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Why "the Gays" Need Planned Parenthood Too
By Thomas DeLorenzo
March 16, 2011
This article originally appeared at HuffingtonPost.com.
I grew up in Schenectady, a small city in upstate New York. Sex education was an embarrassing night with my younger brother in the school cafeteria with a black and white filmstrip from the '50s. There was no discussion afterwards, just an awkward silence because the room was filled with people you were going to see in the morning. In high school, we were barred from learning about condoms. The thinking was, if you teach them about condoms, they would run out and have sex. Yeah, right.
I was also struggling with the fact that I was starting to learn that I was gay. Trust me, they didn't show a filmstrip for that.
My first experience with Planned Parenthood was not one you would have expected. Coming from uptight Schenectady, equipped with only knowledge obtained from that filmstrip from the '50s, I was unfamiliar with what my body was going through after my first sexual experiences. The summer after my Sophomore year I paid a visit to the Planned Parenthood clinic. It was my first sexually active summer and I just knew, thanks to the guilt I was raised with, that this feeling in my penis was only one thing -- VD (as we called it then). The caring person at Planned Parenthood performed the necessary swab test, and a few days later had me come in for the results -- negative -- and more important -- education, so I would know how to prevent this panic moment from happening again.
Planned Parenthood had been my first and only choice precisely because of their reputation, because nowhere else came to mind that I trusted enough to go to, because the free clinic in Hempstead just didn't seem like the place I wanted to spend a day.
I had two other experiences with Planned Parenthood in college. The first one was a pregnancy test. Not mine, of course, but the woman I was having sex with. Her body did not have regular menstrual cycles and we could never figure out when she was ovulating. Given the fact that we were only 19, we, of course, figured that pregnancy would never happen to us.
Then her period was late -- much later than it ever was before.
It was Planned Parenthood on Long Island that told us she was not pregnant and told her she should be on the pill, not only because she was sexually active, but also because it would regulate her periods. Health care. Sensitive and informative health care. No abortion. And all was presented in a caring, supportive environment that did not chastise us for having sex.
During my Junior year, the next experience was a similar one. I was a Resident Assistant, the University's first line of defense for the students living on campus. Whenever one of my residents had a problem, they came to me for help. Part therapist, part social director, it was my favorite year of school. One student, who was sexually active with her boyfriend, came to me with a question. What should she do if she needed an abortion? She was using a diaphragm but it didn't work one time and her period was a few days late.
My Catholic upbringing and my new found beliefs were at war with each other. One side of my head said this was wrong. The other side knew it was the right thing to do, for if it were myself, I knew I was not ready yet to raise a child. Off I went again to Planned Parenthood and found out options for her and information for me. One day about a week later, she and the boyfriend went into New York City to terminate the pregnancy.
It was at that moment when I realized, as a man, I had no right to govern over women's bodies, that I would never, ever truly know what making a decision like this would be like. I felt it was not my place to make this decision for the women in my life, but instead be supportive no matter what direction they decided to take.
Years have gone by since that Q-tip in a very private place, but I still trust Planned Parenthood for my health care. Right now I drop by my local office for blood pressure screenings. Given the fact that it costs me a $45 co-payment at my doctor for the very same test, and only a donation at my local Planned Parenthood, it is an easy choice to make. And it is the smart choice to make. For like millions of Americans, without this affordable option for health care, it could cost me not only MUCH more money down the line, it could cost me my life.
If only the Tea Party would actually read the site, Planned Parenthood is much more than abortions. It is truly about PLANNING PARENTHOOD. It teaches us to become responsible, sexually active adults. It educates us to have healthy, fulfilling relationships that produce healthy children that grow up to be adults. Planned Parenthood is designed to help us grow and keep us safe. This branding it has gotten over the years has more to do with the people giving it than the organization.
I think the problem Planned Parenthood has it that it teaches us to feel happy about our bodies, and to enjoy them for pleasure, not just as baby making machines. I think as society offers more options for adults -- marriage, living together, civil unions, or just opting to remain single -- we need to expand our notions of what being sexually active means.
As a gay man, I know what it to be demonized for having sex strictly for pleasure and not producing children. But, unlike many people in Congress, I think my heterosexual brothers and sisters are entitled to the very same freedom I have. Having this freedom comes great responsibility, and great responsibility can only happen with education.
And that's what Planned Parenthood is here to do -- to teach us to become better versions of ourselves.
Thomas DeLorenzo
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Living in Massachusetts and I was wondering if there are any baselines for (kind of) what we would receive under enso-neutral, la nina, and el nino?
The great La Niña of 2017–18 is dwindling, and forecasters expect the return of neutral conditions by the March–May season, estimated at about 55% likelihood. Neutral conditions are favored to continue through the summer. It's too early to get a picture of next fall and winter, due to the spring predictability barrier and the absence of strong signs one way or the other. There are a few interesting features we'll watch closely over the next few months… but first, this update on current conditions!
La Niña may be weakening, but she's still making an impression on the average sea surface temperature in the equatorial Pacific. The Niño3.4 index, which measures the departure of sea surface temperature from the long-term average in the east-central equatorial Pacific, was about -0.7°C during February, using the ERSSTv5 dataset (our most consistent long-term sea surface temperature record.)
The atmospheric elements of La Niña diminished over February, with the amount of rain and clouds the central Pacific returning to near-normal, and Indonesia actually somewhat drier than average. This is a change from the La Niña-related suppressed rainfall in the central Pacific and greater-than-average rainfall over Indonesia and that was in place over the winter. More evidence that La Niña's enhanced Walker circulation patterns are fading appeared in the average near-surface winds over the west and central Pacific: these winds were weaker than average during February. (La Niña's effect is to strengthen the near-surface winds.)
It's likely that the active Madden-Julian Oscillation that Michelle chronicled last month played into the average February patterns. The MJO is an area of increased storminess that travels eastward along the equator and can circle the planet in about 1-2 months. Near-surface winds tend to blow toward this stormy area, meaning the area behind the MJO experiences more west-to-east wind. When the MJO is moving through the Pacific and into the western hemisphere, as it was during most of February, we can see the average wind patterns in the western and central Pacific become more westerly. Recently, the MJO has weakened substantially.
One of the many elements of the Pacific ocean-atmosphere system that ENSO forecasters monitor pretty closely is the temperature of the water below the surface. Colder than the long-term average since August 2017, these waters crept to above normal temperatures in February.
The warming was related to an eastward-moving warmer-than-average blob primarily located between 250 and 50 meters below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean… a downwelling Kelvin wave! As this wave sloshes east under the surface, it will continue to erode the supply of cooler-than-average waters available for La Niña, providing more confidence in the forecast for neutral conditions to develop this spring.
If you feel inclined to examine subsurface temperature anomalies over the past almost-40 years, I'd encourage you to check out my Climate Prediction Center colleague Yan Xue's great resource for ocean observations.
A while ago we were introduced to the Pacific Meridional Mode (PMM for short). In a nutshell, a positive PMM is a pattern of warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures stretching west from Baja California across the Pacific Ocean contrasted with cooler-than-average temperatures along the equator and into the southern hemisphere…
just like the sea surface temperature patterns in the Pacific observed during February.
In fact, the Pacific Meridional Mode index (maintained by our guest blog author Dan Vimont) is the most positive it's been in years. The contrast between warmer north and cooler south can influence wind patterns along the equator, thereby influencing ENSO. Of course, the global climate system is big and complicated, and it's too early to say if this strong PMM will be a major factor as the year goes on… but you can bet we'll be watching it.
