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America's premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, will be performing his signature stand-up routine. Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere. Seinfeld now sets his sights on performing both nationally and internationally in 2016.
American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States, including language, religion, food and the arts. American culture has been shaped by European immigrants, American Indians, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians. America is described as a "melting pot" in which these different cultures have contributed their own distinct flavors and influences, and it is the most culturally diverse country in the world.
It is in this "spirit" that this concert is a celebration of several of these contributions: folksongs and hymns of America, African-American, and more notably, a newly commissioned work for adult chorus, children's chorus, soloists and orchestra by Chickasaw composer and Oklahoma native, Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate.
Also featured will be "Wings of Fire" written by Oklahoma City University composer-in-residence and award-winning composer, Edward Knight, and is a nine-part choral cycle calling on blues and gospel, chant and hymns. This work is inspired by the Book of Psalms (particularly Psalm 51) and the poetry of Langston Hughes. Hughes, an African-American author, was most concerned with the uplifting of his people, whose strengths, resiliency, courage and humor he wanted to record as part of the general American experience. And finally, included will be The American Songbook, with a cappella folksong and hymn selections by such composers as Aaron Copland, Alice Parker, and Moses Hogan.
Joining the Canterbury adult chorus for this concert are the Canterbury Youth Choruses and guest artist soloists. During the current political climate, Spirit of America will showcase and remind us all of the rich culture of America and our history of immigration.
With the Oklahoma City Philharmonic
"Sparkling, fresh and lively."–Los Angeles Times
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE! A brand new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by three-time Tony Award® winner Jack O'Brien, is coming to the Civic Center Music Hall. The spirited, romantic and beloved musical story of Maria and the von Trapp Family will once again thrill audiences with its Tony®, Grammy® and Academy Award® winning Best Score, including "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Edelweiss" and the title song. THE SOUND OF MUSIC features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp. THE SOUND OF MUSIC enjoyed extraordinary success as the first live television production of a musical in over 50 years when "The Sound of Music Live!" aired on NBC in December, 2013 and was seen by over 44 million people. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the film version, which continues to be the most successful movie musical in history.
When Alan was asked what his fans can expect from his new live show, he said "We've established the Live Project to perform The Alan Parsons Project hits and we don't disappoint. We don't go 'eclectic' with the set lists — I walked out of a Steely Dan concert [recently] for that reason, because it was so self-indulgent! The show is fun, liberating, and it's great to hear audience reaction. The fans will hear all the songs they know we have to play in the spectacular fashion they deserve!"
Canterbury's annual Christmas concert has become a much-loved and highly anticipated holiday tradition in the Oklahoma City community! Joining us each year are always a variety of guests and the children of Canterbury Youth Choruses. Also featured will be the traditional holiday carol sing-a-long with the audience which always is a favorite with Canterbury audiences! This experience is a joyous experience of holiday cheer to share with friends and family! Begin your holidays by giving the gift of music!
This concert will be followed by a Holiday Reception in the Civic Center lobby. Don't forget to have your photo taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus by the Atrium tree!
Give a listen to "Old Photographs," the closing track on Tommy Emmanuel's It's Never Too Late, and you'll hear the distinctive squeak of finger noise as he runs his hands across the frets of his Maton Signature TE guitar. Many musicians would edit those imperfections out, but to Emmanuel, those imperfections are perfect.
A master technician, Emmanuel started professionally at age 6, rising through the ranks as a studio player and member of several Australian rock bands before he set off on a solo career. One of only five musicians handpicked by his mentor, Chet Atkins, as a Certified Guitar Player (CGP), he's piled up numerous accolades, including two Grammy nominations, two ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (the Aussie equivalent of the Recording Academy) and repeated honors in the Guitar Player magazine reader's poll.
A noted fingerstyle guitarist, Emmanuel frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a one-man band who handles the melody, the supporting chords and the bass all at once. His talents, which translate in any language, carry him to the far corners of the globe, but Emmanuel never plays the same show twice, and he improvises big chunks of every date. That leaves him open to those technical imperfections, though they also provide some of the humanity to an other-worldly talent.
"It's all about the feeling of the music," Emmanuel says. "And it has to make me feel something. I'm still playing for myself, you know, because I figure if I please me, then I'm pretty sure I'm gonna please you. And that's not an arrogant statement, it's just quality control."
ELF THE MUSICAL is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy's enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa's permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity, and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas. This modern day Christmas classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner ELF.
Some thirty years before writing WICKED, Steven Schwartz had an early success and now PIPPIN is back on tour for the first time since it thrilled audiences 40 years ago… the show The New York Times declared "ASTONISHING." Winning the Tony Award® for Best Musical Revival, PIPPIN tells the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a happy but simple life? Or will he risk everything for a singular flash of glory? This captivating new production features sizzling choreography in the style of BOB FOSSE and breathtaking acrobatics by LES 7 DOIGTS DE LA MAIN, the creative force behind the nationwide sensation TRACES.
Featuring more than 40 classic hits such as "My Girl" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," MOTOWN THE MUSICAL tells the story behind the hits as Diana, Smokey, Berry and the whole Motown family fight against the odds to create the soundtrack of change in America. Motown shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat.
Do you remember the 1956 epic film The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston? It is still shown on television each year, and dramatizes the biblical story of Moses. The same story is the subject of Handel's Israel in Egypt, which begins with the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, followed by descriptions of the plagues that Moses calls down upon the Egyptians to persuade the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Eventually the Pharaoh is persuaded and the Israelites are led out of Egypt by Moses, only to be pursued by the Pharaoh's army of 600 chariots. The Israelites finally arrive at the Red Sea in front of them and trapped by mountains all around. Seeing Pharaoh's soldiers coming, they are terrified. God tells Moses to stretch his hand out and the Red Sea waters part. The Israelites flee through the Red Sea, a wall of water on either side and dry land under their feet. The Egyptian army, arriving at the sea, charge in after them, but once the Israelites are safe on the other side, the sea rolls back in, covering the Egyptian army, its chariots and horses. The Israelites celebrate the power of their God and their deliverance.
What a dramatic story! And this setting by Handel is full of "word painting" where the sound of the music imitates the text imagery. The plagues, especially, inspired him to create some of his most colorful painting – one can easily hear the hopping of the frogs, the buzzing of the flies, the pounding of the fiery hail, and the eerie darkness.
It is a great irony that Handel who is associated with some of the greatest choral music in the English language (composer of the famous Messiah) was in fact a German whose lifelong interest was Italian opera. Handel wrote more than 40 operas, borrowing from some of that music for his choral music. Israel in Egypt is unique in its abundance of choruses and double choruses, and now stands second only to Messiah as Handel's most beloved work.
