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— —Samuel Pisar, from an excellent Op-Ed in The New York Times titled "Out of Auschwitz"
Trent Gilliss, online editor
-from "My Turn: Bill Gates on Education and Innovation" in the recent edition of Newsweek.
This brief commentary by Bill Gates' nicely accentuates a point made by Jacqueline Novogratz for our show to be released this Thursday (via podcast). She sees an opportunity for social investors to take risks in these unattractive markets abroad that actually might serve as new models for how we operate here in the States.
Perhaps this experimental work is going on now in more places than many of us realize. It's just not funded properly or recognized. More directly, I'm thinking of two recent conversations we've had with Adele Diamond and Mike Rose. Both are challenging the stagnation in the U.S. education system that Gates' later mentions — Diamond couples scientific knowledge of the brain with observations of children in classroom settings; Rose pairs his decades of teaching and education at all levels with his conversations with folks in all parts of the country.
Are we really listening and paying attention to what's going on in our backyard (including Canada)? And, how are we willing to give those ideas a fighting chance of going mainstream?
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, whom we first interviewed for our program "Living Vodou," grew up in Haiti, a member of the country's aristocratic elite of African descent. He studied political science in the U.S. and earned his Ph.D. in International Relations from American University. Unlike his well-known grandfather, Dantès Bellegarde, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith was first drawn to his homeland's indigenous religion as a way to understand his cultural identity, and later became a oungan.
The professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee responds to our questions about Haiti's history, the mass media's reporting, and Vodou's role in recovery:
I find myself wanting to hear about the context and perspective that only you can bring to the way Haiti is being viewed and discussed while the earthquake spotlight is on it. What are your thoughts?
I am running on adrenaline at this moment, often unthinking, unfeeling, "zombie-like." I didn't sleep for the first several days. A Haitian baby girl, 15 days old, was found alive and well after seven days. Half her life! What stamina shown by the buried, the undead, after one week after the cataclysm.
The UN says that it is the worst disaster it has faced, presumably in terms of actual death and refugees in a single country. It is the worst earthquake in Haitian history, in a country and in a geographic/geologic area that was literally created from fault lines and tectonic plates and volcanoes. When earthquakes occurred in the 19th century, Haiti picked itself up and rebuilt itself, without assistance from the outside world. We do acknowledge that we need it this time, and hope that Haiti will rebuild based on Haitian models, at the direction of Haitian governments, with all that Haiti has in terms of a reservoir of talent both inside and outside the country.
When you say that you hope Haiti will rebuild based on Haitian models, what do you mean? Are there certain examples you're thinking of?
Haitian models abound in all fields, areas, and systems of life. The culture provides with indigenous models of development, as well as indigenous patterns of housing development, some predating European colonization of the island of Haiti (Hispaniola), e.g. Amerindian sources. The "Miami model" now found throughout the Caribbean insists on low houses, flat cement cement roofs, and the like, which do not accord with the environment.
Other more "settled cultures" have improvised upon their legacy, while Haiti has opted for a pale imitation of American standards all too often. In the same way that our art is distinctive and derived from our religion, our housing and our cities can also be creative and innovative within our own traditions and foundations. Hence, my call for all architects and engineers to come together to rebuild Port-au-Prince.
Port-au-Prince had eathquakes in the 1860s and 1950s. It was rebuilt. The second city of 500,000 inhabitants, Cap-Haïtien, was destroyed in 1842. It was rebuilt.
There's been so much non-stop coverage of Haiti since the first earthquake devastated the country where you grew up. I saw a series of reports on one news channel and its website that featured a reporter standing outside of a Catholic church…
Haiti has always been "defined" as 60 percent Catholic, 40 percent Protestant, but 100 percent Vodou. This recognizes that the national religion is part of a worldview that belongs to all Haitians, and for which all Haitians should be proud. Typically, we can and do worship in churches, temples, and ounfos, realizing that it's all about "spirit" and that all spiritual disciplines have access to the spiritual world.
Vodou is merely the culturally Haitian form of such worship. Haitian music, painting, oral literature — all systems inherently found in all cultures — have a Vodou foundation at its base. Much the same as the Judeo-Christian ethos suffuses all that is American, even those millions of Americans who are atheists.
…and the report would cut away to shots of Haitians worshiping while the correspondent continued to talk somewhat off-the-cuff. I thought, "Why aren't they speaking to more people and featuring their voices on camera — even if they need interpreters?" What's been missed in U.S. coverage of Haiti and its cultural/religious/spiritual moorings?
Much is missing from the American reportage by media. American media, all together now, refuse to mention that the first responders were more than 400 Cuban doctors doing good work in Haiti for several years. American media are not reporting that Venezuelan and Cuban help is being resisted by the U.S. when Cuba and Venezuela are very significant allies of Haiti for the past 200 years — for the past 100 years, depending on when these countries achieved independence.
The emphasis was not on water or food, but on landing 12,000 American soldiers in Haiti. Why so many soldiers? Please explain. Haitians are refusing to oblige American reporters who insist that Haiti will have "riots" and that Haitians "loot." Is it because Haitians are black? The same arguments were made about New Orleans during Katrina. Racism always remains true to itself. When will that stop, coming from people who are genuine in their desire to help, but remain racist nonetheless. Please stop!
As someone whose personal history represents the many layers of Haitian cultural, political, and religious identity, how are these events impacting you personally?
I have lost nine members of my extended family. Cousins of my generation have all survived, but their five homes have collapsed. One cousin in her mid-60s is sleeping in her car with her gravely ill husband. I have yet, as of today, been unable to call. News is intermittent. I am distressed and distraught.
I remember Port-au-Prince in the late 1940s and 1950s — une ville jardin, a garden city with abundant greenery and water, a small population of 150,000. I am well-born and come from a well-connected family whose story parallels Haitian history over the last two centuries. Every corpse is mine; every body is mine. Their spirit fuses with mine and that of all Haitians. Spirits live beyond death — and before birth. The dead are not dead, but alive in new dimensions. I gain solace from that ancestral thought.
That sentiment — "the dead are not dead" — reminds me of a line from Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti: "The future stems from the past, so life and death become one in the same." Could you say more about the Vodou understanding of spirit and energy and not wasting the wisdom of one's ancestors? And how might this Vodou worldview inform a Haitian approach to rebuilding the country?
The Gede family of spirits protect the cemetery, and also protect new life in a never-ending chain. The Gede love children, reminiscent of the relationship one often finds between grandparents and grandchildren. One's past predicts tendencies for certain outcomes, yet, through the exercise of free will, one can transcend one's limits.
In traditional African thought, as in most spiritual systems, reincarnation is taken for granted, though attenuated in Haiti by the impact of Christianity. Hence the lack of a heaven and a hell, yet alone a purgatory or, in pre-John Paul II times, a limbo. Souls are nearer than we realize, and their interaction with the "living," generally beneficent. No energy goes a-wasting in a close universe!
The way one interacts with fellow beings on the planet is far more significant (and rewarding) than the way one might interact with the spirit world or with God for that matter. At critical points in our lives' journeys, God shall not ask about our beliefs or treatment of "It," but how we have managed our relationships with humans and other facets of nature alike.
In what ways are you seeing your local community and, perhaps, larger Haitian-American community coming together during these times?
Haiti was in the process of reinventing itself politically, socially, culturally. Now Haiti has to reinvent itself physically as well. Out of tremendous pain, rays of hope. We rebuilt after past earthquakes, after hurricanes. We are spared the scourge of volcanic eruptions; our sister English and French colonies in the Caribbean, Monserrat and Martinique, did not escape volcanoes that are at the foundations of our countries.
The Haitian diaspora, more than a million strong, will come to the rescue. This signal event forces us to come into action. "L'Union Fait la Force" ("Union Makes Strength"), the national motto of Haiti must be practiced or else the international community will dictate the terms of Haiti's "recovery." And worse will follow!
As a Vodou priest, how has the spirit world been present during the aftermath?
Haiti needs all its ancestral spirits, now more than ever. Praise the Lwa.
You began this interview by sharing the remarkable story of a 15-day-old baby surviving the quake. How do stories like this inform your notions of the human spirit? Of what Haiti's future might hold and look like?
Her spirit is strong, and I would hope that she was spared to produce great things in her lifetime. This is one of many miracles we have been fortunate to witness over the last 12 days! That girl, name unknown, has proven as resilient as Haiti herself.
Who might have predicted that Haiti would have survived 206 years when faced by the opprobrium of the Western powers? In defiance, we cry out, "nou met led me nou la (we may be ugly, but we are here)!"
Kaeti Hinck, guest contributor
I'm not a narcissist. But Clay Shirky thinks I should be.