If you'd like to compare ocean temperature patterns from this year to the past, you can visit Climate.gov's Data Snapshots; they also have a nice display of recent temperature and precipitation patterns. Another related resource is NOAA's Environmental Visualization Lab (select "Add Data" then "climate"). And, of course, here at the blog we'll keep you posted on all things ENSO.
A blog about monitoring and forecasting El Niño, La Niña, and their impacts.
The ENSO blog is written, edited, and moderated by Michelle L'Heureux (NOAA Climate Prediction Center), Emily Becker (contractor to CPC), Nat Johnson (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), and Tom DiLiberto and Rebecca Lindsey (contractors to NOAA Climate Program Office), with periodic guest contributors.
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Living in Massachusetts and I was wondering if there are any baselines for (kind of) what we would receive under enso-neutral, la nina, and el nino?
Hi Emily,
The observations certainly support La Niña waning to ENSO-neutral conditions, so why does the CFS suggest weak La Niña conditions continuing through summer (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wwang/cfsv2fcst/images3/nin...)? This seems to be at odds with virtually everything else (https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/?e...).
-- Matt Bunkers, SOO, NWS Rapid City, SD
Interesting article, I love this kind of stuff in fact, I want to go into this field. Why has this warm area repeated itself in the western North Atlantic for the past couple of years?
Why do you use the 3.4 index the most?
We have an explainer on our various ENSO indices here:
It is not the only region we monitor but we like the Nino-3.4 region b/c it is well correlated with other atmospheric measures of ENSO. It is also one of the few regions of the tropical Pacific that is "Gaussian" which is handy from a statistics point of view (other regions are much more skewed).
Where does our addition of CO2 enter into the history of the ENSO? There seems to be no correlation between the two.
There is a link between El Nino and carbon dioxide emissions. Mainly El Nino causes less rainfall over Indonesia/Maritime Continent and, along w/ their annual burning, it can increase CO2 emissions. I'm not sure how far back that record goes, but we definitely saw it in 1997-98 and in 2015-16 (two huge El Ninos):
NOAA Operational Definitions for El Niño and La Niña, El Niño: characterized by a positive ONI greater than or equal to +0.5ºC. La Niña: characterized by a negative ONI less than or equal to -0.5ºC. By historical standards, to be classified as a full-fledged El Niño or La Niña episode, these thresholds must be exceeded for a period of at least 5 consecutive overlapping 3-month seasons.
Last four ONI Index are SON 2017 -0.7ºC, OND 2017 -0.9ºC, NDJ 2018 -1.0ºC and DJF 2018 -0.9ºC. The fifth consecutive overlapping 3-month seasons ONI index is surely going to be -0.5ºC or below and hence an official 2017-18 La Nina event will be declared at the end of March 2018.
It is surprising that this blog starts with these lines "The great La Niña of 2017–18 is dwindling, and forecasters expect the return of neutral conditions by the March–May season, estimated at about 55% likelihood. Neutral conditions are favored to continue through the summer."
We were being tongue in cheek by calling the La Nina of 2017-18 "great." By our standards, it was a weak to moderate La Nina event.
Just wondering why the return of "neutral conditions" is even bothered to be written up as News Worthy? It seems to be an ongoing condition that doesn't hold it's severity or lack of severity very long, and is just a relatively new phenomenon, which by way of changed fronts as well as the degree of warmth patterns acting in ways we have not seen holding the time of the season(s) we see it change things. The only real trend we see is more warm fronts lasting or holding movements, creating warm like temperatures. It seems like having an entire month stretch of 40- something February's going into January and March for 10 days to two weeks or so, is a welcome front to most of us in central Wisconsin, Michigan, and up and down the Northern parts of the country, affecting areas such as New York, to Chicago, to Seattle. straight across the United States. The unknown factors have patterns of weather the meteorologists cannot predict over periods that somehow park themselves over an area for longer than a few days into 10, 12 days or even up to two weeks and beyond during spring, fall, winter, and early during summer last year. They are seeing what has not been seen before, so they cannot compare anything, as the upper atmosphere changes, doing things they (again) have never experienced prior to the event that is before them.
I have no training in meteorology, but do have a toolmakers experience in seeing how changes in variables, such as the depth of a cut, at a certain speed, with a cutting tools certain radius, can have a mirror finish or not, in number 3 micro finishes, using the cutting tool to finish cut without polishing the finish. That example is no more than seeing how upper atmospheres have varied temperatures wind speeds and currents interchanging.
The changes in this world are not accounted for by mankind, beyond using fuels that produce by-products, which in turn can change things they see in weather patterns. We all use fuels and other energies that produce heat itself. Spark plugs in cars produce heat, and how much heat is made in just one vehicle, for one hour operation at 35 mph or at 70 mph. So now multiply the car by how many people drive a car, and how long in hours per day, month and year. Then take into account your washing machine, hot water heater, home heating units, cooking ovens, grills, tobacco burning to smoke along with pot or other drugs smoked by millions on the planet. Start adding this up, and how many degrees of warmth are we earning? Add any other thing, like your lawn mower, and other backyard tools, weed eaters, hole diggers, chain saws, drills, wagons with motors, and so on right on down the line. How much energy is used in the world for washing dishes in hot water, alone? Even the human body produces heat.
So how much heat is produced by one billion people for one 24 hour period? By now, you are "getting it". The numbers of just one factor in a variable that mankind has made happen, in producing heat, can in fact change weather strength of events. Nobody seems to be arguing anymore, the way the Rush Limbeau laughed and belittled science 20, 10, or 30 years ago, in saying auto emissions are responsible for changes in weather. He was dead wrong, and somewhat ignorant. Very ignorant.
In fact, Rush would say, there is a counter-balance of hot and cold. Sure, we produce heat, but we also run air conditioners, freezers, and othere means of cooling the heat down. You or I cannot argue with Rush and other Nay-sayers. We do in fact produce cooling products. The air conditioners themselves are also producing heat! So, the counter-balance works both ways folks, once again favoring Global Warming.
One other scientist in Greenland had recognized a significant factor in the Ice melting on the polar caps and around the land, as well as bodies of water near the north and south poles. When that cold ice turns to liquid it runs down and around the ocean water that travels in differed directions. This is how ships had a course going from Europe to the south American areas. The boats followed that water pattern from area "A" to area "B". There must have been water coming in from the same source even before we started burning gasoline and oil in more and more greater numbers. The one failed to report element I have failed to mention is the SUN coming down on objects that heat up. One of the greatest factors in cement or asphalt. Cement at 28 degrees, with a full day of winter sun for a few days can keep at a steady below freezing temperature on the outside, but the snow will hit that cement and melt. Why is this? The sun brought the temperature up to say 35 degrees, and that was over the freeze point. So, it melts, right? Right.
So as the polar caps melt. You all have seen the shrinking caps on the north-pole, and the water flows down and away from the Calafornia area through the Pacific from the Alaska area where it began. it lands somewhere near Australia, right? Right. During the trip, it warmed up even more than the 33 to 40 degree factor it began as. During summer months it turned to the 60s in shallow areas near isles and such. Then flowed out again and was somewhat cooler in deep water, but warmed up enough to swim in with comfort in many areas. Mix it all up and you have the weather pattern of today.
You and I and everyone else knows bits and pieces of what is going on. Together, is a pattern, many being now new to us, due to the changes coming quicker as the population grows. One million people might produce 100 degrees every 19 days just on our body heat. That can of heat is multiplied by the entire population divided by how many million people on the planet, which gives us an idea of what change will come, if done accurately. Of course, this is just hypothetical, in guessing on how much of a factor will become of our guesswork? There surely will be changes in our guessing the change one factor can be. There are other factors far too numerous to mention here today. I think the point was made and made for the application of science to our survival on earth, if in fact we can predict how to stabilize the weather patterns, if in fact we do need to stabilize it at all. Will it run it's course back to a more calm and predictable pattern series we saw in the "60's? Through the rest of the decades up till today, we see different subtle things changing in our predictions and actual weather, with change coming in severity factors. Many storms today are dumping record numbers of rain as well as snow and the strength of the wind, together making for a Hollywood movie come to life in actual scary changes. Let's leave it at that, and pray to God we can in fact come to realize what is needed.


