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When I opened my eyes Ursa Major was rearing up, or standing on his head upon the brightening horizon, just beyond my windowpane, just a few steps beyond my right eye.
& late in the wee hours the stars, all of them, spilled over me with a sound like a…
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Tumblr Tuesday: National Poetry Month
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Poetry chops, dogs, goats. It’s so nice to see a person really can have it all.Sorry, I’m Not Here Right Now (sorryimnothererightnow)
Two buddies created the ultimate poetry buddy project: reciting their favorite poems on each other’s voicemail every day for all of National Poetry Month. Isn’t April nice?Rap Poems (rappoems)
There once were some lyrics by Drake
Photoshopped overtop a landscape
It looked really poetic
And very aesthetic
At least if you’re totally bakedNYC Haiku (thenychaiku)
New York’s guilt and shame in seventeen syllables. This is a haiku.Visual Code Poems (visualcodepoems)
Possible evidence that the computers have learned emotion and are trying to communicate with poetry.Images showcasing Drake’s feelings and Big Sean’s denial about giving a fuck via rappoems
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Since starting her small lemonade stand last spring, 5-year-old Na'ama Uzan has raised more than $25,000, all of which will go to support her brother’s neurological disability. Her brother, Nadav, has Angelman Syndrome, a rare disability that has made it difficult for him to walk and speak. The 7-year-old boy also suffers from frequent seizures.
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Just Broadcast: Alan Cumming on the larger message of Cabaret:
“The reason we’re doing it again is that it has something to say. It’s about the rise of Nazism and the fact that if you’re not incredibly vigilant, oppression of some kind can slowly creep up and take over. I think the way that the show is fun and sexy and hilarious — then it slowly goes dark, you, as an audience member have kind of become complicit in that, and that mirrors the way you see Nazism creeping in. People think, "Oh, it’ll be fine, don’t worry, it’ll go away.” And then slowly it doesn’t, and then it’s too late.“
Close to Her Heart | Angelina Jolie, Inscribed with the Opening Lines from Unbroken
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Photograph by Mario Testino.
npr:
Several years ago, South Carolina had a problem: a shortage of skilled workers and no good way to train young people for the workforce. So at a time when apprenticeship programs were in decline in the U.S., the state started a program called Apprenticeship Carolina.
“We were really, really squarely well-positioned at the bottom,” says Brad Neese, the program’s director.
From the beginning, South Carolina took apprenticeship beyond the building trades — that’s the traditional route for apprentices — to fields like nursing, pharmacy and IT. As the number of apprenticeship programs has fallen nationwide, it has taken off in South Carolina.
In South Carolina, A Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work
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The morning commute is a little different at Yellowstone National Park. Cameron Patrick captured this photo on a cold morning — just after the bison herd had waded through a river along side the road. The bisons’ body heat caused the water to turn to steam in the cold air, creating the mist around the bison.
