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- Reading aloud promotes a positive attitude toward reading and books.
- Reading aloud helps to promote a longer attention span.
- Reading aloud exposes children to complex language, which will help the children in all areas of their development, especially their reading development.
- Reading aloud to children enhances a child's oral vocabulary. A strong oral vocabulary is essential to reading comprehension.
- Reading aloud teaches children about the world. It promotes lots of conversations about what is like in different parts of the world, for people who are different from themselves. They learn about the elderly, the rich, the disadvantaged. They travel to faraway lands and they travel through time.
- Reading aloud models reading fluency and good reading habits.
- Reading aloud models good reading strategies. Most teachers "think aloud" while reading, modeling the types of thoughts readers have. ("I wonder what happens next." or "I think he's going to..." are great conversation starters with children!)
- Reading aloud helps children learn how stories are structured. They learn how stories typically begin by introducing the characters and setting, then things develop, a conflict arises, then a solution.
- Reading aloud helps children recognize and explore feelings through the characters in the stories read to them. They develop empathy and compassion.
- Read alouds encourage thinking.
- Read alouds encourage imagination!
- Read alouds encourage children to express themselves more clearly and more confidently.
- Reading to children is fun for all involved. What could be better than that?
I'm only familiar with a couple of these, but I'm very excited to see some of the new ones. If you click each picture, it links to Amazon for a description of the story.
These are the suggested Read Aloud Poetry collections for Grades 2 and 3:
|Song of the Jellicles
|Your World
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
For lists of Exemplar Texts for other grades click HERE.


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Marriage Certificate
This is to certify that
Mr. James F. Wykle, Jr.
of Akron, Ohio
Miss Rosa Lee Pietkoski
of Akron, Ohio
were by me
United in Marriage
according to the Ordinance of God, and the Laws of the
State of Ohio, at Akron Ohio
on the 15th day of July A.D. 1946.
What, therefore, God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder. Rev. W.E. Henry, Officiating
Matt. 19-6
Mrs. Carl B. Carter [signature]
Carl B. Carter [signature] Witnesses
Probate Court
Summit County, Ohio
Marriage License
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I like many of you were saddened to hear of the death of Nelson Mandela, a man who stuck to his unshakeable beliefs and principles in the most trying of circumstances, becoming the focal point of a struggle that would eventually break the apartheid era regime in South Africa.
Instead of writing about the great man himself, what I want to talk about firstly is the impact he had on me personally and to then look at the sickening levels of hypocrisy shown by the political and media classes who have cynically abused his death as an opportunity to gain some desperately needed cachet.
As a child of the 1980's, one of my first realisations of political action were seeing my parents close down their bank accounts with Barclays Bank for their support of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Before my tenth birthday, I had become accustomed to checking the labels on our fruits and vegetables, if it came from "The Cape" or from companies that were operating in South Africa, then they were not bought.
These were my early roots of being politicised, as an act of solidarity to those in South Africa.
The Boycott Divestment & Sanctions broke the back of the apartheid regime in South Africa & the exact same thing can happen in Israel.
The similarity between apartheid era South Africa and that of modern day Israel are plain for all to see. You can read more about this on an earlier article I wrote for MPACUK titled "The World Against Israeli Apartheid"
The mainstream press in Britain has been gushing in its praise for Nelson Mandela, but in their desire to remove him from politics & make him a saint does him a disservice.
The western narrative has become of a saintly Nelson Mandela that turned the other cheek, that there is no room for his type of radical politics.
Today, as you see whitewashed images of a post-prison, unarmed, grandfatherly Nelson Mandela, please remember that he was someone who had the pride and courage to take up arms against his oppressor. Mandela fought in a guerilla war against white supremacy in South Africa, as did many others all across the world. It was the CIA that alerted the South African authorities to Mandela's location, which is what led to his 27 years behind bars and the medical condition which felled him today. The American government was responsible for that crime.
So when you see the likes of Obama and his fellow politicians crying their crocodile tears later today remember that today, they imprison the modern day Mandela's, that they murder the modern day Mandela's with their drone strikes, remember that these are the politicians that arm the apartheid government of Israel to wreak war and destruction in Palestine and that these are the politicians that do everything they can to crush the kind of dissenting voice that Nelson Mandela stood for.
Our very own David Cameron (probably Gideon Osbourne & Boris Johnson) was part of the Conservative Federation of Students in 1985 when they produced this "Hang Mandela" poster
If that wasn't enough, in 1989, David Cameron marked Nelson Mandela's 26th year in prison sipping wine with the apartheid state's rulers.
The hypocrisy of certain people shouldn't go unchecked:
Conservative Home had a bit more of a realism to their piece "Mandela and the Right" where they stated, without attempting to deny their previous hatred of Mandela:
"In some quarters of the Right when I was a student, there was sympathy for apartheid (on the racist ground that black people are the inferiors of others) and, in a few cases, outright support. It felt foul then, and the memory of it is no nicer now."
After Nelson Mandela was released from prison he wrote an open letter to (one of Rupert Murdoch's key lieutenants at the Murdoch owned New York Times) the unashamed zionist propagandist Thomas Friedman, stating:
"The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not just an issue of military occupation and Israel is not a country that was established "normally" and happened to occupy another country in 1967. Palestinians are not struggling for a "state" but for freedom, liberation and equality, just like we were struggling for freedom in South Africa"
A few years ago, I wrote about the story of Islam's resistance to colonialism & apartheid in South Africa and how it echoed Nelson Mandela's struggle.
Not only was Nelson Mandela listed as a terrorist by both Reagan's US & Thatcher's UK Governments, but his party, the African National Congress, or the ANC, was listed as a terrorist organisation.
How many of today's terrorists in future will be remembered as 'brave apartheid fighters,' or 'brave freedom fighters?'
Mandela was openly welcomed and coveted the world over by kings and queens, prime ministers and presidents.
Yet how was it that so called "great leaders" like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan designated Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist,' and his party, a 'terrorist organisation?' for simply wanting self determination from the white, European colonial powers and to give back the indigenous people back their land and their rights, in their own country.
