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William Levy Gutierrez

6-foot-tall Gutierrez arrived in Miami at the age of 15. He took part in the reality show "The Island of Temptation" made by Promofilm for Telemundo; from that time onwards, the actor has always been busy training and working in the Entertainment Industry. Later being signed on by one of the biggest and most influential publicity agents in the world. He travels abroad to tread the catwalk for large and important designer and publicity companies.

Gutierrez was the exclusive artist for the NBC network in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards, he went to Puerto Rico to appear in a theatre production in which he was part of the last Clic of Ricardo Montaner "When You are By My Side", recorded in Miami.

Gutierrez's eagerness to work in the Latin market brought him back to the city of Miami, where he has taken part in three productions in a row for Venevision Productions, the channel for which he is now exclusive. He guest starred in TV series "Acorralada" and "Olvidarte jamás" and can currently be seen on "Mi Vida Eres Tu" every weekday on Univision.

Gutierrez was chosen in 2006 by the Spanish language edition of People Magazine as one of the sexiest bachelors. In March 2007, he appeared in his first English language film.

The great passion of this talented young man apart from acting, is baseball, a sport in which at one time he hoped to play professionally.

Surprisingly, when asked if he considers himself attractive, Gutierrez replied, "I do not know, it is now that I have come to believe that story, because people say I am beautiful. Actually, I do not consider myself beautiful, I am a normal guy."

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I put all of these pics into 1 big group instead of making several posts  :hug:

Sure, Jay-Z and the President have been hanging out during the last few days of the campaign, but anyone who's heard "03 Bonnie & Clyde" knows that where there's a Jay, a Bey can't be too far behind.

Graphic designer Chris Ritter made this beautiful interpretation of our Commander-In-Chief as an iconic "Single Lady."

So if you're looking to walk out of the voting booth in style today, maybe channel this guy. We know we will.

CHICAGO – President Barack Obama scored himself a second term in the White House on Tuesday, nabbing nearly all of the key battleground states and proving, resoundingly, that his message about lifting the middle class resonates with the majority of Americans.

"The task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope," Obama said in his victory speech at McCormick Place.

Supporters here had already been screaming for hours before Obama locked in 270 electoral votes. One by one, he and other Democrats had been winning in key districts and states. So by the time Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their families walked out on stage, the cheers in the hall were deafening.

"You, the American people, reminded us that while our road ahead has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," said Obama, who got choked up at times as he gave his speech.

The feeling of being on a shared journey was felt among those in the crowd, many of whom had been helping him since day one, 582 days ago, when he first launched his reelection campaign on April 4, 2011.

Majorie Merrill, an elderly woman with a walker, was among the first out before the cameras celebrating.

"There has been so, so much I've been doing for the president to be elected," Merrill said, swinging her walker slightly to the music. "I pray a lot, for one thing. I donate. I go to the phone banks when I can."

She said it was his message about everybody deserving an equal chance in life that really stuck with her. "I knew he would win. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it."

Obama vowed that in a second term, he would continue to listen to people who may disagree with him and said that he is "more determined and more inspired than ever" about the work that needs to get done for the country.

"I have never been more hopeful about our future ... and I ask you to sustain that hope."

That hope is what famously drove Obama to victory in 2008, and late in the 2012 cycle, it is what appeared to keep his supporters with him once again.

In the final days of the race, when both campaigns were scrambling to get in more time in Ohio, HuffPost drove around and talked to dozens of Democrats there to get a sense of how they were feeling about Obama's prospects. The one thing that was clear among all of them was just how much they were willing to endure to keep Obama in the White House.

Cleveland early voters who stood in line for hours in the cold on Saturday and Sunday said they were annoyed by the wait, they were hungry, they had other places to be. But no way were they about to leave the line and miss their chance to vote for Obama, especially when they knew their votes in Cuyahoga County mattered so much.

"I don't mind the wait," said Julie Chen, who shivered for more than two hours before she got inside. "I don't want to rush" through the ballot on Election Day, she said.

Indeed, people's enthusiasm for voting for Obama seemed to turn what should have been an agonizing wait into a block party. The Jackson Five was blasting from speakers set up on a street corner. Volunteers with different groups were handing out food and warm drinks -- Obama campaign volunteers showed up with 50 pizzas -- to try to keep people content as they stood in the 41-degree weather. People were chatting with their neighbors in line like old friends as a teenaged rap group walked along on the street, rapping, "no more drama, vote for Obama."

