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Polaroid of the week: Calacas, happy Mexican skeletons
Posted on 20. Sep, 2012 by Dani in Mexico, Polaroid of the Week
One thing we love about Mexico is how death is celebrated in such a joyful manner. Instead of mournful goodbyes we are used to, in Mexico the dead are celebrated and honored with music, dancing and a fun gathering of family and friends. These colorful skeletons, called are shown in colorful clothes, dancing and often accompanied by a musical instrument. The Calacas represent the Mexican belief that no dead soul should be thought of in a sad way, but rather in a joyous celebration.
Calacas are also used in the Day of the Dead celebrations on November 2nd, a holiday dedicated to the departed, where families gather to honor their dead family members by decorating their graves and building an altar with ornate calacas and gifts such as the person's favorite foods and drinks. These calacas can be found year round in Mexico, though, on earrings, dolls, on T-Shirts and in paintings.
3 Responses to "Polaroid of the week: Calacas, happy Mexican skeletons"
20. Sep, 2012
I wish I could say that I'm usually as jauntily dressed in life as these skeletons are in death!
Great snap!
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22. Sep, 2012
Definitely one of my favorite things about Mexican Culture. It's so wonderful to portray death as a happy thing and celebrate it with colors.
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23. Sep, 2012
I totally agree, Rease!


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Via Breitbart Unmasked, it appears that Aaron Walker's effort to fund his future by suing the hell out of Brett Kimberlin has been put to an end by a federal judge who basically said there was no there, there. Just intense political disputes which we all know were not the reason Aaron Walker lost his job. The full text of the judge's order is at that link.
It was good while it lasted, right? It was certainly a great way to raise some money from the Netroots. Bad, bad lefties doing bad, bad things always riles up the righties.
My little post about Aaron Walker and the Brietbots inspired Robert Stacy McCain to write a couple of posts about me in which he included Crooks and Liars in the title so they could drag in a higher profile entity to try and shame me into silence. The content of the posts is less relevant than who he included and why. He and his National Bloggers Club cronies then took to Twitter to magnify their message and send me one that sort of said I should watch out because they were gonna shut me up and make sure they could use my taint as a lever with Crooks and Liars.
This is a common tactic. I get it a lot. I love writing for Crooks and Liars and appreciate the platform they offer me to do it. In return, I think I add value to their brand, and evidently they do, too. Also, let's not forget that they're called "Crooks and Liars" for a reason. We exist to point out the liars and crooks in the room, why they lie, and who they lie for.
There's no love here or there for Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe aspirants like Lee Stranahan, et al, who think absolutely nothing of dragging people's names around the Internet in order to make a name for themselves. They use all tools at their disposal, including a fairly high profile to try and shut me up. I repeat: it's something I get every damn day, and they're just one of the players in a larger cast.
Here's what I'm going to say about that tactic to those — on whatever side of the political spectrum you reside on — who use my association with C&L as a lever and a hammer.
When you say my "career" is pretty much done because of who my friends are, I suppress the urge to laugh hysterically because there was a time in my life where I was paid a lot of money to build communities online until venture capitalists decided online communities could be anarchy and needed no moderation or editorial assistance. I was good at it; in fact, I pioneered it back in the late 90s on CNN's community site, before moving on to other venues. I even got health insurance and a paycheck and a 401k back in the day.
That was then. VCs killed that, and so whatever "career" path is open to a middle aged person with a keyboard, computer and something to say will depend on whether the good old boys and girls decide I have acceptable friends? Kids, the 'career path' was dead years ago. You kid yourself if you think otherwise.
Naked emperor is naked. There isn't any there, there. This isn't to say that I don't enjoy what I'm doing. I do. But as far as the career path, well…get with the program here. I'm not Aaron Walker. I don't invent drama to raise money. Nope, nothing to see here.
But damn, you can always find drama and hysteria online without looking very hard. If I were a mental health professional I would feel overwhelmed by the amount of aberrant behavior I see online. It is as if the Internet has become a haven to not simply hide, but encourage unhealthy behavior.
