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MM romance
adult content, R18
Spoilers alert for the ending of Back in the rain.
"I've been wanting to bring you here for a long time."
Drew's voice was low and quiet as he murmured those words in Dan's ear, his arms wrapped around him as they looked at the wonderful landscape in front of them. The City of Pholis in the summer was stunning in its beauty. From the cliff on the side of the road, where they were taking a break from traveling, they were able to see the waves crashing on the rocky shore of the south coast. The water was crystal clear, shining with the reflection of the sunlight, and of an intense, multi-shaded blue. They were standing several yards above the sea, and yet they could see the reef with no effort at all. Dan breathed in the fresh morning air, closing his eyes and just enjoying what he was feeling; the delicate breeze on his face, Drew's firm body behind him, so warm and comforting, strong arms holding him tightly, his lover's breath on his neck.
His lover.
Dan found himself smiling at that thought. Looking for a word to define their relationship was always challenging for him, as nothing seemed to fit perfectly what they were for each other. Drew called him his boyfriend. He could be called his partner as well, but Dan rather liked the word lover instead.
The one I love. The one who loves me. The one I make love with.
God. Just standing on the side of a cliff doing nothing shouldn't feel so good.
"Tired?" Drew asked him, fondness evident in his voice.
"No," Dan said, turning around in Drew's arms to look at his face. His green eyes were smiling at him, the corners of his lips turned up. Drew had always had a smile to die for; curious eyes, innocent look, and that mouth… perfect teeth and full and firm lips that were always so inviting. When Dan was a teenager, he used to dream about kissing those lips. The lips of his straight best friend whom he could never have. But he had him now, and sometimes he still couldn't believe that Drew was finally his. His to kiss, bite, hug, fuck and spoil rotten.
The more Dan looked at Drew, the more he wanted him. Around him, on him, inside him.
I've got it so bad.
"What's with that face?" Drew said, his eyes lingering on Dan's lips.
"What face?" Dan asked, even though he was perfectly aware of the look he was giving him. He was hungry for him and he wasn't ashamed to show it.
"The face you make when you want to suck my dick."
"Well, I do want to suck your dick."
Drew's cheeks reddened slightly and he chuckled. He was so freaking adorable. Dan seriously thought about going down on him there, on the side of the road. Or maybe Drew could bend him over the car and-
Drew cleared his throat. "The dick in question is happy to hear that, but it's literally not in a good position to get hard right now."
"I told you these pants were too tight."
"Okay, you were right. But stop trying to seduce me."
"Or I could suck you off and solve the problem completely."
Drew bit his own lip. He was tempted. "Love, you do know I'm gonna be a cop soon, right?"
"Then what?"
"Engaging in sexual activity in public is illegal. I don't really need a charge for Public Indecency on my record. It's already a mess as it is."
"In public? There's no one here." Dan couldn't believe his own words. Why was he insisting so much? Drew was right, and he understood it, rationally. He was acting like a horny teenager.
Get a grip. You're 22 and perfectly able to control lust. You did it all your life.
Drew leaned in and kissed his scowling mouth delicately. "When we get to the hotel, I'll make sure to fuck you so good and hard that you'll scream my name."
A rush of heat flushed Dan's face. Drew kissed him again, once again a chaste and sweet touch of his lips on his. Then, he started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Dan was now awfully embarrassed. Was he making himself ridiculous?
"I remembered something," Drew said, pressing his forehead against Dan's. "Last year, when we first got together, a certain someone used to tell me that I was too lusty."
Yes, that was him. One year together, and he had become so disgustingly besotted with Drew. Was it going to get even more intense between them? Was it even possible to want someone so desperately without being consumed by it?
"I don't remember," he lied.
"Your memory can be very selective sometimes." Drew was smiling again and something ached in Dan's heart as he looked at him.
That man had done anything for him during the past year. First of all, he literally took a bullet and risked his own life for him. When Dan suffered from panic attacks every single night and hyperventilated, Drew held him into his arms and helped him overcome the crisis. He sustained him when he went through therapy, and he listened carefully as he confessed him his fears and traumas. Sexually, he always put Dan's pleasure first. Even when he came before him, he made sure to give him astonishing orgasms.
If Dan had to describe his life before his relationship with Drew, he would say that he was broken to pieces. Bruised — physically and mentally —, depressed and lonely, he was on the brink of suicide. He was alive now, because Drew had been by his side. Drew had looked into his eyes and told him he was beautiful. He had taught him not to be ashamed of his scars, he had kissed away his tears. He had forgiven his lies, and opened his heart to him.
Dan was grateful, so grateful for the love of this man, to the point he felt like crying.
Needless to say, he wasn't over his problems yet. There were bad days in which his sense of guilt would eat him alive, in which his nightmares would haunt him and his body would remember all the pain he suffered. During those days, no sedative or drug could help him like Drew's proximity.
Dan looped his arms around Drew's neck and molded their mouths together. He moaned as his lover's lips parted for him and he offered him his tongue. Dan sucked him in greedily, his mind blurring and his body aching. When — minutes or hours later — their kiss ended, he was breathless and warm. With his heart in his throat, he whispered, "I think I'm high off you. You must be the most powerful drug I've ever taken."
Drew gave him a short laugh and took his hand in his, kissing it lightly. Fingers entwined, they headed back to the car.
Drew sat in the driver's seat and while starting the car, he said, "I'm addicted to you too. Sean makes fun of me all the time because I smile stupidly every time you send me a message or call me."
Dan had also caught himself doing that a few times. It was a relief that Drew did it too. "Maybe we're still in our honeymoon phase and soon we'll start fighting over the stupidest things."
"Like leaving my shoes on our bedroom floor?"
Dan's lips pursed into a straight line. "… Please, stop doing that."
His eyes on the road, Drew remained silent for a little while, before saying, "Sometimes I get scared you'll get tired of my sloppiness and leave me for some smarter, sexier man."
"Sometimes I get scared you'll get tired of my bitching and leave me for some nice, big-breasted girl."
They looked at each other and laughed.
"Oh yeah, big breasts are totally fundamental for me," Drew joked.
"I know. You used to show me your favorite porn videos all the time."
Drew bit his lips and nodded. "I did that, didn't I? God, I was really stupid as a kid."
"You were just very enthusiastic. You actually called me after you jerked off for the first time."
"And I think I begged you to never mention it again!"
"Are you still embarrassed about it? We sleep together every night and you get all worked up for something you told me almost 10 years ago?"
"Of course it's embarrassing. You must have thought I was a freak."
"What? No! Is this how it seemed to you?"
"Well," Drew paused for a moment. "You seemed really uncomfortable talking about it. Also, when I asked you if you had ever done it before and you said yes it was… a little weird for me. I called you right away because it felt like I had found out about the most mind-blowing thing in the world and then I learned that you were doing it already and never said anything to me, and… I don't know, it made me feel wrong. Like I was prying into your business and at the same time giving you too much information about mine. For a while I wondered if talking about masturbating was somehow bad, until when our classmates showed us their porn. There I thought , 'Oh, okay, so this is normal,' and I started talking about it again."
That was new to Dan. He had never thought about Drew's point of view.
"I'm sorry," he said to him, "I didn't realize my reactionwas so important to you."
"Dan, we're talking about you. You were my perfect best friend and anything you said and did was golden to me."
Drew's words made him smile. It was flattering as hell to think Drew would hold him in such high regard, also taking into account that he considered his adolescence to be the most confusing, cringe-worthy period of his life.
"The truth is that even if I played it cool, I was helplessly horny most of the time."
"You were?" Drew seemed incredulous.
"Yes, and I felt abnormal and wrong. I saw what the others liked and considered normal, and finding out it was different for me was a big deal. The day I admitted to myself that I was sexually attracted to men too I spent the night crying."
"Was it so bad?"
Dan nodded. "You know I had a crush on you. I was in denial at first, and I told myself continuously that getting a boner around you was probably just a coincidence. When I masturbated I only looked at girls, and it was reassuring for me that a woman's body would still turn me on. Then one day you showed me this video of a girl giving a blowjob to someone, and you said you were curious about how it felt like. I was curious too, and the girl was hot and all, but… my mind could only focus on the fact that you jerked off thinking of that girl, and I fucking hated her. I thought I'd rather be in her place. I thought about taking your dick in my mouth and I got painfully hard. Later that night I spent half an hour in bed looking at my dried come on my hand and I freaked out as I realized two things: I wasn't straight, and I wanted my best friend."
"Oh, love." Once again, the affection in Drew's voice warmed up his heart. "If it can console you, you hid it perfectly. At the time I had no idea you had a crush on me."
Dan laughed. "Yes, at least nobody saw my meltdown. Well, nobody sawthat meltdown."
Drew didn't look at him, but Dan saw him smiling. He was about to ask him what he was thinking, when Drew said, "You're a walking contradiction, in the best possible way."
That was curious. "Please elaborate."
"You've always been so fragile, and I had no idea. Mind me, I said fragile, not weak. I mean that you get hurt easily and are really sensitive, but you never showed it. On the outside you were always tough, cool and confident."
"You're right to use the past tense. Look at me now; I'm a mess."
"You're actually improving a lot. Around strangers, you're back to being cool and controlled like before, but you smile more and that's great. I have a soft spot for your smile."
Dan bit the inside of his cheek. He knew he was improving, but his recovery wasn't as fast as he had hoped. He was alright around strangers, but when he was with family and friends it was difficult to hide his changes of mood. When he saw something that reminded him of his traumas he tensedup, and they noticed immediately. Everybody would then try to make him feel better, and he was grateful for that, but he hated to be such a burden to them. He hated to be the crazy guy they had to deal with, and he feared that the affection that tied them together would at some point turn into pity. He wanted to get better soon, before they got tired of him.
They will get tired of you, a voice whispered in his head.
No. His thoughts shouldn't go that way. He was alright. His friends loved him. Drew loved him.
"Dan, are you okay?"
Drew's voice startled him, and he realized that he was holding his breath and had cold sweat running on the nape of his neck. He forced himself to breathe normally, hoping Drew wouldn't notice. He wasn't going to have a panic attack and ruin their trip now.
"Dan?" Drew was worrying for him. He had to say something. He wanted to say that he was okay, but he wasn't, and he didn't lie to Drew. Not anymore.
"Sorry, I was overthinking."
"Was it something I said? Do you want me to stop the car?"
"No, no, don't worry. It's not that bad. I'll look out the window and relax."
"We can stop at any time. Even if you want to drink some water, or if you want a hug or something."
That sure was tempting. The bare thought of Drew's arms around him made him feel better already.
"No, I can't wait to arrive. There's a place I want to show you once we get to Pholis."
"And don't forget I promised you sex as soon as we check in."
Dan smiled. "If you don't fall asleep like you did the last time."
Drew actually pouted. Yes, he truly was adorable. "I was really tired last time."
"You're tired now, too."
"Are you kidding? I've never been more awake. I could fuck you now and go at it for hours."
"… if you say so."
"You'll see! Let's bet tonight's dinner on it."
Dan chuckled. It was basically a win-win for him. Either he got amazing sex or a free dinner. "Okay," he said, looking forward to see how their bet would end.
A couple of hours later, as he was getting out of the shower in their hotel room, he figured he'd have to settle for the free dinner. Drew had taken a shower first and was supposed to wait for him in bed… Predictably, he had fallen asleep. Dan sighed and knelt by the bed to look at Drew's sleeping face. His hair was still wet and falling messily on his forehead. Looking closely, Dan could see in those brown strands of hair some golden threads, that became visible only during the Summer. Drew's skin was already slightly tanned, even though they had gone to the beach only once with their friends a couple of weeks before, and Dan found himself smiling at the thought that even the sun loved Drew to the point it'd never burn him. Dan's mouth watered as his eyes moved hungrily over his man's body: broad shoulders, well-trained and defined muscles, taut stomach, strong arms… he was so fucking perfect.
He's too much for you, said again that voice in the back of his mind, freezing his blood in his veins.
You're just a cheap whore.
He'll figure it out soon.
A suffocating anxiety arose from his gut, spreading throughout his body. His chest grew heavy and his limbs lost strength. His wrists hurt as if someone had cut them open. He gasped for hair as the room walls shrank around him. He felt nauseous.
The panic attack had started. Dan tried to rationalize his fear and even out his breath. It wasn't as bad as other times. He wasn't seeing things, and he wasn't suffocating. He was in a safe place. Nobody was going to hurt him. Nobody was going to abandon him. Drew wasn't going to leave him. He loved him.
Drew moaned softly in his sleep, turning on his side. Dan's eyes dropped on him, on his sweet mouth and relaxed face, and slowly his heartbeat calmed down. He swallowed some air, regaining control over his body. He was crying, he realized, but otherwise he was okay. He needed to get some oxygen to his head and calm down. Careful not to wake Drew, he put on a shirt and his trunks and left the room to take a walk on the seashore.
Dan loved the sea; he loved its smell, its noises and the way it hid a whole different world under that immense, blue and shiny expanse of water. When he was a child he would spend hours just swimming and playing in the water, trying to discover the secrets of the marine world. He had taught Drew how to swim, when they were 8 or 9 years old. Growing up, he had started to appreciate also relaxing on the seashore. Looking at the horizon, watching the flocks of birds on the water, listening to the waves. No matter how hard his life had gotten, the sea made him feel at peace. And there he finally found peace now, breathing in the salty air of the early afternoon and feeling the sun on his wet skin. On the other side of the beach there was a beach-volleyball tournament, and probably because of that, that part of the shore was completely deserted.
"You can't stay away from the water, can you?" Drew's voice sounded amused behind him.
Dan turned around to look at him and catcalled."God, you're hot."
Drew laughed and dropped on the sand by his side, sliding his arms around his waist and pulling him into a deep kiss. Dan melted completely into him, roaming his arms on his back and feeling how hot his skin was under his fingers, how firm his body was, how strongly he was holding him closer. Drew ravished his mouth greedily, biting his lips, sucking on his tongue and leaving him breathless. A long moan escaped his lips as Drew delicately pulled his hair, forcing him to drop his head back and bare his throat for him; he closed his eyes and just enjoyed the bruising kisses Drew laid on his neck.
"Let's go back to the hotel," Drew whispered hoarsely. "I owe you a dinner and a fuck, and I can't wait until tonight for the second."
Dan whined. He didn't want to go back to the hotel. He wanted him, now and there.
"Love…" Drew looked at him with an apologetic expression.
"Public Indecency, I know…" Dan kissed him again, his hands running through his hair and his body drawn to him, closer and closer. He was so drugged with him. "Drew… I know a place. Will you come with me?"
Drew stared at him like he was fighting the instinct to turn him on his fours and fuck him into the sand. "Take me anywhere," he said then, his eyes glazing with want.
Dan stood up, glad nobody else was there on the beach to see how evidently excited he was, and offered his hand to Drew. He led him inside the water, and Drew looked confused for a moment.
"You said I could take you anywhere," he underlined with a sly smile.
"Better make it worth it, or my balls won't forgive you," Drew said, diving into the cold water.
Dan jumped in right behind him, and swam forward, getting ahead of him.
"Follow me," he said, leading the way around the rocks that signed naturally the end of the beach.
He turned around, from time to time, to look at Drew's amazed face as he swam in that clear, brilliant-blue water. Small fish were gathering around the rocks, and as they passed beside them, they'd make their escape in every direction, coloring the sea around them like paper confetti. Dan couldn't suppress a smile as he looked at Drew's eyes shining with happiness. After a little while, they reached a breach in the rocks that led to a small cave. Instead of going in the cave, Dan reached for a little scab of rock on its side and pulled himself up. It wasn't too steep nor slippery, so they climbed it easily. They walked on the rocks in the direction where they came from, and soon they reached a small area where the sea, sliding between a rock and the other, created a small natural pool, surrounded by rocks and isolated from the rest of the world. The rocky mountain right above them protected them from the sunlight; it was like being in a private, small oasis in the sea.
"This is my secret place," Dan said, sitting down on the rocks and splashing his feet in the water. "I found it last year, before we got together. I used to come here and think, when I needed some quiet."
Drew sat beside him and passed an arm around his shoulders.
"It's beautiful," he said, his gaze so intense it could burn him alive. "You're beautiful."
Without another word, Drew crashed their lips together.
He laid him on the rocks and kissed him thoroughly going on top of him, their bodies grinding together. Dan was only half conscious of his actions when he looped his leg around Drew's tights and pulled him closer, as his lover was humping him shamelessly. Dan was painfully hard, hot and impatient, as if he was about to crawl out of his own skin and beg Drew to devour him. Drew bit and sucked the sensitive skin of his neck and chest, as his hands touched him everywhere. By now, Drew knew his body like his own. Even better, probably. He knew he liked raw, bruising kisses; he knew that his nipples weren't particularly sensitive, but if he sucked them hard, he'd quickly reduce him to a moaning mess. He knew his hands on his belly would make him tremble, but not as much as those feather-soft kisses in his inner tights.
Fuck, when did he take away his trunks again?
Drew pressed his nose against his groin and started stroking him, his mouth sucking his balls idly. They were freezing cold because of the water, and Drew's mouth was so warm, so wet, so good-
"Please," Dan whispered, shaking with need, "get in me."
Drew knew him so well that he could make him come in a hundred different ways. Dan loved every time he jerked him off, gave him head, fingered him or used on him any sex toy, but there were times, like now, when he absolutely needed to feel him inside. The satisfaction that derived from welcoming his man inside his body, experiencing his thickness, tightening around him to pleasure him, was mind-blowing to him. Dan wanted to be one with him, wanted him to get lost in him, to complete him.
Drew hesitated for a moment, and then tentatively touched his hole, making him whine in frustration. When he realized it was already slick and ready for penetration, Drew pressed his mouth against Dan's tight and smiled widely.
He pushed his fingers in him and said, "At the hotel, you had prepared yourself for me. Love, I'm sorry I left you hanging."
"Drew." He moaned his name, unable to produce any consistent sentence.
Drew stood on his knees, lowered his trunks and took his own erection in his hand. He stroked himself as he took in the sight of him. Dan couldn't see himself, but he had an idea how he looked like: swollen lips, misty eyes, flushed face, red marks all over his neck and chest, his hard length leaking against his stomach and his hole clenching around Drew's fingers. He felt like a slut desperate for a fuck, and he probably looked it, too. He would have found humiliating to being seen in those conditions by any other person on Earth, but Drew was the exception. He had made him like this, and he was the only one who could sate his thirst.
Drew lifted his legs up and pushed inside.
Dan cried out as all his senses were converging around the place they were connected. Drew put it all in, until he was as deep as he could get. He pulled back and thrust in him once again, hitting his prostate and making his eyes roll in the back of his head. Dan's body was aching, heat lingering in his lower stomach, pleasure rushing through his veins. In his life, he had had countless sexual partners, but it had never been so maddening intense before Drew.
Sometimes Drew went at it slowly, with strong, powerful thrusts like he was doing now. Sometimes he set a steady rhythm, some other times he let his most basic instincts take over and fucked him brutally into the mattress. Drew made love to him differently every single time, but it didn't change how strong his sensations were when it came to him.
Dan muttered unintelligible words as Drew lost control over his thrusts and just took him, trying to get himself deeper, trying to plant himself in him and never get out.
"Want to come in you," he whispered into his mouth. "Want to fill you up with my come so that you'll leak it for hours."
"Yes, please…" Dan begged him, his body already on the edge.
Drew stroked him fast, as he pounded furiously into him. He came with a groan, digging his nails into Drew's back, holding onto him like a lifeline. When he regained consciousness of the world, Drew wasn't moving anymore, but he was still deep inside him and he was kissing his neck tenderly.
He felt in heaven. Slowly his senses awakened, and he felt the cold rock against his back, he heard the sound of the waves and enjoyed the breeze on his skin. Drew's weight on his body felt good in any possible way. Drew lazily propped himself on his elbows and pulled out. Dan felt heat leaking from his hole.
Before Drew, he hated body fluids. The rare times he had sex without a condom, his first after-sex thought was to clean himself up thoroughly. That habit had died soon enough when he started having sex with him. Drew had loved coming inside him since the very first time, and in the afterglow he would hug him like a teddy bear and cuddle him into oblivion. Dan could have kicked him out of bed to go clean himself any time, but soon he had become addicted to Drew's cuddles and kisses, and he couldn't bring himself to leave him. Moreover, there was a fucked-up part of him that adored having Drew's semen in him. It made him feel vulnerable, loved, and his.
"I love you," he whispered to Drew, who was contemplating his face as if he was the most precious thing in the word. Saying those three words was always emotionally challenging for him, so he usually waited for Drew to say them and then just replied that he loved him too. This time, he just had to say it first.
"I love you, Dan." He caressed his face tenderly.They fell into a companionable silence for a little while, and then Drew added,"I have a theory."
Dan smiled. "A theory?"
"I think God took a piece of this ocean and put it into your eyes, so that I could drown in you."
Dan's mouth fell open. If Drew didn't have such a serious face, he would have laughed at him. But Drew was serious, and he loved how this man turned into a romantic softie for him.
"I like to think that I was born to love you," he said then, his face turning hot from embarrassment.
Drew leaned in and kissed him.
"Happy first anniversary, love."
"Happy anniversary, Drew."
The end