One Democratic voter who drove up to assess the line -- and then proceeded to drive back out again when she saw how long it was -- gasped when HuffPost asked if she planned to vote at all.

"Oh damn girl! Come on! Obama all the way baby!" said Helen Pighee, who said she'd be "the first one in line" at 6:00 a.m. on Election Day.

The fact that Obama made a point to hit some of the smaller towns in Ohio also made a big impression on his supporters. Democratic supporters in the town of Mentor said the fact that Obama held a rally there over the weekend and directly engaged with them made all the difference in their community.

"It's a good idea he came here," said Shannon Lozada, who didn’t even make it inside the event but was thrilled to see Obama's motorcade outside. "After Romney was in Lake Erie, that's when we saw a lot of momentum for him in the area. Signs going up at businesses. I was hoping he was going to come here."

As the excitement of victory starts to fade, questions over what type of mandate lays before the president will be litigated in the weeks ahead. The first test will come quickly. Before he is sworn in to office for his second term, Obama has to deal with the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts and the looming fiscal cliff. Shortly thereafter, he will be asking Congress to increase the debt ceiling once more, a proposition that proved difficult and politically harmful when confronted in 2011.

Some of the obstacles that confront a second-term Obama are structural. The House of Representatives remains in Republican control. And while Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will still be the majority leader, he won't have anywhere close to a filibuster-proof majority. So Obama will have to build coalitions to get legislation passed.

Still, the election should give him a lift on that front. A strong showing among Hispanic voters lays the framework for the president to make a push for comprehensive immigration reform, or at least a scaled-down version, lest Republicans risk alienating a group of voters increasingly valuable to their electoral equation. And while president did buckle on the Bush tax cuts once before, he know he holds more chips now. They will expire across the board without his signature, after which he can craft a tax-cut package of his own.

The biggest legislative opening that the president now has, ironically, is in stopping things from happening. His signature health care law will be implemented with minimal opposition (mostly from the states). His regulatory reforms won't be repealed. And the likelihood that he will be able to appoint one or several Supreme Court justices means that he will likely protect abortion rights for years, if not decades, to come.

Second terms, in the end, are often more problematic than they first appear. And Obama may be hesitant to claim a mandate. But the margin of his Electoral College win will be bigger than George W. Bush's. And the fact that the stagnant economy -- which hampered him in during the first four years -- is seemingly turning around gives him obvious space to maneuver during the next four years.

Amanda Jones, one of the lucky few to snag a ticket into Obama's election night party in Chicago, said she thinks things are going to be different in Washington now that Obama proved he has the majority of Americans on his side.

"What it does is show that the American people want to fulfill the things he wants to fulfill," Jones said. "And I believe it's going to be better."

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WASHINGTON – Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) beat Republican Tommy Thompson for Wisconsin's open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, becoming the nation's first openly gay senator.

"I am honored and humbled and grateful, and I am ready to get to work -- ready to stand with Barack Obama, and ready to fight for Wisconsin's middle class," said Baldwin to raucous cheers at her victory party.

Even during his four-way GOP primary race, Thompson was long considered the frontrunner. He was a popular governor in the state who later served as President George W. Bush's Health and Human Services Secretary and enjoyed high name-recognition in the state.

But his strategy of portraying Baldwin as a far-left liberal faltered. When he tried to go after her for not being strong enough in speaking out against Iran, Thompson's own investments in companies that do business with Iran became a bigger issue.

When he went after Baldwin for not supporting 9/11 first responders, he was quickly called out by independent fact-checkers and first responders' families for launching a dishonest attack. It also brought more attention to the fact that his firm profited off 9/11 responders with a lucrative federal contract, and raised more questions about why he was even talking about the 11-year-old issue to begin with.

Although Baldwin made history on Tuesday night when she became the first openly gay senator-elect in U.S. history, her sexual orientation was largely a non-issue in the race. In September, Thompson's political director tweeted a message deriding Baldwin's "heartland values," accompanied by a video of Baldwin dancing at an LGBT pride parade. Thompson later distanced himself from his aide's tweet.

"Now, I am well aware that I will have the honor to be Wisconsin's first woman U.S. senator. And I am well aware I will be the first openly gay member of the United States Senate," she added, with the crowd drowning her out and chanting "Tammy! Tammy!"