Make no mistake, there are people with mental health issues all over the Internet and Twitter seems to be their favorite place to hang. I simply don't have the professional expertise to make the call on who will decide on any given day they hold the power over my future because of their issues and shaky hold on reality.
Take the never-ending drama over the guy who decided to make a name for himself by trying to screw up the StopRush effort, for example. He was bad enough, as were his horrible blog posts which someone helped him SEO in order to make sure his version of my personal information would hit the top of Google at any given time.
Here's a fact: He had an empty gun that someone loaded. And loaded again and again because why? Because it was too traumatic to admit a mistake in judgment.
Yeah. Now it's all drama, 24/7, with backchannel discussions and teams of roving meme-makers, all for the purpose of making sure to prolong it all.
A close, sane friend recently gave me some advice about that vaunted 'career' thing. She basically said I should simply pursue my own paths to my own goals and ignore the noise. That would be awesome if I even believed my goals are all that attainable anymore. In a different world in a different time, they maybe were. Now, not so much. So I do what I do, in spite of the nonsense tossed in my direction by people who don't like those I might defend, or call friend.
In the future maybe I'll just write a book about what it means to be a woman writing about politics in a world so divided and cynical, in a world where who I defend is regarded as some kind of leverage over how I speak my mind, whether or not it really is. Maybe several books. Or I could do what my better half suggested, and put in an application at the new Lowe's store opening here, collect my $10/hour and smile.
All of those are possibilities.
With that said, here is a message to those on my side of things who make all manner of arguments for why so much drama has gone on for so long and why it's always someone else's fault it keeps going on.
It's not gender.
It's not some higher principle.
It's behavior, and a near-obsessive desire to punish others.
It's fucking someone behind their back when they're trying to do something they think is right and then LYING about it for months and even blaming them for what happened simply to avoid owning the one wrong thing done.
All that ever needed to happen was an apology and admission that yes, these things did in fact happen, and yes, it was that person who did it, and yes, the motives were purely selfish.
It's not about anything else. Humanity, sanity and human decency are really hard to find online. Hubris, pride, puffery, and self-justification are far easier to locate. Just have a look at the pile of paper that accompanied that Kimberlin lawsuit and then have a look at the letter that undoes all the allegations and figure out that facts actually do matter.
Take responsibility. Stop being an ass and blaming other people. Stop climbing into bed with people who want to stab you in the back in the name of Breitbart's ghost and fucking admit responsibility and apologize for it. Be done. Let it go.
While you're at it, accept that my future is not your concern. You don't control it and you're not going to use it as leverage against me. Because I really don't have one you need to worry about.
Like wingers, you can make a lot of noise about things. Just remember there will always be the one sane judge who simply says there's no there, there.
Naked emperor is naked.
Postscript: I'm no one's acolyte or minion. Disabuse yourselves.
This guest post is by twitter user @expatina.
As a journalist who doesn't have a blog and is in no way other than opinions involved in politics, I rarely comment on any of the Twitter Wars. My remarks on the one by a cast of way too any against Matt Edelstein have been few and far between. But I thought it was time someone addressed what to me is the core issue here—not leftwing bloggers making deals with rightwing scarymen, not whether or not someone is an abused woman or just someone who blew her internet boyfriend's yelling abuse at her way out of proportion six months after the fact, but if an organized campaign of non-stop bullying against one person can ever be justified.
Perhaps you're new to Twitter and have no idea how organized things can be. Perhaps when you see common streams, similar comments, you think people just happen to be thinking the same way. Uh uh. There exists on Twitter a whole other world, a sub-universe of DM'd conversations and shared strategies, an entire "If Dropbox could speak" scenario which, if not lethal, is certainly unsavory and repellent.
