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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: Idea Factory
|Pub: Aksys Games
|Release: Q2 2011
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Steve Haske
When you're in Tokyo's Akihabara ("Electric Town") district, center for all things anime, game, and otaku-related in Japan's massive capital city, it's impossible to go more than a few feet without seeing an ad, poster, or cosplay girl peddling the latest anime-styled games, whether they're advertising sims, erotic titles, or the newest installment in a long running series of RPGs. The market for all of these is consistently pretty popular, and as a result, shops that line Akihabara's corridor-like streets are garishly stocked with every conceivable otaku-oriented game imaginable. The limelight shelf life of this sort of thing is also frighteningly low, with new displays and setups hitting the district multiple times a month, making it all but impossible for anyone but the most die-hard enthusiasts to keep up with the shift. Suffice it to say, to the casual observer it's pretty tough to tell any of these games from one another, but there are a couple of common elements found in most: some variation of the hero's quest and anime chicks with big boobs.
Although sexual content in Japanese games outside of erotic PC titles essentially draws a line in the sand with suggestive T&A, some games like to push the boundaries, such as Atlus' upcoming Catherine or Aksys' Record of Agarest War. Compared to Catherine's psychosexual feel, Agarest War's titillation—the game's ad campaign featured a lot of girls in bubble baths eating…bananas and sausages—may mostly be for show given the game's relatively tame sexual content, but I guess you have to give credit to the developers for making the appeal of their strategy RPG stick out against countless others that would otherwise look about the same. In any case, Agarest War did well enough in North America that the second installment in the series, a prequel to the original game, is being localized by Aksys.
If you're familiar with the original Agarest War, you should feel right at home with Zero, which takes place 1000 years before the events of the first game. Once again, the game deals in generational design, although Idea Factory has dialed it back a bit from the multiple generation approach of the last game. Whereas the first Agarest dealt with no less than five generations of characters—after choosing a companion to "mate" with in the first generation, each successive chapter of the game dealt with the descendants of the family line—Zero only uses two. As you're only dealing with two generations of characters in a game at least forty-hours long, character development will theoretically be deeper and more engaging.
Another issue with the original Agarest War was the way each generation picked who they wanted to woo. Basically after so many battles or missions you would be presented with story scenes that would give you a chance to further ingratiate yourself with the girl of your choice in typical dating-sim fashion. But since you weren't allowed complete control over who had the most affection for you (unlike in, say, Harvest Moon), at the end of each chapter you were automatically paired off with whomever liked you the most. Zero aims to fix that and not just with the lack of generations to assume. Idea Factory is introducing what they're calling the "Free Intention" system, which will allow you to explore towns and interact with your party members (read: women) more so that you have a greater degree of agency when it comes time to settle down with someone. Thankfully, as in the first game, any abilities and experience gained in one generation will be passed on to the next.
Aksys hasn't said much about any changes or improvements to the battle system, but the mechanics in the Japanese version of the game, which hit the PS3 and 360 last year, seem about the same. That means you can expect traditional turn-based strategy RPG gameplay, the ability to team up with teammates to unleash combo attacks when strategically placed at certain squares, and the guarantee that battles will eventually end after building enough special ability points, allowing you to perform moves that will crush your enemies quickly. Based on the single trailer Aksys has released for Zero, it looks as though the topographically-challenged maps of the first game may make a return, though at this point that's uncertain.
The rest of the game's new additions seem like window dressing for the fans: the static character portraits of the first game are now animated, and your girls' outfits will change (meaning their outfits will probably get increasingly sluttier) as they grow more attached to you. After the backlash over only offering the PS3 version of the original Agarest as a downloadable title on PSN, Aksys has made it clear that Zero will be available on both consoles as a disc release, although once again the 360 seems to be getting the better deal, with additional costumes for the ladies, an event gallery to rewatch cutscenes, and unreleased CG that isn't available on the PS3 version. Will any of this be sexy content? Doubtful. But no doubt it'll likely make a number of otaku fanboys pick the game up on Microsoft's console regardless. We'll find out when Record of Agarest War Zero hits U.S. shores next summer.
Steve Haske
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Minor League trippin'
Probably my favorite thing about baseball is the story that can be told.
Being at a live game is one of the most entertaining events one can attend and everybody in the stadium is there for a reason. Last week, my brother Zach and I had both a reason and from it — had a story.
We went on a Minor League Baseball road trip to Buffalo, NY and Erie, PA.
Everything was set up perfectly. I had spent a few hours earlier in the week just scouring websites of various MiLB teams that are close to our home in Youngstown, OH. I first stumbled on Erie, with a game at 6:35 on Friday. Realizing that Buffalo was a mere hour and a half away, I checked the Bisons' site out of curiosity. Lucky for us, they had a game at 1:05, earlier that afternoon.
Oh yeah, we had a baseball state of mind.
It took us just three hours to get to Buffalo, arriving at about noon.
That close to Canada, ah we'll save that for later in the summer — really.
We found easy parking downtown, quickly bought tickets and we're ready for baseball game No. 1 at Coca Cola Field.
Built in 1988, it seats 18,000 people. The outside is very vintage, like an Ebbets Field. We were told it was meant to blend in with the other buildings of downtown Buffalo — and it really does. It can easily be mistaken for an office complex if you didn't know any better.
One step inside, though, with one glance at that jumbotron, you'll know you're here for baseball. Unfortunately, the San Diego chicken wasn't there that day. Perhaps more unfortunately, the Coca Cola Field scoreboard was recently unseated as the largest in the Minor Leagues. The Memphis Redbirds now hold that title.
We had two goals before the game started. Zach and I are kind of passed the autograph stage, but there were two people that we really wanted to sign.
Bobby Scales and Wally Backman.
Scales is a legend in his own right. My good friend Marc is a die-hard Cubs fan. Scales was a in the Chicago farm system for many years, but would only crack the North Sider's line up around September call up time. Anyway, Scales has a large following, for whatever reason, and Marc said getting an autograph from Scales would be a life changing moment. If we got him to sign something, he was going to display it in between his Muhammed Ali and Michael Jordan signatures.
There was Bobby, but he didn't sign. Not many guys stuck around to sign for us, or the maybe six others waiting. It was kind of like a Major League game when you can get close enough to yell at the players and they acknowledge, yet they usually disregard the opportunity to come over and sign. Truthfully, I don't blame them. These guys are a step away from the big leagues and they have every right to have a professional approach to the game. That's how AAA is, anyway. It's not a promotion-ridden, activity-infested production. It's as close to the MLB as it gets.
Still, some guys signed as soon as they saw a little kid, or elderly lady, hold up a ball.
Oh, and Wally Backman? No sign of him — until game time.
