Nevada Same-Sex Couple Denied Hospital Visitation Despite Domestic Partnership

A same-sex couple in Nevada is raising awareness about the inequality couples experience without marriage after Spring Valley Hospital refused to recognize their relationship. Brittney Leon and Terri-Ann Simonelli have a domestic partnership, which under Nevada state law grants couples all the same rights as married couples. When Leon checked into the hospital last month [...]

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CultureLab: Mathematics is as rich as literature

CultureLab: Mathematics is as rich as literature

Garden Volunteers Wanted! 8/16 and 8/17

Garden Volunteers Wanted! 8/16 and 8/17

Garden Volunteers Wanted by Sustainability Guild International & Dorchester Community Food Co-op to help with weed, water and harvest 7 garden plots in the Coleman Street Community Garden on 8/16 and 8/17. 

More information can be found at:
http://www.greendorchester.org/garden-volunteers-wanted-816-and-817/

Being Bess: Death Could Not Separate Them: How Elizabeth I Con...

Being Bess: Death Could Not Separate Them: How Elizabeth I Con...:

A composite image of Queen Elizabeth I and her mother, Anne Boleyn. Picture acquired through Flickr, created and shared for public use by ...

A Safe Horizon Action Alert – Support Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act

Safe Horizon is the largest victims’ services agency in the United States, with 57 locations serving more than 250,000 children, adults, and families affected by crime and abuse throughout New York City each year.  Their mission is to  provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families, and communities.

Through their website, safehorizon.org, they provide supporters with opportunities to support them in this work.

Take action on this latest initiative:

Support Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6543/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11417

I am thinking about Scrubs

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Scrubs are the shirts and trousers or gowns worn by nurses, surgeons, and other operating room personnel when “scrubbing in” for surgery. They are designed to be simple with minimal places for dirt to hide, easy to launder, and cheap to replace if damaged or stained irreparably. The wearing of scrubs has been extended outside of surgery in many hospitals.
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I am watching Gunsmoke

“Just watched the episode with where Ken Curtis played a different character than Festus. Always cool to see him pre-Festus. He actually could sing and did grow up over a county jail. James Drury was also in this episode.  It was definitely pre-’The Virginian.’”


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