To sum it all up, as my brother said
We Muslims should be the first to appreciate the lessons that Nelson Mandela taught us in his struggle for freedom.
Those who dismiss the death of Mandela as just the death of another man do not appreciate what his life meant to the oppressed of his time, and to those oppressed now.


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In a recent Houston Chronicle Op-ed piece, Sen. John Cornyn explained his vote for the 'fiscal cliff' deal and simultaneously called on President Barack Obama to promptly put forth a plan to deal with the upcoming debt ceiling deadline and "launch serious, transparent budget negotiations."
Cornyn warned that if the president does not take immediate action, partial shutdown of the U.S. government might be necessary. He argued:
"The coming deadlines will be the next flashpoints in our ongoing fight to bring fiscal sanity to Washington. It may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country, rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain. President Obama needs to take note of this reality and put forward a plan to avoid it immediately."
This suggestion did not sit well with Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who, in a post on his official Facebook page, accused the Republican senator of channeling Newt Gingrich.
In the post, the Austin Democrat wrote:
"Amazingly, last week, Senator John Cornyn took a page out of Newt Gingrich's Government Shutdown playbook when he suggested that "it may be necessary to partially shut down the government…." to achieve Republican objectives. While agreeing with Senator Cornyn that we must "bring fiscal sanity" to Washington, that sanity can hardly be realized by jeopardizing the full faith and credit of the United States. The last time Republicans held hostage a resolution to ensure that our country's bills were paid cost us more than $1 billion in added interest and slowed the economic recovery. Big challenges lie ahead."
Gingrich, who as Speaker of the House allowed government to shut down twice during President Bill Clinton's administration, said this weekend that Republican should use the possibility of shutdown to support their spending cuts.
While appearing on Meet the Press this weekend, he said:
"They don't have to say, "We're going to be wimps." I've helped closed the government twice. It actually worked. Bill Clinton came in and said, "The era of big government's over," after two closings. Not before."
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The hearing in San Antonio, one of six cities to host such public meetings, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Alamo Area Council of Governments building.
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Some years ago, before my friend Kelly birthed two beautiful children, she went through a hell of a lot of pregnancy tests. Surgeries, miscarriages, tearful phone calls and texts that broke sad news. She needed her friends, and we were there for her. Answering calls, showing up. We'd cry over beer in big bar booths and drop off cards and casseroles when hopes were shattered once again. We promised her it was going to happen someday, and it did.
I remember huddling in the back seat of her car one day after the second miscarriage. She was devastated, and we didn't know how to fix it. But we were there, silent and strong. "We're here for you," we said. Because it's all we knew to say.
She created an expression during that time, one that's stuck with this group since. "The Net," she called us. Because we caught her when she fell.
As years have passed, we've all taken our turns jumping in. We promise to catch each other, and we do our best. Sometimes we screw up. Sometimes we fall apart. New friends join forces, old friends strengthen theirs. But, in the end…we are there.
This year, when I was down and called for help, The Net showed up. Every one of them. Braiding their fibers together to make something stronger. I jumped, and they caught me. And I will never forget what it felt like to fall–softly, safely–in that place.
On the anniversary of the night where, a year earlier, I needed them more than ever, I wanted to celebrate them.
I dreamed of what it would look like. And, like Christmas morning, I dreamed big. I wanted a circle. I wanted love. I wanted music and candles and something no one would forget. I wanted summer camp kumbaya but the grown-up kind, with drinks and sex jokes and laughter that organically shifted into tears and sharing and "I love yous." I wanted everyone to really, truly feel connected and loved in that circle but, at the same time, I didn't want some cheesy "Wind Beneath my Wings" stunt either. Because I'm the first one to roll my eyes at a baby shower when we have to play one of those games where some girl loses an eye when she says the word "Baby." I just wanted it to be real and good and meaningful.
So, a couple weeks ago, Heidi made plans and called our friend who owns a restaurant while I sent out an e-mail and asked The Net to come. I asked each woman to bring a charm–something that would be given to another woman that night. Any charm that represented the celebration and power of women–a favorite memory, a word of advice, a symbol of strength. It was a stretch, sure, and could damn near head down the cheesy "Wind Beneath my Wings" road, but maybe…just maybe…it would be magic.
Saturday night, twenty-eight women stepped into the candle-lit den of Lucarelli's to celebrate each other.
There was music. And candles. And a special menu created just for us that night…with Nella Bella-linis.
I brought new friends and cousins and smiled as I watched my old friends lovingly welcome them, embrace them, treat them like sisters. I felt so proud of my friends, happy to show them off.
There was laughter and bruschetta and peach fizzy drinks named after my girl. There was wild, good energy that wafted through the room like the first spring breeze that sweeps through open windows. And slowly, chairs gathered. First a few, then a few more. Bodies crowded, quilts spread out, and soon, there it was…one beautiful circle. No Wind Beneath my Wings cue or all-call to prick fingers and share blood. It happened, just like that.
"Look, it's happening," Heidi says.
"I know…it's just like I imagined," I replied.
And the rest of the night was magic. The Net at its finest.
We shared, until 2 in the morning, our pains, our joys, our challenges. We cheered each other on. We cried and hugged and thanked each other for being there. We said "this is incredible" and "how come we don't do this more often?" and inside we knew it was really special, meant to be saved for moments like this.
There is no way to really explain what happened in that room. The way each woman told her story. The way everyone listened. The way it seemed every charm was hand-picked for its recipient. The way I didn't want the night to end.
Twenty-eight women. All different, all passionate, all capable. We have our issues–our drama, our fall-outs, our misunderstandings. Because we are women, and with that comes spunk and vigor and the need to be heard and validated. With that comes the beautiful storm of strong opinions and the force of which we express them. There are pains. But, underneath all that, there is so much love. There is the need to answer a call when it comes forth. And when it does, it's truly a beautiful thing.
I've been there.
I couldn't help but scan the room and think of every one of these women's journey. We've showed up. At funerals, in birth rooms, at parties, in the middle of the night. We've taken phone calls, e-mails, held, hugged and prayed. And we'll do it again.
