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On Friday, November 20, Oprah announced that The Oprah Winfrey Show will end after its 25th season... But it's not over yet! Whether you've grown up watching the show, or recently became a fan, we want to hear from you. Do you remember where you were (or how old you were) when you first watched Oprah? Have you found yourself quoting Oprah when giving advice? What have been your favorite shows? Who have been your favorite guests? Tell us about a moment that will stay with you forever.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Where were you when you first watched Oprah?
Oprah Winfrey to end show in 2011
Oprah Winfrey announced on her show earlier this week that the 2011 season of her show will be the last season that will be in production. By the time the final episode airs on September 9, 2011, the Oprah Winfrey Show would have been on air for 25 years.
Fans across the country, as well as celebrities, were stunned about the announcement. Most of the reaction of this news were more shocked than anything. The fans that regularly watch the show when it comes on at 4 pm will now have to start finding another show to fill that void once the final episode goes off the air.
Although the show will end in approximately 22 months, it won't mean that she'll won't be entirely out of the picture. She will still have her O magazine that will be going out. She will premiere the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January 2011, in which it will be a partnership with Discovery Communications.
Love her or hate her, she will still be making millions of dollars a year from her magazine, this future network, and the book club that she has. For some, the show coming to an end will be the end of an era. For others, it will be more of a good riddance for a show that they feel has been on for too long and on for the wrong reasons. Will her success continue to grow like it has been over the past 20+ years, only time will tell.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Discovering Your Mans Hidden Emotions Personal Experience as Why, He Says One Thing & Will Do Another
Discovering Your Mans Hidden Emotions
Personal Experience as Why, He Says One Thing & Will Do Another By Dennis Schleicher
Inspired by an x-boyfriend I dated last spring caught me thinking as to why men say one thing & do another? So I soon find out I’m not alone in my thoughts as this is an age old problem: men just don't express their feelings often or very well. That keeps people guessing how men really feel--about love, sex, romance, even their own relationship! Now I've taken my own personal experience, unlocked a previous relationship and interpreted the ruler of his deepest emotions, discover the range of his feelings he holds inside to find out why he let my in the wind.
My psychoanalysis of my past relationship with a man will call Scott. I feel is on of the most emotionally detached, independence, freedom loving and something of a rebel, this is a man who most wants to live life on his own terms. Do you understand where I’m coming from?
Emotionally restless and intellectually free-spirited, Scott is a man who is often ahead of his time. He dances only to his own beat and is best off when immersed in his own internal music. Many controversial philosophers, radical thinkers, and progressive public figure who sharers his nature, although Scott is often seen in political reformers and activists.
Scott is superficially friendly as he can also exhibit profound emotional detachment. Men like Scott tend to be cut off from their deeper feelings, frightened of any degree of emotional intensity and ready to flee in the face of any sort of emotional constraint. His internal struggle with the deeper anxiety and sense of dread at the thoughts of being tied down to any being or anyone and only come to a relationship slowly, and even then always seems to have 1 foot out the door.
Often more interested in ideas than people, Scott gravitates or struggles towards the unusual in both. Valuing his own freedom and individuality above all else, he is also attracted to others wild ideas, statements, and attitudes define them. Whether Scott is positive or negative, what sense of the extreme. When taken in a positive direction, this tendency can produce a powerful political figure who is out to change society for the better, such as Woodrow Wilson. However, Scott is also associated with more than its share of powerful political dictators who believe the end completely justifies the means, even at the sacrifice of countless innocent people.
Cool and sometimes downright cold, this is not a man suited to a conventional relationship. Platonic connections suit him well, and his ideal in a lover is someone who is first and foremost a friend. Scott is most attracted to someone exciting to talk to. Easily bored by anyone or anything too “normal,” he is often attracted by someone who seems to offer a lot of surface or intellectual excitement. If suppressed Scott can cut off from his feelings, he neither understands nor appreciates the feelings of others. As his style is to keep everything light, friendly and not delve too deeply into any intense personal or emotional territory. Too much emotional intensity will feel overwhelming and confining and confinement of any sort is just the thing to make Scott take flight.
Scott's Internal Feelings
Often he can be emotionally changeable and unpredictable in strange and disturbing ways. Seemingly out of the blue he can coldly break off a relationship, walkout on a project or job or serve some other lasting commitment, leaving without a backward glance. These puzzling, inexplicable reactions that enable him to leave the past behind with such complete detachment can make Scott a rather risky friend or lover.
