Vi Redd, Saxaphone Player
 

This sounds pretty accurate
 

Pregnant Dog Totally Rocks Her Maternity Photo Shoot
 

Maternity photo shoots. Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Lilica happened. Snapped by Brazilian photographer Ana Paula Grillo, the pregnant dog proudly displays her baby bump in all its glory. This mama-to-be sets the whole new standard for looking fab.

Grillo told Bored Panda that the photo shoot lasted only 20 minutes. “It was amazing, I felt like I understood her completely,” Grillo explained. “She made sensational poses!” The next day, Lilica gave birth to 5 amazing puppies.

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So cute. :)

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My mother said she cried during his Oscar speech and I thought, that's probably because you have a crush him... :blink:

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Disney, Marvel studios threaten to abandon productions in Georgia if Governor signs anti LGBT bill


Today, HRC praised Disney and Marvel Studios for answering a call to action from HRC President Chad Griffin, who urged Hollywood to abandon future productions in Georgia if Governor Deal signs an anti-LGBT bill, H.B. 757, into law. The appalling legislation could weaken local non-discrimination protections and allow businesses to discriminate and deny service to LGBT people, in addition to explicitly allowing discrimination by taxpayer-funded religious organizations.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, a Disney spokesperson today made the following statement: “Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law.”

“We applaud Disney and Marvel for standing up for fairness and equality by sending a strong warning to Governor Deal,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “It’s appalling that anti-LGBT activists in Georgia are trying to pass legislation creating an explicit right to discriminate against LGBT Americans. We urge other studios, major corporations, and fair-minded Georgians to continue speaking out and urging Gov. Deal to veto this heinous piece of legislation sitting on his desk.”

This past Saturday night at the Los Angeles HRC Gala, HRC President Chad Griffin addressed nearly 1,000 supporters and leaders in the entertainment industry and called on Hollywood to stop productions in Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal doesn’t veto the new Indiana-style "license to discriminate" bill passed by the state legislature last week. According to the State of Georgia, which offers major tax incentives for entertainment companies to film in the state, at least 248 film and television productions were shot in Georgia during the state’s 2015 fiscal year. This resulted in at least $1.7 billion in direct spending as well as more than 100 new businesses relocating to or expanding in Georgia to support these activities.

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*There are labor issues I have with Disney, but this move assuages some of their sins.

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Top ten most beautiful ceilings

Just tilting our heads up a few degrees reveals enormous wonder and beauty: the sky, birds, trees, planets, moons, the flying nun etc.... and beautiful ceilings!

Castello di Sammezzano, Leccio, Italy

The mesmerising ceiling, vaults and decor of the Peacock Room in this abandoned Italian palazzo near Florence speak for themselves. Peacocks, and other exotica, were the source of the inspired decoration to be found throughout the seemingly endless empty rooms of this daydream building. The Moorish-style makeover of what was a much older palace was the life work of Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona. Although the aristocratic Italian architect, engineer, botanist, philosopher and politician never visited the Levant or the Orient, he imagined a world of exquisite and highly exotic forms and colours that he brought to life in Leccio between 1843 and 1889. A hotel in the 20th Century, the palazzo and its polychromatic Peacock Room are in limbo today. (Credit: Antonio Cinotti/Flickr cc by 2.0)

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Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire

Completed in 1334 by the royal carpenter William Hurley, the exquisite timber lantern over the central octagonal tower of Ely Cathedral is one of the greatest feats of medieval structural engineering and design. From the cathedral floor, the lantern appears like the centre of a great, eight-pointed star, with a carving of Christ in Glory at its centre. Constructed primarily from eight English oak trees, the 30ft-high lantern is supported by highly visible timber fan vaulting and by a hidden tent-like lattice of oak beams. Wooden panels – decorated with painted angels in the 19th Century – can be opened around the lantern. Choristers, serving as a heavenly choir, sang through these from the roof of the fenland cathedral. (Credit: Steve Vidler / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Shah Mosque, Isfahan

In 1598, Shah Abbas moved the Persian capital to Isfahan. Here, he commissioned a remarkable sequence of ambitious and beautiful religious and civic buildings. But, because the only readily available building material in Isfahan was baked mud brick, there was a fear that, however grand, the new buildings would look rather dull. New techniques in firing coloured mosaic tiles, however, allowed the Shah's architects to revel in wondrous displays of decoration, brought to perfection here in the Shah Mosque (1612-38). Designed by the master calligrapher and miniaturist Rezza Abbasi, the blue, yellow, turquoise, pink and green tiles catch and reflect the light of this bright and hot city, animating cool spaces under the great blue dome of Abbas's mosque. (Credit: Hossein Lohinejadian / Alamy Stock Photo)


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Cindy Blackman
 

~gigglesnorts~
 

Mine is accurate
 

Driving through the streets of Syria
 

18 Teachers were asked, 'What's the most cringeworthy thing a student has said in class?'


The classroom is a place of learning, and some might even say wisdom. But these students really put that belief to the test. These are jaw-dropping.

