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How many books have you read this year?
Which of them deserve be in this discussion? Do you recommend it for anyone? Why?
Jun 1 2012: Since buying my Kindle in 2010 I've not read a single paper book, but my reading has increased massively.
In the last 12 months I've read the following e-books - all excellent and recommended.
In no particular order...
Txting:The Gr8 Db8 - David Crystal
How to be Free - Tom Hodgkinson
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family - Oliver James
A Book of Silence - Sara Maitland
Out of Our Minds:Learning to be Creative - Ken Robinson
How to Live Off-Grid - Nick Rosen
Small is Beautiful - E F Schumacher
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Bio and Travel
Chasing the Monsoon - Alexander Frater
Tales from the Torrid Zone - Alexander Frater
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
India's Undending Journey - Mark Tully
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Corfu Trilogy - Gerald Durrell
Expecting Someone Taller - Tom Holt
The Far Pavilions - M M Kaye
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Deborah Moggach
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Holy Man - Susan Trott
A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
Harnessing Peacocks - Mary Wesley
Carry On, Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
Lord Arthur Savil's Crime - Oscar Wild
Only the Innocent - Rachel Abbott
Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
The Club of Queer Trades - G K Chesterton
Dead Lagoon - Michael Dibdin
Acqua Alta - Donna Leon
The Complete Sherlock Holmes - A C Dolye
Enigma - Robert Harris
The Lighthouse - P D James
History and Religon
The Case for God - Karen Armstrong
The Bible - Karen Armstrong
Europe's Last Summer - David FromKin
Europe at War 1939 - 1945 - Norman Davies
Mao's Great Famine - Frank Dikotter
Austerity Britian - David Kynaston
Jun 2 2012: I also have a kindle 4.
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Jun 7 2012: Opps, that'll be 39 then.
Linfeng Wang
Jun 18 2012: I am a 14-year-old student in china and I am required to read so many books which are connected to Maths, Physics and Chemistry. We don't have time to read books such as Lords of Rings
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Jun 28 2012: hi Linfeng, i do understand what you meant, cause many students in China includig me face such kind of problems. we are under pretty pressure from school and must spend most of our time on homework or something like that. but i still believe there will be some little spare time you could find in your daily life anyway. if you can take well advantage of them , you will definitely make a big difference about reading. According to my experience, most of books which i have read were just finished during the scattered time in my life. i even treat it as a way to relax and flee from the boring schoolwork for the moment. if you really want to do something you can always find methods and save the time to do it, right?good luck
Yan Li
Jun 28 2012: gosh, i am so surprised to see members as young as you on this forum, cool! Listen, never sacrifice your love for reading just for those required school works, but i bet you will do great since you realize the problem at such an early stage. :D
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zhang yu
Jun 28 2012: hiJun 16 2012: I have read 20-30 books but mostly aloud to my little girls :).Jun 3 2012: I cannot help but think of people who I will never meet who I can try to understand through
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a book . Count Korzibisky in general semantics called this time binding. It makes us
a sentient species. Of course, two thousand years ago or whatever - what were they saying
really. Look at Marcus Aurielius the fifth of the five(8) good emperors. How do you put
his writings into modern English or whatever.
Jun 4 2012: I loved reading this response.
Ramez Ayyad
Jun 1 2012: actually none
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I have to change
my life is without a meaningJun 21 2012: an appalling total of 2! Superfreakonomics, and "The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared " by Jonas Jonasson. I definitely recommend it, and indeed I've passed my copy around twice already (so easy with paper back, yes paper!) It's about a centenarian who runs away from an old people's home and this old man is no ordinary guy... it's witty, funny, picaresque, and so uplifting, it beats any prozac-like drug.
books... I've sort of lied, because I keep re-reading some classics, and this year, it's been Victor Hugo's poemes "Les contemplations', as to me that's everything poetry should ever be, and Voltaire's "Le Fanatisme" so modern that it's scary.Jun 14 2012: I read two books every week. Have read so much this year. I recommend 'Disgrace' by J M Coetzee; 'It's Time For Your Comeback' by Tim Storey; and 'Mere Christianity', 'Miracles' and 'The Problem of Pain', all by C. S. Lewis.
I read 'The Testament' by John Grisham for the 2nd time this year, and it is still my best book by the author. I read 'The Last Juror' by the same author and love it.Jun 12 2012: I try to read a book a week, but sometimes end up taking such detailed notes and look up so many technical details I fall short. Also I often re-read books with a yellow notepad at my side (chuckle: guess it's obvious I'm mostly into non-fiction, huh.). I'd guess that in the last 12 months: 30-40 books; since January 1st, perhaps 15-20. It's hard to pin down which have been the best, since I tend to be selective.... Biggest 'discovery' was Charles Dickens, who I always thought of as 'the guy who wrote about Scrooge'. He's even better than Wilkie Collins! In the non-fiction arena, my most recent (and a fantastic) read was Barbara Tuchman's history of the first month of World War One: "The Guns of August". That one had me scouring the net for maps and looking up biographies and orders of battle on Wikipedia. I'm now re-reading Eric Newby's autobiographical tale about his 1938 trip round the world on one of the last commercial sailing ships. He was 18. The book: "The Last Grain Race". So many books... so little time.
Maja Rataj
Jun 11 2012: Around 100 in the last 12 months. Mostly non-fiction. I`m now reading Daniel Kahneman`s "Thinking Fast and Slow" and I cannot believe how simple the concept is! And it started with Ian`s Albery work on automaticity in addictions through John Bargh`s articles on automaticity, even in something as important and worth being aware of as relationships, via Lindstrom`s books explaining why we buy and certain products to Ariely`s books on irrational decision making and now Kahneman`s theory for all this, or at least some of this.
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Jun 12 2012: Oh , you must be a computer .Jun 16 2012: Maja - If you like Daniel Kahneman's book, you might also like 'The Master and His Emissary' by Iain McGilchrist. In place of Kahneman's 'Systems1 and 2', McGilchrist refers to the right and left brain hemispheres to explain human behaviour, only in more detail, and then goes on to explain its relevance in Western Society.