The media critic recently posted a controversy-mongering blog titled "A Rant About Women," the premise being that women would do well to act more like men — stand up for themselves more and do what it takes to get ahead, even if it means being a "pompous blowhard":
[Women] are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so. Whatever bad things you can say about those behaviors, you can't say they are underrepresented among people who have changed the world.
Reading Shirky's rant certainly doesn't surprise from a gender standpoint. Most women have heard it our whole lives: Be more like men, even if said men are glorifying and rewarding reprehensible behavior.
What gives me pause is that Shirky, like so many of our "thought leaders," isn't leading at all, rather, willingly following the cultural trend of less substance and more self-aggrandizement, less selflessness and more LOOK AT ME HEY OVER HERE. So because that's the way our culture is heading, we should equip ourselves to be better narcissists? As if we needed any help in that arena.
I see this less as a gender issue, though that is undoubtedly a factor, and more as a dangerous societal shift. We should be challenging a system that exalts arrogant self-promotion and "being discovered" over the actual work of making things better. Instead, Shirky critiques the behavior of people (not just women) who refuse to kowtow to this path of least resistance. Anna North at Jezebel said it well:
Shirky writes, "in an ideal future, self-promotion will be a skill that produces disproportionate rewards, and if skill at self-promotion remains disproportionately male, those rewards will as well. This isn't because of oppression, it's because of freedom." Shirky has an idealistic view of self-promotion — he also thinks it's a marker of a variety of other skills, about which I'm very skeptical (see above). Others take a dimmer view: it's a dog-eat-dog world, and women had better transform themselves into better dog-eaters. This "change-yourself-to-fit-in" advice has been given to pretty much every marginalized group over the years …
Those who are marginalized by a system are often those best able to see its flaws, and teaching those people just to work around their marginalization is a great way to keep them quiet, and to keep anything from ever changing. Let's not fall for it.
This "self promotion equals greater rewards" system is not a future we should embrace willingly. In fact, it's a pretty dismal picture of humanity where navel gazing and notoriety inform our fundamental identities.
To Shirky's credit, I think it's a fair point that we need to stand up for our work and make our voices heard (not just women, but especially women). But I think it's unproductive, not to mention morally suspect, to do so because we hope to "get famous five years from now." And I can't believe that the loudest blowhards in the room are the ones doing the real work of changing the world. They're too busy talking about the work — or themselves — to actually get down to doing it. Why should we emulate their behavior?
As North said in her response: "'The squeaky wheel gets the grease' is a s**tty way to run a world."
She's right. So how do we cut through the clamor of self-promotion and elevate the people and voices that are doing the often-thankless work of making the world better?
Ms. Hinck is a multimedia journalist and editor living in Saint Paul, Minnesota. You can read her blog Brain Popcorn and follow her on Twitter.
Andy Dayton, associate web producer
"This is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story."
Last Friday, Krista sent around David Brooks' recent editorial on the disaster in Haiti. As the quote above suggests, he discusses the connection between the scale of damage in Haiti and the nation's "poorly constructed buildings, bad infrastructure and terrible public services."
One of the many questions the situation in Haiti raises is how those in wealthier nations can help prevent this sort of catastrophe in the future. Brooks provides his own diagnosis on effective foreign aid, based on a few domestic examples:
In [the U.S.], we first tried to tackle poverty by throwing money at it, just as we did abroad. Then we tried microcommunity efforts, just as we did abroad. But the programs that really work involve intrusive paternalism.
These programs, like the Harlem Children's Zone and the No Excuses schools, are led by people who figure they don't understand all the factors that have contributed to poverty, but they don't care. They are going to replace parts of the local culture with a highly demanding, highly intensive culture of achievement — involving everything from new child-rearing practices to stricter schools to better job performance.It's time to take that approach abroad, too. It's time to find self-confident local leaders who will create No Excuses countercultures in places like Haiti, surrounding people — maybe just in a neighborhood or a school — with middle-class assumptions, an achievement ethos and tough, measurable demands.
As I read this, I couldn't help but hear Binyavanga Wainaina's voice in the back of my mind, whom Krista spoke to in our program "The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective." Wainaina is a Kenyan writer who has often been a vocal critic of foreign aid:
A lot of people arrive in Africa to assume that it's a blank empty space and their goodwill and desire and guilt will fix it. And that to me is not any different from the first people who arrived and colonized us. This power, this power to help, is just about as dangerous as hard power, because very often it arrives with a kind of zeal that is assuming 'I will do it. I will solve it for you. I will fix it for you,' and it rides roughshod over your own best efforts.
I find Brooks' call for "intrusive paternalism" hard to reconcile with Wainaina's warnings about the "soft power" of foreign aid. But, the question still remains — what can we do to help prevent another Haiti?
One possible answer to that question comes from next week's guest, Jacqueline Novogratz, who speaks of an approach to foreign aid that uses "a hard head and a soft heart." She's the CEO and founder of the Acumen Fund, which aims to combine the economic accountability of venture capital with the human-centric concerns of traditional philanthropy — an approach that is innovative, but also comes with its own questions.
—from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (translation by M.D. Herter Norton), which was cited by Jacqueline Novogratz in her interview with Krista for next week's program, "A Different Kind of Capitalism."
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Colleen Scheck, senior producer
The vital work of our talented colleagues at American RadioWorks (ARW) is on my mind for a number of reasons. It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and I'm reminded of their 2008 documentary, "King's Last March." I thought I knew a lot about the celebrated civil rights leader, but this program offers insight into his person that I haven't heard elsewhere. It explores why a more pessimistic King chose a path of "deeper difficulty and greater risk" in his last year of life, and includes both familiar and lesser-known archival audio (check out Trent's reflection from a few years ago for an audio example). There are many ways to reflect on the legacy of King. For me, one way is to have a better understanding of who he really was at various points in his life. This doc does that very well.
Also, as we continue to receive many thoughtful stories in response to our show with Mike Rose about the meaning of intelligence, I'm reminded of ARW's more recent offering "Workplace U." It's not a university but a movement to merge workplace and classroom that may offer low-income workers more opportunity for success than traditional educational models. There's some real-world examples here that compliment Mike Rose's perspective.
Finally, ARW just received one of broadcast journalism's highest honors, a 2010 duPont-Columbia award, for "What Killed Sergeant Gray" — a doc that delves into the connection between the use of torture in Iraq to PTSD in soldiers who abuse. Darius Rejali, whose expertise on the history and impact of torture we explored in "The Long Shadow of Torture" last June, is included here too.
I know I sound overly promotional here, but I would not mention these programs if I didn't think you would find them compelling, meaningful, and complementary to some of the topics we've presented in the past year. They are part of the best of documentary journalism.
Nancy Rosenbaum, associate producer
Sending around news articles is a regular part of workaday life here at Speaking of Faith. This AP story includes a quote from Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, who was featured in our program on Haitian Vodou:
Brazil army officials issued a statement saying many followers of the Voodoo religion would not accept the dead being touched until all of their rituals were concluded. Some experts on the faith validated the claim while others rejected it.
Voodoo, a mix of African religions and Roman Catholicism, is central to Haitian life and is widely observed in some form. The religion often has been wrongly associated with black magic or sorcery, leaving a lingering stereotype against its followers.
But suggestions that survivors are stacking corpses outside Port-au-Prince hospitals because they are waiting for a Voodoo ceremony is inaccurate, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, an expert on Haitian Voodoo, also spelled Vodou, in the department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"None of what the Brazilian authorities say makes any sense," Bellegarde-Smith said in a Thursday e-mail. "They are absolutely wrong! Most Haitians, though they believe in Vodou, are devoted Catholics or Protestants."
With the earthquake in Haiti on everyone's minds, Trent blogged about our show on the morality of nature with geologist Jelle de Boer. His post sparked a spirited exchange on our Facebook page. Krista also cited Jelle de Boer in her conversation from this past year with geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon. Le Pichon's perspective is sobering:
Ms. Tippett: When something like that happens that was so catastrophic, so many people died, you know, this question is raised of this magnitude of suffering and this "where is God?" question. And somehow this Jelle de Boer, he talked about how with a long view of time and nature, that plate tectonics are what restore life over time. He said life is directly dependent on these geological processes, that we don't know that other planets have this type of plate tectonics or these extensive oceans and that's probably why there may not be life there. He said here we are, lucky. "We're lucky because of these processes where the plates separate and crack and where they run over each and crack and as a consequence of that magmas form at deep levels in the earth. They are brought to the surface and they bring not only nutrients but also water and that is the essence of life." I mean, it's this long view of life.
