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DEAR BELLA: I married someone I don't loveDominica News Online - Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 at 10:18 AM
Dear Bella,
I am in trouble. I married someone I don't love. At least not in a romantic way.
The thing is I was raised poor and I didn't have much to go around. I always dreamt of living a life where I could eat and afford anything I wanted and I made a vow never to marry someone who cannot provide for me.
Well there came a man who is -as we say in Dominica- "well off". He fell in love with me. During the time, we dated he gave me all and sundry. I was never broke and I transformed from looking trashy to classy.
He asked me to marry him about nine months after we met and I said yes.
Now we live together. He provides everything for me but I sometimes look at him and realize I have no real attraction for him.
Bella, I think I don't really love him. Now I am stuck in a marriage and I am not happy although I have everything I want. Oh by the way, he is 60 and I am 35.
What should I do?
Dear Haunted,
It hurts to get letters like yours. When I started reading, all I could hear was "money can't buy you love."
That old saying still proves to be true today and in your case, you will never be happy, regardless of the amount of material things you possess, or how much money your husband can give to you.
You feel like you made a smart decision by marrying this man for his money but you knew there'd be compromises. So brace yourself for some tough decisions. It's your fault.
And if you're reading that and wincing because it seems like I'm placing the blame squarely on our decision, guess what? I am.
You need to be honest with your husband. Let him know exactly what you just wrote – that you married him because you felt he was a form of security and not because of love.
If you fail to do this, then you run the risk of being a bored, miserable housewife, stuck with someone you don't love, while depriving yourself and your husband of real happiness.
I hope you can find the willpower to talk to your husband.
I pray he's one of those men who can face the truth and move on in peace because if he's not, then you may want to prepare for some backlash. As I said early-brace yourself.
These endings are never happy.
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61 Comments
At 60 you are still young and capable with the right person. when you meet this man you were no virgin. LIVE him alone and go back to your old dump.In trouble what, you are not tied up just leave. Him being a good and honest person thought he was helping some one in need and expect gratitude in return. Now look it.just go.
Light bulb moment!
wow 25 years age difference!!! that's a lot.
Also depends on how you look and how he looks but it seems that you married for money and not love and you got what you wanted!
its likely also the man feels the same way about you, people tend to loose interest if their relationships are unbalanced, for instance if one person is doing all the giving and another all the taking!
Also you may not believe it but you thinking exactly the way of someone who wants to defeat her own self… I say that becasue if your family was poor there is a reason why they were poor. Your mindset is likely keeping you in the cycle of poverty you were born into.
If it was me and I was you, I would use the opportunity to get an education and reach the highest levels academically you can push yourself to reach. maybe then you will feel like an equal in the relationship and understand that love comes in many forms!
but damn 25 years age difference, that's plenty!
Many of the comments on this page are irresponsible and misleading. These are people with no education, training, or background to be dealing with such issues. The best they can do is speak out of their own life experience which I expect is rather messed up.
You should realize that this is a human being you are dealing with and a future you are addressing.
Not only that but their children and grandchildren could be affected by whatever advice they follow.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
Rev. I think you have too much time on your hands; you're ALWAYS on here, posting. you are not me who is a likkle nobody. Don't you have souls to save? Don't you have souls to witness to?
Rev. Donald Hill, D.D. March 29, 2017
I expect I wrote something that offended you and this is the reason behind your reply.
Most of my comments are written to help people by sharing the truth of the word of God with them. I am a minister and the director of an international ministry. This is one of the things I do. Sorry if it troubles you. If you do not like my comments you do not have to read them. If the ADMIN does not think thy are suitable for DNO they have a right to delete them.
You should ask yourself *Is any truth in what he says and does it apply to me *
There are commentators with less education and experience than myself writing replies and they are posted in spite of the fact that some of them are foolish and frankly some are downright vulgar.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
No..No…No….Rev You are very judgmental and feel superior its called "Post a Comment" why do you feel
the need to judge and look your nose down like you are so damn perfect. You are really getting on my last nerve. Post your comment give your sage wisdom without being so damn superior and uptight, like
you are Mr. Perfect. Its people like you who have a whole ton of skeletons in your closet and deep dirty dark secrets that some of us would cringe to know. Look please stop with the judging and criticizing smh
Here are things you should be thankful for.
(1) You have a legal marriage.
(2) You married a man who treated you well.
(3) You have all you want so obviously he is a good provider.
Here is a fact you can use to your advantage.
It is what you DO that creates your FEELINGS. Doing good things will create positive feelings. It was a famous psychologist by the name of William James author of PRINCILES OF PSYCHOLOGY Volumes 1 & 2
who gave us this fact many years ago. However what is more important to me as a minister of the gospel and a pastoral counselor is that fact that Christ included this in His teachings in the first century After instructing His followers He said *If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them.* (John 13:17)
Instead of tearing down what you have I advise you to begin to build upon it! Resolve to be the very best wife you can possibly be and let the change take place within you.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
Sparrow said age is just a number it's immaterial whether you are 60 or 40. at the beginning of any relationship it's all systems go. It use to be three or four times a week now it's about once a week that's life.
There are lots of young men that is incapable of standing up to expectations causing their young ladies to be frustrated and that leaves mature men like myself to fill in the gaps. I am not bragging. The secret is to take care of your body by keeping yourself healthy stop putting nasty chemicals in your body and all will be right on the night. There was a man in Grandbay that fathered a child with his young wife at age 72. He is the spitting image of his dad so there you are.
It's funny how some people on here are saying he took advantage of her because of her poor situation. Like she couldn't rationalize the situation for herself back then, and now she see good life she can suddenly understand right from wrong. Methinks she most likely met someone around her own age and find the husband too old all of a sudden. I wonder how long they've been married?
Please tell me difference between you and the prostitute on the street.
Rev. Donald Hill, D.D. March 24, 2017
Unfortunately she is not alone.
Some woman do marry for money or material gain. This is not much above a prostitute mentality.
Couples should see a pastor for marriage counseling before they marry. Not just any pastor. It should be one who does counselling and is recommended.
A qualified marriage counselor will ask you the right questions. It is important to be sure you and your
companion are on the same page. (a) You should both want the same things in marriage. (b) You should agree on such things as sex, your education, your careers (will you both work :?:) money, children, the discipline of the kids, where you will live, in-laws, etc. In exploring these areas of married life together the counselor helps you come to an agreement and lay a good foundation for years to come.
A marriage that is based upon the word of God can be happy and enduring
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
People will always have differing opinions…..notwithstanding, Bella, top drawer advice.
Dear Bella, I think you are right to say it's her fault, a poor woman wanted the best things in life nice car house eat out in top restaurants, he asked her to be his wife she said yes, Now this gold dicker is saying the man is 60 and she is 35 did not she know that before? Or is it possible this woman have got a young man dicking the yam for her.
Good for him, they want young women, and they can't even perform in bed. Girl take all you can get. Put a towel on your face while ………. these ole men too north
My Dear you were the vulnerable one, facing unpleasant circumstances. Your husband took advantage of your poverty to enjoy some young flesh. As most men are, he was a predator and you were the prey. Your feelings now are just part of the punishment that this man will have to endure for his arrogance, lust fullness and ignorance thinking he can fully satisfy a woman twenty five years younger than himself because he has money. Darling once you feel like you are financially secure do whatever you feel will make you happy and whatever pain this man feels is well deserved….. It is his fault, he was wealthy enough and experienced enough to know better, while you were a victim of poverty who acted in desperation.