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- n. A white or colored clay slip coating applied to a ceramic body to give it decorative color or improved texture.
- n. A clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing.
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- n. Any earthy white or cream-colored paste used as a slip in coating naturally colored pottery, in order to mask or tone down its coarser and less agreeable tint.
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"It goes through a bathing process in which the same color gives all of these tones," says Guzmán, who explains that it is an engobe (liquid clay) bath that is used.
Some amphorae are covered in an engobe, a slip of levigated white clay.
The term is used for patterns incised into the whitish slip coating (or engobe) of a pot (before the second firing) exposing the contrasting reddish body underneath.
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A Christmas Carol
Genre: Animation/Drama/Family/Fantasy
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Roger O. Hirson (screenplay), Charles Dickens (novel)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn
Release Date: November 06, 2009
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A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. But an encounter with the ghostly figure of Jacob Marley sets the stage for a mysterious and magical encounter with three phantasmic beings to help him realize the true magic of Christmas itself.


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2. I love the idea of nail varnish that smells, Revlon you are amazing, I don't know why but I think they should smell good, rather than the nail varnish smell we get! I love the idea of my nails smelling of cherries and other gorgeous flavours, who doesn't love something a bit different hey?
3. This Sleek blush palette is super gorgeous and I think it has the perfect selection of colours, it looks like something that should be high end, but with the bargain price tag!
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6. I have been wanting to try the L'Oreal Nude Magique Foundation for some time now, the fact that is in a glass bottle makes it stand out as it looks like a luxury product, the fact that is referred to as a nude foundation draws my attention as I am always looking for a light foundation!


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Jupiter in Vedic Astrology (Guru in Jyotish)
Jupiter is known as Brihaspati, where 'Brihat' means big or vast and 'Pati' means protector. Hence Brihaspati means big protector. He is also referred to as Guru, Jeeva, Daiva, Sura Guru and Deva Guru. Jupiter is considered as biggest benefic planet in Vedic astrology.
Jupiter signify knowledge, wisdom. Jupiter is known for 'Dharmic' and Spiritual knowledge. Jupiter's knowledge is 'Paramarthika' , Brahma jnana, spiritual knowledge, It bestows the knowledge of cosmic force and it also induce the knowledge of moksha or salvation. That is the reason it is assigned with 9th and 12th houses of natural zodiac (Kalapurusha) which represents religious and spiritual knowledge respectively.
Jupiter signify 'Akasha tatwa' which means upper sky whose horizon is infinite. Same way the house posited by Jupiter and aspected by him will expand or develop in a big manner. Likewise, the significations or karakatwas of the planets are enhanced when they are in conjunction with Jupiter. Jupiter is the big planet and signify big, vast, huge etc. Anything concerned with Jupiter will end up in big such as body, wealth, association, employment etc. For example, if Jupiter in 1st house, the body will be bulky and so on.
In Muhurta (Electional Astrology) system also Jupiter plays a very important place. While fixing Muhurta, aspect of Jupiter on muhurta lagna or lord can ward off many doshas or evil effects. Jupiters association is known to give 'Daiva bala'. Similarly, in Prashna chart also Jupiter plays important role. The aspect of Jupiter on prashna lagna or lagnadhipathi or on the 11th house of prashna chart will fulfil the desire of the questioner.
Astrological Significations
Jupiter signify children, wealth, minister, male, sweets, ghee, cotton, turmeric, yellow sapphire, teacher, knowledge, yoga, vedas, spirituality, spiritual texts, grammar, virtuous, apartments and higher floors, truthful, divinity, north east direction, community head, priest, cash counters, satwik, phlegm, bengal gram, fat, rig veda, sound.
Jupiter owns Sagittarius and Pisces, Moola trikona house is Sagittarius, exalted in Cancer and debilitated in Capricorn. Vimshottari dasha period of Jupiter is 16 years. His friends are Sun, Moon and Mars; enemies are Mercury and Venus; Saturn is neutral.
Number of japas to be recited is 19000, number of homas to be performed are 1900 and tarpanas are 190. He represents Ashwatha tree, curd rice, yellow sevanthi flower, shikhagni. Nama japa is 'Om Gurave Namaha', Nama japa to be performed daily is 1008. The gift to be given is golden yellow silk cloth.
Body parts ruled by Jupiter – Phlegm, blood, thighs, flesh, fat, arterial system, liver
In Mythology
Jupiter is called as Brihaspati in Indian mythology. He is the son of Angiras. Jupiter is said to be born in Sindhu desha, on Angirasa samvatsara, Vaishakha shuddha Ekadashi in Uttara Phalguni nakshatra in the gotra of Angirasa. His wife name is Tara. His body colour is golden, having four hands and north in the graha mandala. His chariot is of golden colour. Mandala is deergha chatarasrakara. His vehicle is Pandurashva. Shakti devata is Shankari, adhi devata is Indra, pratyadhi devata is Brahma and abhimana devata is Vishnu and Rudra.
In astronomy
Jupiter is the largest planet. It is bigger than all other planets put together. Its mass is only 1/1047 times the Sun. Its mean distance from the Sun is 483.3 million miles. As it flattens on the poles, its equatorial diameter is about 88,000 miles and polar diameter is about 84,000 miles. Its mean distance from the Sun is 483.3 million miles. Its sidereal period is 11.9 years. There are 16 satellites of Jupiter of which the most important are Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Jupiter shows yellowish disc, crossed by cloud belts.
Also Read: Sun | Moon | Mars | Mercury | Jupiter | Venus | Saturn | Rahu | Ketu


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A burning question from reader Kimberly:
I work in an office at a hospital. With the strict dress code, it is hard deciding what to wear to work each day. We must wear nylons or socks, no sleeveless tops, no bright colors and our earrings can't be bigger than one inch. Do you have any ideas?
First of all, kudos to you—you've gotta be pretty inventive to come up with acceptable outfits day in and day out, with such strict regulations hampering your style. In the summer, here's what I'd wear: slim-fit pants, flats (with knee-highs if you absolutely must), and a few three-quarter-sleeve tops (or the newest elbow-length styles, like these from Michael Stars topped off with a belt for extra effect). Luckily, fall clothes are pretty dark, so you should be safe color-wise. But to look unboring, mix your neutrals in unexpected ways, like pairing olive with brown.


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This secured card from Orchard Bank - a unit of HSBC - offers surprisingly good value, not only compared to other secured cards but compared to Orchard's own conventional, unsecured credit cards. Indeed, this card is a much better deal than Orchard's other cards, provided you can, and don't mind, posting a security deposit.
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The card carries a very low 7.9 % variable interest rate. The $35 annual fee is waived the first year, and there's no account processing fee. Many other secured cards charge you to apply. Even Orchard Bank charges up to $39 to apply for some of its conventional cards.
The $35 annual fee is also very reasonable, especially since it's waived the first year. After that, provided you pay your bills on time, you might be able to qualify for an unsecured card with no annual fee. By comparison, Orchard's other cards carry annual fees ranging from $35 to $74 the first year, then they go up from there.
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Orchard says it automatically sends monthly reports to all three major credit bureaus, which should help improve your credit score, assuming you pay your bills on time and keep your credit card balance within 30% of your credit limit.
Of course, the bank requires you to put up a security deposit, minimum $200. The amount of money you put up is the size of your credit limit. That's to protect the bank in case you default. But it seems like a relatively small inconvenience to get a credit card when other banks say no.
If the only way you can qualify for a credit card is by getting a secured card, you could do a lot worse than this card. However, it will be critical that you pay this bill on time. If you don't, not only will you get another negative blot on your credit history, but you may lose your entire security deposit.


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What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future by Carol Christen
English | 1 July 2010 | ISBN: 158008141X | 207 Pages | EPUB | 3.16 MB
English | 1 July 2010 | ISBN: 158008141X | 207 Pages | EPUB | 3.16 MB
In todays über-competitive climate, you cant just wing it when you graduate and count on finding a great job (or a great job finding you). It pays to figure out your interests early, so you can decide what additional schoolingand tuition debtmakes sense for your chosen field. In What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, career authorities Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles not only help you plan for these decisions, but also help you define the unique passions that will lead you to your dream job. With new chapters on social media and sustainable jobsalong with all-new profiles of twentysomethings whove found work in solar energy, magazine writing, and morethis new edition has all the nitty-gritty details you need to get started now. Most importantly, its packed with the big-picture advice that will set you up to land the job thats perfect for who you areand who you want to be.


