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... on the last day I was supposed to take it out my boyfriend & I have unprotected sex. I left the ring in for 2 more days just to make sure. Its been 4days since I had took it out & I haven't had my period yet. I have this weird feeling in my low stomach as if its cramps but it goes away shortly after. & if I press on that area it hurts. Should I be worried?
I have had the nuvaring for a long time now. Iv had my nuva in the full 3 weeks like recommend, but?
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- 11 January 2015
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No. You're thinking your pregnant, and no way would you have signs already. You disrupted the cycle your body was in, and even tho its not harmful to do that, it gets your body a little off. Your period isn't really important when you are on hormonal birth control. If you let it out for the full 7 days, your start day is going to change. Did you know that you can let it in for 4 weeks, then put a new one right in without a week break, and skip your period?
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Understanding psychic abilities with Melissa Alvarez
Do you believe in psychics? Have you ever read a book with psychic characters and wondered if they were portrayed realistically? In this interview with internationally renowned clairvoyant advisor and paranormal romantic suspense author, Melissa Alvarez, who writes as Ariana Dupré, we'll delve into what it's like to be psychic and how this one author portrays these abilities in her novels.
Melissa has worked in the publishing industry in many different roles. She was the Guide To Romance Fiction at About.com for a year and a half before she expanded her self-publishing company, New Age Dimensions. During the two years that the company operated as a small press Melissa published all genres of books with a focus on psychic fiction and paranormal romance. After Hurricane Wilma forced her to revert the company back to a self-publishing entity, Melissa began writing full time. She's has two books available from Cerridwen Press and another scheduled for release next year. Melissa is also listed as a psychic with The Lotus Circle and has a couple of nonfiction metaphysical titles in the works.
When it comes to psychic abilities, a person may tap into one or two specific abilities while others may utilize many more depending upon their vibrational level. In Melissa's case she is able to use many different abilities. I asked Melissa if she could tell us about some of the different types of psychic abilities that she is able to utilize when she does readings for others. Here's a listing of some of the abilities she uses on a daily basis.
Clairaudience: Clear audio/hearing—intuitively hearing from the spiritual realm that which isn't normally audible in the everyday physical world.
Clairempathy: Clear emotion—to actively feel/sense the emotions/attitudes of another.
Clairscent: Clear smelling—to smell odors or fragrances from the spirit/ethereal realms.
Clairsentience: Clear feeling/sensations. In this instance, the psychic has an insight or "knowing" of a hidden or forgotten fact. They feel it throughout their whole body without any outside stimulation.
Clairtangency/Psychometry/Object Reading: Clear touching—to hold or touch an object or area and perceive information about the article, such as its history and owner, which wasn't previously known. Psychometry enables a psychic to pick up vibrations left on an object by someone connected with it. Someone with this ability could use an unfamiliar object to reveal much about its owner.
Clairvoyance: Clear vision—the psychic ability to see visions without using your eyes; an intuitive knowledge of people and things; to perceive within the mind's eye something that exists in the spiritual or ethereal realm.
Conscious Channel Medium: One who receives messages from the spirit realm through any psychic ability without going into trance.
Empathy: The talent to sense the needs, drives, and emotions of another.
Past-Life Regression/Future Progression: The recall of a past-life or lives—information about different incarnations, through the subconscious mind, by the use of techniques such as hypnosis or through conscious channel. Also the obtaining of information regarding simultaneously existing future lives through the same methods.
Precognition: Quite simply, "knowing." Since no one psychic can ever know every detail about the future, this ability refers to knowing general outcomes of specific courses of action, with occasional flashes of detailed insight. (In other words, no one can ever really "know" the future, only that a certain path will lead to a certain place—but if that "path" changes, the predicted outcome can change, as well.)
In order to understand more about the way psychic abilities work, I asked Melissa some very specific questions about her background and experience with being a clairvoyant advisor. I also wanted to know how she portrays psychic characters in fiction. My interview with Melissa follows:
Deb) How old were you when you first began to see there was something different about you?
Melissa) When I was fourteen I experienced a sudden illness. It was very much like the flu but I was unable to raise my head from my pillow without feeling intense pain. The doctor couldn't give us a diagnosis other than what wasn't wrong with me. Oddly enough, I saw an elemental spirit that morning who told me that I would get very ill and afterwards I would be able to "know" things. This was very strange for me because I really thought I was hallucinating. It was the first time I'd ever seen a spirit manifest and I didn't know that was what had happened until later on in my life. After the illness ran its course I started to know things. I'd have a certain feeling about people and would get glimpses of things that had happened to them or that didn't make sense at the time but would later happen to the person. This was when I realized that something was different. Since then, I found out that psychic abilities run on both sides of my family for many generations and that the illness just brought out the abilities that I'd had since birth. When I was younger my parents had noticed that I saw life differently but just attributed it to a "vivid imagination". It was only when I became an adult and talked openly about my abilities that they told me about relatives in our family tree that also had abilities similar to mine.
Deb) What was that one defining moment when you had to stop and realize there was something different about you. What was it? Where did you go to find answers?
Melissa) When I began to know things that would happen after my illness. Once I realized that people looked at me differently when I talked about the things that I saw, felt or just knew, I decided to keep my mouth shut. As a teenager, I didn't want to be different from my peers, and my abilities not only made me different in their eyes but made me just plain weird to them.
For many years I tuned it out, thinking it would go away, but it didn't. In my twenties, when the abilities started getting stronger and I was at even more of a loss as to why this was happening to me, I read as much as possible to try to figure it out.
Deb) How did you learn to cope with it?
Melissa) It was very difficult. I had to learn to accept the abilities and claim them as my own, which took me a long time to do. I'm skeptical by nature and always look for a logical answer first but when things happen to you that don't have a logical explanation you learn that there is more to life than what you can see with your eyes. In my case, I had things happening to me on almost a daily basis. I learned to live with it after a while because I realized it wasn't going away. I'm not one to quickly say that everything that happens is truly of a metaphysical nature. I decide if it is or not by ruling out the normal and logical possibilities first.
Deb) How did both affect/effect you and how do you see this "gift" you've been given.
Melissa) At first I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then, when people made fun of me because of the things I said and when I couldn't explain the why of some of the things I saw, I became afraid of my abilities and tried to ignore them. Eventually, when I had no other choice but to learn or stay afraid, I studied on my own by reading metaphysical books. I took what made sense to me and discarded the rest. The more I grew spiritually and understood that this was a gift to use to help others then I became less afraid. For me I went through an array of emotions – hated it, loved it, feared it, wished it would go away and then when I was pregnant they did go away and I wished they would come back. LOL Now, I see my abilities as a gift that I've been given to help others. This was the elemental's message all along, but it took a long time for it to sink into my thick skull. The emotional responses from the people I read for telling me how much I helped them and how accurate the reading was for them is what keeps me doing readings.