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In early 2015 I was on tour in Colombia and Panama. I had some Riddims in my baggage because I hoped to meet some singer who wanted to spread a word on it. And so it was. Thanx to Martin Valero and the Es Fiebre Crew I was connected to the Panamanian Plena pioneer Julito Balacera. Julito has a hard history in a wild Panama, which suffered a lot after getting "canaled". Today he is a man full of love for his children (and he has plenty of them), who doesn't take any drugs or even drinks alcohol.
So it was a beautiful day, the first gig was done and we went on a day trip to check out the Canal. Later, we entered the jungle and found a relaxed place where I could install the studio and so we recorded this two tunes. Maybe you can hear some apes laughing in the records.
Then I gave the stems to some producers I really like. The guys from El $abor in Barqui- simeto/Venezuela, bringing back the tropical and jungle vibes, Erick Jaimez from Dallas/USA and Fake Moustache from Mexico DF making it a trap, and Tribilín Sound from Lima/Peru made it sound really psychotropical.
This was brought to you by tropicalbass.com the Chilean Netlabel Sello Regional and Es Fiebre! We hope you enjoy what you hear. Jump with the Bass.
By the way a Message to Soundcloud: You should really overthink your copyright strategies. If the Producer or one of the Labels has massive problems to get the Songs up this is not acceptable.

