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Obama to meet with Romney Thursday
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CNN Political Unit(CNN) - President Barack Obama and his former rival Mitt Romney will meet Thursday for their first get-together since the November 6 election, according to a statement from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
"On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room," Carney wrote. "It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the election. There will be no press coverage of the meeting."
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In his acceptance speech on election night, Obama congratulated Romney on his campaign, and said he was looking forward "to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward."
And at his first post-election press conference, held November 14, Obama said his goal was to set a meeting before the end of the year.
"There are certain aspects of Governor Romney's record and his ideas that I think could be very helpful," he said, specifically citing Romney's leadership of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
Romney has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since his Election Night remarks in Boston. He was spotted taking in the latest installment of the "Twilight" movie franchise with his family, and on Thanksgiving shared a photo with his wife Ann on his official Facebook page. Two Romney aides said Wednesday the former GOP nominee will be subletting space at the offices of his son Tagg's investment firm Solamere Capital in Boston. Mitt Romney won't be joining the firm himself, the aides said.
While Romney hasn't made any public appearances after the election, controversial comments he made on a post-election call with top donors were immediately criticized by both Democrats and Republicans.
"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said on the call.
Romney, who lost to Obama by 126 electoral votes, said the president courted voters by offering policies – some of them this election year – that appealed to key constituencies.
"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift," Romney said.
Those remarks caused Republicans - including several who are considered likely candidates for the 2016 GOP nomination - to put distance between themselves and their party's former standard bearer.
While in Washington, Romney will also meet with his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a senior adviser to the former GOP nominee told CNN Wednesday.
In 2008, Obama met with Sen. John McCain after defeating him in the presidential election. The pair met at Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago, and issued a joint statement afterwards saying they hoped to work together on challenges such as the financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting the country's security.
CNN's Jim Acosta, Paul Steinhauser and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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CNN Political Unit(CNN) - President Barack Obama and his former rival Mitt Romney will meet Thursday for their first get-together since the November 6 election, according to a statement from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
"On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room," Carney wrote. "It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the election. There will be no press coverage of the meeting."
– Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker
In his acceptance speech on election night, Obama congratulated Romney on his campaign, and said he was looking forward "to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward."
And at his first post-election press conference, held November 14, Obama said his goal was to set a meeting before the end of the year.
"There are certain aspects of Governor Romney's record and his ideas that I think could be very helpful," he said, specifically citing Romney's leadership of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
Romney has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since his Election Night remarks in Boston. He was spotted taking in the latest installment of the "Twilight" movie franchise with his family, and on Thanksgiving shared a photo with his wife Ann on his official Facebook page. Two Romney aides said Wednesday the former GOP nominee will be subletting space at the offices of his son Tagg's investment firm Solamere Capital in Boston. Mitt Romney won't be joining the firm himself, the aides said.
While Romney hasn't made any public appearances after the election, controversial comments he made on a post-election call with top donors were immediately criticized by both Democrats and Republicans.
"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said on the call.
Romney, who lost to Obama by 126 electoral votes, said the president courted voters by offering policies – some of them this election year – that appealed to key constituencies.
"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift," Romney said.
Those remarks caused Republicans - including several who are considered likely candidates for the 2016 GOP nomination - to put distance between themselves and their party's former standard bearer.
While in Washington, Romney will also meet with his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, a senior adviser to the former GOP nominee told CNN Wednesday.
In 2008, Obama met with Sen. John McCain after defeating him in the presidential election. The pair met at Obama's transition headquarters in Chicago, and issued a joint statement afterwards saying they hoped to work together on challenges such as the financial crisis, creating a new energy economy and protecting the country's security.
CNN's Jim Acosta, Paul Steinhauser and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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SPECIAL REPORT
Stigma is worse than the disease itself
Chularat Saengpassa,
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation November 30, 2012 1:00 am
While campaigning for the rights of others living with the Aids virus, one activist has kept his infection a secret with most people, especially his in-laws.His case speaks volumes about how the Thai society - despite the many laws - is just not opening up to people living with the human immunodeficiency virus.