I feel so privileged to know these women. They are strong, beautiful souls, and I am daily inspired by what they bring to my life.
These women are bona fide rockstars. …and I have the charm to prove it.
I made them all promise to remember that evening. To not wake up the next morning and regret opening up, crying, saying "I love you." And I promised not to post the other pictures.
We danced. We loved. We celebrated. We balanced the heavy emotion and puffy eyes of meaningful stories with really funny moments that can't be repeated. It was perfect.
And I couldn't help but think a hundred times that night where I was exactly one year before. Huddled in a dark room, out of breath, out of tears, and certain life would never be the same.
Thanks to these women, life is so much more. We are all so very capable.
We will move on. We will tuck our charms in drawers and soon forget they're there. We'll stop talking about that night and what was said.
But, when one of us falls, we'll remember. We will be there…the ever faithful, loving Net.
After three hours of sleep that night, we huddled the next morning in the party-crashed living room, clutching coffee cups, rubbing dark eye circles, and reliving the magic. It was that good.
Bless poor Brett's heart.
And bless the $100 Little Lesiw gift certificate winner, Commenter #631, Melissa Marie: Been following for a little less than a year. Your words are true and honest. Thank you for not sugar coating it all! Heading over to buy some beautiful head bows. 🙂 We are anticipating our third foster baby…a little girl! (we have had her brothers who are 2 and 1 for the past 12 months. Thank you for your honesty!
Congratulations, Melissa. Please e-mail your contact info to [email protected], and you'll be picking some blooms for that sweet baby's hair in no time.
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And to my Net…to every woman present the other night…you are amazing and I love you.
ADDENDUM: Several have e-mailed about the bracelets and how the charms worked. Simple, inexpensive bracelets were purchased at Joann's (or I found the same ones HERE) and each woman brought with them a charm they had already purchased (search 'silver charm' on Etsy or Google…it's amazing what they have charms for. EVERYTHING) Each woman present had their name written on a slip of paper, and all the papers were put in a bowl. Everyone drew a name (putting it back, of course, if they drew their own name) and your own charm went to the woman whose name you chose. Circle starts and you tell your story and what your charm means, give your charm away, etc. Make sense?


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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Ghost Legion
Posted by Rot at 9:29 PM
Labels: candy, e v peters, flickr.com, ghosts, trick or treat
2 comments:
- Pam Morris said...
didn't everybody do these things in grade school? altho' it was a LONG time ago, I seem to remember putting a kleenex over a tootsie roll sucker and making a face with a marker.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Rot said...
Yep. Annual ritual of Halloween.
You made this sort of thing on the day of Halloween in class and the teacher would turn out the lights and read ghost stories like the Green Ribbon.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM
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Remnants of an 18th-century ship found buried in soil 20 feet under the World Trade Center site four years ago have been traced to Colonial-Era Philadelphia, according to a new study.
The 32-foot piece of the vessel was found in July 2010 as bulldozers excavated a parking garage for the future building. At the time, historians said the ship likely dated back to the 1700s, and that it was defunct by the time lower Manhattan's western shoreline covered it up around 1818.
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In a study published in the journal Tree Ring Research, the scientists say they traced the white oak used in the ship's frame to an old growth forest in the Philadelphia era. The article says the trees were probably cut around 1773, shortly before the Revolutionary War.
Wood sampled from Independence Hall in Philadelphia 20 years ago had growth rings that matched those from the World Trade Center ship, suggesting the wood used in both constructions came from the same area.
Scientists say they believe the ship is a Hudson River Sloop, designed by the Dutch to carry passengers and cargo over shallow, rocky water. The article says it was likely built in Philadelphia, a shipbuilding hub during the Colonial era, and used for 20 to 30 years before sailing to what would become its final stop in lower Manhattan.
Workers and archaeologists had also found a 100-pound anchor in the same area as the ship, but it wasn't clear at the time if it belonged to the ship.


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D Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, today deposed before a Delhi court in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case.
Although Dr Subbarao said he had questioned in 2007 the spectrum fee of around Rs. 1,600 crore for pan-India licence, he added: "It is correct that while determining policy, the government has to make a balance between welfare maximisation and revenue maximisation. In this case if there was a sacrifice of some revenue, it cannot be said that the government suffered a loss."
Dr Subbarao, who was the Finance Secretary from April 2007 to September 2008, is a key witness in the case in which former telecom minister A Raja and others are facing trial. During the recording of his statement, Subbarao told the court he had written a letter on November 22, 2007, to the then telecom secretary D.S. Mathur, in which he had questioned the spectrum fee of around Rs. 1,600 crore for pan India licence.
He said that he had also questioned as to how the spectrum fee of Rs. 1,600 crore, which was fixed in 2001, could be applied in 2007. "I also questioned how the rate of Rs. 1,600 crore, determined in as far as back in 2001, could be applied for licences given in 2007...," he told special CBI judge O.P. Saini.
CBI prosecutor A.K. Singh also showed various files and notes of various departments concerned, including that of Department of Telecom and Ministry of Finance, to Subbarao during the recording of his statement which is likely to continue throughout the day.
Till November 11, the court had recorded statements of 77 CBI witnesses in the case in which Raja is the key accused. Besides Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja's erstwhile private secretary R.K. Chandolia, Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, Unitech Ltd MD Sanjay Chandra, three top executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG)—Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair—are facing trial in the case.
Directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd Asif Balwa and Rajiv Agarwal, Kalaignar TV Director Sharad Kumar and Bollywood producer Karim Morani are also accused in the case.
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Watch the video--only a few minutes long--and you'll see why the audience and presenters were taken aback. The speech is really just one long pause, punctuated by some spacey half-sentences, as she surveys the theater with wary eyes as if she is afraid of someone pulling her offstage. It's uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch. News stories speculated that she was drunk or on drugs when she took the stage that night.
"The truth of the matter is that my condition had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol," Duke said in an interview 20 years later. "I was having a serious emotional breakdown. Unlike most people in trouble who fall apart in the privacy of their bedrooms, I fell apart on network television."