Disney's THE LION KING is returning to OKC! More than 85 million people around the world have experienced the awe-inspiring visual artistry, the unforgettable music, and the uniquely theatrical storytelling of this Broadway spectacular – one of the most breathtaking and beloved productions ever to grace the stage. Winner of six Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, THE LION KING brings together one of the most imaginative creative teams on Broadway. Tony Award®-winning director Julie Taymor brings to life a story filled with hope and adventure set against an amazing backdrop of stunning visuals. With Music and Lyrics by Tony Award®-winning artists Elton John and Tim Rice, there is simply nothing else like THE LION KING.


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sitesolutions.comInternet United States of America
sitesolutions.com s lochmiller and m higgins say they are all about customer service and then never get back to you Internet
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That's worth repeating... Over TWO MILLION Satisfied Users.
During our 16 years of SEO, we have been instrumental in helping a vast number of website owners improve their overall search engine positioning, thereby increasing their overall business opportunities.
Many of our users have hundreds of their keywords on page one in the organic section of Google that match exactly what they are selling or providing.
Even with that successful track record, the reality is that when providing some sort of service to over Two Million different websites, it seems that no matter how hard you try, a 100% perfect score in customer satisfaction is an impossibility.
You are probably a business owner or manager. So I ask for just a moment that you put this scenario in your own business. Over the years that you have been business, have you "ever" had a dissatisfied customer? Even if you have had just one, take your volume of customers or users, and expand that to over Two Million. Can you see that no matter how hard you would have tried - no matter how good your intentions - that it is impossible to work with that many people and not have a dissatisfied customer. At SiteSolutions, we're no different than you. Out of over two million applications of our service, 100% satisfaction seems to be impossible.
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Between forensic nurse and arnp.. **help**
0 Hey you guys. Well im a LPN now goin for my RN
But im stuck between becoming a forensic nurse and ARNP. Which is better? Salary?
HELP PLEASE. THANKS0Oct 5, '12 by Pixie.RN, MSN, RN, EMT-P Senior ModeratorWhat kind of forensic nurse? What kind of NP?
My advice is to focus on getting your RN, and get your feet wet at whatever RN job you can find. Take it from there. Good luck!


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Score One for the Sea Turtles
Read more about the Sierra Club's -- and the sea turtles' -- big win on La Isla Del Incanto.
What a Difference 100 Days Makes
Since the Sierra Club launched its 100 Days of Action campaign to fight climate disruption in January, people like you have organized over 300 events nationwide and taken nearly 1.2 million actions, including signing some 900,000 petitions. And you're being heard! In these 100 days, President Obama has designated five new national monuments and proposed tough new vehicle emissions standards and power plant water-pollution safeguards; Los Angeles has pledged to go off coal by 2025; and Maryland passed an offshore wind energy bill.
Find out more about what we've accomplished -- and what's still left to do -- in this new 100 Days of Action video that was delivered to the White House yesterday.
Sandy's Legacy -- And Our Challenge
Hey You!
Looking to travel with the "under 50" crowd? Embark on a rugged challenge? Or just make some new friends along the trail? Then be sure to check out our trips for younger participants. Some are specifically geared towards young people or run by our more youthful leaders; others are just great deals for anyone on a budget.
If you're under 30, you may be able to go on select trips for an unbeatable $150 or less, thanks to our youth scholarship funds. Visit our youth scholarships page for more info. Funding is limited, so don't wait until the last minute!
6 of America's Scariest Hiking Trails
Are you brave enough to tackle these adventurous treks? We've highlighted six of the most dangerous trails in the country. The challenging routes require experience, strength, endurance, proper planning, and appropriate gear. But the hikers who succeed are rewarded with spectacular vistas and epic stories.
Add these trails to your bucket list... if you dare.
A Path to the Future
Some 11 million undocumented immigrants live and work in the U.S. in a state of legal limbo, with few of the rights or protections others enjoy. Many labor in jobs where they are exposed to dangerous conditions, chemicals and pesticides, and live in areas with disproportionately high air and water pollution.
"We must ensure that the people who are most disenfranchised and the most affected by pollution have a voice to fight the polluters and advocate for climate solutions without fear," says Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. "That's why the Club's Board of Directors has voted to offer our strong support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants."
Seven of the World's Strangest Flowers
Blossoms that smell like rotting corpses? Plants that can generate their own heat? A 10-foot tall bloom that takes six years to open? No, these plants don't come from the realm of science fiction. We've rounded up seven of the world's most bizarre flora.
Prepare to be amazed by Mother Nature's unexpected creations.
Coal to Clean Energy -- It's the Native American Way
You did it! Thank you!
This Earth Month we challenged you to help us meet some lofty goals. Thanks to you, we were able to blow past our goal of recruiting 2,000 members! We also asked current members to step up to raise $70,000 to secure a matching gift to protect the Polar Bear Seas and all of wild America.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible. Didn't get a chance to give? There's still time to make a gift for Earth Month.
Wolverine alert
Wolverines are the heart and soul of the North Cascades and the Rocky Mountains, with their frost-resistant fur, small frame, and big attitude. Until recently, they had been completely extirpated from the lower 48 states, a victim of hunting, trapping, and development of their habitat. But these scrappy survivors are making a comeback -- and they need your help.
Experts estimate there are currently 300 wolverines in the Lower 48. An official listing by the federal government as a "threatened" species would confer protections that will help bolster the comeback of this iconic symbol of wild America.
Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list wolverines as a "threatened" species and take other steps to help these survivors make their comeback.
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1.)Racecar driver Leilani Munter on creating the world's first "VegNation" racecar and encouraging millions of race fans to adopt a plant-based diet 2.)Stacy Bare, director of the Sierra Club's Mission Outdoors program, on celebrating the month of the military child outdoors 3.)Sierra Magazine's Avital Andrews shares tips for growing your own herbs this spring
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Marcos Ambrose had a car fast enough to win the Daytona 500, but not from the slow lane
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- February 26, 2013
Marcos Ambrose believes he had a car that was quick enough to win the Daytona 500 but couldn't find the fast lane when it mattered most.
The Australian racer lined up third on a late-race restart and looked in a good position to win NASCAR's biggest race.
However Ambrose said the inside-line starting position hurt him when it came time to race for the win.
"Our Stanley Ford just would not go fast on the bottom line," Ambrose, after finishing the race down in 18th.