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WHO: 7-5 Michigan (Big Ten) vs. 7-5 Kansas State (Big 12)
WHAT: Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (25th year)
WHERE: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Ariz.
WHEN: Dec. 28 at 10:15 p.m. ET
WHY: It seems like these two teams are headed in opposite directions. Kansas State won five of its last six and rebounded from a 2-4 start to finish up as one of the Big 12's hottest teams. Michigan started 5-0 and then lost five of its last seven.
The Wildcats are looking for their first bowl win since 2002. They'll rely on the two quarterbacks to get them there: Jake Waters is an adept passer (2,198 yards, 15 touchdowns) who has decent mobility while Daniel Sams is a powerful runner (784 yards, 11 touchdowns) who throws it on occasion. Add in diminutive running back John Hubert's 968 rushing yards and wide out Tyler Lockett's 71 catches for 1,146 receiving and this is an offense that can put up points in a hurry (it scored at least 31 in its last six games).
Michigan's offense is less settled due to the loss of quarterback Devin Gardner to a turf toe injury. Freshman Shane Morris, who has thrown just nine passes this year, will make his first career start in his place. With such a young signal caller, you'll probably see the Wolverines try to grind this one out on the ground. They've got a solid stable of backs to do that, including Fitzgerald Toussaint (646 yards, 12 touchdowns) and freshman power back Derrick Green, but they'll miss Gardner's mobility and moxie.
You have to give K-State the edge going in, at least until Morris proves he is up to the task of running the Wolverine offense. If Michigan's defense can keep Waters and Sams in check, his first start might be a successful one. But the Wildcats are probably hungrier for the bowl win and they should take care of business.
PREDICTION: Kansas State 35, Michigan 17


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Did We Save the Rainforest?
The efforts to save the Amazon rainforest actually did save it. However, new threats have arisen to combat conservation efforts.
Considering what a big deal saving the rainforest once was, it seems like it's been awhile since we've heard anything about one of the major environmental struggles of the previous millennium.
So what happened? Did we save the Amazon?
For a while, It seemed like we might have. The rates of deforestation in the Amazon climbed in the 1980s and 90s, reaching a peak around 2004, at which point many international organizations and countries acted swiftly to stop what was seen as a global crisis.
Norway alone funneled a billion dollars to Brazil in order to protect the rainforest in 2008. The Brazilian government also took charge of the issue in the mid-2000s, establishing and enforcing policies to protect its wildest forests against landowners looking to develop it for farming and other uses.
And the government protection worked. They successfully established 150 million acres for conservation, and deforestation rates dropped nearly 80% by 2011 from the peak in 2004. These changes were monumental, and environmentalists around the world heralded Brazil for taking such serious action to save the Amazon.
Then, after Dilma Rousseff was elected president in 2010, the Brazilian government decided that saving the rainforest should take a back seat to their economic development.
Read More:
The Solution Journal: How Brazil Has Dramatically Reduced Tropical Deforestation
LiveScience: Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects
NASA: Tropical Deforestation Affects Rainfall in the U.S. and Around the Globe=


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For the past decade, Monica Foster has documented her life online for all to see and no one important ever finds out about it. Foster had this idiotic belief that she could move to California and become a success in Hollywood and porn, despite her being a long time failure in webcamming.
Side note for Foster, a lot of women on webcam make about $200/15 minutes. Foster has always struggled to make a lousy $100.
What will 2017 bring for Foster? Nothing more but more misery! No attractive man will want her, she'll continue to refuse to get a job and go to school, she'll lose her trial to Randazza and Donny Long will buy her websites, no one important will pay her any attention, the Clintons & the Obamas & Isadore Hall will continue to ignore her, more of her supporters will turn on her,
Foster's life will never get better! She won't kill herself despite all of her worthless threats and it's because she knows that it'll make so many people happy! Foster will continue with her BS trying to get someone angry enough to come after her and kill her. Sorry Fostard, no one will risk losing everything that they have in life for a psycho who has nothing and will never amount to anything.