"But I didn't run to make history," she continued. "I ran to make a difference –- a difference in the lives of families struggling to find work and pay the bills, a difference in the lives of students worried about debt and seniors worried about their retirement security, a difference in the lives of veterans who fought for us and need someone fighting for them and their families when they return home from war, a difference in the lives of entrepreneurs trying to build a business and working people trying to build some economic security."

Baldwin will be succeeded in her House seat by state Assemblyman Mark Pocan, a Democrat who is also openly gay.

In the final weeks of his campaign, heavy-hitters such as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Gov. Scott Walker (R) tried to boost Thompson's fundraising and help him on the campaign trail. Thompson, however, had to strike a delicate balance with Ryan -- benefiting from the GOP vice presidential nominee's popularity while staying away from the controversial Medicare proposal in his budget blueprint.

Baldwin, meanwhile, ran an aggressive campaign, painting Thompson as beholden to special interests.

Republicans had been on a winning streak in Wisconsin, after Walker survived Democrats' attempts to recall him from office in the summer. In 2010, they captured the governor's seat and Ron Johnson replaced Russ Feingold in the Senate. Despite a full-on effort by Walker, Ryan, Thompson and Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus -- who previously served as the head of the Wisconsin GOP -- Republicans lost both the Senate and presidential race in the state on Tuesday.

Maryland joined Maine in making history on Election Night, affirming gay marriage by a popular vote.

As The Los Angeles Times reports, Maryland’s referendum to uphold the law held a sizable lead with about 80 percent of precincts reporting, putting the state on track to become the first below the Mason-Dixon line to legalize marriage equality.

"Today the marriage equality map expands to Maryland, giving thousands more loving couples the opportunity to make lifelong commitments through marriage," Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Chad Griffin said in an email statement. "This is a milestone night for the simple truth that when Americans are presented with the real lives of their friends and neighbors, they have no choice but to vote for their equality. It is the momentum reflected in poll after poll that shows a growing majority for marriage equality across the country."

In March, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the same-sex marriage bill into law. But just two months later, officials with the Maryland Marriage Alliance – a coalition of groups working to preserve the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman -- had reportedly collected more than 113,000 signatures from opponents, far exceeding the necessary 56,000 signatures to force the law to a referendum.

In recent days, a Washington Post poll found that likely voters favored the law 52 percent to 43 percent, but a subsequent Baltimore Sun poll was less certain, finding support for same-sex marriage in the state at a near-even split.

In other big wins for marriage equality, Maine also legalized gay marriage and Washington was all but sure to do the same but due to the state's mail-in voting system an official tally still is not available. In Minnesota, voters shot down a constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as a union only between a man and a woman.
Maine
Question 1 on the ballot in Maine legalizes gay marriage, reversing a 2009 referendum that lost narrowly.

Yes 300,336 53%
No 262,820 47%
75% reporting

Maryland
Maryland Question 6 allows voters to decide whether to approve a state law passed earlier this year legalizing same-sex marriages.

For 1,208,068 52%
Against 1,112,998 48%
97% reporting

Minnesota
Minnesota voters decide whether to change their constitution to deny same-sex couples the right to marry with Amendment 1.

Yes 1,396,879 48%
No 1,504,189 51%
99% reporting

Washington
Evergreen State voters decide whether to approve a law passed earlier in 2012 allowing gay marriages.

Approve 985,308 52%
Reject 917,197 48%
51% reporting

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio.

The Romney campaign's last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern swing states in play failed as Obama's Midwestern firewall sent the president back to the White House for four more years. Obama picked up the swing states of New Hampshire, Michigan, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ohio. Florida and Virginia are still too close to call, but even if he won them, they would not give Romney enough Electoral College votes to put him over the top. The popular vote will most likely be much narrower than the president's Electoral College victory.

The Obama victory marks an end to a years-long campaign that saw historic advertisement spending levels, countless rallies and speeches, and three much-watched debates.

The Romney campaign cast the election as a referendum on Obama's economic policies, frequently comparing him to former President Jimmy Carter and asking voters the Reagan-esque question of whether they are better off than they were four years ago. But the Obama campaign pushed back on the referendum framing, blanketing key states such as Ohio early on with ads painting him as a multimillionaire more concerned with profits than people. The Obama campaign also aggressively attacked Romney on reproductive rights issues, tying Romney to a handful of Republican candidates who made controversial comments about rape and abortion.