Deb) What was the best bit of information you got to pass on to someone?
Melissa) There have been so many amazing readings over the years but I think the best is when I'm able to give messages to someone that they really connect with by offering information that there is no way I could have known except to get it through the use of my abilities. When those impressions help them through a difficult time it means the world to me. I never discuss specifics of readings because I feel the information is private and only for the person I receive it for. I'm just the delivery girl. Normally I don't remember specifics of readings after I've done them so I always tell people to write down what I saw or print out their readings because I will surely forget them.
Deb) What was the worst?
Melissa) Anytime I see bad things happen it's difficult. It's really hard for me to see missing people on television or crimes because I'll get impressions about them and sometimes it's not things that I particularly want to know.
Deb) What absolutely scared the bejesus out of you?
Melissa) I was a teenager and I was talking on the telephone in our pantry. It was the only place you could have any privacy in a large family and the room was only about 10 x 10. There was one chair in the room so you could sit and talk on the phone with your back against the shelves. I was sitting there blabbering away with my best friend when I felt someone put their hand on my shoulder and squeeze. My back was against the shelves and it scared me half to death. There was absolutely no way anyone could have been behind me. I dropped the phone and ran out of the room and left my friend just hanging. I wouldn't go back in there for a while. Thank goodness she hung up when she figured out I wasn't coming back to the phone.
Deb) What do you wish people would ask you?
Melissa) I don't really wish for anything specific. I think people should ask what is on their mind and what they're having a problem with to see if I can get any impressions that will help. I think that if people would ask more about their life purposes instead of worrying so much about the mundane little things in life that it would be very helpful to them. I think once we understand the bigger picture than the smaller worries fall into place.
Deb) What do you wish people would not ask you?
Melissa) Questions about other people, medical questions or ask me to read their children. I have very few rules about my readings but people always ask me to do these types of readings when I state very clearly on my website that I won't read do them. Other than that, any question is okay with me because I feel that I will be shown what will help them the most and what they need to know – even if what they need to know isn't what they want to hear. I don't sugarcoat my readings, but I do deliver them in a kind and hopefully helpful manner. And I'm not 100% accurate so I wish people wouldn't expect that or base major decisions only on what I say. You always have free will to change what may come through in a reading. I'll be the first one to tell you that no psychic is 100% accurate. If they say they are – run away as fast as you can because they're not telling you the truth and if they lie about that they'll lie about other stuff.
Deb) What one thing about psychics do you wish you could educate people about?
Melissa) I'd want them to know that there are a LOT of frauds out there who make those of us who truly have gifts and use those gifts to help look bad. There are some psychics who are gifted but who do readings for self-glory instead of just to help. I don't think that's the right way to present yourself or your abilities, but that's just my opinion. I'd also like for them to know that just because someone is psychic doesn't mean the automatically know your deepest darkest secrets. I only look into situations when I'm asked or if I'm suspicious about someone in my daily life. I learned a huge lesson about this recently. I used to never look when it came to people in my daily life because I felt it was an invasion of privacy. Recently someone we trusted abused our horses when he was supposed to be caring for them, which taught me that it's okay to look to protect your own.
Deb) Have you ever gone to a psychic? About what? Did you feel better after talking to them?
Melissa) I sure have. Sometimes I've felt better, sometimes I've felt worse and some of them scared me half to death with their negative readings. Other times I've turned the tables on fraudulent psychics and read them (with their permission of course) and left them speechless. Now that I know better, a psychic has to prove themselves to me. They have to prove that they're accurate, grounded and are truly trying to help others. I've been scammed just like most people by fraudulent psychics, but that happened more when I was still learning about and understanding my abilities.
Deb) What should we know about a specific psychic before we ask for their services. (i.e...is there a group they should be registered to prove they are legit...like the AMA?)
Melissa) Well, if it's someone you're going to visit in person check their references. And NEVER believe everything they say. You really have to feel a psychic out – if they're online do they have a good reputation? What are their business practices? Are they fair and honest on their website? Write to them and ask about the readings and see how they respond. I'd really be wary of people who claim that they can make someone love you, return a lost love, or get even with someone for you. I also can't stand it when psychics give someone a negative reading then tell them to come back for another reading that will cost an arm and a leg. I couldn't tell you how many times I've helped people who another psychic has scared with a terribly negative reading and told them to give them a stupid amount of money for them to fix things for them. That's a rip off artist and if you ever have a reading like that demand a refund immediately or refuse to pay and report the person. There really aren't a lot of places that certify psychics that I know of unless they certify you and then want you to only work for them. I was certified years ago but the company has since gone out of business. During the certification I had to provide accurate readings and prove my abilities. I'd also look at the organizations that the psychic is a member of, if any, and if they had to prove themselves as accurate in order to become a member. To me that holds more weight than a certification after their name.
Deb) Can you give us some reputable names as an example?
Melissa) First let me say that for me to recommend a psychic it has to be someone that I personally know whose business practices are ethical whose accuracy level is very high and who will stand by their readings. They must be someone that I would let read me and would trust that what they saw was accurate. They have to have proven to me that they are a trusted and accurate psychic.
When it comes to individual psychics – I know a lot of them who are very good but again – if I'm going to put my name behind someone as a recommendation it has to be someone that I know is ethical and accurate and I have to say there are only two of them that meet all of my personal criteria in what I look for in a psychic. So, my recommendations for other reliable, accurate psychics are:
Sally Painter – Sally is just starting to give readings to the public in 2008. She is probably the most accurate psychic that I know. She's very ethical, grounded in her approach to both things of a psychic nature and the paranormal. I trust her readings without question because she's read for me so many times and has been accurate in the messages she's seen. She's the only psychic I know who can truly read the Akashic Records and is accurate in her delivery of the text. Sally's using her blog for readings right now until her psychic site is launched. The link is http://www.sallysmidnightnews.blogspot.com .
Annette Martinez – I've known Annette for many years. She started out as one of my clients for psychic readings and over time became a good friend. She learned to develop her own abilities and is now doing readings on her own website located at http://www.freewebs.com/missannette80/index.htm . Annette is very accurate in what she sees and is an ethical psychic. She offers affordable readings via email and chat on her site.