"Before the last big wreck, with about 20 laps left, we had a car that was in position to win. We were running right there, but the restarts didn't help us at all.
Within a couple of laps of that restart, Ambrose's yellow and black Fusion had slipped to near the tail of the lead pack.
After fighting his way back up to the edge of the top 10, another caution saw Ambrose again line up in the lower lane.
"Each time we had a restart it seemed like we were down there. We just didn't have a car that was fast in that position."
Ambrose was lucky to even make it to the finish, narrowly avoiding a pair of crashes that happened right in front of him, including one on the final lap of the race.
"Our Stanley guys worked hard all week and we came away with a car in one piece. We will move on to Phoenix and start building some momentum."
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series now moves onto the second round of the championship at Phoenix this Sunday.
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Not much to photograph, except the two places where cave-ins have made holes in the roof, all a-green and ferny.
Not much to photograph, except the two places where cave-ins have made holes in the roof, all a-green and ferny.
Too utterly cool not to share!Jun. 24th, 2015 02:50 pm
fellow travelersJun. 10th, 2015 03:46 pm
( Largeish image )
It is a cut sheet of black paper, on top of a sheet of white paper. The white paper has a few holes in it to let the bottom paper, which is red, show through in a couple of places. The holes in the white paper have to line up exactly with the holes in the black paper, so that the red is outlined by black.
It was ridiculously difficult to get the holes in the white sheet in the correct places. I would carefully mark and cut them, and then three quarters of them would align and the last few would be off in the middle of nowhere. Took me four tries, and a special rush delivery of swears from the manufacturer. And it's still not perfect, merely good enough.
There is actually a word for the process of lining up the parts of a layered image: registration. (Used mostly in printmaking and photography.) I like that. The existence of that word says: you are not alone, others have done this and burned through truckloads of swears, others will do it after you. This is surprisingly comforting and inspiring. Jargon as the mark of shared experiences.
northward and upwardMar. 17th, 2015 01:56 pm
I hope the storm sticks around a while, won't be dark here for ages.
Question: How would the Bulbasaur Pokemon work?
Answer: ( video game biology )
Quantity over Quality 5: Mixed ResultsJan. 8th, 2015 10:42 pm
I was inspired by Lynd Ward woodcuts, like this one:
where the image is formed more by texture than by shape. There's the cross-hatched sail, the squiggly wave, the solid boat, the heavy striped sky, the jittery person, etc.
I thought I could do something similar, with three textures from the mountain:
- lacey leaves and flowers,
- big blocky chunks of rock, and
- spiny trees.
And the photo I was working from:
I changed the asters to lupines, because lupines rule and asters drool, clearly.
Quantity over Quality 3: GiftmasJan. 5th, 2015 03:41 pm
For this year's Midwinter Festival of Unbridled Consumerism, juli got me a khadag! Actually, five khadags.
Khadags, which are a blue Mongolian version of the white Tibetan prayer scarf (khata), are one of my favorite things about Mongolia. You can't go anywhere without seeing one tied to a signpost or truck tailgate or doorframe. They cost about ten cents. Actual religious sites of any type (not just buddhist) frequently have so many khadags that you can't quite tell what is under them, they're just fluttering mounds of blue and wind.
Anything you might need luck with? Tie a khadag to it!
Did a good thing happen and you would like it to happen again? Tie a khadag to it!
Did a bad thing happen and you would definitely not like it to happen again? Tie a khadag to it!
They're a beautiful color, and they are everywhere. All birds nests in Mongolia contain some blue thread, including one massive raven nest of bleached bone and blue silk we saw. Students tie them to school fences to wish for luck in exams. I loved the sense of peering into the depths of time, of seeing reinforced hems, all that remained of old silk khadags worn by the wind, next to tattered cotton and new rayon ones. I liked the evidence that says: this place was important to someone once, for at least long enough to knot a scarf around a tree.
juli and I somehow returned from Mongolia without any khadags, and as omnipresent as they are inside the country, it proved quite impossible to get them outside it. Until now, when juli again used her amazing find-anything-on-the-internet skills to track some down. Hooray for blue-haired cyberpunk girlfriend! Hooray for khadags! Hooray for giftmas!
Interview memeNov. 14th, 2014 01:10 pm
Comment on this post, and I will interview you by asking you approximately five questions. Post the questions and your answers on your own journal. Optionally, offer to interview people who comment on your posted interview.
(If you somehow find and comment on this post and I don't know you, I will look at your profile, interests, and last few posts for interview inspiration.)
The second-last of the tiny papercutting suggestions on 3x5 cards. A forest, as suggested by twoeleven Forests are hard, I eventually gave up and cheated by cutting two 3x5 cards worth of forest, and stacking them with some tracing paper. It is, of course, a douglas fir forest. I didn't spend years analyzing data on douglas fir branching patterns for nothing! Woo!
I. Hippos Invade Columbia
Columbian Drug lord Pablo Escobar kept a menagerie at his palatial estate, including 4 hippopotamuses. Since his death in 1993, the hippos have been reproducing like crazy, and now there are at least 60 and they are starting to take over the Magdalena river, much to the surprise of fishermen in the area. There are no hippo-eating predators and no droughts in Columbia, so there's not much pressure on their population. Observations indicate every mature female has a calf every year. At night they leave the river to eat crops and occasionally kill cows that get in their way. Programs to eradicate or sterilize them have been proposed, but they're so cute there's always a public outcry, and those options are expensive, so it's not clear what will be done about the hippos, if anything.
Locals report barbecued hippo tastes like pork.
BBC story about the hippos.
II. Tibetan EPAS1 gene found in Denisovan genome
About 4 years ago, a genetic study done on Tibetans and Han Chinese found a bunch of genes apparently useful for Not Dying When You Live At Altitudes With Only 60% Air Pressure. One of them was a variant of EPAS1, which is apparently the Most Not Dyingest, judging by how prevalent it was in the Tibetan population. It has something to do with transporting oxygen in the blood, but we're not entirely sure what - it seems to cause the production of less hemoglobin. There was a lot of speculation how how amazingly Not Dyingest EPAS1 must be to have become so widespread since Han and Tibetan populations diverged about 3000 years ago.
In a weirder twist, a match to the unique Tibetan version of EPAS1 has just been found ... in the Denisovan genome - a subspecies of human known only from two teeth, one finger, and one toe bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains (also found in the cave: human bones, neanderthal bones. Awesome all-species prehistoric party cave?). It is now believed that Tibetans got the Useful Not Dying Gene by cross-breeding with the Denisovans.
Sadly, you can't read the original article in Science online for free, but here's a summary.