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Both are real eye-openers in my opinion.Jun 4 2012: I've read 19 and whereas I usually focus on non-fiction, I've read a lot of fiction and biographies. Fun Bios include Dick Van Dyke's. Others worth reading are Howard Cosell's and Pat Buchanan's. Favorite non-fiction book this year is Lisa Randall's "Knocking on Heaven's Door."Jun 4 2012: I thought I was doing well having read 5 books so far this year; then I see everyone's list and wonder what I've been doing! I'm currently reading 2 books at the same time - one fiction, one nonfiction. Depending on my mood, I open the appropriate book.
My favorite so far this year has been The Meaning of Night, by Michael Cox. It is his first book, and a very dark Victorian mystery. I'm currently reading Drift by Rachel Maddow, and the non-fiction book title escapes my mind just now. (It's also not that great, but I refuse to stop with the hope it will get better).
I get about 45 min to an hour a day to read while I'm on the train to and from work.Jun 4 2012: I try to read at least one book per month. The book I loved most this year was "life of pie"
I also liked Thousand splendid suns, Norwegian wood and Tipping point.
this site is a really nice site where you can keep track of what you read and to find good book suggestions.
Colin South
Jun 3 2012: Probably +10, mostly fiction of various genres. I enjoy anything as long as its well written and intelligent (by my standards), particularly if it's a bit quirky by the likes of Haruki Murakami.
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By the way anyone who poo poo's genre fiction should take a look at some of the classics. Detective fiction - "Bleak house" by Charles Dickens, science fiction - "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The list is endless, unlike a narrow mind.Jun 3 2012: I read one book, called "Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom" and this was an amazing book at the end...Even it doesnt make sense initially but slowly we ll be able to connect the dots at the end. A must read especially for the younger generation.
It is all about philosophy in a simple way.Jun 3 2012: 1 ever week more or less
Jessica Wang
Jun 3 2012: I read some fictions.
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Eric Hazelle
Jun 3 2012: Excellent, excellent question. I've lost track, but I'd say about a dozen. (I'm retired, so I have the time.) I'm currently reading "America on Trial" by Alan Dershowitz, an excellent book on the major trials of our history that have either established legal precedents, or shown up the weaknesses in our legal system. I recommend it to anyone interested in politics and the law. I'm also reading "Battle Cry of Freedom", a history of our Civil War given to me by a friend. Hey, I wrote a book! (14, actually). Wanna read mine? "Becoming Human in the Cosmos: The Purpose and Ultimate Destiny of Human Life" by Lee Hazelle. Available on Amazon Kindle. It'll set you back $5.Jun 2 2012: I have read several books this year. My favorite being The Emperor of All Maladies. This book is the biography of Cancer and it's treatment. A wonderfully informative book. My next favorite is Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. This book has inspired me to try the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Rafi Amin
Jun 2 2012: Unfortunately this year I could only read one book. The Kite Runner.
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Jun 2 2012: YOKES! That is not the one I would have reccommended for you, Rafi!
Jun 3 2012: Can I ask why ?
Jun 3 2012: Sure Rafi, I will answer almost anything I can for you because I admire you!
I find the warlord character objectionable and it seems to me because the book was printed in the US so I worry that parts of it are propaganda. I love the unacknowledged son and his bravery and loyalty. I was offered the sequel while i was in the hospital in the form of a book on cd and I was not convinced that it would contribute to my healing. I would like to read it now though. I would love to see the kite festival!
Rafi Amin
Jun 3 2012: Thank you Debra for explanation.
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I actually decided to read this book because whenever I was abroad specially in the subcontinent I was usually asked Have you read the the Kite Runner ? & when my answer was No. They were getting surprised how you live in Kabul have not read the Kite Runner . & I was kind a feeling embarrassed.
Finally I read it but it also made me emotional on many occasions where I had experienced myself or had seen others in same situations. but overall I liked the book.
flexman feng
Jun 2 2012: lots of books after I have a kindle 4.
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Lee Bruce
Jun 2 2012: only 1 book still in process。
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Adam Skinner
Jun 2 2012: I would guess around 10, the most notable were.
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
Physics for the Rest of Us - Roger Jones
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
Jun 2 2012: Hi Adam! I read one called Physics for Dummies.- I NEEDED TO!
Owen Murphy
Jun 2 2012: One, I can remember reading thirty in a month ... Oh, How time has passed.Jun 2 2012: We are serious readers around our house. I keep one by the bedside, in the toliet, in the livingroom, in the car, etc... anyone who knows me expects me to have a book in hand. I rotate books often but have never kept a count of how many. We do hard backs, e-books, soft cover, etc... I always try to read the book prior to seeing the movie (when it exists). My imagination is very vivid and I am sometimes disappointed in the movie.
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Neat topic. All the best. Bob
Sean Belka
Jun 1 2012: Not sure I could put an accurate number on it. However, the three most recent books that I highly recommend are The Power of Habit - a look at how habits form and how to change them, Imagine - a look at how creativity really happens, not the typical mythology about creativity and The Next Decade - a strategist's view of what the next ten year's might look like. I just got Quiet as part of today's TED book pack and look forward to hearing more about Susan Cain's thoughts on how introverts can operate in an extroverted world.Jun 1 2012: Eleven, but five of them were associated with my studies
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Lee Miller
Jun 1 2012: 10 books, admittedly mostly fiction and none recent.Jun 1 2012: About 5 , and plainning to read 3 more once I'll finish this one :)Jun 1 2012: Well, I have read one so far but now I am actually trying to get thru another one.Jun 1 2012: I started to read maybe 5 or 6 books but finished none... too busy playing tennis and surfing the web...Jun 1 2012: Non technical-None.
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Technical-Still reading!!!Jun 1 2012: Many- maybe 4 or 5 per week.
Jun 1 2012: 4.5 x 52 = 234
Wow! I don't read as many road signs.
Jun 1 2012: They laughed at the hospital too! I went in for surgery and they took a ring off my finger that had not been off for 20 years and then they opened my suitcase to find one change of clothing and 4 hard bck books. I thought I would be out in 3 days!
Jun 1 2012: so what do you read?Jun 1 2012: The smary alek in me was tempted to say--- BOOKS!
I read almost everything. I have talked about some of them here: Deadly Spin, The Better Angels of our nature, Psychology of everyday things and Sex at Dawn.
The only downside is knowing the plot of every moviehem it comes out!