Mr. Le Pichon: Yes. This is perfectly true, but if, for example, I look at controversy between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire immediately after the Lisbon earthquake. Voltaire said, "How can that be a good God that is letting these hundreds of thousands of people being killed by the earthquake?" and so on. And the answer of Rousseau was, "Look, God created them as people living in the forest and so on and if they had still been living in the forest instead of building huge buildings in which they lived, there would have been barely anybody killed."
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Le Pichon: So it's the way man has chosen to live that is creating that. At the present time we have, for example, half of the mega-poles, there's more than 10 million people who are close to plate boundaries. And we have chosen to put them there. When I was an associate professor in Tokyo University, it was at the time of the Kobe earthquake. They had a big discussion about should we move Tokyo? You know, it's a very dangerous place.
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Mr. Le Pichon: It was a very serious discussion. Should we move it to the west? It's true, they put it in one of the most dangerous places that is. That is the challenge of humanity. We are now 6 billion and a half people, and clearly without science and technology we cannot live anymore. I mean, science and technology is essential. But at the same time, we have chosen certain ways of life in which we did not have time yet to test our reaction to the environment, and we have this problem to deal with — how are we going to tackle the problem of completely new implementations which are not environment tested? That's one of the big challenges of the future.
Kate Moos, managing producer
No one has ever accused me of being fashion-forward. Neither will I ever willingly join a conversation on the relative merits of mascara brands. Nonetheless, I was completely entertained by Courtney Wilder's essay on Sightings about a blog that enjoins women clergy to navigate the occasionally fine line between professional dress and excessive *hot-ness* as church leaders.
Wilder draws our attention to Beauty Tips for Ministers by Reverend Victoria Weinstein, aka PeaceBang. Here's a sample of her sassy, bossy tone:
A couple years back I got a letter from an apparently very attractive aspirant to the ministry who raved on and on about how she was just TOO PRETTY to be accepted as a clergyperson and that was why she had failed in her various attempts to achieve ordained status.
At the time I thought to myself, "Chickie here has a lot of serious issues, and being 'too pretty' may indeed be one of them, but let's file this thought away for further reflection until I hear from a more grounded person about the reality of being too beautiful for ministry."
And lo, that time has come, pigeons. While I know of several movie-star handsome men in the clergy whose Hotness does not seem to prevent them from being taken seriously, I have now collected several stories of female clergy being taken aside by male superiors and told that their beauty or sexiness is "distracting" and a serious problem.
What shall we call this?
Plain and simple.
If a man is distracted by his completely appropriately-dressed female minister's beauty and sexiness, that's his gadnapped problem. The Biblical name for that problem is lust, I do believe. The cultural name for it is objectification. I say "Work on it with your spiritual director, Senior Pastor Horndog."
Krista Tippett, host
As I've listened to all the noise around intelligence- gathering and airport security in response to the attempted Christmas Day terrorist act, Ed Husain's voice has been ringing in my ears. Not that we don't need to think about intelligence and security — we do — but do we spend a corresponding amount of energy and planning on how to prevent a viral terrorist mindset that is a feature of our time?
That's the world Ed Husain knows, and narrowly escaped from. Al Qaeda, he says, is not the real enemy the West and most Muslims in the world have in common. Here's what he means by that:
"… It must be said that al-Qaeda is just a name. It's really a mindset that we must be tackling — a literalist, rejectionist, Islamist worldview. And not necessarily al-Qaeda as an organization because that can become defunct, but those ideas still remain. So it's not a war on terror as the American government has gone out of its way to suggest, but it's actually a battle of ideas."
We're putting Ed Husain's introduction to that battle of ideas on the air again this week. His insights have never felt more relevant, illuminating, and prescient.
Krista Tippett, host
Wonderful reactions to our show on the meaning of intelligence with Mike Rose. Here's a line from his book Why School?, which didn't make it into my interview or the script, but that I love:
We are driven — as surely as we are driven to survive — to find meaning in our lives, to interpret what befalls us, the events that swirl around us, the people who cross our paths, the objects and rhythms of the natural world. We do this instinctively; it is essential to being human. So we do it with or without education. But we are getting educated all the time, of course: by family, community, teachers, pals, bullies, and saints.
I've been on a bit of a trajectory of realization about that process — of being educated in not-so-obvious places — through my conversation this past fall with Adele Diamond, and now Mike Rose. They've given me a whole new appreciation for aspects of my experience that I had always characterized as on the sidelines of my education — debate teams and theater productions and choirs that kept me thinking and creative even as I was woefully under-challenged by schools in a small town in Oklahoma where advanced classes in everything were cut to keep up the football budget.
I've told myself that I had a failed primary and secondary educational experience. Now I can glorify joyful and energizing possibilities that did come my way with the word "education." Adele Diamond even gives me scientific language to explain the fact that debate and drama quite legitimately gave me the tools to "learn how to learn" and to use what I learn into the present.
I'm also watching my children's education with new eyes in ways that surprise me. I'm grasping why my daughter's two years in a Waldorf School were so fundamentally transformative. Waldorf's focus on storytelling, drama, handiwork, and music could come prescribed from the new science that Adele is part of. But I'm even appreciating my son's touch football games where so much negotiation and strategizing goes on alongside the physical.
And so life, and education, come full circle.
— Michael Sanchez, a chemical engineer living in upstate New York who grew up on a farm in east Texas, in his lovely reflection on "The Meaning of Intelligence."
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Chris Heagle, producer/technical director
As we listened to the rough version of this week's show with Mike Rose, the idea came up to drop one of the readings, which describes working in a restaurant from the server's point of view and what it takes to be a good waitress. Sure, the reading was evocative, but we realized that since Mike spoke with such detail in our interview about his mother's waitressing career, we might have the makings for a little sound montage. What would happen if we cut his descriptions up a bit and added some found sound of a working diner to layer in?
Fortunately for us, our studios are located two blocks from a classic American diner: Mickey's Dining Car. A last-minute lunch was arranged and we were off to get chocolate malts and collect sounds.
When I am out looking for ambient sound for a piece, I try to think in layers, much in the same way a composer would approach a blank sheet of staff paper, and I get as many elements as possible. I know I'm going to need a foundation, something to provide continuity and serve as a base on which to add accents.
In this case, it was simply burgers frying and the din of (hopefully) unintelligible conversations. Short sections of this audio were looped to establish a steady, continuous sense of the location. With that layer in place, I added our interview clips and searched for accents from the location recording that could help support his points — things our waitress said, plates clattering, or the the ringing of the old-time cash register.
All of this seemed to work fairly well, but we also needed a bridge to take us in and out of that location. The solution came from my music choice for the original reading — the fifth movement from Bach's Partita No. 5. Weaving in this music helped create the sense of a dance and melded well with Mike Rose's descriptions, which, to me, really illustrated the marriage of precision and creativity that is present in those who excel at restaurant service.
+ LISTEN (here is a bit of the raw audio I recorded at Mickey's Diner)
+ LISTEN (and here is the finished piece from the show).
Colleen Scheck, Producer
This week's program "Approaching Prayer" is on my list of SOF classics. It's a busy program: three interviews, readings and poetry, chants and music, biblical stories and Rilke quotes.
I love Anoushka Shankar's description of Hinduism's connection to nature and how prayer is about sound as much as words. I appreciate Stephen Mitchell's story of how encountering the Book of Job was a "spiritual riddle" for him — a form of prayer. And I'm drawn to Roberta Bondi's generous philosophy of prayer: "However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family."
This program always makes me reflect on what I consider prayer to be in my life. I'm reminded this time of the pocket prayers I keep in my wallet — the Irish Blessing (my heritage) and the Serenity Prayer (authored by Niebuhr, popularized in addiction recovery programs, cherished by me for its simple, versatile message to consider what is and isn't in my control on a daily basis):
My guess is many of you have pocket "prayers" that you keep with you — hanging on a wall, stapled in a hall; tattooed on your chest, knitted within a crest; stuck to the bumper of a car, in restroom of a bar; on a church, or a yurt; whatever shape to which it may convert.
We'd love to see them and know how they reflect creative and generous approaches to prayer. You can submit your images a couple of ways:
Trent Gilliss, online editor
Saw this over the weekend in the London Times and thought it was worth sharing for those of you who missed it.
Quite some time ago, we chose Marc Chagall's "La Crucifixion Blanche" (1938) as the lead image for our program, "The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story" with our guest, Joel Marcus. "White Crucifixion" is the first in a series of Chagall's major crucifixion paintings in which he focused on the persecution of his fellow Jews by Hitler and the Nazis through depictions of Jesus dying on the cross and his essential Jewish nature. (Ziva Amishai-Maisels' exploration of Chagall's painting is a good starting point for better understanding the nuanced detail and subtle narrative devices used in "White Crucifixion.")