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AUSTIN, Texas • One by one they gather, some bringing cans of corn and beans, others just bringing themselves. One man brings a plant he calls coffee kale — a plant he's only watered with freshly poured java, hoping to give it that extra kick.
"Anybody hungry? Let's get this party started," says tonight's amateur chef, Jessica Mitchell.
They've come to make soup, that most simple of dishes. And they've come to make it together — all the while fashioning something far more complex, far more meaningful than just a meal.
Here, across the fence line from Austin's city limits, exists a community of nearly 170 people who have lived years — sometimes decades — without a home. And living in their midst are about 50 people who have never known life on the streets: a cardiovascular sonographer, recent college graduates, retired pastors and even a high-ranking executive of a multi-billion dollar international technology company.
This Community First! Village sits at the forefront of a national movement to house homeless people in tiny homes, often because other solutions are too expensive or simply haven't worked.
In diverse cities including Seattle, Kansas City and Springfield, Mo., these villages mark the latest trend in a deadly serious effort to get homeless people off the streets and within the safety of four walls and a roof. The goal: Offer help before individuals succumb to the elements, violence, addiction, depression or other ticking time bombs that accompany a life spent surviving outside.
Some wonder if Colorado Springs should be the next city to join the movement.
Off a dusty, potholed road just outside the Colorado Springs Airport is an 18-acre tract where an Austin farmer and entrepreneur has set his sights on creating his own tiny house village for the homeless. The compound he envisions for this barren piece of land would immediately rank as Colorado's largest and among the largest in the nation, with 200 tiny homes and 50 recreational vehicles.
Joe Basel, 33, is not associated with Community First!, but he does not hesitate to reference it as his key inspiration. But Basel's vision differs in major ways from the Austin operation, which has robust substance abuse and medical services on site. Basel said his version might not cater solely to the chronically homeless.
For it to happen, he'd first need approval for a use variance by the Colorado Springs Planning Commission because the land is near an airport runway.
While no development plans have been submitted, Colorado Springs' point man in addressing homelessness says the concept is promising — if executed correctly.
"I support the idea of a tiny home village for the homeless under really one circumstance, and that is there are adequate services provided on the campus," said Andrew Phelps, the city's homelessness prevention and response coordinator. "And that's one of the things I think has made the Community First! Village (in Austin) so successful. It's more than just buildings. It's about building a healthy community for folks with wraparound services so people can continue to heal and find self-sufficiency."
Now the question is: Can a village such as the one in Texas be replicated in Colorado Springs?
Sobriety not required
On this night in Austin, someone new is spending his first night in the Community First! Village.
Carrying a can of vegetables, a spoon and a Tupperware container doubling as his bowl for the evening, Byron Burns walked sheepishly up the wooden ramp to the kitchen, offering his share for the meal.
He's camped in Austin's woods along a bus line since 2015. And his mother in nearby Bastrop has worked to get him here, indoors and in this community.
His face is a splitting image of singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, with a sculpted chin and steely gaze. But his voice is almost a whisper — underscoring his wariness of social gatherings.
"There's a good sense of community," says Burns, 45, of his new surroundings.
To the east are 150 houses of 180 to 200 square feet, and to the west are 100 recreational vehicles, each lining roads with names such as Peaceful Path and Grace & Mercy Trail. None of the tiny houses has plumbing. They're spartan but do have refrigerators, microwaves, crock-pots and quick-boil kettles.
Interspersed between the tiny houses are community bathhouses, kitchens and laundry rooms. Most of the residents formerly met the federal definition of chronically homeless: a person with a disabling condition who has been homeless a year or more, or who has had at least four episodes of homelessness over the past three years.
They don't have to be sober. Their only strict mandate is to pay $220 to $440 in monthly rent or face eviction.
To help meet that rent, the nonprofit offers myriad jobs to the residents, including maintenance and grounds-keeping, and gives them free produce grown on the premises.
On this evening, Burns doesn't stay long — just enough to finish his soup, down it with a little grape soda and thank his hosts for the meal.
Then he walks down the steps and toward his own pre-furnished tiny home and his first night indoors in more than four years. He knows what's in store. Along the way, he made a softly spoken prediction.
"I think I'm going to sleep peacefully."
Does tiny have true potential?
The village here is unique for its size. But it's far from alone.
Tiny house villages catering to homeless people have taken root in cities across the nation in recent years, including in Denver, where a village of about a dozen tiny homes has garnered praise from University of Denver researchers for its effectiveness.
In Colorado Springs, one-time mayoral candidate Juliette Parker has worked for a couple of years to create a tiny house village through her nonprofit MENDA, Meaningful Empowerment through New Development and Art. Her biggest roadblock — as with so many tiny house initiatives — has been finding land for it. Parker's efforts are not related to Basel's plan.
Fueling this nationwide push for tiny house villages is a steady climb in homelessness across many cities, coupled with a dire shortage in affordable housing that has left people stuck in shelters without much hope of moving out.
In tiny houses, some nonprofits have found a relatively cheap way to bring chronically homeless people indoors, where they finally can begin to address the deeper issues of addiction, poor health and joblessness that kept them on the streets for years.
But no two communities are alike, leaving advocates for homeless people uncertain about their true potential to help.
Some villages consist of little more than huts of less than 100 square feet placed on concrete blocks. Others, including this one abutting Austin, resemble carefully planned communities.
Are such homeless-centric tiny home villages offering respectable dwellings where anyone would want to live? Or do they amount to makeshift shanties — providing little more than shelter without access to nearby services such as food, medical and behavioral health care?
With so much variation between manufacturers, offering a blanket endorsement for the concept is impossible, said Eric Tars, senior attorney for the Washington D.C.-based National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
"Our goal is that everybody be able to enjoy the human right to housing — to fully adequate housing," Tars said. "And where tiny homes fall on that is often somewhat fact dependent.
"Tiny homes look really cute when you first build them and they have a fresh coat of paint on them. But my concern is that without proper maintenance, these essentially become shantytowns. And that we end up segregating a huge swath of people, poor people, into these shanty villages. Then some of the complaints that occur around regular encampments start to crop up."
'All about community'
The man who created this Texas village is quick to answer those concerns.
"Part of the big mistake of the tiny home movement — in terms of homelessness — is a failure to understand what we're really trying to accomplish," said Alan Graham, 63, sitting on the porch of his own tiny house in the Community First! Village. "It's all about community. Housing will never solve homelessness, but community will."
Graham's path to tiny houses started with a food truck.
It wasn't the type of food truck so popular at breweries these days. Rather, it was a glorified pickup chock-full of food — all newly prepared, no leftovers — that met people where they were rather than forcing them to trudge to a central location.
Those early meetings were critical to what would happen over the next nearly two decades. No longer was he standing behind a counter ladling out the soup. Instead, he stood on the same side of that meal counter as the people seeking his food.
"It required this intimate, human-to-human, heart-to-heart relationship," Graham said. "And that, to my mind, was the game changer. Because now you're building a relationship with somebody."
And as he got to know those people more, he became more curious.
In 2003, he and about a dozen other advocates spent three nights sleeping outside with the same people visiting his food truck. The experience changed his entire perception of homelessness.
"And now you're beginning to really learn their stories," Graham said. "And I began to realize and put all the pieces together that what they really lacked was family.
"It's an infinite number of ways that that family gets fractured, but for the most part, it's fractured extraordinarily early on. You know: single mothers, no fathers, father's in prison, drug and alcohol abuse — all of that kind of stuff that leads to that profound catastrophic loss of family."
Graham started by offering one person an RV, but he quickly set his sights on creating a village where he could offer a community, one that would stand for family.
His initial site in Austin garnered intense "not in my backyard" opposition. He turned to Texas' unique land-use rules, where zoning generally doesn't exist in unincorporated areas. So literally on the other side of Austin's eastern city limits, he set up shop — raising millions of dollars and creating his own small city on 51 acres.
Here, none of the tiny houses has back doors. Their front doors all face at least a few other units — packed so closely that neighbors could sit on their own front porches and easily converse.
"The world thinks it's housing and a shortage of housing, affordable housing …. "(but) people need to live in a community. People need to be around people that care about who they are."
Village offers goods, services
Almost every inch of this village is geared toward instilling a sense of community.
On a recent Tuesday morning, a few hundred yards from Graham's front porch, an open-air kitchen bustled with activity ahead of a community brunch as three people — a formerly homeless tenant, a faith-based mentor and a volunteer — cooked sausage, bacon and eggs laid by hens living on the village's nearby farm.
Down the street — called Goodness Way — several men wrenched away and earned a paycheck in an auto shop where tiny house tenants do emissions tests, oil changes and car washes, among other services. The tools and machinery — including a 12,000-pound car lift — were donated by Austin auto dealer Charles Maund Toyota, which also trained the residents in mechanics.
Farther down the road sat the Community Market — a small store packed with paintings, small sculptures and jewelry made by residents to sell to the outside community.
Some of the figurines were forged at the community's own blacksmith shop, where a staff member works the kiln and trains people newly off the streets. He has even held a metal-working competition here that's open to the public. Other items for sale were made by tenants at the village's woodworking shop.
A 40-feet-wide outdoor cinema sits at the end of the road. It was sponsored by a downtown draft house. And every Friday night, families from surrounding neighborhoods gather with village residents for free community movie nights.
About a dozen RVs and teepees, too, provide Airbnb accommodations for people visiting this vibrant city. A few of the Airbnb units resemble the tiny houses that residents here call home. These line a creek bed lush with flowers.
At the main entrance, a bus stop draws people heading downtown or elsewhere to work. Austin's buses never went this far east before the village took root, but the nonprofit's leaders managed to persuade the city to extend a line so residents — most of whom don't have cars — could get around.
The amenities are important to the village's success, Graham said. But even more important are people like him, who have never been homeless but who choose to live here.
People like Pablo Rangel, 48. Despite having never been homeless, he signed a one-year lease to live with his two young daughters in this village and act as a Christian mentor to tenants who are newly off the streets. They're called "missionals," and they come from all walks of life.
"I've seen miracles here, and I see them every day," Rangel said.
It's a sight, he says, that every city should have the opportunity to witness.
At the center of this community, a thriving garden grows almost every vegetable imaginable. On this overcast morning, a dozen people plow the ground by hand and pick mulberries and kumquats. Volunteers provide a constant source of produce, most of it free to village residents.
Activities such as these help people make the transition from life on the streets, said Heidi Sloan, 33, director of the Genesis Gardens.
"One of the big things that's a struggle for people when they first move out here is having a reason to get up and do something in the morning and figuring out how to manage their own time," Sloan said.
A garden "needs you," she said, "but it's not a person that needs you, because that can be really messy and intimidating to start out with. A plant that needs you, or an animal that needs you, is a really safe place to start wanting to be needed and seen in that way again."
Something that inspires
Keeping all of this going is a perpetual effort, said Amber Fogarty, president of Mobile Loaves & Fishes, the nonprofit that operates the Community First! Village.
Donations provide about $4.4 million of the nonprofit's $6 million annual operating budget. No funds come from the government; it's all private money. And most of that goes to pay the nonprofit's roughly 60 staff members, who maintain the grounds and operate the many programs.
"In order to make it self-sustained based on rent, you'd have to charge rent that is unaffordable for the people you serve," Fogarty said.
That's a distinct contrast with the nascent plans for a tiny house village in Colorado Springs.
Basel plans to use his partner company, Paradigm Partners, to help finance and build the village for at least $14 million.
He said a "substantial portion" of cash rent collected at the village would go toward "maintenance and debt services and paying back the money we borrowed," and the village might be profitable "someday." He then plans to create a nonprofit that would seek donations to help provide services at the village.
The Austin village's substantial fundraising heft can be attributed to the trust it has established with the surrounding community and its donors, Fogarty said. "We've built a lot of trust, and I think we've done something that inspires people," she said.
Last fall, the Texas nonprofit broke ground on a massive expansion to the west to accommodate another 300 tiny homes and RVs, bringing its capacity to about 550 people.
Once it's finished, the nonprofit should be able to house nearly a quarter of the 2,200 or so people counted during the city's federally mandated Point in Time homeless count, and about half of the people who said they were unsheltered.
Nine months sober
Tiny house villages being considered elsewhere would be well-served following the Community First! model, said Austin advocates, calling it a blessing for the city and surrounding Travis County.
"We think the tent is big and welcome all strategies that are willing to work with clients who are chronically homeless," said Ann Howard, executive director of the Continuum of Care for Travis County, which coordinates the area's homelessness response. "And Community First! definitely does that.
"We sort of look at them as a housing provider, but they're much more than that. From our focus, we try to find places where people can live and maintain that housing. I usually describe it as heaven on Earth for some."
Since the village's inception in 2015, it has boasted 85 percent retention, Fogarty said. Slightly fewer than a dozen people were kicked out for not paying rent. And others were told to leave for bad behavior.
A major key is the health care and substance abuse treatment services on the premises.
Many people here continue using drugs or alcohol after they move in. Such behavior is allowed as long as it remains indoors and doesn't affect any neighbors.
It's all part of the Housing First ethos — a research-proven, federally endorsed strategy for helping chronically homeless people get off the streets. It entails prioritizing housing above all — even job assistance or substance abuse treatment — because people otherwise are far less likely to overcome the core issues that led to being homeless.
For people such as Vanessa Yancey, 52, who has struggled with a crack addiction, that approach was a lifesaver.
"If this place hadn't rescued me, to be honest, I think I'd probably be dead," Yancey said. "The way I was doing it was ridiculous. I'd sometimes stay up for days and days, and then I'd sleep for days and days."
She sobered up nine months ago after using the drug here for years. She now lives in one of the RVs.
"You have your own place — you have a key that you can go and come as you please," Yancey said. "You ain't got to go sit up under a bridge or sleep under a bridge. It's home — finally home.
Springs officials to visit Austin
Clad in a black leather Harley Davidson jacket and sporting a dark, almost burgundy beard, Basel steps in his black cowboy boots across a flat plot of land on Colorado Springs' far east side. Not much is here but still leafless trees, prairie grass and a few dirt roads. With nothing to stop it, the wind blows a little harder, a little colder.
On the western edge is Sand Creek and a couple of abandoned homeless camps strewn with trash.
Basel said the property's owner is a partner, along with about four other people, including him. Here at 5501 E. Pikes Peak Ave., they want to create the nation's next major tiny house village.
"You will never see a piece of trash on this property ever again," Basel said.
Already, he counts City Council President Richard Skorman among his early supporters. Skorman plans to visit the Texas village with Councilwoman Jill Gaebler, El Paso County commissioner Stan VanderWerf and Phelps later this month.
As at the Austin community, Basel said, sobriety won't be required at his village. The only mandate will be to pay rent, probably $350 a month.
Whether it will serve as many chronically homeless people, however, remains unclear.
Basel plans to erect about 200 tiny houses — all without plumbing — that circle community bathhouses, showers and kitchens. Another 50 RVs would dot the property too.
Basel said his community likely would employ fewer people and provide fewer resources for residents. He also isn't set on whether it will cater as heavily to chronically homeless people or will hew slightly closer to workforce or senior housing.
"We just don't know yet," he said. "Our heart is for the individuals who are falling through the gaps currently, and we're prepared to do whatever it takes to love them."
To prove he's serious, he plans to move with his wife and children, ages 4 and 2, into a tiny home on this dusty property in the airport's flight path while the village is developed.
The tentative name is Sand Creek Village, for the trickling stream on its western flank. The creek, he says, "is definitely the feature that makes this site a high-end resort, as compared to a slum.
"And that's our intention — is to build a beautiful high-end resort that anyone in Colorado Springs would love to live in someday."
Still, whether Austin's feat can be replicated in Colorado Springs remains to be seen.
That village took years of work and decades of relationships forged with well-heeled donors. Its leaders credit a massive network of volunteers who visit the campus daily to keep it running.
Most important, many say, is the village's leader and founder, Alan Graham.
"It works because you've got committed people involved," said Patrick Howard, executive director and CEO of the Housing Authority of Travis County. "And to me, that makes all the difference in the world.
"If you can find an Alan in your community, you can make it happen. But it's got to be an Alan type person to do that. And he didn't do it alone — he had a collective group of people that he convinced: 'Hey this is something that needs to be done.'"