It has led me, for one, to have unfollowed scores of people. I don't unfollow people for who they follow, but I do unfollow them for their remarks to some of those people and the patterns I see. Some I've unfollowed because, in DMs, they tried to turn me against @Shoq without admitting their (self-serving) motives other than the "poor abused woman" one. You've probably seen their chirpstories already, those who kept saying "I'm not involved in this, but…"
Like perhaps some of you, I was naïve. When I first saw both @AngryBlackLady and @vdaze tweet about not liking *cats" and then about blocking *black cats* some months ago, I DM'd @vdaze to ask if she meant Shoq, as I knew them to be good friends. She DM'd back saying yes, she'd decided he wasn't the person she'd thought he was. I said I understood he could be controlling and sometimes rude but I liked him so planned to keep following but would keep an eye on what he tweeted. She DM'd back to say he'd turned into Glenn Beck. Not knowing their story, I told her to forget about him, he was just some guy on Twitter. Yes, she said, just some on Twitter. She didn't seem at all angry or upset, just peeved.
Within a week, she'd posted his screaming voice message on her blog and presented herself as an abuse victim who'd been grossly mistreated by the man she'd loved, Shoq. This was all news to me. I heard a voicemail that was angry and abusive, obviously the product of someone extremely angry and out of control. I found it creepy, not the voicemail—that was nasty but not especially creepy—but the fact that someone would put that voice message on her blog if it were true she'd been in love with him. It was clear, in my mind, that it had been for revenge. I hoped it wouldn't become a big, ugly thing. When I learned—via public tweets—that the call had taken place six months or more before and that Jessica and Matt had never even met IRL, I was, frankly, embarrassed for them both and figured it would all blow over.
I had no idea an army of drones was waiting in the wings.
When @AngryBlackLady tweeted to call Shoq a major abuser of women and to refer to that as his "white guy bullshit," I was amazed. I tweeted her to say I thought bringing race into a personal problem between two people not at all connected with race wasn't going to help anyone. She tweeted one of her (not yet so very, very common) "Oh, please. Just stop." Responses, Then she immediately sub-tweeted something about not a week going by without some fool accusing her of racism. Though I hadn't done that, it was plain she meant me.
I was now ending Twitter *friendships* even faster than I'd originally made them. I kept screening for the really nasty mocking, cruel, incessant tweets and unfollowing those in my timeline who seemed to stoking the fire.
One person was someone I'd actually met face-to-face, a young man who'd obviously had some personal troubles and who'd responded very strongly to the idea that he could stand up for a damsel in distress. When I said I couldn't chalk a single phone message up to being proof of abusive, he bluntly said that in that case, I obviously thought abuse was all right. Oh, yeah, I totally love some poor sap young enough to be my son, telling me, who joined NOW in the 1970s, that I think abuse is cool.
So what do you think? Is it acceptable to organized a campaign of hundreds of nasty public tweets per day aimed at just one person? (And all these sub-professional lefties have their own blogs an d needn't rely on Twitter except it's a better harassment vehicle.) Would you start or join a bullying campaign? Let's rule out its being against someone because your dreams of a big-deal backer for your blog are falling apart or because someone was arrogant or rude towards you. Let's narrow it down to someone who's done something bad—where do you draw the line? Abuser, pedophile, embezzler, someone who stole a valium out of your bag when you were in the in the bar's bathroom, someone you thought cheated on you, a rapist, a perjurer, a murderer, a shoplifter, someone who took your parking space?
Me, I wouldn't organize a bullying campaign against OJ Simpson but maybe I'm a big ole softy at heart.
It this were all the work of rightwing trolls, I'd understand it. But this is the work of vindictive, hate-fuelled liberals who tweet each other in baby talk and feign righteous indignation, who, it would seem, won't be happy unless they can sabotage someone's career and ruin his life, who think verbal abuse is a sin but making jokes about cancer is a hoot. And all in the name of righteousness. Yeah, you betcha.