There is a new book on the Googeplex that gives insight into the role of former Google people at the White House. (My son read aloud to me when I was in a coma and the man in the other bed and his son really enjoyed his reading- and then that man died) I also love fiction and there are a variety of American authors that write compelling novels. (With due respect to Canadian authors- I have only read a few of them and I am not big on Margaret Atwood- uoh I think I just blasphemed)
I should mention that I don't have cable or an antenna and reading is so quiet and peaceful for someone like me.Jun 7 2012: Per WEEK - lucky you!Jun 1 2012: Maybe not always sell selected. A goodly number - Usually nonfiction. Most important is what I
want to read. Jared Diamond's new book, Francis Fukayama's new book, and anything by Thomas FRiedman.
Fritzie -
Jun 1 2012: I am not comfortable sharing how many I have read, but I am happy to recommend a few I have read recently. One is edited by John Brockman of Edge and is called This Will Make You Smarter. I don't like the title, because it makes it sound like a self-help book. Rather, about 150 of the world's foremost scholars in science, economics, and other fields were asked what single idea would be most valuable for people to have in their toolkits to help them think better about the gamut of questions you might want to think about. Each response is about two pages or at most four.
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Another I have read recently is a much older book called The Norton anthology of Personal Essays, which has in it some of the best essays written in English in this century.
The other things I have read in the last month probably aren't of as broad interest, but you couldn't go wrong with the work of Clay Shirky or Steven Johnson, both TED speakers.
Jun 1 2012: Lovely responce! I have the Norton anthology of English lit and I love those books. The one you refer to sounds really great. I got mine as a student.Jun 28 2012: I can't read.. I'd rather watch Family Guy instead..
Peter Griffin encompasses all the knowledge I need..Jun 28 2012: Not sure how many I've read - I start many books, certainly more than I finish, too old to bother with something that doesn't hold my interest - but the last one that really stayed with me was The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's sf that takes place in a future of genetically engineered crops where the most valuable commodity is the genetic code of plants that are extinct stored in seeds. It got me interested in seed banks and as a result translated Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food and Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds.Jun 28 2012: 21 so far, gosto muito ler livros!
Yan Li
Jun 28 2012: like 5 or 6, and i just finished reading a book called "the hunger games", well, it is popular and an easy-to-read type.. i would recommend "to kill a mockingbird" which is a classic but tells a really moving story. and Amy Tan's the kitchen god's wife, cause since i am a Chinese, Amy's book really got me related. :DJun 28 2012: No of books read is around 15 and of that 3 to 5 books made impactJun 28 2012: As of now 4 and about to finish my fifth. I need to read more however... hahaJun 28 2012: a very gud question..it reminded me that im wasting my time... as far as now i have read onle one :(
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Jun 28 2012: oohhh tats gud u can nw write a book on ways wasting time...........
Gord G
Jun 28 2012: My father owned the entire collection of Zane Grey and my mother read Danielle Steel books. I imagine the total number of books read by them would add up to a reasonable number. I'm not dismissing the value of an entertaining read, but the quality of a book is more relevant to me than the quantity. I think there is more to gain from a single classic then there is from a years worth of trashy novels. But that's my personal preference. (and to answer the question - about 10)Jun 28 2012: I think i have read 7 books other than my engineering books, now half way to the book named P S I Love you..Jun 24 2012: about 50 books. that is a good quesion, helping me to realize that i need to read more books except novels. Besides, i also recommend 1984 and Sophie' s World.
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Jun 28 2012: :) Sohpie's World is good.Jun 23 2012: I think about four or five, this question has helped me realise that I need to make more time for reading books. I'm aware that I read a lot of articles, blogs, etc but not so many books. Out of the books I've read so far the two most memorable are David Rock's, Your Brain at work and David Brooks, The Social Animal. I also do tend to re-read books.Jun 21 2012: So far, 17, right now I am reading the volume 03 of the Mozart Series By Christian Jacq and also I am reading "Night" de Elie Wiesel (yeah, I do read more than one book at a time, but not always. It just happens.) and I have lined up " The Future of Freedom" by Fareed Zakaria.
Nice question, nice topic, nice to see all the answers you got it.Jun 21 2012: hi Matheus and all
I think I have read something like 16 or 18 book so far this year. It came to be a been in two weeks or so, depends on subject and amount. I wish I could spend more time on reading. (working on PhotoReading this will speed up)
To discuss here? my books were about NLP / leadership / negotiation / sales - (no novels yet) I don't think that these subjects are to discuss here but some do talk about business environment and leadership here.
I recomeneded a boot to a friends (but I read it years ago) and I do recommend it here - Henry David Thoreau 's WALDEN - (I believe some of you might know it) - it's a non-business book.
As Thoreau said: "the world is full of fantastic books that no one reads"
Funny eanough, I join to this talk because a few days ago on News Channel they said that in Spain, a person reads a book per year, an avarage number. Which is sad. I have students 14 - 16 years old, hardly few reads.
do you want to know the sadest part? Internet kills Book Reading, (I wish I was wrong)
nowadays some youth spends more time on Facebook than with book.Jun 21 2012: 7 books (and about half way through one now). I set myself a goal of 20 books (originally 24, but who am I kidding, I'm a slow reader) this year but so far I am well behind pace. I've been setting myself reading goals to push me to read more, you can do that on shelfari.com. On the other hand, I'm buying more books than ever so the library keeps filling up beyond capacity.
The most notable books I've read so far this year are The Blank Slate (watch the TEDtalk, that's what got me interested in the first place), The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and (in the much ignored in recent years category of fiction) Day of the Triffids.
I recommend The Blank Slate to everyone, it is the best book I've read in the last 3 years.
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Jun 21 2012: Steven Pinker and Oliver Sachs are indeed wonderful reads, almost regardless of which choices you make from their writings.Jun 28 2012: hi Matthieu,i totally agree with your method to settding a goal for yourself ,cause it can serve as a reminder to help us squeeze time do something meaningful such as reading. i will have a try in the coming days.Jun 21 2012: i wish i could have read more but i only red 5 books so far :(Jun 21 2012: i was stumped at this question. I have never counted how many books i have read before let alone how many i read in a year. But i guess i have read an average of 30 books a year. More if i have time.