Chagall's series has been pretty thoroughly documented and well-catalogued — until October of last year.
A previously unknown 1945 gouache painted by the French-Russian artist while living in New York surfaced in a recent auction in Paris. Keeping it on the down-low, the London Jewish Museum of Art purchased "Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio" for the relatively paltry sum of 30,000 euros, about $43,000. The small museum kept it quiet so that major museums and other collectors wouldn't bid up the price.
And, now, after all these years in hiding, the painting will be displayed in London this coming week. What a treasure for the public to behold.
("White Crucifixion" courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, a gift of Alfred S. Alschuler)
— from the essay "On Prayer" by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Joseph Coen, a listener in Valley Stream, New York, wrote to us with a similar version of this Heschel quote. Coen first encountered Heschel's words on a prayer card he received at a retreat, and they continue to speak to him years later. For me, Heschel's reflections on prayer resonated with our New Year's weekend broadcast, "Approaching Prayer" featuring musician Anoushka Shankar, writer/translator Stephen Mitchell, and religion scholar Roberta Bondi.
Nancy Rosenbaum, associate producer
Trent Gilliss, online editor
We've all read the stories about how the economic collapse has left no institution or business untouched. Rick Warren, a close friend of business management and leadership guru Peter Drucker, and his Saddleback Church of 22,000 members are no exception.
A couple of days before the end of 2009, Warren sent an "urgent letter" to his church members trying to raise $900,000 before the end of the calendar year:
"With 10% of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated. Still, with wise management, we've stayed close to our budget all year. Then… this last weekend the bottom dropped out.
On the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive - leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year, unless you help make up the difference today and tomorrow."
The response: more than $2.4 million in donations from thousands of folks from te megachurch in southern California.
—Kathleen Taylor, a professor at St. Mary's College of California, as quoted in "How to Train the Aging Brain."
I rather enjoyed this observation and the additive notion of our brains growing older and not just simply deteriorating. And, by regularly jarring our brains with a "disorienting dilemma" (which I hope we accomplish with the many voices on SOF), we can probe and add to that depth and interconnectedness of knowledge.
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This is the fifth post in the Building a Roguelike in Javascript series. I recommend you start at the beginning unless you've been following along. This part corresponds to the fourth part in Trystan's series. All the code for this part can be found at the part 4 tag of the jsrogue repository. At the time of writing, I am still using the d4ea2ab commit for rot.js.

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Working with TitaniumThursday, March 14th, 2013
We wrote about steel the other day, and how the accepted wisdom regarding steel tube sets simply doesn't match the reality. Today, we want to address titanium. Interestingly, while riders have believed for years that the type of steel a frame is made from is supremely important (we agree), they have simultaneously assumed that titanium is just titanium, that it's all the same.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Seven uses mainly US-milled, Cold Worked – Stress Relieved (CWSR) titanium in our custom frames. We do that because no other titanium available today has a longer fatigue life or higher tensile strength. We know that's true because we have a fatigue tester here in our shop and regularly submit tubes to rigorous testing. Pushing materials to their breaking point is a great way of finding out how good they are, and our research indicates that the titanium we source is the strongest available and maintains that strength over significantly longer periods than the titanium available from mills in Asia.
We always want to use the best materials, because we want to build the best bikes, but we also have a commitment to lifetime warranties that prevents us from cutting corners with lower quality products. When you buy a custom Seven, you put your faith in us to produce a bike that will fit like a glove, corner on rails and last forever. American CWSR titanium allows us to repay your faith with a frame of uncompromising quality.


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Obituary: Samuel S. Keyes
Date: July 18, 2012
by: Observer Staff
Samuel S. Keys, of Longboat Key and Cape Coral, died July 4. He was 88.
Mr. Keyes was born in Winchester, Mass., and moved in 1986 to Longboat Key from Hartford, Conn. He was vice president of Aetna Life & Casualty and retired in 1986 after 38 years of service, including assignments in Cleveland and Detroit.
In 1942, Mr. Keyes enlisted in the Army as a private and was discharged as a captain, the highest rank achievable by a noncommissioned officer. Among his achievements in the military, he participated in D-Day and landed on Red Beach on Omaha Beach, France, in the early morning of June 6, 1944. A book, "Until I Write Again, Love, Sam," based on his letters to home during his service in World War II, will soon be published.
He graduated in 1948 from Boston University, where he met and married Virginia, the love of his life. They were married for 62 years before she died in January 2010.
In retirement, he was active in sailing and power boating and was a member of Bird Key Yacht Club. He enjoyed the company of his many friends from Sarasota and Longboat Key and particularly longtime friends who moved to the Sarasota area from Pepper Pike, Ohio.
Mr. Keyes is survived by sister, Frances Yeager; brother, W. Prescott; sons, Stephan S. and Geoffrey P.; and a granddaughter.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Wounded Warrior Project. A private service will be held.
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Features a collection of interesting facts about Proth primes. Also shows definitions.
Provides questions to prime numbers and answers to them. Also gives downloads and graphs.
Provides a definition of a prime number. Includes samples of the first few prime numbers.
Shows a construction of the adjacency matrix and evaluation of the entropy. With contact information.
Features a list of generalized Woodall primes. Also shows updates and contact information.
Shows the author's book on Mathematical Constants. With a number of math topics for discussion.
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Forget about networking: it's time for "worknetting"
Fed up with presentation rounds at meetings?,
Coffees that are not there to be drunk but to "start a conversation"?
Piles of business cards of "who is this guy and why is his card here"?
Getting requests to link from a friend of a friend of a friend in (your professional social network here)?
Why not do the opposite?
Create a safe environment to work with perfect strangers, see if they (and you) deliver and then decide if you keep them in your network.
That is "Worknetting": building networks of reliable coworkers… through co-working.
The trick is in creating formats for bootstrapping trust in action combining:
a) safe environment
b) perfect strangers
c) real work from the start
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CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) - New charges have been filed against all 4 of the men facing hazing charges in the drowning deaths of 2 Virginia State University students.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Eriq Benson, Charles Zollicoffer, James Mackey and Cory Baytop now face felony involuntary manslaughter charges.
Chesterfield police formally announced the charges on Wednesday.
They already were facing hazing charges in the April deaths of 19-year-old freshmen Marvell Edmondson of Portsmouth and Jauwan Holmes of Newport News.
Police have said the men died after being swept away while trying to cross the Appomattox River during an initiation ceremony to join the group "Men of Honor." The group is not affiliated with VSU.
All four men are scheduled to appear in court on June 30 on the hazing charges.
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This was delicious and so easy. I used red pepper and left out the olives as I don't like olives. A definite repeat.
Bell Pepper-Feta Pasta Toss
Draining the pasta over the bell pepper may seem an unusual procedure, but it works great. This method cooks the pepper strips slightly before you toss them with the rest of the ingredients.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 1/4 cups)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 275
- Calories from fat: 28%
- Fat: 8.7g
- Saturated fat: 4.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.6g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.9g
- Protein: 10.8g
- Carbohydrate: 39.4g
- Fiber: 3.3g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
- Iron: 3.8mg
- Sodium: 602mg
- Calcium: 181mg
- 6 ounces uncooked linguine
- 1 large yellow or red bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1/8-inch strips
- 1 1/4 cups quartered cherry tomatoes
- 3/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 (4-ounce) package crumbled feta cheese with basil and sun-dried tomatoes
- 1 (2 1/4-ounce) can or 1/4 cup sliced ripe olives, drained
- Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. Place bell pepper in a colander; drain pasta over bell pepper. Combine pasta, bell pepper, tomatoes, and remaining ingredients in a large bowl; toss gently. Serve immediately.
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- CUISINE: American, New American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Pasta
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Meatless
- OCCASION: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Rangers-Henrik Lundqvist: While the Rangers have struggled mightily to score goals this season, Lundqvist has remained the team's consistent rock. Lundqvist has a 2.19 goals against average and .923 save percentage, and will be making his 31st start of the season tonight---his11th in the Rangers last 12 games. He has allowed two goals or fewer in seven straight starts, and three goals or fewer in 15 consecutive starts. In fact he has allowed more than three goals only twice this season, and has surrendered two or fewer in 20 of his 30 starts. Lundqvist picked up his 267th career victory on Monday, tying Ed Giacomin for second place on the Rangers all-time list---now just 34 behind Mike Richter's franchise-high 301 victories.
