According to reports, a demand for nurse practitioners is high across the United States, in part due to the AMA capping medical school enrollment in the 1990's to maximize earnings for M.D.s. Yet demand for medical professionals hasn’t slackened as the population has both grown and aged. Nurse practitioners evolved to fill in the gap. However, demand for NP's varies across the nation. Demand for nurse practitioners is skyrocketing in Texas. Let’s look at the reasons behind the nurse shortage … [Read more...]
Organizing Your Workspace with 21st Century Considerations
Covering All Your Bases If you’re running a small business in Texas, California, Colorado, or anywhere in the US today, you’re going to have a lot of legal red tape that must be overcome for successful and profitable operations. This is, like so many things in life, easier said than done. One of the best ways you can be sure you overcome such difficulties is to employ the right people. But even if you have the right people, employee management is only one aspect of the many you must learn … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day TCP
Happy Mother's Day our Dear beautiful Mother, Courtney Leigh Hewitt. We miss you, we love you, we feel your presence everywhere and today, although we can't embrace you, smell your perfume, we know you are always and forever here with us! What we are able to shower you with today are all the beautiful proclamations and awards given in your honor! Even after your death, your voice is synonymous and radiates around the world as people learn what a loving, caring and compassionate mother you … [Read more...]
Women At The Helm, Integration of Women in the Maritime Sector
Shipping has historically been a male-dominated industry and that tradition runs long and deep. However, through its global programme on the Integration of Women in the Maritime Sector, IMO is making a concerted effort to help the industry move on from that tradition and to help women achieve a representation within it that is more in keeping with twenty-first century expectations. This film shows how the work of IMO, and others, is beginning to promote change for the better for women in … [Read more...]
One of the greatest marriage proposals in Houston at the Wortham Center!
One of the greatest marriage proposals in Houston at the Wortham Center! Katrina made stops to pick up some of her favorite/meaningful items before she found herself at the Cullen Theater watching her favorite musical number on stage from Carmen Jones and the love of her life ask her to be his wife! Katrina made stops to pick up some of her favorite/meaningful items before she found herself at the Cullen Theater watching her favorite musical number on stage from … [Read more...]
God First, Others Second, I am Third – WOMEN in RECOVERY
God First, Others Second, I am Third exerpt from Homily, August 1, 2004 (1st Reading: Eccl 1:2,2:21-23, 2nd Reading: Col 3:1-5,9-11, Gospel: Luke 12:13-31) Pastor: Reverend Samuel L. Hose, Saint John Vianney Catholic Church, Round Rock, Texas "Let’s imagine for just a minute how that might work. Let’s start on the most basic level, the family. We hear a lot about family values from all sorts of sources. I think that what we are thinking about here today is at the very … [Read more...]
A Miracle Cancer Cure…One Woman’s Journey in Recovery
Carol Patterson A Miracle Cancer Cure…One Woman’s Journey A miracle cancer cure occurred after Carol Patterson decided to seek alternative treatment and holistic cancer cures when plagued with cancer the second time. Traditional therapy of Chemotherapy and Radiation had depleted her body and immune system. She devised an "Anti-Cancer Diet" of anti-oxidant foods and supplements and also used a thought-changing process to release emotional blocks which contributed to … [Read more...]
CDC Launches HIV Prevention Planning (ECHPP) Web Page
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently launched a new web page providing details about the Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Planning (ECHPP) Project, which is a cornerstone of the larger HHS-wide 12 Cities Project. The new page provides information on the three-year demonstration project funded by CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) for the 12 municipalities with the highest number of people living with AIDS in the United States. Executive summaries of the … [Read more...]
ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: Child Brides
Child Brides ... When I heard the news report about 12 year old girls from B.C. were being given as brides to polygamists, I was shocked and disgusted. "They are still children!" They aren't even developed fully yet. and what disturbed me the most was that their parents sanctioned this. Marriage, according to documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court Friday. The girls were “sealed for time and eternity” in religious ceremonies to Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church … [Read more...]