Bored with the flame wars? Fine, so am I. I've seen the truly ugly gargoyle face of Twitter and I haven't liked it. I really do wish I could say "Please. Just. Stop." And it could work. But as long as the instigators continue to tweet non-stop from their multitudinous anonymous sock puppet accounts, you will have to live with it. Unless that is, you hit that "unfollow" button. Again and again and again and again.


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just come to the philly april fool's race next year and witness divine inspiration.
well, i'm trying to put together something for my birthday in july and i'm coming up dry for ideas...i may borrow some. it's a bit of work, but i loved the obstacle course at last year's west side invite in portland.
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you need a theme
one year we did cemeteries for a halloween race, and another we stopped at all the local laundromats hauling our dirty laundry around for the dirty mess race
there's plenty of metro parks around or any other number of places that could be strung together to form a pattern, like bars, those are pretty common stops too
I know one of the hardest races I was in it was almost all local slang for the locations, like frogtown for example.........you had to know what the places were called, made for some lost as hell out of towners. They gave out the checkpoint slips one at a time in that race too, so you had no clue what was coming next till you got to a stop and got the next stop's location and sometimes it was a riddle you had to figure out.
seeing how your b-day is near july 4th you could do an independence day theme and make all the stops statues at the local parks and office buildings, theyve got those memorial statues all over the place here
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well, i'm just thinking of having a couple of interesting locations and whatnot...maybe historic locations...but otherwise, i'm thinking things like...chugging mystery concoctions or whatnot.
have:ea50 flats, black, light, stiff.
144 bcd 3/32" 49t sugino track chainring, possibly 75.
want: risers, light, stiff, 1", black if that can be
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speedchess and poetry slams...start the trend
I seem to remember a thread about this a year or more ago.
One suggestion was eating the contents of a tea bag. I'll search for it if I get bored enough.
69 different checkpoints? f*ck yeah for coming up with a ton of different sh*t.Originally Posted by mide
some of my past races have been holiday themed:
for my mischief night race participants had to grab a piece of candy at each checkpoint with points on little papers assigned to it. at one they were given an egg. at the beginning of the race I clearly stated bring back only candy. anyone who returned to the finish on mischief night with an intact egg was docked 10 points.
for the thanksgiving race participants had to ride a canned good for donation out to one of three points. at the point they had to do some sort of physical activity (push-ups, sit-ups, or jumping jacks) then when they got back to the pick up point they had to drink gravy the first time and eat pumpkin filling the second time.
for my easter race I made people dye an easter egg, by clenching it in their hand and submerging their whole fist, thus dying it in the process.
obstacle courses are always fun, particularly if you can set something up in a playground etc.
during one of the TourDaChicago stages in 2005, contenders had to do a series of checkpoints that were school-based:
a math test being one of the checkpoints. best score on the test got the points!
The thread wasn't as extensive as I thought:
I like the egg-dying idea above. I think it should be changed to simply hand-dying, though. Have multiple colors available, and at the end we find out that certain colors were worth more points than others. double points for both hands. points graded by dye-saturation?
fox thursday alleycat, they made dudes give girls lap dances at the ash st. salonn stop. voodoo donuts stop, you had to spin in a circle while eating a big, jelly/butter filled donut. another stop you had to go into safeway and buy a single grape. another one, challenge a random guy in the park to a game of pig. backspace stop, play quake iii (or some online fps) and kill 3 people. that was a fun alleycat.
my favorite has been "guess that beer."
the cans were wrapped in tape to cover the labels. you had to take a sip and then guess the beer. get it right you could stop drinking and go on. get it wrong and you had to chug the whole thing. there were 3 of these in the race so some of use were pretty loaded by the end.
thank Adam kell for that one if he's still around on here.
one thing to take into account is the amount of vegan and/or straight edge kids who race... for instance, as an alternative to taking a shot of jager, you can choose to do a shot of hot sauce.
yeah, i'll have to think of something worse than alcohol for the edgers. hey, dude, they chose not to drink the ambrosia that was offered them...