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but i love re-reading. i think when i read i fall in love with characters so i read the book again just to have my fave characters alive in my mind again.Jun 21 2012: Well a good year 2 so far beats my yearly average by 2. Maybe age maybe a need that been repressed for some time. Oh well just roll with it I guess.Jun 18 2012: Nine so far, most of them I had to read for school (and loved them!) They were all postmodern novels. I'd recommend 'The New York trilogy' by Paul Auster or the 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo. ICurrently reading the 'Platform' by Michel Houellebecq..
+ I translate books so I have to read them - I completed the 'The Second Duchess' by Elizabeth Loupas and am currently working on 'Yoga Bitch' by Suzanne Morrison (who has nothing to do with the amazing Toni Morrison that wrote "Beloved" that I also read last month - and is a book I'd also recommend!) :)


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Potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says Sarah Palin's wrong and Michelle Obama's right, at least when it comes to the first lady's push to combat childhood obesity.
"With all due respect to my colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I think she's misunderstood what Michelle Obama is trying to do," the former Arkansas governor said Tuesday on the "Curtis Sliwa Show.".....
(said Huckabee) "Michelle Obama's not trying to tell people what to eat or not trying to force the government's desires on people," Huckabee said. "She's stating the obvious, that we do have an obesity problem in this country."
See the entire article at Politico (h/t Memeorandum)
Yeah, this is why anyone with the name Huckabee shouldn't be elected president.
Remember when "Just Say No" had the force of law behind it? The Obama family is not merely "stating" anything. They are "telling" people what to do about it. I would say that Huckabee would be smart enough to know the difference, but his name is Huckabee.
How is the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act NOT an imposition of "the government's desires on people?" It's now law! I think the flashy lights of his Fox News studio are making Mikey a little blind to what is really obvious.
I know this is an issue near and dear to his heart, but if personal baggage made good law then toilet seats would be narrower than the human head and 10 year-old bed-wetters will be eligible for a presidential medal of honor when I'm in charge of this joint.
How about this? If anyone can tell me which federal law Huckabee used to guide him in dropping his 100 pounds I'll back off the issue, and because I'm a nice guy I wont make beeping sounds while I do it.
All Palin is doing is playing a little gander to Michelle's goose by employing Obama's BFF Saul Alinsky's fifth rule:
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|This Greek Frittata with Zucchini, Tomatoes, and Feta is good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
(Makes 4 large or 6 small servings; recipe created by Kalyn.)
1 can (14.5 oz.) diced tomatoes, very well drained
1 medium zucchini, diced in 1/2 inch pieces
1 T olive oil
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/2 tsp. dried basil
1/4 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. Spike seasoning (optional, if you don't have Spike use any general-purpose seasoning mix that's good with eggs)
coarse ground black pepper to taste
6 eggs
1 T cream, half and half, or milkM
1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese (or more)
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese (or more)
Add half of mozzarella cheese and Feta and stir gently; then cook about 3 minutes more. Sprinkle remaining mozarella and feta cheese over top and cook a few minutes with a lid on the pan. (The cheese should be mostly melted and the eggs fairly set when you put it under the broiler.)
Let the frittata sit for a couple of minutes; then cut into pie shaped wedges to serve. This is good with a dollop of light sour cream.
South Beach Suggestions:
Most Feta cheese is relatively low in fat, but it's important to use low-fat mozzarella and milk instead of cream if making this for the South Beach Diet. With those ingredients, this would be a great dish for any phase of the diet.
Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Tasty Breakfast Ideas with Zucchini:
(Recipes from other blogs not always South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Zucchini and Green Chile Breakfast Casserole from Kalyn's Kitchen
Frittata with Zucchini, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and Sausage from Kalyn's Kitchen
Summer Squash with Baked Eggs from The Kitchn
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Officials hoped it would enliven night life, but owner bowing out
Escondido's hopes of having a downtown known for night life suffered a setback last week when The Grand, an upscale restaurant and cabaret, closed suddenly just one year after it opened.
Owner Sye Mousavi, who spent more than three years and $1 million remodeling the site, said Monday that he could no longer continue losing money.
"When you looked at the expenses and income, there was quite a difference," Mousavi said.
City officials had touted The Grand as the kind of business they hoped would enliven downtown, especially at night when the area is mostly empty.
In interviews this week, community leaders, former employees and downtown merchants blamed the closure on a weak economy, Escondido's spotty track record of supporting upscale venues, passive marketing and Mousavi's inexperience running a restaurant.
"With all respect, he tried to run a restaurant when the business is new to him," Mayor Sam Abed said. "But I think it will still eventually be a successful restaurant with all the investment they have made and the beautiful patio they built in the back."
Mousavi agreed with Abed.
"I'm trying to find someone to lease it because I'm not going to run it myself again," said Mousavi, a retired physician who has bought several downtown Escondido properties since moving from Illinois seven years ago. "This restaurant needs someone with a lot of experience."
In addition to a bar and a large dining area, the 5,000-square-foot restaurant has a performance space with a stage and dance floor, and an outdoor patio with a fire pit and fountain.
It's the former site of 150 Grand, an upscale restaurant that was open from 1993 to 2009 under several owners.
Reviews for The Grand on the social media site Yelp were mixed. Some called it "classy" and raved about the food, but others said it was overpriced.
The Grand's sous chef, Roy Scott, said this week that Mousavi should have hired more experienced managers and focused more on marketing and advertising.
"It's too bad they have to close it down, because it's a beautiful place," Scott said. "But they didn't do enough to promote it. We didn't have any new people coming in."
Scott also said the sudden closure frustrated many of the restaurant's nearly 20 employees. Most of them worked New Year's Eve, and didn't know that was the restaurant's final night until they got phone calls Jan. 1 telling them they no longer had jobs.
"It could have been handled with a little more finesse," he said. "Some people have babies on the way."
But Scott credited Mousavi for letting his staff try to turn the restaurant around.
"He put himself out there for us," Scott said. "We could have closed a few months ago, but he gave us a chance."
Pedro Moreno, who owns Pedro's Downtown Deli next door to The Grand, said one mistake Mousavi made was being open sporadically.
"They were open one day and then not the next — you gotta be steady," he said. "People get mad when they come and the place is closed."