He didn't move from that position much coaching third base. And, much to our disappointment, there were no questionable calls for him to argue. If you've never seen him blow up on an umpire, YouTube "Wally Backman Home Run Ejection" or anything with his name in it. And, cover your ears, it gets quite vulgar — and hilarious.
Like I said before, Coca-Cola Field holds 18,000 people. Zach was not too impressed by the Friday afternoon attendance.
Yeah, this is a pretty cool portrait of myself. But look behind it and you can get a decent idea how how many fans showed up. It was spotty, at best, but I was impressed.
"There's nobody here," Zach exclaimed.
Actually, there was over 6,000 fans in attendance. Because it is a pretty massive stadium — for minor league standards — it can appear to be empty. In many other lower level fields — it'd be a sellout.
All of us there on the corner of Swan and Washington street on the sun-drenched afternoon were treated to a great game, itself, and quality entertainment.
When the starting lineups were announced and Zach and I penciled it into our scorebooks, I told him to watch out for DeWayne Wise. He was starting in CF for the Scranton Wilkes Barre, I mean Empire State, Yankees. Remember how he preserved Mark Buerhle's perfect game a few years ago with the White Sox? Well he nearly topped it, minus the implications, with this bring back of a sure-fire Bisons' home run. Very cool moment when the whole crowd stood up expected a dinger and I, honestly, had a hunch that Wise would go up and grab it.
Along with Wise, both rosters had notable players.
Decently regarded, Colin Curtis.
Omar Quintanilla, who has always flirted with the Mets roster.
Jordany Valdespin, who got "spun" around here:
Haha. He'll be on the Mets roster soon — this week actually.
Jeremy Hefner is in New York now, too. He got the start last Friday and picked up the loss.
Now, for the name game.
With quality Italian names like that, there has to be a…
I thought the outfield wall provided a nice homegrown touch, but we wouldn't have been in Buffalo with out some wings. The Bisons even threw in the celery and bleu cheese.
Bleu cheese got its first win of the season in the race. It wouldn't be a minor league game without one of these and don't worry — there's two more left.
Again, the Bisons' in-game production mirrored that of a major league game almost to the T. Which was refreshing, but not as charming.
They roll out three mascots. A pretty good number to keep potentially big crowds entertained — one would think. If Zach wouldn't have stopped really fast, we wouldn't have caught up with any of these three Bull-like creatures. The trio only appears during on-field t-shirt tosses, then rushes them back into a holding area. Never do they roam the concourses for pictures, hugs and high fives. If it wasn't for their visiting in the seating areas, many little kids are bored at games. That was certainly the case in Buffalo.
One guy, however, stood out in the aisles.
dConehead has been a character at Coca-Cola Field for many years.
As for the game, the Yankees picked up four runs in the fifth inning after the Bisons jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first three.
Usually around the seventh inning stretch of any game I'm at, anxiety takes over and my few hours of relaxation and baseball is about to come to a close. Reality sets in. This day was different, around that same time of unrest, I felt happiness knowing that another nine inning spectacle was about to come.
Down 7-4 in the bottom of the ninth, Buffalo got one across but couldn't come from behind completely. The home team fell 7-5.
On to the next one.
Jeryry Uht Park in Erie, PA lacked the big city feel of Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo, yet it still had a pretty cool vibe. It was located in downtown Erie, but we didn't know we were even close to it, unlike Coca-Cola where it's visible right off the highway and in many angles of downtown Buffalo.
We entered about a half hour before the game and we were nervous. It was Justin Verlander poster night and we knew we'd be cutting it close because only the first 1,000 people received posters.
In all honesty, we were one of the first people through the gates. And the first 1,000 — didn't even show up. Plenty of posters were left at the end of the game.
During it, though, was a blast.
Zach and I were selected for an on-field contest. At the end of the first inning, we went on the field for the "Crazy Frog" race. From third base to home plate, we raced another pair of competitors — also Pirate fans! Let me tell you, 90 feet is further than you think, especially when you're leap frogging somebody. So as we tumbled our way down the line, fans actually cheered for us. To their dismay and ours — we lost.
The process of getting selected by the "Wolfpack" promo team and introduced by the on-field host, it reminded me so much of my summer, last year. As a minor league intern for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, I was responsible for many of the promotional activities and contests, just like these kids were for more. Whether you're entertained by the production or not, a lot goes into it and time is limited between innings. I had a lot of respect for those interns and next time you're at a minor league game, try to understand what all goes into making it work. It probably won't seem like much — but trust me — it is.
Needless to say, Erie had much more of a homey, intimate and well, minor league feel.
With just one mascot — C. Wolf stole the show.
However, the SeaWolves were hosting the Baltimore Orioles AA affiliate, the Bowie Baysox. And I pleased to see former No. 3 pick and top prospect Manny Machado.
Those interns I praised earlier, yeah, they didn't do their homework. Whether they realized how highly regarded Machado is or not — he was named the Strikeout Player of the Game.
Well, their decision paid off as Machado whiffed in his very first at-bat.
We sat behind home plate, very first row, for much of the game. I though these pictures turned out pretty cool, too.
Also cool — and comfortable — for that matter is Jerry Uht Park, itself.
Except for that big wooded wall in left field. "What an eyesore," we thought right when we looked up. We thought there was no way that it's normally like that and a security guard confirmed that it is only temporary for an amazing cause. Jerry hut Park is right next store to Erie's sports arena that houses arena football, hockey and basketball. Actually, it's right beyond the Home Depot demonstration. Construction is under way for a 50 million dollar project that will add connected suites that will over look both left field and center court. A very productive and well-thought out idea that I'll have to check out when it's finished, next year.
The left field fence stands just 312 feet away from home plate and, sure enough, it was in play.
That hole two panel away from the orange bench wasn't there before John Murrian stepped to the plate in the bottom of the eighth. It was a two-run shot, part of a four-run inning, that gave Erie the come from behind, 6-2 win.
That'd be it for our marathon day. Zach and I will never forget this trip. It may have been crazy, our mother thought so, but that's what was great about it. We put life to the side for a day and focused on the great game of baseball. No worries, no cares, no deadline, no hurry.
A few days later, Zach handed the reigns over to my buddy, Andrew. Another day of minor league baseball was ahead for me and my lifelong friend.
We stayed in Ohio at Lake County for the Single A, Indians affiliated, Captains.
Francisco Lindor is their big name — Cleveland's first-round pick from 2011, No. 8 overall.
Lake County is just one step up from Mahoning Valley — where I spent my summer all of last year. Lindor, along with several others, joined me for their first taste of professional ball.
I also got the chance to hang out with a staple of Eastwood Field, photographer Jesse Piecuch.
I think Im tough stuff with my camera, but Jesse's is as fine as they come. And his photos — whoa, they are the best in baseball. Literally. The guy has a knack for the job.
