Monday, April 2, 2012
Senator Feinstein on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, 2011
Back in the early 1980's, Senator (Mayor at the time) Feinstein helped open the first battered women's center in San Francisco. I remember when Harvey Milk was shot and she stepped up. She showed the courage to close the SF bath houses, which was extremely unpopular! HIV and AIDS were just starting to be discovered in the US. So, here she is again, speaking very eloquently on the reauthorization of VAWA and the protection of women (and men) who are victims of violence from intimate partners. In California, 30,000 people accessed crisis services from in 2010 and 2011. 24 people per minute are targets of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control. No Republican members of the Judiciary Committee voted to extend the funding legislation. The bill has created a very modest new grant program, it consolidates other grant programs and reduces costs by 17%. It encourages the enforcement of restraining orders and the purchase of rape kits. It also provides explicitly that these services must be provided to lesbians, gay men and immigrants (no matter what their legal status may be.) Senator Feinstein summed it up perfectly,"Is the violence any less real because the victim is lesbian or gay or an illegal immigrant? I don't think so. This bill is a no-brainer." I agree. Please contact your federal representatives now? Thanks!
Friday, March 9, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Cool Private Secure Cloud Builder!! iDrive...to go with Evernote!
Now, we can build our own private cloud at a reasonable price! "IDrive EVS provides command line utility (idevsutil) and web-based interface APIs to design and develop innovative applications for your customized Backup, Storage, Sync, Sharing, Disaster recovery needs and many more." They allow your private security key to not be stored on their servers, making it HIPAA compliant. Yesssss!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Parental Alienation: It Starts Within the Marriage, Guys!
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE: Movie Trailer. Watch more top selected videos about: Movie Trailers, Laura Linney
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