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Can someone tell me if this is a good movie? You should meet my son! It look funny and fun, I haven't seen faded southern dames in a gay comedy yet.

At first, I loved vampires, I really did. They were cool in the 90's with Buffy and Angel. I loved the Ann Rice trilogy despite what she personally believes or what she is soft selling in her stories. Then, I read twilight from my sister's books and it was "eh" okay. I think that's where it started going downhill... 50 Shades is not my cup of tea, I am not interested in women, not even with a BDSM theme. People herald the story like it's refreshing and new, but I'd like to point them to the Straight section of Nifty, where they'll find a dozen stories like that with the quality Cia desires. It's a good book if you like that stuff.

I was getting to that point either way, the management has changed significantly over the 2 years I have been working. On one hand, it has allowed me the ability to quickly rise through ability and talent in an organization that lacks decisive leadership, on the other hand, there is a reason why management is that bad.

Has anyone ever seen the German movie "Harvest"? I know its really slow and lacks flair, but it's a beautiful love story set in a realistic rural environment. Good love comes slowly and develops through time into something deep and meaningful. or Maybe, I am just an old romantic and no one really seeks that type of love anymore.

Actually, this is my last straw, I can't save their jobs based on my meager salary, but I am not going to continue working for an organization that has such crazy management, who don't take personal responsibility about their own bad choices.

This is the part of being the man behind the numbers that I hate. Let's start at the beginning, I had already projected a $250,000 deficit in our businesses budget, which I could fix by reducing the contract labor lines. Basically, like most businesses in the US, we have a rotating pool of contract labor from temp firms for maintenance. If we reduce the contracting and ask for more internal care and watchful of incidents, we could keep cost down without cutting jobs of full-time people in any of the medical or billing departments. Well, bad news came first this morning, when I was told that our funding will be cut from our foundation director for certain medical areas due to shifts in interests. Basically, this affects HIV prevention and screening, Diabetes programs, and Asthma care. Now that is just another $200,000, which meant some cuts would be needed. Nextt another, problem came up as I was told one of our major hospital contract had also discontinued. The loss was another $150,000. This was related to physician referrals for outpatient services, like ambulatory rehabilitation, which the hospital was looking to cut. So we're now up to $600,000 in losses, which are bad enough. At around 1 PM, I found out that my CEO signed without consent or review with the finance department several contracts worth $1,500,000 for a new EMR system in order to attract "meaningful use" funding (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requirement)..However, I have to pay consulting costs and software of $300,000. To add insult ontoo injury, one of the manager, without permission, got the CEO to sign off on a contract for an expensive suite of office software for $200,000. So, I now have about $1.1 million in combined losses and deficit spending. You know what the executives told me to do to fix this issue, find the weakest performing departments and either eliminate the departments or fire people up to the amount of losses. I figured that we'd need to fire about 20 people between a mix of managers down to case worker level. Heck, if people had bothered to notify me earlier and give me indications of issues, I could try to plan this out better. From the executive to the directors to managers, everyone was out for their own needs first. Now, what am I supposed to do except fire some unsuspecting person? This was bullshit on so many levels.

Positive reinforcement, repeat alcohol is evil, then you delude yourself into belief of a breakthrough. However if you offer an alcoholic just a few with that type of wall around them, they relapse. If you never drink alcohol again it does not mean you're cured, just that you have avoided it. So, chase how fake is LA?

"Gets in cosplay snuggly pink panda suit" Lets just say we have our sources. How many teddy bears have you slept with? (No a hairy guy named Ted does not count ) I've been with three, all care bears though as a kid.

Thanks for the support As a one eyed guy, I've grown up with disabled people and know how it feels to be looked down upon (so to speak) by "normal" kids. While i can carry and use my blindman's cane, i hate being able to see people jeer at you and make funny faces as they offer you a seat. If i was fully blind i wouldn't know what prejudice looks like, but having partial full sight curses me to see it. I avoid my cane as much as the plague.

With the interesting questions in this area and serious issues, I wonder if people hold happy thoughts and memories that they cherish. I remember my happiest time as a kid at Disney land in California; just enjoying everything without worrying about tomorrow or anything else in life. Particularly. It was idyllic with sunshine, displays, and fun rides even if I had to use tip-toes to get on them. (My sister was still too short to get on those rides and it made me feel sort of special to be able to do them without having her around). That's just one of my memories, but I am betting everyone has their own unique experiences and joys. Does anyone want to share their happiest memories?

Are they in an open relationship? Probably walk away and leave them space.

Many of us enjoy some fantasy or else, we would never write or read fiction

I got one from my childhood that creeps me out, Phantasm. Mortuary still scares me and it was my first memorable horror movie. Anyone remember that movie?

Well, if he's willing, piss as much as you want or put him in a sling and leather straps for being a bad boy? To each their own, right

Someone offer Benji your "high school musical" trilogy and a pop culture lesson on modern Disney tweeney bopper to teen idol to pissed on movie actor

"You want some Cornbread Mr. Jingles!" I loved that movie, it was so sad and it was based off a Stephen King story.

Does anyone know if there's a new Fable coming out soon?

