[close] This is a super cool video that Madison made for TIPS.

[close] I'm a member of a great group of debut YA and MG authors known as the Class of 2k10. We work together pooling our resources and coordinating our schedules to do group events, signings and get to schools and book stores. This was a trailer we hired Madison to do for the group--throwing so many different people and concepts together in such a short time was surely quite a job! I hope you enjoy it! :-) [close]

[close] The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrance into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileg [close]

[close] Shaindel Beers reading her poem, "The Last Ballet Class Before the Operation," at the Champagne Patio in Newport, Oregon, at the Northwest Poets' Concord. [close]

[close] RingTales presents a Cul de Sac Animated Cartoon. Web premiere of Richard Thompson's award winning internationally syndicated comic strip, "Cul de Sac." Alice demonstrates the talking stick to the class. [close]

[close] I present evidence that banks resort to forgery to artificially create overdraft conditions that otherwise would not exist. The example presented here concerns SunTrust Bank. Googling SUNTRUST CLASS ACTIONS will yield 29,600 hits. Googling SUNTRUST OVERDRAFT FEE yields 219,000 hits. I also provide the names and e-mail addresses of two law firms that either have filed a class action or are looking for victims to file another. Here is the address of a law firm preparing a class action against SunTrust: JWasserman@hlglawyers.com [close]

[close] Brett R. Williams, Mr. Marriage, explains how to get balanced love.