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144 bcd 3/32" 49t sugino track chainring, possibly 75.
want: risers, light, stiff, 1", black if that can be
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if they arent vegan, make them drink heavy cream. that stuff is terrible. I dont know what you could do for the vegans.Originally Posted by humancongereel
**** yeah, i like the chess idea.Originally Posted by pitboss
In this weekend's pirate themed alleycat in London people had to either get a small tattoo of an anchor or do a bonus checkpoint.
Its a pretty good system. If you don't want to do a stupid activity, you just have to ride further!
was that an actual tattoo or one of those press-on numbers?
i have a concept for a 24 hour race where all checkpoints are places that are open 24 hours. in atlanta, that would mostly be krogers, waffle houses, and shady diners.
Last week we had an Alleycat in Milano
The theme was about bank robberies, you had to check different banks an write down the opening hours, had to go to other checkpoint to collect masks and cardboard guns
olive oil.Originally Posted by babychris
Did that alleycat and... I got my tattoo! A tiny anchor on my thigh, first tattoo ever. Executed in 1 minute by a panicking girl, as I was standing up, ready to dash out again.Originally Posted by fixedpip
At another checkpoint we had to grab a bottle in a pond, which contained a burned-out map rolled-up with the next checkpoint on it.
ugh, brutal. thats a good idea.Originally Posted by andre nickatina


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I'm seriously developing cabin fever in snowy detroit. i wonder if folks could suggest an easy trip for my daughter and i on our tandem over her spring break (the week after easter). it should start no more than a day's drive from detroit, and the more opportunities for a 10 yr old to have fun the better! even a hotel, with several out-and back rides would be okay. but it must be warmer than our 16 degrees!
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This couple never agreed they were married. They only said they were to co-workers and FB for appearances sake. they did not think of each other as married.
would this make them not married under the rules?
yes, they told people they were married, she wore a ring, they bought car insurance and listed as married, but only for the discount.
the number one rule says they have to agree they are married, right? so if they never agreed to, it is not common law?
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The need of secure passwords have increased lately. You need a password for Facebook accounts or your mail clients. If you are also doing online transactions using net banking and logging to forums to post your views, passwords are a must.
But when it comes to monetary transactions, you always need to built up a secure password which is more strong and nobody can guess.
'PassPhrase' in Wireless network
Today we are going to see a 2013 technique, on creating a secure password with 'passphrase'.
Normally a password like "#$kHlg289" is very strong secure wise but difficult to remember. But at the same time, if you use a 'passphrase' it's lot more easier. A 'passphrase' is a password that uses a combination of words or phrases instead of random letters, numbers, and special characters.
For two reasons, PassPhrases are more better than traditional passwords. One is it's simplicity in remembering and other is it's security over normal passwords.
The best way to build a passphrase is using 4 words with each word consisting of 5 letters. So you have a total password strength of 20 characters. But if you are having problem to come up with such a passphrase, you can mix and match different length words.
For example, you can use one three letter word, one four letter word, one five letter word, and one six letter word; or three six letter words; or three five letter words and one three letter word; etc.
Also the best way to build a passphrase is using 4 unrelated words. You should also make sure that your total password length is a minimum of 16 characters. More than that, the more secure your password will be.
Also it's very simple to decrypt passwords containing similar words for eg: 'redbluegreenblack' since all the 4 words in the password are related. But on the other side a password like 'greenvoguedriverfish' is more difficult to hack, as it contains more characters and the words are also unrelated.
It's even more secure if you add a capital or uppercase letter and a number in your passphrase. This not only increases the security 10^8 times, but also takes hundred million centuries to crack that kind of password. For eg. a password like 'greenVogue7driverfish' is better off than it's simple passphrase mother.
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Also a password with a minimum of sixteen characters, uppercase letter and a number will withstand brute-force and dictionary attacks, which constitute 99% of all attacks.
