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Sports shooter Vincent Laforet talks about shooting 28,444 pictures, 480GB of images for the Beijing Olympics. Here's his workflow.

Photos of the first day of the Lollapalooza festival

Photojournalism project:

"Around the world, students returned to school this month. In Iraq, parents were hopeful recent security gains would allow their children to focus on their studies. In Afghanistan, the worsening security situation in the southern and western part of the country is keeping almost 70 percent of school age children away from schools. And, in the United States, students in areas devastated by Hurricane Ike are still out of school. Many of them are helping with the recovery efforts."

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Scott Longyear discusses personal productivity as a pastor

I love Speaking of Faith podcast, and the best episode was the recent one about the spirituality of flyfishing. This blog entry tells the behind the scenes story of that episode.

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Sound financial advice: What is your least important bill? What would happen if you cancelled that debt and used the money to pay off more important bills?

Larry Stone writes an epic story about the relationship between baseball players and their bats

Diana writes of her recent experience with the lectionary readings about God providing food for the day, in a time at which our national economy is in crisis.

"Holt's basic thesis is that kids want to learn, are natural learners, and will learn more if we recognize that and let them explore their worlds, acting as respectful co-learners instead of bosses"