958,000 is roughly the number of viewers who tuned in to watch the series premiere of TLC's reality TV show Sisterhood last Tuesday. In fact, the number of viewers who tuned in was so low that the show is on the TV ratings charts for shows that aired on January 1st. Apparently, TLC's decision to cut the check for a reality show that focuses on preacher's wives was not a good move. 250 is the number of signatures reached on a to pressure TLC into canceling the show.

But the petition might not be necessary. 'Sisterhood' follows 5 preacher's wives (including Tara Lewis pictured above) who promote themselves to their husband's flocks as symbols of submission, morality and virtue. But in her, Ann Cooke called the Christian reality show 'pure garbage' that 'does not portray the reality of being a Christian or the reality of being a Preacher's or Pastor's wife.' In her petition, Ann Cooke writes: The Sisterhood is being portrayed as a Christian reality show, featuring Preacher's/Pastor's wives from Atlanta, GA. The previews and highlights of the upcoming show is pure garbage and does not portray the reality of being a Christian or the reality of being a Preacher's or Pastor's wife. The airing of this show is not only offensive to the Body of Christ, but it is also degrading to Women of Color (specifically).

This show mocks everything that we, as believers, stand for. It is disgusting, disgraceful, inappropriate and an inaccurate display of what we strive to accomplish as Christians. The airing of this show only adds more fuel to the ever-present distasteful stereotype that we, as Christians, fight daily to erase.

We must stand together and put an end to TLC's clear derogatory distortion of the Body of Christ and Women of God (specifically, Preacher's and Pastor's wives)! Please spread the word!

More from Sandrarose.com:. Spotted on Posted in Tags:, More from Sandrarose.com:. It is disgusting, disgraceful, inappropriate and an inaccurate display of what we strive to accomplish as Christians. The airing of this show only adds more fuel to the ever-present distasteful stereotype that we, as Christians, fight daily to erase. We must stand together and put an end to TLC’s clear derogatory distortion of the Body of Christ and Women of God (specifically, Preacher’s and Pastor’s wives)! Please spread the word!

I am kind of divided on these comments, hell the damn church don't even display Christians so wtf! And Christians are not fighting hard to erase that stereotyp of a Pastor We all know them pastor's and first so called ladies, are always flashy.jacked A new reality-TV special being developed for the Oxygen Network tells the story of Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo and his 11 children with 10 different women. But 'All My Babies' Mamas' is creating more anger than excitement, and protest groups have called for the show to be cancelled.

Pre-production clips leaked to YouTube show Shawty Lo, 36, most famous for the song 'Laffy Taffy,' referring to his children's mothers with nicknames like Jealous Baby Mama, Baby Mama from Hell, and Shady Baby Mama. The show also introduces viewers to Lo's 19-year-old girlfriend. Change.org is circulating a petition with more than 30,000 signatures that calls the program 'an attack not just on African-American parents and children but all parents and children.' The Parents Television Council has also chimed in, calling the show 'grotesquely irresponsible and exploitative.' 'If Oxygen moves forward with the program, we will be contacting every corporate sponsor that buys advertising time on the Oxygen network to hold them accountable as well,' the council said.

The Oxygen Network announced development of the show two weeks ago, saying in a news release that viewers would see 'an intimate look at unconventional families with larger than life personalities and real emotional stakes.' No air date has been set and Oxygen Media told ABCNews.com that the one-hour special is still being casted. As for the clips on YouTube, Oxygen said that video was from a third party and will not be used. 'Oxygen's one-hour special in development is not meant to be a stereotypical representation of everyday life for any one demographic or cross section of society,' the network said in response to the controversy. 'It is a look at one unique family and their complicated, intertwined life. Oxygen Media's diverse team of creative executives will continue developing the show with this point of view.'

Oxygen Media was launched in 2000 and its programming is geared toward women. Oprah Winfrey was one of the founders of the network, which was purchased by NBCUniversal in 2007.jacked Part 1 The most commonly acquired sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S., chlamydia and gonorrhea, are usually cleared out swiftly and easily with a dose of oral antibiotics. But one of these infections is growing bold and finding ways to evade treatment.

More than 321,000 cases of gonorrhea are reported each year in the U.S. Alone-and the actual number of annual infections is probably much higher because many people do not experience symptoms.