Girl if you're not satisfied with the thing go Jarry, Guadeloupe, in the sex shop. Buy a vibrator and you will be happy with your husband, you marry the man give him love eles you will hurt his feelings. Money can't buy LOVE. CHERRISH YR MAN and take care of him cuz a good MAN IS HARD TO FIND HONESTY is such a lovely word.
I find you to be a young woman to sho uld start paving your own way in life based on your upbringing which you were aware of! Why would you want to expect to meet someone who will make life good for you based on your wants Now you've got your desire,but your heart still require and your life is burning like fire! We can not always have all what we wish for, we lose some and gain some! Now to this man who used his financial position to impose himself on woman way younger than him! At your age,you are proposing a woman marriage after nine months of being involved with her!
Girl, u married the man for money, however now is not the time to develop a conscience. Not all things are worth saying to someone who loves you. Many "for love" marriages turn lacklustre later or end in acrimony. Keep your mouth shut, enjoy your glam and learn to love your husband. Forget that nonsence about telling the man that you married him for money…sa e est ? Ou porcor mort ou ca confesay ?
Totally agree. Despite the age difference you were not a child when you entered into this relationship and knew what you wanted. This may not be happening now but many marriages were based on wealth and status and love came after. Maybe if you focus on your husband, your marriage and work at it you may develop that attraction for him. Do you know your husband, what he likes etc. You say that he's in love with you. You didn't mention anything about faithfulness. It however sounds like he's devoted to you. So you owe it to him to give it a chance (age is just a number).
You cannot advise a person in that situation. She came on line through guilty conscience. She surely having another man who cannot offer anything except the big bamboo. Move out of the house and let him know you won't be coming back, but ofcourse his swet you don't want to leave behind.Gold diggers always stay lonely and unhappy.
Hey, girl stay where you are and enjoy the goods that come with that. Apparently he wanted a young trophy wife and he has you. Though you did not say that , but I suspect you are not being satisfied during \"bedroom meal time\" . So work your thing and get your groove on but be discrete about it . And don\'t give a hoot what people may say because if you are not happy you can\'t make him happy .
Happy wife, happy life! Now let the hypocrites jump on my BIG, STRONG back.
Assertive like the rod of Moses!
"So work your thing and get your groove on but be discrete about it" . And don\'t give a hoot what people may say because if you are not happy you can\'t make him happy"
This is wrong advice young lady! You cannot be unhappy here on earth and still be tormented also in hell! Be careful! Many of us make decisions without weighing the options and end up in emotional and physical distress but there is a way out. This is exactly why there should be sound counseling to at least help you understand what marriage is about and not to drive you into it.
The bible talks about the wicked and it includes those who chose not to follow the laws and statutes of Jesus Christ.
You are already married therefore your next move is how do you go about fulfilling your marriage needs.
Firstly, you need to go on your knees and talk to God about it! If you are not born again, now may be the perfect time to know who God really is. I am not talking about going to a church to jump about and live a…
but be true to yourself and ask God forgiveness for all that may not be right in your heart. When you truthfully seek him, he will open up to you and begin to reveal your strengths and weaknesses. You have to be consistent and truthful.
No man has the answers to our problems in life. You may be the heaviest person, he will make you as light as a feather… emotionally. he will give you peace.. knowledge… he may even do things for you that you have never asked for.
Trust me lady i know. He is alive and don't let anyone fool you!
Read the books of Corinthians in the bible and you will get many answers.
whether they help you or not will depend on how well you have accepted his word.
We cannot negate the physical realm but i want you to know that most things which happen physically are influenced by the spiritual realm, one way or another.
This must help.
Just trust in these words and do exactly as i advise. It's your choice.
may God's name be praised.
Way to go Bella with your judgmental self. You claim to be an advise columnist, and instead of giving guidance, you state "It's your fault"….and then you follow with this …."And if you're reading that and wincing because it seems like I'm placing the blame squarely on our decision, guess what? I am."
I think you should give up giving people advice. As a matter of fact, I think you need some advice yourself.
I agree with Bella. Some of those young girls just want sweet life and using older men to get it. It's her fault. She is not even trying to say she will try to love him, just maybe she will start to get feelings for him. No she get the sweet life and she want to move on to someone else, and guess what she will file for divorce and try and take all what he have as well, eventhough she know she only marry him for what she can get.
Romeo and Juliette, were very much in love when they were wed
They kept all their vows
But where are they now
They're dead! Dead! Very, very dead.
Romantic love is fleeting. It does not last. What is important is having someone who you can count on; who has your back; who is going to be there. Love won't pay the mortgage or put porridge in your bowl, girl.
I find Bella should have a separate email from firstname.lastname@example.com.
Good advice, Bella!


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SIR, - The start of a new Parliament must be the optimum time to reassess how best to tackle the future of employment.
Let us not be beguiled into believing that full employment, as we knew it, will return.
Recession is not the sole reason: changing technologies and the industrialisation of the emerging countries will only help to increase the problem, despite greater productivity and modernisation that we shall achieve here at home.
The increased national wealth that we seek, and indeed must achieve, will be created by fewer people in work and will have to provide for those for whom there is no employment.
Keeping youngsters longer off the payroll by introducing training schemes of one, two and possibly three years duration will help at one end, the encouragement of earlier retirement at the other. But this of itself is not enough.
Periodic spells of retraining throughout a working life, sabbaticals, work sharing, financial encouragement for one parent to remain at home - all these can help: they are also very expensive. Cheaper, more difficult, but just as vital, is to change attitudes. This must come from sensitive government, constructive journalism, good management, parents, and above all, from the schools.
Five is not too young to begin to learn that education should be as much for living, as for a working life. Excellence in academic and technological skills, yes, but to learn to use talents, to develop interests and occupations, skills and hobbies, beyond the usual curricula should be equally central to school life rather than remain on the priphery.
The Protestant work ethic lies deep in our souls but is no longer enough on its own.
If we are to retain a cohesive and happy society we must create a climate in which a fulfilled life means the ability to find dignity and satisfaction in both work and in alternative pursuits.
SW1. Jane Prior
start of a new Parliament: beginning of Parliamentary sessions every autumn
reassess sth. : judge and decide on sth. again
beguile : deceive, cheat
emerging country : developing country
retraining: Umschulung
sabbatical (n.): a period, often one year in every seven, during which a person, e.g. a university teacher, does not have to do his usual work but may study while still getting his regular salary
work sharing: job sharing
curricula : pl. of "curriculum", a course of study offered in a school or college
Protestant work ethic : idea of work based on the beliefs of the Puritans and Calvinists, who thought that hard work was a duty towards God and that a person's economic success in life was God's reward
cohesive : holding together
dignity : quality that earns or deserves respect
SW1: postal district of southwest London
Understanding the contents
1. For what reasons will there never again be full employment, in Prior's opinion?
2. What possibilities of increasing Britain's national wealth are suggested, directly and indirectly? What may be some of their consequences?