Penguins-Jarome Iginla: Though no longer the superstar he once was, the 35 year-old Iginla still is a feared goal scorer---and will be even more so now that he is playing with such elite teammates following last week's big deal between Pittsburgh and Calgary. Iginla, who has scored 526 goals in his career, netted his first as a Penguin in Tuesday's 4-1 loss to the Sabres. He has appeared in two games wsith his new club since the trade, and while he is still feeling his way, a bit more will be expected from him now with Sidney Crosby sidelined indefinitely with a broken jaw. Iginla has scored 30+ goals in each of the previous 11 seasons, and he will enjoy renewed life in Pittsburgh. So expecting a strong finish and post-season from him is certainly on the mark.


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Rush announce North American summer tour
(Courtesy of http://www.hennemusic.com/) – Rush have announced a series of summer tour dates for North America.
Rush's Clockwork Angels Tour will visit 15 cities from June to August; the second leg will begin in Hershey on June 21st and wraps up on August 4th in Kansas City.
Entering the charts at #1 in their native Canada and #2 in the U.S., "Clockwork Angels" has spawned three top 5 hits at Classic Rock radio with "The Wreckers" going to #3, "Caravan" peaking at #2, and "Headlong Flight" topping the chart at #1.
The projects latest single, "The Anarchist", is being serviced to radio outlets now.
Rush will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame on April 18 in Los Angeles.
Following the induction ceremony, Rush kick off their Clockwork Angels North American Tour 2013 on April 23rd in Austin, TX and will visit Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Nashville, Raleigh, Virginia Beach, Baltimore, Uncasville, and Atlantic City this spring.
After returning from their European dates, a second leg will begin in June which will include stops in Hershey, Wantagh, Saratoga, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Calgary, Vancouver, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, Hamilton, and will finally return to Grand Rapids and Halifax for the first time in decades.
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Welcome to the Parkinson Café
I created the Parkinson Café in 2009 to provide social, cultural and intellectual interaction for people with Parkinson's disease and their families.
My husband Brad was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2005 when he was in his forties.
Brad was a type-A corporate executive who became unable to work. It was a major adjustment. We asked ourselves, "now what?"
We attended traditional support groups and educational symposiums sponsored by the local NPF chapter to learn everything we could about Parkinson's. Brad and I both volunteered to be on the NPF chapter executive committee.
We started recreating our lives and finding activities that we "can do." Less became more. Stress-free became a major goal. (Stress literally makes Brad freeze, unable to move.)
In 2008 I started searching for a program to meet Brad's needs and couldn't find anything that was right, so I decided to create something new. That's how the Parkinson Cafe concept was born.
By arranging fun events and helping others facing similar challenges, Brad and I became able to feel happy and maintain a positive attitude.
Federal trademark registered September 2013.
Lynn B. Schramek
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Recognized nationally as a Parkinson's Superstar
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Judy's Lasagna
For a quicker preparation of this recipe by contributing editor Sara Foster's sister, you can use fresh or "no boil" lasagna noodles that don't need precooking; replace the items added to the meat sauce in step 2 with store-bought marinara; and instead of the mozzarella and Parmesan, buy shredded Italian-blend cheese (mozzarella, Parmesan, provolone, Romano, fontina, and Asiago). Prep: 15 minutes; Cook: 1 hour 47 minutes; Stand: 30 minutes.
Yield: Makes 12 servings
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- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 yellow onions, chopped
- 2 pounds ground chuck
- Sea salt, to taste
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried marjoram
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup red wine
- 2 (28-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons thinly sliced fresh basil, divided
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano, divided
- 1 pound cottage cheese
- 1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 8 to 10 hot, cooked lasagna noodles or
- 1 pound thinly sliced or shredded mozzarella (about 2 cups shredded)
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for garnishing
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, and sauté about 5 minutes or until soft and translucent. Add beef, and cook, stirring until it crumbles and is no longer pink. Add sea salt and next 3 ingredients. Cook, stirring occasionally, 5 more minutes or until beef is cooked through. Add garlic, and cook 1 more minute.
- 2. Add balsamic vinegar and wine, and cook about 1 minute or until slightly reduced. Add tomato; reduce heat to low. Cook 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens. Stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons each fresh basil and oregano.
- 3. Combine cottage cheese, ricotta, eggs, and remaining fresh herbs in a medium bowl; stir to combine.
- 4. Spread 2 2/3 cups sauce in bottom of 13- x 9- x 2-inch baking dish. Place half of noodles over sauce, and sprinkle with half of mozzarella. Top with another 2 2/3 cups sauce, noodles, and cottage cheese mixture. Layer remaining mozzarella, 2 2/3 cups sauce, and Parmesan on top. Cover with foil, and bake at 350° for 50 minutes. Uncover and continue to bake 30 more minutes or until cheese browns slightly. Let stand 30 minutes before serving.
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- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Kid-Friendly
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- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Autumn, Winter
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Men, Make God's Dreams for Your Life Come True
- Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Kenny Luck's new book, Dream, (WaterBrook Press, 2007).
It's natural to want to be and do something great, since God has wired you to pursue a significant life. Those dreams stirring in your soul can come true if you embrace God's plans with passion.
Here's how you can make God's dreams for your life come true:
Ask God to help you see clearly. Don't let your own agenda or other people's expectations cloud your vision of what God wants your life to be like. Instead, choose to let God decide what's best for you, since He – your Creator – knows you better than you know yourself. Realize that God's ultimate dream for you is to become more like Jesus. Understand that God wants to use your current reality (not the fantasy of how you wish your life would be) to move you toward His dreams for you. Expect Him to use your struggles to accomplish good purposes. Rather than running from reality, let God bring glory through it. Exchange your own limited vision for God's unlimited, much more powerful vision. Instead of fighting God's process of making His ultimate dream for you come true – transforming you more into Jesus' image – accept the discomfort, conflict, loss, and pain involved. Trust that going through anything God deems necessary is worth it, because He is accomplishing good purposes in your life that can't be accomplished any other way. Constantly stretch the borders of your growth by praying regularly for God to continue changing you. Surrender every area of your life to God and eagerly anticipate how He will help you grow as a result.
Pay attention to what you're leaking. Realize that your character qualities leak out into the lives of the people around you – for better or for worse. Strive to leak less sin and selfishness that stinks and leak more holiness instead. Know that God wants you to be visibly identified with Jesus in a way that brings Him glory, pouring out hope into the lives of people with whom you interact. Be faithful to God's call to represent Jesus, even when others reject the Gospel. Be available for God to use you in any situation, and depend on the Holy Spirit to help you live out your faith with integrity. Study Jesus' life to imitate how He interacts with people. Invite God to refine every part of your character, holding nothing back from His work in your life.
Be humble. Know that God has declared that you are important to Him, and He has approved your mission, so you're free to be humble. Understand that you have nothing to prove. Ask God to help you be content with yourself, to desire recognition only from Him, to trust Him with your station in life, to refrain from threatening others, to be at ease with the weak, to be easy for people to embrace, to not feel any need to get credit from others, and to refrain from competition with others. Strive for influence without ego. In conflict, choose reconciliation instead of retaliation. Pass up power for yourself in order to increase God's influence. Submit to God's plans versus presuming them. Freely notice others. Empty yourself instead of holding onto a sense of self-entitlement. Be willing to humbly obey God's purposes. Wait for God to honor your efforts in His time rather than trying to force results yourself. Be willing to exchange: comfort for discomfort, flattery for faithfulness, status for service, harshness for graciousness, titles for treasures in heaven, and safety for suffering. Don't forget how important God and other people are, and keep your sense of your own importance in perspective. Learn all you can from Jesus. Focus on Him more than on yourself. Reach out to others in service as God leads you, humbly sharing God's love.
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If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the hair must be the curtains. If you're anything like me, one of the first things you notice about someone is their hair, so it's only natural to want to groom your own glorious tresses to meet their potential.
An unknown liquid was found draining into the Huron River from a pipe originating on Eastern Michigan University's campus, according to an article published by The Ann Arbor News on MLive.com. Washtenaw County's HAZMAT and the Environmental Protection Agency have been collecting and testing the white fluid.
"I am not in danger, Skyler – I am the danger," chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cook Walter White famously quipped in the AMC original series "Breaking Bad." The line rang ominously with the show's overarching theme – the slow descent into villainy. This Sunday at 9 p.m., the series finale will air.
It's easy to be afraid of something you don't understand – why do you think people are scared of ghosts, death or One Direction's fandom? But what happens when the very thing people don't understand is that big gray blob of meat inside your skull?
It's the start of a fresh school year, which means you have the opportunity to get all pretty and/or handsome to make a strong impression on all the new people you'll meet.
Over the weekend, students living on campus began moving into the residence halls.
A large, star-speckled trailer rolled into Eastern Michigan University's campus late Wednesday night, housing the NASA exhibit Journey to Tomorrow. The exhibit is remaining in front of the Science Complex for the 2013 Star Party, a celebration of all things space-related.
