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So, I recently noticed that my eyes are getting greener looking and my limbal ring looks a bit darker. My DH's is insistant that I 'm being silly, that my eyes are exactly the same as they've always been (I don't give him much credit because he says khaki and brown are the same color). Besides that, my eye color and hair texture has changed several times over the years.When I was a child they were a very, very dark blue until I was around 5 or so. They changed to a honey/whiskey hazel with a bright gold starburst in the middle. When I hit puberty, they got a kind of olive/moss color mixed in with the honey color. When I hit my 20's they were slightly browner/yellow/honey looking. Now the olive/moss color is coming through much, much more. They also change color when I'm really extremely angry.Anyone else experience this? I'm not imagining it?
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Quote from: RingTailedLemur on April 01, 2013, 06:45:34 AMIs today a public holiday in the US/Canada or Australia?Many schools have Easter Monday off because school admin know people are traveling. Boy am I hearing griping about Texas not having today off. TEA scheduled STAAR tests for this week. 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th have STAAR tomorrow. HS students may have had tests scheduled today.
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Red alert, also known as condition red or code red, was the highest alert signal status on Starfleet vessels.
Usage Edit
One stage above a yellow alert, this status had weapons systems and shields brought to full power, essentially preparing the ship for combat. The Klingon equivalent of this status was defense condition one. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; DS9: "Once More Unto the Breach")
Red alert could also be ordered during various other emergency situations, such as a ship being boarded, radiation exposure, a security alert, massive systems failure, an imminent warp core breach, and an evacuation order among others. (TNG: "Descent", "Final Mission", "True Q"; VOY: "Threshold", "Day of Honor"; DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil"; Star Trek Generations; Star Trek Beyond)
A red alert could either be activated manually by the commanding officer or the officer in charge, or automatically, as when a ship was attacked, or entered a dangerous area, etc. (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver", "Arena") The raising of shields automatically triggered a red alert. (TNG: "Justice", "Contagion") The ability to activate red alert could apparently also be granted even to non-ranking crewmen at discretion, as Seven of Nine had clearance to place the USS Voyager on red alert. (VOY: "Nothing Human", "Virtuoso")
Sections of a starship could be placed on red alert while other sections remained at a lower alert status. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
During a red alert, lights were dimmed, computer terminals showed constant red graphics, and alarms would sound.
|Alarm sounds
|USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-D
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|Deep Space 9
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|A Runabout
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|USS Defiant
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Notable usesEdit
In 2152, "condition red" was among the possible names that Lieutenant Malcolm Reed considered for the security protocol that was eventually dubbed "tactical alert". Because of Reed's obsession with the security protocol Trip suggested "Reed Alert", which was also rejected by Reed. (ENT: "Singularity")
In 2266, upon discovering a phaser on overload hidden somewhere in his quarters on the USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk announced a "double red alert". (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
In 2293, while the USS Enterprise-A was returning from Rura Penthe, an intercom message by Commander Uhura informed the crew that only certain decks should remain on red alert while in Klingon space. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
In 2369, Commander Benjamin Sisko ordered red alert for Deep Space 9 when an alien ship from the Gamma Quadrant fired a radiation burst onto the shields, which depolarized them. (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")
The same year Sisko ordered red alert when a pulse wave torpedo was fired into the subspace rupture. (DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses")
In 2372, Captain Sisko ordered red alert on the USS Defiant, shortly before the cloaking device was deactivated and the shields raised, to prepare for the battle with three Klingon Birds-of-Prey. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
In 2374, Chakotay mentioned that USS Voyager would remain on "full" red alert. (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II")
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|Battle • Evacuation • Fire • Intruder • Perimeter • Proximity • Security • Standby • Tactical
Background informationEdit
"Red alert" comes from the naval tradition of general quarters, and in fact the command "general quarters" may be used interchangeably to bring the ship into red alert.
In "The Corbomite Maneuver", red alert was referred to as Condition and General Alerts.
In "Where No One Has Gone Before", Captain Jean-Luc Picard issued both commands. The Klingon equivalent for red alert may be a reference to the American alert system DEFCON.
In "Scorpion, Part II", Chakotay mentioned that the USS Voyager would remain on "full" red alert. This may signify that there are multiple levels of red alert status, or that certain aspects of red alert, such as manning battle stations, can be stood down while allowing other aspects such as charged weapons to remain active. It may however simply refer to the fact that Voyager would remain at red alert for the duration.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the red alert lights change during the show's run. The first time red alert is heard is in "Encounter at Farpoint", but the lights aren't flashing red. The first time the lights are seen flashing red is in "The Naked Now", which have only the top and bottom part of the lights flashing. However, beginning in "Where Silence Has Lease", the whole part of the lights flash. The next change the lights have is seen in "Man of the People", where there is a longer period between when it flashes and when the sound is heard.


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By Megan Morley Thomas
Users might not realize that uvm.edu has drastically changed, that is unless they are looking on a tablet or mobile device where they'll see a more streamlined, easily navigable and appropriately-sized site (device-dependent). The Web Team launched a responsive uvm.edu on Jan. 7 after concluding that the higher ed web landscape was on a precipice.
"Institutions are increasingly aware that the public front door of their university — their website homepage — is being accessed from any number of devices now: smartphones, desktop computers or tablets — all of varying screen sizes," says Tatjana Salcedo, Web Team strategist. "In order to provide the best possible user-experience, we opted to rebuild the site in a responsive way."
"Responsive web design" is a method of web design developed by Ethan Marcotte that uses CSS and other techniques to allow the layout and content of pages on a website to respond according to the screen resolution and orientation of the device viewing the site. This means making your design and images shrink and grow to the browser window and altering the layout (often the number of columns) at specified resolution thresholds. Additionally, responsive web designs allow easy interaction when using a touchscreen and contain video and audio that plays across a wide range of devices. The result, when implemented well, is a highly functional and attractive website that scales elegantly, regardless of the device used to access it.
The project — completed in-house by the Web Team — had to consider every aspect of the homepage, from buttons better sized to fit fingertips to navigation appearance and behavior to content prioritization.