As far as organizations go I'd recommend the OPDR which stands for Online Psychics and Divination Readers. The directory is located here: http://www.opdr.net/directory/members.html The owner has branched out into phone readings and while I can't speak for the psychics he has on the phone lines, and I'm not recommending his phone psychics, I can tell you that the ones listed in the directory are the original members of OPDR (I've been a member since 1999 or 2000) who had to give accurate readings to the owner before they could be listed in his directory. So, I'd recommend the ones listed here because I know what I had to go through to become a member and they went through the same process. There aren't any other "groups" of psychics that I'll put my name behind.
Deb) What do you absolutely hate reading in a story, on how psychics are perceived.
Melissa) What bugs me more than anything are authors who write about psychics and don't believe in anything of a metaphysical nature. To me that just says "Hey look, I jumped on the psychic fiction/paranormal bandwagon to sell a book." Even if someone hasn't had an experience yet that's fine but they should believe it's possible and they should really do their research to make sure the psychic sounds true to life and not too stupid to live. Because, believe me when I say that someone reading it will be able to see right through things that aren't researched accurately. It also bugs me when authors make the psychic look like an idiot and a flake that doesn't have a brain but relies on their "powers". I personally never call psychic abilities "powers" because to me that isn't what they are. Super heroes have powers, not psychics. It's bad enough that psychics have to deal with those kinds of labels in our everyday lives but to have to read it in the books we purchase is just downright annoying. Usually when I run across a book like this I just give it away after only getting partly into the story.
Deb) I guess now is the time to admit I'm totally awed by you and your gift ,so if some of my questions seem stupid or ignorant...just know that...and of course, I'm blonde...that should cover everything else :-P ...and yes I love poking fun of myself...no one does it better than me, as you'll come to find out.
Melissa) Awww…..thank you. But you don't have to be awed. This is just something that I do. It's a part of me that I've had to learn to embrace and it wasn't a piece of cake to do at times. Thank you for the complement. I really appreciate it. You don't sound stupid or ignorant at all. The only way people can learn is to ask questions. Besides, I know some great, smart, intelligent blondes – just like you.
Deb) If you use Tarot, what decks do you like?
Melissa) I only use one deck. I was in a bookstore when I was in college and they had some decks in a glass display case. I looked around the store and kept being drawn back to the deck. At that time I didn't even know what the cards were for, but knew that I was supposed to have that one deck. So I bought it. It's the Rider Deck and the only one I use for readings but I have several other decks now that I use for myself.
Deb) Do you find it hard to read for people you are close to?
Melissa) I find it easy to read people whether they're close to me or if I've never met them before. It's just the way I receive the information.
Deb) I have a character in a new book I'm writing...with her she only has a dream...and only occasionally...until one night the dream gets all the way up to when she gets burned in a previous life...in my case I had her waking up startled and in pain..with a burn/blister becoming pronounced....First off, is this even possible...second? Second...this specific event has her going to shrink...so upon seeing the burn and hearing what she has to say, send her to a regressionist. That said...what would her specific experience be called?
Melissa) Well, I guess anything is possible. I've never experienced a dream where I woke up with something on me but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I've never really heard of that though so I don't really know what you'd call it. I've recalled past lives through dreams but never with a physical result. If I had to put a name on this I'd probably call it past life recall with physical manifestation. I recently read a book that had this happen in it. With fiction you have creative license in the world you create. With me the one thing I always try to portray accurately is how a psychic's abilities work and how they act and react regarding them. In my February release, Talgorian Prophecy, I have shape-shifters. I've never known anyone that could do this so for me it's creative license regarding them. If I ever meet someone who can shape-shift then I'll have to change the way I portray them to reflect how it really happens. In life, as in fiction, anything is possible.
Deb) How to ask an appropriate question to a psychic.
Melissa) Basically you just ask it with an open mind. When a person is clear they're easier to read than if they're trying to block the psychic. Most people who go to a psychic do so because they need help. When they block, it's harder to help. I've had to tell people in the past to relax and stop blocking so I could read them. Then you also get people who intentionally try to trick you or to prove you wrong. I won't even read people like that anymore if I sense that's what they're doing. I don't mind people testing me but I don't like people trying to trick me.
On my website under the FAQ's section I have a question called "What do I have to do for a reading?" Here's what I tell people who are seeking guidance from me:
First you should relax then clear your mind and focus on your question and the situation surrounding your request for a reading. Then imagine the energy that you have created from around this question flowing into the computer screen. Focus the energy into the screen detaching it from yourself, then release it while imagining that it is traveling to me. That's it!
For best results from your reading I do ask that you follow these guidelines:
1. Request a reading with an open mind. No psychic on this earth is 100% right and although we may be very accurate not everything is going to be perfectly matched to your life. I will not have every answer that you are looking for, but I may have several that will help you. God gave us all free will and it is up to us to do with our lives as we see fit. I can't fix all of your life's problems, nor can anyone else, but I can offer the impressions that I receive as possible solutions. Ultimately, it's all up to you and how you react to your situation and the decisions you make in your life. Your destiny is in your control. It's your choice as to how you will use the information you receive in your reading, whether that means keeping it or discarding it.
2. Remember that some of the things that I receive may not be happening right at this specific moment in your life, but I am being given the information because you are supposed to have it. It could be an event that will be coming up in your future or what I am seeing may be a variation of a situation you're currently experiencing. For instance - I may see you looking for a new car and I see it as white when you are actually looking for a tan car. The fact is you are looking for a car - right? Or you may be looking for a new job and I see you working as an attorney. But you're a secretary at a doctor's office and have no interest in the legal field. So you think this could never apply to you. But say in six months the doctor moves to another state and closes his office and you are offered a position as a paralegal in an attorney's office? Well, that part of your reading didn't apply to you six months ago but it sure applies now doesn't it? Those are the kind of things I'm talking about and why it's important to keep an open mind.
3. Don't try to purposefully trick me just to prove me wrong. What good is that going to do? Make you feel proud so you can call me a fake? That's ok if you want to have an attitude like that but if that is your attitude I am requesting that you do not order a reading from me. As I have just said - there are no psychics that are 100% accurate. Only God knows all. If you come into the reading thinking that I'm going to be wrong then you are blocking your vibrational energy and it makes it harder for me to do your reading.
4. Don't expect me to tell you only what you want to hear. I will give you all the information that I receive because I feel that is my duty. I don't think that I would be given the information if it is not important and relevant to your life. I made an agreement with myself many years ago that I would tell everything that I received even if the information isn't that great. I can only be true to myself and my gift by being truthful and honest with you and I believe that this is how God wants me to use this gift.
5. Enjoy your reading, print it out and save it for future reference. And if you feel that I was of help to you then send me an email to let me know or come back and see me again in the future.