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This is a set of instructions for building a physical model. The model simulates the Sun's paths across the sky at summer solstice, winter solstice, and the spring and fall equinoxes. A bead simulates the Sun, moving along a cord, from rising along... (View More) the eastern horizon to setting on the western. The bead can be moved from path to path to demonstrate solar alignments, the solstices, and equinoxes. The model is created to be unique to the user's latitude, and is useful for including in lessons that teach about the seasons or archaeoastronomy. (View Less)
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Anyone who has tried quitting smoking knows giving up cigarettes can be an extremely difficult challenge. That is why Samaritan Medical Center is partnering with the Tobacco Cessation Center of Northern New York to offer free smoking cessation classes to the North Country community. The first class is scheduled for Wednesday, August 28th, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. in Conference Room #4 at Samaritan Medical Center. Registration is not required.
The class, led by Beth Gero of the Tobacco Cessation Center of Northern New York, is designed to teach smokers how to prepare to be a non-smoker by providing skills and techniques to quit smoking. Participants will learn what their level of addiction is and will leave with their own personal "prescription for success."
Monthly classes have been scheduled throughout the rest of the year; Wednesday, September 25; Wednesday, October 30; Wednesday, November 13; Thursday, December 19.
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As I approach middle age, I've rediscovered my love for pinball, which I hadn't played in decades.
No one but us boomers plays anymore (I cannot get my teenagers even to look at one), but after seeing the games produced in the last twenty years I am amazed at how far the technology has come from the "hit the bumpers, drop down targets" of my youth. These things have displays that tell stories, a zillion ramps and toys to shoot at, at rule sets so complicated you need to actually read the rule set. Most of them are based on movies or TV shows, and a few of them do a great job of transferring some of the ideas into their games.
Anyway, I was thinking that DW would make a perfect theme for a pinball game. Alas, I don't have the drawing skills to create a board, although I have ideas on what areas and tricks it might use. Anyone feel like collaborating the "ideal DW pinball game?" Might be as simple as tossing out ideas for targets, playfield designs, 'missions,' toys to include (imagine The Luggage as a toy to shoot for--hit it, and it opens it mouth to trap a ball).
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To expand on the topic of Tibet travel that we began last month with the Top 10 Places to Visit in Tibet, we want to provide you with the best resources for planning your trip to Tibet.
Below is a "cheat sheet" of 9 great blogs, blog posts, books, reports, websites and agencies.
- The first and easiest thing you should do is to check out our free and ethical Tibet Travel Service in which we match you with hand-picked, top Tibet travel agents dedicated to supporting the local Tibetan economy and culture.
- After that, start getting some information. Start with the Land of Snows blog post on Travel in Tibet
- Lonely Planet discussion forum on Tibet
- Lonely Planet Tibet guide books
- Find a good-quality, Tibetan-owned travel agency on your own
- International Campaign for Tibet's PDF Report: Ethical Guide to Travel in Tibet
- Kham Aid Foundation's page on Travel in Kham
- Life on the Tibetan Plateau blog's pages on travel in both Amdo and Kham
- Gary McCue's Trekking in Tibet guide
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We know what it's like to try to find a good Tibet travel agent, and here's nothing more valuable than having a Tibet travel insider just connect you to the very best. It's really, really tough to know who the best Tibet travel agents are, and we've done all the legwork for you. Our service is totally free to you — we match you with our hand-picked travel agents that we go to great pains to be sure are either Tibetan-owned or dedicated to supporting the local Tibetan economy and culture.
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Your agent will help you in a million ways, but you will also want to do your own research. There is an excellent long post on Travel in Tibet from Jamin "Losang" York's Land of Snows blog.
This post is a fresh, generous collection of things you should know before you head out, including:
- Travel Permits
- Getting to Tibet
- Transportation in Tibet
- Tour Guides
- Travel agencies
- Hotels
- Food
- Entering Tibet from Nepal
- Visiting the Kham and Amdo Regions
Also, check out Losang's reassuring post, Arranging Travel to Tibet.
And be sure to note his comments on permits:
All foreigners going to Tibet must have their travel arranged through a travel agency before arriving in Lhasa. The days of arriving in Lhasa and putting together a trip to Everest Base Camp or Mt. Kailash are long over. Everything now has to be arranged in advance. All foreigners must have travel permits, a tour guide and a private vehicle and driver (if you are only staying in Lhasa, no private vehicle is required). Absolutely no independent travel is allowed in Tibet. Any rumor you may have heard that foreigners can travel on their own in Tibet is not true.
Lonley Planet's "Thorn Tree" forum always has fresh questions, answers and comments, with decent moderation to keep touting and fake recommendations to a minimum.
Importantly, there seem to be a fair number of experienced Tibet hands around for advice and to keep it real. (It's in the Asia – North-East Asia – Tibet section of the forum)
I always like to have a physical book when I travel, and the LP Tibet guide is pretty much the definitive one, along with LP China, if you wish to visit Kham and Amdo.
You can buy a 2011 Lonely Planet Tibet Guide here and the China guide here.
Individual Digital Chapters of the Guidebooks
I have not tried these myself yet, but the selection of digital (PDF) chapters from the Lonely Planet site look great as a way to get just the areas you want.
The downside is that you don't then get to get inspired to try other areas.
And it looks like they just chopped up the current edition of the book into chapters instead of offering updated versions of the chapters as PDF's, which would be useful.
Lonely Planet is a trusted, valuable resource for travel in Tibet in general, both for books and online resources, but both can also feel a little out of touch, due mostly to the rapidly changing situation in Tibet, and the difficulty of having guidebook writers on the ground long term.
I used a Lonely Planet Tibet guide for both my visits to central Tibet (2002 and 2007), and think it steered me in the right direction for the most part, but ended up taking specific hotel and food recommendations with a grain of salt, and often felt the monastery descriptions were hit and miss.
I would recommend exploring both their online resources and the guidebooks, but to also supplement them with the other resources on this list.
If you intend to visit the Tibet Autonomous Region (T.A.R.), which includes Lhasa, you're going to have to have a travel agent to help with your permits.
We strongly recommend hiring a good quality Tibetan-owned agency with experienced Tibetan guides and drivers, to support the local Tibetan economy.
We recommend you make your life simple and contact us to connect you to a great agent through our Tibet Travel Service, but if you prefer to do it on your own, you can get our invaluable list of recommended Tibetan-owned travel agents here.
