#2: “The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream,” Orson Welles said. It is a dream that knows no earthly border. The whole world has treasured it, storing away the image of Fred Astaire gliding across a ballroom floor … Clark Gable sweeping Vivien Leigh up in his arms on a stairway […] Read more

“The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream,” Orson Welles said. It is a dream that knows no earthly border. The whole world has treasured it, storing away the image of Fred Astaire gliding across a ballroom floor … Clark Gable sweeping Vivien Leigh up in his arms on a stairway to […] Read more

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A new federal law gives you some minimal rights to protect your personal financial information. The law gives you the right to prevent a company you do business with from sharing or selling certain sensitive information to non-affiliated third parties. The term “opt-out” means that unless and until you inform your bank, credit card company, […] Read more

The painted sky tumultuous, curling up under the weight of memory, Splashes of unconnected paint littering the canvas of life but things weren’t getting much clearer.. Soaring eagles perched up and then they stared right down at me while I lay there, And then I felt the tide crawl in, felt the flicker of Bourbon […] Read more

In the past 150 years the tall grass prairie- the easternmost portion of the Great Plains – has been all but erased. Now, in the Flint Hills of Oklahoma, on land too rocky to plow, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy is transforming 37,000 acres of ranchland into the largest expanse of tall grass prairie yet set […] Read more

The interior attack is one of the most effective fireground tactics. But to succeed, it means getting inside the building fast. This frequently means forcing entry. In our first program, we discussed conventional forcible entry — that is, forcing entry by using a flathead axe — into a structure where access is locked, blocked, or […] Read more

The interior attack is one of the most effective fireground tactics. But to succeed, it means getting inside the building fast. This frequently means forcing entry. In our first program, we discussed conventional forcible entry — that is, forcing entry by using a flathead axe — into a structure where access is locked, blocked, or […] Read more

The Cerro Grande fire began as a “controlled burn”… Designed to limit the power of future wildfires by burning away brush from uninhabited rocky areas. But low humidity and sustained high winds of up 60 miles per hour — fed the flames and spread the fire over more than 47,000 acres. Today, about 60 percent […] Read more