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Dance faculty from Interlochen Center for the Arts will hold dance auditions in 14 North American locations throughout January and February 2010.

The auditions will include ballet, pointe and modern technique. Participating students will be considered for admission to either of Interlochen's world-renowned educational programs: Interlochen Arts Camp and Interlochen Arts Academy.

Interested students and their families are invited to attend these open calls. Interlochen dance faculty will be available to answer questions as well. No pre-registration is necessary. Required audition dress for girls is black leotards and pink tights. Boys should wear white T-shirts and black tights.

The winter audition tour will kick-off January 9 in Boston and continues through February 21, 2010 in New York City. For a complete tour schedule including dates, locations and audition times and fees please visit www.interlochen.org/dance2010/?WT.mc_id=DanceAud_PRweb_Dec09

The dance program at Interlochen Center for the Arts offers students the opportunity to develop and grow in a positive and focused environment. At Interlochen Arts Camp, students in grades 6-12 choose a program that emphasizes either ballet or modern dance. Each three-week session culminates in a public performance.

Interlochen Arts Academy, a fine arts boarding high school (www.academy.interlochen.org), engages students artistically and academically. A ballet-based curriculum with additional emphasis in modern and jazz techniques encourages dancers to be versatile performers. Students and faculty stage three fully-produced dance concerts each year. College-prep academics foster cross-disciplinary thinking to prepare students for any professional endeavor.

Interlochen Arts Camp and Interlochen Arts Academy are part of the nonprofit Interlochen Center for the Arts, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the only organization in the world that brings together: a 2,500-student summer camp (www.camp.interlochen.org) program; a 500-student fine arts boarding high school; opportunities for hundreds of adults to engage in fulfilling artistic and creative programs; two 24-hour listener-supported public radio stations (classical music and news); more than 600 arts presentations annually by students, faculty and world-renowned guest artists; a global alumni base spans eight decades. For information, visit Interlochen online at www.interlochen.org.

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Better Homes and Gardens Network’s recently launched Recipe.com today announced a program for its Twitter followers. Everyone who becomes a follower of @Recipedotcom (http://www.twitter.com/recipedotcom) on Twitter between now and November 25, 2009, will receive a free eBook that includes 64 holiday recipes.

Followers of @Recipedotcom on Twitter will receive a direct message back with a link to a free eBook. The recipes also will be made available by registering with a valid email address at http://www.recipe.com/holidaymenus.

“All of the recipes in the eBook have been tested in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen,” said Jeff Myers, Vice President/General Manager of Special Interest Media. “This includes a variety of quick recipes and easy meal ideas -- including appetizers, salads, meats, potatoes, stuffings, side dishes, and desserts -- that can be mixed and matched to create great holiday menus.”

Consumers can also get additional holiday ideas at Recipe.com, including more than 20,000 of the best recipes from several of the top food brands and recipe websites. The new website has also added thousands more Thanksgiving recipes for dinner, dessert, and more, as well as Christmas recipes leading up to the holidays. These seasonal recipes are in addition to standard categories such as quick and easy chicken recipes, low calorie recipes, and healthy cooking recipes.

In addition to housing a wealth of branded recipes, Recipe.com has several additional features:

•    A photo accompanies every recipe on the site.

•    More than 2,300 different categories of recipes can be easily found and browsed, with the most popular recipes within each category being highlighted.

•    Real-time rankings of the day’s most popular recipes and recipe searches from the site are displayed on every page.

•    A weekly e-newsletter, Your Weekly Dish (https://secure.recipe.com/common/profile/quicksignupNewUser.jsp), features a variety of partner recipes in each edition.

•    Daily giveaways.

•    Twitter updates at http://www.twitter.com/recipedotcom

Better Homes and Gardens Network's Recipe.com, a new website launched just a few months ago, is featuring Thanksgiving recipes (http://www.recipe.com/recipes/thanksgiving/) that will ensure a festive and colorful holiday celebration. Its recipes for Thanksgiving turkey, turkey stuffing, Thanksgiving appetizers and Thanksgiving desserts are easy to make and suitable for cooks who prefer to do it all themselves or for family and friends.

"We're excited to present our first year of Thanksgiving recipes which have been contributed by the top food brands and recipe websites of celebrities and popular food media," said Jeff Myers, Vice President/General Manager of Special Interest Media. "Our staff has tested hundreds of Thanksgiving recipes. We are confident cooks will find everything they could possibly want on Recipe.com, from traditional recipes to recipes with completely new combinations of ingredients."

