From: Jake <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Model Wars; June 20, 2010 - Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G
Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G
- Members of Peckers Pics should join our President Barack Obama group . (Health Care & Gay Rights, Gay Marriage, Repeal DOMA &, Don't Ask Don't Tell)
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- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck on Fox News as well as all of FOX NEWS! Glenn has lied about Health-care, called our President a racist, and is anti-gay rights.
- We demand immediate end of DADT. It is out-right discrimination.
- Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commerical by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to get be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Further, Bill said that McDonalds would never show a gay friendly commercial in the USA. We view this as Bill comparing Gays to Al-Qaida. How dare these people make this comparison. Come on McDonalds, we want to see a USA Gay Friendly commerical on Network TV! I will eat your burgers everyday for 365 days in a year if you do this!
- Boycott Arizona because of their uncivilized anti-Immigration Law that encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform. So Far, Republicans will not cooperate. Are we all suppose to walk around with Birth Certificates in our hands? Are we all suppose to "look 'White' or go to jail" (until all documents prove you are American)? What if Arizona does not like Gay People? Will that person be hastled for vertification of being a American? Oh Wait, Arizona does not have laws protecting gay people nor rendering them equal rights. Oops! "My Bad" - for not remembering. I guess "Arizona does not like gay people." Gay in Arizona and tanned? You better have your papers!
- Did you complete your Diet Journal today? Get it done!
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- It is our hope that these photos shall inspire you!
Today's Health/Excercise Tip:Plan Ahead and Expect SuccessAddress small issues now that could grow into larger problems later on, and you'll stop a big problem before it starts. For example, let's say you have a difficult time eating the right foods during the week because you're always in a rush. Instead of eating a healthy brown-bagged lunch, you order from the menu at the fast food drive-thru because you didn't plan ahead.
The consequences?
Hundreds of extra calories and piles of artery-clogging saturated fat. Instead of falling into this weight-gain trap, plan ahead.
On Sunday night, or whichever night of the week precedes your work week, spend time packing all your food for the week in individual bags – one for each day. By laying everything out and packing it at once, you'll save yourself five days' worth of repeated lunch making. And that could literally add up to hours saved each week!
By following this plan, you won't have to worry about making poor last-minute food decisions. When it's time to head out the door in the morning, all you'll have to do is grab a bag and go!
This group is called "Peckers PICS." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health and Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?" Warning: This may stoke you!
Bernardo Velasco, or Renato Ferreira
Bernardo Velasco, or Renato Ferreira
Bernardo Velasco, or Renato Ferreira
Renato Ferreira, or Bernardo Velasco
By TIMBERLY ROSS | Posted: Saturday, June 19, 2010; Freemont TribuneRules changes for Nebraska's licensed counselors have been held up for more than a year over concerns about conflicts between religious convictions and sexual orientation.
Jim Cunningham, executive director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, says psychologists, therapists and other licensed counselors should be able to refuse to treat or refer clients because of religious or moral convictions. But, he says, the proposed addition of sexual orientation to anti-discrimination rules makes it unclear whether that's allowed.
"Our concern had to do with services that we would not be able to provide because they would promote or enhance or validate conduct that is contrary to our religious beliefs," Cunningham said.
"To make a referral would be cooperation ... so that would be problematic as well."
So, Nebraska's top medical officer, Dr. Joann Schaefer, is pushing three state credentialing boards to allow counselors to refer patients elsewhere without concern for the controversial issue - what's called a whole-patient referral. That would mean a counselor with a moral or religious objection would have to find a referral for the patient, although it wouldn't have to be the most appropriate one.
"It's what I feel is the fairest to the patient," Schaefer said.
But Schaefer's suggestion - a compromise she says is based on discussions with the boards and others - has drawn the ire of several professional associations. They say whole-patient referrals would violate their code of ethics.
"We believe that a therapist has the right to refuse service based upon religious or moral convictions, " said Terry Werner, director of the Nebraska chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. "However, they absolutely must provide a thorough and comprehensive referral. Anything less than that, in our minds, is in violation of our code of ethics and is not in the best interest of the client."
Psychologist James Cole, who's on the board of the Nebraska Psychological Association, said the referrals Schaefer is suggesting would meet the needs of the counselor, but not of the patient, who could be dumped on someone without the expertise to help with a specific problem.
Cole said the referrals wouldn't be limited to conflicts over sexual orientation, but would also apply to things like gender identity and opposing religious beliefs.
"The whole thing opens a Pandora's box on abuse," he said.
Schaefer disagrees. "They can't dump you as a patient," she said. "They have to put you in the hands of someone that can help you."
She offers this example: A patient seeks help for depression, then later reveals he or she is gay and wants counseling for a same-sex relationship. A counselor with a moral or religious conviction against gays or same-sex relationships could refer the patient elsewhere for treatment of depression, without having to provide a referral for the relationship counseling.
The distinction appeases the Nebraska Catholic Conference.
"For us," Cunningham said, "it's an issue of trying to balance and accommodate convictions of conscience with regard to services that would be contrary to the credential holder's religious beliefs or convictions of conscience."
The disagreement over the referrals was been going on for a couple of years. It stemmed from a review of the ethics rules for licensed counselor by three state credentialing boards - those that govern psychologists and counselors for mental health problems and drug and alcohol abuse. The boards each decided to add or amend their anti-discrimination clauses, and that's when the Nebraska Catholic Conference filed its objection.
Schaefer said it's not unusual for regulation changes like this to take years, even a decade.
The process is lengthy. Each time a board proposes changes, a public hearing is required. Tweaks based on that hearing require another hearing, and so on. Once the advisory boards approve the changes, the state Board of Health must approve them and send them on to Schaefer, the attorney general and the governor for approval.
The Board of Psychology has voted at least five times to reject Schaefer's compromise language. They've sent their own changes - which require treatment or an appropriate referral - on to the Board of Health, which will take them up on Monday.
The other two boards haven't decided yet how to proceed.
Chris Lewis, vice chairwoman of the Board of Alcohol and Drug Counseling, said the regulations need to be updated, but trying to appease all sides is difficult. The board will talk more at its June 24 meeting.
The Board of Mental Health Practice meets in July.
Chairman John Danforth said the state has no anti-discrimination clause whatsoever for counselors under his board's purview, so "what's being tossed around is what to put in where there's nothing now."
He said the board understands the Nebraska Catholic Conference's concern, but the conversation is really about the standards of caring for patients.
Anne Buettner, legislative chairwoman for the Nebraska Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, agrees.
"The compromise is to appease the Catholic conference, but ethics is beyond compromise because you have to put the client's needs first," she said.
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
....Jake
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