III. Qiblah from Orbit
This is only news to me, the conference happened in 2006, but I really enjoyed reading about a conference called by the Malaysian Space Agency, Angkasa, trying to figure out how a Muslim ought to pray facing "toward Mecca" while in orbit around the Earth.
Not that facing toward Mecca on Earth is easy either. Some mosques in North America face Southeast (the direction of Mecca when viewed on a flat earth map) and some Northeast (the Great-Circle direction toward Mecca, shortest distance around a sphere, shown on the map, which was deigned to accurately show distances to Mecca from anywhere on Earth). Living on a sphere is hard.
The conference decided one should:
- Pray toward the Ka'aba if one can see it.
- Imagine that the orbit is a giant planet, project the Ka'aba up onto the surface of the orbital sphere, and pray in that direction (via great circle)
- If very far from Earth, pray in the general direction of Earth.
- Pray towards "wherever" if none of that is doable. I'm kind of curious what word in Arabic got translated as "wherever" in English, it's weird thing to see in an official religious document. :)
Just thought that was neat.
Wired article about the praying in space conference.
Sankofa can mean either the word in the Akan language of Ghana that translates in English to " reach back and get it" (san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to look, to seek and take) or the Asante Adinkra symbols of a bird with its head turned backwards taking an egg off its back, or of a stylised heart shape. It is often associated with the proverb, "Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi," which translates "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten."
The Sankofa symbol appears frequently in traditional Akan art, and has also been adopted as an important symbol in an African American and African Diaspora context to represent the need to reflect on the past to build a successful future. It is one of the most widely dispersed adinkra symbols, appearing in modern jewelry, tattoos, and clothing.
Thanks, dialecticdreamer !
tiny papercuttingsJun. 23rd, 2014 06:02 pm
Time for happy distractions. Suggest to me a subject for a Tiny Papercutting!
Tiny Papercuttings will be made out of 3x5 index cards (8ish by 12ish cm), and I'll post a reasonably sized photo, and also a dreamwidth-icon-sized image, like the icon I'm using for this post.
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No, I don't already have your address, even if in any sort of sensible universe I would, such as if I lived with you for four years and you haven't changed your address since then. Not to pick a totally true example or anything.
I did not think to take a picture of the dotorimuk, because I was too busy PUT IT IN MY MOUTH, so I'm shamelessly stealing a picture from this website:
I really admire juli 's ability to talk to the chefs at a restaurant and get them to make something that isn't on the menu. That seems almost supernatural to me: she's doing something outside the rules that govern the world as I understand it.
the internet is weirdApr. 5th, 2014 03:49 pm
Last week I posted a goofy image of Tesseract the Goat and one of juli 's idea, Tess is always curious about anything she seems humans handling or doing. She's pretty sure she's people and doesn't understand why we make her live with all these weird goats and sheep.)
So far the photo has:
- received 6885 likes or reblogs on tumblr, in large part from people with disturbingly obscene usernames
- shown up on twitter where tim saw it posted by someone who doesn't know juli or I.
- migrated to reddit at least once
- and become an ... um ... interesting youtube video I can't honestly recommend but am listing for completeness.
mesquite oreosMar. 24th, 2014 11:45 pm
- .75 cup mesquite flour
- .375 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1.5 tablespoons stevia powder (equivalent to a little over half a cup of sugar)
- .125 teaspoons salt
- .25 teaspoons baking powder
- .125 teaspoons nutmeg
- 7 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons yogurt
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dump the dough onto aluminum foil and shape into a cylinder about 20 centimeters long. Wrap up in the foil and stick in the freezer for 15 minutes to chill. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice the cylinder into half-centimeter thick slices, lay the slices on parchment paper on a baking sheet, and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. After cooling, they are dry and crumbly, much like oreos, though with an oddly complicated taste - the mesquite flour tastes like cinnamon and fava beans, or something.
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I set up yearly archives as described here:
and they have worked without a problem. Now, however (after a week of working correctly), they display the year "0" even though no posts have the date set as year 0. Clicking on the zero takes you to the latest post. If I delete that post the zero remains and is linked to what was the second latest post.
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Belgium appoint ex-Toffee Martinez as new manager
Former Everton boss Roberto Martinez has been appointed as Belgium's new manager.
Former Everton boss Roberto Martinez has been appointed as Belgium's new manager.
Frank de Boer would find it difficult to turn down an opportunity to manage Everton and is looking forward to the challenges of the Premier League, his brother Ronald has said.
Sacked Everton manager Roberto Martinez still believes he could have reversed the Toffees' fortunes with 'significantly important' signings during the summer transfer window.
Roberto Martinez has left Everton in the wake of Wednesday night's 3-0 defeat at Sunderland.
Left-back Leighton Baines' first goal since November 2014 secured Everton's first home league victory since early February but it was not enough to prevent growing opposition to Roberto Martinez's continued reign as manager.
Everton's under-pressure manager Roberto Martinez has called on his critics to judge him over three years, not three months.
Liverpool added to the growing pressure on Everton manager Roberto Martinez with a 4-0 victory which was as embarrassing for the visitors as it was comfortable for the hosts in the 226th Merseyside derby.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez refuses to consider the prospect of losing leading scorer Romelu Lukaku in the summer.
Everton's first home league win since November eased some of the scrutiny on manager Roberto Martinez in his 100th Premier League game in charge but only increased the pressure on Newcastle counterpart Steve McClaren.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has rejected accusations his team is underachieving and will not be distracted by growing criticism of his reign.
Roberto Martinez was left seething with the referee after Everton were denied a first win at Stamford Bridge in 21 years following a controversial John Terry goal after 98 minutes.
Ireland winger Aiden McGeady will have at least three options for a loan move from Everton, according to Toffees boss Roberto Martinez.
Everton have not made any verbal agreements allowing key players, such as striker Romelu Lukaku and defender John Stones, to leave at the end of the season, manager Roberto Martinez has said.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has admitted that both Aiden McGeady and Darron Gibson could be sold during the January transfer window.
Everton must prioritise a Champions League berth ahead of winning cup competitions if they are to keep their talented young players at Goodison Park, manager Roberto Martinez has said.
Roberto Martinez expects Everton striker Steven Naismith's future to be resolved over the next couple of weeks amid speculation of fresh interest from Norwich.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez is sweating on the fitness of Republic of Ireland midfielder James McCarthy after he suffered another injury setback against Stoke on Monday.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has denied that his star striker is chasing Jamie Vardy's Premier League scoring record.
