REVIEW: I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox)

I Hate My Teenage Daughter is a new Wednesday night comedy series on Fox that stars Jaime Pressley and Katie Finneran as bestfriends who are now single parents of two teenaged daughters who also happen to be bestfriends.

Apparently their daughters are the exact type of popular snobby girls who used to tease them in high school which forces them to be reduced to sniveling doormats everytime their daughters are around.

In one sentence- I hate this stupid show.

Why would any woman who respects herself want to watch two grown ass women be ridiculed by their daughters? How is that comedy?

These two disgustingly haughty little girls have no sense of compassion or anything similar to the warmth that would actually make me want to watch them each week. Their mothers are pathetic, always begging for approval and attention. These women are powerless, horrid examples of womanhood and their daughters should be slapped in the face. I don't care that this show follows XFactor, I will never watch it again. Please die.

If you want to learn how NOT to BE, watch this show.

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Denny's To Help South Florida Residents "Rebuild Their Lives"

America’s diner will hold open interviews for job seekers Dec. 20

MIAMI (Dec. 14, 2011) – At a time when many Americans are trimming the tree and filling their shopping bags, 10.6 percent of South Florida residents are out of work. To help connect these job seekers with the gift they really want this year, Denny’s is holding a hiring event on Dec. 20 to fill a large number of open positions at 14 of its South Florida diners. The hiring event is part of a partnership with the Rebuild Your Life Project, a program designed to empower women to achieve their personal and professional goals.

On Tuesday, Dec. 20 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at two locations in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area, Denny’s will hold open interviews for any job seeker looking for part-time, full-time or management positions. All that a candidate needs to bring with them to be considered are two forms of valid identification. Interviews will be held at:

· Denny’s – 16935 N.W. 67th Ave., Miami Lakes, Fla.(305) 821-7032

· Days Inn – 2601 N. 29th Ave., Hollywood, Fla.(954) 923-7300

“Denny’s is pleased to partner with the Rebuild Your Life Project to provide South Florida residents opportunities for success,” said Denny’s Regional Manager Nader Talebzadeh. “The organization’s mission to inspire those in need to reach for their goals is in-line with Denny’s commitment to the communities we serve and the professional development of our employees. Denny’s supports the Rebuild Your Life Project and encourages women and men in search of life-changing opportunities to participate in this open interview event.”

Denny’s became involved with the Rebuild Your Life Project through Te-Erika Patterson, the organization’s founder who is also a Denny’s employee. In April 2011, Patterson gained exposure by intentionally becoming homeless as part of a living documentary to empower women and demonstrate strategies for rebuilding one’s life during times of extreme hardship. During her bout self-imposed homelessness, Denny’s gave Patterson a chance and hired her as a server in its Hollywood, Fla. diner. She has been a loyal employee ever since and uses her wages to fund philanthropic efforts through the Rebuild Your Life Project.

“Denny’s helped me to rebuild my life by giving me a second chance and now they are offering that same gift to many others in this community,” Patterson said. “I am so thankful for the opportunities Denny’s has provided and for their support in this hiring event. It is my mission to inspire and encourage others and this opportunity is an open door for those looking to change their lives for the better.”

For more information about Denny’s or to find a diner in your area, visit www.Denny's.com.

To learn more about the Rebuild Your Life Project, visit www.mysavvysisters.com.

About Denny's Corp

Denny's is one of America's largest full-service family restaurant chains, currently operating more than 1,600 franchised, licensed and company-owned restaurants across the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Guam, Puerto Rico and New Zealand. For further information on Denny's, including news releases, please visit the Denny's website at www.Dennys.com.

About the Rebuild Your Life Project

The Rebuild Your Life Project is an empowerment organization for women designed to teach them to overcome their fear of failure. Our hope is to instill in women the confidence they need to go after their dreams and remove themselves from mentally and spiritually debilitating situations that are holding them back from living joyful lives. For more information, please visit www.MySavvySisters.com.

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The Difference Between Being Pretty & Beautiful

By Te-Erika Patterson


Are you pretty?

When you look in the mirror do you see an image staring back at you that reflects your ideal image of beauty? Take a moment to describe the ideal woman's physical features. What color skin tone does she have? How much does she weigh? What do her eyes look like? What does she wear when she goes out on the town? How is her hair styled?

Now take another moment to figure out the answer this question- Where did your idea of beauty come from?

