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Appalachian Angels. TED Blog. Sexual Violence in THE SHADOWED SUN. This one’s going to be a toughie, for me and some of you reading. Please take heed of the subject line, and avoid if you need to. As You (probably) Know Internets, in my day job life I’m a career counselor. When I went to graduate school, however, I originally intended to be a personal/social counselor. That’s the classic sort of therapist most people think of, sans the ability to administer drugs. I would’ve been either working with people who had non-organic issues (e.g., issues not caused/triggered by physical dysfunction), or with folks who needed a little “talking cure” to supplement the help they were already getting on the pharmaceutical end.

This was back when I was in my mid-twenties, and hooooly crap was I a clueless idealist then. So anyway, I got my first apprenticeship in the university’s counseling center — a choice apprenticeship, for which I’d had to compete hard. You can guess where this is going. I fucked up then. I stuck out the rest of the apprenticeship. So. But. It's Overflowing | Tips to Simplfy, Beautify, Delight. About. Ms. HerStory: 1971-Present When Ms. was launched as a “one-shot” sample insert in New York magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism that it is today.

The founders of Ms., many of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism. According to founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ms.’ authors translated “a movement into a magazine.” Ms. was a brazen act of independence in the 1970s. When the Ms. preview debuted-carrying articles on subjects such as the housewife’s moment of truth, “de-sexing” the English language, and abortion, the syndicated columnist James J. And after the first regular issue hit the newsstands in July 1972, the network news anchor Harry Reasoner challenged, “I’ll give it six months before they run out of things to say.” But Ms. struck a chord with women. “This is the perfect marriage of information and action,” said Gillespie. Feminism | World news. MINDY KALING. ONE FORTY PLUS. John Mayer/Steve Jordan/Pino Palladino/Chick Corea/Wallace Roney Here’s a full seven minute tune I loosely composed called “Little Sur,” recorded last February in New York City.

I got together with some of my friends and favorite players for six amazing days of playing music with no rules, no plans, and no pressure. Oh, and no vocals. What came from it was a really inspired batch of recordings. Hours of music that I’ll need to sift through at some point should it ever become an album. I tried to find a minute, two minute clip to share with you, but these recordings just don’t work any other way than in their unabridged form. There are times for marketing strategies, and there are times for just p l a y i n g. John. A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States.

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