These ads were one reason Romney faced a steep likeability problem for most of the race, until his expert performance at the first presidential debate in Denver in October. After that debate, and a near universal panning of Obama's performance, Romney caught up with Obama in national polls, and almost closed his favoribility gap with the president. In polls, voters consistently gave him an edge over Obama on who would handle the economy better and create more jobs, even as they rated Obama higher on caring about the middle class.

But the president's Midwestern firewall–and the campaign's impressive grassroots operation--carried him through. Ohio tends to vote a bit more Republican than the nation as a whole, but Obama was able to stave off that trend and hold an edge there over Romney, perhaps due to the president's support of the auto bailout three years ago. Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan all but moved to Ohio in the last weeks of the campaign, trying and ultimately failing to erase Obama's lead there.

A shrinking electoral battleground this year meant that only 14 states were really seen as in play, and both candidates spent most of their time and money in those states. Though national polls showed the two candidates in a dead heat, Obama consistently held a lead in the states that mattered. That, and his campaign's much-touted get out the vote efforts and overall ground game, may be what pushed Obama over the finish line.

Now, Obama heads back to office facing what will most likely be bitterly partisan negotiations over whether the Bush tax cuts should expire. The House will still be majority Republican, with Democrats maintaining their majority in the Senate.

The loss may provoke some soul searching in the Republican Party. This election was seen as a prime opportunity to unseat Obama, as polls showed Americans were unhappy with a sluggish economy, sky-high unemployment, and a health care reform bill that remained widely unpopular. Romney took hardline positions on immigration, federal spending, and taxes during the long Republican primary when he faced multiple challenges from the right. He later shifted to the center in tone on many of those issues, but it's possible the primary painted him into a too-conservative corner to appeal to moderates during the general election. The candidate also at times seemed unable to effectively counter Democratic attacks on his business experience and personal wealth.

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Assault in Moscow club heightens concern as rights groups accuse police of tolerating attacks

Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist in St Petersburg in July after its gay pride rally was banned.

Miriam Elder in Moscow
    guardian.co.uk,

Alyona Korolyova thought she had seen everything – the lifting of Russia's ban on homosexuality after the Soviet Union fell, the slow appearance of mainstream gay clubs, and even, once, a young gay couple on a TV sitcom.

Then last week, Korolyova, 48, was forced to stand pressed against the wall of a gay-friendly club and watch as a group of burly men, their faces hidden with surgical masks, repeatedly kicked her girlfriend in the head as part of an organised attack.

"I never thought I would live to see this," Korolyova said. "It was like a movie, a nightmare."

The attack on 7freedays, a club in central Moscow, has heightened fears among gay rights activists that new laws targeting "homosexual propaganda" in cities around Russia have created an atmosphere where discrimination – and violence – against gay people is now tolerated.

"The authorities have given a command – that such attacks will not be punished, that we are a group to be hated," Korolyova said.

The incident took place last week during a celebration of the internationally observed National Coming Out Day. Despite the club's serpentine hallways, the men knew which room to run to, and divided up in planned formation, patrons said.

"At around 9.30pm, a group of masked men ran by me, yelled: 'This fight has been ordered' and began overturning tables, throwing chairs and beating whomever fell under their hands," Andrei Obolensky said. The attack lasted five minutes. Four people – three women and one man – were treated in hospital and at least a dozen left with cuts and bruises.

The attack is one of several to have been reported since Russian cities began adopting the laws amid a wider government initiative to push for ultraconservative policies. Discrimination is even more widespread. Gay pride marches are regularly banned in Russia and this summer, Moscow's highest court banned gay pride parades in the capital for 100 years.

Eight Russian regions have banned so-called "homosexual propaganda" in the past year – Arkhangelsk, Ryazan, Kostroma, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Bashkortostan and, most controversially, St Petersburg, Russia's second city and its cultural capital.

A bill on a national ban has been submitted to the Duma, the Russian parliament.

Igor Kochatkev, the head of LGBT Network, a St Petersburg-based gay rights advocacy, said: "Of course there is a link – we see that whenever such laws on propaganda are adopted, or even discussed, then the activism of violent groups increases."

The day after the law was adopted in St Petersburg in March, a group of men attacked one of its most popular gay clubs, Malevich. Similar attacks were recorded in the city in May and June, according to LGBT Network.

The attack on 7freedays came a day after People's Council, a nationalist group, called on authorities in Moscow to ban "homosexual propaganda".

