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Fit For Your Assignment By Reina Olmeda chats with Dr. Alvin

Reina Olmeda Click Here To Listen Today, many people are trying to discover and fulfill God’s purpose and plan for their lives. Do you know what His assignment is for you? Maybe you’ve felt God direct you or call you to a certain type of ministry, but struggle to embrace your God-given design. Or perhaps you’re already involved in service to God, but beneath your proper attire and eloquent words you’re just plain tired. Fit For Your Assignment will awaken a new desire and passion to rise up and change patterns and behaviors (spiritual and physical) for the fulfillment of your God-given purpose. You will be inspired to examine key areas of your life that [...]

By |May 7th, 2014|Gospel, Spirituality, Women|Comments Off on Fit For Your Assignment By Reina Olmeda chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Higher Call By Adam Makos chats with Dr. Alvin

Adam Makos Click Here To Listen December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is German ace Franz Stigler—and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger... What happened next would defy imagination and later be called “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” The U.S. 8th Air Force would later classify what happened between them as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention for [...]

By |May 6th, 2014|Biography, Military, War|Comments Off on A Higher Call By Adam Makos chats with Dr. Alvin
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Degrees Of Inequality By Suzanne Mettler chats with Dr. Alvin

Suzanne Mettler Click Here To Listen America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled.

By |May 6th, 2014|Education|Comments Off on Degrees Of Inequality By Suzanne Mettler chats with Dr. Alvin
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Who Gets Promoted Who Doesn’t And Why By Donald Asher chats with Dr. Alvin

Donald Asher-Who Gets Click Here To Listen According to career guru Donald Asher, advancement at work is less about skill sets and more about strategy. The revised and expanded edition of Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, And Why details exactly what puts one employee on the fast track to an exceptional career, while another stays on the treadmill to mediocrity.

By |May 6th, 2014|Business, Leadership|Comments Off on Who Gets Promoted Who Doesn’t And Why By Donald Asher chats with Dr. Alvin
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Getting To 30 By Jeffrey Jenson Arnett chats with Dr. Alvin

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett-Getting to 30 Click Here To Listen It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that everyone in the media is talking about: When will this new generation of 20-somethings leave home, find love, start a career, settle down--grow up? And it's the book that will soothe your nerves. It’s loaded with information about what to expect and guidance on what to do when problems arise (as they probably will). In other words, this is the book parents need --Getting To 30, by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, the world's leading authority on the post-adolescent phase he named emerging adulthood, and Elizabeth Fishel, author [...]

By |May 6th, 2014|Family, Parenting|Comments Off on Getting To 30 By Jeffrey Jenson Arnett chats with Dr. Alvin
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Glorious By Jeff Guinn chats with Dr. Alvin

Jeff Guinn Click Here To Listen Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He’s always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: a wife, a career, property, standing.

By |May 6th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Glorious By Jeff Guinn chats with Dr. Alvin
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Josey Baker Bread: chats with Dr. Alvin

Josey Baker Click Here To Listen This is the first true entry-level bread-baking cookbook, from Josey Baker (that's his real name!), a former science teacher turned San Francisco baking sensation. Josey Baker Bread combines step-by-step lessons with more than 100 photographs, offering easy-to-follow guidance for aspiring bakers. Recipes start with the basic formula for making bread— requiring little more than flour, water, time, and a pan—and build in depth and detail as the user progresses to more complex loaves, including Josey's cult favorite Dark Mountain Rye. With chapters dedicated to pizza, pocketbreads, and treats, Josey's playful, encouraging tone makes for a fun read full of great advice for bakers of all levels.

By |May 6th, 2014|Cooking / Food, Diet|Comments Off on Josey Baker Bread: chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Ogallala Road By Julene Bair chats with Dr. Alvin

Julene Bair Click Here To Listen Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father’s wish and commandment, “Hang on to your land!” But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family—like other irrigators—pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family’s role [...]

By |May 6th, 2014|Agriculture, Biography, Women|Comments Off on The Ogallala Road By Julene Bair chats with Dr. Alvin
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Bomani Armah Sings The Closing Theme Song “Good Day” for DrAlvin.com

R & B-Bomani Armah-Good Day Click Here To Listen Bomani Darel Armah, aka D’mite, aka The Hip-Hop Levar Burton, aka Mr. Read a Book, aka The Watermelon Man, aka Darius Lovehall, aka The Black Colin Powell, has even more artistic skills than aliases. As a poet he takes his cues from his favorite writers like Langston Hughes, Yusef Komonyakaa and E. Ethelbert Miller. As a lyricist and songwriter he strives to live up to the legacy of his favorites like Bob Marley, George Clinton, Fela and Frankie Beverly and Maze. Raised in DC and Maryland on the music of gospel greats like Richard Smallwood and John P Kee, as well as local go-go legends like [...]

By |May 6th, 2014|African Americans, Entertainment, Music|Comments Off on Bomani Armah Sings The Closing Theme Song “Good Day” for DrAlvin.com
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Angela Marie Jones Sings Opening Theme Song, “Hello” for DrAlvin.Com

HeIIo Click Here To Listen Native Washingtonian Angela Marie Jones is a sought after singer and songwriter who has been charming the masses since the age of four. Her passion of singing took off in her adolescence as member of Washington Performing Art Society’s Children of the Gospel. At the Duke Ellington School of Arts (DESA), she studied classical voice under Edward Jackson and became a sophisticated lady of the world-renowned DESA Show Choir. She was featured in productions and scenes for “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” “Black Not So Blue,” and “Don Giovanni.” In the Gospel genre, she has sung with Marvin Sapp, Richard Smallwood, Nolan Williams, Kari Jobe, Darrell Evans, Yolanda Adams, Anthony [...]

By |May 6th, 2014|African Americans, Music, Women|Comments Off on Angela Marie Jones Sings Opening Theme Song, “Hello” for DrAlvin.Com
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