I have been personally affected by this exposure, I have appealed my denial ever since filing my claim in 1977. My last denial in 2013 was a result of 22 years of appeals only to have Judge Kathy Bansfield call me and the buddies who signed my affadavits incompetent. It is recognized the DOD gave orders to use herbicides containing dioxin in the areas I was deployed in Okinawa, Japan, and on the DMZ in Guantánamo bay. My children and grand children born with birth defects like the children and grand children of my peers who reported the same birth defects as my children have been diagnosed with. It is time the federal government do the right thing and stop this discrimination My physicians at the V.A. hospital know that dioxin never leaves the blood system, and that if anyone was severely exposed, they told me it was I.

In the past 2 years, we have been given additional duties/tasks resulting from the closure of positions, creation of management positions, and the updating of systems. We are protesting these actions, as well as, the duplication of work caused by these additional duties. We are asking for the following: 1. AESOP Reconciliation be eliminated from our duties until it is determined that AESOP will result in payroll completion (currently we are duplicating our efforts with this system). 2. The Substitute Recap/Absence Log should be eliminated from our duties (This is another duplication of the above and payroll). 3. We were recently given the duty of completing the mileage for all staff at our sites. This as well, should be eliminated from our duties. Each person should complete their own mileage in PeopleSoft (it was designed to operate this way). 4. We would like to be represented on the committees/teams that decide the systems and/or tasks that pertain to our duties/desks and workload. Thank you in advance for your action to this urgent matter!

The Navy is about to cause harm to our whales unnecessarily. Although other petitions against Navy sonar already exist, this petition is directed toward California's Senators and Congress by their own constituency, making it more likely they will respond. Please join us on Facebook at 'Stop Navy Sonar Testing'.

Communities LIBERTY SQUARE, 1933-1987: THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF A PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT by Paul S. George and Thomas K. Peterson Tequesta, number XLVIII (1988) History of Liberty Square, built in the 1930s for Miami's low-income African-Americans, and of the changing demographics of people living there. Florida's first housing project, built by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA).I. REACHING FOR UTOPIA: 1933-1936 This project will be one of the greatest blessings that Miami ever had. It will not only eliminate the possibility of fatal epidemics here, but also fix it so we can get a servant freed from disease. John Gramling, October 17, 1934 The First Administration of Franklin Roosevelt was barely nine months old when in December 1933, Miami attorney John Gramling, along with six other lawyers and businessmen, formed the Southern Housing Corporation for the purpose of developing a "negro colony" on one hundred and twenty acres of land on Miami's northern outskirts. Their inspiration was the recently-created United States Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which provided low-interest loans for slum

Congress needs to act immediately, or I, along with many countless others, will be forced into foreclosure or never be able to sell our homes! Not only that, but once every town near water loses so much of its tax base, schools and hospitals across the country will lose their funding as well. This act must be repealed because it will destroy our country from the inside out. Here is the act that we must act against. http://www.fema.gov/flood-insurance-reform-act-2012 Here is a link to show you where your house sits on the new flood map if you live in Lycoming County. http://lycomap.lyco.org/cslf/

OUR TROOPS DESERVE BETTER, THEY WORK TIRELESSLY TO DEFEND OUR NATION. IF ANYONE'S PENSIONS SHOULD BE SLASHED IT SHOULD BE THE ELECTED OFFICIALS.

I am starting this petition because its time for passionate Knicks fans to watch a successful team both in the regular season AND playoffs. Its been 40 years since this organization has won a championship. That is just a disgrace. Yes most of the blame should be put on the players but when you have a stubborn coach like Woodson you're not going to go far. Its time for a change.

The ringling brothers circus abuses animals to beat them till they bleed, don't feed them the right food they need or take them from their parents when are little.There are many more circuses that abuse animals. HELP STOP ANIMAL ABUSE TODAY

SB 366 must pass the Senate Appropriations Committee by the end of January to make it to both houses and hopefully become law. SB 366 proposes modest changes to California's traffic courts that would allow adults to get their license back if they are meeting the terms of a payment plan or completing community service. It would also increase access to justice for people who are too poor to pay exorbitant fines just to get in front of a judge.

Persuade Wal-Mart to adopt a plan to recover food that is still fit for human consumption but is currently being thrown in the dumpster. Wal-Mart does a wonderful job with its food bank partnerships. But 1 in 6 people across America, once the most powerful country in the world, are going hungry in today’s rocky global economy. 96 billion pounds of food, 25 percent of the food supply ends up in the garbage each year. Grocers often toss products like dented canned goods, ripped boxes of cereal, bread, dairy and meat near or at the expiration date in the trash to make room for inventory. Help us work with Wal-Mart to set a standard for grocers around the world to recover this waste and aid national hunger – reducing costs for Wal-Mart, the environment and economy. Dream Big, Act Bigger. More info: https://www.causes.com/campaigns/70833-convince-wal-mart-to-work-w-local-leaders-to-cut-food-waste

CSGO Tournament to be held at TAMPA ESPORTS LAN 2014. Sign the petition to show your interest!!!

Ronald Reagan may have had other accomplishments during his presidency but we do not believe his record on hospice/palliative care is compatible with including him on a list of visionaries especially in relation to the AIDS pandemic. Quite the opposite. We are asking you at AAHPM to remove his name from your list. Reagan was included on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) list of visionaries because “he signed legislation that established the Medicare hospice benefit”. For those of you who were not around during the early days of the AIDS pandemic here is a little background information: • By the time Ronald Reagan first said the word "AIDS" in public, 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died. The disease had spread to 113 countries, with more than 50,000 cases. * In 1986 he called for a reduction in AIDS spending. * In 1982 Reagan said:"...AIDS information cannot be what some call 'value neutral'. After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don't medicine and morality teach the same lessons." * When family friend William F. Buckley called for mandatory testing and said that HIV-positive men should have the information forcibly tattooed on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their arms) Reagan said nothing. * Between June of 1981 and May of 1982, the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaires Disease...largely in response to an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in 5 men and 2 women on a cruise ship…but they were not gay men. * Dr. C. Everett Koop, Reagan's surgeon general, has said that because of "intradepartmental politics" he was cut out of all AIDS discussions for the first five years of the Reagan administration. The reason, he explained, was "because transmission of AIDS was understood to be primarily in the homosexual population and in those who abused intravenous drugs." Regarding the LGBT movement in general, Reagan said: "My criticism is that [the gay movement] isn't just asking for civil rights; it’s asking for recognition and acceptance of an alternative lifestyle which I do not believe society can condone, nor can I. Shilts, Randy (2005). Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military.