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This article sets out three possible interpretations of Genesis 1-3: 'mythical, miscommunication or myth-busting'. I agree that the mythical and miscommunication options are wrong, but is myth-busting the only other option? This is based on a view that, because Genesis was written by Moses, and because there are creation myths dated from before the time of Moses, Moses was writing with a view to debunking the false creation myths around at his time.
This could be the case, but it seems to assume that before Moses came along, God's people had no idea how God made the world. They didn't yet have the book of Genesis, but does this mean they didn't know anything about what this book would eventually describe about events before Moses, stretching back to creation?
Did they have no idea about the global flood either? It is often noted by creationists that there are flood legends all over the world. People don't tend to say that Moses wrote the Genesis flood account with a view to debunking these flood myths. Moses wouldn't have known about many of them anyway because of the great distances separating these people groups.
Rather, I think it makes more sense that, with the flood and with creation, Moses was simply writing an account of what his people generally already knew. This could have been known through oral tradition and/or written records predating Genesis.
Any similarities between Genesis and creation/flood myths of other cultures is I think better explained in that Noah and his family will have known the true accounts of both of these. As people separated after Babel, the accounts would have been distorted by cultures adapting the stories as they were passed on.
I'm not aware of any culture on the planet today that doesn't have a story about how the world began or how they came to be where they are. The stories vary a lot, from fantastical creation myths to beliefs of Darwinian evolution, but it seems to be an inherent property of humanity that we want to know such things. That's why I find it so surprising to think that, before Genesis was written, the people of Israel had no knowledge of such things or didn't ask such questions themselves.