If the woman you described as ideal does not look like the woman you see in the mirror chances are along your life journey you were bamboozled by society's impression of what a woman should look like. Don't be upset with yourself. In our quest to decipher our purpose and mission in life we often adopt the beliefs and expectations of those around us in order to gauge whether we are living life correctly.

Suppose you were taught at an early age that you were expected to finish high school, go to college, get married, have children and retire by age 55. Those seem like reasonable life expectations don't they? Well, how do you know that those expectations were the right path for YOU?

Now go back to the woman you described as your ideal image of beauty. Chances are you've met her before and it caused you great distress. Where did you meet her?



Was she the woman who stole your first boyfriend? Was she the little sister who came along and stole all of the attention away from you when you were a child? Was she the most popular girl in high school? Was she the woman all the boys drooled over as she crooned pop music on television? Was she the girl who won all the awards at school without ever trying?

The point I am making is simple. If the ideal woman you imagined does not look like you, somewhere along the line you compared yourself to another woman and felt that you fell short. Somewhere along your life journey, you decided that there was another woman in existence who had something special that you did not. Somewhere along your life path, you listened to opinions about what is right and wrong and you decided not to decide for yourself.

And that's okay. It's already done and now we have to unravel this mess.

So you think you're not pretty?

What does this really mean? The images of women that we see being celebrated as beautiful were carefully crafted for a purpose. The sole purpose of every image in every advertisement is to sell a product. In order to sell a multitude of products the marketing director knows that the product must be appealing to a multitude of women. For a multitude of women to find a particular product appealing the product must be outside of the norm, something that only a few women can actually attain easily.

You are allowing people who are driven by profit to validate your sense of beauty.

"But I'm still not pretty!" you say, as tears began to flow down your cheeks.

Guess what? You don't have to be.

You can be as ugly as Medusa and still achieve your life goals. You don't have to be pretty to be beautiful.

If you know that you are not pretty, which simply means that you don't fit the ideal image that a marketing director crafted in order to sell you products, I want you to know that you can still be beautiful if you want to be.

"How can I be beautiful?" you ask.

I'm glad you asked.

While pretty conforms to societal expectations and in no way guarantees an awesome, pain free life, beautiful speaks to the magic that every woman possesses. Yes, you have this magic too.



The Difference Between Being Pretty And Being Beautiful

Beautiful women wear sweat pants and rumpled t-shirts in public and are still pursued by men.
Pretty women have to wear make up at all times in order to feel attractive.

Beautiful women have this gleam in their eye because they are aware of their inner powers as women.
Pretty women have to carry eye drops to moisten their colored contacts.

Beautiful women have satisfying relationships with friends, romantic partners, their families and themselves.
Pretty women do anything they can to hold on to relationships, often sacrificing their own needs because they do not believe they are more than just their looks and desperately need approval.

Beautiful women do not care if they are wearing the right color for the season or if their handbag is out of style because they understand that these accessories only accentuate their inner magic.
Pretty women must have the latest in all fads and fashion trends because their value is linked to being approved by society's ever changing barometer of beauty.



How To Become Beautiful

1. Understand right now that you have the vagina. The vagina is the source of all things. The vagina has caused wars, weakened civilizations, provoked men to achieve great things and gives birth to the human race. Because you have a vagina, you have the power. The power is the option to be a vessel to bring forth life and to mold that life by the seeds you plant as wisdom, affecting generations to come. The power is the knowledge that through YOUR influence all things are possible.

2. Throw away all fashion magazines. Fashion trends are the devil. You must understand that what you are wearing has very little to do with who you are and the power that you hold inside. It's just cloth. It's just cloth. You will know you OWN your beauty when you can wear the same outfit for a week straight and not feel awkward about it. You can do this. You don't need anyone's approval on what you should wear and how you should wear it. If your clothes are clean you are fine. If you can not do this, you are still striving to be pretty.

3. Disregard your skin. Take a few minutes of private time to sit alone. Close your eyes and imagine that your body is melting away. It is vanishing before your eyes. What is left? Can you feel its essence? THIS is who you really are.

As you sit and get to know your real self, the you without your skin, harness your power by recognizing that you are nothing and you are everything. Can you see a beginning and an end to your existence in this state? There is none. You are all powerful outside of your skin.

When you are ready to acknowledge your skin again, do not forget this state of power that you just felt. Play with it. Respect it. Disregard the criticisms of it. Your body is merely transportation for the essence of who you are. Take care of it, appreciate it, but do not berate it for not being molded the way that some profit hungry MAN dictated it should look. Look past the shallow lies of society and into the vastness of the essence of who you really are. You are everything. You are nothing. You are all that is. You are the authority. You decide what is right and wrong. You decide what is ugly and what is pretty. You decide what is great and what is common. You decide if you are beautiful or not.

4. Walk in your power everyday. Flow in it. Play with it. Laugh in the face of every brainwashed Betty or Bob who dares to tell you that you are not beautiful. Understand that they are playing roles in a movie that they have no idea has been scripted and sadly, no one is even tuned in to watch. Feel sorry for them and then let it go. You dictate your life by your perception and your choices. You authoritatively decide if things are good or bad. You decide if you are happy or angry. You do not need to allow situations to dictate your mood. You have the authoritative power to decide how you want to feel about the world, your situation and even your body.

You own your body. You own your life experience. Walk in your power. Be grateful you have the vagina. Make men earn it. Set its bounty very high. Not everyone deserves to taste or touch. Be picky with your friendships, your time and your love. Time is limited. Everyone doesn't deserve an appointment.

You are the authority over how you view yourself. You don't need anyone's acceptance or approval. If anyone tries to make you feel less than perfect it is because that is how they feel about themselves. They want you to join them in their self hatred.

Decide you are beautiful and never try to force anyone to respect it. You earn respect by respecting yourself and making yourself a rare commodity.

You have the POWER. The magic is yours to harness to create everything or nothing. It's your decision.

Stand up. Walk tall. Deflect everyone's definitions or directions for your life. You are the authority. It is what you say it is.

5. Be good to yourself. Celebrate yourself in as many ways as you can think of. Celebrate your right leg on Friday. Celebrate your hair on Saturday. Praise yourself for being intelligent. Buy yourself a gift for making it through another work week. Honor yourself. You DO deserve it. You ARE awesome. You ARE special. You ARE magic.

Forgive yourself. Hug yourself. Give yourself a second chance. You don't have to be perfect to be beautiful, you just have to decide that you are beautiful and then act like it by treating yourself well.

You don't need anyone's permission to treat yourself well. If no one else as noticed you yet, then give yourself the treatment you know you deserve. Find a reason to fall in love with yourself everyday. Become your own greatest admirer. No one else in the world has to fall in love with you in order for you to feel that you are valuable. You ARE love. Feel it within. Touch it. Fondle it. Kiss it. Frolick in it. Every single day.

You're so awesome!

I now pronounce you... beautiful.

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EDITORIAL: We Are Responsible For Climate Changes

By Christina Fermin
Politics & Society

This weekend the U.N. Climate Talks ended. These meetings take place every year in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions and plan ways to affect climate change. This year the effort was especially pressing because of new reports and findings that have been published regarding the state of the planet and the consequences we will face if we fail to do nothing about the manmade pollutants that become trapped in our atmosphere and trigger global warming.

Events that have already begun where in places like Africa, the Middle East, South America and the Pacific Islands are already beginning to feel how we humans have altered our planet. The talks were by no means a success, they were a baby step in the direction we need to go. With real negotiations being postponed until 2015.

Many of us, especially here in the U.S., do not really understand the dramatic consequences we will soon face as a species because of the bad choices we have made when it comes to fossil fuels, pollution, regulation and greenhouse gas emissions. The worst thing we have done as a society in the last 30 years was make climate change, a political issue which has hijacked the issue and politicized it. When it was never suppose to be an ideological debate, there has always been science behind the idea of climate change, lots and lots of science. Recently a report came out, a report funded by conservative think tanks and conservative groups and those findings were identical to the findings that have been released over the last few decades.

The report indicated that the human species is responsible for climate change, that pollutants like coal, natural gas, petroleum do produce greenhouse gas emissions that get trapped in our atmosphere and cause the planet to warm. This is not a natural cycle, and if it were we have significantly altered the natural cycle by several degrees already. Republicans are no longer denying the issue. Last Presidential election in 2008, several Republican candidates talked about curbing greenhouse gas emissions and stopping climate change for the future of our grandchildren. The bad news is, our grandchildren will not be the only ones experiencing climate change first hand, we will and our kids definitely will.

It is a general agreement from scientists around the world that if we continue consuming at the rate we consume and emit carbon emissions at the rate we are emitting them by the end of the Century the Earth will warm by 3 degrees Celsius, that is a 5.4 degree rise in Fahrenheit. If we allow this to happen the seas will be so acidic it will no longer be able to sustain life, the arctic will be fully melted, no longer act as a mirror for the sun and the ocean will absorb all of that heat causing the rainforests, Earth’s lungs, to disappear. Desertification will happen in places that border deserts and they will expand. Sea levels will rise and places like Papua New Guinea and the Maldives will no longer exist.

