressing his lips onto yours, both of your faces flushed a deep crimson.
Breaking away from the small kiss for some air, you smiled; Kiku had problems with personal space, but apparently he didn't seem to mind you being in his. You two were right about to lean in for another kiss when-
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You were cut off as you were sent to the ground with Kiku on top of you, and Yao on top of him.
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Mexican Fiesta DinnerServing authentic Mexican cuisineSaturday, November 8, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.. . . → Read More: Mexican Fiesta Dinner, November 8 The Wilton Rug Hooking & Fiber Arts Group will be meeting again starting Friday, October 10. The group will meet from 10 to 12 p.m. at the library. Bring a project to work on as the group shares ideas and techniques. The group will meet again on Friday, November 7. For more information, call . . . → Read More: Wilton Rug Hooking & Fiber Arts Group The Wilton Free Public Library will again host their annual book sale at the Western Maine Development, LLC building on Weld Street, this Friday (Aug. 1st) and Saturday (Aug. 2nd) during the Wilton Blueberry Festival. Hours for the sale are Friday, 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM and Saturday, 11 AM to 4:30 PM. The . . . → Read More: Blueberry Festival Book Sale, Aug. 1 and 2 Doug Rawlings is a Vietnam War Veteran, a founding member of Veterans for Peace, and professor of writing at the University of Maine at Farmington for 27 years. He resides in Mt. Vernon, Maine. If you missed his reading in Farmington last month, or want to hear him read again, plan on attending this special event on July 10 at 7:00 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signed by the author. Light refreshments will be served. . . . → Read More: Doug Rawlings Reads from his new book Orion Rising, Collected Poems Attention! View the goal sheet for the summer reading program! Fitting in the science theme, check out this periodic table with the "elements" of a great summer. For every 7 completed, children can pick from the prize box. For all completed, there will be a larger prize at the end! . . . → Read More: Summer Reading Program Starts June 26 Five Maine photographers will be exhibiting their work at the Wilton Library through the end of July. Masi Habi (Portland), Jo Josephson (Temple), Johnathan Norton (Long Island), Corinna Roy (Roxbury), and Adam Savage (Farmington) will present a variety of photos and graphic art. There will be a reception and opening on Friday, June 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. Refreshments will be catered by Julieanne Reed of Mexico. . . . → Read More: Photography exhibit opens Friday, June 27 The group met at the Congregational Church and provided an array of sandwiches and munchies. Next month we will meet at the church at 6:00 p.m. on June 17. Potluck again. There is a kitchen in case you need to heat or refrigerate something. The church will be open at 6:00, with the meeting starting at 6:30 p.m. We will try to notify everyone a week in advance by email or phone. . . . → Read More: May Literary Group Notes |
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Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left the intensive care unit at Grenoble Hospital, his manager has announced.
Schumacher has been a patient at the hospital for over five months following a skiing accident at the end of December in which he suffered severe head injuries. Schumacher's life is believed to have been saved by the helmet he was wearing at the time of the accident, which split in two upon impact.It was announced at the end of January that the 'waking up progress' had begun in Schumacher's treatment, but a paucity of updates since then has prompted growing fears about his condition and hopes of a recovery.
However, in a heartening and unexpected announcement, it's been revealed that Schumacher is no longer in a coma at the hospital in the south of France and has been moved to an undisclosed location - believed to be the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland.
'Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore,' a statement, released on Monday morning, read.
The news that the seven-times World Champion has left the facility is the first official update on the German's condition since April when it was reported that Schumacher was showing signs of 'consciousness and awakening'.
No fresh details about Michael's condition have been supplied, with the latest statement from Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm adding: 'For the future we ask for understanding that his future rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye.'Schumacher is understood to have been transferred to the the University Hospital of Lausanne, in the west of Switzerland close to the family home on the shore of Lake Geneva."He is here, he arrived this morning," a spokesman for the hospital told Reuters.
Monday's statement from Michael Schumacher's family in full'Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore. His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months. The family also wishes to thank all the people who have sent Michael all the many good wishes to Michael. We are sure it helped him. For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye.'
Lewis Hamilton was delighted with the update on Schumacher as he said: "It's incredible news. Amazing.
"Everywhere I go people ask about him - the States, Canada. I could be at a petrol station in the States and people would ask about him.
"I've always kept him in my thoughts and prayers, and it's really positive to hear there is some progress.
"I've been trying to keep an ear out for what is going on, but not really hearing much.
"So to hear he is now really in that wake-up phase is really, really encouraging. It's also exciting, that first step on that new ladder for him."