Deb) Define open mind and remember, I'm a blonde...so what do you mean when a person is clear???? Define Block?
Melissa) Open minded means that you're able to consider all the possibilities instead of just thinking "no way". When a person is blocking they subconsciously or consciously put up a wall of energy around them to keep others out including the psychic that is reading them. This actually happened on my November 30th show so if you listen to the end of it you'll hear what I mean. The reading section starts around 60:00 on the counter on the show page. You let it start playing then click on the bar under my picture about 2/3 of the way across. In this situation, Sally was unable to read the caller at all and I just got lots of scattered energy. She didn't like it when I told her to drop her defenses and she said "interesting" and then the call disconnected but I didn't know it and kept talking. LOL I'm not sure if she hung up or the call dropped. My impression was that she hung up because I got other impressions that someone else put her up to calling in and that it was a test of sorts. Anyway, I hope the call just dropped. When I say a person is clear that means they're open minded and are interested in what I have to say. They don't block and have an open mind about the reading.
Deb) How to use a psychic and the information they give you to better yourself...or better your career, etc.
Melissa) Well, I wouldn't "use" the psychic – we're people too and being psychic is just a gift we're given. What I always tell people is that they should take the reading, print it out and refer back to it. They should also take what applies to them right now and work on those areas by looking deeper into them and following any guidance that the psychic has given you that feels right to you. People shouldn't blindly follow a psychic's advice. Leave the things that don't apply right now for another time because they may come into play later. There have been plenty of times that I've read for someone and they'll tell me "Oh this will never happen because of so and so and such and such". Then six months later they'll write back to tell me that what I'd predicted just happened. I love that kind of feedback.
Deb) See for me I just don't know enough to know how to ask the right questions....I wouldn't know how to define or refine a question to have it say what I mean and mean what I say...I know...just remember I'm the blonde...bottled these days, but just as blonde!
Melissa) It's really just asking what you want to know. Make sure the psychic knows what you're saying before they start the reading. If you're having a hard time getting the question out just make sure they understand, at least generally, what you're looking for before they go searching for the answer on your behalf.
Message from Melissa: I wanted to add that the feedback from the people I read for is what keeps me doing the readings for the public. When people tell me that what I saw made sense to them and affected or helped them in some way, then I know that I'm on the right track with what I'm doing. There are also times when readings may mean a lot to a person but they also mean a lot to me as the person receiving the impressions. It's those intense readings that stay with me and I keep thinking about them later. While readings can often be just an answer to a question they can also be very emotional and touch the person and me on a deep level. I hate to make people cry but there have been readings that not only make the person I'm reading for cry but make me cry as well. Those are the best. When this happens it totally outweighs any negative things people may say to me or about me regarding my abilities. It's why I keep doing them and why I feel they're important.
Thank you for interviewing me. I hope what I've said has been helpful. I've really enjoyed our communication as we worked on this and it was a pleasure meeting you, Deb.
Feel free to check out Melissa's many sites and please note she's doing a radio show through May where you can call in and get a free one question reading at the end of her show:
Her psychic reading website - http://apsychichaven.com
Her author website - http://melissaa.com
Her online show The Reader's Round Table - http://blogtalkradio.com/MelissaAlvarez
Her page on Cerridwen Press's website - http://www.cerridwenpress.com/AuthorsBooks.asp?AuthorCode=ADup
Her myspace page – http://myspace.com/arianadupre
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Interview with a psychic and author - Melissa Alvarez - Part I by Deb Julienne
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UPDATE 7 p.m. The Con Edison outage map shows 474 Pelham residents remain without power. This is a different number than this afternoon's number of one hundred and fifty three customers still in the dark, and falls in line with the more than 600 customers reported Monday morning.
UPDATE 2:20 p.m.: One hundred and fifty three Con Edison customers in Pelham remained without power Monday afternoon according to the Con Edison outage map.
PELHAM, N.Y. – More than 600 Con Edison customers remained without power in Pelham Monday morning, a week after Hurricane Sandy brought strong winds, rain and flooding to the area.
An estimated 371 out of 2,051 Con Edison customers in Pelham Manor and 239 out of 760 in the Village of Pelham were without power at 5:30 a.m. Monday, down from 748 and 240 Sunday morning.
The utility company reports an estimated 69,293 out of 348,198 Con Edison customers in Westchester were without power at 5:30 a.m. Monday, down from 88,060 Sunday morning.
"The men and women of Con Edison, along with thousands of utility workers from around the country, are working with determination and professionalism to put our customers back in service," said Craig Ivey, president of Con Edison in a press release. "We are running an aggressive, coordinated restoration campaign in response to the worst storm ever to hit New York. We will continue working around the clock until every home and business owner whose equipment was not damaged by the storm has power."
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235.9 fucking pounds. Jesus! What the fuck have I been doing? (Sorry for all the fucks, but fuck!).
Okay, I've got a lot on my plate.. (Chortle — that was an accident, I certainly do have a lot on my plate and I've been eating it all).
Time to take stuff off my plate, literally and figuratively. I want to feel better (my pain issues are giving me fits) and I want to be healthy.
I actually did a good job yesterday. Breakfast bar for breakfast, oatmeal with splenda and unsweetened frozen raspberries for lunch, a big salad (with too much yummy stuff in it like avocado), a plain bagel (nothing on it and I didn't eat the second one) and scallops and oven fries for dinner. Not a lot of noshing in between and no visit to McD's even though I went by two.
Okay, pull up my socks and get it together. No more McD's for anything but a DC and/or salad. Smaller servings of oatmeal (measure). Cut out the dinner-time starches. Push the veggies and fruit.
Two things I can do — use NetDiary for a reality check (also my scale) and be mindful. It's so easy to toss a handful of something into my mouth. Grazing is healthy but not all day long.
C'mon, Krissie, get it together. I've been Ziggy Piggy when I go to NJ (I just saw "Bill and Ted" again last night so the term is on my mind). I need to figure out how to partake of the culinary joys of NJ (Kathy's diner, real pizza) without getting out of control. Particularly since I seem to end up there every few weeks (and will be there in another three weeks or so again).
Richie also hit me with the usual bad financial news, but we'll deal with that. At least my car was repaired and I was only out $800 instead of $2000. And I love my car.
Got a traffic ticket yesterday but the nice cop cut it down to 10 miles over the speed limit instead of the 15 (and I was more likely going 25 because I was passing someone). He probably saw me crying (I was trying to hide it) so my ticket was only $99 instead of $200 and something. I was late for the dentist and they're nasty when you're late. Sigh.