"Responsive design keeps the visual integrity of a page as it changes shapes and rearranges content. This allows the user to have a better experience on any device," says Deb Goller, Web Team graphic designer.
Enrollment management implications
Of the many audiences who visit uvm.edu, there's one audience in particular whose mobile usage is skyrocketing.
A 2012 E-Expectations Report* conducted a survey of 2,000 college-bound juniors and seniors about their expectations for college websites, mobile usage, e-mail, and social media. The report indicates that 67 percent of college-bound students have access to a mobile device. Fifty-two percent of college-bound students have looked at a college site on a mobile device while 20 percent of them have looked at a college site on a tablet.
The Jan. 7 responsive launch included the undergraduate admissions web pages.
Bringing your unit into responsive design
Starting Monday, Jan. 14, the UVM Web templates offered online will be responsive upon download. Retrofitting an existing site is a different story, although if a site has stayed true to the offered publishing system features, the transition to responsive should be fairly simple. Webmasters can view online documentation and make appointments with the team for support. In addition, the Web Team will host an open info session on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 from 9-10 a.m. in the 113T Waterman computer lab. Highly customized sites, such as the colleges, will be addressed one at a time with a great deal of assistance from the Web Team.
"The more customized a site, the more complicated the transition," says Megan Hack, team developer. "We'll plan to tackle those sites one at a time."
For more information, see:
- UVM Web Guide responsive info
- 2012 E-expectations report
- A few words on responsive design from its creator
*E-Expectations Report conducted and published by Noel-Levitz, OmniUpdate, CollegeWeekLive, and NRCCUA® (National Research Center for College & University Admissions).


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Editors at Work: Behind the Scenes of the Paris Review Interviews
I'm a shameless dork about a number of literary things, but perhaps the first of them were the Paris Review interviews. Plenty of other folks might have been doing more interesting things on their study breaks in my college library, but I wore a path in the linoleum between my desk and the shelf in the stacks where they kept all the old Writers at Work collections, and by the end of four years I had worked my way through all of them, from E.M. Forster through Rebecca West and S.J. Perelman and James Jones and Lillian Hellman and all those other mid-century giants canonized by the magazine's editors, and if I hadn't graduated I'd probably have started over at the beginning and gone through again.
Why are they special? Well, because they were first (author interviews were nowhere near as ubiquitous then as now), but, as the newish editor of the Paris Review, Lorin Stein, pointed out during his guest stint on Ta-Nehisi Coates's blog last week, because they treat these interviews like no one else does. This isn't some guy (like me) calling up an author for 20 minutes and calling it a podcast. As the writers I've talked to who have worked on these have confirmed, they are a major, collaborative project:
In the first place, the method is slow. My interview with Jonathan Lethem took a couple of weeks, with reading assignments before each session. Joshua Pashman's interview with Norman Rush, coming out in the September issue, took three years, eight sessions, and 500 pages of transcript. (Later boiled down to 33 pages in print.)
In the second place, the interviews are collaborative. After our interns type up the transcripts, the interviewer and subject sit down and edit them—together. Often they rewrite the questions and answers completely. When Frederick Seidel interviewed Robert Lowell, the tape recorder didn't work: Fred wrote up the whole thing from memory, then gave it to Lowell to revise.
When writers have total control, George realized, they feel safe. And when they feel safe they open up.
Stein's post is of course quite rah-rah for his own magazine, but I'd no doubt feel the same if I had been bequeathed a legacy like that. And as a dork, I loved the glimpse behind the curtain, including a preview of the interviews in the pipeline for coming issues, starting with Norman Rush and Michel Houellebecq in the September issue, and after that "Dave Eggers, Ann Beattie, Samuel Delaney, Louise Erdrich—and, yes, Jonathan Franzen." And, perhaps best news of all, they are in the process of putting the full archive online and searchable. You can also find some of them in the newly curated collections Picador has put out in the past few years: volumes I, II, III, and IV. --Tom
P.S. Coates, one of my favorite bloggers, had a couple of editors as guests while he was off writing in the woods this past month, and I had meant to point to them earlier, since it's relatively rare that book editors step out from behind their desks to speak for themselves. Along with Stein's posts, I liked what Chris Jackson, who edited Coates's Beautiful Struggle at Spiegel & Grau as well as folks like Victor LaValle and Matt Taibbi, had to say about his approach:
Part of the fun of being an editor is the occasional fantasy that you're calling together a league of literary superheroes to take on the forces of evil in the world. Put your art to work, I say. I've always been drawn to stylistic outliers, polemicists, and revisionists--I'm a firm believer that the greatest need in our age is for writers to move readers from whatever comfortable positioned they've fallen into. I'm a fan of vulgarity. In part its a function of my upbringing: growing up in Harlem in the 70s and 80s taught me a lot about the irrepressible power of a true thing told in the most resonant possible language.
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On January 24, 2013, a Protocol to the United States-Japan Income Tax Treaty1 was signed that, if ratified, would (among other things) provide for mandatory binding arbitration of certain mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases. Double tax cases arising from transfer pricing adjustments, and cases involving Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) requests, are among the cases that would be eligible for arbitration under the new Protocol. In addition, cases involving the attribution of profit to a permanent establishment (PE) (including the threshold issue of whether a PE exists) would also be eligible for arbitration.
The signing of this Protocol signals a growing acceptance of the alternative mechanism of mandatory arbitration to resolve difficult cases that the tax authorities are unable to resolve through competent authority negotiations. Mandatory arbitration provisions also have been included in recent U.S. treaties or treaty protocols with Belgium, Canada, France, and Germany, and several bilateral cases have now been resolved through arbitration. The new U.S. treaty protocols with Switzerland and Spain also contain mandatory binding arbitration provisions, but have not yet been ratified by the Senate. Japan has also agreed to arbitration provisions in treaties with Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Portugal, and New Zealand (the latter two have yet to be ratified).
Transfer pricing cases between the United States and Japan have generally been resolved expeditiously in recent years. The new arbitration provision, which would be applicable to MAP cases that remain unresolved for more than two years, shows a commitment by both tax authorities to continued timely resolution of these bilateral matters.