"I don't dare to talk about my infection because I am afraid people will treat me differently," the 38-year-old man explained.
Oat (not his real name) is among the thousands of Thais living with HIV, of whom only 250,000 have signed up for anti-retroviral drugs. Relevant authorities believe that another 250,000 are living with the virus unknowingly or want to keep it secret.
In fact, even Aids activists have been trying to get doctors not to reveal that a patient is being treated for HIV-related illnesses for fear reimbursement will be refused or the person will be discriminated against.
"We want to help them avoid stigma," said Nimit Tien-udom, of the Aids Access Foundation.
He explained that his foundation also encouraged tambon administrative organisations to stop including the names of HIV-positive people in their budget plans.
People living with HIV face immense pressure in rural societies, Nimit said.
"In villages everybody knows," he said.
Oat said that once he was at a temple, and he noticed people would not come anywhere near him.
"They wouldn't sit near me. They wouldn't eat when I was at the table. So I had to leave," he recounted.
Oat does not know when exactly he contracted the virus, but he first learned about it when he was 26 and his wife started developing suspicious symptoms.
After a blood test, they got the bad news.
"Our world fell apart - we didn't know if we could carry on," he said.
Back then, he only knew that the Aids virus was fatal and that the conditions were terrifying. Though they went to the best hospitals, his wife's condition kept deteriorating.
"I wished a fatal car crash would end it all, but my family - my older sister and her husband, to be exact - made me think twice," he said.
His sister and brother-in-law welcomed Oat and his wife into their home in Phayao and showed no repulsion. However, Oat's wife died soon afterwards and he started taking her retroviral drugs. Back then, access to this life-saving treatment was very limited and only those with serious symptoms could get it. Oat was relatively healthy, so he decided to use his late wife's account.
With the anti-retroviral drugs, Oat went from strength to strength. He found himself physically and mentally fit to return to work and was even able to fall in love again.
"She's a childhood friend. I told her about my infection and she said it was OK," Oat said.
However, her family disliked him and after four years, their relationship came to an end. Then he moved to Sing Buri and got a job at a factory. He looked perfectly fine, so nobody suspected he was HIV-positive.
"But I felt uncomfortable because I couldn't tell people I was HIV-positive," he said. He was also anxious about the annual medical check-up.
"Finally, I decided to quit," he said.
Oat then met another woman, only this time she too was HIV-positive and offered him greater support and understanding. However, they eventually went their separate ways.
After Oat started working at an Aids foundation, he met his current wife - she is 13 years his junior and not infected.
"I never thought I could love an HIV-positive man, but over time I have learned to love and accept him. It doesn't matter whether he has HIV or not," she said.
Yet despite their love for each other, it has not been smooth sailing.
"None of my friends, other than those at work, or my family know that he is HIV-positive. I just can't tell them," she said.
Stigma has haunted all HIV-positive people, but things for the poor are even worse. The homeless, in particular, are unable to get a bed in state hospitals after they become infected and start developing symptoms. Though hospitals are required by law to treat HIV-infected people under the universal healthcare scheme, they often push them out of the facility as soon as possible.
"Clearly, the homeless living with Aids face worse discrimination. Hospitals have made it very difficult for them to receive the treatment that they are entitled to, which is why they are forced to leave and their symptoms worsen fast," said Natee Sorawaree, secretary-general of Issarachon Foundation.
This year alone, at least eight homeless people in Bangkok's Sanam Luang area have died of Aids.
Stigma is worse than the disease itself
Chularat Saengpassa,
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation November 30, 2012 1:00 am
While campaigning for the rights of others living with the Aids virus, one activist has kept his infection a secret with most people, especially his in-laws.His case speaks volumes about how the Thai society - despite the many laws - is just not opening up to people living with the human immunodeficiency virus.
"I don't dare to talk about my infection because I am afraid people will treat me differently," the 38-year-old man explained.