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By David Wygant
Do you want to know how to unlock the beautiful, feminine, sexual being that you are?
Do you want to unlock the power that will make men swoon?
Do you want to be in control of whom you attract into your life?
I'm going to share an exercise that I've talked about before that I want all of you to do. It's one of the best exercises in the world. I'll give you a little background:
As men and women, we really are very primal. A man wants to feel like he's the King; he wants to feel like he's the king of the cave; he wants to feel like he's the caveman bring home the food. He wants his woman to adore him.
I'm not talking about being a pushover or anything. I'm just saying that if you adore the man, and he'll adore you back. Because deep down, no matter how successful you might be as a woman, you still want to feel like a princess. You still want to feel like a queen. You want to be protected.
The only way to do that is to really unlock your pure primal sexual being. If you unlock your pure primal sexual being, a man awakens. He feels alert. He feels alive. And he's intrigued.
A lot of women have trouble doing this because they're so busy in the work world, fighting with men, battling with men, earning the money and so forth, that they never unlock it. Plus, they're afraid due to their own programming—mainly programming from their past, the programming that they had growing up. Parents telling them not to let their sexual energy out—'you'll be a slut'—whatever it might be. So what happens is most women don't unlock their true sexual being. And that's where everything goes wrong.
So here's what I want you to do: the next time you see a man that you're attracted to, instead of doing the usual—waiting for him to approach, or maybe doing the coy smile or looking down at the ground and doing nothing—I want you to unlock that feminine goddess sexual being.
I want you to look at him and I want you to imagine that you can give him the best damn blowjob he's ever had in his entire life. You can even picture a blowjob that you gave to a guy that brought him down to his knees. I want you to realize that you can take this man and bring him down to his knees instantly. I want you to look at him as you're picturing that.
What happens is that you're going to smile. You might even blush. You might start laughing. And he's going to look at you and he's going to feel that. It's a primal thing.
He's going to wonder what you're thinking. And he's going to immediately feel attracted to you because you're different than any other woman. You're a mystery. There's intrigue. He wants to find out what you're thinking. The gutsy guy may ask you and you can just tell him you're having a good day, with a smile.
The bottom line is by unlocking that true sexual goddess inside, you're going to be able to really attract more men in your life than ever before. But more importantly, you're going to start to have the sexual experiences that you deserve. You're going to become that sexual being that you deserve. And you're finally going to understand how to really pull over some really good men, because it's about being primal.


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The last episode of the original series was, "Hoenn Alone" which was the episode where Ash goes on a boat from Pallet Town to Hoenn. In this episode Ash is by himself, since Misty and Brock left in the previous episode.
This episode really consists of nothing more than Ash running around the port of the town as Pikachu gets separated from the group. The filler plot of this episode is a bunch of wild Haunter are harassing some random Rattata, Pidgey and Oddish in an alley. The rest of the episode follows standard filler plot fair with Ash battling TR and then going back to the boat to Hoenn.
My question is, why did the writers end the first series of Pokemon with such a terrible filler episode? They could have spent either an extra episode at Pallet or used the previous episode where Misty/Brock depart to be the "finale" of the original series. It was honestly as bad as most Johto fillers were, which isn't surprising since it was technically the last ep of the Johto arc too. Even when I was a kid I was wondering why they made such a lackluster transition episode from Johto to Hoenn.


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POSTED: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 7:49am
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 1:18pm
KILGORE — The Kilgore Fire Department tells KETK that their preliminary investigation shows the fire was contained to the living room of the home. There was about 50% smoke and heat damage to the rest of the home.
One person was taken to Parkland Burn Unit in Dallas and is listed in stable condition as a result of the fire.
The Red Cross has put the displaced family up in a hotel. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Kilgore Fire Department.
Kilgore Fire Department tells KETK, a house fire started around 11:00 pm on Tuesday night in the 400 block of Gulf Hercules Rd. in Kilgore.
When officials arrived on scene, the home was 30% involved. Several units, including the Kilgore Fire Department and Kilgore Rescue units, were able to get the fire under control by 11:34 pm.
Investigators remained on scene to determine a cause, and cleared the scene around Just before 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time.