Roberto Martinez has insisted that Everton's John Stones will not be going anywhere in January.
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has proved over the last 12 months he is a "special footballer", according to manager Roberto Martinez.


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Brad Pitt - he's been a Hollywood hunk and cultural icon for ages, but Brad Pitt is also famous for his forays into design. He's dabbled in jewelry, launching his own line and creating fiance Angelina Jolie's stunning engagement ring. And, his love of architecture - especially the work of Frank Lloyd Wright - is no celebrity secret.
But this week, the actor has debuted a new design role. Teaming up with Frank Pollaro, the Art Deco-inspired New Jersey craftsman, the star has launched the Pitt-Pollaro furniture collection.
"I've been doodling ideas for buildings and furniture since the early 1990's," Pitt said told Architectural Digest about his latest venture. He told the magazine that this passion project didn't take form until a chance encounter between the actor and Pollaro.
The designer was installing a Ruhlmann reproduction desk that Pitt had commissioned, when he stumbled upon the actor's sketchbooks. "He saw an old design of mine and said he could make something of it." A spark was ignited, and the two began a collaborative relationship fed by a shared obsession with perfection and "far too much wine."
Their first creation was born as a hardwood, Art Deco bed frame. The imposing design with stingray skins and nickel detailing is sleek, subtle and seductive. The piece is perfectly paired with the collection's full body, including side tables, club chairs, and an impressive Mad Men-esque shelf unit.
Designed by Pitt, Built by Pollaro, all of the collection's pieces are hand crafted limited editions, that are signed by their makers. The idea is to craft each piece with materials and finishes that fit with every buyers taste and home design. But the concept also highlights both Pitt and Pollaro's commitment to quality.
"I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree. It was this obsession that introduced me to Frank [Pollaro], who embodies the same mad spirit of the craftsmen of yore, with their obsessive attention to detail - not just in the façade, as with a movie set, but even the back of the piece, for that one time you might move it," Pitt told the AD.
"I give him any idea, no matter how challenging engineering-wise, and I know if it can be cracked, he will crack it to perfection. There lies great freedom in such a relationship."
It is the kind of relationship that movies are made of...and great furniture. What better way to compliment the collaboration than an Art Deco rug? With their striking detail, and bold color schemes they add a beautiful touch to any home furnishing.
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Definition of karahi in English:
(also kadai or karai)
noun (plural karahis)
A bowl-shaped frying pan with two handles used in Indian cooking, chiefly for balti dishes.
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- Heat the remaining oil and ghee in a casserole dish, or a kadai.
- Heat oil in a kadai and drop tablespoons of this batter.
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Prawns are similar to shrimp but are a bit larger in size. If you can't find prawns at your local grocery store or fish market, you can use fresh or frozen jumbo shrimp. This salad provides plenty of potassium, folate, and heart-healthy fats. It makes for a delicious light lunch, especially in the summer months.
Season the prawns with the oil and garlic. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Heat a grill or nonstick skillet to medium high. Cook the bacon until crisp. Drain on a paper towel. Grill or sauté the prawns for about 1 minute on each side, until pink. Drain on a paper towel until cool enough to handle and cut in half lengthwise.
Layer the greens with the prawns, bacon, and sliced tomatoes. Top each salad with a 2-tablespoon dollop of Avocado Aioli.
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Harbour Hill is an exclusive vacation property situated high on a hilltop above the Antigua Yacht Club Marina in Falmouth Harbour.
The house has 6 spacious bedrooms, all with their own bathrooms and can accommodate up to 12 guests in perfect comfort. All bedrooms are air-conditioned and many have ceiling fans. 2 bedrooms have garden views and 4 have spectacular harbour & sea views.
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'The pavilion' building houses an air-conditioned gym and work space.
Harbour Hill sits in 1.5 acres of beautifully landscaped private gardens with a large pool and ample parking for several cars. Remote controlled electric gates and the location ensure complete privacy and security.
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The beautiful island of Antigua embraces the very best the Caribbean has to offer: powdery white sandy beaches, crystal clear warm waters, friendly easy going locals and a wonderful all-year-round climate.
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During the sailing season between December and May it's also home to some of the world's most exclusive yachts. The sailing season kicks off in December with the Nicholson's boat show and culminates in April with two major yachting events: The Classic Yacht Regatta and Antigua Sailing Week. Whether you are a keen sailor or just want to sit back and admire the boats, at Harbour Hill it's all at your feet.
Turn right out of Harbour Hill's main gates and it's a 2 minute walk to one of Antigua's most beautiful beaches. Turn left and it's a short walk to the restaurants, shops, bars and sports facilities of Falmouth Harbour and Nelson's Dockyard.
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Still working on that platformer with the level editor, or does that get lumped in with "computer stuff"?
Like hell I'd give up my programming. Actually, the GB platformer is dead. I'm working on something else in Python, though, and I'll send it over when it's ready for some level lovin'. I'm gonna gleefully tease you and say it's a lot like Super Metroid.
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It'll suck without pixelman on these forums. Oh yeah, can you copy/paste your review of N+ in your topic about it, or here, if you want?
Edit: I actually just opened the blog back up, and I'll just have to force myself not to post.
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I made Kid Tripp! PocketGamer gave it a 9 out of 10! You should totally buy it now!
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"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."- Acts 1:8
The People of God Are Called Saints…Now.Saints Recent message preached at Liberty Church North campus on how God's love ties into our calling as "saints." We, as saints, are all called to live on mission with God. Missional living is our response to God's love and the understanding... read more
Come to Jesus | A Message for 2016This is a message that I preached at Liberty Church Foley Campus called Come to Jesus. Modern Commentary on... read more
2015 Top Shared Articles To Help You Get Caught Up2015 turned out to be a crazy year in so many ways. In this post, I list the top article links I shared via Facebook in 2015. The impulse "to share or not to share" can reveal an interesting list about what instinctively concerns or intrigues you the most.... read more
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We reveal the year's hottest travel destinations, from a still-undiscovered corner of Italy to an unexpected foodie mecca in the American heartland.
Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica
Hottest Travel Destinations of 2013
Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica
Surrounded by mountains and jungle-fringed beaches on the Pacific, this pristine bay bordering a national marine park was long the secret of surfers and backpackers—and migrating whales. Now there's Kura Design Villas ($$$$), an upscale eco-resort whose six minimalist villas are open to the tropical air.
A pristine bay in Costa Rica has been a secret favorite of backpackers and migrating whales. But it couldn't stay under that shroud of cloud forest forever. The opening of an eco-resort makes Bahia Ballena more inviting and accessible, and 2013 the right moment to visit.