Duke had been ill for years at that point, but her disease went unnamed. She recalled weeks where she couldn't stop crying and never left her bed, followed by weeks where she went on outrageous spending sprees and acted like "queen of the world." She had not slept for three weeks before the Emmy broadcast. Finally, in 1982 she saw a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with bipolar disorder (then called manic depression) and began the lithium treatments that probably saved her life.
The 1970 Emmy speech was a disaster, so why feature it here? There's not much in the speech itself for a speaker to learn from or emulate, that's for sure. But it does remind us of a few things:
- A famous speech isn't always a good speech. We've featured speeches in this space that aren't well-written or delivered, or positively received. But like those speeches, Duke's few words certainly meet our standards for a speech that garnered a wide audience and made a strong public impact.
- A bad speech isn't the end of the world. Duke said that the 1970 Emmys were the first time that the public might have noticed "a chink in the armor," and she was frightened that she would lose work as a result of the bizarre performance. But she continued to act, receiving two more Emmy awards and two Golden Globe awards later in her career. After she was finally treated for her disease, she went on to become a vocal advocate for mental health and was even elected president of the Screen Actors Guild.
- Some speeches serve as the opening salvo of a longer conversation. I think it's possible to view Duke's halting, stumbling, painful words at the Emmys as the first lines of a much longer speech she gave for the rest of her life, after her diagnosis. She was one of the first celebrities to go public with her own struggles with mental illness. She was candid in discussing how the disease made her behave, how she attempted to cope with it, and what the fallout had been for her personal and professional life. In the second half of her career, she spoke out often about efforts to diagnose mental illness and to remove the stigma from mental illness so that people would seek treatment. She spoke on behalf of the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, discussed bipolar disorder in countless interviews and even testified before Congress on the topic. Her Emmy acceptance might have been a disastrous start, but it led to a lifetime of speaking that has made a difference in the lives of many.
Duke died in 2016 at age 69. Watch the short video of this famous speech here or below:
Patty Duke Wins Oustanding Single Performance Emmy for MY SWEET CHARLIE | Emmys Archive (1970)
(Freelance writer Becky Ham contributed this Famous Speech Friday.)
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Up to 1,500 local, national and international media are expected to be at the media filing center at the Polk County convention center in Des Moines for the first-in-the-nation caucus Tuesday night. Media working out of the filing center had access to beverages, food, ice cream, treadmills and tech tools in the Google Hangout, sponsored by Google. Several local vendors set up shop, too, and Google had a technical support team on site. (Photo by Matt Woolbright / for the Register)
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Popped over to Shooter's place yesterday on the way to the shooting ground to
Once you step though the door of his unassuming suburban home you meet some evidence of his grandfathers hunting adventures. I don't know about you but I've never seen one of these before. Maybe I've led a sheltered life?
As ever lots of great tales were told, he introduced me to 'Lemon, Lime, and Bitters' [a most refreshing drink] and took me to the A1 Shooting Ground all in all a great afternoon. Thanks mate.
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Synopsis: The first of 4 movies that retells the anime story from 1996.
The director Anno Hideaki affirms that everything remembers its old home, studio GAINAX, when he counts on creating a new, improved and updated Evangelion. The film is being handled by the production veteran that worked on the original Evangelion, as well as other new talents; the director suggests that this will exceed the success of the past series.
Anno is responsible for writing an adaptation for the cinema version.
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America Rejects Obama, anti-Obama thoughts, Constitution, country music legend, Culture of Corruption, current-events, Economics, Entertainment, Federal Spending, Hank Williams Jr., media, minister benjamin netanyahu, music superstart, new rules, old school, politics, we have a muslim president, Winning Elections
August 20, 2012 by Joe Kovacs
He 'hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!'
Country-music legend Hank Williams Jr. unleashed another round of less-than-flattering words for Barack Obama, this time Friday night at the Iowa State Fair.
According to the Des Moines Register, after Williams performed the song "We Don't Apologize For America" a chant of "USA, USA" broke out among the crowd.
The singer responded with a smile, telling the audience he was their mouthpiece and added:
"We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!"
The crowd apparently loved what it heard, responding with "loud and enthusiastic" cheers.
The Register says when reached for comment Saturday, Brad Anderson with the Obama campaign in Iowa said, "That type of absurd nonsense doesn't really deserve a response."
In July, Williams Jr. told Rolling Stone magazine Obama "hates America in the first place, forget about the flag."
Last October, the music legend received massive publicity when he appeared on "Fox & Friends" and blasted a golf game between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.
"It'd be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," Williams said at the time.
The video clip went viral, prompting ESPN to permanently drop Williams' "Monday Night Football" theme from its football program after 22 years.
"I was right," Williams told Rolling Stone. "ESPN might have done me the biggest favor in the world. It has snowballed since October."
In that magazine interview, Williams again discussed his belief that Obama is a Muslim, saying, "You know, we've got a president that does a call to the Quran or Mecca or whatever."
He explained his opinion of Obama has gotten worse since he was first elected in 2008.
"I mean, it's a zero," Williams said. "If I was at my office and I could get to my Internet and list the things like where our economy is – you don't want to go there with me. I mean, the guy is the worst. Giveaway programs, hates America in the first place, forget about the flag. …
"We have borrowed ourselves into our poor grandchildren. Now my opinion has gone down. It was pretty low to start with. It's really gone down since then. I mean, there's a whole lot of us out here, we flip the tube off when that guy comes on. We're not listening and we ain't watching."
To help publicize his anti-Obama thoughts, Williams recently issued a 10-disc album titled "Old School, New Rules."
One of the song lyrics say, "Hey Barack, pack your bags, head to Chicago, take your teleprompter with you so you'll know where to go."


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Plant the Right Way
Here's a step-by-step guide to help you start your tree off right.
1. Dig in!
Dig a hole twice as wide as the root ball and slightly shallower than the root ball. (The root ball is comprised of all the roots contained in a pot. The top of the root ball begins where the roots start to emerge from the trunk.)