The infection has lost much of its social stigma since antibiotics were enlisted to fight it off earlier last century. But left untreated today, it can still cause pelvic inflammation, severe pregnancy complications and female infertility. Its presence increases the odds of an infection with HIV, and babies born to women with untreated gonorrhea are at risk of blindness. Although antibiotics have reduced this infection to little more than a modern-day inconvenience for most, the bacterium (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) has been steadily evolving to knock out medical weapons.

Sulfonamides ceased to be effective in treating it in the 1940s; penicillins and tetracyclines lost effectiveness in the 1970s and '80s; and fluoroquinolones were taken off the treatment table in 2007. The last simple treatment, a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins, appears to be weakening against gonorrhea infections worldwide. And that drug resistance has now reached North America in sizable numbers, according to a new study, published online January 8 in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Resistance to the commonly prescribed oral antibiotic cefixime (a cephalosporin) was first detected several years ago in Japan. Since then, public health officials have been watching the phenomenon spread to Europe and now to North America.jacked Part 2 For the new study, researchers led by Vanessa Allen, of Public Health Ontario, examined people who were treated for gonorrhea with cefixime at a clinic in Toronto. Nvidia geforce2 mx 100 200 drivers for mac 2017. The clinic required people to come in for a follow-up appointment two to four weeks later to make sure their infection had been cleared; it also surveyed patients about whether they might have been exposed to the infection since their initial visit. These practices allowed the researchers to gather data on how often the drug failed to work. Of 133 patients who received treatment and returned for their follow-up appointment for testing, 6.77 percent had failed to respond to treatment, which corresponds to about one in 15 infections. Drug-resistant gonorrhea has officially arrived in North America.

Other experts in the field call 'its arrival deeply troubling; clinicians now face the emergence of cephalosporin-resistant N. Gonorrhoeae without any well-studied, effective backup treatment options,' observed a team of researchers led by Robert Kirkcaldy, of the Division of STD Prevention at the CDC, in an essay published in the same issue of JAMA.

And, they noted, as there are no proven alternative treatment waiting in the drug development wings, ' the antibiotic pipeline is running dry.' And our ability to track this spreading resistance has actually been hampered by the advent of rapid genetic screening. Traditional tests grew cultures of the bacteria in the lab, which could then be analyzed for strain variety and resistance profiles. Genetic testing, however, just detects the presence of the infection without revealing further details. A survey completed in 2007 showed that even then only about 5 percent of U.S. Laboratories tested for gonorrhea via culture. And follow-up tests after treatment are not technically recommended for most cases.

The clinic used in the study might present a higher-than-average rate of gonorrhea infection in general because many of its patients are men who have had sexual encounters with other men, a population that, so far, has shown a higher rate of infections with genetic propensity to resist antibiotic treatment. Previous research had pinpointed the presence of genes in U.S.

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Cases that would indicate a possible resistance to cefixime. But this study was able to establish the rate at which the drug actually failed to treat the infection.

In light of growing drug-resistance worldwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended clinicians no longer prescribe a single antibiotic treatment. Instead, they now advise that patients receive an injection of ceftriaxone as well as a week-long course of oral azithromycin or doxycycline. Kirkcaldy and his colleagues also recommend that, 'all patients treated for gonorrhea should be given risk reduction counseling, offered condoms and retested for gonorrhea three months after treatment,' they noted in their essay. 'Clinicians must remain vigilant for cephalosporin treatment failures and report suspected cases to the local or state health department,' Kirkcaldy and his colleagues wrote. 'Patients with persistent or recurrent symptoms shortly after treatment should be retested for gonorrhea by culture.' #aintmyfault.

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NaijaGal says: Bedazzled His Razzle says: if people strapped up we wouldnt have this problem we do now. People are dying in the result of not taking precautions cospiracy theorist: still would’ve happened cause the gubment needs a means to wipe out people - But what about hundreds of years before then when people were colonizing in the US? Or even in the times of King Arthor? I have reason to believe it started from Europeans not really having the proper materials to clean themselves.

I think that it all came from not washing they azz, balls and peen and of course dipping in everything that has a puzzy including animals. Bedazzled His Razzle says: NaijaGal says: Bedazzled His Razzle says: if people strapped up we wouldnt have this problem we do now. People are dying in the result of not taking precautions cospiracy theorist: still would’ve happened cause the gubment needs a means to wipe out people ——————– But what about hundreds of years before then when people were colonizing in the US? Or even in the times of King Arthor?