Please underlining emotionally shallow tends to exists in a world of my dearest or superficial activity. When called upon to evaluate what he might be feeling in a given situation, he needs a long time to process and think thing out. What tends to affect him emotionally is what he thinks about a person or a situation. Never given to direct, visceral emotional responses with Scott as this curiously unemotional and tends to talk away what little feelings he does acknowledge.
His ability for losing feelings and what appears to be a flash; however, Scott can be most emotionally erratic. What I perceive to be associated with a childhood history of a broken home. Or is the product of a childhood situation indicative of some type of turmoil, separation or instability. (This was never discussed.) The correlation between his early development of detachment and extreme independence does often seem to bear itself.
How Scott Shows His Feelings
Through talking endlessly about feelings especially if he happens to be unhappy, however, even you might sense that he is strangely detached from himself.
Often Scott doesn't know what he really feels or he truly feels nothing. I felt a sense of emptiness in his soul and compensates for this disconnection through such things as strident commitment to a cause, a self-destructive rebelliousness, a compulsive breaking of rules or a compulsive lack of commitment to creating anything of lasting and meaningful between two safe individuals.
Repress, deep old painful moments, and often in his inappropriate emotional responses as an adult. He may be amazingly cold in a situation that calls for some human compassion led me to have an internal instincts that he could suddenly erupt in anger or violence at some misperceived slight, and he may appear strangely detached over something that would cause someone else emotional upset. Often when he talks about some emotional experience, you might get the odd feelings that it is some story he read somewhere in passing.
The positive side of this detachment is that it allows Scott to function in disturbing, high stress situations such as an emergency room or battlefield. It can pose a lot of problems, however impersonal relationships, where more is required than human efficiency.
What Did Dennis like about Scott
Scott is bright, witty, sociable, and extremely friendly. Also a lot of fun to be around, because he tends to be so intellectually curious and interested in the open-ended, he himself provided, interesting, stimulating company. Scott was extremely easy to talk to, as well as a good listener.
A good friend and lover, who is with you in a crisis with a calm, supportive manner, Idealistic and imaginative, as he was fully dependable, and I felt honorable to be around Scott. Processing humanitarian and higher minded philosophical values, as I saw him as a forward thinker, leader, who together we could change society in a powerful way.
I appreciated and respected his freedom loving excitement, as it was mutually stimulating a deeper connection. I was falling for Scott's mind, and his unique way of looking at the world. He challenged me, emotionally, intellectually and valued my independence way of thinking.
Scott's Romantic Side
I always found him to be romantic about his own ideas, philosophies, and personal freedom. He was always friendly and enthusiastic but not convincingly romantic. If truly involved, his style might be to take off on an impulsive trip or provide a little surprise that might turn out to be both winsome and unusual. A partner needs to be unpredictable and ready to jump into action on the spur of the moment. Scott doesn't like to feel duty-bound, and that things are expected of him. At all times he has to feel that he is free to do things in his own way, and that includes his heart. Birthdays and anniversaries are a terrible bather as they mean pressure and obligation. It’s not uncommon that he would get distracted that he will forget that he was even trying to remember that special occasion. He wants every move he makes to be an act of free will. Otherwise, he will feel so compromise the effort that in the long run it won’t be worth it. This was never an issue to myself as that was one of my strong points.
Scott is an idealistic dreamer, who doesn't want to come down to earth. He is highly intelligent, and ahead of his time, through his cutting-edge sort of mentality that allows him to see beyond limitations. This makes him a hopeless rebel and completely out of touch with anything but the way he wants things to be. His values determine how much he is willing to come to terms with the situation as his stubborn and rigid side comes through. He was stock in his own way of thinking, not particularly open to another conflicting point of view.
Scott, on a deep level truly fears intimacy, being confined and being suffocated. Of all Scott is a man who has the deepest problem forming close relationships. He may not be conscious of this, but his ambivalent and distance-producing behavior is my indicator. Scott is a man that can only feel comfortable with another man, who was so cerebral, independent, and caught up in his own consuming interest that he barely has time to fit Scott in. This was the problem I had as I always made time to put Scott number one. My mistake, his loss!!! I pray and hope Scott will find true love again someday and wish him all the best.