The world is still vast, and even as you check iconic places off your bucket list, there's a craving to set sail for the new, the next, the undiscovered. To determine which destinations like Bahia Ballena are coming up on the radar, T+L asked safari experts and art dealers, cutting-edge chefs and even branding agencies where they're seeing a new neighborhood emerge or wineries getting more acclaim. What started with 40-odd places we distilled down to a baker's dozen: the hottest travel destinations of 2013.
Related: Best Places to Travel in 2014
Two countries written off in recent years—Zambia and the Philippines—are safe to visit once again, and thriving with cool new safari camps and island thatched-roof villas. The archipelago of Palawan, a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Philippines, just added a resort with a scuba center; hop a two-hour flight from Hong Kong, and you'll soon be diving with the sea turtles.
In Amsterdam, reachable by nonstop flights from many U.S. cities, the Rijksmuseum emerges from a 10-year renovation in April 2013, with a wing devoted to Vermeer and Rembrandt, steps from the recently redone Stedelijk Museum. And a 7,000-year-old historic region in the arch of Italy's boot may finally see its moment in the sun thanks to the debut of a Hollywood legend's family home as a hotel.
Even in our backyard, we've found places that offer compelling new reasons to visit this year. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, two chefs are shaking up the food scene, while Minneapolis has embraced the foraging-and-farming ethos of Scandinavia—Bachelor Farmer has the city's first-ever rooftop garden, and an alum of Noma restaurant has set up shop at Union.
So get out your map, block out some vacation time on your calendar, and make 2013 a year of travel discoveries. We promise at least a few of these places to go next will surprise you.


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If there were just one thing I could say to fans of open educational resources (OER) and personalized learning, it would be this: "Atomized units of knowledge don't build anything." That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high-powered classical school. She and her colleagues delivered the type of rigorous, well-rounded, and carefully sequenced education that has produced thoughtful leaders and scholars for thousands of years; schooling of that sort is often dismissed as too hard for most kids or too twentieth-century for today.
Sadly, in dismissing the classical or liberal arts approach, we've also unintentionally thwarted our most sacred goal: that all students become strong readers. As the last several decades of literacy research clearly demonstrate, reading comprehension requires a very broad base of academic knowledge and a massive vocabulary. In short, to be a good reader, you have to know all of the terms and ideas that writers will use without providing definitions or explanations (e.g., Supreme Court, solar system, David and Goliath, etc.). This base of knowledge, which literate adults are assumed to have and children therefore need to accumulate, is enormous. We must be highly efficient in order to give them all...
In a series of recent posts, I've been examining what we reformers (and our friends in philanthropy) might do to spur better outcomes for kids besides obsessing over laws and regulations. I've looked at the promise of building new systems through charters or ESAs, as well as "disruptive innovations" that target students directly. Let me continue in that vein by looking at efforts to go around "the system" and put useful tools directly into the hands of parents and teachers.
Power to the parents
A major theme in education reform has always been the imperative to give real authority to the consumers—and, inevitably, take some of it from the providers. Standards, testing, and accountability have been pitched in part as mechanisms to get objective information to parents (and taxpayers) unfiltered by the spin of local administrators and elected officials. School choice, too, is all about vesting parents with a real say in the education of their children.
What else might be done to empower and inform parents? One of the most impressive creations of the reform era is GreatSchools.org. By providing clear, understandable information that is accessed by somewhere between one-third and one-half of the nation's parents in any given year, GreatSchools has arguably...
A recent report by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) investigates San Diego Unified School District's (SDUSD) new graduation policy requiring students in the class of 2016 and beyond to receive a passing grade on a sequence of college preparatory courses (commonly called the "a–g" sequence, with each letter referring to a different subject area). This aligns the district's graduation requirements with admissions eligibility at California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) member schools, which officials hope will increase rates of college entry and completion—especially for underrepresented communities.
Authors collected data from student administrative records and conducted a comparative analysis to evaluate the likely impact of the new policy. They used students who graduated between 2011 and 2015—who completed the courses that are now graduation requirements—as a baseline for measuring the impact of the a–g sequence on course-taking patterns, graduation rates, and eligibility to attend schools that make up the CSU and UC systems. Researchers also examined the course sequence's effect on college access for historically underachieving subgroups in the class of 2016. They used individual student's grade-six characteristics to determine the likelihood of completing the a–g sequence and then compared these estimates to each student's actual a–g...
Harriet Tubman will grace the front of our $20 bill—a long-overdue tribute to a woman who lived up to the best of American values. But do most Americans know who she was? Anecdotal evidence and test scores indicate that they don't.
She was not some footnote figure that only historians should know. Tubman repeatedly displayed astounding courage—and achieved heroic successes—in two of our nation's greatest fights for freedom and equality: ending slavery and giving women the right to vote.
But perhaps this widespread ignorance is not our fellow citizens' fault. When would they have learned of Tubman? A nationally representative survey of elementary teachers shows that in from kindergarten to the sixth grade, an average of just 16–21 minutes a day are spent on social studies (and a mere 19–24 minutes on science). Given students' utter lack of preparation, our middle and high school teachers would find it challenging to engage students in meaningful or memorable studies in history, geography, and civics.
It's tempting to blame the elementary teachers. But that's simplistic at best. Elementary teachers are, by and large, doing what they have been taught and responding to the signals sent by federal and state accountability policies.
The heart of this problem is that...
If you caught your pediatrician Googling "upset stomach remedies" before deciding how to treat your child and home-brewing medications over an office sink, you might start looking for a new pediatrician. So how would you feel if you learned that Google and Pinterest are where your child's teacher goes to look for instructional materials?
Well, brace yourself, because that's exactly what's happening. And no, your child's teacher is not an exception. A new study from the RAND Corporation finds that nearly every teacher in America—99 percent of elementary teachers, 96 percent of secondary school teachers—draws upon "materials I developed and/or selected myself" in teaching English language arts. And where do they find materials? The most common answer among elementary school teachers is Google (94 percent), followed by Pinterest (87 percent). The numbers are virtually the same for math.
But don't blame teachers. These data, for reasons both good and bad, reveal a dirty little secret about American education. In many districts and schools—maybe even most—the efficacy of the instructional materials put in front of children is an afterthought. For teachers, it makes an already hard job nearly impossible to do well.
Expecting teachers to be expert pedagogues and instructional...
Every teacher of low-income children and English language learners has had this moment: You're sitting with a student, working line by line through a text, grappling with what should be fairly simple comprehension questions.