But sometimes there are more advanced attacks which can guess which letter follows a particular character in English. To counter-attack such ill moves, it's best to make-up words with bad-spelling or grammar. Also using non-English words can make the passphrase too-difficult to crack.
But complicating the password in this fashion will make the utility of passphrase null. We want simple things to remember. So as a conclusion I'd recommend, if you are using a password for normal websites it's better to come up with a passphrase with 16 characters, capital letter and a number.
In most important type of websites, you can use the above techniques.
I have a lot of accounts (emails, social networks, payment processors, etc.) and I have to admit that remembering all of my passwords is really bothersome so I started to use the passphrase technique to create passwords. Its really effective!
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Spend a day exploring the delicate art of tatting. In this workshop you'll learn a bit about this history of this style of lace, and get lots of hands-on experience trying the craft out yourself. This workshop is for adults, and all supplies and tools are provided. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided as well.
Saturday, June 4th 10:00--4:30 pm. Please call (336) 703-2980 to register by June 1st in order to make sure we have enough materials.
With the best of intentions the Library rolled out a new web page last week that will allow users much easier access to articles, resources and information about the Library. As you probably know by now, there is an influx of digital gremlins wreaking mayhem on our site. We greatly apologize for the less than ideal condition of our page and want to assure you we are working diligently with the County's webteam to correct the problems and restore the site as quickly as possible.
The spring gardening season is in full swing, for both new gardeners and professionals alike. We've pulled some gardening magazines from our Zinio collection to highlight.
This month Carolyn Price, manager of our Clemmons Branch shares some of her favorite titles with us. Just a reminder that Summer Reading kicks off Friday June 17th at 6:30 pm at Artivity on the Green, 630 N. Liberty Street in downtown Winston-Salem. Kids, teens and adults are all invited to attend and to sign up for Summer Reading 2016.
Make plans now to join us for our big kick-off of Summer Reading 2016 on Friday, June 17th at 6:30 pm at Artivity on the Green Park, located at 630 N. Liberty Street in downtown Winston-Salem. There will be arts and crafts for the kids, a performance by our staff of children's librarians and special entertainment by Amanda Durnell of Down to Earth Aerials, a Cirque du Soleil style aerialist.
Recently the Library, in partnership with the Center for Design Innovation, offered two, one-day maker workshops for teens. The workshops blended the art of storytelling with the creative potential of 3D technology and additional maker activities to tell stories through masks.


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You Might Be a Christian If… Part 1
July 11, 2013 16 Comments
We have all laughed at Jeff Foxworthy's famous "You Might be a Redneck If…" jokes. And I'm sure the "Christian version" has been done before. But I didn't bother to look it up if it has, so I decided to give it a go. Have fun!
Disclaimer: (a.) 95% of the following statements does not grant you residency in Heaven. (b.) That was a joke.
1. You consider Married with Children and The Simpsons adult programming
2. You can finish this sentence: "Over the mountains and the sea…"
3. You've ended a love letter with Philippians 1:3
4. You watch The Office but are selective with whom you share that with at church
5. You thought Ray Boltz's version of Heaven was pretty cool
6. You replace expletives with words like "gosh" and "dang" and – dare I say it – "shucks"
7. You pronounce it "Awana" instead of "Awanas"
8. You know what every color of the Gospel bracelet symbolizes
9. When the evil goes east, you go west, young man
10. You can name all 16 of the Left Behind books – in order
11. You thought Carman was cooler than the Fonz
12. You considered naming your new dog Wise Guy
13. You voted for Rick Santorum in last year's primaries
14. You've asked for forgiveness for not giving in and voting for Mitt Romney
15. At some point you wrote a Bible verse as your Facebook status to prove that you've done your devotions that day
16. You know what Kirk Cameron's been up to
17. You know who Kirk Cameron is without having to look him up on IMDB to see that he played Mike Seaver in Growing Pains
18. You got a promise ring as a junior high graduation gift
19. The only two rap CD's you owned growing up were Toby Mac's "Momentum" and Will Smith's "Big Willie Style" – just to stay relevant.