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Since we caught up with him at Macmillan Fest last year, we've held an eager interest in the music of London based pop-rock singer/songwriter Arthur Walwin, with his last single Bad featuring as our track of the week. Now he's returned, even better than ever, with the lead single off his debut album Sleepless, out July 27th. The track, which you can check out below, features alternative hip-hop artist Refraze.
It's easy to see how Arthur takes influence equally from mainstream pop music and pop-punk bands, with the reflecting-on-a-relationship attitude of Mayday Parade meeting the contagious chorus you'd expect in a radio ready single. Fun, infectious, and with a calibre of production that reflects Arthur's wealth of experience producing for other artists, Hard To Love shows great promise for the forthcoming album.
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Hello everybody, my name is Trinculo and as you can see from my costume I am a clown (also known as a jester). I was born as a clown and I have stayed one ever since. Actually I am a royal court jester (a real high jester). I have never known my mother though I wish I could have. She died before I could even open my eyes, I often think of how she died, it was probably because of my birth but I try not to think that. My father though he stayed with me all the time but did not come to the trip with me on the island because he was getting old that is why everybody thought I was on my own. Everybody thought I was on my own in Milan as well because me and my dad stayed together in a secret place all day long so nobody sees my father until the festivals because then they will think it is magic, it is one of our jokes you see. After many treacherous lonely days trapped on the island we were finally aloud to go back to Milan.
Here are some of my hilarious jokes that I like to tell:
1. What do you call a deer without no eyes,
No eye deer!
2. Do you want to hear a pizza joke
Sorry I can't tell you, it's too cheesy!!


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As a child, Chris Schiavo sought refuge from the chaos of her family's small Queens, N.Y., home by rampaging through backyards with other neighborhood kids, trampling busted fences and building forts.
"It was my territory, as close to nature as it got," explains New York City multimedia artist Schiavo, whose photo series "The Backyard" opens in an ArtHaus show today in The City. "I'd pretend it was the wilds or woods."
While studying photography at State University of New York at Purchase, Schiavo would visit her mother in Queens, working on school projects in the backyard.
After her mother fell ill, Schiavo would coax her to the bedroom window so she could weigh in on what her daughter was creating for school.
The neon circus of the downtown New York City art scene in the 1980s also influenced her work, especially when flaky bandmates in punk bands proved unreliable.
It was frustrating, she says, "when you rely on four people to make something happen and half are doing junk and not showing up. I wanted to do something I could count on. Focusing on the photography gave me more control."
Schiavo's nostalgia for backyards inspired the series, which has been 12 years in the making, but the images she creates are more eerie than pastoral.
They are whimsical avant-garde installations: chromeogenic prints in which models are often headless or wear masks, garden hoses become electric neon snakes and artificial light makes fake shadow birds take flight. Schiavo incorporates objects grabbed from neighboring yards, paints the ground, paints living leaves, manufactures unnatural shadows, all to make the real unreal.
"Matisse cut up a space, made it like a flat drawing," Schiavo explains. "I thought, 'What can I do to make this three-dimensional yard 2-D?' I played a lot with op-art, color opposites — trying to challenge Kodak. I wanted to see how far I could push the photo plane, making it a painting or drawing."
A surrealist influence is palpable: "Fido" was conceived in a pre-dawn dream. Schiavo went out into the yard, arranged the image she wanted, took the photo of the flaming dog house and went back to bed.
Schiavo abandoned The Backyard for a while, working on film and sound projects. With the advent of Photoshop in 1990, she found that many people assumed her striking, dreamy images were digitally enhanced. "People weren't getting what I was doing," she says. "So I thought, what's the point?"
But ideas for doing photographs crept back in, and "something started to click," she says. "I wanted to be outside and let things happen organically, see how nature would control you."
Photos by Chris Schiavo
Where: ArtHaus, 411 Brannan St., San Francisco
When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays; closes Sept. 30
Contact: (415) 977-0223, www.arthaus-sf.com
Admission: Free
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Most people would focus on the blue, pinks or maybe even lemon colours, but not me today.
No cute images, just straight to the point with a little gold thrown in to celebrate the occasion.
So you may wonder if someone close to me is about to hear the pitter patter of tiny feet soon. The answer is, not that I know of this time. Today I am playing along with the Global Design Project challenge theme - Baby.
Once I put this card together I knew it needed a little something, so I popped on a gold button and added some white twine. A little element without being a gender choice. This card will sit in my stash waiting for the right opportunity to find a new home.


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Perhaps the chief problem in writing a blog, at least for me, is how to keep it going, how to supply new material. This is one of the reasons I put off starting one for so long. There are certain obligations attached with this enterprise, after all. So far, I've managed to post, on average, about once a week. But since invention all too often fails one -- and since I have no desire to post about events in my life; this is a blog about the life of the mind, thank you -- I think I have hit upon a solution, gentle readers.
Starting with this post, I will be putting up from time to time items that generally fit the description of "Poetry Chronicles." The chronicles will consist largely of things I've already written -- reports on readings, introductions of readers at Naropa, and so forth. In some cases, these will be items I posted to the Buffalo Poetics Listserv before The Fall, when it became a moderated list in the wake of the Flame Wars. My hope is that these stop-gaps will still hold some interest, either historically, or for what is said about the work itself.
Now read on ...
Friday, May 1, Rachel Levitsky and I drove down to the University of Denver to hear Lyn Hejinian show a film, give a talk, and read some poems. We also gorged ourselves on mussels and bouillabaise at a very nice French restaurant -- but that's another story.
Present at one or both portions of the event: moderator Cole Swensen, Bin Ramke, Rikki Ducornet, Beth Nugent, Jack Collom, Jennifer Heath, Michael Friedman, Anselm Hollo, Andrew Schelling, Bobbie Hawkins, Laura Mullen, Cedar Sigo and Jeni Olin. And a host of grad students.
The film -- "Letters Not About Love" -- is remarkable. Directed by Jacki Ochs (incidentally, sister to Hejinian's husband Larry Ochs, who himself provided a very powerful and haunting jazz score), it concerns itself with an exchange of letters between Hejinian and Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoschenko from 1988-1993. Ochs asked the poets to shape their correspondence around a set of words -- Home, Grandmother, Neighbor, Poverty, Book, Work, Violence, Window -- which she gave them. The results form a sustained dialogue/meditation on two cultures, two idioms, and ultimately, the nature of dialogue and language itself.
As the poets' conversation progresses, it underscores the way language both encodes against loss, in a very daily and personal way -- the loss of a sense of place, the loss of memory, of the quotidian -- and is vulnerable to that very same loss and slippage. The letter figures both as a method of communication that creates its own self-contained and ongoing continuum and a form of expression anxious about its existence, about the sense of dislocation, physical and emotional, that the act of writing letters has always sought to overcome.
Throughout, the richness of Jacki Ochs' stream of visual images, combined with the music of Larry Ochs, provides a continual counterpoint, adding additional layers of "language" to the spoken words (read by the actress Lili Taylor -- Lyn said that Jacki thought her voice too "girlish" - and dialect coach Viktor Hurd).
Afterwards, some of the discussion of the film (both public and private) focused on the erotics of letter writing: on the subtle tensions that pre-inhabit the word and guide it; on the richness and power of letter-writing as a genre, a genre too often relegated to the ghettoized status of "women's writing." Hejinian spoke about "negotiating the gulf between words and things -- not to fill it [that gulf] -- but to enter it, as a realm of possibility -- a poetics of possibility..." An old White Russian woman who first read Arkadii's letters for her warned her that he was a demon and wanted to possess her soul. And Lyn quoted Shklovsky: "the role of art is to kill pessimism."
"Letters Not About Love" is, of course, precisely and ironically about love -- about the eros of logos. And the logos of eros. It has been screened at a number of film festivals, received at least one award, but at present lacks a distributor. Lyn remarked that exhibitors were nervous about its "lack of an ending." (Haven't they read "The Rejection of Closure"?).
After a break for dinner, Hejinian gave a reading, beginning with a selection of twelve poems from "Oxhota" -- the section based on expatriate jazz musician Steve Lacy's list of the 12 components of the Russian soul: Betrayal, Death, Conspiracy, Truth, etc., which Lyn says got a good laugh from her Russian friends.
This was followed by new work -- an appropriately sprightly and altogether enchanting poem called "Happily," a meditation on chance, sequence and agency:
"Is happiness the name for our involuntary complicity with chance?"
She closed the evening with a long portion from "A Border Comedy" (forthcoming soon from Sun & Moon). She described the genesis of this work as having arisen from her collaboration with Jack Collom in "Wicker," which having enjoyed so much she attempted to try on her own -- a kind of self-collaboration where a line would be written, then put away to undergo some form of effacement -- and then added on to as if written by another.
"However lively the imagination it still benefits from contact with reality."
"But a man doesn't dump his mother in a horsepond just because it starts to rain."