Sadly, you have to beware of fake Tibetan guides.
Some Chinese guides pretend to be half-Tibetan, since they know travelers often prefer Tibetan guides.
If you have doubts, you might ask on the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Forum on Tibet.
Take care even there, as it seems that some unscrupulous agencies provide negative reviews about other agencies to bring them down.
If you want to know specifically about anyone or any agency, just openly ask on the forum and you are likely to get a lively, informative discussion that will at least help you get a sense of the truth.
There is an argument to be made that traveling in occupied Tibet supports the Chinese government, but we, as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, disagree.
We believe that if you inform yourself about the situation in Tibet before you go, keep your eyes open to the truth, and make every effort to patronize only Tibetan-owned travel agencies, shops, restaurants, and hotels, that you are serving Tibet and Tibetans.
As one way to inform yourself before you go, try the 2007 International Campaign for Tibet's (ICT) PDF report — Interpreting Tibet: A Political Guide To Traveling In Tibet
The travel information on Kham Aid's site is extensive and helpful, but note that it seems to have been last updated in Spring 2007.
Before he started the Land of Snows blog, Losang York ran this extensive site, chock full of great info on travel all over Tibet.
This site is still on the web, and until he moves the Kham and Amdo information over to the new site, you should check it all out at the old Life on Tibetan Plateau blog.
Gary McCue's Trekking in Tibet guide, updated in 2010, is widely considered the definitive guide for Tibetan trekking.
Those eight resources are really all you need to plan a fabulous trip to Tibet, but if you would like to do a little more research, check out these sites, too:
Lonely Planet: Destination Tibet
This can be helpful as a general overview to Tibet travel, but as of this writing (January 2012) the website info is woefully out of date. The "getting there and around" information, for example mentions 2009 as a future date…
Footprint Tibet Handbook
We have not used this, but it is well regarded, as a complete guide to the whole Tibetan plateau.
TripAdvisor Visiting Tibet
Generally speaking, a decent secondary source to Lonely Planet online.
TripAdvisor Tibet Travel Forum
There's a lot of activity here, though I think it lacks the depth of experienced commentators that the Lonely Planet Forum offers.
Wikipedia Tibetan Journeys
Not user friendly, but shows some itineraries
Wikitravel on Tibet
Some useful info, but not user friendly, and while some sections are updated, not all of them necessarily are.
A Guide to Traveling Ethically and Responsibly in Tibet
From the UK-based Free Tibet organization
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy's Briefing paper for travelers to Tibet
This is great, and includes a section called Should I visit Tibet? but seems to have been last updated in 2003 or 2004
Tibet Online's Travel in Tibet
Tibet Online was among the first if not the first Tibet resource site, and still offers valuable links to just about everything in the Tibet world, including a small travel section.


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Remove the line and you can play offline. That's it.
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Idea Blog
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Posted on: April 1st, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Elizabeth Long Lingo
I had the wonderful opportunity to present my ideas at TedX Furman University last week. At the end of all the presentations, their local student improv troupe offered mini-improv skits based on each of the talks.
Here's the one spoofing on my idea of the Creative Practice Booocamp. Love it!
Posted on: March 11th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Rebecca Bernard
I found myself in Niceville, Florida. It was a place I'd written about a while back. Then I was there. We had the top down and the sun was on us and all the surrounding earth.
In a movie I was watching, the camera would pan to the side sometimes. It would show desert and land and sky and the effect was a calming thing. It said: Here is also what is happening. It said: The world is outside of this particular frame, too. Look, it keeps going.
In Niceville I scanned the strip malls for my character. I knew he was either in a bar or outside of one. I knew he was thinking about the heat in the asphalt under his feet. I didn't see him. I knew I wasn't going to.
A sign on an overpass spelled Will You Marry Me Wilma Jane in white solo cups. It seemed like a big deal. We said, Isn't that something. We agreed it was.
I wanted to ask him if his father's deserting the family was really so bad, but because he's a character it would be like asking myself.
I liked how quiet the scenes in the movie were. A desolate place in Spain or the like. I wondered if it was still so dry there. If wind was still blowing open white curtains. The characters stuck in time and space. Not moving for fear of dying off.
Our lives are built of frames for seeing the world. With the right light things are one way. Lose the light and you're somewhere else. Only it's the same place.
We watched the sunset on the beach. It was cold but I kept thinking–a photo would make this something else. The world could be warm in a photo. In a photo it could be anything. Perhaps, we too, are in Spain.
On the drive home there was a new sign on the overpass. A birthday message. We realized that what had seemed one way was actually another. Too bad.
For a minute there, it had all felt pretty special.
An Unstaged Reading
Posted on: March 10th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Aidan Carr
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There have been a couple historical models for developing new musicals. In the so-called "Golden Age," shows grew via the out-of-town tryout—a month or so in New Haven or Philadelphia where changes would be made by gauging audience reception. The first number of Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, "Comedy Tonight," emerged from frantic out-of-town revisions. (This anecdote contains a valuable lesson in musical theatre craft that further entries will investigate.)
The main idea here is to introduce the work-in-progress to the world and see how it does—where do people tune out? Where do they sit on the edge of their seat? Are they laughing and in the right places? Worse, are they laughing and in the wrong places? When musicals made lots of money, an entire production in a separate city was worth the capital to put it up, despite it being an experiment: now, musicals are like films, costing millions of dollars, and producers are much more skeptical to throw millions of dollars at an untested product. Cue the reading.
A reading has the same goals—watch the audience, tweak as needed—as the out-of-town tryout, but none of the window dressing, both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because it is cheap; fantastic sequences of, say, dancing dolls and malfunctioning sewing machines, can be left to the imagination. A curse because the imagination can provide more than just window dressing—it is easy to fool oneself and say "this will work with costumes and lights" when it really won't. The pros outweigh the cons—out-of-town tryouts still occur, but typically after dozens of readings, each more 'produced' than the last.
An unstaged reading is the very bottom of the reading totem pole. Actors sit on stage in a row; when they are in a scene they stand, and sit otherwise. They memorize nothing: the scripts are in front of them on music stands. Someone even reads the stage directions.
Readings can come together very quickly—at NYU, the musical theatre writing program mounts unstaged readings of new work with actors that show up the morning of the performance and piano players who have never seen the score before. (Due to some last-minute drama, these actors read an entire ten minute script of mine, in front of an audience, that I handed to them as the performance began.)