In the afternoon sun, it was the perfect temperature for a game, with a slight breeze. I the shade, it was frigid. To keep even warmer, we migrated throughout Classic Park because we basically had the place to ourselves. Zach thought Buffalo was bad, I thought Erie was worse, but last Wednesday's Lake County crowd was the slimmest I've ever seen. We counted no more than 50 people.
Still, the show went on.
And Captain Tony observed from his perch in center field.
The Captains rallied for four runs in the sixth and led 5-4 going into the bottom of the ninth.
Ahoy, blown save ahead.
The West Michigan White Caps, a Detroit Tigers affiliate, teed off for four runs of their own. The rally was started by Colin Kaline.
Yep, that Kaline. Well, not exactly as in Al. But he is a spawn — Al's grandson.
He didn't come in with legendary numbers, but I'm sure it took Al a while to be Kaline-like, too.
I can't imagine pulling off a pilgrimage like this in any other sport. Basketball? Football? Hockey? No way anybody would hit three different games, of any level, within a 4-day span in those sports. They're all too similar. Baseball games are unique, their special. Every field is different. Every stadium is different. With the other aforementioned sports, it's all defined in the exact same matter everywhere you go. The football field is 100 yards long, the basketball hoop is 10 feet tall. Hockey is…always played on ice. Baseball presents its own special calling and only the patient and appreciative can answer the call to the game's adventures and journeys.
I'm glad to be part of the club.


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The Clojure contribution process is designed to allow for open collaboration while also insuring that each change to the code base is well planned and executed.
This diagram shows an outline of the process. The workflow is explained in greater detail below.
The first step in the contribution process is to open a ticket. Please do so through JIRA and not through GitHub. This ticket can be created by anyone with or without a CA. It is OK to create a ticket and submit a patch at the same time, but please be aware, if the ticket is later rejected, the time spend developing the patch will be lost. Therefore it is recommended that coding on non-trivial patches should be postponed until after the vetting process. One possible advantage to submitting a patch before the ticket is vetted, is that it might be vetted and screened all at once by the screener, if they choose to do that, saving some time.
After a ticket has been created it must be vetted. The "vetters" are a group of people who have been assigned the task of providing high-level validation of tickets. For example, if someone submits a ticket that says "We should make all data structures mutable", the vetters will most likely reject the ticket on the spot. However, a reproducible bug report affecting existing code will most likely be vetted without much ceremony. Several steps can be taken by ticket authors that will help insure that their request makes it through the vetting process in a timely fashion.
1) If the ticket represents a bug, please give example code of the problem. Vetters are asked to verify all bugs. A un-reproducible bug will be rejected outright.
2) If the ticket represents a feature request, please provide some extra information about the request that explains why the feature is needed, and why it cannot exist as a separate library in Clojure contrib. Often this extra information is a link to a mailing list discussion, an IRC log, or perhaps it evolved out of a conversation with Rich Hickey. In general, the more context given for a ticket, the more likely the it is to make it through the vetting process.
After a ticket has been vetted, it moves into the development phase. At this point, patches will be created and attached to the ticket. This code can be written by anyone who has submitted a CA. Due to copyright restrictions any patches submitted by someone without a CA will not be accepted, and feature/fix will need to be recoded from scratch.
The core contributors to Clojure try to code patches for bugs first, and then move on to feature requests. Therefore if you have an accepted CA, there is a major feature that interests you, and it is missing a patch, feel free to code the patch yourself. As with most open source projects, if you find a missing feature bothersome, you are most likely the right person to code the implementation.
After the patch has been coded and attached to the ticket, the ticket will be "ready to screen". The goal of screeners is to provide code-review and implementation oversight to new features and bugs. Where vetters review the high-level aspects of a ticket (is this feature needed?), screeners provide low-level oversight of the process (is this feature coded correctly?). If the screeners are uncomfortable with the patch, it will be marked as "incomplete" and sent back to the "vetted" phase to be refactored and screened again.
Once a patch has been screened, it is sent to Rich Hickey for final approval. Rich can perform one of three actions on the ticket. He can outright reject it (perhaps asking that it be put into a contrib library), he can approve it for the current release, or he can approve it for the next release.
If a ticket is marked for the current release, one of the Clojure committers will take the patches attached to the ticket and commit them to the github repository. At this point the ticket is marked as done, and the ticket number is placed into the changelog for the next release of Clojure.
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WATCH: 'Living in Limbo' documentary showcases lesbian families in Alabama
May 22, 2014
Hearts and minds are changing across America at an increasingly rapid pace: With recent polling showing an all-time high of 50% of Southerners supporting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples, it's clear that we're making progress – but there's still much work to do.
In partnership with 16 state and regional organizations and 14 honorary co-chairs, Freedom to Marry launched Southerners for the Freedom to Marry in February of this year – a first-of-its-kind public education campaign to grow public support to a solid majority in the Southern states.
As a part of our continued focus on winning the South as an integral part the Roadmap to Victory and setting the stage for a national resolution at the Supreme Court, Freedom to Marry is proud to be a partner of State & Union: Lesbian Families Living in the Deep South.
A Living in Limbo documentary, State & Union "depicts real-life stories of lesbians in the Deep South that include pain and perseverance, strength and humor." Inspired by the highly acclaimed photography exhibition Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families in the Deep South, which features photographs by Carolyn Sherer, this documentary focuses on families living in Birmingham, Alabama.
Watch the trailer for State & Union:
Teaser from UAB Documentary on Vimeo.
In order to make this project a success, the producers of State & Union need to raise $100,000 by July 8, 2014. Our research has shown definitively that Americans sharing their own personal stories is one of the most powerful ways to change hearts and minds and grow the majority for marriage, which is why we're so proud to be supporting this project. Please join us by contributing to Living in Limbo's Indiegogo page right now!
Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson explained the significance of the project today. He said:
State & Union shows and tells the stories of lesbian families in the South - their love, their humor, their struggle, and their strength - and will help spark the conversations that grow support and lead to change. It's stories like these that explain why Southerners, like other Americans, are coming to understand better the lives and commitment of gay families in the community and why they value the freedom to marry - and joining the nationwide majority for the marriage.
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Those were the blunt words of Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, in addressing a group of journalists:
In an address to the National Newspaper Publishers Conference, Downer denied media claims his ministry had been slow in providing assistance to thousands of Lebanese-Australian passport holders, The Australian newspaper reported.
"What concerns me greatly is the evidence of dishonesty in the reporting out of Lebanon," he said. He gave as examples the case of photographs of the results of Israeli air strikes being altered and the "tendency to report every casualty on the Lebanese side of the conflict as a civilian casualty, despite indisputable evidence that many of the injured from the Israeli offensive were Hezbollah combatants," Downer said.
Blunt words, but true. It would be nice to see equally forthright criticism from our own officials. Here is how one journalist responded:
The secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Chris Warren, says Downer's remarks showed an unfortunate but increasing trait of governments to try and dictate conflict reporting.