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About my cuisine
Lanshu Chen
After 4 years in literature domain in the National Taiwan University,
Lanshu decided to follow her craftsmanship passion and left for Paris.She spent another 4 years there to explore the world of gastronomy, receiving pastry diploma of Le Cordon Bleu and the complete culinary training in Ferrandi.
Lanshu was indulging herself in the pleasure of food and started her career as being a professional cook. She then worked in several grand chef restaurants as Les Ambassadeurs with Jean-François Piège and Jérôme Chaucesse, Relais d'Auteuil with Patrick Pignol, and also in the place of legendary Pierre Hermé pastry atelier.
Outside of France, Lanshu also interned at The French Laundry in California, from where she experienced a culture shock between French and American kitchen.


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I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
Mark Haddon
Happy 52nd birthday, Mark Haddon! Before the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time began writing, he had a career as an abstract painter.


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So let me start with some cards that I planned to be for Valentine's but would still be good for several other occasions such as love, Mother's Day, or weddings.
All the cards were made using the Authentique Classique Pretty paper collection from Scrapadabadoo.
Heart Card 1
Here is a breakdown of how I made this card.
You can download the pdf page here.
Heart Card 2
Here is a video showing how this card was put together.
Heart Card 3
Same idea, but the different papers give you such different looks.
Here is a video.
Well I hope you have enjoyed these cards.
There are 12 heart cards in all.
You can download all the measurements/instructions and templates.
I will be posting more videos during the week.
(after all, I really have to get caught up. LOL)


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From University Heights, Ohio, USA:
My 7 year-old's (Type 1) blood sugar was only 79 mg/dl last night before bed, so we gave him extra food and woke up at 1 A.M. to re-check his sugar. It was 128 mg/dl, so we didn't give him any more food and let him continue to sleep. At what reading must he be awakened and fed more? He is in honeymoon, so he only takes 4 NPH each night before bed.
Different people will have a different blood sugar goal at bedtime and through the night, depending on many factors. I would suggest talking to your doctor about goals for your child.
Some factors to consider would be the following:
- During the honeymoon period, the islet cells that are still functioning will try to bring the blood sugar down to the normal range. You may find that the blood sugars are even and normal during times your child is not eating (overnight). Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between a normal blood sugar and a low reading. For safety your doctor may lower the insulin dose.
- Consider when the insulins are peaking. If your child takes NPH or Lente in the early evening, checking a blood sugar between midnight and three A.M. would let you know of the blood sugars when the intermediate acting insulin is peaking. The tendency is for the blood sugars to rise during the dawn period after 3 A.M.
- After the honeymoon period winds down, your experience with your own child will guide you to the safe and reasonable blood sugars to aim for overnight. Many people would aim for readings 100-150 mg/dl.
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1995 Buick Roadmaster
I just brought this car from a friend at a car lot. It
has been sitting for quite some time. The battery
had to be charged in order to start it but everytime
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vent when the temperature is on off mode. Can you
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I don't have the answer to why when I turn it on it won't start without being jumped first. And why does a unknown fan blow hot air eventhough the day I bought it the temperature outside was in the 90's.
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The 1975 @ the Paramount, 11/16/14
Show Review & Photos by Dagmar
Girls started fainting before Manchester, England's the 1975 even took the stage, and I don't think it was from any kind of waiting-for-the-show fatigue or dehydration. These girls were excited to see the 1975, a band who has great songs and shows. The 1975 also turn out to be very attractive, so I get the fainting. I really do.
As with the group's Seattle appearance in April 2014 at the Showbox, the 1975 proved it's a rare breed with a distinct sound. Performing all but two songs ("Talk!" and "12") off its self-titled debut album plus six songs from three EPs,the 1975 went down a treat. That many of the 1975's songs won't get radio play due to *ahem* lyrical content is a shame – not that there is a lack of 1975 songs you can play on the radio. I respect that artistic choice; It's brought about some excellent lyrics. "Chocolate," "Settle Down," "M.O.N.E.Y.," "Talk!" "Girls," "Sex," "Heart Out" all got the audience all wild. Other standouts were definitely "Is There Somebody Who Can Watch You?" and IV's "Fallingforyou," which gave Healy an opportunity to show off some different vocals.
It's a really wonderful thing to see this band live. And it's wonderful to see it do whatever it wants. I don't have the feeling it will bow to any external pressure demanding it change and become like other bands.
How much am I and all those other fans looking forward to the 1975's next release? Oh so much.
More Photos of the 1975 @ the Paramount
"The City" – The 1975
"Milk" – Sex (EP)
"M.O.N.E.Y." – The 1975
"So Far (It's Alright)" – IV (EP)
"She Way Out" – The 1975
"An Encounter" – The 1975
"Settle Down" – The 1975
"Heart Out " – The 1975
"Pressure" – The 1975
"Me" – IV (EP)
"Fallingforyou" – IV EP
"You" – IV EP
"Menswear" – The 1975
"Girls" – the 1975
"Robbers" – The 1975
"Chocolate" – The 1975
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Scott Brosius felt the pull from his Oregon home throughout his four seasons with the Yankees, perhaps never more than on the afternoon of Sept. 11. His 9-year-old daughter, Allison, got on the phone and told him how she really wanted the family to be together, and Brosius fretted about being away.
His decision to retire at age 35 -- which will be formally announced today, according to a friend -- is surprising because he is healthy and showed last season that he can be a productive player. But Brosius is also a wealthy father of three children with the opportunity to stay home year-round, and within that context, his decision is easier to understand.
Brosius' contract with the Yankees expired after the World Series, and it was most unlikely that he would be back for 2002, with the top prospect Drew Henson preparing to take over third base sometime next season. Brosius, right fielder Paul O'Neill and the utilityman Luis Sojo have retired. The Yankees are pursuing Jason Giambi to replace first baseman Tino Martinez, left fielder Chuck Knoblauch will almost certainly not be back and the Yankees are considering possible replacements for pitcher Orlando Hernández.
Brosius played in the World Series in each of his four seasons with the Yankees, earning three championship rings. ''He fit in really well with the winning concept,'' O'Neill said. ''He used to come over all the time to my locker after we won a good game and talk about what a great game it was, and he might have gone 0 for 5. He genuinely felt that way. He was really, really a team player.''
O'Neill was among Brosius' best friends on the team, sharing a partnership in a bridge game against the bench coach Don Zimmer and catcher Joe Girardi for a couple of years. Brosius told O'Neill he hoped to sign one more contract and play one, two or three more seasons. Brosius' retirement surprised O'Neill, who said, ''But you know, when you get home after the season and you start settling in, it feels like a good place to be.''Continue reading the main story
Brosius, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, played his first seven seasons in the majors with the Oakland Athletics, batting .304 in 1996 before plummeting to a career-low .203 in 1997. The Athletics, looking to shed salary, traded him to the Yankees for Kenny Rogers and cash on Nov. 18, 1997. The Yankees did not assume Brosius would be good enough to be their everyday third baseman; they also signed the veteran Dale Sveum, just in case Brosius floundered.
But Brosius batted .300 in his first season with the Yankees, driving in 98 runs despite hitting at or near the bottom of the lineup. Manager Joe Torre began to compare his defense to some of the best third basemen in history, saying he had never seen anyone barehand a slow roller and throw on the run as well as Brosius.
Brosius batted .471 in the 1998 World Series and was named the most valuable player, and he was offered $1 million as part of an endorsement that would have required him to stay in New York for another six days. Brosius turned down the deal and returned to Oregon.
Brosius never matched his production from that first season, hitting .247 in 1999, .230 in 2000 and .287 in 2001, with 13 homers and 49 runs batted in. But he continued to have a knack for timely hits, like his game-tying two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in Game 5 of the World Series this year.
The Yankees signed Henson in March hoping he would replace Brosius next season, and Brosius knew his time with the Yankees was nearing an end. He thought about trying to sign with the Seattle Mariners, the major league team closest to his home. During the World Series, Brosius spoke with Knoblauch -- who joined the Yankees in the same season as Brosius -- about what an extraordinary experience they had both had.
Minutes after the Yankees' stunning loss to Arizona in Game 7, Brosius sat at his locker with a small smile. ''It was an unbelievable series; it was an incredible series,'' he said. ''You'd like to think you come out here and win every year, but we played a good team over there. We got stretched through the playoffs. You've got to keep it in perspective a little bit. No one died out here.''
Brosius took correspondence courses with Linfield College in Oregon over the past two years and will receive a four-year degree next spring. He occasionally joked about the possibility of coaching at Linfield College one day, a job he is free to pursue now that his career is over.Continue reading the main story