Because the Thanksgiving turkey (http://www.recipe.com/recipes/thanksgiving/turkey/) is the centerpiece of the holiday, Recipe.com has several different turkey recipes, including herb-roasted turkey, maple-brined turkey, orange-roasted turkey, and other unique ways of cooking the bird. There are also many variations for gravy--everything from Apple Herb Turkey Gravy to Cider Gravy to Herbed Pan Gravy. And as for turkey stuffing, Recipe.com includes recipes for Old-Time Stuffing, Pear Stuffing, Cranberry-Pecan Stuffing and Orange-Parsley Stuffing.

Thanksgiving appetizers (http://www.recipe.com/recipes/thanksgiving/appetizers/) always present an interesting situation--people are hungry but don't want to spoil their appetites. Chili pecans and curried cashews, two of the most popular appetizers on Recipe.com, address this quandary to perfection. These dishes are chewy and light with lots of flavor. For heartier Thanksgiving appetizers, there are recipes for Caramelized Onion and White Bean Flatbread, Chile con Queso and other robust offerings.

Many times Thanksgiving side dishes (http://www.recipe.com/recipes/thanksgiving/side-dishes/) provide the most menu discussion and debate. Many hosts suggest everyone bring their favorite side dish in a certain category. Recipe.com has more than enough to choose from, including the very unusual Roasted Fall Vegetables in Cheddar Crust, Cranberry Eggnog Rolls, Maple-Ginger Sweet Potatoes, and the traditional Green Bean Casserole.

Recipe.com has dozens of tempting Thanksgiving desserts (http://www.recipe.com/recipes/thanksgiving/desserts/), and the website has a photo accompanying each recipe to make the dessert decision a bit easier. There are recipes for Traditional Pumpkin Pie, adult-suitable Bourbon and Chocolate Pecan Pie, White-Chocolate-Chip Spice Cookies, Apple Confit and more.

For more Thanksgiving recipes and other updates, Recipe.com invites readers to follow them on Twitter at @Recipedotcom

From one of my writing "mentors" Michael Geffner:

Award winning song and children's book writer Nancy Vogl http://www.nancyvogl.com/Welcome.html Click here has a disabled granddaughter, Breanna, in need of surgery in New York in November.

Eight-year-old Breanna suffers from a rare affliction that robs her of all ability to move. The family is of meager means and requires help raising the funds to cover the surgery, their airfares, food and accommodations for the necessary trips to take advantage of the hospital and surgeon's kindness.

Nancy set up a website to introduce Breanna in hopes that she can generate at least some of the needed funds:

http://www.helpbreanna.com/HelpBreanna/Welcome.html

The walking craze hits a monumental peak with FitnessMagazine.com's "Walk Around the World in 31 Days" challenge. Whether doing Nordic walking or walking for weight loss and fitness, walkers are invited to join the party. At http://walk.fitnessmagazine.com/challenges, there is the option to participate as an individual or to get a group together and join as a team. Once you sign up, you can track your own daily progress online and check on the progress of the challenge.

"We know there are millions of walkers out on the streets and trails these days, and we want them all to sign up to walk the circumference of the globe together in 31 days," said Stephanie Jones Wagle, Site Director for FitnessMagazine.com. "Everyone is aware of the calories you can burn walking, and fall is the perfect time to update or start a walking program. We even have a section on the site where participants leave messages about their progress, which is motivating to other walkers."

FitnessMagazine.com provides information on all aspects of walking for exercise, such as a Nordic walking guide (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/cardio/walking/nordic-walking-guide/), that states even a beginning exerciser can burn up to 30 percent more calories while walking with poles. If walking for weight loss, the calories burned walking are about 500 per hour, almost as much as for running.

The benefits of walking are well known, but FitnessMagazine.com outlines how it also benefits the planet in its Walking Workouts for a Greener Planet (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/cardio/walking/walking-workouts-for-a-greener-planet/). By walking just 30 minutes a day instead of driving, we would save over eight billion gallons of gas a year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 82 million tons. And further, if just 10,000 people walked only five miles per week instead of driving, we would eliminate the carbon dioxide emissions created by over 200 cars.

Although walking off 10 pounds in one month (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/cardio/walking/walk-off-10-pounds-this-month/) can sound like a significant challenge, FitnessMagazine.com provides three fitness walking workouts that make it much easier. It even outlines a day-by-day, week-by-week fitness walking plan with specific timing for each different recommended style of walking.