3. The writer mentions various measures that might help society to adapt to the shortage of jobs in the future. Point out the suggestions made.
Prior's main proposal concerns the change of her countrymen's present attitude towards work. Accordmg to the writer, what has work traditionally meant for the Britlsh? How should work and leisure be regarded in the future?
Analysing the text
5. If a reader writes to the editor of a newspaper with the idea of seeing his or her letter published, we speak of a letter to the editor.
In what way is the form of Prior's letter different from that of a personal letter?
6. What purposes may writers of such a letter to the editor have in mind?
7. As a rule, letters to the editor belong to the text type* argumentation*. Study how Prior orders her material.
a) What use does she make of the introductory paragraph and how does she develop her arguments in paragraphs two to four?
b) Why may we say that she arranges her arguments in paragraphs five to nine in an order of growing importance leading to a climax*, i.e. in a climactic order?
c) What function does the final paragraph serve? What makes her language here emotive* to some extent?
Working with the language
8. Paraphrase or translate
a) ". how best to tackle the future of employment" ,
b) "... should be equally central to school life rather than remain on the periphery"
c) "in both work and in alternative pursuits" .
9. Due to the relatively high level of abstraction, there is a large number of nouns in this text. Collect at least six belonging to each of the word fields a) "work" and b) "economy".
10. a) How does the writer employ the auxiliaries "must", "will", "can", "shall" and "should ? b) To what extent may her frequent use of "must" and "will" be characteristic of her attitude in this text?
Going beyond the text
11. Study a dictionary or other reference book to find
a) the precise meaning of "recession" and "productivity" , and b) the original meaning of "sabbatical"). Report your findings to the class. Do not adopt too specific a language from the reference books, but use your own words. Simplify, illustrate, repeat, or emphasize important expressions and use the blackboard if necessary.
12. Write a letter to the editor in which you a) criticize some of Prior's statements, or b) suggest what your school could do to fulfil the writer's expectations.
13. How much, in your opinion, will longer education or training schemes help if there are not enough jobs to be offered? Will up to three years more schooling be accepted by young people?
14. Discuss some advantages and disadvantages of work sharing.
15. Most experts agree that by the year 2020 in Switzerland and other industrialized countries the number of people of working age will have decreased, while that of old-age pensioners will have increased considerably. State some of the problems resulting from these changes in the population structure.

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Several years ago I was challenged to write out my testimony of when I came to Jesus. A long version and a short one. The short version is that I was raised in the church. The pastor's daughter taught my second grade Sunday School class. Basically, she scared me into accepting Jesus. She said that if I were to die before accepting Jesus, I would never see my parents because they would go to Heaven and I wouldn't. I didn't pray then but went home and talked to my mom. She explained what it meant to accept Jesus and then I prayed to accept Jesus.
One of the testimonies of how God has worked in my life since would be when we found the church we are going to now. When we moved to Texas from Arizona we had a hard time finding a church home. Just as my boys were entering their teens it had been a prayer of my heart that they would have a youth group that they could get involved in. The church we were going to was small, over 45 minutes away, and my boys were the youth group. My husband and I knew we needed to find another church and that this was not the church for us. One day after watching the women's study from the church we went to in Arizona, I asked God where do we look for a church. Over my right shoulder I heard a very audible voice telling me to look up a friend of mine that he was going to a church that was right on. I knew my oldest son would be the problem in switching churches. When I told him about this church he told me he would never go to church again. I had already contacted the pastor and youth pastor asking them to pray for my son. They both responded that they were having the very first youth study that Wednesday and the boys were welcome to come. My youngest was excited about it and talked his brother into going. The look on my oldest son when I dropped him off was "My mom made me come and I didn't want to." When my husband and I returned he was a total different child with a huge smile on his face. He couldn't wait to introduce us to the pastor. Now, he is the Creative Arts Intern/Tech Director. When the church moved into it's new building, the pastor was joking that we need to make my son a bedroom there. My youngest is the children's pastor right hand and plans on becoming a children's pastor. My husband and I are a part of the tech team.
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Meet the Biblioteca José Manuel Leal, "El Chef"
By Karla Ortiz
José Manuel Leal, better known as "Manolo" or "Chef," is responsible for bringing food to the hungry stomachs of people who arrive each day at the Café Santa Ana. Chef, like many others in the library, is passionate about his work. You could say that he is living in his wonderful years. He is finally doing what he likes and gaining from it. Even though he has not studied anything related to cooking, he mentions that he was in a workshop at the Instituto Allende. In reality he learned everything he knows over time and in different ways. If he had the opportunity and time, he would like to learn more about this work that he is passionate about. He likes everything about cooking, but above all he likes to bake. He knows how to make some drinks because "previously the cafeteria had the permission to sell alcoholic drinks, and at that time I had just come in, and there were days that I was in the bar, or they called me to prepare margaritas, a drink that I really like to prepare. Since the kitchen and the bar were together, it was easier to help with everything, to prepare coffee, cappuccino, margaritas, or whatever."
Before starting in the food business, José Manuel worked for some foreigners. Later, he worked in El Mesón de San José for eight years. There he met the then manager of the Santa Ana Café, who brought him in as a chef in the cafeteria, "I was climbing and climbing! I always liked to cook, but I had never had the opportunity to work in the kitchen," said Chef.
José Manuel has been working for the library for 11 years. He has learned to integrate the staff into a linear work team, so that without doing less or more, everyone helps each other in high season when people have to wait for tables to be able to have a coffee in the shade of the bougainvillea and with the sound of the water falling in the fountain. At seven in the morning he gets up to travel to the Biblioteca by bus. He lives in the community of Orduña, which usually takes 30 minutes of travel time although there are times when he doesn't make the bus or it doesn't stop, and he has to walk to the library. He arrives at 8:30 in the morning to prepare everything that must be ready for opening at nine o'clock. At that time, customers are already waiting. Muffins are the star of the house. That's why the coffee must be distinguished; people who arrive early usually order their coffee with a muffin fresh out of the oven. They know they are made fresh that morning. The chef told us that this recipe was a modification of another, and over the years he was perfecting it to make the ideal muffin to accompany a good cup of coffee.
People also arrive early to order a lot of the chef's burgers, either for breakfast or lunch. They are the most ordered dishes. "I think all of San Miguel's burgers are good, but the ones here have a different twist," noted the chef.
Chef's job in the cafeteria is to prepare dishes in separate portions, make the desserts, and, well, "everything." There are days when the clientele "is heavy," and the staff doesn't have enough time to take care of everybody, and that is when they join as a team," said the chef. Then sometimes everyone does a bit of "everything": being a waiter, bussing tables, acting as a cashier, or preparing dishes. His main challenge is to try to ensure that coffee quality doesn't fall during the off-season. He also wants to provide the best service in the high season when sometimes there are not even enough tables, and there is stress. For him the best solution is to remain calm and to avoid disappointing customers through communication, mentioning that the café is full, and they can wait for a table or that the dishes can take a while. Although some take it badly, there are always more people who understand and decide to wait. At the end of the day, Chef returns home with just the desire to rest. Sometimes he wants to continue cooking, but often he wants to play a sport, run, or go to the gym because that's something else that he is also passionate about but doesn't have enough time for. Chef invites the entire community to try Café Santa Ana's dishes, burgers, and muffins, especially those who haven't tried something from a library kitchen.


