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The White House said on Tuesday it had hired its first openly transgender official, a move which supporters said emphasised the Obama administration s drive against inequality. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, the first transgender official to be hired by the White House. Freedman-Gurspan s was appointed as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of
stanley cup Personnel. National Center for Transgender Equality via AP Photo Officials said former activist Raffi Free
stanley cup dman-Gurspan began work on Tuesday, in a team that recruits personnel to serve President Barack Obama. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan demonstrates the kind of leadership this administration champions, said Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the President. Her commitment to bettering the lives of transgender Americans, particularly transgender people of colour and those in poverty, reflects the values of this administration. Freedman-Gurspan will act as outreach and recruitment director in the White House personnel office. She previously worked on improving conditions for transgender prisoners, policing, detention of
stanley cup transgender immigrants and violence against transgender women. A transgender person was inevitably going to work in the White House, said Mara Keisling of Freedman-Gurspan s former employer, the National Center for Transgender Equality. That the first transgender appointee is a transgender woman of colour is itself significant. The Obama administration has supported effo Tkct 11 dead, several missing in Peru landslide
China s only tropical island city marketed as a Chinese Hawaii now wants to cash in on the Indian millionaire and desi weddings to sustain its artificial boom. HT Image Sanya in southern Hainan province is the playground of China s super-rich who land here in private jets, gamble on golf courses, and buy holiday villas and yachts. Two decades ago, Sanya was a laidback fishing village. Today, the communist city of half a million people has only one major industry - luxury - modeled on outdoing Bali and Hawaii. We want rich Indians to invest in Sanya, Wang Dong Qing, vice-president Sanya
stanley cup Tourism Association, told HT. We want to import famous Indian yoga teachers and we re pushing to get Indians to host traditi
stanley cup onal weddings on our island. Officials are negotiating with India for flights from Mumbai and Kolkata to land in Sanya via Shenzhen. We can also send our jet to pick you up, said Wang. His office has Incredible India posters and a parking lot lined with BMWs and a Cadillac for clients. Dozens of oversize luxu
hoka ry resorts and hundreds of unsold designer villas are spread across this coastline after Beijing declared it an international tourism destination in 2009. But 90% of Sanya s nearly eight million tourists in 2010 were only upmarket Chinese. So officials responsible for attracting overseas visitors are eyeing the Indian economy growing second to China. The Indian market is huge for us, Tang Sixian, deputy director of Sanya Tourism Development Co