On Wednesday, Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin got her bicycle tagged by Officer Candace Dorsey behind Welch Hall in an effort to raise awareness of EMU's bike tagging program.
On Sept. 8, Ann Arbor-based rehabilitation facility Dawn Farm will be celebrating its 40th anniversary with a free event, the Dawn Farm Jamboree, which will include auctions, music from soul and blues band NoteWorthy, hayrides and pony rides. The event is scheduled to be from 1-6 p.m.
On August 10, a symposium called "Is Islam a Religion of Peace?" was held at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center. The event was sponsored by Ave Maria Radio, a syndicated Catholic radio station based in Ann Arbor. Speakers included Robert Spencer, author and director of anti-Islam blog Jihad Watch, in the featured debate against Shadid Lewis of the Muslim Debate Initiative in the US, and the event concluded with a Mass celebrated by the Rev. Earl A. Boyea, bishop of Lansing.
When Arizona-based band The Maine dropped their most recent album "Forever Halloween" on June 4, my initial feelings were mixed.
In a town already occupied by the likes of the Ugly Mug, Beezy's Café and B-24's, it can be a challenge for a new café to carve out a niche.
To the average college student, "studying" can be found in the thesaurus as the antonym of "fun," but Eastern Michigan University's Snack and Study, brought to students by the folks at Campus Life, aimed to fix that.
On April 18th, Eastern Michigan University hosted its very first Piano Smash, courtesy of the American String Teachers Association at EMU.
Are your final projects getting the best of you? These Eastern Michigan University events won't write your 14-page paper for you, but they'll definitely take your mind off of it for a while.
On March 29, Eastern Michigan University art history professor Richard Rubenfeld guided students from the Intermedia Gallery Group through the outdoor art installation known as the Heidelberg
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In light of the recent Supreme Court cases and the dialogue regarding those now-infamous pink equal signs all over Facebook, Eastern Michigan University's 2013 Lavender Spring Celebration took place at an interesting time in LGBT history.
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Guitarist Donald Lajiness, a sophomore at Eastern Michigan University, steps to the front of the Alexander Music Building's auditorium to a burst of ecstatic applause. He sits down in the proper classical guitar position— foot up, fretboard raised —and begins to strum the opening chord of the mysterious-sounding "Koyunbaba," a modern piece with Turkish influences composed by Carlo Domeniconi. After a nearly flawless recital, the musician basks in the glow of his fellow music majors' collective cheering and praise.
Pooping is the great equalizer. Everyone, no matter how beautiful, successful or talented, has to drop off the Browns at the Super Bowl once a day or so. When that primal urge strikes while you're on campus, it can be difficult to scope out that perfect toilet for you. But have no fear! Here is a comprehensive comparison of the best and worst porcelain thrones at Eastern Michigan University.
Strawberries could easily be the official snack of summer. Whether you love them smothered in sugar or as part of a tasty pastry, the plump red fruit is a favorite among both the young and the old, whether health-savvy or junk food junkies. And now, on Saturday, June 16th from 11am to 2pm, you can explore Depot Town and sample several strawberry-licious creations courtesy of several businesses in the Ypsilanti community as part of the Depot Town Strawberry Showcase.
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Production for the last issue of the semester wraps today, but the summer is just heating up.
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Definitely quick and easy. This was especially good for my meat 'n potatoes Dad.
Barbecue-Stuffed Potatoes
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The home-style flavors of baked potatoes topped with tender barbecue chicken and all the fixin's go perfectly with old-fashioned banana pudding. Top the pudding with some beautiful strawberries, and you've got a fresh new angle on a classic dessert.
Prep: 5 minutes; Cook: 12 minutes
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 potato, about 1/3 cup chicken, about 2 tablespoons sour cream topping, and 2 tablespoons cheese)
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- Calories: 367
- Calories from fat: 22%
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated fat: 5.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.4g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.2g
- Protein: 16.5g
- Carbohydrate: 57.6g
- Fiber: 4.2g
- Cholesterol: 43mg
- Iron: 3.2mg
- Sodium: 619mg
- Calcium: 117mg
- 4 (6-ounce) baking potatoes
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 2 green onions, finely chopped and divided
- 1 1/3 cups shredded barbecue chicken (such as Lloyd's)
- 1/2 cup (2 ounces) reduced-fat shredded extra-sharp cheddar cheese
- 1. Pierce potatoes with a fork; arrange in a circle on paper towels in microwave oven. Microwave at HIGH 10 minutes or until done, rearranging potatoes after 5 minutes.
- 2. While potatoes cook, combine sour cream and 2 tablespoons onions; set aside.
- 3. Place chicken in a microwave-safe bowl; cover with plastic wrap (do not allow plastic wrap to touch food). Remove potatoes from microwave; place chicken in microwave. Microwave at HIGH 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
- 4. Slice potatoes lengthwise, cutting to, but not through, other side; fluff with fork. Top each potato evenly with chicken, sour cream mixture, cheese, and remaining onions.
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- CONVENIENCE: Quick/Easy
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables, Poultry
- PUBLICATION: Oxmoor House
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TheNerdyPoet said...
really? REALLY????? I leveled a priest to 68 just healing a buddy through quests, and hes quit the game. and now I can't level to save my life!!! and this post comes out NOW?!?! why not a month ago so I could have rolleda druid or shaman?!?!?!?!? GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rant off*
eenersumbrella said...
Can't level past 68? WHAT? I leveled my priest Holy/disc. I have never been shadow, ever. I don't see why people QQ about it being hard at all. If you're gearing correctly, there shouldn't be any problems. Hell, I soloed a few of the group quests. PW:S, Renew, and pew pew. More than one mob on you, Holy Nova is now in every priests spell book.
thebitterfig said...
lolsmite is, imho, a really fun spec to play. you get bubbles and heals to keep you alive and a fairly fun leveling rotation in holy fire, smites, finish with SW:D, proc spirit tap and keep rolling through stuff. plus those instant casts now and again are just kind of cool.
shadow for leveling will suffer the same problems that affliction warlocks face: it takes 5 seconds to cast all the spells you need to cast, and then the mob dies before your dots are half finished. of course, if you try without dots, your damage sucks because you don't have a solid spammable spell (unlike holy/disc, which has glyphed smite).
i recommend http://holyfirespec.blogspot.com/ . there isn't a huge amount there, and it isn't frequently updated, but a lot of good basic info on leveling a priest the proper way: out of shadowform.


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Several KREM-2 news viewers have written about their frustration and concerns over how the Spokane Valley Fire Department released information about who may have started the devastating Valley View Fire.
And they've displayed their displeasure about pinning the fire on a juvenile who was under adult supervision when a fire was ignited inside the trunk of an old tree as a fire pit.
The first Valley Fire release named "Homeowner Tracy Berg..." as supervising a recreational fire in a lot adjacent to her home and "did not properly extinguish the fire when they were finished."
The next day, July 16th, Valley Fire released another release stating flatly "Tracy Berg not responsible for the Valley View Fire" and stated after "additional investigation" a juvenile was the culprit.
Valley Fire does say Berg was there when the fire was lit and gave permission for the fire to be lit.
Many viewers find all this incredible.
Debra Bateman wrote:
I am a little upset about the turn of events on who is responsible for starting this fire. I understand that is was an accident but come on who is the adult?
I am sorry she gave the juvenile permission and lit the fire in her presence so why would she be left off the hook. She really should be responsible for the juvenile she is the adult. and something like a fire no child should be around one without adult supervision. And we wonder why our children don't see the right in taking responsibility for their actions when the adults can not. This is what some parents are teaching the children.
What do you think about all this? Was the Valley Fire Department too quick to name someone responsible and made a mistake? Or does the person the department originally name bear any responsibility in the case?
At this hour, the Valley Fire Department is pointing to The Department of Natural Resources (DNR), as the agency who did some of the investigation. And tonight DNR says it won't answer any questiions until at least next Monday.
Hope to hear from you and DNR soon.


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A Lanett man was killed in a motor vehicle crash Sunday morning in Chambers County, Alabama State Troopers announced Monday.
Around 11:30 a.m., Jason Franklin Elliott, 40, was killed when his 2001 Honda motorcycle was struck by another vehicle on Chambers County 389 about a half mile north of Cusseta.
Elliott was killed in the crash. The driver of the second vehicle, Scott Hilyer, of Opelika, was not injured.
Alabama State Troopers are continuing their investigation.
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We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy—murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice—then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous."
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Rihanna continues to dominate the Atlanta radio scene with "Rude Boy," which was spun 365 times the past week on six different stations.