2. Roughen the soil
If your planting hole has slick sides, roughen the sides and bottom with a pick or shovel. This makes it easier for root tips to penetrate into the native soil.
3. Remove the container
Be gentle but firm when removing the container from your tree. Making sure to protect the foliage, lay the tree on its side with the container end near the planting hole. Hit the bottom and sides of the container until the root ball is loosened. Slide the pot off the root ball and gently lower the tree into the hole.
4. Separate the roots
Check the root ball for circling roots. If circling roots are left in place near the trunk, they will cut into the trunk as the trunk's girth expands. Gently uncurl and straighten the roots so that they are going outward from the trunk. If a circling root is too stiff to move, you may need to cut it off, but be careful not to cut off too much of the root ball. If cutting circling roots will account for too much of the root ball, wait a year so that more roots will have grown. Do this quickly and shade the tree roots from the sun, so they don't dry out and die.
5. Don't bury the trunk
If soil covers the base of the trunk, it will lead to rot. Aim to have the top of the root ball about 1/2 to 1 inch above the surrounding soil surface, making sure not to cover it with soil unless roots are exposed. Adjust the hole depth by lifting the tree out of the hole (lift it by the root ball, not by the trunk) and adjusting the soil level in the planting hole.
6. Orient the tree
Orient the tree while you have the chance. Situate it so that branches won't be in the way of pedestrian or car traffic. If you prefer a particular side of the tree, turn it toward a prominent viewpoint (such as your kitchen window). In sunny areas, orient the tree so that the best-shaded side of the trunk faces southwest. When turning the tree, lift it from the base of the root ball, not from the base of the trunk.
7. Make sure it's upright
Once the tree is in the hole, stand back and make sure it's standing upright. Tilt the root ball until the tree is straight, then backfill firmly under and around the root ball.
8. Give your soil a boost
If your native soil is hard to work with (e.g., heavy clay) or retains little moisture (e.g., very sandy), you can treat it to some organic amendment, such as compost. The amendment won't be a permanent solution to soil deficiencies, but it will help retain water and air in the soil around the root ball for the first few vital years. If adding soil amendment, always mix it with soil from the planting site; about one part amendment to three parts native soil is a good proportion for backfill soil.
9. Pack the soil
Pack down the soil as you backfill. Using the heel of your foot or the handle end of the shovel, press down firmly to collapse any large air pockets in the soil. This will help stabilize the tree in the hole. Don't wait until the planting is finished; press down every few shovels of soil.
10. Water!
Build a watering basin around the root ball by creating a berm a little larger than the root ball perimeter. This concentrates water to the root ball. A tree that has a dry root ball can stand in a moist backfill without absorbing water. You'll need to water your tree thoroughly after planting with about 15 gallons of water. Monitor your tree's water needs at least once a week for the first month. This will give you an idea as to the frequency your tree will need water growing in your particular soil.
11. Stake
Remove the nursery stake that came tightly tied to the trunk after planting. Stake the tree loosely for protection or support if needed. Use only soft, pliable tree ties. Do not use wire, even if it's inside a hose. Wire can cut into a trunk. If the trunk can't stand up on its own, stake it so that it stands upright. The stakes should be placed outside of the root ball. Plan to remove stakes as soon as the tree can support itself, in 6 to 12 months.
12. Mulch
Cover the entire planting area with a 3 to 4-inch layer of mulch, but keep it 2 inches from the base of the trunk. Mulch keeps the topsoil temperate for root growth, reduces surface evaporation of water, slows or stops weed and grass growth around the tree's base, and prevents a hard crust from forming on the soil surface.


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We get a lot of requests for co-promotions here at ProBlogger, and at Digital Photography School as well.No matter what niche you're in, if your blog has a reasonably engaged audience, you're probably the target for others who want to promote their new products. On the flip side, you may well target other bloggers when you want to promote your own blog products.
But negotiating coverage can be tough—and making sure the product's promotion reaches the host blog's audience in a meaningful way can be even tougher.
Today I want to show you how to do just that, using a great example from Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.
The post
The post is How a Part-Time Blogger Landed His Dream Job—an Interview with Leslie Samuel.
Now, let me say up front that I have no idea how this interview came about, although Pat does say at the beginning of the podcast that he a Leslie have been friends for some time.
I do know that a lot of bloggers who'd love coverage like this for their products wonder how it's done—even if they're not personal friends with any A-list bloggers. So let's pull this post apart a bit and see how you could replicate this kind of coverage for your next product launch—or to make the most of someone else's launch on your own blog.
The post introduces a podcast—Pat posts regular podcasts on his blog—which contains an interview with Leslie, who tells the story of how he came to enjoy online success.
The post points out what's covered in the podcast, and links to the services mentioned. It also links to the podcast, then mentions a special offer that Leslie's making exclusively to Pat's readers for his product.
What's so good about this post?
Sounds simple, right? We all see posts like this all the time online. What's so good about them?
- The post provides valuable information independently of the promotion: The podcast is free. Anyone can listen to it—you can do it right there on Pat's blog if you don't want to download it. So any of Pat's followers can access the valuable information Leslie has to share, without spending any money.
- The information in the post isn't focused on the product offer: Throughout the interview, Leslie tells a rich, deep story that's packed with advice and tips. He gives it all away. Sometimes you'll come across posts whose authors constantly refer to their new product or promotion, and some references aren't always bad—often they're necessary. But to make the product the focus of the post (or in this case, interview) can turn off more readers than it entices.
- The offer comes at the end of the post: Pat makes mention of the special discount separately, at the end of his post. Leslie gets to it at the end of the interview. It's clear, and obvious, which draws it to readers' attention, and simultaneously lets them know that if they're not keen, they can skip it.
- The offer is provided independently of the host blog: While I have nothing against affiliate links (as you'll know if you read ProBlogger or DPS regularly), promoting an offer in which you have no personal stake can be a great way to add credibility to the product, and communicate to your readers how much you're focused on them.
From the guest's point of view—Leslie, who has a product to promote—this super-credible approach to his story is great. He gets excellent coverage, which builds his profile regardless of whether people actually take up his offer or not. He also gets to make a great offer to a massive audience he might have trouble reaching otherwise. And he boosts his reputation as a guru without risking being seen as too salesy.