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Duffy takes three for team, sets record
Astros prospect plunked for 33rd time at Class A Lexington
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | August 5, 2012 7:16 PM ET
But Hagerstown did and, as a result, Duffy will have a record that lasts much longer than his bruises.
The Astros prospect was plunked three more times while accounting for four runs in the Legends' 16-6 romp over the Suns.
"We play them a bunch," Duffy said, "and I have been hit a lot of times."
Eleven times in 20 games, in fact. Daubach and his pitchers have played a significant role in Duffy's historic and somewhat dubious distinction: The 23-year-old University of Tennessee product broke the South Atlantic League single-season mark for HBPs with 33 through 111 games. Brewers outfielder Nyjer Morgan recorded 32 with Hickory in 2004 but probably for a different reason. Morgan is a slight left-handed hitter. At 6-foot-3 and 227 pounds -- with 14 home runs to his name -- Duffy is decidedly not.
"It's a little bit of both: I do dive a little bit in my stance. And the book on me, [against] righty power hitters is to not let them get extended, to pitch inside," Duffy said. "The pitch can get away from them sometimes, especially at this level where guys don't have pinpoint accuracy.
"Three in one game, I was little frustrated today."
That also set the Sally League's single-game mark, which has been accomplished many times but not since 2002.
"It's a unique record to have, for sure," said Duffy, who added that he's most often hit on his left (lead) arm, in the upper, inside corner of the strike zone. "I feel like I get hit every other game. I don't wear a pad, but I should probably invest in one.
"They usually don't hurt too much. As long as I am not getting hurt, it doesn't get to a point where it's dangerous."
Duffy, a 20th-round pick in last year's Draft, was hit by a pitch 13 times in 63 games at short-season Tri-City in 2011, giving him a share of the New York-Penn League lead. For what it's worth, the Milton, Mass., native also was plunked 13 times in 54 games as a collegian in 2010.
No other Minor Leaguer this season has been hit more than 30 times. Class A Advanced Winston-Salem's Cyle Hankerd is next in line with 21.
Has the midseason All-Star felt like he's been hit on purpose?
"I haven't," he said. "A lot of hitters think, 'They might bean me if I hit a homer and celebrate too much,' but I've never gotten beaned liked that."
In this, his first full season as a pro, Duffy is doing much more than getting free bases. He's also earning them, with a .299 batting average, 46 extra-base hits and a .395 on-base percentage despite walking only 37 times.
"It's been a good year," he said. "I started off slow. I remember realizing how long of a season it is. Man, it's been a long season -- I didn't realize how long it would be. I've always floated around .300 as a hitter, but [I decided to] forget the numbers and trust the process and have a solid approach."
And solid contact -- with his bat, not his body.
"I want to hit home runs and do all the great stuff hitters do," he said, "but I'll take what the game gives me."
Duffy also singled in a run in the fifth inning Saturday. He was not, however, one of six Legends to record a multi-hit game. Brandon Meredith led the way with four hits and three RBIs, falling a triple shy of the cycle.
Zach Johnson drove in three runs, breaking Jake Goebbert's 2010 single-season team record with 100 RBIs.
Lexington starter Chris Devenski (7-5) gave up three runs on seven hits over five innings.
Suns counterpart Taylor Jordan (0-2) was charged with five runs on five hits over three frames. He hit three batters, including Duffy twice.
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|Julia Roberts
LONG POST but a MUST READ for newbies!
There has been a lot of questions about moving to LA and NYC lately from some of our new posters. I would like to clear up a few things and put things in perspective about what is really needed from you, financially and emotionally in this business. This info is from an LA perspective but I imagine NYC is very similar.
Some of the necessary things you will absolutely need just to survive are as follows-
Per Month
place to stay $700-$1200
food $300- $500
gas $200- $400
electricity $50- $200
miscellaneous $200 +
So, just to survive at the barest minimum if you have roommates, a LOW gas mileage car and IF gas stays low cost-wise and you never use an air conditioner, sit at home on Saturday night and eat very minimally- $1450 a month.
NOW that is just to live, acting aside. For your acting you need this- (to do it right if you actually want to stand a chance, that is)-
acting classes $800 for 12 weeks at my school
on camera class $200+ a month
improv classes $300 or so for 8 weeks
headshots $400- $600 every six months
reproductions $95 for 300 +
postcards $50 for $200 cheapest
I found
mailings $3.50 for a pack of 25 envelopes
stamps $1 or so to mail a headshot?
ink for printing $60 or so for refills
paper $5- $10 for 500 sheets
reel editing $150- $350
duplication $300??? for a few hundred
padded envelopes
and labels $????
Submission sites $68 for Actors Access
$120 or so for NowCasting depending on which package
$140 for LACasting
$175 for Backstage + Ross
These are all yearly.
$12.95 a month for IMDBPro
Film Independent
Membership $95 a year
Women in Film $110- $210 a year
Australians in $125 a year
AFTRA initiation
fee $1300 + dues
So, without any union fees and without including the price for DVD mailings etc, the amount for that first year would be around $14,000, give or take. So that and your survival money is around $30,000 for that first year. Now, the next year will fluctuate and you may or may not continue with ALL the above mentioned classes but you will hopefully need to join the unions and that is when the extra $3600 will sting. And the on-going classes are absolutely essential. Very few people are instantly ready and most need developing. You constantly need to be training and working on your craft to stay in practice and to be able to compete readily in the game. There are literally 100,000's out there trying to do this and you need to bring your A-game at all times. I can't stress the need for classes- really. It prepares you for the day when you finally get that big audition and ensures you do not fall apart from nerves and BELIEVE me it happens to everyone!! Nothing worse than getting a shot and not being ready. You only get one chance to make a first impression- don't kill it with arrogance, ego or an idea that you are so much better than everyone else as the truth is- you're not. But what you can be is prepared, professional and ready. Training will do that.