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Spencer Johnson has a way with words. He has written over twenty books and sold tens of millions of copies of Who Moved My Cheese? and The One Minute Manager. Most people have heard of The One Minute Manager, but his second book is not as well known, yet is better for those of us dealing with unexpected change in our lives. You can read the book in an hour or so, but you might find yourself talking about it and reading it again.
Who Moved My Cheese?
"It is an extended allegory based on the experiences of four mice who live in a maze that has cheese located at a particular location. Then one day, the cheese is moved to a new location, and their differing reactions determine their success in the new state of affairs.
In this artful way, Spencer Johnson introduces the reader to his fable on how to cope positively with change. Here is four short quotes from the book.
· "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" ...
· "What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. ...
· "When you stop being afraid you feel good" ...
· "The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.""
Mr. Johnson passed away in 2017 and left behind the unpublished book, Out of the Maze - This is a story about the power of belief. In this month's CostCo Connection, Adrian Zackheim writes about "The Power of Story." It is the long awaited sequel. Adrian Zackheim has taken the drafts and published the book.
Out of the Maze
"Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt their beliefs and achieve better results. Johnson's theme is that all of our accomplishments are due to our beliefs: whether we're confident or insecure, cynical or positive, open-minded or inflexible. But it's difficult to change your beliefs - and with them, your outcomes. Find out how Hem, Haw, and the other characters from Who Moved My Cheese? deal with this challenge."
Here are six key principles from the book:
· Don't believe everything you think.
· Old beliefs do not lead you to new beginnings.
· You can change your mind and choose a new belief.
· You are not your belief. You are the person who chooses your beliefs.
· Let go of whatever isn't working.
· Look outsize the maze. Consider the unlikely, and explore the impossible.
You can find Who Moved My Cheese? at most public libraries or at Amazon. I can't wait to read the sequel.


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We came across this event in support of Earth Day! For all you beach-goers, on April 21st, there will be a beach clean-up happening at the Santa Monica pier. Join in and help clean up one of LA's most popular and iconic beaches! The good deed will be followed up by a gathering for happy hour at Rusty's Surf Shack.
Location: Santa Monica Pier – South Side
200 Santa Monica Pier A Santa Monica, CA 90401
Date: April 21, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM
Website: Beach Clean Up and Happy Hour


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Use This Hidden Keyboard Combo to Fix Your Frozen Computer
Having your PC suddenly freeze in the middle of working is frustrating. Windows can become unresponsive for many reasons The 8 Most Common Reasons Why Windows Gets Unresponsive Here are some of the most common reasons your computer becomes unresponsive so you can identify and fix these issues. Read More , but there's a little-known shortcut that can help you recover from one common cause.
We'll introduce a new handy keyboard shortcut you probably don't know about, then discuss a few more quick tips for getting your frozen computer running again How to Force Close a Program Without Task Manager Wondering how to force close a frozen program on Windows? Here are several ways to force-close apps without the Task Manager. Read More .
The Hidden Keyboard Combo for Fixing Freezes
Windows offers a standard shortcut that will restart your video drivers. You can use it anytime by pressing the key combination Win + Ctrl + Shift + B.
Once you do so, you'll see your screen go black for a moment and hear a beep while the video driver resets. After a second or two, your display will return. Since this only affects your graphics drivers, all your open apps remain exactly where you left them. You won't lose any work.
Many of you have seen the stories about video issues in the April Win 10 update & that you can press Shift+Ctrl+Win+B to fix it. Well, occasionally I have issues with my docked laptop and external monitors coming back on after sleep. This fixes it! Handy outcome from this mess.
— Scott Oldfield ??? (@scuttlefield) May 5, 2018
This only works on Windows 8 or 10, so Windows 7 users can't take advantage of it. However, it will work no matter what kind of graphics drivers you have. Nvidia, AMD, and even Intel integrated graphics will all reset just fine.
Other Troubleshooting Tips for Frozen Apps
Depending on the cause of the freeze, this shortcut may or may not fix your issue. If your graphics driver gets stuck, restarting it should let you continue on without having to restart your computer.
But if this doesn't work, you should try pressing Alt + Tab to switch to another program. Still stuck? Try Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open the Task Manager so you can kill any unresponsive programs.
Should neither of these work, give Ctrl + Alt + Del a press. If Windows doesn't respond to this after some time, you'll need to hard shutdown your computer by holding the Power button for several seconds. This is akin to pulling the plug, and is the only way to escape a system freeze.
Check out our guide to Windows 10 freezes Does Windows 10 Freeze Your Computer? Try This! Does Windows 10 freeze or hang in the middle of your work? These troubleshooting steps can help you resolve the problem. Read More if you experience this problem regularly.
Related topics: Keyboard Shortcuts, Troubleshooting, Windows Tricks.
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Sorry this picture isn't like my usual book review photos. Like I said last week, I forgot my camera's battery charger back at college, which is five hours away, and my camera battery died before I got a chance to use it or even get the photos I already had off of it and onto my computer. But once I get the chance I'll be changing this picture to one of my own. For now though, this will have to suffice.
So I actually read and finished this book back in November - maybe five weeks ago - but I just haven't gotten around to reviewing it. School is the main reason, but another reason is that I honestly just didn't care for the book. I'm going to assume must of y'all know what it's about because I'm pretty sure y'all have seen the movie. But for those of you who have possibly never heard of it, here is a brief description. Michael Oher grew up in the ghetto of Memphis but managed to find himself at a wealthy, private, christian, white school. The Tuohy's, particularly Leanne, pretty much saved Michael from the streets. They gave him a place to sleep and basically adopted him. At the same time Michael also began playing football and had a very promising career. And [spoiler alert] he manages to barely graduate high school, to go on to play football for Ole Miss, then to be drafted to the Baltimore Ravens, for whom he still plays today.
The movie is one of my absolute favorites, but the book was just not what I was expecting. For one, I felt the book was poorly organized. Michael Oher's name didn't come up till maybe chapter 3 or 4, and even after he was mentioned there were multiple chapters throughout the book that didn't mention him at all. When characters were introduced, it was chaotic. Names were mentioned, but very little description followed. It led the reader to believe these were minor characters. But a chapter or two later, that character is mentioned again and multiple pages are devoted to describing that character and their importance to Michael. The book just wasn't chronological, and I felt it really took away from the impact this story could have.
Second, Lewis seemed to be heavily concerned with explaining in great detail the history and evolution of the game, so several chapters are purely about that; he tells the stories of all these football players and coaches who really have nothing to do with Michael Oher at all. I frequently felt like I was reading a non-fiction book about general football rather than a novel based on a true story about Michael Oher. And I didn't really like that. I felt these stories and the way Lewis described all these other players and coaches made the story of Michael Oher so less extraordinary. Unintentionally, Lewis made Michael seem like he was simply a product of the game's evolution and that he got to where he is now because of third parties, not because he excelled at the game or because the Tuohy's gave him a fighting chance.
And lastly, the chapters were very long. I'm talking 30 pages long. That's exhausting for me to read. I don't like stopping in the middle of chapters, so I had to make sure I set aside at least an hour and a half to read one chapter. And you can only imagine how frustrating that was when so many chapters aren't even about Michael Oher. It was just hard to get through.
So for my overall impression and recommendations, I would have to say I was very disappointed with this book, especially since the movie is just so good. This may sound harsh, but I feel like the book almost discredited Michael Oher's talent and the Tuohy's selflessness. I honestly wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Only if you are super interested in and knowledgeable about football, would I say try it out, and only then would I say that if you were absolutely dying to read it. But if you're kinda on the fence or if it's even just crossed your mind, just watch the movie. This is one of those very rare times where the book is worse than its on-screen counterpart.