Pat, meanwhile, gets excellent content for his readers, and an exclusive deep discount on a product they're likely to be interested in. This reinforces his position as a guru, too—again, without seeming salesy.
The message for host bloggers
If someone contacts you about a promotion they want you to mention on your blog, look at the potential value it can give your readers—and not just through the promotion itself.
See what gems you can get the blogger to "give away" in an interview, rich guest post, or infographic. Think about free value for your readers, not pushing a product.
The message for product promoters
Don't see the opportunity as one for selling—see it as a chance to build authority with a new audience. What can you tell them that the host blogger can't? That's what you should share.
Focus on what's unique about you, translate that into advice and help, and readers will automatically be motivated to click through to your blog, and take up your offer.
How to do it
This post presents great, unique information in a format that's familiar and interesting to the host blog's audience. While not all blog hosts will want to run hour-long interviews with product promoters, the path to the best opportunities is to match the key elements of the product that's being promoted with the key needs of the host blog's audience.
For the product promoter
For the product promoter, this means taking your product offer, and focusing on the aspect of it that's central to your brand.
For Leslie, it's about his journey to become a blogger—what it's taken for him to build a popular blog from scratch. That's what he wants to focus on in his coverage on the host blog. So he might come up with a few different ideas for exposure (through a post, a recorded interview, a series—the sky's the limit when you're proposing to help another blogger by providing content!) and pick one or two that seem to suit his brand and the host blog's audience best.
Now as I say, I have no idea how this interview came about, but let's suppose Leslie initiated it. He might approach Pat about the coverage, explain what he has to share, how it'll help Pat's audience, and mention the offer he's willing to give Pat's listeners if Pat's open to that.
For the host blogger
For the host blogger, the challenge is to match that central element of the product promoter's brand with the needs of the audience. So Pat would need to make sure that Leslie's focus could be framed in an appropriate and really compelling way for his readers and listeners.
Of course, since Pat's podcasts often include interviews, he may have approached Leslie about the interview himself, having spotted the solid fit between Leslie's site and his own. He might have been the one who came up with the ideas for the interview coverage, including topics and questions, and approached Leslie with them. We bloggers are always looking for great content, after all! An hour is a lot of time to take out of a busy blogger's week, so Pat may also have offered the opportunity for Leslie to promote his product as part of the interview.
Finding the right fit
As you can see, getting great coverage of a person and/or their product on a blog is a matter of fit.
The two brands need to align on some level, and the two bloggers need to work to make that alignment work in the best way possible for the host blog's readers.
If you can do this as a product promoter, you'll find it much easier to get really deep promotion on others' blogs.
And if you can do this as a host blogger, you won't have much trouble coming up with posts that really provide massive value to your readers, and position you as your niche's go-to guy or girl.
Have you promoted someone else's product through a post on your blog? Or had your product promoted through another blog? Tell us how it came about—and why it worked—in the comments.


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Watering the Tulips
September 25, 2013
"For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" – 1 Corinthians 2:2
This is to be our primary message today. If ever this ceases to be the foundation of our sermons and services, we have missed the mark. Plainly, Paul said, "For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:11). In all that we do, Christ is to be the foundation. Until a person knows Christ for Who He is…until they trust Him alone as Savior…nothing else really matters.
It can be so easy to go out into the world to share whatever our "pet doctrine" is. But, this is not our mission. Now certainly, I do not mean to say that the Bible doesn't contain many truths on various subjects. It certainly does. And therefore, these things are important and should be preached in church capacity so the children of God are built up. But even then, Christ must always remain the focus. It really matters little what doctrine we point to. If it takes the preeminence over Christ, we are looking at it wrong.
The Bible is a book about Jesus. Sure, there are other subjects in the Bible. But, He is the Theme from start to finish. He is the "Seed of the woman" (Genesis 3:15) and He is the everlasting King (Revelation 19-22). The Bible presents the shortcomings and rebellion of a sinful race. It clearly shows God as the Righteous Sovereign Who will soon judge the descendants of Adam. And clearly, Christ is the only Way of escape.
Baptism pictures His death, burial and resurrection. The Lord's Supper reminds us of His broken body and shed blood. The songs we sing should praise Him for dying for our sins. The prayers we pray are only possible because He alone is our Mediator (1 Timothy 2:5). Even in sermons preached on other subjects, Christ should always clearly be the underlying Theme.
Paul's primary meaning in the passage before us today concerns missionary work. As we go into the world, the Gospel is to be our primary message. Christ clearly commissioned the Gospel to be preached first (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15). Those that believe are then taught other things. But first, a person must know Christ. This is the example we see in the early churches. And, they had great success doing things as God instructed…as He worked through them, of course.
Children of God, let us ever seek to follow the Lord's instruction. There is a lost and dying world out there that needs Christ whether they ever know it or not. Let us carry forth that message as we've been instructed to…as the early churches did…as Jesus did.
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You ever had one of those days where if you were certain the dog wouldn't pee on the floor, you'd never have gotten out of bed? That's me today. I am a staggering comedy of errors.
See, a staggering comedy of errors as the PVCs made me dizzy. So far this morning, I've already ran into two door frames and stubbed my foot on my desk. Then I filled the coffee maker with water and was about to turn it on when I realized there was no coffee in it. The dizziness also gives me a raging headache and as it's raining today, the Sheltie thinks he should bark every couple of minutes to warn me of the thunder.
Oh, and did I mention that I have to work today? Yeah, see my company, in their cheap wisdom, decided to cut our sick time in half, so now it only takes one major thing and it's all gone like the foot surgery I had last year - and yes, that's the foot I stubbed this morning). All I have to say is, they're getting pot luck and that's no one's fault but their own.
Despite the back/cold/breathing problems of the last two weeks, I've been working on my schedule for 2012. This year, I will release four books with Harlequin and at least one straight-to-digital, the first of a new humorous mystery series. All while still working full time. I know, I'm a glutton.