"I don't think journalists have got it so wrong as some governments did on weapons of mass destruction," he said.
Ponder that non sequitur for a moment, and consider what it tells us about the perspective of that journalist and many others, in the U.S. as well as Australia.


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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Better Than Wonderful Focaccia
First, a word about vegetables. As I've mentioned, I'm in a Crop Share program where I pick up half a box of vegetables every Thursday. I always thought I ate a lot of vegetables, but I have to say it's been a trial to get through all the ones I've picked up so far this summer. The boxes seem to be getting bigger every week, and it's getting harder and harder to make my way down to the bottom of the vegetable bin before I'm hit with another half-ton of organic wonders. Thus, we had end-of-the summer vegetable soup with pistou. I used broccoli, onions, carrots, potatoes, scallions, three kinds of peppers, tomatoes, parsley, kale, and basil. After all that, I still have eggplant (a challenge to disguise since Jim claims to hate eggplant), cabbage, more potatoes, more onions, and a butternut squash.
Well, of course, with soup, one must have bread.
I'm always looking for new recipes from Rose, and found one on her website that I haven't made yet. (She really is going to have to get going on another bread cookbook). She calls this "fantastic focaccia." It's pretty much like a regular focaccia except it's made with sourdough starter, which I happen to have in my refrigerator, and caramelized onions, which I adore, and which offered a means of using up two onions. The recipe actually calls for a soft starter, but I just added a little more liquid to my dough and it was fine. It's really quite easy, and it has a great texture, with lovely, unevenly shaped holes.
Rose's technique for caramelizing onions is to steam them in olive oil on very low heat for a good half hour, then take off the lid, and slowly let them brown. Two largeish onions become reduced to less than half a cup of beautifully golden essence of onion-ness. The bread went perfectly with the soup, which I served with a big dollop of pistou (just like pesto only without the nuts). Jim ate a few bites of soup and pronounced it "wonderful." Then he bit into the bread and said, "This is better than wonderful."
Now what the hell am I going to do with that eggplant?
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Roast your eggplant, skin it, remove the insides, and mash with garlic, olive oil, salt, and a dash of white vinegar. Makes a great spread for your nice breads! Anna
- Doughadear said...
What a beautiful meal! There's nothing like fresh summer vegetables to make a great soup and of course the wonderful focaccia! As for the eggplant, there is a really good recipe for Neapolitan Eggplant Parmigiana in "From Biba's Italian Kitchen." It's pretty much eggplant lasanga, layers of fried eggplant, tomato sauce, slices of fresh mozzarella and grated parmigiano baked in the oven.
That Focaccia looks so good! I have a solution for your vegetable glut, Ratatouille. You can use tons of vegetables in it, including the eggplant. It will be disguised, he'll never know the difference.This also freezes well, so make a big pot. Sometimes I mix in a cup or so of bulghur. Another fav is to make polenta, pour it into a 13X9, cool. Top with the ratatouille and top with mozzarella and bake like lasagna.YUM!
- breadbasketcase said...
That spread sounds terrific--I made baba ganoush a few weeks ago, but this sounds so simple.
I love eggplant parmagiana myself, but Jim rebels. I'll have to make it for myself when he's out of town.
Ratatouille--I don't know why I didn't think of that myself! It's an end-of-summer standby that I make almost every year, and the eggplant disappears into the other vegetables well enough that Jim doesn't balk at eating it.
Thanks for all the eggplant advice!
- Melinda said...
Loved all the other suggestions but how about Moussaka? I have a good recipe if you need it. If it is too undisguised eggplant (aubergine) make it for yourself and freeze it for later when Jim is away. It freezes well.
The soup and bread look delicious together.
- breadchick said...
Your focaccia is wonderful looking.
Here is one more "hide the eggplant suggestion". Skin, grill and chop into 1 - 2" square chunks, removing the seedy part. Make a quick tomato ragu with sausage and when you add the sausage, add the eggplant. When they are combined this way, you can't really tell what is sausage and what is eggplant.
- jini said...
i like caponata......it can be served warm, room temperature or chilled. it's similar to ratatouille, but you can add olives and lots of vegetables along with your eggplant, and it's yummy. ;~}
- Chubbypanda said...
Eggplant Parmesan. The marinara sauce tends to drown out the eggplant.
- breadbasketcase said...
Thanks for all the great eggplant suggestions! What I ended up doing with the eggplant was to make a sort of faux Thai eggplant and pork thing. I sauteed some eggplant, peppers, and ground pork, poured some water in, turned the flame to high and covered the pan. After about ten minutes, the water has evaporated and there's a crispy crust on the bottom. I added soy sauce and spicy Thai chili sauce and a bunch of fresh mint. Jim loved it--said it was the best eggplant he'd ever had. I'll be getting another eggplant tomorrow, so I'm thinking I'll just work my way through your various suggestions.
- Julie said...
Another ratatouille-like dish is crespeou, which is many, many layers of open-faced omelets cooked with whatever vegetables you have on hand. You chill the whole thing until the layers and all the flavors meld together. I have a recipe and picture for it here, but the idea is not to have to use a recipe and the picture is awful. Also, tomatoes and bell peppers and onions could be used for a gazpacho which also calls for some stale bread to be soaked in, if you have that on hand as well.
- breadbasketcase said...
Crespeou is a new concept to me, and it sounds terrific. I don't think your picture is awful at all--it makes me want to try it. Thanks.