1/18. "He's not my biological boyfriend!"

2/18. "My dad's a teacher and he said a student once asked him what he did for a living."

3/18. "A friend of mine had to send a boy home from her kindergarten class for saying 'Fuck the police!'"

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4/18. "In my college biology class last fall, a student asked if cobwebs were living creatures."

5/18. "Had a kid think Washington DC stood for 'Da Capital.'"

6/18. "I had a kid in my music history class say Queen Dildo instead of Queen Dido for the whole first act of the play we were reading in class."

yikes!, this one

8/18. "A little girl (kindergarten) drew a picture of herself then coloured the whole page red. When asked why she coloured everything in red the kid said, 'that's what I'm going to look like when I blow myself up.'"

10/18. "I asked one of my pre-schoolers what was for lunch one day during circle time. She told me 'Chopped liver and Jack Daniels.'"

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Ingrid Jensen
 

Other Sexual Orientations
 

In an effort to better understand what in the heck my kids and their peers are talking about while searching the NZ net I ran across (in part) this -

Straight or gay. In 1948, sexologist Alfred Kinsey developed what is now known as the "Kinsey Scale"; Zero on the scale is exclusively heterosexual, six is exclusively homosexual, and everything in between is just that – something in between wholly straight, and wholly gay. Many decades later, more specific terms have emerged to help minorities define themselves outside of the "one or the other" box. Some examples –

Bisexual, ratings one through five on the Kinsey Scale denote bisexuality in different measurements, with three being "equally heterosexual and homosexual"; a description society generally understands as bisexual. However, the bisexuality spectrum is broader than that. Some are predominately attracted to one sex, but also attracted to another incidentally. Important to understand in comprehending bisexuality is its fluidity. A bisexual person may feel varying levels of attraction at different periods of their life. Some even refer to themselves as hetero- or homoflexible, and some identify as bicurious, which is the mere curiosity of bisexuality without necessarily acting on it.

Pansexual, often confused with bisexual, pansexual (pan meaning "all") means the gender binaries of male and female don't factor into your physical or emotional attraction to others. That is, pansexual people can feel attracted to all and anybody, including those who identify as intersex (this used to be called hermaphroditism, a term now considered outdated and derogatory), transgender, and any other gender identities.

Polysexual, attracted to multiple genders (poly meaning "many") but not necessarily all genders. Polysexual also differs from polyamorous, which is the desire for more than one romantic and/or physical relationship at the same time, with all partners consenting.

Skoliosexual, refers to those who are only attracted to people of non-binary genders. This includes trans and intersex people, among other genders. Skoliosexuals are not attracted to cisgender people, i.e. those who identify with their assigned sex at birth.

Androgynsexual, the sexual attraction to androgynous people (those who have ambiguous masculine and feminine characteristics), no matter what gender those people actually identify as.

Asexual people do not have sexual feelings, period. They don't experience arousal towards others, or when they think about sex as a concept.

Greysexual, is moving fluidly between asexual and sexual at different times and under different circumstances. Greysexual people can identify as straight, gay, or any other sexual orientation too.

Demisexual, a person who doesn't usually have sexual feelings towards somebody unless they have a very strong emotional bond with them.

Autosexuality, used by those who don't feel sexually gratified by other people; instead, they prefer self-gratification over all other forms of sexual activity.

There are also many people who don't like to define their sexual orientation at all. They can prefer queer, the umbrella term that promotes inclusiveness for anybody who is, essentially, not straight.

Questioning - A final part of minority sexual orientation for society-at-large to understand. This goes beyond the realm of bi curiosity as it denote the process of exploration for people who are unsure of their sexual orientations and/or gender identities.

These are only for self-identification, and should never be used to "out", shame, or give your own verdict on what box you think somebody else should be in.

And most importantly, just like heterosexuality and homosexuality, none of these diverse sexual orientations are a choice. - Stuff

I remember when it was all just as simple as normal, gay, other - my how this article dates me. The full article in its original form can be found byfollowing link below.

Source – http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/lo...ve-heard-about

Mine's accurate
 

Implementing change...
 

Is this some kind of manual??
 

this makes me so sad. :(
 

~gigglesnorts~
 

This is an interesting list
 

Image: Quiet Strength by Donna Smallenberg
 

How to respond to the Brussels attacks?
 

Condemn Western imperialism's violent and genocidal presence in the Middle East. Welcome immigrants with open arms because we caused them.
Support boycotts, divestments and sanctions to Israel.
Stop bombing the Middle East. Stop the drone program. To be clear, I don't support organized religion in any form but realistically:

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