Readings put material into the world, and for this they are invaluable. They are what catches the attention of investors, of producers, of other writers, of the press. More than this, though, they are crucial in finishing what it is you wish to share—they are the taste test before the Michelin chef adds a dish to his menu. And so it must be polished, elegantly and cleanly presented—even though you threw it together in a week. I have many ideas on how to polish my reading—look for them shortly.
What A Bookwriter Does
Posted on: March 10th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Aidan Carr
The blueprint.
If a musical is a house, the bookwriter is its architect; he also shares interior/exterior design duties with the composer and the lyricist. Most of the spoken language of the piece (most) falls under his jurisdiction, but he also shapes the story itself, places the songs, cuts pages and scenes.
Like houses, the architecture behind a musical must be rock-solid, or else it will collapse. Structural design is less glamorous than aesthetic design, more conceptual, and considerably more difficult; bookwriters don't get paid more for nothing. Not only are they relatively 'behind-the-scenes' as far as creative staff goes, since they theoretically contribute nothing to what musicals are all about (the songs), but they are frequently the first to blame when a show is lackluster—'it's got book problems.' Not for nothing; structure is hard, and even professional Broadway shows frequently cannot master its design. Spider-Man had an entire number in which an invented spider deity sang of her charmingly-wicked adoration for mountains and mountains of shoes—cue $500,000 dollars in innovative costume design for highly trained ballerina-spiders, Loboutin heels on all 8 legs. This went on for five minutes.
Bookwriting—thankless, vital, at times (Arthur Laurents, Hugh Wheeler) elegant. More to come.
Music is Sculpture
Posted on: March 10th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Aidan Carr
Writing music before the 20th century was a lot like painting—you had certain colors and certain brushes, and you painted certain things. Like painters, composers outgrew these boundaries—painters stopped painting things, composers stopped writing tonal music, etc. But we still think of most music as having a pretty narrow set of 'brushes' or 'paints'—the Beatles used guitars, classical composers write for the symphonic orchestra, Miles Davis played the trumpet.
You'll notice I've neglected electronic music. This is for a reason. Electronic music and the thinking that produced it does not work this way. It does not have a palette; its palette, rather, is sound itself, the physical vibrations that make noise in your ear. Electronic sound is not paint; it is clay, clay under the hands of the most impossible alchemist, capable of morphing into literally any substance imaginable. Writing music on the computer is not painting, it is sculpture.
More on this to come, but for the time being, absorb this 'sculpture' by a British artist who produces under the name Four Tet. Like the work of Michaelangelo, its detail is pristine, exact; every sound is there for a reason, every detail contributing to the whole. It repeats, endlessly—accept this. Let what sounds the same wash over you—I promise you, if you do so, it will not be boring, it will be beautiful.
What's Being Adapted
Posted on: March 10th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Aidan Carr
Opening credits.
The film I'm adapting is called MAY. It is has a cult reputation of sorts—it frequently makes pop "Top 10 Horror of 2000's" List, a horror-hipster favorite. This is actually how I discovered it—on such a list, the author ranked MAY as his second favorite of the decade, remarking that it was "not so much scary as sad," which intrigued me.
"Sadder than scarier" is a fair assessment; unlike most contemporary horror films, MAY focuses on the monster and not the victims. It has this (and more, as you'll see) in common with Frankenstein—a difference of purpose, more about why terrible things happen than the thrill of them happening.
MAY was written by Lucky McKee when he was a film student at the University of Southern California, and it is a lonely film—the eponymous monster/heroine is in nearly every frame, and half of these by herself. May cannot hold a conversation. Even animals become suspicious of her. As a member of the outside world, such a withdrawal is unsettling, disturbing, a harbinger of something darker and perhaps dangerous. Disordered social interactions point towards inner instability, and this frightens us. Pariahs scare us.
I saw a man in a park late at night in Barcelona pace in tiny circles, reciting a mélange of Arabic and Spanish syllables with no connection, and I stayed away.
Imagine this from the inside. That man pacing in circles was speaking, trying to communicate, and yet all his faculties for doing so were broken. All he can muster are the short-circuits of syllables. How terrifying this must be; more than terrifying, how lonely.
This is May's problem, though it is not as pronounced and all the more insidious—her signals too are broken, but they take on the illusion of order and coherence. They trick people for a time, herself included. May is fascinating—she makes her own clothes, she works for an idiomatically-challenged Eastern European veterinarian, she has an elaborate collection of fine porcelain dolls—for a time. Soon her obsessions—stitches and sutures, needles and scalpels, dolls—are no longer fascinating; they are dangerous. When her newfound 'friends' sense this danger, they too run away. Her own realization that she scares people is her anagnorisis, and nobody survives it.
The way May's compulsions finally play out is this; all of the people she meets through the course of the film possess a body part that May finds particularly attractive. One man's hands, a woman's neck, another's legs, et cetera. May has long since outgrown dolls and needs human company, hence why she meet all these people who rejected her in the first place. Nobody wants May's company, so she resolves to fashion someone who does, out of all of the best parts of the people she knows. The creation of this new doll, 'Amy,' ends the film.
A strange subject for a musical, you'd correctly think. One key aspect allows room for music in this story, even begs for it. May holds unspoken conversations with her doll Suzy that drive her emotional arc; these conversations are full of the kind of desperation and yearning and pure desire that sings onstage, and dolls are an inventive and unusual instrument with which to sing those desires. Sewing machines, too, have their own strange and strangely beautiful music, akin to the musique concrete of Edgard Varése or the minimalism of Steve Reich. Out of this kernel—musicalizing May's emotional interior life, accompanying it with the sounds of the real world like the sewing machine—I've developed a sort of musical vocabulary that underpins all May's movements in the world. Several other implications follow from this central conceit, many of them structural—they will be discussed in the posts that come.
A bottom line: MAY will be a musical like Sweeney Todd, that follows a monster through her emergence as such; it will be a musical like Cabaret, with a nagging discomfort that sprouts into full fledged dread; and it will be more, an electronic aberration, a show soaked in samples and synthesizers and stitches instead of trumpets and saxophones, something funny and uncomfortable and uncomfortable because it is funny, something sadder than scary. (All this, I hope.)