Not really into urination, even if it's Zac Efron (I think there's enough people crapping on him in the past decade ) As for Krista's idea, extending suffering, I'll watch "Misery" for ideas

Www hugs, i like disabled writers, I am blind in one eye too and can understand the feeling.

I think the skirt looks good on him ( ), red skirts and green tops make me think of Christmas. His son could be just curious about dresses, we won't know if he likes boys or girls, or if he wants to like boys or girls as a girl... You get what i mean, until early puberty. It's nice that his dad did that.

Just look for two characters and you can tell the difference: Alexis of Dynasty Versus Dallas, J.R Ewing: Plus, I want to know what happened to Steven Carrington and his boyfriend, did it work out? Is he relapsing back to Sammy Jo's evil twin (Hey it could happen, if she threatens him with the kid and Sammy Jo had an evil twin)? If they restart Dallas, please restart Dynasty, I didn't catch the show until I grew up, but it's still fun show on reruns. Just make sure, you don't go to Maldavia again

I think I read it too on nifty a long time ago. Have you looked over there?

Thinking critically is fine, but there's a difference between "informed consent" and endless polemic debates. People will go around in circles a dozen times over one issue, until someone takes the initiative and makes the decision. As for a machine versus a human being, why keep employing people to do the same things over and over again, when a machine can do it faster? People have this really flawed notion that machines are stealing their jobs, but you don't need to fear the machine or fight them. Learn about the machine, work with it, and understand how it is doing the things that you did by hand, get certified in its functions, and you're now its partner, not the replaced worker. Man and Machine outside in science fiction stories are sometimes partners and equals, not adversaries like Terminator series. I see artificial intelligence as mankind's future children, not our tools or our foils. When our species becomes extinct as all species do eventually, what will we leave to carry on our legacy? We may have probes and other objects floating through space, but they really hold nothing more than a static image of mankind. I see silicon based life forms as something more if we can allow our creativity to grow and not allow our fear to cloud our judgment. Basically, Ash, give the machine a chance to be your friend. As for genetically altered food, wonder if that means I can grow gills Seriously, I do know, which is why I buy food from farmer's markets. Meat though, I buy from a local place that's cheap and caters to the college crowd in Cambridge. I still go to Shaws and Stop & Shop for things, if they are cheaper. As for the Stem Cells, while blood transplant stem cells have the potential to not be compatible and fatal if complications occur; we should continue this research line and maybe even offer AIDS patients with compatible physiology to a donor an experimental option. It might be dangerous, but in a world without a cure for AIDS, a 1 in 10 risk of death can be an option for patients, if they choose it. In medicine, your goal should be to offer patients a chance for a better life, it's not cheapening life, it's embracing hope by choice. Think about Penicillin and the lives it touched, because scientists and doctors took to the course of fighting bacteria to save lives. They did not always succeed, but they gave their patients a better chances. I think in terms of medical technology, there's a need to give people options that should be part of treatment if applicable. I think beyond debate, knowledge should not be held up, nor repressed due to erroneous fears. As I told you before, there are many types of stem cell research, this particular line is based on blood, which comes from a living donor.

The risk in that is over-analyzing and inhibiting research due to our fears. I think the term you are looking for Ash is Bioethics, something I brought up with Phoenix a while back about the nature of passive euthanasia, which in my view should be fine with consent of the patient. However on the flip side, I am a pro-life person based on choice (Don't want this to turn into an abortion topic, so let's not start up that here, it's merely my statement of mindset.) Ethics serves the needs of the greater good with the individual person's consent. The peripheral blood stem cells that the AIDS patient got was from a live consenting donor, not what you imagine that Stem cell research sounds like based on horror stories of media. Stem cell research is not about unborn fetuses, but people make this dangerous mistake in assuming it is. Here's part of the study Human constraints and fears are reasons why we do not progress further with artificial intelligence, why we have the ability to cure many diseases though cannot open up vaccines or drugs to more people, and why fossil fuels are still dominant, when hydrogen fuel sources are more plentiful. We're limiting human endeavors, because of the immediate needs of human social constraints, we fear machines will overthrow us (I actually welcome seeing artificial intelligence take over and try to become better than its creators, but that's my inner Asimov talking).. Pharmaceutical companies are actively inhibiting drug mass production from generic research firms trying to create low cost alternatives to the expensive brand names, which would cut down their profit margins. As for Fossil Fuels, we've got more than enough hydrogen to breath, swim, and even consume, it's the most abundant resource in the universe, so why are our research focus in the billions of dollars focused so solidly on fossil fuel efficiency and dependency, when hydrogen research is significantly smaller in comparison. Beyond morality, science should be operating under the concept of exploration beyond taboos or constraints. While there should be limits to human experimentation, I agree with that, but we cannot be driven by our fears in science and technology. Our future is not back in the stone halls of our ancestors, but in the titanium will that we establish today and will last for a thousand years to come.

I'll pass, I am waiting for them to redo "Dynasty", if you want trashy 1980's TV drama with good cat fights, I'd rather see that (Alexis is my favorite TV power woman from that time period, when sitcoms dominated the TV landscape, she broke out and made bad scheming cutthroat bitch awesome for 90's and 00's television.) I thought the UK has a version of TV land for old soap operas, too. I can spoil you with the answer to, "who shot JR Ewing?" hehe!