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Internal Duo Hard drive.
Hello everybody,
Does this model ( A1176 ) support a second internal hard drive? There is already a guide for it.. but it seems that stays as a external one. Just want to make sure it will work, before I buy anything. I am actually running 10.6 ( and getting ready to update to 10.7 ) on a SSD.
Thank you very much.
Bu iyi bir soru mu?
Can you give us the last four digits of your systems serial number so we can correctly identify your system.


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valentine's day isn't just about having a boyfriend. Lots of years I just spent it with my best friends. We gave each other chocolate and a cute card and so can you! It's about letting someone know you love them. Think about cute cards, flowers or a sweet present. I know it can be hard sometimes to find the perfect gift for your love. That's why I decided to make this Valentine's Day Gift Guide. I asked lots of my friends (with and without boyfriends) what they would like to get for valentine's day and came up with a great list! Because you all got your own budget for every theme I came up with three options in a different price range!
- Perfume. 1. Guess Seductive, 29,95 Now 19,95 at Douglas 2. Si Giorgio Armani 59,40 3. Black opium YSL, 78,67 (50 ml) Now 70,80 at Douglas
2. Chocolate
1.Milka 1,00 2. Bij Leonidas heb je vanaf zoon 9,99 en leuk doosje 3. Gepersonaliseerde M&M's -> here
3. Lipstick that stays in place while kissing!
- Kiko milano 3,90 2. Mac cosmetics 18,50 3. Dior 37,95
4. Bath stuff and Skincare
1.Kneipp 11,00 2. Rituals 35,00 3.Lush 50,00
You can choose how much you want to spend on these brands but most of the time this will be the price range for a great present!
5. Something active
- Candlelight tour in amsterdam! 37,50 p.p 2. Hotel stay at Van Der Valk 3. A weekend in Paris
Have fun!! xo


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This year we did a NUMBER a day!! Much like we always do a letter a day at the beginning of the year. We did number books and Dr. Jean's Numeral song everyday. We practiced writing our numbers on marker boards, in shaving cream, and with playdoh.
We day we played a counting game. We just stood in a circle and each person said a number. We counted to the number of the day. The last person to say the number of the day goes to their table and works on their number book. Simple counting game. We just added a number everyday. It really helped my non-English speaking student hear everyone count everyday. They thought it was so fun and always asked to do the counting game.
Our Number Chart!!
We always did a number chart. Of course, I made borders using the number of the day. I drew the number, number word, a shape if there is one with the sides of that number, dice, 10 frame and objects that come in that number. Of course, 2 was easy, 2 hands, 2 feet, 2 eyes. It was so cute they would count every time I drew the border around the edge. Remember...the brain likes borders!! I use them all the time!
Math stations!
Number Shake
This station I used an old jewerly box and wrote numbers 1-10 on dot stickers and stuck them to the bottom. Then put a small button or eraser in the box. GIVE IT A GOOD SHAKE! Then open it and write the number closest to the button on the marker board. Yep, it gets a little loud but that what Kindergarten is all about!!
CARDS and CUPS!!
This another simple center you can make with stuff you probably already have! I just put labels 2-10 on red solo cups. :) Then get a deck of cards or two. Take out the face cards. Let the kids sort away.


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Inaugural Auditions for This Is Water
Thanks to everyone who contributed to our first fundraising campaign!
If you missed it, you can still contribute HERE!
The first-ever auditions for This Is Water Theatre will take place during the evenings of September 8th and 9th in downtown Bryan. Due to the unique nature of the company, auditions will take place in three stages, with potential for cuts after each stage, depending on the number of auditionees.
To register for auditions, click here
All auditionees should have a theatrical resume and 8x10 headshot. (click the links for descriptions of both) Electronic submissions are preferred. Resumes should be submitted in PDF format. You can send your submissions to thisiswatertheatre [at] gmail [dot] com
Stage 1: Individual auditions (September 8th-9th). This stage will consist of 4-5 short (approx. one minute) monologues in various categories. It is designed to allow the Artistic Director to see your range. In addition, your preparation for this stage will demonstrate your work ethic and dedication. Please choose one monologue in each of the following categories:
- A role you feel you could play well and enjoy right now
- A role you would like to play but are unlikely to be cast in right now
- A role you feel you could never normally play
- A role that demonstrates a significant amount of physical movement*
- *In place of a physical monologue, you may choose to perform choreography. You must provide your own music on CD. Your choreography should be 1 minute 30 seconds maximum and tell a story; think of it as a dance monologue.
- You may choose to sing (acapella) in addition to your four monologues; it is not required. If you choose to sing, please keep in mind that your choice should function like a sung monologue.
Stage 2: Group ensemble work (Schedule dependent on auditionee availability). This stage will consist of various group ensemble exercises including improv and physical performance. It is designed to help explore how you work with other people and your ability to be present in the moment.
Stage 3: Interview (Schedule dependent on auditionee availability).
This final stage will consist of an in-depth interview with the Artistic Director.
This will not be an easy audition process, but if you are prepared it should be enjoyable. We are seeking performers with discipline, dedication, passion, skill, and most importantly, compassion and understanding, as this ensemble will be working closely together for at least one full year. While we are currently seeking 3-5 additional ensemble members, the exact size of the ensemble will be determined by the number of potential candidates that emerge from the audition process.
To register for auditions, click here
This Is Water Theatre hopes to eventually pay our ensemble at least a part-time salary. However, since this is new ensemble, compensation will be much smaller as we get started, and will be determined on a production-by-production basis.
Additionally, ensemble members will need to commit a significant amount of time not just to rehearsal and production but to marketing and fundraising.
In other words: don't audition just for the money, because there won't be much for now. Audition because you love theatre and want to work in an ensemble like This Is Water, and we'll work together to increase the amount you get paid to do it.