Now, about the memberships etc. One of biggest part of this business is marketing and selling your product- that is YOU. It doesn't matter how good you are (or think you are) if noone knows you exist. Gotta meet and greet and put yourself out there. Not the time to be shy. But running around getting blind drunk at parties and harassing executives etc on their night off is not my recommended plan of attack, especially not for girls. The legit and classy way to mix with other like-minded individuals is at screenings etc, such as the ones held by the above listed groups I mentioned. There are also breakfasts with guest speakers and these are golden opportunities to attend and just LISTEN. Don't walk aprund with a greedy look and a gimme- gimme vibe. Waste of time. Be the quiet one. Just listen and observe. A few weeks of this and seeing the same faces and they will want to talk to YOU. Have a little mystery but be YOURSELF. Everyone in this town wants something. Be the one who doesn't and see what happens. Talk about anything, whatever comes naturally and force nothing. If you simply relax and act like a friendly and open human being anywhere in this town, you would be amazed who you meet and what can happen. Really. I worked as a demo girl at a supermarket in some very good neighborhoods ages ago and there I met producers and personal managers. To this day we are in contact. I didn't suck up or say gimme gimme- I teased them, argued and debated with them and they loved it. When you are in a position of power and everyone is kissing your ass because they want something from you, you know what turns them on? People who tell them they are wrong and keep it REAL. So, MARKETING and NETWORKING is the point of joining those organizations.
Submission sites- I listed all the best ones and yeah, you need them all. They all have different projects and serve different purposes. The best up and coming actors out there have them and so should you. At first.
And NO SNAPSHOTS IN YOUR APARTMENT TO BE ON YOUR ONLINE PAGES EVER!!! NEVER!!! PROFESSIONAL SHOTS ONLY!!! Let me say it again for the cheap seats in the back- 100,000's of people doing the SAME THING as you!!!!! Make your headshot count!!!NO SNAPSHOTS!!!!!!! No half-naked, implied naked poses (girls- no bare shoulders or pouting like Playboy centerfolds, air-brushing). For the guys- no flexed muscles, oiled-up and "Damn, I think I am sexy" shots- NO NO NO and NO. We are actors. We are not models or porn stars or strippers or trying to do Calvin Klein underwear ads. If that's your thing, by all means go for it and God Speed. Just know where it belongs and where it doesn't. Don't put a sexy picture online and wonder why you attract the freaks. This ain't Kansas, Dorothy!!
About AFTRA. I for one, WHOLEHEARTEDLY recommend anyone with the money who wants to be SAG Eligible as soon as possible, join AFTRA TODAY no matter where you are in the country. Period. Let me explain. One of the ways to become SAG eligible is to be a member of a sister union for a year and get just one speaking line in an AFTRA project. Just ONE. I for one think that if you submit your GOOD headshot off like crazy to all the soaps- this is very possible and the best way to get SAG- IMO. Extra work for vouchers? Ugh. Shudder. Why WOULD you!! You didn't move here to be someone's bitch for $60 a day, okay? Bad idea. You can wait for a Taft- Hartley, yes possible- but imagine if you are living where you are and saving up to come BUT you are AFTRA and as the year goes by in a snap. That means as soon as you get to LA, you get just one itty bitty line on an AFTRA show and BAM- you are SAG ELIGIBLE!!! Awesome. Now after a year or so honing your craft and getting your reel together, you are ready to submit to legit agents and not look like a green and inexperienced fool. SAG-E will make you much more attractive to agents. JOIN AFTRA NOW!!!!! But not SAG. Not until you HAVE to. Build that reel!! By all means submit to agents if you must before you have these things. But beware of who you attract with no credits, unions or training. The sharks are fierce and there are MANY!! I would highly advise only commercial agents in the beginning stages. And it is expensive to do mailings these days. Best to wait until you have something better to bring to the table- IMO. To sum up-
- A reel
- A GREAT headshot
- SAG Eligible
- credits
That way you might have a shot. Instead of 100,000 to compete with maybe now only 99,000!!
Finally, survival jobs. This was my Achilles Hell and still is. I can't even stress how hard it is to land even a meager server job in LA. Again, 100,000's of people. It is no wonder, really. And with this economy and recession which we CANNOT deny, I can only imagine the pain for many this year. With people cutting back on spending- i.e. eating out and with the likely strike, there will be even fewer jobs as partially working actors who previously got speaking parts are forced to beg for extra shifts at their day jobs. FYI- I do fully support the strike. But if you are planning a move here, be patient and stay home and continue to save your money HARD and learn a new skill as it could come in handy for when you come out here. Learn anything that you think could give you an extra edge over others and an opportunity to make money from. Sit tight and see what is happening with Hollywood first. No point in coming out here to struggle and agonize with everyone else. If they strike- LA will be a shit fight. Period.
I know there is SOOOOO much more but I am exhausted after this and besides- I am not revealing all my secrets!!
I hope this has been of some help to anyone and whatever you do- rememeber this is s BUSINESS. This is not a game and those of us in it for life take it very seriously. Focus, work your ass off, be professional and do your research, never lose sight of your goal and be realistic about how long it will really take. It CAN HAPPEN. I promise you. Best of luck and God Bless.
I forgot!!! Theatre is a must!!!! Join a theatre group. Some require dues! That is %50- $75 a month. Make sure they are reputable. A theatre actor is a GREAT actor. Period.
|Russell Crowe
this is great advice
If you have
good reel
good headshot
SAG eligible
good credits
good contacts
and good training
you are not competiting with 100,000, you are competiting with more like 10,000. The better you make yourself, the less people you have to compete with. Eventually, the odds go in your favor, and something happens. Keep in mind though that it's a LONG road to get to that point.
|Julia Roberts
It is a LOOOOT more than 10,000!!! There are that many in the city just doing extra work- LOL!! LACasting has something like 30,000 + members and NowCasting has many more. You have to remember people around the country are all putting their photos etc online and submitting for the same atuff as you. Honestly, there are so many it is crazy. I WISH it was 10,000. I would own the city by now! Don't fool yourself. It is that brutally competitive.
I just got this off the NowCasting site-
"There are 163893 actors currently in our Now Casting database."
|Russell Crowe
let's do a number game
so we have 160,000 aspiring actors in the now casting database
We can assume that probably half that number are still actively pursuing their career. 80,000
Lets say they release a breakdown, and only 15% fit the type for the breakdown. 12,000
Out of those 12,000 maybe 1/3 of them were disciplined enough to submit themselves within the first day (which you have to do if you want a serious chance at getting called in) 4,000
out of the 4,000 people, the CD likes maybe 10% of their headshots. 400
Now they look at resumes, only 25% meet the qualifications they want. 100
100 people are called in for the audition. Maybe 10% of them can actually act worth a damn. 10.