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June 29, 2012
There's no sugar coating this - this was a Very Bad Week for our Republic, our Freedom & Our Future.
First on Monday, the SCOTUS ruled that a formerly soveriegn state, Arizona, no longer has the right to defend her citizens, even when the Federal Government abrogates its obligation to do so.
Then on Tuesday, in my local Congressional District, CD4, it's business as usual as our corrupt, dictatorial, Republican Party Chairman Mondello's hand-picked hack, Fran Becker, beat a principled, true Conservative & Tea Party favorite, Frank Scaturro, in the Republican primary.
Lastly, yesterday's disasterous SCOTUS ruling on Obamacare removed the last pretense that there are any limitations on what the Federal Government can do to it's citizens.
When I heard yesterday's decision, it felt like I was kicked in the stomach. My natural human reaction was to get depressed - to want to give up - to wonder to myself why I bother fighting for the causes & candidates I believe in.
I allowed myself to mourn for about 15 minutes before I started coming back to my senses. I thought back to the reasons I got in this fight in the first place. Personally, I look no further than my children & how their future & freedom is imperiled. So what has changed? Nothing!
We Tea Partiers now have a choice. Do we throw in the towel & let these bastards win & destroy the people & ideals we hold so dearly - or do we re-dedicate ourselves and double-down on our efforts to protect them?
The future of our children, our country and freedom around the world is at stake. Will you heed the call?


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I'll keep this post short and sweet. All I want to say is that, About 2 or 3 years ago, I still manage to post here. Unfortunately, starting last year, I didn't have the time to make my posts here anymore because I was tied up with a lot of things and I decided to blog in Tumblr instead. So today, I'd like to try reviving my blog. I hope I can maintain it. Blogging is my way of relaxing, releasing stress and communicating with the world! I'd better do good at this now!


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Nurses currently comprise 50-80% of the global healthcare workforce. The GNC believes it is imperative for the expertise of nurses to be available throughout global health forums. The participation of nurses at every level is crucial for creating effective programs. To support this, GNC offers resources for advocacy, to bring the experience and perspective of nurses to all levels of global health care. Advocacy is multi-faceted and requires specific skills. We offer information on learning how to advocate, stories from the field about successful advocacy, and tools to use when advocating.
GNC has decided to focus on advocacy in 2014. During this "Year of Advocacy," all of the programs, newsletters, and blogs will explore the issue of advocacy, culminating with the third GNC conference on October 18, 2014.
GNC Board member Elizabeth Glaser wrote a blog post on the beginning of the "Year of Advocacy," which introduces our aims for this year:
by Elizabeth Glaser, MSc, MA, ACRN, RN-BC
Over the last few years, I have attended conferences and symposia on differing aspects of global health. These gatherings have been notable for the inclusion of panelists from a wide range of disciplines and experiences: advocates, anthropologists, bench scientists, biostatisticians, community health workers, economists, epidemiologists, human rights lawyers, managers, physicians, politicians, public health specialists, and those who may be living with the condition under discussion. Every facet of health policy, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation is touched upon by the expert panel. Almost. Distinguished nursing colleagues are present, but only in the audience. When the organizers are asked as to why nurses are not included on the stage, their responses vary, from avoidance to defensiveness, to simply admitting that they did not think of it. They did not think of inviting experts from the discipline that, globally, comprises 50-60% of the entire health care workforce, and as high of 80% of professional staff. (1)
When The Lancet, one of the premier medical publications in the world, announced the creation of an on-line, open access journal, Lancet Global Health, I was excited. This journal would focus not just on medicine alone but also on the broader aspects of global health. The 21-person international advisory board featured a multi-disciplinary mix of accomplished men and women from all over the globe – but no nurses.
By our omission, Nursing is not considered an essential profession to those at Lancet Global Health, World Health Organization, or at many other places where policy is created that changes our work and the lives of those whom we serve. We must consider the impact associated with our exclusion: The failure of so many initiatives in health may stem from the fact that those of us who have to implement the bulk of the work are not included in its design.
This was the gist of the argument that I posted to the Nursing and Midwifery group in Global Health Delivery online. We are more used to advocating for our patients or, occasionally, for better wages, but are less comfortable with advocating solely on behalf of our profession. By seeking input from other nurses on a global platform, we were able to discuss our role in general and our place in setting the agenda in global health. My colleagues agreed that it was time to advocate for our profession's role as essential for creating effective policy and practice in global health.
Our letter campaign provoked a very credible response by Zoe Mullan, the editor of Lancet Global Health. To her great credit, she listened to our argument, and agreed with the premise. She sought and received our input on potential nursing scholars to sit on the advisory board, ultimately choosing on of our candidates: Dr. Naomi Mmapelo Seboni, PhD, RN, RM, President of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, is now on the advisory board of Lancet Global Health.
This is a small, yet positive step for nurses. To improve the health and well being of our patients as well as ourselves, we must be the drivers of policy and program implementation rather than being driven by others' decisions. Welcome to the Year of Advocacy for Global Health Nursing.
- WHO. Health workforce: Disaggregated data.
Articles and Online Discussions on Advocacy
This discussion brings out many of the advocacy issues facing nurses in global health. To read more, see the GHDonline expert panel discussion, "Nurse Leaders – Shaping the Future of Global Health."
These articles illustrate different approaches to various advocacy issues:
"Advocating Globally to Shape Policy and Strengthen Nursing's Influence"
"Advocating for Nurses and Nursing"
"A Global Profession – Experts Agree that Today's Nurses are Essential to the International Health Perspective"


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October 16, 2017 (Ranchita) – Cal Fire has announced that no criminal charges will be filed against shooters who started the Wilson Fire which has scorched 25 acres in the Ranchita area between Warner Springs and the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
According to Cal-Fire, shooters who started the blaze on private property acted responsibly in promptly calling to report the blaze, which started Sunday. As of Monday, forward spread has been stopped and the brush fire is 70 percent contained.
A second fire over the weekend occurred near Green Valley Falls in the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, where one witnesses reporting seeing a couple light a flare to take photos in a dry meadow moments before the fire began. The Green fire burned about 8 to 10 acres before it was extinguished.
They are shooting...
...on BLM Land. It is suppose to be closed to shooting but BLM has no assets and SDSO is to lazy to patrol.


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Today, May 17th, marks the 79th birthday of Ronald Wayne, one of the original co-founders of Apple Computers, better known to us today as Apple Inc or just Apple. In light of this, we thought we'd have a brief look at Apple's timeline through the years….
April 1st, 1976
Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
July 1976
The Apple I computer went on sale priced at $666.66 to be precise.
January 3rd, 1977
The company is incorporated. Albeit without Wayne on the board, as he had by this time sold his share back to the others working on the basis that he felt the venture too risky.
