North Caroline Aducted Child--S. Davis

Last night the Indianapolis Colts won by one point-35-34. After the game, media talking head debated whether or not Nebraka coach should have went for the 4th and 2.Athe same time, I was reading about a 5 year old girl. The North Carolina's body was found after she was reported kidnapped.

Sad story.

It goes something like this, the mother allegedly sold her daughter to another person. The daughter was used for prostituion. How shocking that the mother would do such a thing to her daughter. But, even more shocking were the deviate who would perform such act with a child, the person who put the child in harms way and the person who killed her.

Still, somewhere out there in North Carolina is a market for young children. So, what is N.C.doing about it? This mother did a horrible thing, but she did not act alone. The seed was planted in her mind, by some evil person about folks having sex with children. The child to young to know whats going on, right? Wrong.

This is not the first time, this is not the last time, but we must stop pretending it's okay for men to have sex with little girls.

Early that night, I watched a movie, called the Informant. One line in the movie said something like, when men get off the airplane in China or Japan, they can buy little girl used underwears. The question, how is this possible? Who gives these underwears to be sold?

Children are not safe..because thse deviants are protected. Children in Need of Services (Chins) is a program that highlight the amount of abuse that is allowed to happen to children. The underlying belief is that if a child survives such a horrible act, time will heal. In essence the child will get over it.

This allows the deviate to do it over and over again.

When things fall apart-Vince Robinson

It is no surprise, that Vince Robinson has stepped down as public information for the City of Fort Wayne. Robinson had to go, after a person filed the protective order. What took so long for the City to let Robinson go, was finding a person of color to replace Robinson.

C. Achebe wrote about the erosion of self, when exposed to a culture that does not love a people. Fort Wayne has not been kind to the community of African-Americans. And some African-Americans who have helped negatively define the African-American community find they never escaped their blackness.

But what is more unconscionable is how city officials shifted one African-American male from the police department information positon to fill the public information for the City of Fort Wayne. It is appalling. It is pool of old and new faces that could have filled the position. If the City first choice was so flawed, it could not have done any worse with utilizing an unexperienced person for the position.

The city position are filled with folks who had done worse than Robinson, but Robinson believed that he would always be viable to those seeking a yes man from the African-American community. Robinson has been sent back home.

Downtown Catani, Italy Nov. 10, 2009

Enjoy the view..photos by Tommy

Catania, Italy

I remember watching an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Raymond had taken his whole family to Italy. Raymond did not fully understand himself being a foreigner in a different culture. Raymond had to learn to do as the Romans do. Little did I know that I would end up in Italy, experiencing the language barrier and the culture of leaving in a foreign country. In other words, opening yourself up to learning a language, custom and history totally foreign. It is truly a cultural shock.

However, because of the intercultural program and the fact that some Italians speak English, this visit will be a most memoriable experience. First, let me say, the people are charming. Although, I did see a small disagreement between two men, it has been a peaceful and quiet visit. And if you saw how they drive here you could easily understand how the two men ended up going their separate ways after a brief exchange of choice words. The driving in the province of Catania is like a ton of cars driving on a narrow road of constants curves going left than right than left. Oh let's not forget those who believe you are traveling to slow and decides to pass you on these narrow streets. Yes, driving is not for those who suffer from a bad heart.

And if you are not a big bread and cheese eater, you might not want to go Italia. Let's see, the folks drive espresso in a thimble size cup and snack on a cheese like sandwich. I did not say anything about eggs, bacon, grits and toast for breakfast, good luck in finding this. I'm sure you can but it is not the norm. Italia eat lots of pasta!!!

But, if you want to see a clean city, with castles, chapels, temples, mosques, cathedrals amongst mountains, beaches, and an active volcano, come see Italy. You can visit Rome, Poland, Venezia, Naple and old so much more. It is so much to do that you can become overwhelmed. But bored, no,,just many sure you have enough euros to experience Italy.

African-American community and the local health department

Parkview Hospital has stepped in to save residents from the H1N1 pandemic. The Clinic at Carew Medical Park opened it doors for the dispersal of the H1N1 mist and injectable vaccine after it became apparent that the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department was ill prepared for the demand of the vaccine with over 4, 800 showing up for the spray mist.

Immunization Clinic closed until futher notice
The Immunization Clinic on the 5th floor of the City-County will be closed for until further notice. Children who need routine vaccinations need to contact their private health care provider, or visit a Super Shot location. (bold print added).

FW-AC Health Department wanted to serve the public as simply a public information service only agency in combating the flu. When the public expects the local health department to administrate the vaccines in a timely fashion. But these folks are only window dressing ghost like employees at the local health department in Fort Wayne.

It is not when is the H1N1 is going to hit. It is how wide spread will H1N1 be and how many deaths will occur from the influence virus. The strain is spreading so fast that the state no longer is keeping track of confirmed H1N1 cases.

The state, which tallied confirmed H1N1 cases this spring and summer, has stopped keeping an official count. Officials know the virus is so widespread -- about 6,000 in Indiana likely have had H1N1 -- that keeping track of the mild flu strain is not worth the expense, Monroe said.

Parkview Health is providing space for the clinic at Carew Medical Park, located at 1818 Carew Street on monday for the the injectable vaccine. How folks will response to this vaccine is under determined. Those eligible to take the shot will be young children and young pregnant women. This will leave many in the African-American community who suffer from asthma, diabetes or heart disease still vulnerable. Yep, I said it.

Individuals aged 6 months to 24 years of age, pregnant women, and people aged 25 to 64 years of age with chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, or heart disease are at higher risk for complications from this infection.

This is not me saying this, this is the CDC and Indiana government saying this. So what is wrong with our local healtlh department?

FW-AC Health Department is both understaffed and incompetent to administrate a mass inoculations against the new strain of the flu. 81 death has already occurred and the flu season has not started according to report from CNN on October 18, 2009 at 4:45 P.M. But FW-AC Health Department will focus only on pregnant women and children up to 18 years old.

One of the reason for this targeted small sample group is because the air borne disease will be carried into day cares and schools impacting other children. The disease will spread like wildfire through the schools. The disease will than travel into homes.


The best local health department wanted to do was pretend that it was on top of thing with their fake educate panel. You will see the posting of signs saying thing like, wash hands regularly and keep children with a fever at home away from other children. But the truth of the matter, Fort Wayne has already been exposed to the disease.

Make sure you will be prepared for this disease and the next strain after H1N1.