So if you work hard and have your ducks lined up you're really only competiting with about 10 people at an audition. Over time, if you continue to be in top percentage like this, industry people will begins to recognize you and stuff will seriously start to take off.
Of course we are talking about nearly a decade of work to get to this point, so this is making it out to be a lot easier than it seems, BUT what I'm saying is that I believe that someone who gives 100% every day has a good chance at success.
|Julia Roberts
Typical. I spend half my night putting together this helpful post and YOU have to nitpick numbers. Whatever..... Fuck your number game. Not the point of this post.
|Russell Crowe
oh come on, i liked your post.
I just question the status quo. That's not a bad thing.
Hi Miss Stone,
This is an excellent post that I think will benefit newbies or even those that have experience in outside markets and are on the next step of moving to a bigger market.
From a NY perspective the costs are pretty much the same the only difference being that you can take advantage of Mass transit and buy a monthly metro card for 81 per month.
Also rent can range anywhere from 900-2500. I worked with a girl that had roommates and paid 1600 for a room because the apartment was so expensive. Of course you can always live outside of Manhattan in either Queens or Brookly, but rent costs are going up in those areas as well.
In situations like these, it's always better to over prepare and save as much as possible. It is also difficult here to get bartending and waitressing gigs, because there are a plethora of young attractive people trying to make it as actors.
The only numbers to focus on are the ones accumulating in your savings account.
|Sean Penn
Miss Stone,
Once again, your advice is golden. The only information I question is the need to get headshots every 6 months. Here's what I learned at a very informative acting seminar.
A new actor was getting called in on a regular basis by several casting directors. He booked a few jobs and started making money, so he went and got new headshots. After uploading them onto LAcasting and Actors Access he stopped getting called for auditions. Several months went by before he finally decides to go and speak with a CD who used to call him in to audition and find out why he stopped getting called. The CD told him he hadn't seen his headshot being submitted. The actor got online and showed the CD his new headshot. The CD didn't recognize him from his new headshot. He was used to seeing a certain image and when he didn't see it anymore it was, "out of sight, out of mind."
I always tell actors who are getting new headshots to actually go and visit CD's and show them your updated shots. This also becomes a legitimate reason to get a face-to-face with the CD's.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -
-- Benjamin Franklin
|Morgan Freeman
Miss Stone
Thanks!!! Let me say that again, Thanks!!! Is there a way to force all aspiring actors who say they are "ready to move to LA/NYC" to read this thread?
What you have presented is very sobering information. I am sure it was not meant to discourage anyone from following their dream, but just to make sure they are properly prepared to make the move. There are too many people who think it is just going to happen over night. They are going to come out to LA or NYC and suddenly make a lot of money. I think I recently saw a post from someone who said they have saved up $6,000, so they are now ready to move to LA??? I am sure that this person does not realize that there are lots of costs that need to be incurred to do this correctly. You have very nicely enumerated them for everybody. They need to realize that it is going to take time to make the $30,000 or so that is needed to survive in LA or NYC by acting alone. And their are a lot of people are already out in LA or NYC who are not making that kind of money in acting so they will be competing with them for the "day" job.
Again, Thanks for posting it.
|Bette Davis
Lol, what is this all about, I thought this was about an educated idea on the expense in L.A. or N.Y., and advice on how to do well in it.
Not a calculation
I have a personality. Don't care if it's a fallacy.
|Russell Crowe
miss stone, thank you so much. This is awesome info! That bit about AFTRA was very helpful. If you could do a similar thread to this on commercial acting I would offer my first born child to you. Thank you again!
|Julia Roberts
Every six months is more for the girls. Some of us are obsessed with changing our hair all the time!! LOL.
Yes, but it seems to me the film industry values youth a whole lot. If you wait out ten years in Iowa you might be too old when you get here.
The bigger the nest egg, the better, but I wouldn't wait forever.
There are always low level jobs in NYC, it's getting something that pays a living wage that's the problem. And if you share an apartment in Brooklyn or Queens the rents are considerably lower and all you need is a metro card (bus & subway), not the expense of a vehicle.
Be warned, no one is kidding, this is a dangerous City. But it becomes less so if you're careful, watchful, and don't act like an easy mark.
I agree with the advice about theater actors. They're the cream of the crop.
I think acting is something you have to want for itself. If it's about money, or fame, or having your picture taken, I'd stay home. Acting is an art. And in my opinion, if you're an artist, NYC is the place to be.
|Julia Roberts
The whole point is if you can't do it right there is no point at all. As long as you can afford to do it right, it's better than doing it when younger and flat broke.
|Bette Davis
I guess I'm both... artist and desiring fame (trust me I'm an artist; if you knew me in real life *knowing Miss_Stone is reading this* you would think I am complete different person on this forum; like completely; like split personality; like i have six personalities; like woah she's not the same here, is that even her?)
Anyways....that's why I decided college is not for me (4 years of youth vanish) when I could just go to an acting school, and get to the heart of it all. I have like a huge plan already, I can't wait.
I have a personality. Don't care if it's a fallacy.
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Ahhhhhh.Originally Posted by Rojo
The genius Ed Wade was just doing an interview on sports writer's type shoe here in Philadelphia. He said that the Phils and Reds were in negotiations for Lidle before the deadline, but the Reds were still in contention, so they didn't want to give up Lidle. I guess they felt that they were officially out of it now, placed Lidle on waivers, and the Phillies put a claim on him. So it doesn't sound like there was anything more to this deal (like other teams involved or anything). Wade also said that during their original discussions involving Lidle before the deadline, the Reds said they wanted "major league ready" players. Then they went through some heavy negotiations after the Phils claimed Lidle and finally came to an agreement before the 1 pm deadline today.Originally Posted by savafan
Oh, and when I used the term "genius" to describe Wade, I was being sarcastic. Just making sure that was clear.
Even I could tell the Reds were out of contention before the deadline.
What were the discussions like before the deadline? Thats what I'd like to know.