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One can expect there to be quite the outcry among American liberals about gun control, especially if anything remotely resembling this event takes place or is thwarted in coming days in the US. It may seem very cold and cruel to focus on the political angle of this story rather than the human tragedy that it is. However, in this situation we have seen signs that the most vile form of human tragedy has actually taken place – the murder of dozens of innocent people for a mere political point. Indeed this thought has been noted and vilified already, as Mr. R.X. Dentith, writing for the New Zealand website Spinoff here quoted: American paleo-conservative Rush Limbaugh was one of the first to note: "There's an ongoing theory that the shooter himself may, in fact, be a leftist who writes the manifesto and then goes out and performs the deed purposely to smear his political enemies, knowing he's going to get shot in the process. You know you just can't – you can't immediately discount this. The left is this insane, they are this crazy. And then if that's exactly what the guy is trying to do then he's hit a home run, because right there on Fox News: 'Shooter is an admitted white nationalist who hates immigrants.'" …[P]eople like Limbaugh… can't stomach the idea the terrorist action in Otautahi might be motivated by the kind of rhetoric Limbaugh helps disseminate – tend to think there is a culture war going on, and they are on the losing side. This war has many names, and the enemy is easily identified: it is the battle against Cultural Marxism; the fight against Toxic Feminism; the resistance to Identity Politics; and the fear of the Great Replacement, the thesis at the heart of the terrorist's own manifesto. The Great Replacement thesis posits that the majority white European countries are being "invaded" by non-white, non-European peoples. Not just that, but due to declining birth rates in the West, this "invasion" constitutes a wholesale replacement of the white population over time. Mr. Dentith tries further to knock down this notion of the Great Replacement. However, he misses a much more basic point. Someone who goes and takes human lives and broadcasts them for any reason is not a mere political operative. The person who does this is a very sick, deranged human being indeed. Evil is certainly appropriately used here. However, evil is often quite cunning, and despite the intellectual arguments about the reality or non-reality of any particular manifesto statement, in this case, the killer played the media with infernal intelligence, and they took the bait. It is possible that Prime Minister Ardern also took the bait, in this most awful of bad situations, and to give her credit, she took swift actions to try to "correct" what was wrong. But the problem here was not the type of weapons used. The problem is the fact that they were used by a person who thought these fifty people's lives were worth nothing more than a bit of policy change. One of the worst examples of human evil in recent times, this incident shouts to the world that there is a problem, but the problem remains unsolved, even though many people will hand over their firearms out of a genuine wish for compassion to those lost and the hope that somehow this action will prevent a future incident. But the logic of this emotional reaction is nil. And what is worse is that the American Left knows this, but does not care. The movers and shakers of liberalism will likely milk the actions of sincerely horrified New Zealanders for all they are worth to try at affecting change in American constitutional rights. And the innocent dead will not rest in peace, because the real problem has not even been examined. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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There is so much beauty in fluidity.
makes me think of zucchini flowers. excellently worn (:
does anyone know which is the label of the sandals?i really love them.
I'm not normally a huge fan of grown women in so called clothes, but I feel this particular combination of woman + dress give it a unique feel. The color choice of the dress is sophisticated enough to make it look more mature and less infantile. She's also pared down and not looking overtly sexy. Nice choice!!
is this the same woman in the "two for fashion"???
if so wowowow…
maybe the 2 of them are tracking you down sart.
anyway great style. love their attitude.
Is she Jane Birkin's little sister? Wow, she looks so much like her. I hope it's not cultivated. That said, I don't much care for the barrage of maxi dresses out there. Whether it's Prada (not quite maxi in this case) or Forever 21, it's so trendy that I can't get into it. It's this year's baby doll (another unfortunate fashion misstep.)
That said, Aurora is sexy even if the dress is not. And honestly the dress isn't horrible I just don't think the color or the cut or the neckline works in her favor.
Lovely, but may we snip the hair an inch on bottom?
would have been perfect with a shoe less matchy-matchy- something to match the scoop neck color- is that brown? great prada graphic maxi though- really pretty and perfect forest-nymph looking girl to pull it together!
that is one of the best dresses of PE08…Prada number 1 as usual!!!!
the colors are perfect and her lack of jewelry or too much makeup makes the look cool and breezy
was that PRADA?… rei (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Gorgeous mix of colours and I love the way it floats. Absolutely beautiful.
LOVE this!!! feminine, yet very simple.
Love the dress…makes me think of Pride and Prejudice era fashion
Makes me think of Botticelli
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Sharing the No. 4 forward spot with Leah McAlister, Bronson has found that on the basketball court it is best to keep things as uncomplicated as possible. Her level of play has been a pleasant surprise to Lady Bisons coach Frank Bennett.
"The key thing for Valerie is to make simple plays, simple passes and take open shots," Bennett said. "She can't force a pass or drive when there is no place to go. Those things lead to turnovers."
Bronson has worked way back into double figures in playing time by responding when her name was called. "It's was a matter of her being ready when she got the opportunity," Bennett said.
Bronson, a senior, has also built a trust level with her coaches and teammates this season.
"In practice and in games she has been building that trust," Bennett said. "She isn't going to try to make a spectacular play and make a turnover. She is going to make the easy play.
"She has had a couple of really good games for us. She has shot some threes, but the best thing is she is driving the ball to the basket and finishing there. She is doing a pretty good job defensively and getting some rebounds."
Bronson has realized that she doesn't have to try so hard to perform because there are other players around her.
"I'm slowing it down and doing what I can do correctly instead of speeding it up," Bronson said.
Bronson, 5-foot-10, and McAlister, a 5-9 junior, split time at the No. 4 position. In the 63-58 win at Austin Peay Dec. 8 Bronson hit 40-of-5 shots from the field and McAlister connected on five-of-six.
"That's a huge contribution from that one position," Bennett said.
Both Bronson and McAlister are under-sized to play the No.4, something the two often talk about.
"Leah and I joke about playing the No. 4 position," Bronson said. "It's so hard. Even though we are big most of the girls that play that position are so much bigger than us. Being undersized we know we have to try harder.
"We push each other hard in practice to get better. Playing against Chelsea McMeans, Jess Reece and Brittany Duerk helps us get ready for games."
Bronson and the rest of the Lady Bisons will be challenged Saturday night when Kennesaw State visits for an Atlantic Sun doubleheader at Allen Arena. Game time for the women is 6 p.m. with the men following at approximately 8:15.
The Lady Bisons are 4-4 overall, 1-0 in the A-Sun. They are one win away from tying their overall victory record for last season.
The Kennesaw State Owls are 2-5, 0-1 in the conference.
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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John Cena, "Dramatic Actor." It's got a different ring than "Action Star," which is what he has been doing in his previous two movies. The film, tentatively titled Legendary, has finished filming in New Orleans now, and will spotlight the WWE star differently.
While in New Orleans for the filming of the film, which started out entitled Brother�s Keeper, Cena chatted with the media, and called the project "a great change of pace."
"This one is a lot less physically demanding," he said. "I feel like I've been able to get involved in the story, and it's an easy story to embrace. I think everybody will be able to pull something from it."
Legendary centres on Cal Chetley, a socially awkward teenage boy, played by Devon Graye (of Dexter), who tries to reconnect his family after the death of his collegiate wrestling star father by following in his father's footsteps.
It is set in Oklahoma, because of the dedicated fandom for amateur wrestling, said writer and actor John Posey. "It�s a coming-of-age story about how youth teaches adults how to figure things out," Posey told the Hammond Daily Star.
Actress Patricia Clarkson, who is from New Orleans, plays Sharon Chetley, a mother who is grieving her husband, battling with her estranged son (played by Cena), and her teenager (Graye). Danny Glover is a "traveling angel," a charming and mysterious man who shows up at paramount times in the life of Graye's character.
David Calloway, the movie's producer who is also vice president of WWE Studios, said scoring Clarkson (The Green Mile, Pieces of April, Good Night, and Good Luck) was a coup.
"It speaks to the quality of the story and the screenplay," Calloway said. "She's really the consummate actress, and we count ourselves very, very fortunate to have her."
In a conference call to promote his appearance on the USA Network show Psych, Cena talked about Legendary as well.
