Schwartz, who wrote the music and lyrics forWicked,was part of the creative team who helped bring this beloved story to new audiences. "I am so thrilled with this album for many reasons. Not obviously just the performances of Cynthia and Ariana, but the sound of the orchestra, tha...
At last, she got one million yuan from the government, and the Huaping Senior School for Girls was opened in September, 2008. There were many difficulties at first, but Zhang didn’t give up. “I want my students to go to good universities,” she said. So far, over 1, 600 girls ...
How many of you consider yourself feminists, I asked. Slowly, about half the class – including some males and the woman who had asked the question in the first place — raised their hands. Whew. Better than I expected. Anyway, I was reminded today of all the things I should have said...
A single mother who has been unemployed for three months but was unavailable for work for the past two weeks to care for her sick child would be classified as "not in the labor force." She would be excluded from the U-3 measure but would be included in the U-6 measure. A 60-year-...
Beethoven was born over 250 years ago, yet his music is still played daily around the world. Beethoven wrote many famous pieces of music, but he’s probably best known for his nine symphonies (交响曲). Before Beethoven died in 1827, he began a 10th Symphony, but never finished. What he...
My goal was to have WSPR beacons transmitting on as many bands as possible. Combining them into a single, multiband antenna posed its own problems, which is a topic for another article. However, all of these solutions just transmitted. I was hoping to also be able to receive and post spot...
Another great infographic Louise – So many ask this question not only on social but email marketing too. I have been going by what Buffer and Hubspot blogged about this, but Buffer never updated it – I asked on Twitter, but they never did. Your input here is helpful. I’ll share wi...
That’s long enough ago in publishing terms for CMS changes to have broken the original link and forced me to the Internet Archive to surface a copy here. The subsequent 11-plus years have seen me revisit social-media privacy many times–along with such other perennial topics as data caps,...
This eruption took place between September 29, 2021 and March 7, 2023. No homes or infrastructure were threatened, and excellent views of her massive glowing, churning, flowing, fountaining lava lake were available from numerous overlooks along Kīlauea caldera rim for many months. The crater floor...
When I lived in Maine – many years ago – a friend made a bread dough in a blender and as I remember it, it was almost liquid and no kneading was required. He just poured it into a loaf pan and cooked it for about 30 minutes. It came out firm and sliced easily. It was terrifi...