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		<title>How Diabetes Affected Me Personally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeannette Torres-Mason</dc:creator>
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I was in the Santo Domingo airport in the Dominican Republic returning from a health education trip when I spoke to my mom on the phone.  My grandmother had suffered a stroke as a complication of her diabetes.  I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach.  I could not believe it!  I always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens Hearing Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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A newly released report has documented the rise in the loss of teens hearing to 20% or 1 out of 5 teens now suffer from hearing loss. It&#8217;s increased in the past years since the last survey. The survey also documented the number of kids who suffer from a mild hearing loss equivalent to not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multicultural Dialoguing: Listening and Speaking in a Second Language Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriela Melano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening and Speaking in a Second Language—what is it like? (Part II)
 
In the past blog, I described what it is to be listening in a second language. I also explained how critical it is for those who are talking to a second-language listener to understand and be sensitive to their experience (the second language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted:  More Multicultural Women Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all women who want to be leaders of the future. The landscape of our country is changing dramatically and in states like California the combined populations of multicultural communities (formerly known as &#8220;minorities&#8221;) have now become the dominant majority. When you add in the fact that there are more women than men in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elena Kagan-New Supreme Court Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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Elena Kagan has become our new Supreme Court Justice.  Women justices now comprise one third of our nation&#8217;s highest court.  She is also the first justice in 40 years to be sworn in who has never been a judge. She is a great example of how people and women in particular can aspire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Obesity Hits Nearly 30% of Adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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Today the U.S. Government announced that our country has more than 70 million or 26.7% of population&#8217;s adults are obese.  It is considered to be a major public health threat by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control. Over 400,000 people were surveyed and the results and numbers are huge. In 9 states, over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multicultural Dialoguing: Listening and Speaking in a Second Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriela Melano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening and Speaking in a Second Language—what is it like?
 
In 1987, working as a receptionist at an International Conference Center in New York, I had the following experience:  A loud, large, and fast-speaking woman asked me a long and convoluted question.  Since I did not understand her, I asked her to repeat it.  She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elena Kagan &#8211; Supreme Court Justice Hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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The hearing to determine if Elena Kagan nominated by President Obama to be the next Supreme Court Justice opens this week.  As she endures questions and inspection into her qualifications, records and opinions people will get to learn more about her positions on key issues that affect us all.  If she is confirmed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multicultural Dialoguing: Why is ‘code switching’ not the same for everyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriela Melano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my last two blogs, I have addressed  a fairly common interpersonal dynamic that occurs when people from  different  backgrounds interact.  In socio-linguistic terms, it is referred  to as “code switching”. It is about how certain women and certain  people of color tend to adapt their way of interacting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Win in Midterm elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mable Yee</dc:creator>
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In yesterday&#8217;s mid term elections, women ran for major high profile positions and in many cases won. Women like Blance Lincoln in Arkansas, Meg Whitman in California and others across the country. There were winners in the Democratic, Republican and independents that demonstrated women coming out and getting success in high profile campaigns. While there [...]]]></description>
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