But I'm writing, and as I said yesterday, things fall into place when I write.
Which I'm going to do now.
But I need to check in with food counts and weight every day for a week and see how things go. So far, only a Tab and a breakfast bar. Maybe a salad for lunch before I see my shrink.
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Are you passionate about Mathematics? Can you share your fascination and inspire young people to deepen their mathematical understanding and confidence? Rainham Mark Grammar School is a popular and highly successful co-educational selective school with a large Sixth Form. We are seeking a well-qualified, enthusiastic and committed teacher for our Mathematics department from 1 September 2018.
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DOG owners who exercise their pets at Langold Country Park can now take advantage of three new dedicated routes that have been specifically created for small, medium and big dogs.
The new routes have been devised by Bassetlaw District Council, in partnership with Dogs Trust, to encourage people to enjoy the benefits of fresh air and ensure that dogs, and their owners, gets the right amount of exercise.
These fun trails will be officially launched on Sunday 10th September and members of the Council's Environmental Health Team will also be dishing out some goodies and information on how you and your dog can stay healthy between 9.30am and 12noon.
Cllr Julie Leigh, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods at Bassetlaw District Council said: "We hope that local dog owners will enjoy these dedicated routes and that they will also encourage more people to use the park's fantastic facilities.
"Don't forget to look out for the colourful marker posts that lead the way and the extra bins where you can dispose of dog waste. You can also share your experiences with us on the council's Facebook and Twitter accounts."
All the routes start and finish in the parking area and incorporate easy, moderate and challenging walks, some of which include woodland paths, that are marked with colour-coded signs and also have plenty of rubbish bins where you can dispose of dog waste.
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Jay Saunders (né John Henry Saunders III; born 29 June 1944 Sacramento, California) is an American trumpeter and music educator at the collegiate level. In the 1970s, Saunders was a lead trumpeter with big bands — notably the Stan Kenton Orchestra (early seventies) — and a session musician in the Dallas area. Saunders recently retired from the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music where he taught jazz trumpet, jazz recordings, and directed the One O'Clock Lab Band.
Originally from Sacramento, California, Saunders attended the University of North Texas College of Music from 1965 to 1968 where he studied trumpet with John Haynie (born 1924).[1] Saunders was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band, served as an undergraduate teaching assistant in trumpet, and played two short tours with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. After earning a Bachelor of Music in 1968, Saunders played lead trumpet in the Studio Band(now called the "Jazz Ambassadors") of the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 1971. Upon discharge from the U.S. Army, he immediately rejoined the Kenton Orchestra in July 1971, eventually playing lead trumpet[2] until the fall of 1972. That fall, Saunders returned to the UNT College of Music to work on his master's degree. While there, he served as a graduate assistant teacher of trumpet and lab bands until the summer of 1975. He earned a Master of Music Education in fall 1974.
His tenure with the Army Studio Band (1968–71) and Kenton (1971–72) coincided closely with that of Ray Brown — a composer, arranger, trumpet player, and jazz educator, who, while with the Kenton Orchestra, held the jazz trumpet chair.
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Saunders played lead trumpet and toured with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and the Studio Band of the United States Army Field Band at Fort Meade, Maryland. Saunders played off and on with the Kenton band for many years and taught at Kenton clinics. He recorded eleven albums with Kenton and one album each with Ornette Coleman and Doc Severinsen as well as many religious, Latino and rock artists.
As a member of the Jerry Gray Orchestra at the Fairmont Hotel's Venetian Room, Saunders backed noted artists, including Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, and Ella Fitzgerald as well as hundreds of other well-established performers. He has been an educator/performer in the Dallas–Fort Worth area since the 1980s, performing with the Fort Worth and Dallas Symphony Orchestras as part of their Pops Series, playing first trumpet for the Dallas Summer Musicals, as well as a variety of recordings and shows in the area.
Saunders has been heard playing lead trumpet on broadcasts for the BBC, VOA, WABC, KABC, WNBC, WCBS and for the CNN/SI, CNN, HBO, ESPN Radio, Warner Bros. and Paramount TV themes, in addition to many other broadcasters in the United States. As an educator, Saunders has taught at Richland College, Tarrant County College, Texas Wesleyan University, Collin College, and the University of North Texas College of Music.
He also plays with Pete Petersen and The Collection Jazz Orchestra. "He has a reputation as being one of the best," said Petersen of Saunders. Petersen told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he had needed a trumpet player for the recording of Playing in the Park in the mid-1980s. Saunders continues to play with them.[3] The band went on to record two other albums.[4]
Selected discography[edit]
As a trumpeter with the Stan Kenton Orchestra
- Live at Brigham Young University (1972); OCLC 39644362
- The Four Freshmen: Live at Butler University, with Stan Kenton and his Orchestra, Creative World Inc. (2 LPs, quadraphonic), 1972; re-released by GNP Crescendo Records (CDs) (1986); OCLC 24482461
- Stan Kenton Today (recorded live, Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Surrey, UK, February 10, 1972, 2nd show), originally released in 1972 by Creative World Inc. (2 LPs, quadraphonic), re-released by Dutton Vocalion (2 CDs) (2005); OCLC 4394288
- Selections (Videos) from a Feb 6, 1972, live audience BBC recording (same band):
- "Chiapas," on YouTube by Hank Levy (1927–2001)
- "A Little Minor Booze," on YouTube by Willie Maiden (1928–1976)
- "MacCarthur Park," on YouTube by Jimmy Webb (1946– ), arranged by Dee Barton (1937–2001)
- "The Peanut Vendor," on YouTube (El Manisero) — featuring the trumpet section, by Moises Simons (1889–1945), arranged by Pete Rugolo (1915–2011)
- "Intermission Riff," on YouTube by Ray Wetzel (1924–1951)
As a trumpeter with Pete Petersen & The Collection Jazz Orchestra
With Doc Severinsen
- Night Journey, originally released 1976, re-released Nov 10, 2009, by Wounded Bird Records (CD); OCLC 5341472
As director of the Two O'Clock Lab Band
- "The Beat in Progress" on YouTube, by Brett McDonald (saxophonists on the recording)
- "Just Friends" on YouTube, arranged by Sean Nelson (lead trombonist on the recording)
- "Beautiful Love" on YouTube, arranged by Sean Nelson (lead trombonist on the recording)
- "Sir Louis John Pinkerton's Express" on YouTube, by Thomas Davis (lead trumpeter on the recording)
- Two Twos (2011–12) 2 CDS
- Kind of Two (2013) CD
On January 27, 1968, Jay married Patricia Lynn Bode, who, in 1968, earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas College of Music. Jay and Pat have a son, Stephen Kenton Saunders (born 1972).