Seasons will change as they already have begun. Winters will become more sporadic and it will snow in places that normally don't experience snow. Blizzards will occur where they have never occurred before. Natural disasters will become more frequent and intense. Whole populations will have to move and relocate due to the extreme climate changes. Social predictions estimate over 100 million climate change refugees. Scientists agree that for the Earth to sustain our species, the Earth has to be at most 350 parts per million in carbon, today we are at 390, by the end of the Century, we are expected to hit 650 if we do nothing (and those are the conservative figures). I know things seem bleak at this point.

I write this for you, because I want you to understand that change occurs on a personal level. You must understand the dire consequences We face, change Must come from You. How can one look into the eyes of their loved ones in 20-30 years and say “I’m sorry.” The next generation will look back upon us and despise us. We have done this. This is OUR fault, we have allowed this to happen. Now is the time to take responsibility and Do Something. We must begin to alter our lifestyle or be prepared to face our doom. We must realize we live on a very special planet that took billions of years to get to the point where it was able to sustain life and it evolved to be a wondrous paradise. A paradise that took us roughly 100 years to dramatically alter.

Below I have provided several links to not only help you understand, but take part in changing for the better. Now is the time to put political pressure onto our representatives and vote for future leaders that take this seriously and will do something about it. This is our life, our planet, our future.

http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/actionsteps.html - Action Steps

http://www.350.org/ - Understanding 350 and what you can do

http://eartheasy.com/blog/2009/03/global-warming-climate-change-what-we-can-do-about-it/ - More Action and understanding

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/ - Campaign to stop climate change

http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/ - Overview on climate change and what you can do

http://www.climatecentral.org/?gclid=CI67jN_z_KwCFQ9Y7Aoda23uRg - Up to date news and information on climate change

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/3949 - Q & A about climate change

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Action-to-Reduce-Global-Warming - More in-depth how to’s



About the Columnist

With a bachelors degree in political science from Florida Atlantic University, Christina Fermin has always cultivated her love for history, politics, sociology, ancient knowledge and teachings, the outdoors, the ocean and the environment. Christina strives to make our world better by helping us all create a new reality and understanding of all taking place here and now.

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Health Insurance Gift Cards With Blue Cross

Blue Cross Blue Shield offers health insurance gift cards which can be purchased at drug stores like Walgreens, CVS and the Winn Dixie pharmacy for $19 or $59.

These gift cards provide a discount at certain medical service providers for medical services like doctor's visit, lab work or dental work.

Are you uninsured and need to go to the dentist or struggling to pay the fee to visit a doctor? This card may help.

Try it out and let us know about your experience.

Visit the Blue Cross Blue Shield website for more information.

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My Savvy Sisters Don't Beg

You are a perfect gift to this world. You no longer need to beg for what you want or need. You simply need to ask and expect to receive.

Your life is like a beam shining into the world. You will magnetically attract all that you require to achieve your life goals. All you have to do is put forth your very best effort with the highest intentions to serve and sit back and watch the magic.

NO MORE:

Begging for a man to love you. If he doesn't appreciate you, he is not meant for you.

Begging for a job to promote you. Just do your best and your promotion will come as a result of the honor you put into your work. If it does not come from your current company, it will come from another.

Begging for someone to support you. Your support is waiting for you to receive it and you won't have to cajole or coerce them to stand with you.

Begging for acceptance. You are already acceptable just as you are. Your 'right' environment is waiting for you to step into it.

Begging for approval. You don't need anyone's permission or approval to live the life you dream of. You are capable of approving yourself. You know when you are ready and you know just what steps to take.

Begging for an opportunity. If you can't find an opportunity to release your gifts then you must create one for yourself. Through diligence and passion, your opportunity will lead the way to your greatest life.

My Savvy Sisters don't beg because they do not have to. They recognize their power and walk in that power every day and night. We understand that everything that belongs to us will be placed on our paths and we will step gracefully into the ownership with poise and the infinite wisdom to maintain it.

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Encourages Women To Stand Up

In this beautifully delivered TED Talk, the COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg explains the top 3 reasons she believes women are not more frequently in the positions of power at major corporations. She also offers 3 ways women can stop sabotaging themselves and make their stay in corporate America more rewarding.

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