I have reason to believe it started from Europeans not really having the proper materials to clean themselves. I think that it all came from not washing they azz, balls and peen and of course dipping in everything that has a puzzy including animals.

Nakeyaj says: jeniefrumdabloc says: Nakeyaj says: Oh and I did not like how the one dad/Pastor was telling the tw daughters that he had more than one STD beforeI thought that was a bit much. he said that on the show ——– YES! Both him adn the wife were trying to talk to the two daughters about condoms and all that. I was just thinking, why did he need to tell them that? - he didnt have to but i guess to let them have a better understanding as to 'just because i'm your parent doesnt mean i dont know anything of what's going on' type of stance. I would be grossed out.

In fact I was when my moms told me she had caught something from my dad.I said and you ain't cut the niggah??? She said she was hurt and in luhb or something to that effect. Bedazzled His Razzle says: Nakeyaj says: jeniefrumdabloc says: Nakeyaj says: Oh and I did not like how the one dad/Pastor was telling the tw daughters that he had more than one STD beforeI thought that was a bit much. he said that on the show ——– YES! Both him adn the wife were trying to talk to the two daughters about condoms and all that. I was just thinking, why did he need to tell them that? —————— he didnt have to but i guess to let them have a better understanding as to “just because i’m your parent doesnt mean i dont know anything of what’s going on” type of stance.

I would be grossed out. In fact I was when my moms told me she had caught something from my dadI said and you ain’t cut the niggah???

She said she was hurt and in luhb or something to that effect - The daughter did not want to hug the dad when they all went in for the group hug when the talk was over. Mind you the wife was laughing, talking about some, oh that was before me. I was thinking, how is that funny? But really I don't want to know about my momma's sexual history, unless it's something that will kill her. And that may sound bad but it's the truth.

A petition started last year that urges Apple's CEO to recall older MacBook Pro laptops to fix a graphics problem has passed the 10,000-signature mark, part of an ongoing effort by customers to get Apple to step up. 'Everyone who bought a macbook pro spent a huge premium to buy macbook pro's sic and did not expect to have a manufacturing defect,' the introduction to the reads. 'This issue had made a 2500$ investment a piece of junk in 2 years. We do not buy Apple products with this in mind.' The petition was launched late last year by Raj Dsouza of Sydney, Australia.

As of Monday, it had more than 10,300 signatures. The petition's goal: 15,000.

Related: Addressed to CEO Tim Cook and Craig Federighi, the senior vice president in charge of software engineering - and thus not really the right person to pester at Apple for a hardware malfunction - was short and to the point. 'Replace or Fix All Early 2011 Macbook Pro with Graphics Failure,' it read. The petition was only part of a long-running campaign by MacBook Pro owners with notebooks they purchased in 2011. Laptops came with both an integrated graphics chipset made by Intel and a discrete graphics processor unit (GPU), either Advanced Micro Devices' Radeon HD 6490M or 6750M. The larger-screen MacBook Pros were priced starting at $1,799 (15-in.) and climbed to $2,499 (17-in.).; two years later, a now-enormous discussion thread on Apple's support forum kicked off. 'As of two days ago, the problem has become substantially more severe,' wrote on Feb.

1, 2013, in the thread's opening message. 'The computer was working fine, when all of a sudden the screen went completely blue. I had to force restart the computer. Since then, the screen has gone awry on numerous occasions - each time necessitating a hard reset.'

That thread has grown to include more than 7,800 messages, and has been viewed an amazing 1.1 million times. By any measurement, but especially for an Apple support thread, that's massive with a capital 'M.' On the thread, users have traded horror stories of their MacBook Pros' graphics breakdowns, swapped tales of trying to get Apple to repair the notebooks - sometimes with success, many times without - and raked the Cupertino, Calif. Company over the coals. In some cases, MacBook Pro owners said that Apple or a reseller had replaced the system's logic board multiple times under their AppleCare or third-party warranties, or because of national or regional consumer protection laws. Messages on the thread continued to accumulate Monday. 'Add my MBPro to the list!'

Chimed in yesterday. 'It just crapped out today. Started with blocks of pixels blacking out on external monitor. Shut down unit, rebooted with nothing plugged into the computer, noted horizontal lines throughout initial screen and if it boots through, next screen is deep blue with colored lines.'