"[I]t�s going to pan out to be a really, really good movie. It�s a drama about a young man who uses amateur wrestling as a backdrop to kind of bring a family closer together," he said.
The amateur wrestling was a little new to him. "Yeah, it�s amateur stuff so it�s a little bit different but it still has an element of pure sport so it�s nice."
"It'll be a good watch," Cena said to AP. "People will walk away from this movie feeling good about themselves."
The film, directed by Mel Damski (Boston Public, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Chicago Hope and lots of other TV shows), and featuring a budget of about $10-million, is expected to be released theatrically, rather than just straight to DVD.
-- with files from Canoe wire services, and Russ Cohen


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Jan. 23, 2007
Lady Bisons softball coach Kristin Peck has welcomed two new graduate assistant coaches to the program.
Lexi Myers, from Campbell University, and Amber Wood, from Iowa State, each have been working with the team during preseason preparations.
Myers, a native of Hanover, Pa., majored in physical education at Campbell. She excelled both on the field and in the classroom. She will primarily work with the pitching staff.
She lettered four years at Campbell as a pitcher. She was an NFCA All-American Scholar Athlete for 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. She was also a member of the Atlantic Sun All-Academic team in 2005 and 2006.
Wood, a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will work with hitting and position players. She brings coaching experience on several different levels to the position. She was an instructor in hitting, infield and pitching at Perfect Game Softball in Iowa for one year. She also spent a year as a student assistant at Iowa State where she worked with instruction at practice and camps. She spent two years as an assistant coach at Marion High School in Iowa.
As a player she spent two years at Kirkwood Community College, playing the infield for the team that finished fifth in the NJCAA National Championships in 2002. At Kirkwood she was First Team All-Conference and All-Region in 2002. She was also an Academic All-America selection. In 2003 she was the Defensive Player of the Year in the conference. She was also named to Academic All-America team.
Wood also played two seasons at Iowa State. She was a member of the Academic All-Big 12 Team.


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Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
Robert J. Frascino was a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Frascino served as associate clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University Medical Center's Division of Immunology, Rheumatology, and Allergy from 1983 until 2001. He was a member of the American Academy of HIV Medicine as well as a distinguished member of the executive boards of numerous state and regional associations, including past president of the California Society of Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology, the Allergy/Immunology Association of Northern California, and past president of the Allergy, Asthma, Immunology Foundation of Northern California.
Dr. Frascino founded two medical clinics devoted to the comprehensive and compassionate care of people living with HIV. As the primary investigator in numerous HIV clinical trials, he published articles on evolving new treatments and quality-of-life issues for people living with the virus in such journals as International Journal of STD and AIDS, Western Journal of Medicine, Journal of AIDS and Blood.
In 1991, while performing a routine medical procedure on a patient with HIV infection, Dr. Frascino sustained a hollow-bore needle stick and laceration, resulting in his HIV seroconversion. He retired from his medical practice in 1996 to concentrate his efforts on HIV awareness, fund raising and teaching.
Dr. Frascino completed his postdoctoral Clinical Immunology/Allergy Fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. Prior to this, he served his internship and residency in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Northern California and obtained his medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dr. Frascino was an award-winning classical pianist who performed a series of concerts entitled A Concerted Effort to benefit AIDS service organizations worldwide. His efforts raised more than $850,000. Dr. Frascino was the recipient of the National Society of Fundraising Executives' 1997 Distinguished Honoree/Silicon Valley Philanthropy Award. In addition to raising funds and awareness to combat the epidemic, Dr. Frascino, the recipient of the Santa Clara County Medical Association's 1997 Award for "Outstanding Contribution in Medical Education," taught and lectured extensively on various topics related to HIV.
In 1999, Dr. Frascino and Dr. Natterstad, his life partner, established The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) philanthropic organization whose sole mission is to provide crucial services for men, women and children living with HIV and to raise awareness of the HIV epidemic through advocacy and education. In May of 2002, as part of the International AIDS Candlelight Vigil in San Francisco, Dr. Frascino accepted the Bobbi Campbell AIDS Hero Award for which he received personal letters of acknowledgement and congratulations from both Governor Gray Davis and Mayor Willie Brown.
Dr. Frascino was the forum expert in the Forum on Fatigue and Anemia and the Forum on Safe Sex and HIV Prevention at TheBody.com. He also participated in the speakers' bureaus and distinguished faculty programs for Glaxo-Wellcome, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, DuPont Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Roche, Serono, Abbott Laboratories, Ortho-Biotech and Bio-Technology Corporation. He received research support from Roche, Chiron and Ortho-Biotech. He served as a physician-advisor/consultant for Bayer Corporation, Agouron, Roche and Ortho-Biotech.
On Sept. 17, 2011, Dr. Frascino passed away. Read TheBody.com's official remembrance page for Dr. Frascino.


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Self Starter Cocktail.
1/8 Apricot Brandy. (1/4 oz Destillerie Purkhart "Blume Marillen" Apricot Eau-de-Vie)
3/8 Kina Lillet. (3/4 oz Jean de Lillet Reserve, 2004)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz North Short Distiller's Gin No. 6)
2 Dashes Absinthe. (2 Dash Lucid Absinthe)
Shake (I stirred) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I guess I probably should have used Apricot Liqueur in this. It just seemed so much more appealing to me made with Apricot Eau-de-Vie. And indeed, I quite enjoyed it as above. A very enjoyable cocktail. I suppose the Self-Starter would also be OK made with Lillet Blanc and Apricot Liqueur.
Figured I should finally start emptying this last bottle of Jean de Lillet, as Eric Seed has said that Cocchi Americano will finally be available from Haus Alpenz some time this spring. Heck, then he could have 2 products in this drink. Hm. I wonder if I can get a case discount?
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Programs | South Dakota Book Bag
South Dakota Book Bag
With funding from the South Dakota Humanities Council, three South Dakota State University professors and John Miller, Professor of History emeritus, SDSU, wrote twenty-one study guides for books by South Dakota authors or with a South Dakota theme to be used with the book bags. Each study guide is three or four pages long and includes a summary of the book, questions for discussion, and a brief biography of the author.
Nicholas Black Elk, as told through John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. 1932, reprint Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
This is a classic account of the last decades of the Lakota Sioux in western South Dakota before the end of the Indian wars in 1890. The book is based upon extensive interviews conducted by scholar John G. Neihardt. Black Elk (1863-1950), a Oglala Lakota holy man and a Catholic convert who witnessed the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was wounded at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, and was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show when it traveled in England, tells his own story and that of his compatriots in this hugely important (and controversial) narrative.
Tom Brokaw, A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland. New York: Random House, 2002.