I've also decided that 2012 is the year of organization. We moved in a rush in July and things are just shoved into closets or boxes. I have got to pull everything out, judiciously donate things we don't need, and get everything else labeled and stored.
2012 is also the year of the social butterfly. Yes, I said it. I'm going to work harder staying in touch with you guys. For an introvert that hasn't paid much attention to social media, I'm sorta behind the curve. But I'll get there. I have a year, right? (BTW, when I first wrote this post, I said "behind the curse." Freudian slip, much?) :)
So now, I have homework for you: when you get a chance, please go Like my new Facebook Author Page. I will use that page to announce all coming books and for contests during the year. Here's a link:
Jana DeLeon Author Page
Last but not least, 2012 is the year I get into better shape, health-wise. I know, I said it. But the reality is, I'm not getting any younger, yet I want to work even harder. I have to be in good enough shape to do that. I'm not going to make drastic changes - just small changes along the way until I've created a way of life that is healthy and tolerable.
What about you? Any big plans for the new year? Did you accomplish everything you wanted to in 2011?
Write a post about your 2012 and you'll be entered to win a $25 gift card to bn/amazon - your choice. I am also giving away three copies of my February 2012 Intrigue release - so you can get it early, if you're selected. All posts enter you in the grand prize drawing for the Kindle or Nook.
Good luck!
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Hip-hop artist Kid Cudi was arrested on Friday in New York and charged with criminal mischief and criminal possession of a controlled substance, The Associated Press reported.
Sgt. John Butorn of the New York City police announced the charges.
The rapper, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, was slated to perform at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee at 3 a.m. "I really wanted to be here tonight," he said after he took the stage.
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Known for his song "Day 'N' Nite," Cudi released his debut album, "Man on the Moon: The End of the Day," in 2009. He also plays Domingo Brown in the HBO comedy series "How to Make it in America."
According to his bio on the show's Web site, Cudi has been nominated for BET, MTV and Grammy awards. The rapper from Cleveland has also guested on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and appeared in fashion magazines including GQ and Glamour.


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The 2012 Vice Presidential Debate Awards (Danville Edition)
Who delivered the night's best zinger? The best use of one's family history for political gain? The best suck-up to Martha Raddatz? Slate hands out the honors.
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan went toe-to-toe Thursday in the vice presidential debate. Each candidate had moments. To score the evening, Slate brings you the 2012 Vice Presidential Debate Awards—who was the best supporting actor for his party's nominee? The envelope please:
The Best Zinger from Ryan: Paul Ryan got the biggest laugh of the night at Biden's expense: "I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way."
The Best Zinger from Biden: Biden went right for Paul Ryan's boss: "I may be mistaken. [Romney] changes his mind so often, I could be wrong."
The Best Use of a Euphemism: Biden calls out "marlarkey" when he sees it: "This is a bunch of stuff."
The Best Suck-Up to the Moderator: Ryan tried to win over Martha: "You've been there (to Afghanistan) more than the both of us combined."
The Best Use of One's Family History for Political Gain: Ryan reached for the family scrapbook: "A little baby was in the shape of a bean. And to this day, we have nicknamed our firstborn child Liza, 'Bean.' Now I believe that life begins at conception."
The Best Invocation of a Kennedy: Biden played the Kennedy card: "Oh, now you're Jack Kennedy."
The Best Wrist-Slap: Biden called Ryan out for some stimulus hypocrisy: "And I love my friend here. I—I'm not allowed to show letters, but go on our website, he sent me two letters saying, 'By the way, can you send me some stimulus money for companies here in the state of Wisconsin?' We sent millions of dollars."
The Best Use of False Camaraderie: Biden called Ryan "my friend" 14 times. Here's one of many: "When my friend talks about fissile material …"
The Best Use of Nonverbal Cues: It might have been the Biden smile, but we gave it to the eye roll:


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As the saying goes, it's not about how you start but how you finish. End every race on a high note with these tips to finish strong.
Overcoming an Injury
The effects of an injury may not be entirely physical. Mental fitness can help manage and accelerate your recovery process.
Uncomfortably Numb - Tips for Healthy Hands
Pins-and-needles, decreased grip strength and even numbness in your hands can be especially annoying to cyclists. Let's examine the causes to find some solutions.
Rub Out Sore Legs With Massage
Massage is one of the few topics in cycling that hasn't been worked to death, which is ironic considering that massage is one of the earliest recorded forms of physical therapy and has been used by different cultures for 3,000 years.
Preventing Saddle Sores
Getting back on the bike after a layoff can literally be a pain in the butt. Making a few adjustments to your cycling wardrobe and bike, however, can limit the risk for saddle sores.
Cycling Medicine: Acute Overuse of the Legs
In the rush to cram cycling into our busy lifestyles, recovery is typically the first thing that gets thrown out the window. What happens when we push our bodies too far by trying to do it all?
When Flesh Meets Earth
Call it a scrape, a strawberry, minor abrasion or road rash; but they are all basically the same injury. Read on for ways to deal with wounds.
Every Cyclist's Enemy: Exploring Lactic Acid
You've felt it on steep climbs, short sprints or walking up stairs after a long ride--lactic acid. Learn how it affects your muscles and what, if anything, you can do about it.
Women-Only Cycling Issues Explained
Saddle sores and groin problems can quickly sap any desire to get on a bike. Here is some clarification on various causes and solutions to certain women-only issues.
Return to Racing: A Post-Crash Training Plan—Part I
A bad crash can mean a long road to recovery. Here's a look at how one cyclist didn't just get back on the bike, but back in the game.
Return to Racing: A Post-Crash Training Plan—Part II
In Part I, our injured cyclist began his return to racing with short workouts on the indoor trainer. Was he able to overcome the mental walls his crash created and rejoin the peloton?


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I'd like it but for one thing. Your "evil Christian" example was not evil.
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@Lilla Bertalan...how was Adolf Hitler not evil?
Of course Hitler wasn't a christian, he was a catholic.
This graphic is pretty swifty--nice use of facial hair!