What's the 1 p.m. deadline today he's referring to?
It was the, "trade Lidle before he has another bad outing" deadline.
Rob Neyer: "Any writer who says he'd be a better manager than the worst manager is either 1) lying (i.e. 'using poetic license') or 2) patently delusional. Which isn't to say managers don't do stupid things that you or I wouldn't."
Originally Posted by Eric_Davis
Troy Smith 4 Heisman 2006
Ah, that would make sense. Thanks.Originally Posted by Chip R
Originally Posted by Chip R
Hopefully it's Donnie Moran. That guy is a proven winner.
I wish it was Erin Moran, that way we could have a Joanie Loves Chachi bobblehead giveaway! :MandJ:Originally Posted by Terry
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
I feel about this trade the way that I did about the Jones for "who" and "what" trade at the deadline: never trade major leaguers for A-ballers unless they're absolute blue-chip prospects (these two are crapola). Otherwise, all you're doing is unloading salary and undercutting your major league roster for several starts. So the Reds saved $500,000; that's the extent of this trade. Great.
Hey, that's $500,000 that they can write a check to Dr. Kremcheck for in the future.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Considering the way Lidle was pitching and the fact he wasn't coming back, this was a good deal. Why would people expect major league ready, or near major league ready players for a guy who, at best, was a #5 pitcher this year? As for the Reds undercutting the major league roster and not trading for A ballers, Lidle was KILLING this starting rotation. He had a decent start against Colorado, but the guy has been horrible, nobody really wanted him, and we weren't going to get a decent major leaguer for him. I think O'Brien did a pretty good job. Now he needs to re-sign Paul Wilson. Paul Wilson, Aaron Harang and Brandon Claussen is a pretty good nucleus for a solid rotation next year. Add the pieces from there.
The problem with that is that if you resign Paul Wilson, the "pieces" you add from there will be $1.0M filler like Lidle was = .500 team, 4th place finishes. Had enough of that.Originally Posted by Rocket_Fuel
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
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Electronics Engineering Student
Graduate, Ben Franklin Institute of Technology
(2-year program)
Junior, Wentworth Institute of Technology
How did you choose engineering?
"When I was 18, I was working on my GED at a program that also helped people find careers they would be interested in. Since I love math, I looked under the math category in one of their career books and that's where I saw electronics engineering. I thought it would be awesome to learn about robots and electronic equipment."
What will you do when you're finished with school?
"I got my associate's degree in two years at Ben Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT), and I'll be doing another two years at Wentworth's four-year program to get my bachelor's. Then I want to go for my masters in electronics engineering. I'm not sure what kind of job I want yet. There are so many possibilities, so many things to do and become."
What was your two-year program like?
"It was excellent. They gave me a chance to show my skills and what I'm capable of. There was a lot of help and support from both faculty and peers. The faculty loved to teach, and I think that's important. And the class sizes were pretty small, so you didn't feel neglected if you had a question. I also liked that it was culturally very diverse."
What's it like being a female engineering student?
"I guess I was kind of worried about going to school with mostly men, but it turned out to be excellent. I made a lot of great friends, both men and women."
What extracurricular activities have you been involved in?
"In my two-year program, I was president of student government, a peer tutor, and treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa (an honors society). I also did a lot of speeches for special events at the school. It's funny that I did so much. When I came into BFIT, I wasn't really the talkative type, but the school helped me be more sociable."
Do you have any hobbies?
"I like to paint and I like to read. My friends and I like to go out and play pool and paintball. And I like to fix things . . . I can't forget that!"
What would you say to someone who thinks she can't afford engineering school?
I had no money going into college and I still have no money, and here I am graduated and on my way to a four-year college. I don't think anyone should really worry too much about money. There are plenty of scholarships out there that you can apply for."
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Word to the oragnic. but seriously, keep it real.
Word to the oragnic. but seriously, keep it real.
dont stop....planet rock
"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality.."
I mean, what is life without keeping it real? Keeping real doesn't mean being wrong, it just means.....keepin' it real.
dont stop....planet rock
graffiti is what keeps my life real. its just something i can always rely on to do when im bored(every day). haha.
"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality.."
we do not stop playing games because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing games...I'm always gonna be a kid at heart
im currently procrastinating on making a new sig for myself ...wait a minute why the fuck you reading this get your arse of the PC and go paint son or get stoned whatever ...i don't care
HIone NTB
PM me if u from bradford england
tips for life
-dont talk shit , shut up
- respect the heads
- fuck school and other stuff
- smoke a lot of weed
- always have a 12 gauge under your couch
- keep your shit real
- you suck until heads tell you you dont
- dont rack at the same place twice in a week
and fuck da polisssss nam saying
If you're being chased by the cops remove the caps from your spray cans and chuck them in a bush. They can't arrest you or take your cans if you had nothing to dispense the paint out with. Not sure if this has already come up.
Keep it on the 1st page !!! I don't want my babies being eaten!
I may sound gay, but live life to the fullest, seriously, u will be kicking urselves when your 80, which will break your hip
"why thank yeu. rogue isnt my freind anymore. hes mean razor. he made me piss right in all my ink." ##sable##
funniest shit ever man LMFAO
-don't forget you were a toy once too. help the toys stop being toys...don't hate
^ well said Fazed
I think the idealistic bullshit belongs in the "quotes to live by" thread.
1. Use proper english- this is very handy especially when you live in America.... but it always helps knowing a second language just incase someone starts yelling at you for writing on there door you can just yell back in a different language and walk away.
2. Be honest- whether its graffiti or not you shouldnt lie, i would like soo much when i was a kid and it always caught up to me and i always had to face the consiquences. just whatever you do dont get into the habit of lying and dont lie to your parents, parents appreciate honest children
3. Dont steal from freinds or people in general- i really hate when i see little kids that do graf racking stuff because its "What your supposed to do when you graf" no! its not at all. the only time i suport racking is when you actually dont have the money to buy it. whenever i see someone racking stuff from my local privately owned art store i make sure they dont do it again.