By Dennis Schleicher
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Gay Fathers and Husbands of Ohio Support Group
If you’re a gay or bi-sexual man who has been in relationships with women – you’re not alone. Gay Fathers and Husbands understands … and maybe we can help each other.
You are not alone...we understand.
The Gay Fathers and Husbands group is an informal association of gay and bi-sexual men who may have in common current or past marriages or partnered relationships with women. Some individuals may have natural or adopted children from these relationships. Members of the Gay Fathers and Husbands group meet monthly to discuss issues and needs held in common, and to offer support to one another by sharing experiences, encouragement, and hope. Friends and supporters are normally welcome at the meetings, and guests may be invited to address special topics. The group determines the purpose and direction of meetings. Attendance will range from as few as 8 to as many as 30 or more. Meetings are casual – no dues. GFAH has been meeting in the Akron Area since 1990.
"Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful-you acted on it." --Dan Zadra Gay Fathers & Husbands of Ohio Our group attempts to:
- Provide a support and communications network for gay fathers;
- Encourage cooperative action in promoting the common interests of gay fathers and their families;
- Provide opportunities for social interaction between gay fathers, their children, and friends;
- Promote and sponsor activities that present a positive image of gay fathers and to encourage acceptance of alternative parenting.
"A Note from Dennis" Wow, I stumbled across ‘Gay Fathers & Husbands of Ohio’ on the Internet, when searching on Google. I wish every state had an organization like this to represent all the positive aspects of gay parenting. My dream is that in time, every state and county will have an organization like Gay Fathers of Ohio. All it takes is for one parent to have a dream and to be consistent. Please feel free to post your comments or visits; Gay Fathers & Husbands of Ohio
Be safe,
Dennis Schleicher
Author of an explosives and controversial memoir; Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries
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photo is by Gay Fathers and Husbands of Ohio
Friday, October 16, 2009
Gay Husbands Are Proud of Andy Cohen on Bravo
Gay Husbands Are Proud of Andy Cohen on Bravo
The growing popularity of NBC's Bravo senior executives Andy Cohen is showing the men in my support group, that it's okay to be who you are. That it's okay to be truthful to your wives about your sexual orientation. I see this as the second round in the movement of gay husbands to 'come out' to their wives and loved ones. The first movement began with Queer Eye Fab 5, to follow BrokeBack Mountain. Now I'm seeing a surge in husbands wanting to come out of the closet and we owe much thanks to people like Andy Cohen and Jeff Lewis of Flipping Out.
"Watch What Happens Live, was envisioned as a 12-week test of a format that Bravo has long wanted: a live, topical talk show. The channel’s reality shows already generate “so much water cooler conversation,” Mr. Cohen said. Why not host some of that conversation on Bravo?
Great job, Andy, and thanks for making my Gay Husbands support group feel comfortable. To find out more on Andy Cohen, visit his blog at; http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/andys-blog or post your Comments;
Be safe,
Dennis Schleicher
Author of An Explosives and Controversial Memoir;
Forbidden Love with a Married Man: E-mail Diaries
Photo of Andy Cohen by The Advocate
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Walt Disney Asked to Protect Ex-Gays
Disney Asked to Protect Ex-Gays
by Christopher Mangum
A Walt Disney Co. stockholder submitted a shareholder resolution asking the organization to include the protection of ex-gays in its sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy and diversity training programs.
"It is about time Disney treated ex-gays with the respect they deserve," said Bobbie Strobhar, the stockholder who submitted the shareholder resolution, reports Rueters. "Former homosexuals are true models of courage who have been vilified by gay activists."
The organization Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) has come out in support of the resolution.
"Disney's exclusion of ex-gays from its sexual orientation policy and programs reinforces the second-class status of ex-gays, and contributes to the negative perceptions and discrimination against former homosexuals," said Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX, in a press release announcing the resolution.
"Former homosexuals who come out publicly are commonly targeted for ridicule and hate," added Griggs. "We need more of these resolutions nationwide to assure tolerance and safety in the workplace for the ex-gay community and their supporters."
The Walt Disney Co. has not yet acted upon the resolution. http://www.advocate.com/.
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Be Safe-
Dennis Schleicher
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Smokers And Non-Smokers' Thoughts About Cigarettes, Bans, Laws, Health And More - AOL Health
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