Inline citations
- ^ Inside John Haynie's Studio: A Master Teacher's Lessons on Trumpet and Life' by John J. Haynie, University of North Texas Press (2007); OCLC 191091285
- ^ Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra, by Michael Sparke, University of North Texas Press (2010); OCLC 681766080
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pg. 207
pg. 238
pg. 249
- ^ "Pilot's Jazz Sideline Takes Off", by Brandon A. Miller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 23, 2001
- ^ Discography of Jay Saunders, AllMusic www


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Drake: Rap Superstar Turns 29 Today — Happy Birthday
It's Drake's special day! On Oct. 24, Drizzy turned 29 and to celebrate the rapper's birthday, we're taking a look back at his crazy amazing year!
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July 25, 2017
Day Creek Square a 28.4-acre mixed-use development in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, received unanimous city approval to proceed. The project includes 380 units of residential, a 71-room luxury hotel, as well as two restaurant buildings totaling 12,000 square feet.
Arlington, TX-based D.R. Horton is developing the project on one of the last parcels within walking distance of the nearby Victoria Gardens. The city approved a zone change from office and commercial use to mixed-use for the vacant lot. A construction timeline has not been set for Day Creek Square.
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Penelope Cruz Goes Grey for 'Venuto Al Mondo'
Penelope Cruz sports grey hair while filming scenes in artificial rain for her new movie Venuto Al Mondo on Thursday (September 15) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The 37-year-old actress plays Gemma, a single mother who accompanies her teenage son to Sarajevo, the hometown of his father who was killed during the Bosnian war. Venuto Al Mondo also stars Emile Hirsch.
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So far this month I've been quite bad at documenting my outfits and there have been a few that I've completely forgotten to take photos of until it was too dark to get any decent shots.
|A line wool dress - Style 2621 (1969)
|Crimplene shift dress - Simplicity 7195 (1967)
|A line crimplene dress - Style 2621 (1969)
|Wool shift dress - Simplicity 5537 (1964)
As you can probably tell from the first photo, I went to see the Elvis at The O2 exhibition at the beginning of the month. Much to my dismay the car parking attendant thought I was there to see Olly Murs, I had no idea he was popular enough to fill the O2 (shows how much attention I pay to the charts!) and quickly corrected her that I was in fact there to see Elvis! After battling the crowds of pre-teens waiting for the doors to open, we were able to get to the exhibition and were delighted to find it half empty. It's smaller than I thought it would be but as an Elvis fan it was definitely worth the visit.


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Why am I drunk and on a computer you may ask? Well, it's a long story when you really think about it. I'll just say I happened to end up alone tonight with nothing but some wireless internet, a pug, and an endless supply of cosmopolitan martinis at my disposal. So far I've watched two episodes of Intervention and commented an obscene amount on my friend Carly's photos on facebook. Oh, I also uploaded this photo of myself to hotornot.com.
Yes. This is me at Stonehenge looking like a crazy. I can't possibly take hotornot.com seriously since you are judged purely on looks alone. Right now I'm sitting at a solid 8 with this gem of a drunken memory:
I can't help but be surprised at this. I never really wanted to sign up for Hot or Not. I just wanted to judge others as shallowly as I possibly could. This is what happens when you're in a drunken stupor with a laptop on hand. It didn't help that my boyfriend urged me to post a picture, hopefully not for internet verification that he is indeed dating someone who is of the status "hot". This sort of thing would never have become a reality through my own, sober doing. But if you find me in the right place at the right time... well, I guess anything can happen. This includes putting myself on the internet to be judged numerically by strangers who are apparently desperate to date me (new years hat included). I guess I didn't realize that Hot or Not is not only a mindless and indulgent way to pass the time, it is also a site where matches of heaven are made. Since signing up (again at my boyfriend's bidding), I've received a whopping 72--oh no, make that 74--men who have said "yes" to me. Now all I have to do is say "yes" back. But I won't because I have a boyfriend, sillies. Not only do I have a boyfriend, but I also am using his computer to post this post as I lay on his bed, drinking his alcohol and petting his dog... in his house. So yeah. You could say we're pretty attached. The only thing missing is him. But that's not his fault. I was supposed to be out of town visiting my grandma this weekend, but since the weather turned to crap, I instead stayed home. This did not sway Ryan from breaking his plans with the guys to get drunk and spend the night at a friend's house. And in case you're wondering, yes, it is a slumber party despite what he says. A drunken slumber party full of men, alcohol, and movie called The Gamer. Lame.
Enough of my explanations. Let's see some of the messages my Hot or Not friends have sent my way...
From "Matt": sorry to write all random, saw you on here, you're super cute! :] just wanted to see whats up with you.. hope you are having a sweet day, sorry again for the randomness, but had to say somethin.. cheers- matt :]
Don't even worry about it, Matt. You're not random at all considering you're contacting me via Hot or Not. My day has been pretty sweet if you find folding laundry and then getting drunk with a pug "sweet". Fortunately I do. If you want to date me, plan on things like this happening a lot. Also, I have a boyfriend who just wanted to see how hot I really am.
From "Ryan": What is your pretty hot self doing tonight, Sam? I like your hair! :)
Well, "Ryan", I'm drunk and on the internet. I suspect you're doing something of the same sort this Saturday eve? Perhaps not. Maybe I could date you because you have the same name as my current boyfriend, so things wouldn't totally be weird. That is until I realize I'm dating someone I met on Hot or Not and not my boyfriend who I happen to be madly in love with despite his short stature and scarred eyebrow. Thanks for liking my hair. You can have it. Also, I have a boyfriend who just wanted to see how hot I really am.
From "Jon": Wow you look amazing. You are very beautiful. I would love to talk and get to know you better. Please write back. Jon
Would you Jon? Really? Just because I happen to enjoy a good ring in of the new year doesn't give you grounds to "get to know me better". Although, it's nice that you think I'm beautiful. Still I'm a little creeped out that you're 40. I'm just not there yet. Also, I have a boyfriend who just wanted to see how hot I really am.
Yup. You can't make this stuff up. I'm going to see what this Stonehenge picture gets me. Hopefully some druids will write in with comments on my magic playing skills or some shit. I need another cosmo.


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Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel will return for season 11 of 'America's Got Talent'.
The trio will join show creator Simon Cowell - who replaces DJ Howard Stern on the panel - when it returns to screens later this year.