For more tips for beginning or updating a fitness walking program, walkers can find more information at http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/cardio/walking/.

Women are invited to ask questions, swap advice, and share information with members of the Fitness Magazine community on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/fitnessmag. Tweeters can get daily meal ideas, exercises, and news from our editors on the go by following Fitness Magazine at: http://twitter.com/fitnessmagazine.

SpellSpace.com (http://spellspace.com), the premier site for free Tarot readings and beautifully crafted Spells, can now be shared with friends. Right now. Online. Real-time. What was once a solitary experience as an impersonal web site on the vast Internet is now a fun, easy-to-use and entirely interactive adventure with friends, new and old. It's never been easier to find new friends, share a psychic profile and chat during a marvelously accurate reading.

A completely unique and addicting website that debuted October 2007, SpellSpace.com continues to astonish visitors with unbelievably useful psychic services for free. Members can now view others' psychic profiles, displaying horoscope compatibility, last saved Tarot reading, recommended Spell, psychic karma trend, a descriptive "Me Word," and Tarot knowledge. If intrigued by someone's profile, they can invite that person to join their Tarot Room®. Where visitors and "voyeurs" can view their reading, chat and participate in its insights. Each reading reveals elegant spell recommendations from the metaphysical SpellStore (http://spellspace.com?ReDirPage=/Spellstore/?Internal=True) designed to enhance love, work situation, or even luck, along with other magical products.

Whether a connoisseur, apprentice or novice, anyone can join a public Tarot Room®. Readings are saved to observe how accurate they were, build a "psychic trend" and to evaluate how love life, work or relationships are progressing.

SpellSpace.com (http://spellspace.com) combines cutting-edge technology with elegance, beauty and psychic power to unleash the ancient art of tarot. Our most loyal members already love SpellSpace and were anxious to try out the new interactive Tarot Rooms®. Here are a few comments:

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SpellSpace.com is available in both English and Spanish (http://spellspace.com/default_ES.aspx), where each person in the same Tarot Room® sees the reading in their native language, a truly international experience. SpellSpace.com is also announcing a special Tarot Room® Day event on September 28, 2009 at 5pm PST where members will meet-up, find new friends, join rooms, chat and be eligible to win prizes, more details can be found at the website.

So no matter what language, whether a believer or non-believer, a Tarot expert or rank amateur, or if just plain curious, visitors continue to discover an artistic, and now truly interactive place to explore Tarot, astrology and beautiful spells with no back-room ripoffs or impersonal, empty web sites to worry about. SpellSpace.com (http://spellspace.com): now the only place on the Web for "Interactive" Tarot and spells.

With daily sweepstakes offering a chance to win fitness gear and content updated daily, FitnessMagazine.com (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/) is fast becoming a website women visit on a daily basis. It also has loads of healthy recipes, a suggested daily workout routine and fitness tips for women at any level.

"We're really excited and gratified that women are coming to us on a daily basis to become motivated and get suggestions for daily exercise and food," said Stephanie Jones Wagle, Site Director for FitnessMagazine.com. "Our Facebook content is proving especially popular, too, with our community sharing their daily workout routine and daily motivation quotes. And it's a chance for women to let us know what they are looking for so we can provide what best suits their fitness needs."

For the opportunity to win fitness gear in the FitnessMagazine.com sweepstakes, women can go to http://win.FitnessMagazine.com on a daily basis. Prizes include several different types of shoes, fitness clothing, exercise accessories and more.

Among the site sections that women are visiting on a daily basis on FitnessMagazine.com, the most popular are:

Healthy recipes (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/) are where women find ideas for easy, healthy meals that take advantage of food that's in season. There is information about grocery shopping and suggestions for which foods to buy and which ones to stay away from to stay fit and save money, along with a quick and easy guide to the healthiest foods in the grocery store.

Women wanting to follow a daily workout routine (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/tips/) find exercises for every area of the body, which they can mix and match to create fresh new workouts. There are videos and photos that make putting together a daily routine easy and flexible. Women interested in specific workouts, such as running and yoga, find in-depth training information and routines.

Women are invited to ask questions, swap advice, and share information with members of the Fitness Magazine community on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/fitnessmag

Tweeters can get daily meal ideas, exercises, and news from our editors on the go by following Fitness Magazine at: http://twitter.com/fitnessmagazine

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