Oklahoma health

Zoh Therapy: Frankincense Oil: A remedy for bladder cancer
From the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, a team of researchers led by HK Lin studied the effect of Frankincense oil on human cells within a culture. The culture contained both … read more…

Progressive Oklahoma Politics: Liberal or Conservative? We The …
My trusted friend, James Clary and I have exchanged views over the state of our nation , especially in our need for health care reform. We both see the need for health care reform, but we differ in how it should be approached. … read more…

Oregon Natural Resources Report » Cattle Health and Husbandry …
Dr. Bob Smith – Oklahoma State University * Dr. Carolyn Stull - University of California at Davis * Dr. Dan Thomson – Kansas State University * Dr. Dave Sjeklocha – Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Chair of Beef Cattle Health and … read more…

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A Review of the Integris Health Multi-Level Marketing Program
The Integris Health Domain was registered in February 1996 which means they have been around a very long time. Their Domain Contacts originate out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Integris Health was origi… read more…

Why Bird Netting

Let’s face it, pest birds can cost you a lot of money. Especially when they gather, nest and poop in airplane hangars, canopies, garages, factories, warehouses, eaves and other covered areas. There … read more…

Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal income supplementary program to assist aged, blind and disabled citizens who have little or no income. Supplemental Security Income provides fun… read more…

From GoArticles.com

Oklahoma mental health advocates hold celebration (The Oklahoman)
The Oklahoma chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) had an appreciation celebration Friday to honor family members, clients, friends and community partners.Interim Executive Director Jinneh Dyson said the group is the state’s voice on mental illness and has taken an aggressive and active leadership role through educational, support and advocacy initiatives.The organization was … read more…

Recovery Walk set Sept. 12; event to end at Oklahoma Capitol (The Oklahoman)
A local Recovery Walk is planned Sept. 12, said David Harris with the Innovation Center, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse created through a five-year federal grant.Harris said participants will gather about 8 a.m. at Washington Park, 400 N High, and the walk to the state Capitol will begin at 10 a.m. He said several speakers will make presentations, then … read more…

Oklahoma supporters rally for health reform (The Oklahoman)
Health care reform supporters rallied downtown Thursday afternoon in an effort to draw attention to what they called a growing rift between defense and medical spending.About four dozen people gathered outside the office of U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin, many of them holding brightly colored signs bearing slogans like “honk for health care” and “support a public option.”The Rev. Donna Compton used … read more…

Resolved Question: Is it only Conservatives that question what 0bama is going to say to our kids?
LIBBY QUAID - Obama Speech to Students Draws Conservative Ire

By LIBBY QUAID and LINDA STEWART BALL (AP) – 5 hours ago

DALLAS — President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.

Obama plans to speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EDT, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

Schools don’t have to show it. But districts across the country have been inundated with phone calls from parents and are struggling to address the controversy that broke out after Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to principals urging schools to watch.

Districts in states including Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin have decided not to show the speech to students. Others are still thinking it over or are letting parents have their kids opt out.

Some conservatives, driven by radio pundits and bloggers, are urging schools and parents to boycott the address. They say Obama is using the opportunity to promote a political agenda and is overstepping the boundaries of federal involvement in schools.

“As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality,” said Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell. “This is something you’d expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”

Arizona state schools superintendent Tom Horne, a Republican, said lesson plans for teachers created by Obama’s Education Department “call for a worshipful rather than critical approach.”

The White House plans to release the speech online Monday so parents can read it. He will deliver the speech at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va.

“I think it’s really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this,” White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“It’s simply a plea to students to really take their learning seriously. Find out what they’re good at. Set goals. And take the school year seriously.”

She noted that President George H.W. Bush made a similar address to schools in 1991. Like Obama, Bush drew criticism, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of making the event into a campaign commercial.

Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson plans, available online, originally recommended having students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could “write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”

“That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it,” Higginbottom said.

In the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, the 54,000-student school district is not showing the 15- to 20-minute address but will make the video available later.

PTA council president Cara Mendelsohn said Obama is “cutting out the parent” by speaking to kids during school hours.

“Why can’t a parent be watching this with their kid in the evening?” Mendelsohn said. “Because that’s what makes a powerful statement, when a parent is sitting there saying, ‘This is what I dream for you. This is what I want you to achieve.’”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, said in an interview with the AP that he’s “certainly not going to advise anybody not to send their kids to school that day.”

“Hearing the president speak is always a memorable moment,” he said.

But he also said he understood where the criticism was coming from.

“Nobody seems to know what he’s going to be talking about,” Perry said. “Why didn’t he spend more time talking to the local districts and superintendents, at least give them a heads-up about it?”