Georgia is represented on the national top 40 charts by B.o.B ("Nothin' On You"), climbing at No. 4; Lady Antebellum ("Need You Now" at No. 6 after peaking at No. 2), Usher at No. 16 with "OMG," Trey Songz at No. 20 with "Say Aah," Justin Bieber at No. 33 with "Baby" and Ludacris at "My Chick Bad."
On the country chart, Lady Antebellum is tops with "American Honey." Zac Brown Band's former No. 1 song "Highway 20 Ride" is at No. 5. Jason Aldean's about to hit the top 10 with "Crazy Town." Luke Bryan, seen last week on "Celebrity Apprentice," is at No. 16 with "Rain is a Good Thing." Little Big Town has the No. 29 song with "Little White Church."
On the urban chart, five of the top 10 songs are repped by Atlantans. Ludacris with "My Chick Bad" is at No. 2 after peaking at No. 1. Monica's "Everything to Me," which had peaked at No. 2 was at No. 3. B.o.B. is at No. 6 with "Nothin' On You" folllowed by two Usher songs "Lil Freak" and "Hey Daddy." T.I. with "I'm Back" is at No. 11 with Young Jeezy's "Lose My Mind" at No. 14 and The-Dream's "Love King" at 16. Gucci Mane's "Lemonade" is at No. 19.
1. Rihanna "Rude Boy" 365 (+19)
2. Ke$ha "Tik Tok" 292 (-11)
3. B.o.B. "Nothin' On You" 273 (+38)
4. Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" 234 (+2)
5. Lady Gaga "Telephone" 213 (+9)
6. Drake "Over" 197 (+35)
7. Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" 187 (+5)
8. Ludacris "My Chick Bad" 175 (-18)
9. David Guetta "Sexy Chick" 169 (-2)
10. Train "Hey, Soul Sister" 159 (-3)
SOURCE: Mediabase 24/7
Top 5 songs at various country and top 40 stations in Atlanta. (Next week: R&B/hip hop and rock).
Kicks 101.5
1. Steel Magnolia "Keep on Lovin' You"
2. Lady Antebellum "American Honey"
3. Joe Nichols "Gimmie That Girl"
4. Chris Young "The Man I Want To Be"
5. Miranda Lambert "The House That Built Me'
94.9/The Bull
1. Lady Antebellum "American Honey"
2. Joe Nichols "Gimmie That Girl"
3. Justin Moore "Backwoods"
4. Kenny Chesney "Ain't Back Yet"
5. Easton Corbin "Little More Country Than That"
South 107.1
1. Rodney Atkins "Farmer's Daughter"
2. David Nail – "Turning Home"
3. Gretchen Wilson "Work Hard, Play Harder"
4. Chris Janson "Til a Woman Comes Along"
5. The JaneDear Girls "Wildflower"
Star 94
1. Train "Hey, Soul Sister"
2. Daughtry "Life After You"
3. Ke$ha "Tik Tok"
4. John Mayer "Heartbreak Warfare"
5. Lady Antebellum "Need You Now"
1. The Script – "Breakeven"
2. Train – "Hey, Soul Sister"
3. Jason DeRulo – "In My Head"
4. Lady Antebellum – "Need You Now"
5. Rihanna – "Rude Boy"
1. David Cook "Time of My Life"
2. Miley Cyrus – "The Climb"
3. Taylor Swift – "You Belong With Me"
4. Daughtry "What About Now"
5. Colbie Caillat "Bubbly"
Fish 104.7
1. Kutless "What Faith Can Do"
2. MercyMe "All of Creation"
3. Tenth Avenue North "Hold My Heart"
4. Jeremy Camp "Healing Hand of God"
5. TobyMac " Get Back Up"
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April 28th, 2010
1:27 pm
Only in America where you can reach stardom by being a domestic violence victim instead of any other talent.
April 28th, 2010
2:15 pm
when is rhianna going to call another news conference to whine about how victimized she feels by having to give all these interviews about how victimized she feels? 1-2 weeks before her next CD release party?
April 28th, 2010
2:18 pm
Since when does Trey songz represent Georgia? Is the writer stupid or has he just moved there..I dont think so because he satys in Jersey and always in the club in D.C. Trey is from Virginia
April 28th, 2010
2:22 pm
I love the names of the black names or black groups. Always have to be different. What a bunch of thugs.
April 28th, 2010
2:25 pm
B.O.B. got a bunch more hits coming on the way…you would know if you had….SIRIUS RADIO..invest in it..Rihanna…i wish she would go away forever…I think Chris brown was just trying to beat some sense in her…it didnt work..
April 28th, 2010
2:30 pm
Right…because K$sha, Kutless, and Lady Antebellum are completely normal….
April 28th, 2010
2:57 pm
Keith, I am white and your comment about "black names" gives us white people a bad name. I think the hip hop names are creative and represent the music well. Do you feel better now that you judged and spit on someone with your comment? Would Jesus do that? Love your neighbor as yourself. Or do you love yourself?
April 28th, 2010
3:10 pm
So glad that I don't listen to mainstream radio because that woman can't sing on her worse day! 89.3 is the only station for me in Atlanta.
April 28th, 2010
3:32 pm
I hispanic but I look white..none of this matters in the grand scheme of things but I like it when people start off a convo of what they look like….lets be serious…creative and represent music well…ok…Wackaflacka flames….yeahh that reps dat muzac..Boosie badazzzz…dat junk be hot..I like hip hop but alot of the crap they have out now is straight garbage..wake up. Give me some Roots and Outkast with a sprinkle of pac…dont give me biggie…he had a handful of songs and people make him like he is the best rapper ever..but thats another tangent…
April 28th, 2010
3:36 pm
Keith….we now what your are, but you don't have to be so blatant with your racism
April 28th, 2010
3:46 pm
This song really stinks.
April 28th, 2010
3:50 pm
Well while the song stinks to you Rihanna is cashing all those stinking checks…..I swear there are a bunch of angry haters in the ATL
April 28th, 2010
3:53 pm
Wow. That Ludacris song was sad in SO many ways.
April 28th, 2010
3:57 pm
Looking at the songs on these charts make me roll with laughter. These people are horrible folks! I could care less if any of these monkeys are "poppin". Rihanna has become a cartoon character, she has nothing positive to say or sing about, but leemings continue to buy this garbage. These are plastic people, most of who won't be around in 5 months let alone 5 years. These people are caroon coons.
April 28th, 2010
4:07 pm
Haven't heard of her song but I do like KeSha's. Soul music is what's in, not crap about screwin and wet-wet and making money and smoking.
April 28th, 2010
4:10 pm
Keith are fat, stupid, coward, who live in your mother basements and beat off to Sarah Palin Pics or you just inbreed?
April 28th, 2010
4:13 pm
Why is an article about popular music receiving comments about the race of the artists?? Does it really matter? Seriously… And to you "Keith".. You're a true first class jerk
April 28th, 2010
5:35 pm
Ri Ri !! I loves ya girl:) Hey girls check out this new artist Aaron Fresh!!! Hes the next Justin Beiber guys!!! Here is his site, and u can check him on dancejam.com http://tinyurl.com/2ehufnr
April 28th, 2010
6:32 pm
Rihanna fans are so silly.Many will always bring up "how much money SHE makes as if that is relevant to what people feel about her "talent".I don't care how much money she cashes at the bank,she still can't sing.I am always amazed at broke people counting someone else's money.Carry on.
April 28th, 2010
6:37 pm
I actually believe that Chris Brown was trying to beat some talent into the talentless wonder known as Rihanna, because she seriously needs some.
April 28th, 2010
8:36 pm
I like Rihanna and all, but I am so tired of hearing Rude Boy. I feel like I heard all 365 of those plays. Every time I get in the car, I hear Rude Boy, Bad Romance, and Telephone almost without fail, no matter how long my car ride is. Calm down Atlanta radio! If we wanted to hear a single song that often, we'd listen to it on our iPods. Give us some variety.
April 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
Thank God I dont have to listen to that bitch on 96 Rock. I guess in a chocolate city like Atlanta, all you have to be is a member of the clan to be on top in this city.
April 28th, 2010
9:27 pm
some of yall sure seem bothered by a simple post about the top spins in radio… keith taking shot at acts with creative names, darb above me is talking in some weird tangent that only he understands…
what is going on here?
btw- B.o.B. is from RIGHT HERE in our back yard- Decatur. I've watched him develop his skills from his first song 'cloud 9′– to now being not just a rapper, but also singing on the tracks and even playing the guitar. Watch out for this young man. His debut album just dropped yesterday, and he's even been doing BIG numbers on iTunes for the last few weeks (w/ "nothing on you" and "airplanes").
My good friend produced his first single "haterz everywhere"- and we've been pulling for this guy for a while! Get 'em Bobby Ray!