February, 1977
Michael Scott comes in as Apple's first CEO and holds this position until March 1981,
April 16th, 1977
Apple II computer is introduced at the first ever West Coast Computer Faire
May 1980
Apple III is introduced but flopped in terms of sales when compared to those of it's predecessors. It had various design flaws and was deemed as overpriced. It was discontinued only 3 years later to be replaced by the Apple III Plus
December 1980
Apple shares go public, at $22 per share.
February 25th, 1981
"Black Wednesday" occurs at Apple as then CEO Michael Scott abruptly fires 40 Apple employees, believing they are redundant. His explanation of this, over a keg of beer, quoted as "I used to say that when being CEO at Apple wasn't fun anymore, I'd quit. But now I've changed my mind — when it isn't fun any more, I'll fire people until it's fun again." was met with disbelief and he was moved to vice-chairman soon after.
March 1981
Mike Markkula, original angel investor of Apple and the man who hired disgraced CEO Michael Scott, replaces him as Apple's second CEO.
January 19th, 1983
The Apple Lisa personal computer is released for $9,995
April 8th, 1983
John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO as recruited by Steve Jobs and replaces Mike Markkula. He was forced out by Apple's board 10 years later due to expense on products and development that did not return ROI.
January 4th, 1984
The first Apple Macintosh is released following an intensive marketing campaign including the use of George Orwell's novel "1984".
September 13, 1985
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple after various internal power struggles, and goes on to form NeXT, a computer company in California catering to the B2B and higher education markets.
March 2nd, 1987
The Macintosh II is released, and was the first model to be a PC as well as supporting a colour display. The Macintosh SE is also released on this date.
September 19th, 1988
Macintosh IIx is released as an upgraded version of the Mac II
September 20th, 1989
The first Macintosh Portable was released to some criticism for its charging capabilities.
October 1990
The Macintosh LC is released to the lower end of the budget market
October 1991
The first Powerbook models are released
June, 1993
Michael Spindler takes over as Apple CEO from John Sculley, and oversaw several successful projects including the PowerPC, but was replaced in 1996 by Gil Amelio after takeover discussions with big names including IBM went nowhere.
December 20, 1996
Apple announce they are intending to acquire Steve Jobs' company NeXT and buy it for $429 million in cash. Steve Jobs rejoins Apple in 1997 although is not paid money for NeXT and instead is given 1.5 million shares in Apple.
February 2nd, 1996
Gil Amelio becomes CEO of Apple, succeeding Michael Spindler. During his time he made extensive layoffs in staff, and eventually resigned just over a year later on July 4th, 1997, due to internal disagreements related to Steve Jobs and the board of directors.
September 16th, 1997
Steve Jobs becomes interim CEO after Gil Amelio resigns.
November 10th, 1997
Apple introduce their online store, known by most as "The Apple Store", which carries all of their product lines and has an iOS app.
August 15th, 1998
The iMac is first released and to this day remains the primary part of Apple's consumer desktop range.
May 19th, 2001
Apple's first retail stores open in California and Virginia.
October 2001
The iPod is first announced, and goes on sale November 10th, 2001
April 28th, 2003
The iTunes store is opened (originally named the iTunes Music Store). It has been the biggest US based vendor of music since 2008, and worldwide since 2010.
June 6, 2005
Steve Jobs announces that Apple will start producing Intel-based Macs in 2006. By January 2006, the MacBook Pro and iMac were using Intel's Core Duo CPU, and by 2007 the whole Mac line was using Intel chips.
January, 2006
Apple's market cap surpasses Dell.
January 9th, 2007
The word 'Computer' is removed from Apple's name and announced at Macworld Expo 2007 by Steve Jobs. This was to reflect their continued focus across the consumer electronics market as a whole, and not solely around computing.
June 29, 2007
The 1st gen iPhone is released after 3 years in development, code named as "Project Purple".
July 11th, 2008
The iPhone 3G is released, with a faster processor and a higher resolution camera.
April, 2010
1st Generation iPads are released
June 15, 2010
Apple release the iOS Apple Store app.
June 24th, 2010
iPhone 4 is released with an upgraded camera and a new, squared design.
January 6th, 2011
The Mac App Store opens after announcement in October 2010.
March, 2011
2nd Generation iPads are released
June 6th, 2011
Steve Jobs delivers what will be his final keynote speech at WWDC 2011, where he introduced iCloud, OS X Lion and iOS 5. This was also his last public appearance before his resignation and subsequent death.
August 24th, 2011
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple due to ill health and is elected Chairman of the Board. Tim Cook takes over as CEO of Apple and remains so to this day.
October 4th, 2011
Virtual personal assistant Siri is released on iOS5 and on iPhone 4S. iPhone 4S is also announced, the upgrade to the iPhone 4.
October 5th, 2011
Steve Jobs dies of cancer after an 8 year battle
October 12th, 2011
Public release of iCloud, which currently is estimated to have over 300 million users
October 14th, 2011
iPhone 4S goes on sale in the USA, with global release on October 28th.
October 16th, 2011
This date has been declared "Steve Jobs Day" by Californian Governer Jerry Brown.
March, 2013
3rd Generation iPads are released
September 2st, 2012
iPhone 5 is released, still with the 8MP camera and 1080HD video but with a new, 8pin charging port and with iOS6 as standard.
October 23rd, 2012
The current generation of the iPod Touch goes on sale
November 2, 2012
4th Generation iPads are released, alongside the iPad Mini
November 10th, 2012
Apple agree to a settlement deal with HTC that will dissolve all lawsuits to that date between the two companies, including a 10 year licence agreement for current and future patents.
March, 2013
Apple announce an AR system patent
May, 2013
Apple make it to the top 10 of Fortune 500 list of companies, in 6th position.


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Class Action Suit
I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm considering a class action suit against ESPN/ABC/Walt Disney and the Hearst Corporation.
I'm sorry, but this isn't so much about the Chiefs, but rather the blatant ignorance and bias displayed by the entire ESPN staff regarding last night's telecast.
I have already contacted ESPN directly, and my next voice of contact will be Rosa M. Gatti, Senior Vice President, and then a letter to the NFL.
I wasn't home all day yesterday, so I didn't set my DVR to record the game, so if anyone recorded the game I'd appreciate it if you PM me. If you're interested in filing a class-action suit, you may PM me as well.
Again, this isn't about the Chiefs- this is about presenting a fair, balanced, and unbiased program for all viewers. Sterling Sharpe must be wearing Randy Moss's briefs or something, 'cause I was, like most people have already indicated, sickened and disgusted by the blatant bias given to Randy Moss and the rest of the Raiders organization. It's a good gawddamn thing we didn't play a "Randy Moss" drinking game, 'cause we'd all have alcohol poisoning before the first quarter ever ended.
This was a football game between two historic franchises. A game matching arguably one of the best rivalries in sports. A game which featured both current and future Hall of Famers on both sides of the ball. This game displayed two teams that personify what football is all about, and what is should be all about. It is what football fans crave. It was a game loaded with stars that received little to absolutely no mention.
I'm sick and tired of watching a football game every now and then only to hear a biased view from an ex-jock who's only interest is to suck the cock of his "special" player. I'm not interested in making any money, I'm only interested in giving the fans a voice to expose their displeasure, so we might be able to enjoy future games without all the biasness.