Brokaw, long-time NBC Nightly News anchor, narrates the story of his boyhood in Bristol, Igloo, Pickstown, Yankton, and Vermillion up to the time of his graduation from college in 1962. In the process of learning about an "All-American boy" who was athletic, popular, smart but not always studious, ambitious, and active, the reader also discovers a great deal about the context of small-town South Dakota during a hugely important transitional period—post-World War II America.
Peter Carrels. Uphill against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Aberdeen journalist Peter Carrels has written a fascinating account about the rise and fall of the Oahe Irrigation Project during the 1970s. An irrigation plan to transport water by a series of canals from the Missouri River to the James River Valley as compensation for the loss of 500,000 acres of prime bottomland when the main-stem dams were built after World War II, the project had the support of virtually every prominent political group and office-holder, regardless of party. But a determined collection of farmers, scientists, and journalists finally derailed the hugely controversial project by showing that it made little economic or ecological sense.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. The Power of Horses and Other Stories. New York: Arcade Publishing. Little, Brown & Company, 1990.
Cook-Lynn, an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, became one of the leading Indian Studies scholars in the world with her teaching and writing. Her storytelling is at its best in this collection of short stories, which together provide a panoramic picture of her Dakota people and their struggles to adapt to changing times and often tragic circumstances. An especially accessible and engaging text, this book constitutes an important part of the history of the plains.
Ella Deloria. Waterlily. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Deloria (1888-1971), who was born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation and whose Dakota name was Anpetu Waste, studied cultural anthropology at Columbia in New York City under the famed scholar Franz Boas. These stories, reflecting her training as an anthropologist, provide a lucid analysis of kinship relationships among the Dakota Sioux, but, just as importantly, they present fundamental ethical lessons that are applicable to all people at all times. Waterlily remains an enduring masterpiece of the real Dakota life.
Gilbert C. Fite. Peter Norbeck: Prairie Statesman. 1948, reprint Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2005.
Fite (b. 1918), one of America's finest agricultural historians, grew up in Wessington Springs, received his master's degree in history at the University of South Dakota, and maintained ties with his native state until his death in 2010. His biography of Peter Norbeck, one of South Dakota's two or three most important governors, stands among the best biographies ever written about a South Dakota politician. Norbeck's career as state senator, lieutenant governor, governor, and U.S. Senator from 1909 to 1936 spanned the progressive period, World War I, and the New Deal.
Hamlin Garland. Main-Travelled Roads. 1891, reprint New York: New American Library, 1962.
Garland (1860-1940) stands as one of the most acclaimed and respected writers about rural America in U.S. history. Born on a farm near La Crosse, Wisconsin, he grew up on homesteads in Iowa and near Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, before leaving for Boston in his early twenties to pursue a literary career. The original stories constituting Main-Travelled Roads were inspired by a visit home when he was in his late twenties. Chronicling the day-to-day lives and emotions of prairie settlers in the region, these stories rocketed him to literary fame in 1891 and remain his foremost fictional legacy.
Linda M. Hasselstrom. Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, Inc., 1987.
Poet and essayist Linda Hasselstrom (b. 1943) has become nationally known for her evocative descriptions of the ranching life and small town milieu in western South Dakota. This volume, organized around a trip which took her in and out of twelve gates on the land east of her ranch home near Hermosa, provides everyday—and often profound—reflections on what it means to be a rancher, a woman, an environmentalist, a citizen, and a neighbor. Topics include agriculture, corporate behavior, the vagaries of weather, values like frugality, community, memory, history, privacy, story-telling, names, water, politics, time, efficiency, technology, and junk.
Patrick Hicks, ed. A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry. Sioux Falls: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2010.
In this collection put together by Patrick Hicks, a poet and writer-in-residence at Augustana College, a dozen of South Dakota's best poets—Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Leo Dangel, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Jeanne Emmons, David Allen Evans, Linda Hasselstrom, Allison Hedge Coke, Patrick Hicks, Debra Nystrom, Jim Reese, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Dennis Sampson, Christine Stewart-Nunez, and Lydia Whirlwind Soldier—put some of their best work on display. This is the most important such collection of South Dakota poetry published in years.
Edith Eudora Kohl. Land of the Burnt Thigh. 1938, reprint St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
This sprightly autobiographical account of a woman homesteader in West River, South Dakota, near Presho between 1907 and 1909 provides one of the best and most readable accounts of such activity ever written. Edith Ammons, only 23 years old, arrived with her older sister Ida Mary during the third major wave of frontier settlement in Dakota (the first two occurring between 1865 and 1873 and between 1878 and 1886). This is a story of homesteading, newspapering, confronting drought and weather hazards, establishing community and family life, setting up stores and business institutions, small towns, economic boom and bust, and the general excitement, challenges, and sometimes heartbreak of the frontier experience.
Frederick Manfred, The Golden Bowl. 1944, reprint Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.
Written under the pen name of Feike Feikema, The Golden Bowl—Manfred's first novel—established his reputation as a regional author and remains perhaps the best of his almost two-dozen novels. Based upon his own hitch-hiking journey across South Dakota in 1934, after graduating from college, the book narrates the story of Maury Grant who is a "tumbling tumbleweed," always looking for a job on the distant horizon until he settles down to establish roots on the land in the area just east of the Badlands. Similar in tone to John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Manfred's dust bowl saga stands as one of the most iconic books ever written about South Dakota life and culture.
Jack W. Marken and Charles L. Woodard, ed. Shaping Survival: Essays by Four American Indian Tribal Women. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
In four illuminating essays, women writers discuss the bi-cultural educations of tribal people in South Dakota, each written from a different geographical, tribal, and experiential perspective. Education at every level, from elementary to university, and in various venues, from reservation schools to public schools and boarding schools, is made understandable and emotionally resonant. The stories are inspirational accounts of survival and ultimately, therefore, pathways to light.
Kent Meyers, The Work of Wolves. New York and London: Harcourt, Inc., 2004.
Meyers, an award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer, grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota and is a long-time professor of English at Black Hills State University. With The Work of Wolves and the more recently published Twisted Tree, he has emerged as one of the region's most acclaimed writers. Set in West River South Dakota, this novel features memorable and evocative settings, excellent characterizations, interesting and engaging conflicts, dramatic action, and a believable and satisfying conclusion.
Oscar Micheaux. The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer. 1913, reprint Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
This semi-autobiographical novel of a black homesteader in Gregory County during the early 1900s provides a compelling story of individual bravery and creativity, the last frontier of settlement, the rise and fall of small towns, business competition, weather disasters, unrequited love, and social interaction. Micheaux, who grew up in southern Illinois and worked out of Chicago as a sleeping-car porter, made the unusual decision to become a black homesteader in South Dakota. His fiction-writing career morphed into film-making, and he emerged as the first great black film-maker in United States history.
John E. Miller. Looking for History on Highway 14. 1993, reprint Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2001.
