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  • Miley Cyrus’ Concert Banned In Dominican Republic

    It looks like Miley Cyrus will be cancelling her September 13 concert in the Dominican Republic.

    According to People, the Dominican Republic government commission, which oversees public performances, has made the decision to ban Miley’s performance based on morality grounds.

    After the commission met, they issued a statement on Thursday regarding their decision. They claim that many of Miley’s performances “undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican law.”

    Tickets for the concert have been on sale since July, and have ranged in price from $27 to $370.

    This is not the first time that the commission has banned artists that play songs that they find vulgar. They previously banned Calle 13 of Puerto Rico over several of their songs.

    So far, neither Cyrus nor the commission have commented on the ban.

    Miley is expected to appear at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, however she is not slated to perform. Last year, she gave a very controversial “twerking” performance with Blurred Lines singer Robin Thicke.

    The performance was so shocking that Thicke’s mother even commented on it. “I don’t understand what Miley Cyrus is trying to do. I think she’s misbegotten in this attempt of hers. And I think it was not beneficial.” Gloria Loring said. “I didn’t get what her point was. It was so over the top as to almost be a parody of itself.”

  • Dominican Surgeries Kill Americans

    Dominican Surgeries Kill Americans

    The lure of cheap beauty is killing people. In America, it costs an arm and a leg to fix your boobs and butt. A short plane ride to the Dominican Republic can mean a much cheaper price on cosmetic surgeries. But there are risks involved that some people are not making it home from.

    The New York Daily News tells the tale of one woman, Beverly Brignoni, who flew to Santo Domingo for a tummy tuck. She died on the operating table. Her boyfriend had flown down with her and was in a waiting room when he was given the horrible news. The cause of death was a coronary embolism.

    The hospital where Brignoni had her procedure was shut down after her death when officials from the Ministry of Health inspected it and found bacteria and violations of bio-sanitary regulations.

    The Centers for Disease Control has issued a warning about the dangers of cosmetic surgeries in the Dominican Republic. The cause is listed as “rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterial (RG-NTM) surgical-site infections … exhibiting a high degree of antibiotic resistance”.

    The CDC further recommended:

    CDC advises all persons planning to receive surgical care outside the United States to verify that the health-care provider and facility they are considering using are licensed and accredited by an internationally recognized accreditation organization before proceeding. These findings indicate that health-care providers consider RG-NTM among patients with a history of cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic who also have a surgical-site infection that fails to respond to standard therapy.

    The CDC noted 19 women in five states who had been infected in this manner.

    Traveling outside the United States for health care is called “medical tourism”. There are risks involved, including poor communication due to language differences, counterfeit medication, poorly screened blood supply, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the risks of flying after surgery.

    The CDC reports on this and makes recommendations on their website.

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  • Dominican Murder-Suicide Prompted by Facebook Photo

    Your online presence can have big implications for life beyond your computer. While many of the Arab Spring uprisings and #Occupy protests owe a lot of their momentum and organization to Twitter, and a special kind of justice can come to idiots posting their crimes on YouTube, Facebook seems to be especially adept both at prompting crime as well as foiling and catching perpetrators.

    In a metaphysical sense, Facebook is a lot like the human lives it represents digitally. At its root morally ambiguous–and usually boring and benign your company’s spring picnic photos–Facebook can be capable of extreme goodness and heroism: it’s helped foil a robbery, catch arrogant idiots, and solve a variety of other crimes. But like us, the popular social networking site has its darker side, too. Pictures ripped from teens’ profiles have shown up on porn sites, and one creep held a woman’s profile hostage, demanding nude pics in exchange for the return of her account. But worst of all, social rebuffs on the site can sometimes even lead to violence, like this recent murder, the product of a mere “unfriending”.

    The latest facebook-related violence occured Wednesday evening in a Santo Domingo motel, where a young Dominican man and his estranged wife were found dead, the victims of a murder-suicide prompted by a facebook photo.

    Valentín Núñez Luciano, 26, shot and killed Marleni Suero Amador, 25, Wednesday, with a 9mm Bersa pistol. He then turned the gun on himself. The pistol was found at the crime scene along with several casings and pieces of lead.

    While friends and family describe Luciano as a good and tranquil young man, reports indicate that Núñez Luciano regularly abused Amador. FoxNews reports that the couple’s confrontational relationship “worsened after Nuñez’s discovery of the photo of his wife in the company of a man during a visit to the La Victoria prison.” Núñez found the photo on Facebook.

    This is a tragedy for sure, one likely fueled by machismo and a sense of public humiliation. It’s a sad story, but one we can learn a lesson from. If you get your feelings hurt online, turn the computer off for a minute, go climb a tree or something, and let cooler heads prevail. Even if you feel like you’ve got nothing to worry about online, it’s never a bad idea to crank up your privacy settings and be mindful what you post to social networking sites.

    Photo Credit: NoticiasSin.com