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Featured National Chibaya Dismisses Supreme Court Ruling 3 April 2020 Farai Dziva|MDC National Organizing Secretary Amos Chibaya has described the Supreme Court ruling on the dispute between MDC A leader Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe as " a high sounding nothing." Read full statement below : To All MDC Alliance Leadership, Structures and Membership The Supreme Court Judgement in light of the Party leadership comes as no surprise but remain exactly what it is, a regretable high sounding nothing. The MDC Alliance leadership was decided and settled by the people at the 5th National Congress held in May 2019, Ascot Stadium in Gweru and that will never be changed outside the dictates of the People's Party Congress and MDC Alliance Constitution. The judgement remains a non event and our structures' focus remain on programs and activities clearly scheduled in our 2020 calendar, despite relentless attempts by the captured judiciary to de...

A guy gets caught having sex with unknown men. He's not gay – sometimes that's how it works. His boss lets it go, and he thinks, "I'm really out of control and lucky I'm not going to get fired." That's maybe a turning point. Or when a wife catches her husband in the bathroom busy with porn and himself. Both parties are blindsided. Or a man fantasizes about anonymous sex dating and uses his breaks to study personals ads. Thoughts of sex with strangers consume his time. Or a man's use of sexual objects on himself, he can't stop, and they threaten to harm him. Those are externals. Inside, the secrecy, the shame, the compulsion, are hijacking the man's relationships and, like termites, eroding his work. Instead of the truck he's driving, or the surgery he's scrubbing for, or playing with his kids, his focus diverts into a back alley. He's terrified of being found out, of the Doomsday loss of his family, his work, his reputation... ...

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High School Short Story Judges - BethesdaMagazine.com High School Short Story Judges - BethesdaMagazine.com Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:20 PM PDT Adult Short Story Judges Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home , winner of the 2018 Fiction Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, and the young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes . Bock also co-edited This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry & Fiction from DC, Maryland and Virginia from the Washington Writers' Publishing House, published in February 2021. Bock is working on a novel set in 2050. She earned an MFA in fiction in 2011 from The City College of New York and lives in Potomac. Tara Campbell is a Washington, D.C.-based writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse , a nonprofit focused on literacy. She earned an MFA from American University in 2019, and has received several awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. ...

Free courses in English as a Second Language, CPR and Microsoft Excel are being offered at the Chase Oaks Local Good Center in Plano this summer. The center opened in 2014 as the Chase Oaks Family Center, an extension of Chase Oaks Church, according to its website, and is in the process of changing its name. Classes in parenting, marriage enrichment, computer basics are also offered. ESL classes These free classes are designed to help students practice speaking English in a no-pressure environment, the center stated in an email. Registration may be completed online or in person at the center, 1896 K Ave., Suite 200. Classes are held Tuesdays from June 15 through July 6. Conversation classes take place from 9:30-11 a.m. Tuesdays. Beginner level conversation classes are held from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays. Child care is not available. CPR, AED and first aid training On June 17 from 10 a.m. to noon, the center is partnering with the Plano Fire Department to offer free trainin...

Entering into a mid-'90s daytime-TV landscape O'Donnell describes as "a thug festival," The Rosie O'Donnell Show merged comedy, variety, late-show, and game-show formats into a talk-show template that's now the standard. Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Years before Tom Cruise called Matt Lauer "glib" or Dakota Johnson reminded Ellen DeGeneres that she was, in fact, invited to her birthday party, Tom Selleck and Rosie O'Donnell set the stage for one of daytime TV's tensest moments. It was May 1999. Just weeks after the Columbine massacre. Although Selleck planned to visit The Rosie O'Donnell Show to promote his new romantic drama, The Love Letter , he was also then the literal poster boy for the National Rifle Association. What started as chitchat with O'Donnell about his onscreen romance quickly turned into an argument over the Second Amendment. "I didn't come on your show to have a...