"Did you read it?" you ask. "I read it," the child replies. "But I didn't get it."
This is what reading failure often looks like in a struggling school. A child can read the words on a page in front of him, but he can't always make sense of them. The commonsense solution for both teachers and policy makers has been to make more time for reading instruction. That makes sense, but it hasn't worked, because reading comprehension is not a skill that can be practiced and mastered like a basketball free throw. Children's ability to understand what they read is intimately intertwined with their background knowledge and vocabulary. If a child is not broadly educated, he won't be fully literate.
John King made precisely this point last Thursday in a remarkable speech in Las Vegas. The newly minted secretary of education is pushing for schools to take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to give every child the kind of broad background "that...
Are we ready to expand career and technical education offerings as the next frontier in education policy? "College- and career-ready" has been an aspirational label in education for years, though many in the know recognize that the label is generally used as a stand-in for the Common Core State Standards—and the focus there is decidedly tipped toward college readiness and away from career preparation. Yet in recent years, President Obama and the U.S. Department of Education have been promoting the career side of the label more, making the case that technical education is not at odds with academic preparation. With union leaders, industry groups, and researchers joining the list of those backing it, career and technical education appears to be well poised to become the next viable policy lever to help improve the plight of America's youth.
Last week, the Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C. released a new report on career and technical education that adds some fuel to this fire. In it, author Shaun Dougherty examines high school, college, and labor market outcomes for three cohorts of Arkansas high school students based on their differential participation in career and technical education coursework. The study stands out for its focus on this array of outcomes,...
It strikes me, and several others with whom I've spoken in recent months, that education reform is at a turning point. It's not just the new federal law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which sends key decisions back to the states. It's bigger than that—a sense of exhaustion with policy as the primary driver of educational change.
To be sure, there are many policy battles still to fight and win in almost every state: to ensure that school and teacher accountability do not disappear, to defend and expand high-quality charter schools and other forms of parental choice, to do something about chronically low-performing schools, to see that high-achieving poor kids don't go ignored, and much more.
It's as critical as ever that advocacy organizations like the newly merged 50CAN and StudentsFirst attract the funding and talent to ensure that kid-centered laws and regulations are put in place from sea to shining sea. The teachers' unions—newly energized after their near-death experience in the Friedrichs case and their victory in Vergara—surely have the money and resolve to push hard in the opposite direction. And when it comes to preserving the status quo and not threatening any adult interests, they have plenty of allies. But...
Credit recovery is education's Faustian pact. We remain not very good at raising most students to respectable standards. But neither can we refuse to graduate boxcar numbers of kids who don't measure up. Enter credit recovery, an opaque, impressionistic, and deeply unsatisfying method of merely declaring proficient getting at-risk kids back on track for graduation.
This pair of studies from the American Institutes for Research and the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research looks at more than 1,200 ninth graders in seventeen Chicago public schools who were enrolled in a credit recovery course the summer after failing algebra I a few years ago. Half took the class online, half in face-to-face classes. Providing credit recovery is now one of the most common purposes of online courses; but "evidence of the efficacy of online credit recovery is lacking," the authors note with considerable understatement.
The first report analyzes the role of in-class mentors in online classrooms, examining whether students benefited from their additional instructional support. They did—kind of. The authors suggest that "instructionally supportive mentors" (those with subject matter expertise, not just a warm body providing "support") lead to students navigating the course with greater depth and less breadth. They seem not...
Princeton University announced last week that it would preserve the name of Woodrow Wilson on several buildings and programs, though it had plenty of reasons to do otherwise. In his years leading the university and, later, the United States, Wilson acted as a vehicle for racist impulses that right-thinking people now find abhorrent. Outraged undergraduates, marinated in the activist pique so prevalent on American campuses, walked out of class this fall in protest against what they deemed maltreatment of minority students. A handful staged a sit-in in the office of the school's current president, Christopher Eisgruber, who responded by pledging to study the issue of Wilson's legacy. By November, the call for change was being echoed in the New York Times editorial page.
Ultimately, it went unheeded. The special committee assembled by Princeton's trustees to decide the issue recommended against expunging Wilson's name from a residence hall and the famed school of international relations. Instead, the university will initiate an effort to diversify campus art, encourage more minority students to pursue graduate degrees, and explore the truth of the former president's impact on American life. His presence at Princeton is secure, at least for now.


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Lori Baker
Lori Baker's books include a novel, The Glass Ocean, and three short story collections, Crash & Tell, Crazy Water: Six Fictions, and Scraps. She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.
Robert Coover
Robert Coover is the distinguished author of fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays. His new novel, The Brunist Day of Wrath, will be published by Dzanc Books in April, 2014. His first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, received the The William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966. At Brown University, where he taught for over thirty years, he established the International Writers Project, a program that provides an annual fellowship and safe haven to endangered international writers who face harassment, imprisonment, and suppression of their work in their home countries. In 1990-91, he launched the world's first hypertext fiction workshop, was one of the founders in 1999 of the Electronic Literature Organization, and in 2002 created CaveWriting, the first writing workshop in immersive virtual reality. Michiko Kakuntaini of The New York Times has said "Of all the postmodern writers, Robert Coover is probably the funniest and most malicious, mixing up broad social and political satire with vaudeville turns, lewd pratfalls, and clever word plays that make us rethink both the mechanics of the world and our relationship to it." Coover has also received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Rea Lifetime Short Story Award.
John Burnside
John Burnside teaches at the University of St Andrews. His poetry collections include Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and Black Cat Bone, (2011) which won both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2011, he received the Petrarca Preis for poetry.
His novels include The Devil's Footprints, (2007) Glister (2008) and A Summer of Drowning (2011). He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and two memoirs, A Lie About My Father (2006) and Waking Up in Toytown (2010).
John Burnside's latest poetry collection is All One Breath, (Jonathan Cape, 2014).
Cinema's Humanistic Potential
Hisham Bizri is a film director, writer, and producer, born in Beirut, Lebanon. He started working in films in the US and Hungary with directors Stan Brakhage, Raoul Ruiz, and Miklós Jancsó and has directed 24 short films to date. His work has been shown in many international venues including Sundance and Cannes. Co-founder of the Arab Institute of Film in Jordan and the recipient of numerous awards such as the McKnight, Jerome, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and "the Rome Prize," he is currently Professor of Cinema and Filmmaking at the University of Minnesota.