20. You know exactly what "bounce the eyes" means.


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Videos are now available online from two recent presentations at K-State by world-famous authors.
Temple Grandin's "Animals and Autism" presentation Tuesday evening, Nov. 9, was delivered to an estimated 1,400 people who overflowed both Forum Hall and the Union Ballroom, not to mention reportedly thousands of online attendees. The presentation is posted in two videos on the blog site of Food for Thought, the student group that sponsored the talk.
Sir Ken Robinson's "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything" presentation Sept. 30 was delivered to a standing-room-only crowd in McCain Auditorium. It is available in three videos courtesy of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) website. According to the CATL website, the videos will only be available through Dec. 15, and access requires a K-State eID and password.


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Apple Sausage Bake Recipe
I enjoy cooking, and this recipe is one of my favorite dishes. It's different, tastes great and is usually the talk of the party.
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1-1/2 cups crushed saltines (about 45 crackers)
- 1 cup finely chopped peeled tart apple
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 pounds bulk pork sausage
- 1. In a large bowl, beat eggs, add milk, saltines, apple and onion. Add the sausage and mix well. Lightly press into a greased 6-cup ring mold or other mold. Invert onto a lightly greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan; remove mold. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1 hour or until a meat thermometer reads 170°; drain. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 piece) equals 314 calories, 24 g fat (8 g saturated fat), 96 mg cholesterol, 635 mg sodium, 13 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 11 g protein.
Reviews for Apple Sausage Bake
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The prospect of Jim Carrey as a guy substituting for a vacationing God might thrill his fans and send tremors into the hearts of his detractors, but the reality of "Bruce Almighty" won't exactly rock anyone's world. Pic's theatrical horizon looks solid, but doesn't show signs of being a breakout summer hit.
The prospect of Jim Carrey as a guy substituting for a vacationing God might thrill his fans and send tremors into the hearts of his detractors, but the reality of "Bruce Almighty" won't exactly rock anyone's world. There's remarkably little done with a premise snatched from high-concept heaven, adding yet another file to the growing cabinet of under-realized comedies. Carrey's performance as an ambitious TV reporter challenging the Man Upstairs remains mostly on-track throughout, but lacks his characteristic ratio of comic fireballs. Pic's theatrical horizon looks reliably solid, but doesn't show signs of being a breakout summer hit.The rematching of Carrey and director Tom Shadyac shows both of in a relatively subdued state, particularly from their younger, "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" days. With both having ventured unsuccessfully into pure drama just prior to this project ("The Majestic" for Carrey, "Dragonfly" for Shadyac), the joint return to comedy would have seemed like an elixir. Instead of rejuvenation, though, "Bruce Almighty" is the routine work of veterans. As Bruce Nolan, funnyman reporter for a Buffalo TV station, Carrey has a chance to ham it up in front of two cameras at once. Bruce is frustrated because he believes he's paid his dues, is "pushing 40," and sees rival reporter Evan Baxter ("Daily Show" regular Steven Carell) as poised to beat him out for the nightly anchor position. He's a worrywart to g.f. Grace's (Jennifer Aniston) domesticating calm, and is convinced after Evan does snare the anchor job that God is out to get him — or worse, just ignores him and the mediocre life he shares with Grace. Shadyac works up a few visual jokes, such as a resilient pager by which God (Morgan Freeman, in his best ice cream suit) first contacts Bruce to set up a meeting, but little of it is either magical or uproarious. Some jokey images, such as a pun on the parting of the Red Sea, grab the imagination, while others, from an exploding file cabinet that contains God's data on Bruce to Bruce's nonhouse-trained pooch (a nod to "Ace Ventura") appear disconnected. Out to teach this egotistical human a lesson, God takes a holiday and allows