Oat (not his real name) is among the thousands of Thais living with HIV, of whom only 250,000 have signed up for anti-retroviral drugs. Relevant authorities believe that another 250,000 are living with the virus unknowingly or want to keep it secret.
In fact, even Aids activists have been trying to get doctors not to reveal that a patient is being treated for HIV-related illnesses for fear reimbursement will be refused or the person will be discriminated against.
"We want to help them avoid stigma," said Nimit Tien-udom, of the Aids Access Foundation.
He explained that his foundation also encouraged tambon administrative organisations to stop including the names of HIV-positive people in their budget plans.
People living with HIV face immense pressure in rural societies, Nimit said.
"In villages everybody knows," he said.
Oat said that once he was at a temple, and he noticed people would not come anywhere near him.
"They wouldn't sit near me. They wouldn't eat when I was at the table. So I had to leave," he recounted.
Oat does not know when exactly he contracted the virus, but he first learned about it when he was 26 and his wife started developing suspicious symptoms.
After a blood test, they got the bad news.
"Our world fell apart - we didn't know if we could carry on," he said.
Back then, he only knew that the Aids virus was fatal and that the conditions were terrifying. Though they went to the best hospitals, his wife's condition kept deteriorating.
"I wished a fatal car crash would end it all, but my family - my older sister and her husband, to be exact - made me think twice," he said.
His sister and brother-in-law welcomed Oat and his wife into their home in Phayao and showed no repulsion. However, Oat's wife died soon afterwards and he started taking her retroviral drugs. Back then, access to this life-saving treatment was very limited and only those with serious symptoms could get it. Oat was relatively healthy, so he decided to use his late wife's account.
With the anti-retroviral drugs, Oat went from strength to strength. He found himself physically and mentally fit to return to work and was even able to fall in love again.
"She's a childhood friend. I told her about my infection and she said it was OK," Oat said.
However, her family disliked him and after four years, their relationship came to an end. Then he moved to Sing Buri and got a job at a factory. He looked perfectly fine, so nobody suspected he was HIV-positive.
"But I felt uncomfortable because I couldn't tell people I was HIV-positive," he said. He was also anxious about the annual medical check-up.
"Finally, I decided to quit," he said.
Oat then met another woman, only this time she too was HIV-positive and offered him greater support and understanding. However, they eventually went their separate ways.
After Oat started working at an Aids foundation, he met his current wife - she is 13 years his junior and not infected.
"I never thought I could love an HIV-positive man, but over time I have learned to love and accept him. It doesn't matter whether he has HIV or not," she said.
Yet despite their love for each other, it has not been smooth sailing.
"None of my friends, other than those at work, or my family know that he is HIV-positive. I just can't tell them," she said.
Stigma has haunted all HIV-positive people, but things for the poor are even worse. The homeless, in particular, are unable to get a bed in state hospitals after they become infected and start developing symptoms. Though hospitals are required by law to treat HIV-infected people under the universal healthcare scheme, they often push them out of the facility as soon as possible.
"Clearly, the homeless living with Aids face worse discrimination. Hospitals have made it very difficult for them to receive the treatment that they are entitled to, which is why they are forced to leave and their symptoms worsen fast," said Natee Sorawaree, secretary-general of Issarachon Foundation.
This year alone, at least eight homeless people in Bangkok's Sanam Luang area have died of Aids.
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Thailand housing did come from america even though the country is considered a 3rd world country. they have all types of modern day houses and ones created during the early 50's like Spanish colonial,tide water style and ranches but thai houses are mostly made with wood called stilts usually when a daughter becomes married the family builds another house putting unique flowers around for blessing, but they also have their temples and shrines which now Americans have become accustomed to for Tai chi, spiritual cleansing and religon. different sports like sepawk and Thailand boxing are traditional Thailand sports and because of globalization they now have american football, soccer and tennis that originated from other countries. pop culture came to Thailand from western cultures, and now from television and the internet.
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