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Thursday, March 28, 2013
I have been a very lucky man.
Enjoying a beer in Hong Kong
A slightly different history. Some about me.
I have been very lucky in my life.
Perhaps many think this. I hope they do. But I really feel that I have had a really great and fascinating life.
As friends are getting older and some have passed away. We look back on what was. This was going through my mind the other day as I was flying out of Singapore to Hong Kong. I thought to myself, think of all you have been involved with. What you have done and seen.
It is really quite a lot in many ways. I really kind of think I have had several wonderful and not so wonderful epochs of my life. While maybe some are more concerned about money, I am more about the experience.
I have often thought that the next endeavor should be radio. I have had so much experience in life, it sure would be good to share some of the experience and experiences of my life. Also I have a good speaking voice. If anyone reading this can help me to that area that would be great.
I wanted to recall a few of the events that were really exciting, interesting, or very special for me. I am writing this on the other side of the world from which I usually write. I am in Hong Kong right now, on a rainy, stormy, night.
Even this has its own special parts. I have had the chance to meet many people from all over the world, see their world from their perceptive. It has been really wonderful to chat with and live with people from all over.
To see the world and life from a whole new vantage point. I had some very different views on life and the world till I got the chance to talk to many who changed my life.Many of these people could neither read nor write. But they had what many scholars do not have. That is a natural sense of life and a common understanding of life itself.
I grew up really poor, that is very much a fact. My mother held our dysfunctional family together and somehow we existed together. We were on Welfare and every kind of assistance We did not get the chance to see the doctor much, or ever go on a vacation. I still have a bit of envy when I hear people talk of their childhood taking a trip here or there. We never took trips, how could we?
Christmas we would often give each other something we loved and had already to each other. Buying something was just out of the question. I remember I took my mothers coat and gave it back to her for Christmas. The same was done by all of us. I received something I had already as did my sister and as mentioned before my mother.
We spend a few months living with my grandmother. My grandmother was a vicious drunk who in drunken rages would pull out a knife, or lie drunk on the floor . It was a pathetic existence and she made it known what was important. Her. I had a few records that I listened to now and then and she came in my room and broke them. After a really bad moment in November of 1970, in which she took out a knife and held it to my mother saying she would kill her..... we moved out.
My mother was drawing at straws to exist. She married a guy who was the worst example of a man I have ever met
We lived in a very beat up, dirty, insect infested cheap apartment. It was a really gross place. To this day I really cannot handle bugs, I see one and I run. Perhaps it is part of those awful memories. It is hard to even put into words.
We were many times close to being taken to foster care, or housed as there was not enough money to feed us, but we survived. I know I hid from the police a few times when my Grandmother would call them and try to get us taken away.
My step father who would often get drunk and beat me up. Not slap me, but punch me and holding a knife to me often threaten to kill me. I guess that and a number of other dreadful stories (That would be looked on as practically unbelievable) and events from my youth has given me a very strong, but tender sense. He was an animal. he beat my mother, punched me around like a rag doll and giving me various bruises, did other things I will not write to my sister.
I was 14 and very slight and I would often stand up to him and get beaten. I collected records and he would break them. He stole my grandfathers WWI material and threatened me constantly out of view or earshot of the other members of the family. Now I can take a lot of stress, pressure, and abuse. It falls off my back like a duck.
I can be like a rock, but I can still cry when I see something that moves me.
Oh that drunk step father, I finally got the nerve to fight back, and we got rid of him. A gun was used to keep him away for ever. He was not shot, but would have been if he had come back.
Thanks to my mother for her devotion and love. We had nothing but love, but in our case it was just what was needed, nothing material, but devotion to each other to survive, and survive we did.
So the first thing I wanted to say here is....Thank you Mom for giving me everything you had and more. I love you. I was very lucky to have her, as few would have given as much.
My mom went through a lot. My father left in 1969 and put us on the street. Cause there was no money. We begged to live in other peoples houses. We were homeless, and very poor. My father's brother refused to help us. Saying we were no longer part of the family. Finally we went back to my grandmothers, which was just awful.
My mom as I mentioned married the drunk and I saw when my mother was ill and needed surgery . He punched her in the stomach and and pushed her into the TV behind her. It is hard to explain the anger you feel when you see that. I charged at him when I saw that, I was 15 and small. He was a 6' 2" bruiser. I was just beaten. My mom had the surgery and took care of the awful pain she was in. My mom is very happy today and has a wonderful husband. I wish her every happiness.
I started working at 12 to help the family. I got jobs during the summer and somehow between beatings and stress I made it through school. Just barely to be honest. So did my sisters.
How we did it I do not really know, I was on autopilot and just did what I had too. So did my mom who would work everywhere for us. Then after we disposed of the drunk stepfather, our lives too on a better tone. My mother reunited with her mother. I started to study. The storm was over. But it would take many years for the clouds to disappear.
I find it really amazing that this very poor kid would have the chance to meet and talk with on a personal level two former Presidents. To know some of the greatest Opera singers who ever lived, to have the chance to meet talk with and record some of the great men of the media like Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace and Charles Osgood. That I would have lunch with the Governor of New Jersey. Meet two famous mayors of New York City. Get yelled at by Lauren Bacall, Chat with Norman Mailer. Meet Buzz Aldrin, who was one of the first two men who went to the moon in July of 1969, and to meet the brother of the man who pushed for it in the first place, Senator Edward Kennedy.
I was able to meet and study with Theodore Edison, who was the son of the famous inventor, Thomas Edison. I was able to talk with Enrico Caruso's son and learn from him about his remarkable father..
That is just part of it. To have had such diverse careers in my life. I was a house singer for the New Jersey Racing Authority. I sang at all the race tracks in NJ, Sang with my buddies Ray, Bill and John. We worked in restaurants, Bars, Hotels, Boats, and even sang a funeral. That was a over period of 10 years and we did performances all over and made some damn good money. But being young and foolish I went through it pretty quick. It was a great time in my life and I do not regret my actions, but just wish I had been wiser. We all think that after. But that was a great time for me. There is nothing like walking into a restaurant and have people applaud you for just being you. That really is a thrill. It was back then and the memory still is with me.
I had the delight of running a museum for a number of years and taking it from a little place and making it world known. That was a thrill
I was able to appear on over 60 TV programs on various subjects, but mainly as a Thomas Edison expert of which I was and still am. I was on programs all over the world. It was thrilling to have friends from another country tell you that you just appeared on TV there. I would be recognized now and then by people on the street or where ever. It was fun.
I got to appear in 2 movies and in one which was a documentary type movie on talking pictures called the Jazz Singer Set on Warner. I got to just be me and talk.
I was given the chance to teach in 2010 and that was perhaps the greatest gift I ever received and working with kids was the most rewarding moment of this life. I will always remember them. I often get emails from former students who made my life and will forever be in my heart.
There is a great deal more to this life and I hope someday to write a book about it. Cause there is so much that happened and now I am here on the last few laps of life and want to put much of it all together. Cause as perhaps as simple or crazy as my life has been, it has been a very good one. My sisters are well and happy. We all have a roof over our heads.
I have really been a very lucky man. Even the bad that happened gave me strength to go on. Cause once you deal with really bad things, everything else is very small indeed. I have had a most wonderful life.


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Just Magnolia ~ Lace
Inspire me Fridays ~ Anything goes
Bunny Zoes ~ ribbon or twine
ps this card is also on the Totally Tilda blog where the challenge is to show the words Happy Birthday
Wow Liz this is so beautiful hun...love the image and the card design...all so very pretty sweetie..:o)
have a lovely day...big hugs Vicky xx
This card is amazing Ive only just found your blog, and your work is beautiful hugies June xxxx
Oh wow Liz what a beauty!
Hugs Heidy
OMG Liz this is stunning, so many detail on your card and your colouring is gorgeous, love it xxx
It's awesome Liz!!!!! Happy birthday to us!!!! LOL
gr. arjette.
Such a great card! Love the colors, the die and the butterfly. :)
Adorable Tilda, and a wonderful shape!
Hugs, Anne.
A gorgeous card Liz and what a lovely shape! Tilda looks great on top of the cakes! hugs, Marlies
Morning Liz! What a great card you have made:) Love the shape, the gorgeous colours and sweet little Tilda on the cupcakes:)
Happy birthday and have a nice Sunday!
Hugs Kjersti:)
Aww hunny your card is absolutely gorgeous, so "Liz" and sooooo pretty, love those little stars you've added to her headband, it's just perfect :)
Thanks so much for our first fabulous year together :)
big hugs Mandy xx
Hi Liz,
happy Birthday to us :oD
Wow, your card is amazing! I love the colorcombo.
Thanks for our wonderful first ATSC year.
Lots of hugs
Oh wow this is so lovely. Fanulous card. Hugs Marja
so stunning liz.fabulous shape and details and i love your colours and sweet tilda ;D
xx coops xx
Gorgeous Liz!
Sooo pretty! Love the colorcombo! Great tekst stamp! Hugs, Karin
Oh Liz, what can I say, this is so beautiful, wow...a real stunner....love it...
have a fab day, at least we have sunny skies...lol..xx
Hi Liz and Happy Birthday, it's been a fabulous year at Addicted To Stamps and I've enjoyed every minute of it, Your card is stunning as always and it's been a great pleasure working with you. have a lovely day, Hugs Teresa xx
Oh WoW Liz! This is beautiful!
Oh WoW Liz! This is beautiful!
This is so cute, Liz!!!!
Beautiful card!
Luv Jane XX
Wow, your card is stunning! I love the colours you used too.
Hé Liz, this is gorgeous. Love the shape and LO, it's just beautiful.
I'm okee, thanks for asking, but very bussy with the house that's still not finished. Hopefully in 2 or 3 weeks everything is finaly ready (toilet, bathroom, stair to addic, new windows and so on)
Hugs, Yvon xx
Liz this card is absolutely beautiful chum such amazing detail throughout love it.
Hugs Sarah x
Oh WOW Liz this is stunning.
Wow this looks great,beautiful masking just a gorgeous card really.
Liz - your card is beautifully detailed! Great job! Happy Blogoversary to ATSC! Edith
Such a gorgeous card! Love the blue and brown combination. Such a sweet Tilda. Just stunning.
Hugs Kim
Wat een schitterende kaart! Heel leuk is het wiebelkaartje.
Groetjes Tineke
Eine ganz entzückende Karte. Gefällt mir sehr!
LG Sylyia
Hi sweetie this is just gorgeous, loving the colours too, gorgeous work Thanks for joining us at Die-Ing for a challenge this time, good luck hugs pops x x x
Gorgeous card, my lovely...love the details you have added, so pretty!
Hugs Tab xxx
Wow wonderful!!!
Hugs Sine
Wow! Your card is so beautiful :) Tilda looks so cute and I love all of the little flowers that you have used.
Fiona L x
Wow Liz stunning card hugs Arlinex
Gorgeous card Liz !! the whole design is just amazing !! fab shape and all the details are perfect ! :-)
Happy Birthday :-)
Lols x x x
hopping along :-)
Wow, Liz, this looks so cute! I love the colors and the coloring.
Happy 1st blogaversary to us.
Hugs, Tanja
Gorgeous card and your colouring is fantastic.
Cute card with little Tilda and so good it was when you put her on the cupcakes.
Nice Card Creation, looks great und i love the colors you used!
Simply stunning Liz - gorgeous in every detail - love the shape.
Happy 1st birthday to ATS.
Thanks for the hop.
Take care
Debs xx
Wow it's a so amazing and gorgeous Birthday craft! Happy Birthday for the first Blog Anniversary of addicted to stamp!
XOXO Michi
Wow Liz, this is so cute. I love the cakes and your colours.
Hugs Aartje
Stunning card Liz,so beautifully embellished and I love the shape. Thanks for the hop and happy birthday!
This is such a gorgeous card Liz ! The shape is so lovely and your embellies are so beautiful ! Hugs, blessings and love from Catherine
Hi Liz, what a lovely card this is, it really has the WOw factor! It seems I have missed so many of your lovely cards. I love your work! Judy x
OMG Liz..., your creation is AMAZING, love, love, love it !!!
Big Hugs,
Love the aqua and darkbrown colours. Happy 1st Birthday at Addicted to Stamps!


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This picture picked by Putu Utama, and this parade only could be seen in Bali one day before silent day (Nyepi) to celebrate new year of caka. This is to symbolize that universe shall be cleaned every year. Huge giant means evil both stay on your heart and in universe. To clean it by stopping all activity no light no work empty. Check this out. Can we stop for whole of the world. What happen if it could be done. I though no global warming..I hope so..check this picture:
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Gabrielle Simm
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Gabrielle Simm is Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTS, Faculty of Law and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Human Rights Centre. In 2014 she was a Lecturer at Macquarie Law School. In 2012-3 she worked as a Senior Research Associate at UNSW Law with Professor Andrew Byrnes on his ARC Discovery Project on Peoples' Tribunals and International Law. She has taught law at the Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked as an international lawyer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Attorney-General's Department in Canberra. She has also worked as a refugee lawyer in Melbourne at Victoria Legal Aid and in a voluntary capacity at the Refugee & Immigration Legal Service.
Areas of expertise
International Law, Disasters and Humanitarian Response, Migration and Refugee Law, international law and film, Critical, feminist and regulatory theory
Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Member, Asian Society of International Law
Member, European Society of International Law
Admitted as a legal practitioner to the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Victoria
Courses taught
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However, the client's need is not always just training. Findlay All Hazards also conducts facility safety and threat assessments, collaborative emergency response plan development and live exercise planning and implementation. We can offer such services and associated training at multiple locations, simultaneously, because of our large pool of qualified subject matter experts and our ability to leverage distance-learning technology.
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Since its inception in the year 1992 the Department of Biotechnology has been offering M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in Biotechnology. The students admitted to M.Sc. Biotechnology programme are those selected in the combined entrance examination conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on an all India basis.
The Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India has given an additional grant to strengthen the M.Sc. Biotechnology teaching programme. To augment the infrastructure facility and to develop a vibrant research group, the members of the faculty have attracted extramural funding from both national (UGC, DBT, DST, CSIR, AICTE and BRNS) and international (Rockefeller Foundation and Danish Government) funding agencies. The publications coming out from the Department attest to the exemplary research work carried out in the Department.
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Craft-In Wednesdays: Mint Tin Tiny WorldOctober 13, 2010, 09:00 am Posted by Craft Your Life Team
Hi, Craft-In friends!
Welcome to the second of six very special Craft-In Wednesdays. Each week, we'll be giving away a copy of the full box-set of Craft-In: 12 Project Booklets for Your Own Crafty Gatherings plus an original project from the set, made by a featured designer. Check last week's post to see who left the winning comment as determined by random.org.
This week, you have a chance to win a copy of Craft-In and an original art assemblage from the Mint Tin Tiny World booklet by Debrina Pratt. Check it out! Debrina is the queen of whimsy, and she makes the most charming art. Will you look at how darling that little fairy is?
Don't you want to take a closer look? I do! In her booklet, Debrina guides you, step-by-step, on how to make your own tiny world, and as a bonus, she includes four different paper collages that you can use as your background. For more of Debrina's charming collage elements, please visit her etsy shop, landofenchantment.
To be entered for a chance to win Craft-In plus Debrina's one-of-a-kind assemblage, simply leave a comment on this post by 9pm EST on Wednesday, October 20th. Any comment will do, but what I'd really like to know is: What will you put inside your own mint tin tiny world? The winner will be notified by Wednesday, October 27th. Official rules are here. Good luck to all who comment! Special thanks to Debrina for so generously donating her art for Craft-In fans like you. She's an absolute doll! Make sure you check out her blog, whimsicalworldoffairies.blogspot.com.
See you next Craft-In Wednesday! Here's a little ditty to take you out, Craft-In style. <wink>
UPDATE: Colleen won the Mint Tin Tiny World assemblage and a copy of Craft-In! Congratulations and enjoy!


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By ALANNA LYNOTT
She might have just split from her husband.
But Miranda Kerr still has one man to rush home to - her two-year-old son, Flynn.
Dressed head-to-toe in white, the 30-year-old jetted home to New York from Los Angeles on Wednesday, beaming at the prospect of being reunited with her little man.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2489872/Newly-single-Miranda-Kerr-looks-ecstatic-reunited-son-following-Orlando-split.html
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