NHPO Think Tank discusses modern day slavery in Central Texas

Billy J. Sifuentes, Human Trafficking Liaison for the City of Austin, met with the Austin Chapter of National Hispanic Professional Organization to discuss human trafficking in the Texas area.  The speaker further explained how this problem of illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor is quickly becoming the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest, after …

Review: ‘Machete’ serves relentless, bloody action

Certainly, “Machete” is the best feature-length extension of a fake movie trailer in Hollywood history.
Fans who saw the trailer in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 “Grindhouse” double-feature continually asked Rodriguez to turn the make-believe ad featuring Danny Trejo into a real blood-and-guts vengeance flick.

Rodriguez has complied, maintaining a fair amount of the wicked humor and every bit of the savage bloodshed the trailer promised.

Viewers get precisely what they’re …

Sickle cell kids at greater risk of ‘Swine Flu’ complications

Children with sickle cell disease experience more life-threatening complications from the H1N1 swine flu than from seasonal flu, a new study has found.

This means that doctors and parents need to be aware that children with sickle cell disease are more likely to need emergency treatment and to be hospitalized, Dr. John Strouse of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and colleagues explained in a Hopkins news release.

The study authors analyzed the …

Roethlisberger suspension reduced to 4 games

Ben Roethlisberger is getting time off for good behavior.
He’ll be back on the field for the Pittsburgh Steelers two games earlier than expected after convincing NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he is turning his life around.

The star quarterback, accompanied by team president Art Rooney, met with Goodell early Friday and was told he could return on Oct. 17 against Cleveland after missing four games.

He was suspended in April for six …