April 29th, 2010
7:52 am
Anyone who clicks on "report this comment" ……..get a freaking life! It's all in fun you bunch of crybabies.
April 29th, 2010
8:18 am
I understand exactly where Im comming from. I wouldnt let her clean my toilets, and he ex, the molester couldnt cut my grass.
April 29th, 2010
10:26 pm
Rihanna needs to go back to dating white men. The brothas don't know how to treat her right.
May 2nd, 2010
3:48 pm
We dont need any interacial dating.


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The former Liberian president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor is to be sentenced by an international court in The Hague today.
The former Liberian president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor is to be sentenced by an international court in The Hague today.
Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.
The presiding judge Richard Lussick said: "The lives of many more innocent civilians in Sierra Leone were lost or destroyed as a direct result of his actions."
Last month, Taylor was convicted of 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity which included murder, rape, sexual slavery and recruiting child soldiers.
Although the court could not prove that Taylor directly ordered these crimes, is found that he provided"sustained and significant" support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels which committed many of the atrocities against civilians.
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Boundaries Baseball Board Game
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by Franklin Learning Systems
Ages: 6 - 11
Grades 1 - 6
Players 2 - 6 (more with team play)
Made in the U.S.A.
Attention, Impulse Control, PDD, Special Education
Boundaries Baseball Board Game Description:
Boundaries Baseball helps children understand and respect boundaries. Boundaries are essential for positive relationships with peers and adults; children who act out are often asking for the security of clear boundaries and the skills needed to respect them.
Players have a great time playing baseball as they leran to understand and respect boundaries.
* Personal space and property boundaries
* Emotional boundaries
* Social boundaries
* NO as a boundary
Boundaries Baseball utilizes a baseball diamond format as a visual reminder for not going out of bounds. As part of the action of the play, students will also have opportunities to toss a "ball" so that it stays within the boundaries of a "strike zone." Game cards teach four kinds of boundaries: (1) Saying and accepting "No," (2) Managing strong emotions (called feelings in the game), (3) Respecting personal space and property, and (4) Relationship/communication limits (called friendship in the game).
Players use a special spinner to see what happens for each pitch. For example, they could get a strike, a ball, a single, or a pop fly out. Players move their pawns, counterclockwise around the diamond. Their pawns are baseball players (see photo). The players then advance according to the instructions on the spinner and pick and answer cards that match the color of the space landed on. For example, a strike results in going back one space, a ball advances the player three spaces, and a single brings the player to the next base. The four decks of cards correspond to the four categories of boundaries mentioned above. When players reach home plate, they add one to their score on the scoreboard, which is pictured at the top of the game board. A summary of the rules of baseball is included for those players not familiar with the game of baseball.
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2. learn how to express anger and other emotions in socially acceptable ways;
3. learn important skills for improving peer relations and other social interactions,
4. improve relationships with parents, teachers, and other authority figures;
5. improve their sense of self and self-esteem as a result of increased understanding of boundaries and how to successfully deal with them;
6. improve their likability and popularity with other children and adults by showing respect for personal space, property, and other boundaries.


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Okay, so growing up I was never taught how to shoot or hunt. I pretty much had to learn everything on my own which in a way I am thankful for. However, as I have starting deer hunting more and shooting more I have a question about aiming. With a rifle outfitted with a scope, should your crosshairs be in focus with your target being fuzzy or should the target be clear with your crosshairs a little fuzzy? Also, with a pistol should you be focused on the front sight with the target being fuzzy or focus on the target with the front sight fuzzy? Thanks for the help!
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I focus on the target. But I am old and the sights are fuzzy anyway!
Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Your focal plane should keep the sights clear (and let the target get fuzzy).
Be aware of the target and what is around it. Branches may deflect bullets.
Attend a Hunter Safety Course and ask about training. Normally there is an NRA instructor nearby and taking the hunter safety and firearms training is worth more than you making bad habits that need to get corrected later on.
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As a rule, focus on the front sight. The target may be a little fuzzy, but trust your aim, don't let your eye wander. With magnifying optics, both the reticle and the target should be sharp. There are separate controls allowing that in a good scope. With a basic scope, it is a compromise. Try and see that works best for you. In the end, the proof is in your score. If you good, nobody cares if you did it upside down.
A scope is not just a target magnifying device. The scope reduces the need for alignment of two sights. The scope is a single point aiming sight. Most scopes below 7 X for hunting are paralax free to a given distance. They can be focused to infinity by adjusting the eye piece. Hold the rifle up pointed to a clear blue sky. Adjust the eye piece "focus" until it is perfectly clear. You will be good to go.
"It is better to be too skeptical then too credulous"
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+1 on focusing on the front sight.
That's how the Corps taught me, anyway. Works for me on any weapon.
The only optics I ever use is an ACOG on my M16, though.
Always have clean socks.
The men who organized the shooting for the Corp over 2 hundred year ago learn to shoot. They learned to shoot by knocking a squirrel off a limb with a flint lock rifle. It still works.
I would first make sure you know your dominant eye. Cross Dominant shooters have problems, until they understand the difference.
For pistols, front sight target focus on anything less than 10 yards. Beyond that, and depending on your eyes, it will require a mix of front sight focus and target focus transitions to be accurate.
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Halloween party and Alpha Girls screening at the Underground Arts on October 26th.
$5 admission if you come in costume! If you don't have a costume…. well then, dude, I don't even wanna know you.
Alpha Girls is now available on iTunes and Amazon.
With friends like these who needs enemies.
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The quick and the dead.
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The quick dead
Pretty cool Black Cherry Bombshells fan art.
Etta James died today.
She was an amazing vocalist who made T.N.T. music.
Etta James was the inspiration for Ma Rizzo, a badass gangster in our zombie comic Black Cherry Bombshells.
The pin-up of Ma Rizzo above is by Gabe Bautista. He is also a great fan of Ms. James.
Download for free desktop BG 1440x900px. Should fit most monitors :)
Merry belated xmas.
Although her usual thing is vampires, Christine Larsen gets down with the zombies too.
only thelarsenproject could make zombies romantic; now we're in love.
Page 51 from the Black Cherry Bombshells is a reference to Fear and Loathing; illustrated by Sacha Borisich and John Dallaire.
I think this was the first Hunter S. Thompson shout-out in the 9 issue web-series, certainly not the last.
Ultra-violent girl gangs fight for power in a strange future where men are zombies. In Vegas, the Black Cherry Bombshells and their leader Regina take control of the bootlegging industry, much to the fury of the local crime boss, a woman called The King.
I watched Sucker Punch last night and it kind of reminded me of our web comic Black Cherry Bombshells.
Ultra-violent girl gangs fight for power in a strange future where all men are zombies. In Vegas, the Black Cherry Bombshells and their leader Regina take control of the bootlegging industry, much to the fury of the local crime boss, a woman they call The King.
The whole series, all 9 issues, are available to read on-line at www.BlackCherryBombshells.com
The page above features Regina, leader of the Bombshells, fighting a cyborg St Paulie Girl while a zombie T-Rex dominates a pair of tanks in the background. Every page is pretty much just as over the top.
So, get your girl-on-zombie-action thanks to artist Sacha Borisich and colorist John Dallaire.
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this book of course: http://www.comixology.com/digital/series/3945
issue#3 just dropped digitally for your iPads computers and smartphones today
Our BFF's Kristen and Rahzzah made this awesome B Movie poster of us for the South Fellini offices to commemorate the one year anniversary.
It's silly and over the top. A perfect depiction of this madness.
Thanks guys!
Black Cherry Bombshells #7 is available at DC Online.
Get that girl on zombie action with special guest artist Sheldon Vella.
This was actually the beginning of a subtle crossover with Shelly's comic. It was part of an idea for a spin-off series that would take place between the end of Black Cherry Bombshells and the beginning of SUPERtron… Alas, it was never meant to be.
Two more breathtaking chapters left until the epic conclusion!
New Black Cherry Bombshells is finally out on DC Online and Comixology.
Ultra violent girl gangs fight for survival in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas where all the men are zombies.
In this chapter we reveal events from the day of the Zombie Apocolypse.
Three more issues to go until the ultimate conclusion. Drawn by Sacha Borisich and Colors by John Dallaire.
Today is Free Comic Book Day. We'll be signing the Red5 Special featuring Moon Girl at Brave New Worlds in Old City Philadelphia.
But if you can't make it to your local comic shop for the festivities we just wanted to remind you about free issues of D.O.G.S. of Mars
Available for download on your PC, iPhone, iPad, Droid and Play Station thanks to the fine folks at Comixology.
Happy Belated Easter from Zombie Jesus.