Oleg Kassin, a member of the group, denied any link to the attack. "We don't go down the path of violence," he said. "Only the path of law. We are working to create a necessary legal basis, the necessary laws." He accused LGBT activists of organising the attack themselves to raise their profile.

Kassin said People's Council, an anti-immigrant pro-church group, worked with "friendly deputies" to push for the passage of anti-gay laws. One such deputy is Vitaly Milonov, an outspoken and religious MP in the St Petersburg legislature who has become the face of Russia's anti-gay movement.

He has supported charging Madonna with promoting "homosexual propaganda" after an August concert in St Petersburg where she spoke out in support of gay rights. A city court has demanded the pop star appears for a hearing into the charges – she has not responded.

"Homosexuality is a sickness. It must be treated like a tooth that hurts," said Milonov, who put forward the St Petersburg law this year.

According to the Levada Centre, an independent pollster, many Russians agree. A poll taken in July found 32% of Russians saw homosexuality as "a sickness or the result of a psychological trauma" – 43% saw it as "debauchery or a bad habit".

Milonov plays to those views, while pushing for the interests of Russia's Orthodox Christians.

It is no wonder gay rights activists feel threatened. "We see these new laws being adopted," said Obolensky, "and then many clerical representatives and nationalists say that LGBT people are sick and need to be healed. This raises the level of intolerance in society".

Korolyova, who was in the Moscow club at the time of the attack, said that she would not change her behaviour: "We will not go underground. We will not hide."

Barely-legal Justin Bieber is being initiated into adulthood with his very own sex doll.

Enter the "Just-in Beaver" blow-up sex doll made by Pipedream Products.

The plastic, bisexual boy toy, touted to be "Finally 18!" and "Ready to Rock Your World!," is modeled by a Bieber lookalike wearing a sideways hat and a boyish grin.

The "Girlfriend" singer celebrated his 18th birthday back in March, and now the sex toy industry is celebrating Bieber's manhood with a "love doll" in his likeness.

"Meet Just-In Beaver, the barely legal boy-toy who's waited 18 long years to stick his lil' dicky in something sticky!" reads Pipedream's description of the Bieber sex doll. "When he's not busy beating up paparazzi or beating off, he's up to his high-tops in hot Hollywood tail! But the Beave-ster doesn't have this effect just on women – he turns straight men gay faster than you can peel his skinny jeans off! So what are you waiting for, inflate this lil’ pricks's ego even more and have your very own Beaver bash!"

Just-in Beaver is available for purchase on Amazon, with prices ranging from $20 to $138.

The doll follows the California-based company's "Finally Mylie," a sex doll made to resemble the now 19-year-old former Disney star, Miley Cyrus.

Bieber's kinky counterpart may not be available for long. Even though Bieber himself is not named in the product or product description, the teenybopper could sue for the company's use of his celebrity. "Considering the doll is unlicensed, chances are it won’t be available to the public for very long," ONTD notes.

In February, Bieber and his people handed a cease and desist order to RC3 for developing a mobile game app called "Joustin' Beaver," TMZ reported. The cartoon game features a beaver Bieber, dressed in a purple hoodie and rocking a mop of tousled hair, that gamers must defend from the "phot-hogs." The company rejected the demand, claiming its game is a parody and protected under the First Amendment.

While the sex doll may be marketed toward gay men, Bieber is already a hit with many lesbians -- or at least his once famous haircut is. The tumblr blog "Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber," which has been featured in NY magazine and GQ as well as on "TMZ" and "The Insider," was created more than two years ago by Dannielle Owens-Reid, "a biebian from South Carolina who loves Justin Bieber and the lesbians who look like him."

LOOK: The Justin Bieber sex doll, courtesy of Pipedream Products.

Malawi's President Joyce Banda imposed a moratorium on anti-gay laws until the issue could be settled by parliament.

Malawi has suspended anti-gay laws and ordered police not to arrest people who commit homosexual acts pending a debate on whether to repeal the legislation.

President Joyce Banda's government announced on Monday that it had imposed a moratorium on the laws until the 193-member parliament could decide on the highly contentious issue.

The move was welcomed by Amnesty International as "a historic step forward", but local activists urged caution.

Sections 153 and 156 of Malawi's penal code criminalise sexual conduct between men and anyone convicted faces up to 14 years' imprisonment, with or without corporal punishment. Section 137A of the penal code criminalises "indecent practices between females", with anyone found guilty liable to five years in prison.

Ralph Kasambara, the justice minister, said: "There is a moratorium on all such laws, meaning that police will not arrest or prosecute anyone based on these laws."