BTW- Great game for the Chiefs, however the public wouldn't know that. To the average football fan, the Chiefs were lucky and Randy Moss would have won the game had they just thrown the ball to him every *****ing play. ***** you Sterling Sharpe. You'll be hearing from me- the pissed-off football fan.
Ummm.....OK, you may want to consider switching to decaffeinated.
Could you be any more of a whiny bitch? Suing a company because they don't give your team enough love? Good grief, get over it.
Be happy Chris Berman didn't call our team the Chefs.
And your damages are what, exactly? How were you harmed by this horrible coverage?
It's one thing to write them letters and express the...well..hatred of the broadcast...but to propose a class action suit is kinda overboard.
Did Sterling Sharpes voice give you seizures?
I'm suprised the *****ing producer didn't tell Sterling to shut the ***** up, and if they can't do it, well then it's up to the fans to tell him to shut up....
FWIW, I would not be opposed to sending a letter to ESPN for the ridiculous coverage. I'm just lazy, so I don't have the initiative to do such a thing.
However, the notion of a lawsuit is just plain retarded.
I hope this is teh satire or teh drunk
WTF? I dont even know where to begin tearing this apart. First of all, ESPN is under no obligation to provide you with dick. If they wanted to cancel the game telecast and show figure skating or the lumberjack competition they can. They can put anyone on TV they want to.
Second, for you to sue you have to show injury. What has Sterling Sharpe cost you? How have you been injured? Because you endured commentary you didn't necessarily agree with? What kind of dollar amount are you planning on putting on having to listen to someone say something you don't agree with?
Just what we need... the government wasting its time regulating the balance of power between TV football commentators.
This is the worst idea in the history of everything. In fact, this is the sort of frivolous thing that it hacks me off people would crowd the legal system with. There is real, actual work that courts need to do that is important to people's welfare instead of wasting time on this crap
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Public Opinion Strategies would like to congratulate POS-client Curt Clawson and those involved in his GOP primary campaign for Congress on their double-digit victory in last night's primary election.
In an article by The Washington Post, Bill McInturff expects the departure of Kathleen Sebelius from President Barack Obama's cabinet will have "zero impact"
Despite reaching the enrollment mark for the Affordable Care Act, Bill McInturff says Obama is still a "major drag on the party" in a article posted by the National Journal,
Bill McInturff was quoted in the National Journal in an article about groups that are working to enroll the uninsured in health care coverage.
Glen Bolger is quoted in The Washington Post in an article about Republican's rise in confidence in regaining the Senate majority in 2014.


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Seth MacFarlane's Big News
Posted in videos on October 2, 2012|
Seth MacFarlane is hosting the 85th Academy Awards: The pros and cons
Seth MacFarlane perhaps most famous as the creator of the animated show "Family Guy," will be hosting the Academy Awards show early next year, the Academy announced on Monday.
And he is pumped. "[I am] ecstatic. I was surprised. I have done a fair amount of hosting in the past but nothing of this magnitude. I was very, very pleasantly surprised," MacFarlane told Deadline Hollywood.
This comes off the heels of the success of his foray onto the big screen with the comedy "Ted," about a foul-mouthed, talking teddy bear — also starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. The film, which cost $50 million to make, has brought in $217.8 million in the U.S. and $420 million total (worldwide).
MacFarlane provides the voice of many of his non-human characters including Ted, Peter Griffin ("Family Guy"), Stan Smith ("American Dad") and many more. He got his start in animation working for Hanna-Barbera and then became an animator and writer at the Cartoon Network, working on "Dexter's Laboratory," "Cow and Chicken," "I Am Weasel," and "Johnny Bravo."
If you're thinking MacFarlane is a left-field choice for one of the most-watched live televisions shows on the planet, here are some facts that build a strong case in his favor:
Seth can sing. He was actually nominated for two Grammys last year: One for his debut album "Music Is Better Than Words" and the other for a Christmas-themed song he co-wrote for "Family Guy."
He is popular with young people. The Academy has tried and failed in the past to reach a younger demographic (*cough* Anne Hathaway and James Franco). Since MacFarlane has a proven track record on live T.V. (Remember when his mic wasn't working at the Emmys last week and he came out smelling like a rose? He also did pretty well as a recent "Saturday Night Live" host.) — he could have that magic ingredient to pull it off this time.
America thinks he's funny. A lot of people were holding their breath as MacFarlane tested his ever-growing small-screen appeal on the big screen with "Ted." For a first-timer movie director-writer-actor, he pretty much nailed it.
There are also some forces that could work against MacFarlane:
His humor is typically raunchy. If MacFarlane's irreverent style of humor goes too far or puts a bad comedic taste in people's mouth, it will literally be heard — and criticized — around the world. I'm sure past awards-show-hosting gaffes made by the likes of David Letterman and Ricky Gervais will be held up as examples of what not to do.
He is a non-tested entity. Unlike Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, the late Bob Hope and Johnny Carson — who have hosted the Oscars multiple times with moderate-to-great success — MacFarlane hasn't done it before. The pressure will be on.
His face is not famous. All other hosts who have graced the Academy Awards show stage — whether film or T.V. stars — have been instantly recognizable. While a lot of people know MacFarlane's animated shows and his film, audiences are still becoming familiar with his actual face.
"It's truly an overwhelming privilege to be asked to host the Oscars," MacFarlane said [via the Academy's press release]. "My thoughts upon hearing the news were, one, I will do my utmost to live up to the high standards set forth by my predecessors; and two, I hope they don't find out I hosted the Charlie Sheen Roast."
In terms of his hosting game plan, MacFarlane, who noted the late Johnny Carson is his favorite Oscar host, said it's still too early to tell, but that, "The trick is really going to be to make it as funny as I can and true to what I do but at the same time respectfully adapting the tone for this event which is a very different event than I have been a part of in the past." [via Deadline]
Methinks you will be seeing a lot more of MacFarlane's mug leading up to the big event on February 24th.
Video: Un-Aired Moments From The 'Drag Race' Reunion
In the exclusive, never-before-seen video above, RuPaul, the final three, and the rest of the RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4 Queens take six minutes of questions from the reunion audience, and as you might imagine, things get confrontational. We also find out the answers to some burning questions, like Why Did Willam Puke? We've been waiting three entire days for this!
CeCe McDonald, Minnesota Transgender Woman, Pleads Guilty In Manslaughter Case Despite Supporters' Defense
A black transgender Minneapolis woman pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of a local man, but her supporters maintain she was the actual victim in the case.
As the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is reporting, 23-year-old CeCe McDonald is expected to be sentenced June 4 to three years and five months in prison for the death of Dean Schmitz, a white man.
McDonald was walking past a local bar on June 5, 2011 when an altercation between her and Schmitz, in addition to other patrons, erupted on the sidewalk outside. According to various reports, McDonald — who was transitioning at the time — said she pulled out a pair of scissors in an attempt to defend herself after the group hurled a glass at her face, and taunted her and her friends with both anti-gay and racist epithets, including "faggots," "niggers" and "chicks with d*cks."
Schmitz, who allegedly had a swastika tattoo and was between the ages of 41 and 47 according to varied reports, died at the scene from a stab wound to his chest.
Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon is among those to defend McDonald, saying she was targeted for her race and gender. "It appears that CeCe was the victim of a hate crime that involved many people but she was the only person held by the police," Gordon wrote on his blog. "Here is another example transgender women of color being targeted for hate- and bias-related violence. It is unfortunate that in this case, as in so many, the hate crime itself appears to have been ignored."
Melanie Williams, columnist for the Minnesota Daily, felt similarly. "[Schmitz's] attack, therefore, was not just a random attack on one person's body, but an attack on an entire race and entire gender," she wrote. "An entire population of living, breathing, feeling people are hurting with McDonald, perhaps not physically but in the core of who they are."
Though prosecuting attorney Mike Freeman has insisted that "gender, race, sexual orientation and class [were] not part of the decision-making process," McDonald's supporters have also drawn attention to the treatment she is said to have received from officers and other officials throughout the course of the investigation and trial. According to Support CeCe McDonald, a website created "in solidarity with trans people targetted [sic] by the prison industrial complex":
CeCe was briefly taken to the hospital where she received 11 stitches in her cheek. Then, while she was still suffering both physically and mentally from this traumatic incident, she was left alone in a room for three hours and then interrogated, after which she was placed into solitary confinement. She spent the next several months in jail and had to wait almost two months between her initial doctors' visit and a much-needed follow-up appointment.
During that time, her cheek swelled into an extremely painful, golfball-sized lump, making eating difficult and producing headaches and pressure on her left eye and ear. Ironically, the only gesture towards CeCe's well-being that authorities made during her incarceration was to put her in solitary confinement "for her own protection" on two separate occasions, despite her stated desire to be housed alongside other prisoners."
Your Vagina Isn't Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy—It's Also Too Brown
Good news, ladies! Society has discovered anothernew thing that's wrong with you, which means another opportunity for you to make yourself more attractive for your man. Score! Turns out, the color of your vagina is gross and everyone hates it. So bleach that motherfucker. Bleach it right now!
In this commercial for an Indian product called Clean and Dry Intimate Wash, a (very light-skinned) couple sits down for what would have been a peaceful cup of morning coffee—if the woman's disgusting brown vagina hadn't ruined everything! The dude can't even bring himself look at her. He can't look at his coffee either, because it only reminds him of his wife's dripping, coffee-brown hole! Fortunately, the quick-thinking woman takes a shower, scrubbing her swarthy snatch with Clean and Dry Intimate Wash ("Freshness + Fairness"). And poof! Her vadge comes out blinding white like a downy baby lamb (and NOT THE GROSS BLACK KIND) and her husband—whose penis, I can only assume, is literally a light saber—is all, "Hey, lady! Cancel them divorce papers and LET'S BONE."
Needless to say, certain citizens are troubled by this product—which, in addition to just being fucking insane, brings up painful issues about the hierarchy of skin tone within the Indian community. As if it isn't bad enough that darker-skinned people are encouraged to stay out of the sun and invest in skin-bleaching products like Fair & Lovely, and that white actresses are being imported to play Indian people in Bollywood movies, now everyone has to be insecure about the fact that their vaginas happen to be the color that vaginas are??? Splendid! God, I was just saying the other day that my misogyny didn't have enough racism in it.
So what are the pro-vadge-bleaching people thinking? Here's a hilarious explanation from a male ad exec:
It is hard to deny that fairness creams often get social commentators and activists all worked up. What they should do is take a deep breath and think again. Lipstick is used to make your lips redder, fairness cream is used to make you fairer-so what's the problem? I don't think any Youngistani today thinks the British Raj/White man is superior to us Brown folk. That's all 1947 thinking!
The only reason I can offer for why people like fairness, is this: if you have two beautiful girls, one of them fair and the other dark, you see the fair girl's features more clearly. This is because her complexion reflects more light. I found this amazing difference when I directed Kabir Bedi, who is very fair and had to wear dark makeup for Othello, the Black hero of the play. I found I had to have a special spotlight following Kabir around the stage because otherwise the audience could not see his expressions.
See? It makes perfect sense. We just want our vaginas to reflect more light—is that so wrong? I mean, WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA? Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (My husband is a whale.)
Basically the idea is to get as far away as possible from any color that vaginas actually come in. Because that's what's at the heart of this type of thinking—the perfect vagina would be something that's not a vagina at all.
'Bully' Movie: Celebrities Join Weinstein Company's Crusade Against Bullying
Lee Hirsch's highly anticipated documentary "Bully" follows several families who have been affected by bullying. The families in the film are hardly alone — the press release for the film notes that over 13 million young people will experience some form of bullying this year.
Now celebrities are joining the movement to stop bullying — and hopefully, influencing their young fans to do the same. On Tuesday, The Weinstein Company launched a social media campaign against bullying to have as many people tweet as possible to get the following "Bully" message trending: "Did you know 13 million kids get bullied every year? I support @BullyMovie. Let's make it a trend: #BullyMovie."
From "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel to pop star Katy Perry and comedian Joel McHale, stars and media outlets alike are participating in The Bully Project campaign. Thanks to these famous faces, and more, #Bully and #BullyMovie are now being shared across Twitter.
"The tremendous support for this film is unlike anything I've seen" said Bladimiar Norman, Senior Vice President of Marketing at The Weinstein Company, in a statement to The Huffington Post. "'Bully' and the social action campaign, The Bully Project, are very important to The Weinstein Company and we are incredibly humbled by the wonderful participation of such influential individuals and organizations. This is the first step in a movement, the next is to see the film and take a stand against bullying. The celebrities and organizations have done their part, now it is time for us to do ours, and get to the theaters."
Harvey Weinstein recently announced that he was releasing "Bully" without a rating, after fighting to change the R-rating that they received from the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board.
Celebrities from Anderson Cooper to Kathy Griffin and Demi Lovato have been supportive of the film and its petition to revoke the R-rating it received.
To see which celebrities are joining the movement against bullying, click through the gallery below. "Bully" will have a limited release on March 30.
Video: Willam Answers Fan Tweets About Why She Went Home
For nearly a week, the world's been asking "WDWD" (What Did Willam Do?") about her unceremonious disqualification from RuPaul's Drag Race 4, and Willam herself has noticed. We caught up with Willam this weekend and asked her to answer fan Tweets speculating about which show rule she broke. And if we do say so ourselves, it turned out hilarious. What a performer:
All will be revealed on the reunion special: 04.30.12! And, of course, a new episode of RuPaul's Drag Race airs tonight at 9pm Eastern on Logo, and if you Tweet @RuPaulsDragRace, you never know who might be reading


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It's thrilling to have bluegrass and old-time musicians booked in New York City receive a Music Review in the New York Times. It's difficult to go to all the concerts and read all the reviews as they occur. So I have attempted to compile all the Times reviews and articles about bluegrass and old-time music over the last five years or so. My goal is to facilitate a review and celebration of the genres' presence in one mainstream media publication, and to catch up on some reading. Album reviews, holiday purchase recommendations, concert and festival announcements and obituaries are not included.
I start with reviews from a variety of journalists:
- Cabaret Review: in a Field of Bluegrass, Where Modest Moments Shine by Stephen Holden; Rhonda Vincent and the Rage at the Allen Room of the Frederick P. Rose Theater.
- A Fusion of Diverse Sounds and Styles, With Jokes by Jon Pareles; Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, and Sam Bush at Zankel Hall.
- A Patriarch of Bluegrass Holds Court and Serves Some Corn by Ben Ratliff; Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at Town Hall.
- Tunes That Are Steeped in an Old-School Style by Ben Ratliff; Frank Fairfield and Blind Boy Paxton at Jalopy Theatre.
- Styles of Southern Music, Shouting Included by Ben Ratliff; The Carolina Chocolate Drops at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Behind Bluegrass Harmonies, a Trapdoor that Opens to New Beats by Ben Ratliff; The Punch Brothers at the Venetian Theater of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.
- Bluegrass and Jazz Bands; With More in Common that You'd Think by Ben Ratliff; Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band at City Winery.
- From Back Porch Ease to a Taste of the Wild by Nate Chinen; Roots of American Music Festival, including Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Jim Mills and Dan Tyminski in Damrosch Park.
- Harmonious Tension and Dueling Flaxen Locks by Nate Chinen; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
- They're a Little Bit Country, She's a Little Bit Rock 'n' Roll by Nate Chinen; Fiona Apple, Nickel Creek, Mark Schatz at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. (More Jack Vartoogian photos to take my breath away!)
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of interaction – even in a nonnative language. Along the same line, Fantini (2000) includes the
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In the meantime, I've been playing the occasional online blitz games. Here's a collection of puzzles (no solutions! - I decided to put the solutions after all) that you might find interesting. These are snapshots of games that either my opponent or I missed and played a really lousy move that changed the course of the game! See if you can find out the response.
(this one is not that big an advantage for Black but
it ended up with White having to defend for long periods
before finally succumbing to relentless pressure)
it ended up with White having to defend for long periods
before finally succumbing to relentless pressure)
Update -Solutions added:
Hi LinuxGuy.
No problems. Maybe I'll give out the answer in a different colour (you can see the answer by highlighting)
Diagram 1: White suffers from tactics failure and instantly loses a piece due to 1....Nxd4 and the Knight is untouchable else White loses the Rook due to the pin on c2.
Diagram 2: White should have played the counter-intuitive 1. Kb2! and can salvage a draw because the Black king cannot approach the a-pawn without the Rook giving checks from behind. Now Black wins after 1. Rf1 due to 1... Re2+ 2. Kd3 (forced) Rg2 and starts gobbling the g-pawns. Black will win the pawns and the game later.
Diagram 3: The White king only has 1 defender. The Knight on f3 so that means the typical sacrifice 1... Rxf3! And White is in a heap of trouble after this move. In this game, my opponent tried. 2. Bxd6 Qxd6 3. gxf3 Nxh2 and if the White rook moves (else White is a pawn down for nothing) followed by 4... Nxf3+ with Qh2 and Black starts rolling his pieces out. For a rook, Black has 2 pawns and a Knight and an open White king under fire. More than sufficient compensation. White didn't survive long in this game.
Diagram 4: Again the typical sacrifice occurs with 1... Rxf6!! If 2. gxf6 Black is in deep trouble after Nxh6+ followed by Qh5.


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Another day, another landmark for Matt Hazard. Now we're really getting into some gaming history stuff. Clearly Matt Hazard 3D and id, creators of Wolfenstein 3D, need to have a little chat about who ushered in the FPS. I have to give them credit, making single hand weapon wielding a bullet point on the press release is hilarious, though a weedwacker could never replace a chainsaw in the hearts of gamers. I'm starting to want these fake games more than whatever it is they're actually buidling up to. The retro-style FPS is a totally untapped market, I always hated being able to look up and down anyway.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday morning officially marked the kickoff of Columbia County budget season. County Manager Ben Scott's PowerPoint presentation set a record with 177 slides. He got through 120 of them. Because of exhaustion, appointments, and a general mind numbing, after a lunch break and three and a half hours of exploring ways to raise taxes, fees, and anything else they could find, The 5 adjourned the meeting until 3 pm on May 3.
The Fire Department
First on the agenda was a discussion of the fire department.
Fire Chief Jeff Crawford was at the microphone for just about an hour and a half, explaining the need for equipment and vehicle replacement schedules.
In 2006, Columbia County established its fire department. It wasn't clear why any of the County management or any of The 5 hadn't thought of this before, as the only newly elected commissioner is Tim Murphy.
Chief Crawford also explained the reason for the failure of the County FD to keep firefighters with advanced training certificates and medical qualifications: lack of competitive pay.
As the extended FD conversation concluded, Commissioner Nash quipped that the County should look into going back into the ambulance (EMS) business.
Your reporter asked if that was a joke.
Commissioner Nash answered, "Yeah."
It was his business partner, Commissioner Jody DuPree, who led the charge for the County divesture of its County run ambulance service.
Experts and citizens alike believe this may have been one of the most inane decisions ever in the history of the County 5.
Fire rates for a single family dwelling are expected to go up minimally 17.68% and the assessment for between 5 and 160 acres of unimproved land is scheduled to rise 16.52%.
Salaries for the firefighters are not scheduled for an increase and not included in the assessment increases.
Gas Tax
The county is maxed out on all the sources of revenue from gas and fuel tax with one exception.
Leaving no stone unturned, there is still one option left to The 5, the local option gas tax which according to the County is now zero.
The 5 would like to raise this tax to 5 cents a gallon.
Ad Valorem Tax
This is the tax on your house or property. The County 5 can raise this tax just under 20%. They are thinking about it.
County Debt
County Manager Ben Scott
Columbia County is run by one County Manager and two Assistant County Managers. Two have MBAs and one is a high school graduate, who at one time thought he had a degree.
The County's presentation did not include a spreadsheet, pie chart, graph, or anything which put the entire county's debt into a singular recognizable form and never has.
With the present County Management, this appears to be by design. MBAs know how to do this.
One slide claims the total County debt, excluding leases is $11,247,409.
Leased Space: Ongoing Expenses
The County leases numerous buildings.
The County 5 never had enough respect for itself or it citizens to build its own municipal complex in which to hold its meetings and conduct its day-to-day business.
Some of the County leases were arranged with the County's extended family of good ole' boys.
According to the County, it is paying $280,000 in annual lease space payments.
When the cost of money was low, the County could have borrowed almost $6,000,000 to build its own municipal building for what it pays now in yearly lease fees.
In 2003, the old Lake City Medical Center was privately appraised for $2,450,000. The Property Appraiser valued the building at $917,174.
In 2016, the Property Appraiser valued the property at $1,487,715.
According to County figures, it is now paying $198,490 a year for space in the old Lake City Medical Center plus utilities. The County is not the only tenant.
The Future
Coming up at the continued budget workshop is a discussion of the Sheriff's detention center.
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OK, so did anyone else catch the pilot episode of ABC's Lost? About 20 minutes in, I said to Merrin that this may be one of the best shows on television. After watching the rest of the pilot, I don't know what I think of it. It is either going to be fantastic, or (as Merrin said) it may be the first show ever to go from greatness to jumping the shark in 48 minutes flat.
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