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Umar, 31, is a serious Islamic scholar who has studied the Quran in the Middle East, Europe and India — but he’s also a native Californian, who is well-versed in social media and pop culture, and can connect with teens on their own terms, That pedigree is 18" x 18" pillow case square so suite ballet tutu dress slippers skirt flower crown angel wings barre decorator pillow rare — 85 percent of full-time, paid imams in the U.S, are foreign-born — but the demand for people like him is growing as American Muslim leaders look for ways to keep the religion relevant for young people in a secular country that cherishes freedom of expression..

Open your ‘Mindscapes’ at Valley Art Gallery. Valley Art Gallery’s “Mindscapes” exhibit, featuring the distinctive textured abstract paintings of Lu Buery, which runs through March 1. Buery layers paints, sand and gesso — a plaster-of-Paris-like blended paint — along with intertwining metallic forms with random streaks and shapes, to portray textures and patinas of bark, chipped paint, rusted iron and other surfaces. In addition to “Mindscapes” will be works from more than 100 other Bay Area artists on the gallery’s 30 rolling walls.

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Dorrance, 35, grew up in a house where movement and dance and extraordinary achievement were omnipresent. Her mother M’Liss Gary Dorrance was a long-time ballet dancer who founded and directed the Ballet School of Chapel Hill. Her father, Anson Dorrance, led the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to the World Cup in 1991 (and currently coaches the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team). Drawn to tap at an early age, Dorrance came under the wing of Gene Medler, a tap teacher with connections to the tradition’s pantheon of stars.