The laws that criminalise homosexuality in the deeply conservative country will not be "enforced until the time that parliament makes a decision", added Kasambara, who is also attorney general.

If the laws are found to be unconstitutional, he said, it would be an embarrassment to the government, but if they are found to be valid, police will be able to act. "It is better to let one criminal get away with it rather than throw a lot of innocent people in jail," said Kasambara.

In 2009, two men were arrested and charged with public indecency after becoming the first gay couple to marry in the former British protectorate. The prosecution drew condemnation from around the world including from Amnesty. Noel Kututwa, its southern Africa director, said: "Amnesty International welcomes Minister Kasambara's statement and hopes it serves as the first step towards ending discrimination and persecution based on real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity in Malawi.

"We urge the government not to lose momentum on this basic human rights issue and to ensure the full repeal of these discriminatory and hate-filled laws."

Gay rights campaigners in Malawi called for the government to go further. Gift Trapence, director of the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), which now openly operates in the country, said: "This is a good stepping stone but we want a total repeal of the sodomy laws for Malawi to align itself with international human rights standards.

"Suspending is something else and repealing is another thing. We want the government to repeal these archaic laws."

Trapence said CEDEP regarded the sodomy laws as "still intact until they are repealed" and said Malawians, who generally favour prohibition, should debate the issue with "sober minds and remove all prejudices".

Chrispin Sibande, a rights lawyer, said the moratorium was "very shaky" because it was not supported by a clear legal order. He called the government move "political goodwill" that could change at any time.

Michael Kaiyatsa, a programme officer with another leading rights group, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, said the suspension was "a welcome development and a step in the right direction". But he said rights groups wanted a "permanent solution – the complete repeal of sodomy laws".

Banda, who came to office in April following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, initially said her government would decriminalise homosexuality but later made a U-turn and said parliament was better placed to solve the controversial issue.

A recent report presented to Banda recommended decriminalisation of same-sex marriages as a way of fighting the spread of HIV and Aids.

@ Newmale ~ I just love your recipes  :cheers:

I never use a real recipe when I cook  ::) I read them for the gist ~ (Gist or GIST may refer to: Essence, the central idea or main substance) of the recipe and then wing it from there with measurements and such. I tend to cook in quantites that are suited for the # of people eating. Not much of a fan of leftovers because sometimes they will not be leftover but eaten in a frenzy of the munchies.  ;D

I am from the southeastern USA ~ South Carolina ~ so known here as a "Southerner" and this is where I learned to cook from an early age. During this time I never saw a recipe unless we were baking and even then some ingredients would be tweaked to suit my Mother, Grand Mother, Great Grand Mother or Aunts tastes. The basic recipe was there of course but they would add or increase/decrease ingredient amounts. They also never wrote down these recipes so I have no record of some old family favorites but I do my version of them to this day.  :ok2:

BTW: This recipe strikes me as quite Southern and what we would call comfort food. 

I understand not wanting to download something for the sake of ratio increase alone but it does work if you jump on a brand new post with only 1 seeder and many leechers ~ especially the earlier you join the swarm the better for your ratio.

If your torrents are not seeding because there are no leechers for them then uploading new content is the best way to improve your ratio truly.

Then more hours seeding will gain you more Seed Bonus Points to help out as well

OK Gentlemen I will not lie to you about this situation and the news is not good I'm afraid.  :cry2:

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With the changeover in the old Torrent Approval System to the new Auto Approval for all but brand new members this uploader has fallen thru the cracks and created a huge mess for our membership that are leechers on his uploads.

He has uploaded 12 new torrents in a short time frame and his allowed torrents is 1.  :afr: Of course he should have only uploaded 1 torrent seeded to completion and then uploaded the next torrent.

On top of this fact, he is seeding his entire library  :faint: with a very slow upload rate.  :cens:

The very best we can do at this point is get him to stop all seeding but his new uploads. This way all leechers get some small amount seeding to each torrent ~ in theory at least. This will still create a long wait for these torrents to complete.  :cheesy2:

I will start the process of contacting the uploader and explaining this fiasco he has made and must not repeat ever again.  :police:

I will also notify all Staff ~ Uwe especially ~ to be sure this is the best way to handle this situation. Frankly, at this point I can see no other way out but perhaps Uwe will have abetter idea than I.

:sorry: But this is the best I can do at this time.  :sorry: