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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself:

With a new foreword by David Platt, two new chapters and a final word on how to help without hurting, this expanded edition of When Helping Hurts creates a new paradigm for partnership by asking Christians to declare and demonstrate among people who are poor that Jesus Christ is making all things new.

While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they’re trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts catalyzes the idea that sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the outside-in, but from the inside-out.

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BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS FILL UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ONCE AGAIN

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LOGAN, UT – Utah State University hosts the jazz ensemble “Evening in Brazil” Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the USU Performance Hall at the Logan campus.

Professor of engineering at USU Christopher Neale and several others perform together as the jazz group “Evening in Brazil” and specialize in the music of Brazil’s bossa nova movement. Bossa nova is a style of jazz music which draws together diverse, syncopated rhythms and offers an alternative to the traditional samba rhythm.

Works performed in the concert include a number of classic works by Antônio Carlos Jobim and other contemporary Brazilian composers. Brazilian-style dancers from The Baianas de Logan will be a part of the program, dancing in the traditional apparel of Bahia.

The evening’s music explores different regional rhythms of Brazil. One of the themes of the performance is the regional rhythms from the Brazilian state Bahia, music that guest percussionist Marcus Santos specializes in.

Santos is a native of Salvador, the capital of Bahia. He has studied the Afro-Brazilian music and heritage of Bahia and works as the artistic director of drumming groups in six states in the United States. Santos has performed internationally, and the Brazilian Immigrant Center honored him with the “Outstanding Arts Performer” award in 2008.

Tickets are $15 for general admission, $8 for USU students with valid ID. Tickets can be purchased at the CCA Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, online at the Caine College of the Arts website (arts.usu.edu) or by calling 435-797-8022.

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Beyond the Blue Podcast: Clay Morgan Explains ‘The Power of Story’

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We all love a good story. English teacher and author Clay Morgan explains the background, evolution and context of storytelling in this week’s Beyond the Blue podcast, “The Power of Story.” This presentation is an example of a Foundational Studies course that he is teaching this fall.

Listeners can access the website featuring a series of faculty podcasts at BeyondtheBlue.BoiseState.edu or go directly to Morgan’s presentation. Visitors can download all podcasts and subscribe to receive automatic downloads of new content whenever they open iTunes.

In this podcast, Morgan addresses questions about what story is. Are we born with story instincts, in the way we have instincts for language? Is story necessary for us to be truly human? Morgan proposes that story simulates human life, inside the human mind, by engaging the senses, triggering emotions and creating awareness of consequence and meaning. Story is shared, experiential, chronological thinking. It is the most primal, the most powerful and the most subtle system of logic, persuasion and communication. Story is how humans inhabit time, how cultures and individuals remember, and how we plan and dream.

Morgan is a charter member of the faculty in the Foundational Studies Program. He also coordinates Boise State’s Story Initiative and co-founded Story Story Night, the monthly storytelling evening in downtown Boise. Morgan has published seven books, including the novel “Santiago and the Drinking Party,” the young adult novel “The Boy Who Spoke Dog,” and written NASA’s official history of Shuttle-Mir, which earned him NASA’s Public Service Medal for exceptional contributions to the mission of NASA. He was the first writer to win the Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

This podcast is part of a series of presentations related to Boise State’s Foundational Studies Program. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Martin Schimpf provides an introduction to the new general education program that focuses on essential learning and shared experiences. The Foundational Studies Program begins in fall 2012 and features an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on problem solving, communication, innovation and teamwork, ethics and diversity, and disciplinary outcomes. Upcoming podcast topics will be from faculty members on sample Foundational Studies Program classes.

The Beyond the Blue website has been developed to showcase the expertise and innovative spirit that exists in many fields at Boise State. Known for its unique blue turf and nationally ranked football program, Boise State is demonstrating creativity beyond the blue in faculty podcasts intended to introduce a variety of topics to casual listeners.

New faculty podcasts are being added on a regular basis, including:

The website contains bonus video and editorial content about the university, including its growth, research initiatives and student life. A related collection of faculty interviews also is accessible from the Reader’s Corner radio show hosted by Boise State President Bob Kustra on Boise State Public Radio.

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Steve Jobs Called John Mayer ‘Out of Control’

Steve Jobs,
Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of the late Apple co-founder, hits stores today.
The book reveals
many of Jobs’ personal and professional grievances, from predictable beefs with Google, Microsoft and Intel to less obvious targets such as Fox News, President Obama and singer-songwriter John Mayer.

Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone
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In a chapter about Jobs’ favorite musicians, the tech visionary expressed admiration for Mayer’s skill as a guitarist but slammed the artist as being “out of control” and in danger of “blowing it big time.” The book offers no explanation for Jobs’ concerns, though he could have been referring to the singer’s oversharing about his porn obsession and comments about having a “racist penis” early last year.

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Monsoon Commerce Offers New and Used Video Games on Alibris.com and Other Marketplaces

Full support for sellers of entertainment products—DVD’s, music, and video games—on Alibris and the Monsoon Commerce partner network

EMERYVILLE, CA— Monsoon Commerce, Inc., the leading provider of online marketplace-based solutions for sellers and retailers, announced today that it now supports the sale of video games on Alibris.com. In addition, the company has stated that video game inventory will soon be sold on other marketplaces supported by Monsoon Commerce.

“Broadening our catalog in this way is the perfect step toward offering our sellers and buyers full support of every media category out there,” stated Brian Elliott, CEO of Monsoon Commerce. “The market for video games is large and growing rapidly, and we are thrilled to offer this kind of support to sellers and marketplace partners so that they can continue to grow their business.”

To increase exposure, video games have a dedicated section on the Alibris.com retail site. In addition, the video game catalog supports the most common customer searches by criteria such as platform, title, and other keywords, ensuring that consumers are presented with the full breadth of offerings from the Monsoon Commerce base of sellers.

“This is a natural step for us in meeting our customer’s needs,” remarked Jeanie Bunker, general manager for Alibris Retail. “With this addition to our product selection, our consumers can find the full range of entertainment products on Alibris.com. We are excited to offer current and new sellers who have video game inventory a great way to grow their sales. ”

About Alibris and Monsoon Commerce

Alibris is the retail division of Monsoon Commerce. Alibris.com is the premier online marketplace for independent sellers of new and used books, textbooks, music, video games, and movies, as well as rare and out-of-print titles.

Monsoon Commerce helps online sellers and retailers grow their sales through online marketplaces. The company offers the industry’s most advanced—and most successful—selling solutions and tools for retailers and merchants. Learn more at www.monsooncommerce.com.

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Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others

Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others (Thrift Edition)

From amazon customer review:

Interesting accounts of historic figures in african american history as displaced in the memorable speeches. Gives insight into the thinking and beliefs of some the great african american leaders of past and present times. If you are a historican of african american leaders or an avid reader, I would strongly recommend reading this book.

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The Insiders’ Guide to Boise and Sun Valley

The Insiders’ Guide to Boise and Sun Valley

Idaho’s capital is a small city with big hometown feeling. Longtime Boise residents Anderson and Rose show you how to have the time of your life in “The City of Trees” with detailed descriptions and pricing guidelines on the quaint shops and galleries, gold-mining museums, ski resorts, train tours, micro-breweries, riverside dining and much more. And for those planning a move to Boise, chapters on real estate, worship, schools, retirement and others allow newcomers to feel at home with a flip of a page.

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Idaho’s capital is a small city with big hometown feeling. Longtime Boise residents Anderson and Rose show you how to have the time of your life in The City of Trees with detailed descriptions and pricing guidelines on the quaint shops and galleries, gold-mining museums, ski resorts, train tours, micro-breweries, riverside dining and much more. And for those planning a move to Boise, chapters on real estate, worship, schools, retirement and others allow newcomers to feel at home with a flip of a page.

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Recommended Reading

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Henry Jenkins

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials), by Robert B. Cialdini

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman

Race, Incarceration, and American Values, by Glenn C. Loury

Mass Media Consolidation

How I Play Golf: Tiger Woods

Lemonade Sun: And Other Summer Poems Rebecca Kai Dotlich (Author) Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)

The Insiders’ Guide to Boise and Sun Valley by Peter Rose and John Gottberg Anderson

Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue by R. C. Sproul and Greg Bailey