4. Know your local laws- knowing my rights has gotten me out of at least 60 arrest. i actually decided to take a class on law on my free time just so i could get to know my rights better, you would be surprised how many things cops get away with
5. Know your area's history, and track activity- yeah this is just a general thing to know its always good to know your surroundings and dont go hardcore bombing your first time in an area, that could land you in jail very quickly.
6. Remeber that freinds are the best thing you can possess- yes this is true but make sure you dont tell your friends too much about your graf life, the less people know the bettter.
7. if you did it you did it, own up too it- i always see people denying that they wrote that or did that, and 9 times out of 10 it just gets you in more trouble then you already are in. if a cop stops you and ask if you wrote that, 98 precent of the time he saw you do it so just own up to it. cops will appreciate this and hopfully cut you a little slack.
Dont waste your time in bombing science and get educated. Go bomb
Dont be a bitch!!!
-Adrenaline Junkies Crew- ''Free as a bird''
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Always pull out...babies are horrible fucking people and u dont want shit to do with that.
Punching bitches is ok aslong as that cunt gave u a reason.
Use the word cunt as much as possible,its fancy.
Smoke weed every day.
Lawyer up now before u get caught up and locked down.Jail isnt shit in all honesty if u go in just chillin but that place is boring as fuck and smells like farts.That alone with make u go crazy.
Never request to go to medical if ur lockdown.A cup of coffee with two cough drops disolved in it will fix pretty much anything.
Dont take any wooden nickels.
Dont fuck with any drugs that are powdered or rhyme with meroin.
God isnt real and relgion is just a tool used to entrap ur fragile little minds.
Its ok to fuck fat hoes as long as u dont let ur boys find out and her shit doesnt smell like tuna helper.
Dont stutter in court,that judge will know if ur shook and make u an example quickly.
Smoke weed every day.Twice.
No seeds no stems just loud pack,NO exceptions!
The goverment spread AIDS in this country as a form of population control.
Dont trust a hoe.
Move quickly and carry a large stick,u'll go far that way.
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EDMONDS — A Lynnwood-area man, 30, was arrested Sunday night after reportedly bringing a sword into an Edmonds Starbucks and then leading police on a high-speed pursuit.
The man reportedly had been making unwelcome advances toward one of the employees at the coffee shop at 220th Street SW and Highway 99, Edmonds police Sgt. Mark Marsh said. The man was asked to leave the store and he became angry.
He allegedly then came back into the store wielding a medieval-style sword with a three- or four-foot blade, Marsh said.
Police were called about 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
The suspect was in his car when they arrived, Marsh said. An officer attempted a traffic stop but the man drove off. A chase ensued, but the officer had to call off the pursuit for safety reasons.
The man later was found and arrested about 7:45 p.m. near his home along 29th Avenue W.


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That is exactly what a training blog should be mate.thankyou.like partridge says aswell,walking dogs and stuff isn't really useful,but knowing what else you do is.
If it carries on like you've put above, I look forward to reading it and good luck
That is exactly what a training blog should be mate.thankyou.like partridge says aswell,walking dogs and stuff isn't really useful,but knowing what else you do is.
If it carries on like you've put above, I look forward to reading it and good luck
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I still am calling troll people, just go back to his old posts, plus, its a training blog but you don't want to discuss the actual training but will mention walking the dog again (which I was super happy to hear about, was concerned the dog would get all fat n shit)... The troll is getting slightly better to be fair, so I'll play along a bit mebbe.
So, when do you start dipping your hands in glue then broken glass training?
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If he continues trolling then I will never forgive myself for giving him a second chance but let's see where this goes!!we may have converted a troll to a useful forum poster..........hopefully
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Update found a gym that i didn't even know was there it has everything you could possibly want or need for weight training or strength and conditioning plus a big boxing room with bags and the punch man or whatever there called lol. plus a kettle bell room with all the s/c gear big ropes etc The great thing about it is they open at 7:30 am so i can scrap the morning runs and do things which are going to have a more positive effect. I plan on writing myself a weekly morning training regime again any advise or feedback welcome.
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Diet going really well im feeling like 10 times better then what I did before I started with energy levels very high during the day. Trying to take full advantage of my morning gym time I will write a quick example of what ive been up too lol.
15 minute warm up on cross trainer followed by 5 minutes stretching
30 minute full on kettle bell work out or 30 minutes circuits which includes big ropes sledge/tyre dummy slams shadow sparring heavy bag weight sit ups skipping im sure you get the picture
Then i use the machine weight room to train whatever body part/parts I am training that day As i build myself up I will be starting to use the free weights.
When doing the machine weights I'm doing light/medium weight fast reps in a pyramid 4 sets
After I do my cool down which is a light walk followed by stretches and then I eat and protein shake etc
Will be writing about the night training which is sparring etc and technique next time but im in a really lucky situation as spoiled for choice as I have the opportunity to train with some very good guys due to me having 1 or 2 friends there but i think I will stick to just the place im at at the moment as its aright saying you get better by training with way better guys but I would be totally outclassed in every department so I think its best i stick to where im at until I start to see myself really shaping up in fitness and all levels of the art. But its another plus and something I can aim for.
Anyway I know it has only been a short one but I promise you a much bigger one on my next update which should be Thursday.
Also just want to add that im feeling very aggressive as of late i hope you don't get the wrong impression what i mean is when im training i really get in to it and channel the aggression in the right environment
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Well just a update to let anyone whose following how things are going.
Well firstly I have settled in really well to my morning caveman training and the local gym has most of the stuff i need in the back room for what I wanted to do the only thing I wish I had was rope to climb and something to jump on as far as jumping goes at the moment im forced to just use a stepper on as high as it will go it works for now but in a month or so i might just end up using the local park bench where I plan to do my tyre throwing.
My fitness is no where near as bad as I expected it to be and my recovery isnt too bad either I mean its not close to where I want/need it to be but its a plus that I don't gas as quick as i would of expected.
Really settled in to my diet now I love cooking healthy shit pretending im Jamie Oliver messing about with herbs and spices I made some quality big mushrooms the other day I was just experimenting and ended up cooking the tastiest meal id ever cooked lol Turkey meat with a healthy jalapeño marinade with huge mushrooms with a garlic and herb sauce filled inside them which I made myself using the really next to no fat mayo Then just chopped a little beetroot up with some vedge and made myself a nice little side salad and added a few chunky sweet potato chips which again I added a light spice too. I might add more of my do it yourself meals I just don't want to come across as trying to teach you to suck eggs.