Rikki Ducornet
The author of eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a book of essays and five books of poetry, Rikki Ducornet has twice been honored by the Lannan Foundation. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in 2008, an Academy Award in Literature. Her work is widely published abroad. Recent exhibitions of her
paintings include the solo show Desirous at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2007, and the group shows: O Reverso Do Olhar in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2008, and El Umbral Secreto at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, in 2009. She has illustrated books by Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Forest Gander, Kate Bernheimer, Joanna Howard and Anne Waldman among others. Her collected papers including prints and drawings are in the permanent collection of the Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.
Philosophy of Screenwriting: Problems, Process, History & Practicalities
Andrew Repasky McElhinney, PhD is the writer/director of the feature films Magdalen (1998), A Chronicle of Corpses (2000), Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003) and Animal Husbandry (2009). He is also an author, theater director, installation artist, repertory film programmer and educator. The author of the scholarly work, Second Takes: Remaking Film, Remaking America; McElhinney's newest feature film, Christmas Dreams, will be released during the holiday season of 2014.
Success Lies Elsewhere: My Important Screenwriting Failures
Angela Ferraiolo is a writer and filmmaker working on how computation might create procedural narrative. Professionally she has worked for RKO, H20 Productions, Westwood Studios, and Electronic Arts. She is the writer/narrative designer of three shipped video game titles, including one of the first online massive multiplayers, Earth and Beyond. Her experimental films have screen nationally and internationally. Her work with procedural montage has been featured at the International Conference of Generative Art Rome, and the International Conference of Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, Taiwan. She is a member of Millennium Film Workshop, Filmmaker's Coop, and IFP's New Media Lab where she is working on interactive movies for the mobile tablet.
Kathryn Davis
Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, most recently Duplex. She has been the recipient of the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2006 Lannan Award for Fiction. She lives in Vermont and teaches in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is Hurst Senior Writer-in-Residence.
David Barker: Defining Distance
David Barker has written, directed, and edited films which have shown through the world. Recent projects include Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (co-writer and editor, Berlin International Film Festival 2014), Highway (editor, Museum of Modern Art 2013), and Daylight (writer/director, New York Times Critics Pick 2011). He was the artistic director of the Cinematexas International Film Festival, an experimental film festival called 'the most inspiring and innovative film festival in the US, as well as a partner in Drift Distribution, which distributed films by artists such as Jean-Luc Godard, Isaac Julien, Laura Mulvey, and Harun Farocki. He is currently collaborating with the Australian Aboriginal arts collective Karrabing on an innovative feature film which he will co-direct, as well as co-writing films with directors from Nepal and Bulgaria to be shot in those countries in 2015.
Matt Bell
Matt Bell's debut novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and selected as a 2014 Michigan Notable Book. He is also the author of two previous books, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Conjunctions, The American Reader, Gulf Coast, and many other publications. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Northern Michigan University.


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A Literary Guide to Nebraska
Salon.com writer Meghan Daum gives a tour of Nebraska through its best-known authors, including (of course) Willa Cather. The excerpt is her take on Cather's hometown of Red Cloud.
"No literary tour of Nebraska is complete (or possible) without a stop in Red Cloud, just a few miles from the Kansas border. This town is tiny, but, as Willa Cather's home and geographical muse, it's a very big deal to bookish Cornhuskers. Cather fled Nebraska after college, and from the looks of this town—the population is around 1,000 and falling—it's clear she wasn't the last one out. But Red Cloud has retained much of its historical and architectural integrity thanks to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation, which provides tours of buildings connected to her work as well as access to archives. There's also a municipal pool here, which, though it was never graced by Cather's inflatable chair, is a must-visit if you come in the summer, where the heat can cause hallucinations of sod houses and grasshopper storms. Oh, wait... maybe that's not a hallucination."


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Raphaël's Kaërell is the closest thing to a natural hair brush we've found at an economical price. Supremely soft with a fine tip, it is excellent for watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting.
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I appreciate how the brush was packaged. It arrived in perfect condition. I was worried because this was the first time I ordered a brush online. The brush works well for what I need. I just got into watercolor painting and this brush helps me produce nice washes.
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Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases are common conditions that cause pain, swelling, and limited movement. They affect joints and connective tissues around the body. Millions of people in the U.S. have some form of arthritis.
Arthritis means inflammation of a joint. A joint is where two or more bones meet. There are more than 100 different arthritis diseases. Rheumatic diseases include any condition that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, or bones. Arthritis is usually chronic, which means that it is ongoing.
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Rodeo Rick Interviews NHRA Driver Kris Hool
When you think of Wyoming what do you think of? Hunting, Mountains and Drag Racing right? Well maybe not that last one, but that's all about to change!
When you think of Wyoming what do you think of? Hunting, Mountains and Drag Racing right? Well maybe not that last one, but that's all about to change!
When you think of viral videos, Korean rapper Psy's 'Gangnam Style' immediately comes to mind. But its reign on the top may soon be crushed by the 'Harlem Shake'.
Learn the lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne' and be the star of the New Year's Eve party.
It's a day everyone remembers. A clear September morning, that began with me sleeping only to be awakened by my wife saying, "Something bad is happening." I sat up in the bed searching for the remote to get the latest news and seeing the second plane fly into the Twin Towers.
After two seasons of of being an American Idol judge, Steven Tyler has decided he's at his best rocking with Aerosmith.
United Blood Services is asking the community to donate blood during "Wyoming's Biggest Blood Drive," tomorrow at UBS located at 1416 East A Street in Casper.
My job has afforded me many chances to speak with a plethora of music stars throughout my career, Doug Gray of the Marshall Tucker Band is the latest.
Robert Plant is readying a DVD and Blu-ray documenting a show at Nashville's War Memorial Auditorium from February 2011.
Bob Seger will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night. Seger says not taking a songwriting credit for the 1978 classic "Old Time Rock and Roll" is one of his biggest career regrets.
Def Leppard has given their stamp of approval to the use of their classic song 'Rock of Ages' in the upcoming film adaptation of the stage production that shares it's name with the band's song...
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Now Playing Onstage in Raleigh - Week of 8/17/2014
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A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination! One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a household name, thanks to a highly successful film version and a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who redefined the animated musical film with Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Charming, tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS never fails to entertain. A small cast, band and unit set make the other aspects of production a snap.
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Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan ANNIE charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, ANNIE escapes to the wondrous and magical world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, ANNIE foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations and befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She finds a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
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Local students are spending time with their grandparents during class today.
Mid East Career Center invited the students grandparents to join them in class to see what they do everyday . Senior Cheyenne Matz is studying cosmetology and said her grandmother is thrilled to be there.
"She loves what I do and she always wants to be with me she's a big part of my like and i want her to see what i get to do at school," Matz said.
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