Bruce to take over the reins for a while. Typically, Bruce performs supernatural acts to please only himself, resulting in amazing sex for Grace. But since she's led to believe Bruce is about to propose to her, then crushed when she realizes his eyes remain solely on Evan's job, she dumps him, leading to Bruce's emotional downfall and the inevitable third-act messages regarding human goodness, which are at least less gooey than those in Shadyac's "Patch Adams." The potential for Carrey as God to wreak comic havoc is not only kept under a tight rein, it remains inconsistently realized. Shadyac and writers Steve Koran and Mark O'Keefe (also credited with the story) along with Steve Oedekerk never work out the logic of the greater concept. When, for instance, Bruce uses his powers to bring the moon closer to the Earth for the right romantic touch, it seems to trigger only one natural disaster instead of the thousands that would surely happen. Yet, apparently, without filling in viewers on many of the offscreen calamities, the movie subsequently shows local doomsayers howling about the end of the world. This unsure approach carries over to the cast, many of whom are underused. Grace is cornered into the position of merely reacting to Bruce, and Aniston can only stare and remain starkly unfunny. Freeman appears born in his suit and takes it on with cool gravitas, as does Philip Baker Hall as Bruce's news director boss. Among supporter thesps, Carell has by far the prime laugh moments, while fellow comic Nora Dunn's nearly invisible role must have been discarded in the cutting room. The production gives Buffalo and environs (much of it backlot, with Niagara Falls locations) the sunny Chamber of Commerce treatment. Production designer Linda Descenna's depiction of God's office as a giant all-white warehouse is far more inspired than John Debney's sleep-inducing music.
Bruce Almighty
A Universal Pictures release of a Spyglass Entertainment presentation of a Shady Acres/Pit Bull production. Produced by Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey, James D. Brubaker, Michael Bostick, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe. Executive producers, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Steve Oedekerk. Directed by Tom Shadyac. Screenplay, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe, Steve Oedekerk; story, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe.
Camera (Deluxe color), Dean Semler; editor, Scott Hill; music, John Debney; music supervisor, Jeff Carson; production designer, Linda Descenna; art director, Jim Nedza; set designers, Nancy Deren, Rich Romig, Evelyne Barbier; set decorator, Ric McElvin; costume designer, Judy Ruskin; sound (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), Jose Antonio Garcia; supervising sound editor, Michael Hilkene; visual effects supervisor, Bill Taylor; special visual effects, Syd Dutton, Bill Taylor; additional visual effects, PMP, Hammerhead; special effects coordinator, Dave Kelsey; stunt coordinator, Mickey Gilbert; associate producers, Linda Fields Hill, Janet Wattles, Jonathan M. Watson; assistant director, Jonathan M. Watson; second unit director, Mickey Gilbert; second unit camera, Donald M. McCuaig; casting, Junie Lowry-Johnson, Ron Surma. Reviewed at AMC Avco Cinema, L.A., May 20, 2003. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 101 MIN.
Bruce Nolan - Jim Carrey God - Morgan Freeman Grace Connelly - Jennifer Aniston Jack Keller - Philip Baker Hall Susan Ortega - Catherine Bell Debbie - Lisa Ann Walter Evan Baxter - Steven Carell Ally Loman - Nora Dunn
With: Sally Kirkland, Tony Bennett.


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Summer Guide
by nycgo.com staff, 03/18/2014
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert in Sydney Theatre Company's "The Maids." Photo: Lisa Tomasetti
Lincoln Center Festival
July 7–August 16
Since 1996, the Lincoln Center Festival has provided a showcase for the best in performing arts from around the world, including opera, chamber music, theater, multimedia performance, ballet, modern dance and multidisciplinary works. This year's lineup includes kabuki from the company Heisei Nakamura-za (the Nakamura family represents a kabuki dynasty going back to the 17th century), a troika of classic ballets from the Bolshoi—Swan Lake, Spartacus and Don Quixote—and the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Jean Genet's The Maids, with Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert as sisters engaged in life-and-death power games.