Several other Texas districts have decided not to show the speech, although the district in Houston is leaving the decision up to individual school principals. In suburban Houston, the Cypress-Fairbanks district planned to show the address and has had its social studies teachers assemble a curriculum and activities for students.

“If someone objected, we would not force them to listen to the speech,” spokeswoman Kelli Durham said.

In Wisconsin, the Green Bay school district decided not to show the speech live and to let teachers decide individually whether to show it later.

In Florida, GOP chairman Jim Greer released a statement that he was “absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology.”

Despite his rhetoric, two of the larger Florida districts, Miami-Dade and Hillsborough, plan to have classes

Open Question: I want to have this short story published, I don’t know if it is any good?
This is a darker story. I am wondering if you have any feedback on this.

It’s just another day. I am locked in my room, from the inside, and I am writing, just to pass the time. I am allergic to the sun. What I might add is that it’s not just a normal allergy; I could die if I’m in the sun, blister up and die, drop dead right there. I may also add that I have not been out of this room for ten years, the wondrous things this fact does for your health, and, what about my appearance? Just imagine a sixty year old man, minus the wrinkles, covered in a creamy powder and wearing the same pajamas he’s worn since he was six. Oh, and with black hair as sleek as a witch’s cat.
Yep, that’s me.
Also, I am orphaned, dropped on the doorstep of East Oklahoma State Orphan Home wearing a metal tag with my name, Zane. It is a name that will never be more than a label to me. Oh, and it all happened the dead of night, later we found out the reason.
Why, you ask? The next day, I went outside. I stood and I stared. A four year old boy, just standing there, staring, not playing. The sun was beautiful, the heat was relaxing. But, I burned. Oh, the fire, the fire climbed through my veins. I screamed like a banshee. Then I blacked out. To this day, ten years later, I can recall the feeling of the fire, the fire that made my life the way it is today.
My miserable life! What have I done to deserve a fate like this? I am just an orphaned boy, a boy with no life. A boy better off dead. I’ve already stared death in the face once. It can’t be that bad to die.
Dead. Death. Die. Lovely words.
I am a burden. A burden to the house care-workers. The stingy care-workers, grey and disheveled, run around all day. They run the errands that feed my survival and they make the food the feeds my mouth. But I hate them, hate them from the bottom of my soul. I know I shouldn’t, but I do. They seem to think that they have it the worst, no one can have it any worse then them. But, just look at me. And, they complain all the time. They complain about the food and the rise in fabric prices. But, why? They have lives and families that wait for them to come home. They have many friends that they can spill their secrets to. Not me. No, no. no. No family, no opportunity, but yes, one friend.
Ana, is her name. She is an ordinary girl. She runs and plays and she fantasizes about what’s to come. I don’t know why she’s my friend. Ever since I came to this home, she has climbed the steps to the attic, every night. And there she sits, just talking to me. At first, she explained the house, which became a permanent map in my mind, and what she does during the day. Why? Why did she tell me this? I am going to be living in this room for the rest of my life. Why torture me more? Go away and live your life! But, no. She came back every night. And, I have come to enjoy her visits. They are painful, yet they connect me to the outside world. They are a bridge across an impassable river.
But, it hurts, it hurts to have no life. It’s painful to be the ghost in the attic, the dust bunny under your bed. I know I can’t live like this, because I’m not living in the first place.
So, I will live like this no more. I will not live at all actually. I’m leaving, I tell you, leaving. Leaving this earth and leaving these people. But most importantly, leaving this life. Where am I going? Outside. To the world beyond these four walls. If I die, I will die a happy man.
Here I sit, in a trance, hypnotized by what I am going to bring about. Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day that I am going to end my miserable life. I am going to show the world that I am not accepting what life they gave me. I am going to feel the sun against my skin and feel the grass between my toes.
Footsteps are coming up the stairs. Ana. It must be night. I hear the floorboards creak as she reaches the landing and a groan as she sits down.
“Zane, are you there?”
No, I wasn’t there. I was burrowed deep into my own head, not aware of anything but my own thoughts.
Leave, Ana, leave! Go now and never return. Let me linger in my own thoughts and be happy for the events to come.
“I know you’re in there. And I know you think it’s better out here, but it’s not!” What is she saying? “The boys are mean and the girls are a bunch of stuck-up brats. Nobody cares about anyone but themselves, and it seems like you can’t go a day without being teased for something stupid. Now, you for instance, are safe. No one can tease you through your door. You are lucky. You are untouchable!”
“No, Ana. You are lucky. You have a chance to make something of yourself. You have a life. I don’t. I’m just some scary story to half the people in this house. I’m not even a scary story worth seeing if it’s true. Just scum. But not you. No, not at all. You can go to college, have a family, get a job. Ana, you are the lucky one.” By now tears were streaming down my face. How could she think I was lucky? Me? The boy with no life?