Making Musicals: An Introduction
Posted on: February 27th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Aidan Carr
For the next two months, my writing here will document the process of creating a new work of musical theater. This process is lengthy and not particularly glamorous: indeed, much of the groundwork and infrastructure for the project that this creative diary follows has been in development for nearly two years. It is the final portion of the working, however, the tail end, that is most interesting; myths of frantic out-of-town tryouts and hotel rooms covered in scribbled-over drafts abound in theater circles; any given episode of NBC's Smash inevitably invokes the trope. These myths are hyperbolic iterations, but they stem from a real and palpable creative excitement surrounding musical theater work nearing completion—an excitement that I hope to communicate in the postings that follow.
Musical theater typically is a most collaborative art form—there is a composer, a lyricist, a book writer, a director, producers, a musical director, an entire orchestra and ensemble of singers/dancers, and a host of other design staff, every single person contributing to the aesthetic of what the audience experiences. My project is somewhat unusual because, by its nature as an academic thesis, I am required to assume the first four or five roles by myself. Normally, this would be more than problematic, it would be fatal to a production; hence, a lowering of ambitions is in order. The end result of this process is to be what's termed an "unstaged reading." A company of actors with scripts and scores on music stands will take the stage, stand when they are in a scene, and sit down when they are not. Two or three musicians and a narrator to read stage directions will accompany them.
The work itself is an adaptation of a horror film called MAY, directed by Lucky McKee. It is a macabre fairy-tale of sorts, an amalgamation of Frankenstein, Faust, and The Bell Jar (at its heart), and its two most distinctive features are an ensemble of singing imaginary dolls and the extensive and intricate employment of electronic music.
Thanks for reading. Now let's get started.
Students at the Oscars
Posted on: February 27th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Harvey Burrell
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal explored a group of students at San Francisco's Academy of Art University and their contributions to the Academy Award Nominated film "Beasts of the Southern Wild". "Beasts" was completed for 1.5 million dollars, an impossible low sum of money by Hollywood standards. It took home the Grandy Jury Prize at Sundance and received 4 Oscar nominations. 33 students volunteered to as many as 40 hours per week. All of this was accomplished in a "class dubbed Studio 400A, an advanced elective wherein students offer free visual-effects work for low-budget films." This model places students in meaningful roles on film sets. It is likely to catch many independent producers' eyes. It is an amazing way to cut costs and give students a chance to express themselves creatively. However, it can also turn the corner and become an easy way to exploit tuition playing students. In the case of "Beasts" it worked out for the students, many of whom have received job offers from VFX studios. It can be a fine line, but when walked carefully everyone wins. It is an interesting model to consider as things develop here at the Media Lab.
Be sure to check out this awesome behind the scenes video from "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
How to Pet a Shark
Posted on: February 20th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Rebecca Bernard
You have to use two fingers when you pet a shark. You line them up side by side. Then gently place them in the tank. Let the shark come to you. It will avoid you if you reach for it. Show no desperation.
Most humans spend time growing inside the body of another. Eventually, we surface for air. It is complex and not complex at the same time. The sharks rise to the surface and feel the fingers, flat and together. Often, our mothers hold us, we the newborn.
I am thinking of a story called 'How to be Kind.' The plot, naturally, includes mostly unkind acts and regret. There is much sighing and quiet and longing. The characters ask to be held.
At the aquarium in Kentucky, we saw sharks. Some in tanks, some in great pools. They swam and mingled. Later, I was upset or maybe you were. The memory becomes a swarm of the feelings made at the time. They too, swim and mingle.
It is good to see faces in the mind. In that space I might make them any way I choose. We are born giving pain. We are born without memory. Our mothers hold it for us. The pain and the memory.
At the bottom of the tank there are not jewels or colored stones. It is empty. No plant life. At night, sharks sleep and drift. When the tanks are dark and the groping hands are gone, does peace exist? Nearby, the jellyfish glow.
The sensation is both smooth and violating. I find myself empathizing with the sharks. They swim past, waiting to be touched.
Make Space – How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
Posted on: February 13th, 2013 | 0 Comments
by Harvey Burrell
How do creative people share space?
This is one of the biggest issues when designing a multi-purpose space. The book Make Space draws upon the experience of the Stanford d.school and design consulting firm IDEO. Both of these firms have been heralded as leaders in fostering creativity. The book raised a lot of great questions about space and challenges designers to think beyond the cubicle. It also offers a hands on approach to building a space. Building a space is also a way to build a community. The people involved then become "invested owners rather than entitled users"(31).
Questions to be Answered:
How do we define thresholds/ transitions into new spaces? How do we signify this change?
How do we balance the need to keep storage secure with the desire to have it visible? (Visible tools tend to foster creativity)
What is the attitude or ambience you want your space to create?
How do spectators enter the space? Can they observe quietly and engage when interested?
How do you account for a variety of learning styles in one space?
Ideas to Borrow:
Casters in unexpected places. Allow furniture to move and be reconfigured as needed.
Idea generation happens in a space separate from where we share our ideas. If you share an idea too early it can be squash
Labelled water bottles are an easy way to reduce impact and foster community.
Clear signage. Labeling cabinets and hooks makes it easier for new users and ensures things end up back where they belong.
Headphones = do not interrupt. Have them available.
Put writable surfaces everywhere you can.
The take away message from Make Space is that creative minded individuals need to work in a space that has a "bias towards action". All the elements that go into a space need to be there to foster creative ideas.
It is worth noting that even companies as large as Facebook and Zappos have started designing offices that follow many of the principles outlined in Make Space. http://bit.ly/YJnCqI


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The theology degree program at The Woods is built on the understanding of theology as "faith seeking understanding," and equips students with the knowledge to pursue that process. Courses in the theology degree program are designed to deepen your understanding of your faith, examine it critically, and learn the language and ways of thinking necessary to articulate it in a clear, coherent and meaningful manner. The Theology major prepares you to enter into an intelligent and informed dialogue with both the world at large and your own faith community.
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No. Our courses in theology are, for the most part, applicable to practically all Christian denominations. Among our majors (past and present), we have had Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists, Mennonites, American Baptists. In addition, our faculty also includes professors who are not Roman Catholic, which provides a wider perspective for our program.