Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, has pledged $50,000 to start The Public Interest and Rural Community Sustainability Fund to get law school students to the areas they are needed most.Ozarks At Large
Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, has pledged $50,000 to start The Public Interest and Rural Community Sustainability Fund to get law school students to the areas they are needed most.
Plus, Goveror Mike Beebe advocates for more broadband in Arkansas’ public schools. Roby Brock has more in this week’s TalkBusiness Arkansas Update.Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin faces a lawsuit after allegedly failing to comply with the state's Freedom of Information Act. Governor Mike Beebe calls on more lawmakers to think less about slashing taxes and more about providing essential services and projects for Arkansans. And a new partnership between the Clinton School of Public Service, Walton College of Business and Rockfish Interactive hopes to encourage students to pursue public service through entrepreneurship.
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we learn more about the number pi, albeit casually. Plus, we meet Penelope the pet skunk, and we visit Springdale's hidden treasure.
During a recent visit to the studio, Don't Stop Please performed an original song called Henry and the Great Salt Lake.Monday is Pi Approximation Day (a.k.a. Casual Pi Day) because when written in the day/month format (22/7) the date equals 3.14 or the mathematical constant known as pi (hooray math jokes!). In honor of the day, today's montage focuses on pi(e).
1. "American Pie" by Don McLean
2. Clip from The Three Stooges
3. Clip from the television show What Would You Do?
4. "Amore" by Dean Martin
5. Clip from the movie American Pie
6. "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
7. "The Worst Pies in London" from the movie adaptation of Sweeny Todd
8. Clip from The Life of Pi movie trailer.
9. Clip from the movie Blazing Saddles
10. "3.14 Apple Pi" by Bo Burnham
1. "American Pie" by Don McLean
2. Clip from The Three Stooges
3. Clip from the television show What Would You Do?
4. "Amore" by Dean Martin
5. Clip from the movie American Pie
6. "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
7. "The Worst Pies in London" from the movie adaptation of Sweeny Todd
8. Clip from The Life of Pi movie trailer.
9. Clip from the movie Blazing Saddles
10. "3.14 Apple Pi" by Bo Burnham
Becca Martin Brown gives us the scoop on a new exhibit in Fort Smith about Hattie Caraway, the first woman ever to serve as a U.S. Senator, featuring the writer formerly of Fayetteville.
Since the caves we've learned to avoid, at all cost, the stinkiest of Earth's creatures: the skunk. But one young Carroll County couple has bypassed all instinct to take abandoned and injured skunks into their home.To get more info on Casual Pi Day (22/7), we speak with our mathematics expert, Dr. Edmond Harris.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Don’t Stop Please is a band recently re-located to northwest Arkansas from central Arkansas. We asked them to bring all of their instruments to our studio. And some other musicians…young people involved with the Drum Corps International spend all day practicing, all night performing…and somewhere, somehow some time sleeping. Christina Thomas catches up with one DCI ensemble as they make their way through our part of the world.
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Eureka Pizza's Leverett Ave. store in Fayetteville is having solar panels installed on its roof this week by Sun City Solar.
"Pizza" by Ruth Wells
The Teen Action and Support Center in Rogers aims to encourage, empower, and connect teens in Northwest Arkansas. Their seventh annual Tour de Fun, a biking and running fundraiser, takes place in downtown Rogers this Saturday morning.
Jodi Beznoska has more on the Walton Arts Center’s Art of Wine festival, which begins this evening, as well as the second half of the Artosphere festival.
Two Democrats jump into the Arkansas Lieutenant Governor's race. ExxonMobil gets another extension on explaining why the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured in Mayflower. And Farm Bureau announces the 2013 Washington County Farm Family of the Year.
"You're A Wolf" by Sea Wolf
At an international media conference hosted by Walmart last week, reporters listened to U.S. and international division chiefs detail global proliferation and compliance deployment.
