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FORTE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION
A Non-Profit Educational Program

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN HOSTING A HIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE STUUDNET?

Forte International Exchange Association is looking for good homes for students from many different countries. Students will be arriving this August to spend five to ten months living with families in your community.

There is no such thing as a typical host family! Single-parent families, retired couples, families with young children, as well as those with teenagers or who are empty-nesters have all had successful hosting experiences. The most important criteria for a FIEA host family are a genuine interest to share the American culture with a foreign teenager and a genuine interest in the well-being of the student.

Each applicant is screened and prepared for the exchange by experienced international staff representatives. Participants are chosen based on their academic achievements, extracurricular activities, adaptability and responsibility. All applicants have completed several years of English instruction prior to their acceptance into FIEA’s program.

FIEA provides each student with medical and liability insurance, and every host family is assigned a local program representative to assist them during the exchange experience.

It is only through the kindness and generosity of families in communities like yours that these young ambassadors will be able to fulfill their dreams!

Students will bring their own spending money to cover such expenses as clothing, school supplies and entertainment. They can share a room. Host families are asked to provide meals and a home environment. While no compensation is paid directly by FIEA to volunteer families, the IRS has authorized families who host for government-designated, non-profit educational exchange programs – such as FIEA – to claim a $50.00 per month charitable contribution deduction on their itemized tax returns.

BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR DOORSTEP!
CALL F.I.E.A. TODAY
National Director: Carolyn Simmons 1-888-866-9159
Area Director: Nina Vargo 1-888-866-9113
Or check out our web site: www.forteexchange.org

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timartnut asked:


I live in california and I have medical insurance paid for by my father. I want to use that insurance to get a medical marijuana card and, of course, marijuana.

I have suffered from social anxiety and depression my entire life. Maybe the marijuana could help me deal with these issues. I am not saying it will solve my problems but it might help. I am also more open to the marijuana as a prescription than whatever pharmaceutical drugs they usually prescribe.

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hugh asked:


I am a college international student studying in the US. i started to repeatedly check whether the door of my apartment was closed when i was at elementary school, and performed some ritual repeatedly in order to avoid my anxiety feeling. Because, the school assign us very rigid course work and my mother give me a lot of pressure to do thsoe work well. However, those symptons disappeared when i went to my high school. But, if something unpleasant happening to me, i will repeatedly think of it, and feel angery continously, which is very bordering. I can hardly cease my anger, whcih affect my daily life to a great extent. I can not focus my attention to do what i want. If something worrying happenes in my life, i will keep thinking of it the day and night, and i was not able to stop my thoughts. Do i have OCD? Can it be cured? If went to see psychologists at UCLA clinic, how much will they charge me? can my international student medical insurance cover part of these expense? what is the best psychological clinic for OCD in the USA? Thank you very much for your help
However, now, all of my compulsive behaviors have already disappeared, but what bothering me right now is my obsessive thoughts that always related to the real world and my real experience. Like if something worrying heppen, i’ll keep thinking of it the day and night trying to find the best way to deal with it, which is uncontrollable. i can also get good treatment back in my home country, but, i know that the USA is well know for its advanced research and innovative development. So, i want to find the best way in the world to treat it. I also know that UCLA is famous for its clinic psychology. So, i want to have a try and see whether UCLA’s clinic can have a better way to treat it.

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Obama – Wimp in the White House asked:


Over the past year, “the profit margin for health insurance companies was a modest 3.4 percent,” Newman points out, quoting data provided by Morningstar, a company that rates mutual funds. Morningstar would have no reason to low-ball the insurance industry’s profits; its readers are looking for highly profitable sectors of the economy where they can invest. But the health plan industry is not one of those sectors: insurers ranks 87th out of 215 industries.

The most profitable industry over the past year has been
- beverages, with a 25.9 percent profit margin,
- healthcare real-estate trusts (firms that are basically the landlords for hospitals and healthcare facilities)
- application-software (think Windows).
- oil and gas industry overall was 10.2 percent, three times the margin in the health insurance industry.
- high-fliers like Google—which had a 20.6 percent margin
- Microsoft, at 24.9 percent.
- Pharmaceutical companies 16.4 percent

Amgen (biotechnology): Profit margin, 30.6 percent
• Gilead Sciences (biotechnology): 37.6 percent
• Celgene Corp. (biotechnology): 11.9 percent
• Johnson & Johnson (drug manufacturer): 20.8 percent
• Pfizer (drug manufacturer): 16.3 percent
• GlaxoSmithKline (drug manufacturer): 17.4 percent
• Unitedhealth Group (healthcare plans): 4.1 percent
• WellPoint (healthcare plans): 4 percent
• Aetna (healthcare plans): 3.9 percent
• MedcoHealth Solutions (healthcare services): 2.1 percent
• Express Scripts (healthcare services): 3.7 percent
• Quest Diagnostics (healthcare services): 8.7 percent
• Medtronic (medical equipment): 14.9 percent
• Baxter International (medical equipment): 17.5 percent
• Covidien (medical equipment): 12.3 percent

http://takingnote.tcf.org/2009/09/who-is-making-the-biggest-profits-from-health-care.html

Melissa – using data from the AFL/CIO is tainted. MorningStar is an organization who monitors and rates investments. I would not believe the AFL/CIO numbers.
DSTR – We are not talking CEO compensation. We are talking overall profit margins. If he made $1 million, would $2 million impact profits all that much?
Hey mental case – I think you named yourself appropriately. I am not Paul Grass regardless of how many times you say it. You sound like Obama making false accusations about insurance industry profits.

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