NBC President of Alternative and Late-Night Programming Paul Telegdy said in a statement: "Howie, Mel and Heidi have an undeniable chemistry together and bring unbridled energy to everything they do. We are very excited to bring them back along with Nick Cannon as host, and with the addition of creator Simon Cowell as a judge, the panel just got a little more interesting. We can't wait for the new season to begin."
Simon recently revealed he had accepted a role on the reality TV series, replacing Howard, who quit the show in September.
Simon announced on Twitter: "The good news is 'America's Got Talent' is back next year and the even better news is so am I!
"We've been talking about it for a few years, funny enough, me and NBC. This year ... everything worked. So it was perfect."
And Simon has promised to bring his 'Mr. Nasty' persona to the judging panel when it returns to the air in 2016.
He said: "I'm not going to lie to people when I think they're hopeless, I just couldn't do that!
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The day on coexistence in the Parliamentary Chamber of Navarre for the Permanent Social Forum has concluded with a call on political agents to "begin an integrative and definitive path. This must be the legislature of solutions". This path has been seeded by eleven victims of different sides during four very emotional hours.
Families of the mortal victims provoked by different agents, elected officials who have spent years with bodyguards, a torture victim and the sister of someone who died because of the dispersal policy have shared experiences and points of view about coexistence in the Parliament of Navarre all afternoon today, in a special session of the Permanent Social Forum.
After this day, in which the President of the Parliament, Ainhoa Aznarez, and the Mayor of Pamplona, joseba Asiron, assisted, Fernando Armendariz and Begoña Uharte have expressed in name of the Permanent Social Forum that "this must be the legislature of solutions. There is a society which demands it. And there is a favourable time for it". Their call was directed, above all, to those political agents, those who did it from Aiete as well as two weeks ago. They have also advanced that after the session of decommissioning and this about coexistence in Navarre, they will also continue working on the track of the return of the exiles and those on the run.
Before, in the second roundtable of the day, three councillors of the PSN who had bodyguards (Mercedes Sanchez, Jose Luis Uriz and Julia Cid); Eneko Etxeberria, the brother of "Naparra"; Txema Jurado, ex-councillor for the Abertzale Left, prisoner for the "Udalbitza Case" and later absolved; Oihan Ataun, tortured; Jose Ignacio Meijide, from Gesto por la Paz; Ana Fernandez, the sister of Sara Fernandez, killed in an accident on the way to the prison of Valdemoro; and Atizaber Berrueta, a baker who was killed by a Spanish policeman and his son.
The roundtable was very moving, with some cases which were told for the first time and that unmasked their own suffering with complete sincerity. It became evident the commitment of these victims with coexistence – although with bases about which this concept means – and its enormous capacity for empathy – . And above all it has demonstrated its incomprehension for its questions which have been blocked for five years after the decision of ETA, with numerous references to the necessity to end dispersion.
Lourdes Zabalza and Iñaki Garcia Arrizabalaga together promote coexistence in the Social Forum
The day, "Building coexistence in Navarre convoked by the Permanent Social Forum and which took place in the Plenary Session of the Parliament opened with an emotional face-to-face between Lourdes Zabalza and Iñaki Garcia Arrizabalaga, the son of a victim of the Anti-capitalist Autonomous Commandos. [CAA].
Two victims of political violence opened a special session of the Permanent Social Forum in Pamplona. Their family members died at the hands of organizations who were confronting each other. But there were multiple coincidences between them. The two cases occurred in the 80's (1980 and 1985), both are still without being clarified legally and the two speakers have complained about being forgotten by the institutions. They have also suffered common problems with the publication in the press of the cadavers of their family members, something frequent during that time period, if Zabalza has pointed out in his case that image at least served to show that the official version was that Milel spent three weeks drowned in the Bidasoa River.
Above all of this pain, they have made a combined apology of coexistence, even in situations where justice hasn't been done, like this one. "You can build coexistence without the Amazon of justice", Lourdes Zabalza has said. But the son of he who was the delegate of Telefonica in Gipuzkoa, "we coexisted after the Civil War, but the wound didn't heal well. And we are still pulling people out of the graves." Iñaki Garcia Arrizabalaga says that he considers that it is "a mistake and and an error and a horror that they don't count Mikel Zabalza as a victim". And he has pointed out that the new Spanish government should end dispersion and recognize Mikel Zabalza as a victim. And he has pointed out that the new Spanish government should end with dispersion and work to clarify the attacks by ETA that haven't been cleared yet.
The day was opened by the President of the Parliament of Navarre, Ainhoa Aznarez, and by Fernando Armendariz in name of the Permanent Social Forum. The Mayor of Pamplona, Joseba Asiron, also assisted as well as elected officials of formations such as EH Bildu, Podemos and PSN.


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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I know I am missing something fundamental - but I have no idea where to > start to look.
