by Etta James
album Her Best - The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
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“We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.”
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Antibiotic-Free Meat Business Is Booming, Thanks To Chipotle:
It’s no longer just foodies at farm markets or Whole Foods buying antibiotic-free, pasture-raised meats.
Increased demand is coming from lots of big players, including Hyatt Hotels; institutional food providers such as Bon Appetit Management Co., which caters to schools and companies; and the fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill. And it’s changing the game.
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Building a Monastery the Medieval Way
Historians, architects, archaeologists and volunteers in Germany are teaming up to build a medieval monastery the old-fashioned way. Working conditions will be strictly 9th-century, without machines, rain jackets or even coffee. It will take decades, but they hope to garner fresh insights into everyday life in the 800s.
Source spiegel.de
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An intimate portrait of Omar, a 17 year old stranded in a refugee camp since the 2011 war in Libya. The film offers a unique perspective of one person amongst thousands waiting for a chance to start their life again in a safe country.
When war broke out earlier this year in Libya, thousands of refugees from countries such as Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, who were living in or transiting through the country at the time, were forced to flee for their lives yet again. They are now waiting in refugee camps along the Tunisian and Egyptian borders - unable to return home due to war or persecution, unable to return to Libya due to ongoing violence and discrimination, and unable to stay in Tunisia or Egypt, countries both undergoing their own political upheavals.
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I took a course last year in Naples to become a certified pizzaiolo, a designation that the pizza police in southern Italy take extremely seriously. On the last day, after barely passing my final exam in front of a board of margherita luminaries (who, between them, claimed more than 400 years of dough-stretching, sauce-slathering experience), I asked the oldest and most distinguished pieman in the group who, outside of the Italians, makes the best pizzas in the world. His answer was shocking. After a long, contemplative pause, and a few glances over his shoulder, he waved me in closer. “Don’t tell anyone else here I said this, but I think the best pizza in the world is coming from Japan right now.” Boom.
Read more about the best Pizza outside of Italy, from the R&K backfiles
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An excerpt from Gail Collins’ new book As Texas Goes: How The Lone Star State Hijacked The American Agenda in our latest issue.
“By 2000, when George W. Bush was running for president, the days when Republicans could burble about protecting the forests and stopping climate change were pretty much over. The environmental discussion shifted to the need for “market-based incentives” and the rights of local communities. The 2000 Republican platform did promise that the party nominee would approach environmental issues “just as he did it in Texas.” That sounded rather ominous, since at the time Texas ranked first in airborne carcinogens, first in ozone components, first in toxic air releases. Houston had the nation’s dirtiest air and Texas was number one when it came to unhealthy ozone levels.”
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The Education of Dasmine Cathey
He hid them in a shoebox under his bed. “My own little secret,” he said.
Inside the box, he kept 10 thin paperbacks he was given as a child. For years he didn’t touch them. But as he reached 19, they became a lifeline.
Each night after dinner, he closed his dorm-room door, reached under his bed, and opened the box. Resting his head against the blanket his grandmother had made him, he pulled out the books: “First Grade, Level 1, Ages 6-7.”
Quietly, so none of his teammates would hear, he read aloud, moving his finger across the page.
by Brad Wolverton | The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 2012
Photo: Lance Murphey
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A clearer picture of Jonathan Harris’s views, which were misinterpreted here. From axelletess:
Jonathan Harris: Rethinking Social Networking (by bigthink)
Artist Jonathan Harris describes four trends that are reshaping culture in the digital age: Compression, Disposability, Curation, and Self-Promotion, and takes steps to counteract them.
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Here’s Rob Weychert in reply to Choire Sicha’s You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger:
Having witnessed the actual talk it came from, I think it’s important to point out that Jonathan Harris’s quote that has everyone so riled, “Curation is replacing creation as a mode of self-expression,” isn’t a celebration, it’s a condemnation. Beyond the semantic argument that makes up the bulk of the discussion on this page, there are wildly varying degrees of value that might be assigned to the work bloggers are doing. There is an insane amount of content at our fingertips in this day and age, and in accordance with Sturgeon’s Law, most of it is garbage. So, too, are most of the resources proliferating that content. Yes, the animated GIF reblog ouroboros that constitutes much of Tumblr is exhausting and largely unnecessary. But to find a few people who can sift through the muck and reliably point you to stuff that stimulates the senses and intellect in a valuable way is a godsend. Call them curators, scrapbookers, bloggers, pachyderms; I don’t care. I just want the good ones to keep at it. Yes, production is key, and we need producers to make the stuff we want to absorb. But you know what? Producers need distributors.
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by Billy Joel
album Storm Front
New York, baby.
Have a great weekend.
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