In this engaging volume, a long-time professor of history at South Dakota State University provides a "historical-journalistic travelogue" along Highway 14 in South Dakota from the Minnesota border to Wall, where the highway merges with I-90, with a final chapter on Mount Rushmore, which originated with an idea presented at a meeting of the highway association in 1924. Not a history of the towns per se, this book highlights a variety of methods and sources for doing local history: buildings and material culture, transportation routes, fiction, biography, historical accounts, art, photography, rituals and celebrations, "tourist traps," and oral history.
Paula M. Nelson. The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.
This, the second of two volumes about the historical development of West River South Dakota during the early twentieth century, provides a hugely interesting and instructive explanation of the economic and environmental cycles of the twenties and thirties and people's efforts—both successful and unsuccessful—to respond to these imposing challenges. Nelson, a professor of history in Wisconsin, is highly qualified to discuss agricultural practices, economic developments, weather and environmental hazards, town life, social and cultural practices, and political negotiation. This is one of the best historical accounts ever written about South Dakota.
Kathleen Norris. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
No book about Dakota life and culture written during the last several decades has generated more interest outside the state and region than Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Norris's literary friends in New York thought she was crazy in 1974 to move out to Lemmon, South Dakota, where her family had roots and she inherited a house after her grandmother's death. Staying longer than she had anticipated, Norris wrote a book casting a bright light upon Dakota life and culture, ranging from religion, values, social interaction, and group behavior to weather, gossip, economic dependence, and the importance of place.
Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
The town is Presho and the families were the Hubbards and the Andersons. The family the author grew up in consisted of ten children, of whom she was the ninth. Born in 1933, she relies on local histories, newspaper accounts, interviews, and other evidence to describe the early history of the town. For the period during which she was growing up, the 1940s and 1950s, she is more reliant upon her own memories and those of her nine siblings. Her father ran a farm machinery store on Main Street, and all of the kids worked there for a time, so Dorothy got to see the working of the town from the inside. This is a compelling account of a single family and life in a small town, as it moved into the modern era.
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. The Trickster and the Troll. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Sneve, born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation, is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Medalist Award from the President of the United States. Her 25 books and many short stories and essays provide a wide-ranging picture of Indian life and culture in the state and region. The Trickster and the Troll, written especially for young people, is a book for people of all ages. Sneve adds imaginative plotting to well-known stories about the Lakota trickster figure Iktomi and Norwegian trolls and other myth figures to create a very thought-provoking narrative.
David A. Wolff. Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2009.
David Wolff, a professor of history at Black Hills State University, draws upon his vast knowledge of the Black Hills region and intensive research in the historical sources to write a fascinating and highly readable account of Deadwood's first sheriff, a legendary figure of the gold-mining era. The author cuts through the legends and myths surrounding Bullock to draw a detailed and multi-faceted account of his many activities in the business realm, politics, law enforcement, town boosterism, tourism promotion, and family matters. A much more complex figure than is generally known, Bullock became a close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, which gave him an inside track on several of his appointments.
Charles L. Woodard, ed. Peril and Promise: Essays on Community in South Dakota and Beyond. Brookings: South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 2007.
"Community" is one of the most salient and significant topics of interest for any caring South Dakotan. This volume is the result of a unique collaboration of a dozen SDSU professors and several other writers and academics who gathered together to write a series of essays about the subject. Disciplinary perspectives involved include literature, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, Indian studies, and education. Poetry selections include one by a former poet laureate of the United States. A photographic essay enhances the volume, and an annotated list of 56 books for further reading provides, in effect, an entire curriculum for the deeper study of the subject.


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CENTRAL CITY -- Nobody does opening night like the Central City Opera, and every year, the company manages to outdo itself.
Longtime CCO patrons know the routine -- the debutantes and their escorts, the quasi 19th-century setting, the flowers thrown onto the stage of the charmingly intimate opera house -- but what happens onstage before the flowers fly is invariably the most magical element of all.
Saturday night, the summer season opened with Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," the quintessential Italian comic opera. The 1816 score is less frequently performed today than its narrative sequel, Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," but its melodies are still beloved and its comedy still sparkles.
Director Marc Astafan places the action firmly and unambiguously in its original setting and time, but does so with panache. The home of Doctor Bartolo, where the spirited heroine Rosina lives under virtual house arrest, has a distinctively cage-like architecture. The colorful props, especially the titular character's cart, are endless sources of delight.
Singing Rossini's agile coloratura at 8,000 feet is impressive enough, but this collection of singers did so with such ease and apparent nonchalance that their comedic talents were placed in even greater relief.
Baritone Daniel Belcher made an impact earlier this year as Mercutio in Opera Colorado's "Romeo and Juliet." As Figaro, the eponymous "Barber," Belcher exuded joy throughout.
Figaro plays matchmaker to the romantic leads, Rosina and the arduous Count Almaviva. In tenor David Portillo's hands, the count was both hilarious -- particularly in his two disguises -- and romantic.
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera played Rosina with a coquettish glee. Portillo and Rivera are both making their CCO debut, and their vocal pyrotechnics were a continual source of pleasure. Both dazzled in their duets with Belcher.
The comic bass voice in Italian opera ("basso buffo") is a rare aural experience, and Patrick Carfizzi was precise and nimble as the jealous and hopeless Dr. Bartolo. Carfizzi's "patter" aria in Act I drew raucous applause from the appreciative audience.
The role of Don Basilio, a sort of straight man to Dr. Bartolo, could easily become thankless, but bass Grigory Soloviov imbued him with considerable character, especially in the wonderful "Buona sera" ensemble.
From the podium, music director John Baril kept everything moving at a brisk pace, such that the long first act seemed to fly by. Baril's choruses are always spectacular, and this one, whose role is limited but important, was no exception.
"Barber" has been plagued by tinkering and tampering, but Baril presented the opera as Rossini wrote it; avoiding the traditional replacement arias or insertions, and keeping the singers' displays under control.
During the curtain calls, the flying flowers seemed to take Rivera by delighted surprise, and the stage was already covered by the time Belcher came out to take his well-deserved bows.


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It's like Dolce & Gabbana hired Matthew McConaughey and then said, "I know! What if we made him look like Photoshopped Justin Bieber?"
Romantic lead, father of two, nude bongo player, triathlete, star of the criminally under-rated Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, cat rescuer, frat boy, exchange student: Matthew McConaughey has lived an interesting 40 years. Too bad he looks like he was digitally replaced by a pubescent wax mannequin in his latest D&G cologne ad.
For comparison's sake, let's examine this 2006 paparazzi shot of McConaughey and his surfboard. To our knowledge, it hasn't been retouched.
I spy with my little eye: muscle tone, texture that resembles human skin, and some indication that his facial muscles actually, you know, move.
And here McConaughey is, proving that when he sits down, ordinarily his abdomen actually creases a little.
Stay classy, fashion!


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