As far as mma goes which is night time nothing new really just drill drill drill then spar spar spar had a few complements given about a few things which is really nice and a confidence booster but it all goes over my head I think i have made a very good start and if I keep this up and stay virtually injury free I will be super duper back flip happy.
Ps the weight is really dropping off me Thanks to my Diet which I take very seriously. Thanks for reading and see you next time.
Well the wheels fell off the wagon at the weekend there was so much mma action online and on the big screen I stepped in to the forbidden bedroom and helped myself the now almost dry forbidden plant. All I could hear in my head was a voice saying don't do it HELL NO no way was I going to watch Bamma on a straighter and I don't drink so there was only one option I sparked that bitch up just in time for the start of the show After Mr scopes win I celebrated by ordering a domino s online and i destroyed that mother fucker (think my body needed it LOL) Anyway that 1 meal made me feel bloated for like the next day so i scrapped that days training and just went swimming. Apart from it all going wrong on Saturday I was shocked to notice my pig out did not add any weight to me so I guess I might continue to have a cheat day but mellow it down a little and maybe home make my pizza instead or have a BBQ depending on the weather.
When i went swimming the other day i was getting funny looks i figured the weed could be still in my system and I was getting paranoid that was until i went to get showered and noticed in the mirror I had huge black bruises all over my arms and body I guess the lookers came to 2 conclusions 1 Id been caught cheating by my girl.. And 2 I was new to the country and was carrying some kind of lurgy.
Anyway that's all I got today as you can imagine im finding it very very hard but you know the old saying when your the nail hang in there until you become the hammer
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This blog is really getting good, some really good info...... actually just fuck off and fuck your dog
I think he has eaten the dog per my advice, solid source of protein, taking up too much time previously on the blog and never mentions it now, yeah its dead and snacked on I reckon!
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Hi there,
I was wondering if maybe someone could put these on the main page? I think they would be a big improvement to the wiki! I also made a new logo and I can make this for others as well if you want.
Let me know what you think. --TheBook // Talk Page 17:25, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Absoloutley. They look terrific. I tried to do this myself when I first designed the skin, but I failed miserably. Good job, and welcome to the Harry Potter wiki! Jayden Matthews 18:01, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
- I do, and I've implemented the changes. Pretty sweet. You can view them here. Jayden Matthews 18:30, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
- Looks good, but perhaps the "DP News", "FA", and "SP" logos should be lightened up slightly, since they're on a darker background than the site logo. - Nick O'Demus 22:26, July 8, 2010 (UTC)


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Quick Fact: Beck falsely claims no jobs are being "saved or created"
On the December 2 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that "jobs are not being saved or created" and that the Obama administration is "creating the make-believe 'saved or created' category" for jobs. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily promoted by President Obama, created 1.6 million jobs, and the Bush administration repeatedly stated that its economic initiatives had "saved or created" jobs.
Beck: "[J]obs are not being saved or created"
From the December 2 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: And the bogus claim of putting people back to work? Please. We have lost 4 million jobs since this man took office. I'm not saying that it's his fault; I'm just saying let's deal with reality. That's why they're creating the make-believe "saved or created" category. I'm expecting to see flying reindeer soon.
If you or someone you know hasn't been affected by joblessness yet, it will soon become apparent that the jobs are not being saved or created -- I mean, unless they're in one of the other 57 states.
Fact: CBO estimated the stimulus created 1.6 million jobs
CBO estimated GDP increase of 1.2 percent to 3.2 percent, additional 600,000 to 1.6 million people employed due to Recovery Act. In a November report, the CBO stated [1]:
CBO estimates that in the third quarter of calendar year 2009, an additional 600,000 to 1.6 million people were employed in the United States, and real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) was 1.2 percent to 3.2 percent higher, than would have been the case in the absence of ARRA (see Table 1). Those ranges are intended to reflect the uncertainty of such estimates and to encompass most economists' views on the effects of fiscal stimulus. [CBO's Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009, November 2009 [2]]
Fact: Several Bush administration officials touted initiatives in terms of jobs "saved or created"
Bush Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman: "[R]ural development programs have saved or created more than 500,000 jobs." On June 24, 2004, then-Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman stated [3]: "We have estimated that our rural development programs have saved or created more than 500,000 jobs just since the Bush Administration took office in January of 2001." [Accessed via the Nexis database]
Veneman's replacement Mike Johanns: "[E]conomic development in rural areas ... will help save or create more than 1,800 jobs." According to a March 24, 2005, Agriculture Department news release [4], Mike Johanns -- who replaced Veneman as Agriculture secretary -- stated: "These funds are part of the Bush Administration's ongoing efforts to spur economic development in rural areas and will help save or create more than 1,800 jobs."
Agriculture Undersecretary Thomas C. Dorr "announced the award of $19.75 million to create or retain jobs." According to a May 7, 2007, Agriculture Department news release [5], then-Agriculture Undersecretary Thomas C. Dorr stated:
Agriculture Under Secretary Thomas C. Dorr today announced the award of $19.75 million to create or retain jobs at rural businesses.
"These funds will help support local economic development agencies, finance infrastructure improvements, establish low-interest revolving loan funds, and help jurisdictions implement regional business and community development plans," Dorr said. "The funding announced today is expected to save or create more than 2,300 jobs in 20 states."
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Possibly Dubai or Abu Dhabi, but anything else is a no.
Not on the warning list. That is limited to more sustained dangers. But the individual city warnings are quite extensive:http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1072.html
How about go to Canada?
Haha. Sorry Peach for the very uneven post. I was so frantic to post it that I've forgot to redo it. I hope the Philippines get visited. It has been a looooooooooooooooooooooooong time since the country was last visited. Also, don't you think it is better to have just one race for a year? I mean, the last seasons were very forgettable in general.
I think another Survivor/BB/ whatever reality show team makes it.
Quote from: gamerfan09 on May 12, 2013, 11:08:03 PMI think another Survivor/BB/ whatever reality show team makes it.Evidence?
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