More seriously, I agree with the message but not to the point that I'm willing to let religion off the hook for it's due. Religious institutions and the religious mind/worldview can really grease the wheels... I don't give religion any more blame for causing evil than other factors, but since it's taboo to cross The Cross (or Star or Crescent Moon), those who do speak out may seem to have it out for religion.


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Next-gen, multi-touch interfaces
NYU researcher Jefferson Han, creator of a much-blogged large format, multi-touch flat screen interface (see original demo), spoke at this year's TED Conference in Monterey. In this brief but inspiring video, he talks about the technology's potential to enable next-generation interfaces that disappear, doing "the right thing" with a minimum of effort. (It's at times like this that I wish Adobe made hardware!) [Via Mattias Jonsson]
Incidentally, it appears they're using this morphing technology, or something close to it–well worth a look in its own right. (The server MIME types seem wrong, so to view the very cool video, you may have to download it and change the extension to .MP4.)
[Update: For a non-traditional interface that truly sucks (literally), check out this video from the Yahoo! Design Expo.]
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Flevoland may be a young province that was created by human hands, yet this province is also the proud owner of one of the most unspoiled nature reserves of Europe. At the time of drainage of the twelfth province of the Netherlands, Flevoland, there were initially plans to turn the Oostvaardersplassen into an industrial zone. However, because the ground was wet preference was given to an area where nature would have a free hand. Now, it is a marsh area with reed plains, grasslands and ponds that resides a wealth of flora and fauna.
The flora and fauna of Flevoland
The Oostvaardersplassen is an outstanding bird area. From Oostvaardersdijk and Knardijk you can study the Eurasian spoonbill, sea eagle, cormorant, egret, acrocephalus, black stork and many other bird species. The dikes are also called "bird boulevards".
Foxes, deer, hares, bats, and countless insects found the nature reserve on their own. Staatsbosbeheer, a governmental agency that manages the nature reserves of the Netherlands, has decided to give nature a hand and set Heck cattle, Konik horses and red deer out to graze freely.
Much of the nature reserve is closed to the public, so that nature can take its course in an undisturbed manner. Still, in the part that is accessible to all, you can admire all the flora and fauna, including primary forest, reed beds, ponds and large herbivores.
Oostvaardersplassen visitor center
Before admiring the natural beauty of the Oostvaardersplassen, it is best to visit the visitor center at the Kitsweg in Lelystad. Experts can provide you with cycling and walking routes, but also with fun excursions and activities with guides and forest rangers. During these expeditions, you will hear fascinating stories and see the most amazing places of the area.


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See young people aged 9-19 taking action on climate change. The movie series was created by Lynne Cherry, who published a children's book on climate change with CEC member Gary Braasch. Shared by CEC member Andy Alm.
The Young Voices on Climate Change movies feature inspiring young people taking action and finding solutions to the global warming crisis by reducing the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, communities and states.
You, too, can reduce CO2! Learn how to replicate these carbon-reduction projects at www.YoungVoicesOnClimateChange.com
The series was produced and directed by Lynne Cherry, author and illustrator of 30+ popular children's books including the rainforest classic The Great Kapok Tree.
The moview are true stories about Youth Fighting Climate Change:
- Team Marine Santa Monica, California students convinced their city to ban plastic bags.
- Plant for the Planet 11-year-old Felix from Germany planted a million trees with his viral website.
- Dreaming in Green Florida students saved their school $53,000 in energy costs through simple actions.
- Anya: Citizen Science in Siberia Anya Suslova from Siberia helped a scientific research team.
- Kids vs. Global Warming 12-year-old Alec Loorz started imatter and the Sea Level Awareness project.
- Girl Scouts gave out 5000 compact flourescent light bulbs (CFC's) door to door.
- Green Ambassadors greened their school with a Clean Plate Club, recycling, and composting.
The Young Voices on Climate Change movies have been screened at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, at the Museum of Discovery and Science in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, at the COP15 Climate Talks in Copenhagen, at the United Nations and at many film festivals, schools and conferences.
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The story of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and their practice of not paying performers has continued to get coverage. This week the New York Times covered the issue with this article in which they talk to comedians Chris Gethard, Matt Besser, and Nick Turner.
Writer/Comedian/Former editor of WitOut Luke Giordano wrote this excellent piece on the tendency he (and other artists) have to compare themselves to their peers and the relationship between success and hard work for his website Everything You Like is Stupid.
The new David Cross comedy It's a Disaster has been released as a series of six-second clips via Vine as an experiment in social media marketing. The full film will be released through Video on Demand on March 5.
Anthony Jeselnik's new Comedy Central show The Jeselnik Offensive, in which he and a panel of comedians joke about current events and pop culture topics, debuted this week. You can watch the first seven minutes of the episode online.
Comedian and Twitter darling Rob Delaney was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week. First, in a segment called "Old People Read Rob Delaney's Tweets" and later performing a stand-up set.
Splitsider put together this list of 57 books every comedy fan must read.
Watch New York-based stand-up comedian (and frequent Philly performer) Mark Normand make his late-night television debut on Conan.
If you have a free hour, you can watch Dan Harmon talk about himself and his process in creating Community at CommuniCon.
I won't lie – I'm a little worried at how much I agree with Bro Bible's list of "13 Hilarious Movies that Prove Our Review System is Broken".
Andy Samberg talks on Conan about one of his favorite unaired SNL sketches.
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Finally, a unicycle without the effort. (Geeks rejoice!) Honda's got a new toy that resembles a unicycle, but operates like a Segway.
Honda unveiled a new "personal mobility" device in Tokyo, Japan. To move around, you simply shift your weight in the direction you want to go... forward, back, and even side-to-side. The device weighs about 22 pounds and can go up to 3.7 miles per hour.
The device, called the U3-X, was available for the press to test drive (er, lean) in Japan. If you're wondering why we need such a toy, Honda said it was designed not to take up additional space like a bike or a scooter might so that riders could be safe enough to mingle with pedestrians while being unobtrusive.
Honda said the device was designed for the elderly, but we have a feeling geeks everywhere may want to play. There is no official release date or pricing available yet. In the meantime, we'll walk.