It's really difficult to figure out what you're asking. Your code snippets and associated output seem all jumbled up. It would help greatly if they were presented in order. > Here are code snippets: > > I have truncated the allowed_fields to make it easier to debug. > > $allowed_fields = array( 'Site' =>'POST[Site]', 'MedRec' =>> > '$_POST[MedRec]', 'Fname' => '$_POST[Fname]' ); > echo "post #1\n"; > print_r($_POST); Here, do you realize that you are setting each element of the array to the exact contents of each string, i.e., there will be no variable interpolation? If that's what you intend to do, great, but read on... > RESPONSE: > > post #1 > Array > ( > [Site] => AA > [MedRec] => 10002 > [Fname] => > [Lname] => > [Phone] => > [Height] => > [welcome_already_seen] => already_seen > [next_step] => step10 > ) Are you expecting something else here, or is the $_POST containing the correct data? > > // $allowed_fields = array("Site", "MedRec", "Fname", "Lname", // previous > statement of $allowed_fields > // "Phone", "Sex", "Height"); I'm not clear why you're showing commented out lines. This looks like output from a statement below. It's much clearer if you put the output below the code. > Key Site, Value POST[Site] > Key MedRec, Value $_POST[MedRec] > Key Fname, Value $_POST[Fname] > foreach ($allowed_fields as $key => $val) { > print "Key $key, Value $val\n"; > } And the above output is exactly what I would expect given how you created the $allowed_fields hash: each of the values was set as an uninterpolated string by using single quotes instead of double quotes. If you really wanted the values, you should not have quoted them at all, but instead quoted the $_POST key names, like so: $allowed_fields = array('Site' => $_POST['Site'], 'MedRec' => $_POST['MedRec'], 'Fname' => $_POST['Fname']); Pay closer attention to what you are quoting and how you are quoting it. > if(isset($_Request['Sex'])&& trim($_POST['Sex']) != '' ) $_REQUEST is always fully capitalizes, unless it's your own variable. (If it is, I suggest using another name as it's confusing.) Also, as you seem to know that the field is in the $_POST array, rather than use $_REQUEST, go ahead and just use $_POST. > { > if ($_REQUEST['Sex'] === "0") > { > $sex = 'Male'; > } > else > { > $sex = 'Female'; > } > } This is an opportune time to use a ternary operator. Replace the inner if-else with: $sex = ($_POST['Sex'] === "0") ? 'Male' : 'Female' ; > } ^ Is this an extra closing brace or is it closing something before the snippet? (confusing) > echo "Post#2"; > print_r($_POST); > if(empty($allowed_fields)) What is happening after this line? > //RESPONSE > > Post#2Array > ( > [Site] => AA > [MedRec] => 10002 > [Fname] => > [Lname] => > [Phone] => > [Height] => > [welcome_already_seen] => already_seen > [next_step] => step10 > ) As you have not changed $_POST in any way, this is exactly what you should expect to see. > { > echo "ouch"; > } Is this ^^ what comes after the if(empty statement above? What is it's output? > foreach ( $allowed_fields as $key => $val ) //This is line 198 > { > if ( ! empty( $_POST['val'] ) ) This will always check the value associated with the 'val' entry in $_POST. I'm pretty sure this is not what you want. > { > print "Key $key, Value $val\n"; > $cxn = mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password,$db); > $value = mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST[$fld] ); > $query .= " AND $fld = '$_POST[value]' "; The query will check to see if what ever $fld evaluates to (I don't see where it is set, but maybe somewhere else) and compare it to the *exact* string $_POST[value] -- I doubt that you are storing that in your data base -- at this point I'm not really sure what you want there. > echo "#1 $query"; //never echos the query ^^ it never will, since the Notice and Warning below indicate the for loop is never executed. > } > } > These are the messages I receive on execution of the script: > > Notice: Undefined variable: allowed_fields in /var/www/srchrhsptl5.php on > line 198 > Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/srchrhsptl5.php > on line 198 Is this stretch of code inside a function perhaps? If so, is $allowed_fields declared as a global inside the function? Please send or pastebin more code so we can see it clearly. Generally when a problem like that is reported and it's not obviously a typo or spelling error, the problem is not necessarily at the line itself, but above someplace in the code. > Advice and help, please. My general advice is to pay closer attention to what you're quoting and how you're quoting it, and that case matters in variable names. '$_POST[val]' is the *exact* string '$_POST[val]' -- it does not get any content from the $_POST variable or one of it's fields. Please *READ AGAIN* about quoting and variable interpolation: < http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php > After you fix the problem that shows at line 198, do this right at the top of your loop: echo 'Single Quotes: ' . '$_POST[val]'.PHP_EOL; echo 'Double Quotes: ' . "$_POST[val]".PHP_EOL; echo 'Single Quotes around POST key: ' . $_POST['val'].PHP_EOL; echo 'Variable $val for POST key: ' . $_POST[$val].PHP_EOL; and notice the difference. Case matters: $_Request is NOT the same as $_REQUEST -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php


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Film Studies
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Since its inception over a century ago the Film has grown to become one of the most pervasive forms of communication and entertainment operating in both national and global contexts.
In this course you will learn about how the film industry operates in British and American contexts, considering along the way the issues and debates relating to its organisation. Our tutors will help you to explore the language of film – the conventions and techniques used by filmmakers to communicate to audiences and provoke in them a variety of emotional and intellectual responses. You will learn to use theories and concepts to approach film in a critical and analytical way, deepening your knowledge and appreciation.
You will also be given the opportunity to engage with film creatively by producing your own storyboards, screenplays and films.
Higher Education Destinations:
- Manchester Metropolitan University – Creative Writing Led Community Practices (Foundation)
- University of Salford – Media Production
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- University Oxford – History
Career destinations:
- Film/video editor
- Programme researcher
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- Television camera operator
- Broadcast engineer
- Television/film/video producer
Entry Requirements:
As well as the standard entry requirements for A Level study, it is necessary to have achieved at least a grade 4 in English Language GCSE to equip you for the challenge of the course writing skills!
Assessment Method:
AS Level 1 Year
American Film exam: 35%
European Film exam: 35%
Production coursework component: 30%
A Level 2 Year
Varieties of film and film-making 35%
Global film-making perspectives35%
Production coursework component: 30%
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Will Kaye
"Film Studies appealed to me because I've always seen cinema as more than entertainment. Studying Film at OSFC was great as it transformed a recreational interest into academic intrigue. I especially enjoyed making my own film, highlighting the importance of practical skills. The coursework also helped me comprehend ideas such as auteur theory and filmic postmodernism. Analysis lessons enabled me to develop understanding of how films construct meaning and communicate to audiences. The environment of Film Studies benefitted me immensely; the relaxed yet professional approach of the tutors developed my interest in cinema as well as my appreciation for it as a medium. In the future I plan to read history at Cambridge, and I feel Film Studies offers me a unique insight into history. Detecting patterns in popular cinema, genres such as social realism, and documentary forms has given me a new tool for historical study."
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"I chose Film Studies as I always loved watching films. I thought that learning about how they were made, and how to analyse them would be enjoyable. I was not disapointed. The coursework module involved writing an essay in which I studied a scene from a film that I chose. I then wrote about how elements such as editing and cinematography were used. I also made a 'storyboard' which allowed me to create a scene from a film in photographs. The coursework meant that i gained marks before the exam, allowing me to work out what I would have to achieve to attain each grade, which was a big help. I really enjoyed learning about the different aspects of film such as genre conventions and representations. Doing this course has made me realise that I would like a career in the film industry myself."


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Sophie Goodchild, home affairs correspondent at The Independent on Sunday, has been named Mind Journalist of the Year for her reporting which led the paper's mental health campaign.
Runner-up was John Howe, deputy news editor at the Sunderland Echo, for his series of articles covering the tragic deaths of patients at Cherry Knowle Hospital.
People columnist David Mellor won the Bigot of the Year Award for a column headed "Yes, lock them away BEFORE they strike".
One of the judges said Goodchild's "quality reporting, in particular stories on the scandal of the forgotten inmates of secure psychiatric hospitals, and coverage of the Government's draft mental health bill, deserves the highest praise".
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I am glad I have her early in the day because it just sets a tone. I have learned so much from Mrs. Russo, and look forward to taking ASL 2 and 3 with her. I miss a lot of school for medical reasons, and she works hard to catch me up with the rest of the class. I know that I can talk to her and trust her, and that is why she is so valuable to our school!


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