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Type: Hero Sphere: Spirit
Threat Threshold: 9
Willpower: 4 Attack: 0 Defense: 0 Hit Points: 4
Noldor. Noble.
Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to quest during the round they enter play.
Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Set: Celebrimbor's Secret Number: 112
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Magali Villeneuve
26 Comments
What I don't get here is why she have 4 willpower but her text reads "Galadriel cannot quest..." Does anyone have any idea of how her willpower could be used?
Oh, I get it, her willpower works with Nenya http://www.cardgamed...ret/nenya-r1266 but without it, she's almost useless
Her threat reduction and card draw are welcome in spirit. You can give someone else -1 threat and a card if you want. Every ally you bring into play essentially gets to quest for free their first turn and can still defend or attack, giving Spirit some much needed combat potential.
Every now and again there is a quest which requires exhausting characters for their willpower besides the normal questing (can only remember escape tests from Mirkwood cycle right now but there are more).
They are quite far apart though.
And she "adds" her willpower to other character with nenya, so can protect someone from untimely Snowstorm in Redhorn Gate, as well as being able to complete different willpower tests without nenya. In 1 player Shadow and Flame she can fend off Durin's Bane all by herself, so i would not say she is useless.
Definitely not useless, but she's of very limited value until you can get Nenya in play. You'll definitely need another way to get appreciable WP to the table before she can get up and running.
I've found she works great in a spirit/lore deck that bounces silvans. A friend of mine plays that deck and I run a Celeborn Silvan deck and they do really well together. The fact that she allows his buffed allies to quest without exhausting is really helpful in pushing through the combat phase as well.
I think she is one of the best heroes in the game, hands down.
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And she's not ugly.
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She can be SUPER powerful...if you build your entire deck around her. But she REQUIRES setup before she becomes useful and she only fits into a very specific deck archetype. One that, it should be said, is going to have a pretty rough time against any amount of Battle or Siege.
I personally don't like her because I like building decks to fit ANY scenario and I don't think she's a good fit for that. The way you want to build for her, you will be incredibly powerful in most quests and floundering in others. For me I would almost always rather have Eowyn...same ability to add willpower if you get a bad flop off the encounter without a lot of the draw-back and a way to make dead cards useful.
Do love a card that makes people think though--always makes me laugh when I see some people saying it's AMAZING while other people think it's flat-out bad.
Huerigrim turns Eowyn into a absaloute beast. 5 to 6 attack, yes please,however Galadriel nice in a deck that relies on getting certain cards into play.
Huerigrim turns Eowyn into a absaloute beast. 5 to 6 attack, yes please,however Galadriel nice in a deck that relies on getting certain cards into play.
So...I never even thought about that combo. Looked at Herugrim and I think I was thinking about Tactics Theoden (who I hate) and I wasn't making a Rohan allies deck for Spirit Theoden so I just kind of filed that card away. Somehow didn't even think about Eowyn even though she is one of my favorite heroes.
Huerigrim turns Eowyn into a absaloute beast. 5 to 6 attack, yes please,however Galadriel nice in a deck that relies on getting certain cards into play.
Ehm, but she still can't attack. So what's the point?
Edit: Damn I thought you were talking about Galadriel. My bad
I guess I just wish her Action ability was just a little bit better. Like if she didn't have to exhaust. Or even if it just reduced threat by 2 and drew a card rather than just 1. Something to make her less of a liability if you can't pick up Nenya post-mulligan since it WILL happen sometimes...
'Dat art tho...
Galadriel has been great in my new deck that keeps OHaUH Gandalf into play permanently.
He basically quests for Galadriel (same willpower) and he can even attack or defend since he doesn't exhaust to quest. She helps mitigate his threat gain.
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I wish she didn't have to exhaust for Nenya.
Galadriel has been great in my new deck that keeps OHaUH Gandalf into play permanently.
He basically quests for Galadriel (same willpower) and he can even attack or defend since he doesn't exhaust to quest. She helps mitigate his threat gain.
OHaUH Gandalf (even though I prefer both Core and Hero Galndalf generally) is easily one of the best uses for Galadriel in the current cardpool. Plus, bonus points for some great thematic collusion as well
I wish she didn't have to exhaust for Nenya.
Eh--they had to put limits on it. As is it can be a pretty powerful effect. Would actually rather Nenya didn't exhaust so you could in theory combo it with UC but again...that could get crazy fast. Think they learned their lesson way back with Beravor and got a little gun-shy...
I just don't care much for her. She's far too limited in scope. Erkanbrand is by far a better hero, even though he got less publicity.
Erkanbrand is decent, but I always hesitate to put extra damage on a character I'm planning to have as my primary defender. Plus, in a cardpool that includes Beregond you need to be something special to stand out as a defender.
I don't know--if I didn't run Balin and 3x Hasty Strokes as frequently as I do then maybe I would feel differently but as is I think I would only really want to use Erkanbrand in a really Rohan focused deck.
All that being said, I can see your point. Between Elrond, Warden of Healing, Self Preservation and Daughter of the Nimrodel there are a lot of pretty easy ways to get damage off a character and as someone who runs Eleanor and Balin I understand how nice it is to just be be able to shut down the Encounter Decks surprises.
Since it is not a response, it is unfortunately not optional. You could considered it a forced effect since that is basically how passives like this are handled.
I know this is an old post but once I get my hands on it, Tale of Tinuviel seems like the way to go... apply Gladriel's willpower to Aragorn's stats...
I'd rather use that event on someone who doesn't already want to exhaust for so many things - her ability and/or her ring ability. Whoever ends up with Light of Valinor makes for an excellent choice - Cirdan, Glorfindel or Arwen.
Well, that works if you can attack in quest phase (dunedain cache and hands upon the bow?).
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Well, that works if you can attack in quest phase (dunedain cache and hands upon the bow?).
Damn, your right, didn't remember that it is a quest action


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In the past I think I've mentioned Scapulars, the brown one is the most common. The scapular comes from the monastic scapular which started as like an apron and is mentioned in the Rule of Benedict, as time has progressed the scapular has become a part of the habit of many monks and nuns. It is typically the outer most layer and goes from shoulder to shoulder and often covers the front and back. This is often described as the yoke of Christ and shows obedience. In the Middle Ages this was made smaller and the oblates (monks and nuns in society wore them), this lead to the development of the third orders where lay faithful would follow the Rule of the order and support them. These individuals would sometimes wear a tertiary habit like a scapular and overtime it became a high honor and great privilege to be granted a small cloth attached by bands which one wore over the torso. This is the basic devotional article which we have today.
The most common of the scapulars is the Brown one of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, it is worn by the Carmelites and by a great many of people around the world. The Vatican recognizes many different color scapulars, Brown, White, Blue, Red, Black and there are even some scapulars that combine the other scapulars together into one. As Our Lady of Fatima told the Children "The Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable." This is why it is important, if you don't wear a scapular it isn't that bad it is just another devotional aid that people use. If it is at all possible make an effort to try to lead a more spirit filled life, by adding praying the Rosary or wearing a scapular.


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Andre Arlovski, Lyle Beerbohm, Roger Gracie, Alistair Overeem, Kevin Randleman, Vitor Ribeiro, Murilo "Ninja" Rua and Fabricio Werdum. Heard of those guys? Me either. But they're in the roster for EA Sports MMA – and a new batch of screens.
Arlovski and Randleman are a former UFC heavyweight titleists, Overeem is the current Strikeforce heavyweight champion at 32-11-0; Werdum has a bigtime fight coming up June 26 with a name I do recognise, Fedor Emelianenko (also appearing in EA Sports MMA. If you want to familiarise yourself with these cats further, everyone except for Mr Rua is battling at this weekend's Strikeforce event in St. Louis


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Service packs always make me smile.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is now officially supported by Team Foundation Server 2010. I'll add this information to the System requirements topic on MSDN later this month. For now, if you have TFS 2010 installed and you have been waiting and wondering if you can safely upgrade your OS to the latest service pack, you can do so with confidence.
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January 29, 2008
State of the Typographic Union
The frontrunners: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. So says the Boston Globe, analyzing the type treatments of the US presidential candidates. Of Obama: "Clean pen strokes evoke a well-pressed Armani suit." Of McCain: "Everything about this logo says you can buy a car from this man." [Via reader Tim]
Elsewhere in the world of type:
- 3Dishness:
- Nik Ainley (previous) discusses his 3D typographic techniques on Digital Arts. [Via]
- Nelson Balaban goes in a similar direction with Xtrabold. [Via]
- John Caserta's "Dimensional Forms" are 3D foam blocks that can assume the appearance of different letters when seen from different angles. Check out the video on the left. [Via]
- FontShop has revealed their picks for Top Ten Typefaces of 2007.
- Tania Mouraud goes enormous with How Can You Sleep.
- Were these guys trying to be ironic? [Via]
- The Musalman, operating since 1927, is the only handwritten newspaper in Asia. The Last Calligraphers tells its story. [Via]
It's been all over the type blogs, but in case you haven't seen it (and since you're already linking to Hoefler & Frere-Jones), H&FJ just released a new typeface: Archer, "the colorful slab serif." http://typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100033
[Yep; peeped it, but it didn't set my hair on fire. Thanks for the link, though. –J.]
Thanks for the insightful article post. :)
Anyone know what typeface Obama uses in his logo?
David – Obama uses Perpetua for his logo and Gotham elsewhere.
Stephen — so it is! The answer was so right in front of me, I didn't even notice!


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Atheo, for example, found out very quickly this month that there are some subjects you simply are not allowed to address at DailyKos. Atheo discussed his experience at Tikun Olam.
It's ironic that the mainstream media constantly address the issue of Palestinians and Israelis, but a supposedly "liberal," "leftist" blog bans the topic entirely. DailyKos does not seem to hold the sentiment behind the First Amendment -- freedom of speech -- in very high esteem.
For example, DailyKos bans all discussion of how and why and by whom the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9-11. Meanwhile, YouTube is full of videos (2.5 Million) typically doubting the official story of 9-11. and Time and CBS have discussed the theory that 9-11 did not occur as reported, but was perhaps an inside job. So, you have the mainstream media and Google sharing information about an issue whose mere mention will get you banned at DailyKos. Why does DailyKos believe it is crucial to prevent this discussion, even as Google/YouTube, a much larger media corporation, is a veritable treasure trove of information about 9-11. Google permits it, but DailyKos blocks it.
It seems to me that the roles of the big box blog and the mainstream media have been reversed and many issues that can be covered in the mainstream media are now (and have been virtually since the beginning) BANNED at DailyKos. And that is the wall against which Atheo bumped his nose in his first attempt to address what was important to him at DailyKos.
I don't visit DailyKos anymore, except to see them go berserk when they realize that the guy they banned from their little backwater published opinion pieces at, for example, Huffington Post, and is quoted in the Washington Post and at Slate.
When I initially began contacting the mainstream media about my experience of being banned at DailyKos for expressing the views of a Black man, big wigs at DailyKos mocked and derided me. In think they underestimated me, as you can see when you read the article, "Bloggers' Convention a Sea of Middle-Aged White Males," for which I spoke with the Washington Post writer beforehand. I found bigger and better places and ways to publish my opinions after I was banned from DailyKos.
With 456,000 hits at Google for "Moulitsas" and "CIA," mostly based on information first widely disseminated at my Truth About Kos blog, I believe I have done what I could to explain to the public why DailyKos and its cohorts (look at its blog list) serve the conversation-curtailing role that they do in the whitosphere.
I also note that history and these two historical figures have proved my judgment correct about John and Elizabeth Edwards, whose DailyKos-supported candidacy for the presidency I opposed because, among other factors, John's election would have perpetuated what was then a 43-term white male monopoly of the US Presidency.
This didn't go over well at the 96% white DailyKos. (See Quantcast DailyKos demographic data in right sidebar.) I attacked Edwards from every conceivable (to me) angle and other DailyKos participants resented that. How could I insist, day after day, that the President ought not necessarily be a white man, when everyone knew that ALL US presidents had been white men?
As we all know now, the Democrats would certainly have lost the election in 2008 had John Edwards been nominated, as a plurality at DailyKos preferred. John Edwards was a shameless philanderer and his wife was an enabling, manipulative and exceedingly ambitious woman, who hid all she knew about John's unfitness for the nomination.
Today, CNN reports that:
Edwards is charged with six felony and misdemeanor counts related to donations to and payments from his failed 2008 presidential campaign. He is accused of conspiracy, issuing false statements and violating campaign contribution laws. He denies any wrongdoing.
Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer in December 2010. The couple had separated that year, shortly after Edwards admitted that he had fathered a daughter with Rielle Hunter, who was hired to make documentary videos for his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Had either or both of John and Elizabeth Edwards succeeded in their nomination ambitions, they would have destroyed the Democratic Party's hopes for regaining the presidency, because lying John Edwards' General Election campaign would have been embarrassingly over before it could begin in earnest.
When John Edwards is in Federal prison, mumbling to Elizabeth Edwards, who earned her place in Hell, then both of them will have gotten their due for the harm the knowingly and intentionally they tried to do to the Democratic Party, for their own personal gain.
I am proud to be able to write this at at Truth About Kos blog, which provides the truth about the DailyKos community, it's owner, and its (right-wing, CIA-driven?) politics.
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And now John Edwards suddenly discovers that he has a life-threatening heart condition just before his aforementioned Federal trial was scheduled to begin? I was wondering what this lying lawyer would fabricate to derail his trial. And now we know. The man who was the apparent epitome of health has discovered that he has a heart condition and so, regrettably, cannot go ahead with his trial at the moment. Maybe he can join his wife in her present abode and thereby avoid the trial entirely.


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Engineering question paper leaks 30 mins before exam
Incident occurred on November 12 at a Nashik college, where the leaked paper was circulated via WhatsApp; Controller of Examination plays down the incident
A question paper leak via social messaging application — WhatsApp — has stunned the management of the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU). The incident occurred on November 12 at a college in Nashik, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Pune varsity.
Sources in the university claimed that certain elements from the academic circle in Nashik procured the leaked paper and circulated it amongst the local mediapersons.
While the second-year civil engineering students were set to appear for the Strength of Material (SOM) exam at 10 am, the leaked paper was apparently circulated around 9.35 am.
The same paper was allegedly leaked on November 11 too. However, it came to the fore that the leaked paper doing rounds was nothing more than a 'guess' paper. Only a few questions in this paper had similarities with the SOM question paper set for students on November 12. A similar leak, during MBA examination, was reported in May.
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When contacted, Dr V B Gaikvad, Controller of Examination (CoE) and director for Board of College and University development (BCUD), downplayed the incident.
"Yes, I received the complaint from Nashik. But its nature wasn't severe. Moreover, almost all engineering exams have concluded," he said.
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was initiated by the late President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who is fondly thought of as the father of the UAE. His final resting place is located on the grounds beside the same mosque.
As the country's grand mosque, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than forty thousand people.
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ATLANTA — 723 Whiskey Bravo Bistro & Bar celebrated national "Be an Angel" Day Aug. 22 by presenting Angel Flight Soars with a check for $100,000.
Owners Skip and Victoria Moore were on hand to award the check to Executive Director Jeanine Chambers.
The Moores are actively involved in the non-profit Angel Flight Soars, whose mission is to arrange free air transportation for people who need to travel to receive lifesaving medical treatment, but lack the means.
"On this day last year, we kicked off our Bravo the Bear campaign at 723 Whiskey Bravo, allowing people to add to their checks for Angel Flight. What we anticipated to be a small, but meaningful way to give has turned into so much more," said Skip.
723 Whiskey Bravo, appropriately named after the Moore's Cirrus SR 22 airplane tail number, offered guests the opportunity to donate by adding to their dining checks for Angel Flight. With a $20 donation, donors at the restaurant received one of the Angel Flight mascots, an aviator teddy bear, as a thank you and reminder to "Be an Angel."
"We raised nearly $15,000 from that campaign alone in one year and were inspired to host our Party with a Purpose fundraiser in February."
The Party with a Purpose event brought together local members of the community Feb. 8 at 723 Whiskey Bravo to celebrate Victoria as the 2013 HALO Award Recipient and raised over $85,000 for the organization.
"The entire community on 30A has come together to make such a wonderful difference for the patients and families we serve," stated Chambers. "Angel Flight is incredibly blessed to have such kind-hearted volunteers and supporters the Moores and the team at 723 Whiskey Bravo."
"This is a cause that touches our hearts and one that continues to make a direct impact in the lives of people who really need it, even in this area. People don't often realize how crucial it is for patients to get to a treatment or a surgery until they're too far away," says Victoria. "This is just one small way we can turn our love of flying into something meaningful for others – flying with a purpose."
"The group of people we work with at Angel Flight is top-notch," says Skip. "We've had people visit the restaurant who have used Angel Flight, are so happy and share their appreciation for such a great organization."
The national "Be an Angel" day was established by Jayne Howard Feldman in 1993 as reminder to encourage people to perform random acts of kindness and to help those in need. Along with another Party with a Purpose event in 2015, the Moores and the team at 723 Whiskey Bravo plan to continue the Bravo the Bear campaign and encourage others to "Be an Angel" by performing one small act of kindness today.
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Our hero everyone!
So here is the first of the episodes I have on tape!
So it starts out as some kids sing and dance in unison on a front porch.... what?
So this is what kids get up to these days?... and I thought kids getting into drugs was bad!
As the quartet finishes their song the fifth member of their quintuple arrives and they question her as to why shes late.
This causes villain known as the Fibbler (who just happened to be watching the kids as they sang... which is really weird/creepy if you think about it but I'm gonna ignore it) to use his evil powers to make the young girl lie to her friends... Wow! What a great way to use your villainous powers! To hell with acquiring money and power! Manipulating little girls to lie is where its at! (He'll soon take over the world!)
So the young girl lies to her friends in the way many kids lie to avoid admitting their faults... so is kids lying always cause of the Fibbler?
Is this show indicating that kids don't lie on purpose as a defence mechanism but instead cause some jaundice faced Joker rip-off is making them lie with his lying powers? Are kids then blameless victims? Are we not suppose to get mad if kids lie? The message in this show is very unclear! Just like the bible!... is that their intention?
And then out of nowhere Bibleman shows up!
He just magically fricken appears! (even though they never say he has teleportation powers and he never does this again!)
Apparently he was praying and felt lead to come by and encourage them on their singing (that's what he actually says). He then stands around with the kids and quotes the bible to them to help give them encouragement with their singing and dancing.
The show then skips forward to the kids big performance! And we are treated to the kids once again singing and dancing... thanks.
Oh and here's a clip of what makes up their audience.
Yep, just what I expected their audience to be, big fat weird guys! (who happen to look a lot like me...)
So they finish there first set of the night and go back stage to congratulate them selves and-
Wait? The Fibblers hiding in plain sight now? Holy Cow! They can't see him? He's right there! Geepers! He makes Waldo look like an amateur! Is the Fibbler some sort of master ninja that can hide in plain sight? or is he invisible to everyone? and if he can be invisible why was he hiding behind a tree earlier? This is very incoherent... (at least its accurate to the source material!)
So their pasture?/manager?/random man?/music big wig? shows up and tells the kids he needs the audio tape for their second song, and of course it was our little lying girls job to bring it and she forgot... so the Fibbler enters her mind and makes her lie again blaming one of the others for not bringing the tape... but who made her forget to bring the tape?... the Forgetter?!
Remember kids if you impulsively lie its not your fault! Its cause some jaundice faced, invisible, Joker rip-off is making you lie!
The pasture?/manager?/random man?/music big wig? tells everyone the rest of the show is cancelled and everyone is sad about the news and gets up to go mingle and Bibleman hangs out with a group of small children...
I guess that's how he keeps his spirits up!
Bibleman then sees the Fibler and chases him outside where they then battle each other...
with their lightsabers... very biblical!
So will Bibleman be victorious over the vile Fibbler? Will he stop that little girl from lying? Find out same Berserk time, same Berserk channel, but tomorrow, cause this post is going on far to long...